900 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. soap factory. Later he set up in the soap business on his own account, under the name of A. Patton, his factory being located on the flats. This business he subsequently sold to his nephew, John Buchan, who is now a member of the Buchan Soap Company, Cleveland, Ohio. During his life in this city Alexander Patton accumulated a competency, and always had a dollar for a needy Scotchman. He was well known all over the county, and by his many sterling qualities he won the respect of all who knew him. He died in April, 1879, at the age of seventy-five years. Mr. Patton was married, but had no children. His wife, nee Eliza Hannah Johnson, was the danghter of an Englishman. She was a member of the Baptist Church and was a most estimable woman. Her death occurred in 1869, at the age of fifty-two years. WILLIAM HILLMAN BUTTON, the subject of this sketch, was born in Bedford, Ohio, May 14, 1838, where he still resides. He traces his ancestry to Matthias Button, who came to America with Gov. John Endicott, and first settled at Salem, Massachusetts, where he landed September 6, 1628. His son, Matthias, was born at Haverhill, Massachusetts, in 1657. Matthias Button, the third, was born at Haverhill in 1689, and Matthias, the fourth, was born at Canter. Bury, Connecticut, in 1727, and was a Captain in the Revolutionary army. He died in Rutland county, Vermont, in 1811. Shubal Button, son of Matthias, the fourth, was born in Canterbury, Connecticut, 1770, and married for his first wife, Polly Tower, and for his second, Anna Skiff. The children of the first wife were: Polly, born 1794, died 1795; Matthias, born 1796, died 1829; Ira, born 1798, died 1862; Elizabeth, born 1799, died 1883; Otis, born 1801, died 1884; Mary, born 1803, and is still living; Laura, born 1805, died 1827; Joel, born 1807; Shubal, born 1808; and Charlotte, born 1810. The children of the second wife are: Anson E., born 1823; George W., born 1825; Martha Ann, born 1826; Joel Y., born 1828; Orrin 0., born 1831, and Susan Elmira, born 1834. Shubal Button died at Fredonia, New York, in 1840. His widow, Anna Skiff Button, married for her second husband, Asa Button, brother of Shubal Button. She died at Fredonia, and in 1844 her husband, Asa, died at the same place. Otis Button, son of Shubal Button and father of William Hillman Button, was born in St. Lawrence county, New York, August 2, 1801, came to Bedford, Ohio, in the spring of 1831, and July 4, 1832, he married Miss Anna Hillman, who was the daughter of Seth and Clarissa (Butterfield) Hillman. Seth Hillman was born in 1784, married in 1808, and died in 1828. Clarissa B. Hillman was born in Wilton, Hillsborough county, New Hampshire, September 22, 1784. Mr. and Mrs. Hillman had four children who lived to mature age: Mary W., Anna H. (mother of William H. Button, Ruth, and William B. Mrs. Hillman married for her second husband, Hezekiah Dunham, who was born in Massachusetts, December 9, 1779. She was his second wife, and, they were married July 4, 1831, his first wife, Betsey Burroughs, having died in April, 1831. Hezekiah and Betsey (Burroughs) Dunham had a family of eleven children, four only of whom lived to maturity: Silas B., born 1807; David B., 1810; Betsey, 1816; and Lydia, 1820. Hezekiah Dunham died in 1861, and Anna (Hillman) Button, wife of Otis Button, in 1884. Otis Button began his business career as water boy on the Erie canal, under his father, who was a contractor; from water boy he advanced until he was a contractor on the same canal, and afterward took contracts on the Chesapeake & Ohio canal, and made canal contracting his business until he came to Bedford, Ohio, to settle. Soon after settling in Bedford he leased of Captain Daniel Benedict (who named the township of CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 901 Bedford) a sawmill situated on Tinker's creek, nearly opposite the present cemetery, said lease extending over four years. Shortly before its expiration he moved to a farm about one mile west of Bedford village, which he subsequently purchased and upon which he lived forty-two years, leaving there in June, 1878, to return to the village to live. Upon moving upon this farm he ran a sawmill on Tinker's creek at the foot of one of the longest, steepest and most picturesque hills in Cuyahoga county, known as "Button Hill." In 1835, Robert Lucas, Governor of Ohio, issued to Mr. Button his commission as Captain of the militia. Captain Button for many years was a prominent figure at company and general trainings. Mr. Button was an old-time Democrat in politics. He possessed the confidence of the entire community, and was many times elected one of the Trustees of Bedford. He united with the Baptist Church about the time of the organization of that body in Bedford, and from it he went to the Disciple Church about the year 1849, and remained a member of that body until his death, June 14, 1884, being an honest, conscientious, devoted Christian. Otis and Anna Hillman Button had the following named children: Clarissa Elizabeth, born May 11, 1835, died February 22, 1857; William Hillman Button, born May 14, 1838; and Charlotte E. Button, born in 1841. William Hillman Button was born in Bedford and educated in the public school. His entire life has been spent npon the farm on which he now resides. He has been Assessor four tems, and is at this time serving as Trustee in a township with a large Republican majority, himself being a Democrat, strongly tinctured with prohibition. He has been for many years a faithful and earnest member of the Disciple Church. He is a quiet, unassuming man, holding to a high standard of morals for himself as well as others. June 9, 1878, he purchased of his father the old homestead upon which be was born, and June 27 of the same year, he married Miss Celeste Adelle Knapp, daughter of William Herman and Deborah L. Wightman Knapp, of Independence, Ohio. Mr. Knapp traces his ancestry to Roger de Knapp, who received a coat of arms granted by Henry VIII of England to commemorate his skill and success at a tournament in Norfolk, England, in 1540, in which he unseated three knights of great skill and bravery. Continuing in this line we come to Nicholas Knapp, who came to America with Winthrop and Saltonstall's fleet in 1630; then following this line we come to Joshua Knapp, who was born in Danbury, Connecticut, February 5, 1716: he married Abigail (Bostwick) Dibble, a widow, who was born in Brookfield, Connecticut, in September, 1725, and was the first white child born there. She died October 7, 1812: her husband, Joshua Knapp, died August 8, 1798. Joshua Knapp, who was a Presbyterian Deacon and a bachelor, being reminded by his church of the Scriptural injunction that a deacon should be the husband of one wife, could think only of the widow Dibble. Feeling the Lord had directed him to her, he mounted his horse on Monday morning, rode to her home and found her washing in the yard between the house and street; and, riding up to the fence and without dismounting he stated his case, adding that he felt the Lord had directed him to her, and her reply was, "The Lord's will be done;" and they were married the following Wednesday. Their second child, Daniel, was born July 2, 1763, and married Lucy Gray, And they had twelve children. William Herman Knapp, the tenth child of Daniel and Lucy (Gray) Knapp, and the father of Mrs. Button, was born in Danbury, Connecticut, February 16, 1801, came to Ohio in 1826, was an engineer in building the Ohio canal, and May 4, 1828, married Deborah Ledyard Wightman, who was born in Groton, Connecticut, November 6, 1808, and came to Newburg, Ohio, in 1811, with her parents, Captain John and Deborah C. Morgan Wightman. John 902 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. Wightman was a direct descendant of the Rev. Valentine Wightman, who was the founder of the first society of Baptists in Groton, Connecticut. He began preaching for them in 1710. At his death his son Timothy occupied the same pulpit until his death in 1796; then his son, John Gano, succeeded him for nearly forty-five years, until his death, in 1841. After a period of three or four years, John Gano's grandson, Palmer G. Wightman, occupied the same pulpit until 1875. This is believed to be without a parallel in American history of pastorates. Mrs. Knapp's mother was Deborah Calibia Morgan, daughter of Col. Christopher and Deborah Ledyard Morgan, a direct descendant of James Morgan (see history of James Morgan and descendants), a family of prominence. Deborah Ledyard Morgan was a niece of Colonel Led-yard, who commanded Fort Griswold when it was surrendered to the British, and Colonel Ledyard was killed with his own sword in the hand of the officer to whom he had surrendered ! Mr. and Mrs. William Herman Knapp, moved to Independence in 1833, where Mr. Knapp for a short time kept a supply store for the packets that were run on the canal. He was Postmaster for many years. He was so anxious for the education of the masses that he taught a school in his own house without any stipulated remuneration, letting them pay little or nothing, as they were able. Several married men and women went to school to him, it being their only opportunity. By profession Mr. Knapp was a civil engineer. He was County Surveyor of Cuyahoga, county from 1839 to 1844, and again from 1864 to 1866 inclusive. In politics he was a Whig originally, and subsequently an ardent Republican. He united with the Disciple Church in 1837, and remained a member of that church until his death, being a stanch advocate of its faith and doctrines. Mrs. Knapp was first to unite with the same church, being baptized in 1835, when the first yearly meeting of this denomination was held, on her father's fam, on what is now known as Broadway, Cleveland, then called Newburg. She had one of the kindest hearts, always doing for others and being happy in making others so,-a woman of excellent judgment, very conscientious, and a devoted Christian wife and mother to the time of her death, December 26, 1880, at her home in Independence, where she had lived nearly fifty years. She was truly a pioneer of Cuyahoga county, distinctly remembering listening to the boom of the cannon at the time of Perry's victory, also the inhabitants of the vicinity of Cleveland going into the town for protection the night after John 0 'Mick was hung, fearing an attack by the Indians, John O' Mick being the first person hung in Cuyahoga county. She was the oldest of eight children, namely: Deborah Ledyard, born November 6, 1808, died December 26, 1880; John Griswold, born July 12, 1810, died 1834; Isaac Avery, born May 23, 1812, died March 5, 1867; Lucy Adelaide, born March 17, 1814, died February 1, 1893; David Long, born August 17, 1817, died July 18, 1887; Sher-burn Henry, born August 28, 1819; Horace Fayette, born April 12, 1821, died September 9, 1868; and Harriet Lucretia, born June 5, 1825, died June 30, 1878. William H. and Deborah L. Wightman Knapp had three children: Cornelia Adelaide, born in Cleveland, April 27, 1830, married November, 4, 1868, Levi Allen, of Akron, Ohio, who is a descendant of Major Spicer; and Jonah Allen, who came from Connecticut and settled in Akron ron at the same time Captain Morgan and John Wightman came to Cleveland. The four families, being friends in Connecticut, continued he friendship to the present time, there being many intermarriages. Cornelia Adelaide and Levi Allen have two daughters: Cornelia Adelle, born January 13, 1870; and A. May Deborah Allen, born May 14, 1871, and married, August 17, 1893, Rev. J. Dorsey Forrest of Baltimore, Maryland, and now pastor of the Central Christian Church of Columbus, Ohio. Herman John Knapp, born in Independence, April 9, 1836, died December 15, 1846; Celeste Adelle Knapp, born in Independence, August 17, CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 903 . 1848, and received her education in the district school and in the public schools of Akron, Ohio: She united with the Disciple Church in Bedford, in -1865, and is still an earnest worker in that church, and has been a member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union from its organization in Bedford. The biographer of Mr. and Mrs. Button desires to say that they, in giving this history, do so more to honor their ancestry than themselves, feeling that their own lives have been very uneventful indeed. Their desire is to have a home and farm, well cared for, to which their friends can come with pleasure, where peace, harmony, love and Christian grace may abound and where every living creature may be comfortable and happy. WILLIAM BACKUS, JR. - Prominent among the younger and most progressive men of Cleveland is he whose name initiates this biographical sketch, his record of achievements in several lines of work being one of particular distinction. A native of the city where he still retains his residence, Mr. Backus was born August 24, 1860, a son of Captain William and Madeline (Strobel) Backus. He was reared and educated in the city of his birth, and at an early age developed into an indefatigable studekt and investigator. The study of the law, medicine and literature proved particularly engrossing to him. In 1882 he became editor of the West Side Spur. In 1884 he established and was editor of the Sunday Courier, which soon became noted for its vigorous political work. The financial outcome of this venture not proving satisfactory, he accepted a position with the Cleveland Press as a special writer. The thought, wit, and pronounced individuality displayed in his writings soon gained for him a wide reputation. His health becoming impaired after several years' work, a temporary change of vocatiou became necessary. His investigating mind then turned to the new and mysterious art of photo-engraving. He organized the Union Photo-Engraving Company, of which he became president. His experiments and investigations resulted in a number of new discoveries, and he was the first to introduce in Cleveland the art of reproducing photographs upon a metal printing block by chemical action. He organized branch photoengraving establishments in various cities, in cluding Chicago and San Francisco. He also established and edited at this time the American Union newspaper and the Magazine of Science and Art. During all this time he had pursued a careful and earnest study of the law, with the purpose in view of adopting the pratice of law as a profession. In 1889 he disposed of his interests in the journalistic and other enterprises, with which he had become identified and devoted his time and attention for a time to the organization of private corporations under the laws of Ohio and other States. He is an officer in various corporations: among others, he is president of the Cumberland Tennessee Land Company; president of the American Oil Burner Company; vice president of the National Union Photo-Engraving Company; secretary of the Lactine Manufacturing Company. Having been admitted to the bar Mr. Backus engaged in the general practice of law, in which he has met with marked success. In the matter of national and municipal politics our subject has maintained a lively interest, and has been duly active in working for the principles and men whose cause he had espoused. He originally cast his suffrage with the Democratic party, but in 1888 he withdrew from that organization and swung into line with the Republican party, whose policies and principles he had become convinced were such as would best conserve the greatest good to the greatest number,—the true governmental function. In 1892 the public dissatisfaction with the management of school affairs led to a revolution in the system of government of Cleveland's 904 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. great school system. Mr. Backus was one of the seven men elected at large by the people as a member of the new Board of Education, and soon made his influence felt by the vigorous manner in which he combated the influence politics and the interference of politicians in school affairs. He is one of the younger yet representative citizens of Cleveland: has always been alive to industrial interests and to such other developments as have been conducive or promising to the interests of the city and to the public welfare. In his profession he infuses into all his work life, energy, intelligence and discrimination, inspiring absolute confidence in all with whom he comes in contact. In the line of fraternal affiliations Mr. Backus is a member of the order of the Knights of Pythias. In 1879 he was united in marriage with Miss Sarah A. Mullin, of this city, and two children, Edna Lois and Cecil Degmar, are the sunshine of the home: William, the third child, is dcceased. STEVENSON BURKE, who in the active field of professional practice, upon the bench, and in the circles of railway management and control, has won a fame that is part of the history of the Cleveland bar, was born in St. Lawrence county, New York, on November 26, 1826. He is a man who by the free working of his superior intellect would have attained wealth and influence in any country or under almost any conditions of organized society. He is one of the few men endowed with the capacity to mold surrounding circumstances to suit his purposes. His career, like that of many other Americans of this generation, has demonstrated that industry and perseverance will open a way from the humblest beginning to a manhood crowned with honor and all that is most cherished in civilized society. In 1834 the family of Stevenson Burke removed to North Ridgeville, Lorain county, Ohio, where he worked for an education and was so successful that at the age of seventeen he was teaching a district school. The indomitable will, pluck and energy that nature implanted in him was strengthened by his struggles with adversity. His mastery of the branches taught in the select school was rapid and he soon entered the University at Delaware. He was admitted to practice law in 1848, and entered upon the exercise of his professional duties in Elyria, Lorain county. His advance was as brilliant as it was sure, and when only twenty-six years of age he had a better business than any other lawyer in the county. In 1862 he took his seat upon the bench of the Common Pleas, having for ten years previous to that time been substantially engaged in every case of consequence in Lorain county, and in many cases in the adjoining counties. He was counsel in nearly every case, if not indeed every case, taken from his home county to the Supreme Court. In 1866 he was re-elected for a tem of five years; resigned in 1869; removed to Cleveland and at once entered upon a legal career that has been crowned with abundant success, and has long since won him national fame. He was in partnership first with F. T. Backus and E. J. Estep, and later with W. B. Sanders and J. E. Ingersoll. When able to give more time to the profession than at present, Judge Burke was engaged in a large number of the most important cases in northern Ohio, not confining himself to any one branch of practice, but trying, in the different counties of the Reserve and elsewhere, any and all cases of consequence in which he was retained. Space will permit only a glance at some of the most important of these: The immense cases growing out of ttthe Atlantic & Great Western Railway troubles, where he represented the Erie Railway; the great Utah silver mine cases of the "Nez Perces" and "Old Telegraph" Mining Companies, which he won; the Oberlin—Wellington slave rescue case; the case involving the consolidation of the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis Railway with the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton; that involv- CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 905 ing the constitutionality of the Scott liquor law; that of Kimberly vs. Arms, in which a large sum of money was at stake; the series of intricate cases connected with the foreclosure of mortgages upon the Indianapolis & St. Louis Railroad; the great Hocking Valley Railroad arbitration case; and a large number of equal or less importance that cannot be even mentioned here. Railroad litigation soon led Judge Burke into railroad ownership, and he is now recognized as one of the largest and ablest of the railway owners and capitalists in the West. For many years he was general counsel of the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, & Indianapolis Railroad Company, a member of its board of directors, chairman of its financial and executive committees, vice-president and president; general counsel of the Cleveland & Mahoning Valley and president of the same; vice-president and president of the Indianapolis & St. Louis. He was also a director for years in the Cincinnati & Springfield, the Dayton & Michigan, the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Indianapolis, the New York, Chicago & St. Louis and the Central Ontario Railway Companies. It was Judge Burke who conceived and carried into effect the consolidation of various weak lines into the Columbus, Hocking Valley & Toledo Railway system. He took an active part in its management, holding the position of vice-president and president, and in all the movements of that corporation he was the financial genius and the mainspring of energy. It was Judge Burke who conducted for William H. Vanderbilt the negotiations which resulted in the purchase of the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railway. Judge Burke is now engaged in a number of great enterprises the direction of which is entirely in his hands. He is, and for many years has been, the president of the Toledo & Ohio Central, the Cleveland & Mahoning Valley, the Kanawha & Michigan and the Central Ontario Railway Companies. He is a large owner in and the president of the Canadian Copper Company, a concern which owns probably the largest mines of nickel in the world, and has furnished all the nickel thus far used in the construction of nickel-steel armor for the United States Government. He is also president of the Anglo-American Iron Company, of the Republic Coal Company and several other iron-mining and coal companies. While his name does not appear he is the most important partner in the large iron-ore firm of Corrigan, McKinney & Company, and with them controls iron mines and furnaces to the value of several millions of dollars. Judge Burke's intimate acquaintances who know the profoundness and correctness of his views on all great national and economic questions, regret that his far-reaching business interests have deprived the nation of his services in the arena of public affairs. They believe that if he had devoted himself to a political career his name would have held a place beside our greatest statesmen. Engrossing business occupations have not, however, prevented him from cultivating by study, reading and travel the broad faculties of mind and heart that nature endowed him with. While he is yet a leading practitioner of the Western bar, he is also the animating and controlling spirit of the Cleveland School of Art, and is as ready to speak, when called upon by his fellow citizens, upon art, education, questions of finance, or matters of State, as he is to argue a question of law, which is his main occupation and thought as it was his first love. He is still in the complete enjoyment of physical and mental vigor, and bids fair to prolong his active and useful career for many years to come. Judge Burke was married April 26, 1849, to Miss Parthenia Poppleton, a daughter of Rev. Samuel Poppleton, of Richland county, Ohio. She died April 7, 1878. He was again married June 22, 1882, to Mrs. Ella M. Southworth, of Clinton, New York. He has been very happy in his married relations, and being very domestic in his habits has found his chief pleasure in the family circle. In his youth he found in his first wife the good sense, prudence and kindness, judgment and womanly grace, so useful to the 906 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. struggling young lawyer. Her death was to him an overwhelming sorrow. In his maturer years he has found in his second wife all those qualities of head and heart so essential to a happy home life. She possesses in an eminent degree the sweetness, amiability, discretion and judgment which such a man most values: She has not only made her home a model, but has lone much to cultivate all that is best in art and in social life. In the family and in social life Judge Burke is among the most amiable of men. Whatever battles he may have to fight outside he is always kind, considerate and indulgent in his family and in the social circle. DR. E. P. BANNING, physician and surgeon, Stone building, Cleveland, was born in Titusville, Pennsylvania, January 1, 1835. His father, Dr. Edmond P. Banning, was a native of Canfield, Trumbull County, Ohio, and, being very young when his parents died, was brought up and educated by his mother's brother, Archibald Tanner, the father-in-law of Gleni W. Scofield, late Judge of the Court of Claims and Register of the united States Treasury under Grant's administration, and Congressman from 1856 till he accepted the position in the Treasury Department. Dr. Banning (father of our subject) graduated at the medical college at Fairfield, New York, and entered upon the practice of his profession in the oil town, Titusville, Pennsylvania, then a hamlet of only five houses, with no roads excepting trails and bridle paths. He was accordingly a pioneer in his profession there, and the oldest physician in the vicinity. In 1827 he became impressed with the fact that there was a class of chronic diseases that invariably resisted the action of medicine for their relief; and by special investigation he discovered that the reason for the failure of medicine in such cases was the fact that they were displacements of internal organs, and needed only mechanical treatment. He worked his way to Pittsburg, on a lumber raft, and presented to the Allegheny Medical Society his views, together with some rude appliances that a horseshoer had made under his direction for the correction of the displacements. He thus became the discoverer of mechanical pathology, the founder of mechanical therapeutics. His inventions constitute to the present day the foundation of all appliances for the support of the spine. He is known and quoted as "the father of mechanical therapeutics" throughout the civilized world. It has been estimated that no discoverer in the series of inventions has so benefited humanly. To him is due the discontinuance of the burning and blistering for spinal diseases formerly so greatly in vogue in this country; and so firmly did he construct and conscientiously perfect his mechanical devices that two years after his death they were exhibited at the great World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893, and secured the only award among 134 competing exhibitors; and this is the only instance in the whole exposition where a sole award was given. Dr. Banning, born in 1800, died January, 1891, full of years and full of honors, esteemed as one of earth's greatest benefactors. After leaving Pittsburg in 1827 he moved to New York, in 1854 to Cleveland, Ohio, and in 1859 returned to New York city, where he resided until his death. Four of his ten children are living, namely: Emily, wife of Tompkins Mann, a celebrated composer and musician of New York city; Dr. E. P., our subject; Dr. A. T. Banning, the Health Officer of Westchester county, New York, and a very prominent operating surgeon; and Carrie, wife of Dr. C. G. Clark of Centerville, Crawford county, Pennsylvania. Dr. E. P. Banning, whose name introduces this memoir, received his professsonal training at the Evansville (Indiana) Medical College. On the commencement of the war he left Cleveland and enlisted at New York in the United States Marine Corps) serving until 1871, during which period he was promoted as Lieutenant in CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 907 the same service,—the only instance on record where an enlisted marine received a commission in this, the oldest, corps of the service. His appointment was personally urged by Admirals Farragut, Porter, Dahlgren and Dupont, under which officers he had served, the two latter personally stating to President Lincoln that it was a "fit recognition for gallant and meritorious service at Tampa Bay, Cedar Keys, New Berne, Charleston, Vicksburg and Fort Philip." In 1871 he resigned from the service and entered upon the practice of medicine with his father in New York city. He was first married at the Pensacola Navy Yard, Florida, in 1866, to Miss Florida Morrill. She died in New Orleans in June, 1869. He was again married in 1879 to Miss Carina Carpenter, a daughter of Dr. Calvin Carpenter of Geneva, New York, a niece of Stephen H. Carpenter, professor of rhetoric and literature in the Wisconsin State University. Of Dr. Banning's four children, three are living, namely: Carina Carpenter, aged twelve; Florida Jenette, aged ten; and Dahlgren, aged five. Mrs. Banning is a graduate of the scientific department of the Wisconsin State University, also of the Cleveland University of Medicine and Surgery, formerly the Homeopathic Hospital College, at which her husband is special lecturer on "Diseases of the Spine." The Doctor's residence is at Willoughby, Ohio, where Mrs. Banning is engaged in the general practice of medicine and surgery, the Doctor confining himself to his specialty and visiting his office in Cleveland daily. JOHN SWEET, of Rocky River Hamlet, was born August 24, 1807, in Brookfield, - Madison county, New York, where his father, Samuel G., died. In the same county our subject married Catharine Parks, also a native of that county, horn May 30, 1812. They emigrated to Cuyahoga county in 1838, settling in Rockport township, making the journey with a horse and wagon; and at this place Mr. Sweet has ever since resided, engaged in agricultural pursuits. His wife died February 21, 1873. They had only one child, Dermott 0., whose sketch appears elsewhere. JOSEPH ISAACS, general cashier of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Company, having in charge the financial records and being responsible for the funds of the entire northeastern end of this system of roads, came into this city nearly fifteen years ago, as a clerk of this company. He had been transferred from St. Louis, Missouri, where his railroad career was inaugurated six years before. His first work was for the Indianapolis & St. Louis Railroad Company, as general utility man, receiving promotions as his experience would warrant, becoming a clerk and city collector for the company before his transfer to Cleveland. In 1883 Mr. Isaacs was made general cashier and station accountant, and has completed one decade of faithful service in this capacity. Mr. Isaacs was born in St. Louis, Missouri, January 1, 1856. He received his school training at the public city schools, and entered Yale College in 1871, expecting to complete a university course, but was deterred by the sudden and unexpected death of his mother and only parent after one year's work. His prospects for a collegiate course being thus blasted, he turned his attention to business, securing employment for a brief period on the Journal of Agriculture, a paper owned and issued by ex-Governor Marmaduke of Missouri. He became next a "Knight of the Grip," representing the Excelsior Varnish Company of New York city, covering western territory and devoting six months time to the business. Railroading then attracted his attention and he accepted employment in the service of the Indianapolis & St. Louis Company, as before mentioned. Mr. Isaacs' father, John Isaacs, settled in St. Louis in 1847, and was from Edinburg, Scot- 908 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. land. He was a dealer in stencils and art goods, and died in 1867, at forty-eight years of age. He married Miss Clara Louis, at New York city, a daughter of Ralph Louis, a manufacturer of furs, of Hamburg, Gemany. Five children were born in this family: D. J., a varnish manufacturer of New York city; B. F., agent of Langfield Brothers & Company, dealers in leather goods at New York city; L. J., representing a hosiery house of New York city; Joseph; and a daughter, Mrs. Isaac Wilbraham, of Chicago, Illinois. January 16, 1876, Mr. Isaacs married in St. Louis, Missouri, Miss Fena, a daughter of A. Marcus; a merchant of Litchfield, Illinois, but formerly of Columbus, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Isaacs are the parents of John D., aged seventeen, employed by the Cleveland Rolling Mill Company; Effie, in the first year in high school; Clara, who died in 1880, aged two months; and Birdie, aged nine. VALERIUS C. STONE, of Berea, Ohio, was born in Hinesburg, Chittenden county, Vermont, March 2, 1820, son of Joshua and Betsey (Blackman) Stone, who emigrated to Cuyahoga county about 1832, settling in Strongsville, where they continued to reside until their death. They had three children. Our subject, the youngest of the family, was thirteen years old when his parents settled here, and he here grew to manhood as a farmer's son; and he followed agricultural pursuits until 1883, since which time he has made his home in Berea, living a retired life. He was married in Strongsville township, January 25, 1855, to Miss Huldah C. Haynes, a native of this township, born January 20, 1836, the youngest of the seven children of Abiel and Huldah (Carpenter) Haynes, both her parents being natives of the Green Mountain State. Her father came to Cuyahoga county with his father, Abijah Haynes, when he was about thirty years or age. Mrs. Stone's mother died in February, 1836, and her father in Berea, in 1891. Mr. and Mrs. Stone have had six children, of whom two died in childhood. The names of the living are Clara E., Frederick V., Sarah J., and Bertha B. RUFUS P. RANNEY.—The late Judge Rufus P. Ranney not only stood at the head of the Cleveland bar but was also recognized as one of the ablest lawyers and most profound judges in the State of Ohio. He was born at Blandford, Massachusetts, on October 13, 1813, and in 1824 came with his family to Ohio, they making their home at Freedom, Portage county, a place at that time in the heart of the wilderness. As Judge Ranney grew in years be grew in ambition and determined upon securing an education, a purpose in which he succeeded only by intense application upon his own part. After a course at Nelson Academy he entered Western Reserve College, but before graduation he proceeded to Jefferson, Ashtabula county, where he entered upon the study of law in the office of Giddings & Wade. His progress was so rapid that at the close of the first year he bore the requisite examination and was admitted to the bar. Mr. Giddings having been elected to Congress, Judge Ranney became the partner of Mr. Wade, the firm being Wade & Ranney, as strong a legal combination as was ever seen in the West. In 1845 Judge Ranney withdrew and opened a law office in Warren, Ohio, where he immediately took a place in the front rank of the bar of Trumbull county. The Democrats of that district placed him in nomination for Congress, in 1846, and also in 1848, but as his party was largely in the minor- ity he failed of election. In 1850 he was elected by a great majority as a member of the convention called for a revision of the State constitution, in which capacity he served with distinguished ability. He was at about this time chosen by' the Legislature as a Judge of of the State Supreme Court, and when the old CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 909 constitution expired and the new one came into force, in 1851, he was elected by the people to the same position, which he held until 1857, when he resigned and again took up the practice of his profession in Cleveland. In 1857 he was appointed United States Attorney for Northern Ohio, but held the position only two months when he resigned. The people, however, would not consent to his pemanent retirement from public life, and he was again, in 1862, elected to the Supreme Bench. He accepted with reluctance, but again resigned in 1864, and returned to his practice in Cleveland. The record he made while upon the Supreme Bench, a portion of which time he served as Chief Justice, proved him to be one of the great lawyers of the country. In 1859 Judge Ranney was the Democratic nominee for Governor of Ohio, but was defeated by William Dennison. In 1871 the Western Reserve College conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. Judge Ranney died in December, 1891. During his life he held many positions of honor of various character, outside of his legal labors; but the chief aims of his life were in connection with his profession, which he followed with an industry and ability that made him one of the great advocates known in the history of American jurisprudence. M. E. GOULD, a passenger engineer on the Valley Railroad, was born in Ashland county, Ohio, March 16, 1844. He secured a district-school education, and at the age of seventcen years began his railroad career. In 1859 he became a fireman for the C. C. & C. Railroad, running from Cleveland with engineer John Buell until 1865; was then an engineer on the Erie Division of the L. S. & M. S. Road, and in 1875, desiring to travel through the West, went to Omaha, Nebraska. While there Mr. Gould secured the position of engineer to the U. P. Railroad, and during his eight months' service worked on three divisions of the road. While on a visit to his friends in Ohio, he was offered the pioneer engine on the Valley Railroad, then being built, and has since remained with that company. Mr. Gould is efficient, steady and faithful to his trust, and is highly esteemed by his employers. August 3, 1868, in this city, he was united in marriage with Lottie, a daughter of Michael Bauder. They had one child, Alta May, who died at the age of seventeen years. In his social relations, Mr. Gould is a member of the Adjustment Committee of the B. of L. E. RICHARD BACON, one of the well-known and representative attorneys of Cleveland, and a member of the law firm of Hobart & Bacon, was born at Simsbury, Hartford county, Connecticut, on March 2, 1854. His father was Charles Bacon, who was also a native of Simsbury, Connecticut. The Bacon family came from England in 1645 and located first in Massachusetts, thence removing to Connecticut, where the family continued to reside for generations and became prominent in local public affairs. Richard Bacon, the grandfather of our subject, was quite prominent during the anti-slavery days. The mother of Mr. Bacon was Ann Putnam, who was born at Brooklyn, Connecticut. Her father was William Putnam, who owned the farm adjoining the one owned by General Moses Cleaveland, for whom this city was named. William was the son of Daniel, who was the son of General Israel Putnam, of Revolutionary war fame. About 1850 Charles Bacon came to Cleveland, and for a few years was engaged in the shipping business. He returned to his boyhood home in Simsbury, and there died in 1867. His widow survives him, and resides at her old home at Brooklyn. The early life of Mr. Bacon was spent in Connecticut. His first schooling was in the 910 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. public schools of Hartford. In the fall of 1869 he entered Cornell University at Ithaca, New York, being at that time but fifteen years of age. He was graduated at Cornell in 1873. He next read law with the Honorable Rufus P. Spalding, of this city, and in 1876 was admitted to the bar. He at once entered upon a general practice and has met with more than ordinary success, practicing in all the courts, including the United States Supreme Court. The partnership with M. M. Hobart was formed in 1888. This firm is considered as one of the strong ones of the city. They give especial attention to corporation law, though engaged in general practice. Mr. Bacon is one of the most prominent Odd Fellows in the State. He is a member of Tyrian Lodge, No. 740, I. O. O. F., and in 1886-'87 he served as Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Ohio, being the youngest man ever to hold that position. Mr. Bacon was married in 1875 to Florence Coman, daughter of Colonel Lucian D. Oman, of New York city. Mr. and Mrs. Bacon have a son, Richard Bacon, Jr. JOHN BARTHELMAN, a representative agriculturist of the county, was born in Parma township, July 8, 1847, a son of John C. and Johanna (Groll) Barthelman, the former having been born January 27, 1811, the latter January 17, 1822, both of German birth. Subsequent to their marriage, they first settled in Parma, later removing to Rockport township, where Mr. Barthelman died December 16, 1877, and his wife survives. They had six children, four of whom are living, viz.: John, Katie, Frederick and Mary. William and George are deceased. The parents were highly respected and possessed qualities which made them a favorite with 'a large circle of friends and acquaintances. The subject of this sketch passed the early years of his life upon the farm, being five years old when his parents settled in Rockport township. His education was limited to the common schools, which he attended principally during the winter months. To the business of farming he has devoted his entire life and not without reward, for he owns seventy-five acres of good land, well improved, which by his intelligent cultivation yields abundant harvests. His marriage to Miss Lizzie, daughter of Charles and Mary Haase, in Cuyahoga county, occurred May 6, 1886. They have one child, namely,—Emma Mary, born July 25, 1888. Mrs. Barthelman was born in Middleburg township, Cuyahoga county, March 17, 1864, and her father died in this county, January 25, 1888. Mr. and Mrs. Barthelman are acceptable members of the Lutheran Church, and their lives are consistent with their profession. SHRIVER REESE.—One of the best-known and most popular insurance men --I of Cleveland is Mr. E. Shriver Reese, manager of the Middle Department of the American Employers' Liability Insurance Company. Mr. Reese was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on September 7, 1858, and is the son of William Smith Reese, who was a director of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company during the war period, and was also Naval Officer of the Port orBaltimore, and subsequently Collector of Customs of the same port. E. S. Reese graduated from the University of Maryland with honors, and became a member of the Baltimore bar in 1879, before he had attained his majority. He practiced law in Baltimore until 1890, with success, at which time, after an illness of many months, and finding that during his sickness his practice had been divided among other attorneys, he undertook writing employers' liability insurance as a means of bridging over until he could get his practice together again. CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 811 After two months' experience in that line he recognized the larger opportunities afforded by the business, and he decided to make it his permanent occupation for the future. He was given the Baltimore agency for the company he now represents, and such was his success that in less than sixteen months he was promoted five times, and then given the position of manager of the Company's Middle Department, with headquarters in Cleveland. Since coming to Cleveland Mr. Reese has succeeded in building up a fine business for his company, and has established for himself a reputation both in business and social circles enjoyed by but few men in his or any other line on so short a residence. Mr. Reese was married on June 2, 1892, to Miss Edith Eugenia Crawford, daughter of James B. Crawford, Esq., president of the Third National Bank of Baltimore. DOCTOR CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH MURRAY, practicing at No. 526 Prospect street, was born at Niagara Falls, Niagara county, New York, in 1855, daughter of Andrew and Charlotte (Moody) Murray, natives of Canada, the father of Scotch and the mother of Irish extraction. Mrs. Charlotte M. Murray was born on the river Credit in 1833, having been the first white child born in that locality. Mr. and Mrs. Murray now reside at Niagara Falls, New York, Mr. Murray being now at the advanced age of seventy-seven years. His father also lived to an extreme old age, and with his brother, our subject's great uncle, were pioneers in the Hudson's Bay Fur Company, and for ten years they braved the hardships and dangers of pioneer life in a country where their subsistence depended entirely on the products of fishing and hunting. The great-uncle served the Crown during the Revolutionary war. Dr. Murray received her education at Niagara Falls, and read medicine under Dr. K. Parsons, of Cleveland, graduating in the class of 1890, after three years study a post-graduate course at the Homeopathic Hospital College of Cleveland, Ohio, now the University of Medicine and Surgery. In 1889 Dr. Murray served as assistant in the Woman's Dispensary and was physician in charge of that institution in 1890. She conducted a general medical clinic in the Good Samaritan, and in the Woman's Dispensary in 1892 was physician to the "Open Door" on Erie street during the last year of its existence, and was appointed physician to the new establishment of that name recently opened on Ontario street; she is also a member of the medical staff at the Maternity Home on Huron street, and is a member of the Round Table Club, composed of representative physicians of both sexes in the Homeopathic school. Dr. Murray is well read in her studies, is progressive and enterprising, a lady of pleasing address, and shows that refinement and culture which are born only of close kinship with books and the best they contain. In religious matters she is an Episcopalian, and is much interested in rescue and charitable work. ROBERT McLAUCHLAN is a native of Buchlyvie, Stirlingshire, Scotland. His father, William McLauchlan, was an earnest worker and public advocate of the temperance cause at its commencement there, and later of Galt, Ontario, where he died in the ninetieth year of his age, greatly beloved and widely respected. The subject of our sketch was for eleven years connected with coal and iron-ore industries at Airdrie, Lanarkshire, Scotland, as manager of the important works of William Fernie Blast & Company. In July, 1851, he married Margaret, daughter of Mr. John McEwan, merchant, Buchlyvie, and widow of Dr. Daniel Kennedy. Three years later, on account of her failing health, and by medical advice, they Came to America and settled in Cleveland, 912 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. where he has been connected with various enterprises. On the death of David Morris, in 1862, he took charge of that estate as executor, and for many years successfully managed the extensive mining interests of the testator. In 1870 he purchased a home at Flat Rock, Heuderson county, North Carolina, where he aud his wife spent their winters, and where she died, in March. 1886. In October, 1892, Mr. McLauchlan was united in marriage to Miss Mary D. Campbell, daughter of Mr. Peter Campbell, of Youngstown, Ohio, whose life has been principally devoted to educational pursuits, having held prominent positions in Cleveland, Portsmouth aud Youngstown, Ohio, where for ten years she was preceptress of the Rayen School. Happily she cherishes the same blessed hope of her husband, and together they strive for and in defense of the "faith once delivered to the saints." Mr. McLauchlan's religious belief is so different from that commonly accepted and so liable to be misunderstood, that he ("sires very briefly to say that notwithstanding the early religious training of himself and wife, they were led to believe that " the wages of sin is death," not everlasting torment, and that "the gift of God is eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord;" that instead of men being immortal by nature, as taught by pagan philosophers, Christ has commanded his followers to SEEK for immortality. The whole Bible teaching, by direct testimony as well as by analogy and figure, agrees with this. The account of the creation of man, and the penalty attached to the law of Eden proves it, and the object 4:). the expulsion, after the transgression, seals it, as stated in these words: "Now, lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat and live forever, they fore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden."—Gen. iii, 22. If man had been immortal by nature, as claimed by popular theology, how absurd to put him under a law having a death penalty attached to it, and equally useless to exclude him from the tree of life, lest by eating of it he should become immortal. The teaching of Christ and his apostles is in entire harmony with this. Paul says, " Christ brought life and immortality to light through the gospel." This sets aside the claim of Socrates and Plato. Their theory, now so commonly accepted, is the myth of science. "Life in Christ " is the truth of the gospel and the fact of Scripture; hence we can understand Paul's masterly reasoning in 1st Corinthians, xvth chapter, where he makes a future life contingent on a resurrection from the dead, and to which he says he is striving to attain.—Phil. iii, 11. This opposition to the teaching of the religious world naturally isolated Mr. McLauchlan and his wife from the various religious communities, and the result was that weekly meetings were held in their own house till enough of like faith had been gathered to form a little church, which was organized in 1863. From time to time additions were made to their numbers, and now they are known as the " Church of the Blessed Hope," meeting in their commodious building on Woodland avenue, opposite Longwood, of which Mr. Maurice Joblin is the evangelist, who has been abundantly blessed in winning souls to Christ. There are many churches of like precious faith scattered throughout the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Australia, India and other Asiatic couutries. Their distinguishing characteristic is a return to the neglected truths of the word of God, which have been buried for ages beneath the rubbish of human tradition. That word teaches life immortal only in and through Christ; the literal destruction of all who reject eternal life on the conditions proposed,—faith and obedience; and the final extinction of all sin, suffering and death from the world, which, purified and renewed, will become the everlasting home of the saints, instead of heaven above the clouds, which is .nowhere promised in the Book of God. In this way the character of God is vindicated, the harmony of his word maintained, and his purpose in creation and redemption unfolded. CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 913 According to divine testimony," God is love;" "God is light;" and in him is no darkness at all,"—" a just God and a Savior." Popular theology professes to believe these features in the Divine character, but practically it denies them by teaching that sinners live eternally, and are doomed to endless woe. As a tribute of gratitude for deliverance from sectarian bondage, and especially from the depressing influence of Calvinism, Mr. McLauchlan desires to put this brief statement on record, hoping that thereby many may be induced to investigate the foundation of their faith, to see whether it stands in the wisdom of men, or the power of God,—the good news of the kingdom of God ere long to be established on the earth according to divine promise.—Dan. vii, 27; Luke i, 32, 33; Rev. v, 9, 10. GIDEON PEASE, a citizen of Rocky River hamlet, Ohio, was born in Rockport town- ship, this county, November 7, 1837, a son of Solomon and Mary E. (Rodgers) Pease, who were early settlers of Rockport township, emigrating from Chautauqua county, New York, about 1826 or 1827. They died in Rockport township,—the father November 14, 1846, and the mother August 24, 1888. They had five children, of whom Gideon was the third. He came to Cuyahoga county with his parents when about nine years old, and has since continued to reside in Rockport township or Rocky River hamlet, with the exception of three years, when he lived in Erie county, Ohio. He was married in Castalia, Erie county, Ohio, March 20, 1860, to Miss Mary J. Giddings, who was born in Rockport township, September 27, 1841, and is a daughter of the late Calvin and Mary (Bennett) Giddings, who were former residents of Rockport township, but who in the spring of 1859 removed to Erie county, Ohio. Mr. Giddings died in Virginia, while there on business, May 4, 1875, and Mrs. Giddings in Rockport township, December 24, 1890. Mr. and Mrs. Gideon Pease have had eight children, of whom five are living, namely: Jennie, Lillie, Mabel, Edna and Calvin. Two children died in infancy, and another, Mary E., when thirteen years old. Mr. Pease filled the office of Township Trustee for some ten years. FREDERICK HAUSSERMAN, deceased, was for many years one of the respected citizens of Pama township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio. A brief record of his life is as follows: Frederick Hausserman was born in Wurtemburg, Germany, November 5, 1823, and in his native land he remained until 1846. That year he emigrated to America. Upon his arrival in this country he located in Cleveland, where for some three years he was engaged in the butchering business, and for over a year he ran a meat market there. After this he returned to Europe, remained about eight months, and upon coming back to Ohio settled in Cuyahoga county, on a fam in Parma township. Here he was engaged in agricultural pursuits the rest of his life, in connection with which he also carried on a butchering business for a number of years. Mr. Hausseman was married in Parma township, May 29; 1850, to Miss Angeline Snell, who was born in Medina county, New York, April 8, 1827, daughter of John J. and Nancy (Thumb) Snell. Her parents came to Cuyahoga county and settled in Pama township in 1834, and here spent the rest of their lives and died. Mr. and Mrs. Hausserman became the parents of eight children, namely: F. A. Eliza, wife of D. M. Johnson, is deceased; Heleu L., wife of K. K. Hodgman, resides in Parma township; Sarah L.; Dora M., wife of M. IL Bailey, Parma township; Frederick J. M., married Rinda Fuller, and lives in Brooklyn, this county; William G.; Sherman G.; Angie E., wife of J. L. Stadler, Brooklyn, Ohio. After an active and useful life, during which he gained the respect and esteem of all who 914 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. knew him, Mr. Hausserman passed to his reward, his death occurring June 28, 1891. He was an active member of the German Evangelical Church, and exemplified in his life the teachings of the Christian religion.J. J. W. TAYLOR, a retired banker of Cleveland, was born in this city, June 2, 1824, a son of Elisha and Ann (Dunlap) Taylor. The father was a native of Otsego, New York, and was married in that vicinity. He came to Cleveland in 1816, where he was engaged as a general merchant until 1826, and for the following seven years resided on a farm in Cherry valley, New York. He next removed to New York. Mr. Taylor was an ardent temperance worker, and did great good in that line, having organized temperance societies and edited the Temperance Recorder, then the only strictly temperance paper in the State. He returned to Cleveland in 1843, where he followed merchandising four years, and then, in partnership with J. M. Hoyt, embarked in the real-estate business. They purchased out-land tracts, which they converted into lots to suit the purchaser. Mr. Taylor remained in this city until his death, in April, 1861, at the age of seventy-five years. He was a charter member and officer in the Presbyterian Church, and was a member of the building committee of the Euclid Avenue Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Taylor died in this city in 1824, at about thirty years of age. She was also a life-long member of the Presbyterian Church. J. W. Taylor, the youngest and only survivor of nine children, five of whom died *in early life, graduated at Union College in 1843. He afterward clerked in his father's store for seven years, was then empioyed as bookkeeper in what is now the National City Bank, next removed to the southern part of the State, and for the following fifteen years was engaged in different positions in the bank. During the late war he spent four years in Louisville. Returning to Cleveland in 1866, Mr. Taylor was engaged in the settlement of his father's estate, completing the same in 1893. In 1847 he was united in marriage with Miss Anna Sexton, and they had one child, Anna, now the wife of George W. Lutton, of Florida. The wife and mother died in October, 1849, at the age of twenty-two years. Mr. Taylor was again married, in 1871, to Belle, a daughter of William Cresling, an attorney of Springfield, Ohio. One child has been added to this union, Edith, attending college at Northampton, Massachusetts. Mr. Taylor is a member of the First Baptist Church. In political matters he is a stanch Republican. Is a thorough scholar, a true gentleman, and enjoys the abiding confidence and respect of his acquaintances for his manly character and unimpeachable integrity. F. W. TRUMPER, general agent for the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, of Boston, Massachusetts, has been a resident of the city of Cleveland since 1891. In August, 1892, he associated himself with the company he now represents in eastern Ohio. A man of energy and good business ability, he has extended the operations of his corporation and greatly advanced its interests. Mr. Trumper is a native of Canada, born at Belleville, April 4, 1844, a son of Richard and Jane (Howe) Trumper. He was reared in the Dominion and received his earlier education there. Later he pursued his studies in Rochester, New York, and in 1863 embarked in business. For 'eighteen years he gave his attention to the nursery trade, abandoning this enterprise to go into the oil regions of Pennsylvania. There he remained less than two years, going to Philadelphia to enter the employ of the Perin Mutual Life Insurance Company. He was with this corporation twelve years, filling the position of general agent. At the end of this period he took charge of the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company's business in Ohio, to which he has given the most faithful attention. CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 915 He was married in 1869, to Miss Laura M. Mackey, and they have had three children: Fred J., Richard T. and Grace. The family are exemplary members of the Euclid 'Avenue Congregational Church, and Mr. Trumper belongs to the I. O. O. F. WALSTENE D. PUDNEY was born at Sherburne, Chenango county, New York, February 22, 1846, and from the time he was ten years of age until he was sixteen he worked as a farm-hand summers and boarded at home in the winter, attending the common district school. In the fall of 1861 he offered his services as a recruit in the Sixty-first New York Infantry, but was rejected on account of his age, and was told by the recruiting officer to go home and grow two or three years. He did not wait, however, that long before he began preparation so as to be of service when his age would permit. He at once began with several others to study the manual of arms, and to drill under the instruction of one of the returned officers of the three-months service. In February, 1863, he enlisted in the Fifth New York Heavy Artillery, and served continuously until August 1, 1865, when he was discharged as First Sergeant of Battery H, same regiment, participating in the many battles of the Army of the Potomac until the summer of 1864. The second battalion of the regiment was detached and sent with General P. H. Sheridan into the Shenandoah Valley, participating in every battle of that year where such brilliant successes made Little " Phil." so famous. After receiving his discharge he returned home, where he remained until March, 1866, when he went to Fort Dodge, Iowa, and worked at farming, until the Dubuque and Sioux City Railway was extended, when he became a sub-contractor for the building of five miles of that road; at the end of a year his contract was completed and accepted, but he found that the contractors were hopelessly insolvent, 58 and he sold off what personal property he had and mortgaged his land for every dollar he could, and paid his help. When this was done he had $12 in his pocket and two Ohio notes of $320, each turned over as a part of the assets of the contractors above named. He then started for Ohio to see about the value of the two notes, and upon arrival at Columbus, Ohio, found that the maker of the notes was dead and his estate worse than insolvent! He also found that if he expected to reside there he would have to find work, as his available cash was less than a dollar, and that in Uncle Sam's "shin-plasters." Upon consultation with a policeman he learned that they were building a big sewer near State street and wanted help, at which place he obtained employment, where he worked several weeks. One day when it was too wet to work, he entered the gallery where the House of Representatives was in session and listened to the speeches of the members on the bill then pending which changed in Ohio the rate of interest from ten per cent. to eight per cent. per annum, little thinking that in twenty years he would sit as a member of that same body for two terms. One day, hearing an elderly man say he wanted to hire help on his farm, he hired out to a very large land owner near Plain City, Madison county, Ohio. In the winter of 1868 he began the study of law, reading Blackstone whenever he could and going to the county seat occasionally to recite and receive instructions. He continued this another year, when he hired out to work only one-half of each week, the remainder of the time being spent in necessary study preparatory to entering the office of some attorney when opportunities were much better. In the spring of 1871 he entered the office of lion. J. L. Cameron, of 'Marysville, Ohio, and was admitted to the bar a little over a year later. While in Marysville he served two terms as City Solicitor. He resigned during the summer of 1877, and came to Cleveland and formed a partne r-ship with Judge A. M. Jackson, where he has 916 - CUYAHOGA COUNTY. since resided and been engaged in the practice of his profession. He has been also in tie occasional employ of the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Company in the legal department, assisting in buying right of way and settlement of claims, and for the last few years has been in the employ of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company in their legal department. He was nominated and elected as a member of the Sixty-ninth General Assembly of Ohio in the fall of 1889; renominated and re-elected to the Seventieth General Assembly at the election in the fall of 1891, serving two full tems, during which time he missed no days of any session, and but very few hours of any, and was the champion of the "Australian ballot law" and "good country roads," and was the author of the present most excellent law for building roads in this county by contract instead of the old way of putting money in a mud-hole by taxation and calling it "working the roads." He has been connected with the following law firms: Jackson & Pudney, Jackson, Pudney & Athey and Pudney & Thieme, and at present is in the law department of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company. S. T. LE BARON, who has been a resident of Cleveland since 1871, is a New Englander by birth, Montpelier, Vermont, being the place where he first saw the light of day: the date, January, 1835. His father, Apolis Le Baron, descended from Dr. Le Baron, a physician of the French army, who emigrated to America in the seventeenth century. Our worthy subject spent his boyhood and youth among the hills of the Green Mountain State, and at the age of twenty-one years set out for the western frontier: He was accompanied by his brother, William Le Baron, their mission being to erect the Atwater block in this city. In 1857 he entered the employ of the Pittsburg & Fort Wayne Railway Company, and for eleven years had charge of a passenger train on this road out of Chicago. He returned to Cleveland in 1871, and embarked in the real-estate business, to which he has since devoted his time and attention. He has been a most active dealer, making several additions to the city and transacting a large brokerage business. Independent in politics, he casts his suffrage for men rather than promised measures. He has been a member of the Masonic fraternity since 1862. He was united in marriage, in this city, in 1863, to Miss Jennie Mehean, a native of Cleveland. Mrs. Le Baron died in May, 1892, aged fifty years. They had one child, Harold S., who is associated with his father in business. The family residence is at 309 Crawford Road. In religious matters Mr. Le Baron is not pronounced, but has a preference for the expression of faith taught by the Unitarian society. S. U. TARBELL, deceased, for many years a prominent member of the medical profession in Cuyahoga county, is entitled to the space that has been accorded him in this history. He was born in Colchester, New London county, Connecticut, April 17, 1817, a son of. Abner and Lucy P. (Jones) Tarbell, and the eldest of three children. The other children bore the names of Leverett and Lucynthia. In an early day the family removed from the Nutmeg State to Ohio, making the journey with wagon and horses. Thirty-four days and nights were consumed in coming to Ohio, but all the hardships and privations of pioneer life were borne with that courage characteristic of the first settlers in an untried country. The father survived to the age of seventy-eight years; the mother died in 1836. The maternal grandfather, Asa Jones, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war and fought in that conflict seven years. Young Tarbell passed an uneventful youth on his father's farm, attending the short terms of school during the winter. When he began CUYAHOGA COUNTY - 917 the study of medicine it was under the direction of Dr. Delamater, of Cleveland. He acquired a thorough knowledge of the science, and after he engaged in practice at Bedford won a large patronage. His death occurred at the age of sixty-two years, ending a useful career. Dr. Tarbell was united in marriage January 20, 1855, to Lucy A. Gray. Mrs. Tarbell was born at Ravenna, Ohio, in 1824, the daughter of Silas Gray, a native of the State of Connecticut. In his youth Mr. Gray was bound out, and, although he was deprived of the loving care of parents, received a superior education. He was married at Rensselaerville, New York, to Sally Watson, a daughter of Benjamin Watson, and they afterward taught school for some time at Albany. In 1813, they emigrated to the West, settling at Ravenna, Ohio, when that spot was marked by a few log houses. They first settled on the Dr. De Wolf fam, and later removed to the village of Bedford, where Mr. Gray became the host of the " Checkered Tavern," one of the best hotels between Cleveland and Pittsburg. They reared a family of twelve children, seven sons and five daughters. The mother died at the age of seventy years; the father survived to the age of seventy-five. He was a member of the Masonic order, belonging to the blue lodge and chapter. Mrs. Tarbell is a woman of good business ability, and takes a deep interest in all matters pertaining to the welfare of the village. Of a generous, sympathetic nature, she is ever ready to respond to the cry of the needy, and has a host of friends in all the walks of life. SANFORD GRAY, a successful farmer of Middleburg township, was born in Euclid, this county, June 2, 1831, and reared in Rockport and Middleburg townships, which have always been his home. For thirteen years he was engaged in running a sawmill, but otherwise he has followed agricultural pursuits and dealt in live stock, being one of the successful men of Cuyahoga county. He was married in Middleburg township, November 14, 1851, to Miss Sarisa Alexander, a native of Rockport township, and a daughter of Thomas Alexander, deceased. Mr. Gray has held many of the local offices of his township, and is a highly respected citizen. ROBERT HODGMAN, deceased.—The father of our subject was the late Amos Hodgman, Sr., who came from the State of Maine with his family of wife and seven children, in the autumn of 1821, settling in Parma township, where he died in 1828. Robert Hodgman was born in Lincoln county, Maine, May 20, 1810, and was eleven years old when he came with his father and family to Cuyahoga county. He was reared to manhood in Parma township, agriculture being his chief business, although for several years he owned and operated a sawmill on his farm. He was a quiet and unassuming man, respected by all for his honor and uprightness. He was married in Parma township, September 16, 1847, to Miss Julia A. Beels, who was born in Royalton township, Cuyahoga county, May 10, 1823, daughter of Abner Beels, deceased, a native of Herkimer county, New York, who came with his family to this county as early as 1821, settling in Royalton township, but in 1825 moved to Parma township, where he resided most of the time till his death. He, as well as his wife, died in Mason, Cass county, Michigan, at the residence of their daughter, Mrs. Harriet E. Stevens. Robert Hodgman had six children, of whom two died in infancy. The living are: Roderick N., a resident of Parma township; Alice C., wife of B. ). Stroud, of the same township; Kendrick K., who married Helen L. Hauseman and resides in Parma township; and Clarence C., who married Miss Emmet E. Humphries and lives in Parma township. Mrs. Hodgman has been a member of the Presbyterian Church ever since she was sixteen years of age.