Cuyahoga County, Ohio - Biographical sketches (1 of 2 so headed), 1870 (part 1 of 2)

Biographical sketches

officer. In addition, the managers of several others have secured his co-operation, feeling assured that the trust confided in him would be wisely and faithfully managed. His capacity for work is almost unlimited, and his financial ability is unquestioned, while his uniform good temper, displayed in all business transactions, renders him one of the most popular of Cleveland's citizens. He is enterprising and public spirited, liberal and benevolent in regard to charitable institutions and causes, and highly esteemed in all the relations of life.

James Farmer

Jiumes Farmer is a native of Georgia, having been born near Augusta~on the 19th day of July, 1802. IIis ancestors came from England during the early part of the seventeenth century, where the family had been honorably mentioned since the days of Henry the Kighth, and especially so during the time of Charles the Second.

Mr. Farmer's grandfather took an active part on the patriot side in the stirring scenes of the Revolution, participating in numerous battles fought in Georgia and the Carolinas. Lis father, on account of slavery, decided to leave the South, and in 1805 moved to the then newly admitted State of Ohio, settling upon a tract of land in Columbiana county, where he remained until the fall of 1818, when he removed to Whit is now known as Salineville, in the same county.

ITere young James grew to manhood, availing himself of such opportunities as then existed for acquiring an education, while devoting a large share of his time to helping on the farm and in the manufacture of salt, which his father had undertaken. In 1824, at the age of twenty-two, the young man leased his father's salt works, and, having enlarged them, devoted himself for four years to this industry.

In 1828, however, he concluded to extend his business, and therefore crossed the mountains to Philadelphia and purchased a stock of goods suitable to the demands of a new country; thus beginning a mereantile career in which he continued nearly thirty years.

In 1834 Mr. Farmer was married to Miss Meribah Butler, a young lady of Knglish parentage who had previously removed with her parents to Ohio from Philadelphia.

In 1838 he built what was for those times a large flouring mill, after which he increased his business by purchasing wheat and manufacturing it into flour, which he shipped to the cities of New York, Philadelphia, Boston and New Orleans. In carrying on these pursuits, Mr. Farmer had occasion to travel very widely, thus acquiring a knowlege of the great commercial interests of the country, and coming into business relations with a large circle of wealthy and influential men.

on principally by water, Mr. Farmer built a fine steamer which was employed several years in the profitable trade of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers; running between Pittsburg, Cincinnati, St. Louis and New Orleans. In the year 1846 Mr. Farmer, with his usual enterprise, was foremost in securing a charter for the Cleveland and Pittsburg railroad company. He was made its president and devoted his time, his money and, what was most important of all, his untiring energy, to the construction of the road. Under his able management it was completed from Cleveland to the Ohio river in about five years. This road opened up a large amount of mineral wealth, and gave a great impetus to the business of Cleveland, especially to the coal trade.

In 1856 Mr. Farmer removed with his family to the "Forest City," and engaged in the coal business: haying mines of his own which he has worked success. fully for the past twenty-five years. Since coming to Cleveland he has also identified himself with the manufacturing of iron, and with the banking interests of the city.

In 1858 Mr. Farmer was again called to the presidency of the Cleveland and Pittsburg railroad company, and in order to facilitate its management the superintendency was also assigned him. It was mainly through his wise and economical administration that the road was kept from falling into the hands of its bondholders, a fate that befel many railroads after the disastrous financial crash of 1857. In 1859 Mr. Farmer, feeling that the company was again upon a safe footing, retired from the presidency. He remained a member of the board of directors, however, for several years longer, when he withdrew entirely, having served the company, in all, nearly twenty years.

Mr. Farmer, although devoting himself principally to his own business, ever kept the welfare of Cleveland in view, and, as he was convinced that the city's greatness depended on its manufactures, he determined to labor for the construction of a new railway line to the nearest coal fields. In 1870 he began, through the press and otherwise, the agitation of the subject, as one of vital importance to the future prosperity of the city.

In 1871 the Valley railway company was organized, the object of which was to build a road from Cleveland by way of Akron and Canton, into the very heart of the great coal and iron fields of Ohio. Mr, Fa; mer was chosen president of the company and the work of construction begun in the spring of 1873. Owing, howeyer, to the great financial crash in the fall of that year, the work was suspended, but the company's affairs kept in-such trim that it was able to rails were laid. At the present time the road is nearly completed to Canton, a distance of sixty miles from Cleveland, and its entire success is fully assured. Mr, Farmer has thus been the principal promoter of two railways, one of which has given to Cleveland its great manufacturing importance as well as that large part of its commerce which depends on its manufactures, and the other of which promises largely to increase both its commerce and its manufactures.

Mr. Farmer is now seventy-seven years of age, but is still hale and hearty. He has the companionship of his wife and five children, and with his children's children around him still looks forward to many years of useful life. Ife is an honored member of the Society of Friends. He has neversought political preferment, but has moved quietly in the business walks of life, devoting his time and energy to enterprises for the public good, believing that a man has higher duties than the mere acquisition of wealth, and that he who lives to benefit mankind has ennobled his own soul, and may well rest when life's labor is done.

Ife possesses a well-balanced mind, maturing all his plans by careful consideration, has a calm judgment, is serene in disposition, and is charitable to the failings of others. He is genial as a friend, kind and indulgent as a husband and father, and is generally esteemed, respected and beloved. He is a close observer of both men and things, and may truly be said to be the architect of his own fortunes. He possesses a strong will which has carried him over all obstacles in his business enterprises. He has lived to see his efforts for the public good crowned with success, and is entitled to enjoy the honorable old age that is his.

Seneca O. Griswold

This gentleman, a prominent member of the legal fraternity of Cleveland, was born at Windsor, Connecticut, on the 20th of December, 1823. He isa direct descendant in the sixth generation from Edward Griswold, who settled in Windsor in 1635, and who was the ancestor of a considerable number of men, distinguished in literature, science and professional life.

In his youth, Mr. Griswold attended the Suffield Connecticut Literary Institute until he attained his seventeenth year. In 1841 he came to Ohio, and the following year entered Oberlin College as a member of the freshman class. Ile was graduated in 1845 and immediately afterward returned to Connecticut, where he taught for one year in the academy of his native town.

Returning to Ohio at the expiration of that time, he entered the law office of Messrs. Bolton & Kelly, of Cleveland, and remained with them until admitted to the bar in 1847. In the spring of 1848 he formed # partnership with the Hon. John C. Grannis, and at once entered on the practice of his profession. After remaining in that partnership three years he entered the firm of Bolton & Kelly, the name of which then hecame Bolton, Kelly & Griswold. In 1856 Mr. Bolton was elected to the bench, and the firm then changed its name to Kelly & Griswold, which appellation it retained until the death of the former gentleman in 1870.

In 1861 Mr. Griswold was elected a member of the general assembly, and served oneterm. While a member of the legislature he afforded valuable assistance in organizing the railroad sinking-fund commission and also in procuring. for the city a paid fire department. The year after the death of Mr. Kelly he formed a copartnership with Mr. Isaac Buckingham, a former student, with whom he was associated two years.

He was then, in 1873, elected one of the judges of the superior court of Cleveland, and during the same year was elected, by both Democrats and Republicans, as a member of the State constitutional convention. In this convention he held a prominent position, serving, with marked ability as chairman of the committee on corporations and as a member of the apportionment committee. Mr. Griswold was chiefly instrumental in establishing the Cleveland Law Library association, of which he was, for many years, the president.

Upon the expiration of his judicial term Mr. Griswold returned to the practice of his profession with renewed ardor, and in 1878 again became associated with Mr. Grannis, which connection he has maintained to the present time.

He delivered av oration at the centennial celebration in the city of Cleveland, on the 4th of July, 1876, which was acknowledged by all to be an eloquent and able address, well worthy of the occasion which called it forth.

As a judge Mr. Griswold commanded the respect of all by his learning and impartiality, and as a lawyer he stands in the front rank of the profession; his extensive reading, well-balanced judgment and logical reasoning making him a most reliable counselor and successful practitioner.

Mr. Griswold was married, in 1858, to Helen Lucy Robinson of Westfield, New York. Tis wife died in 1871, since when he has remained unmarried.

Edwin B. Hale

The subject of this sketch, who is one of the most prominent and successful bankers and business men of the city, belongs to one of the oldest and best. known families in England and the United States; and, although it would greatly transcend the limits allowed here to trace its history at length and mention all who have reflected credit on their ancient and honorable name, yet a brief notice of a few points may not be Inappropriate.

In the history and antiquities of the county of Essex, England, by Philip Mornant, London, 1768, we find numerous references to the family of ILales. As carly as the thirteenth century the family name appears among the burgesses in parliament, and is referred to in the history of the reigns of Richard the First, Edward the Third and their immediate which they lived, and the name is mentioned with honor in both civil and military annals - Sir Matthew Hale, the upright judge, being one of the most distinguished of the family. 'The office of high sheriff of the county was frequently filled by some one bearing the name of Hale, and the family has almost continously had a representative in one or both houses of parliament.

Members of the family at an carly date settled in New England; the first settler of the name in Connecticut being Samuel Hale, (son of William Hale, Esq., of Kings Walden, England, high sheriff of Hertfordshire in 1621, who married Rose, daughter of Sir George Bond, Knight Lord Mayor of London, in 1587,) who located in the neighborhood vf Hartford about the year 1640. In the annals of Glastonbury, Connecticut, (so named from the famous old monastie town in England, which was distinguished as a seat of learning and where the first Christian church was erected about the year 600) we find the names of his descendants quite prominent; they being engaged in various wars of the olden time - notably in King Philip's war, the old French and Indian war and the war of the Revolution. In the war of the Revolution no less than sixteen able bodied men, heads of families, by the name of Hale, all from this small settlement of Glastonbury, attached themselves to the army as soldicrs and gave good evidence of their patriotism by risking their lives in their country's service.

Philo Hale, the father of the subject of this sketch, was a man of remarkable energy and enterprise, and was the first who engaged in and established the business of ship building on the Connecticut river, which he conducted successfully until the sudden outbreak of the war of 1812. The war ruined his business and involved him in serious loss, THe afterwards traveled extensively abroad, but, finding no foreign country like his native land, came back, improved his broken fortunes and, attracted by the beauty of the prairie country, gave his means and energies to the development of the interests of central T1linois, where he died in 1848, universally esteemed and respected as a public-spirited citizen.

The son of whom we write was born in Brooklyn, Long Island, February 8, 1819. During his infancy his parents removed to Connecticut, and gave him in early youth the advantages of the best schools. The death of his mother, two brothers and a sister, at an carly period of life, prevented him from entering Yale College, and defeated all the family plans for his further education. The young boy then found himself dependent upon the sympathy of distant relatives. He came to Ohio, and entered Kenyon College in 1837, where he gave his entire attention to his studies and graduated with the honors of his class in 1841, having @ personal friend in every member of the faculty and the kind regard of all his fellow students. Fond of letters, it was his intention to devote himself to the pursuts of literature, but after much discussion, and rather in deference to the wish of his father, he turned his attention to the legal profession and entered the office of Goddard & Converse, attorneys at Zanesville, Ohio, and was admitted to the bar, after an examination conducted by the Hon. Joseph Root, in 1843. After this, business required his presence in Illinois, and absorbed his attention for several years.

In 1852, after the death of his father, he removed to Cleveland, attracted thither by its beautiful situation, its climate, the enterprise of its citizens, and its educational and other advantages. He there commenced business as a private banker and js stil] so

Conservative man, cautious and considerate, thoughtfuland well balanced. In his business relations he is highly respected, and his counsel is freely and frequently sought. In his immediate social circle genial and pleasant, he is cherished and beloved. Asacitizen he is quiet and unostentatious, but always interested in every measure for the public good, and the poor have ever found in him a true and sympathetie friend.

In 1846 he was married to the daughter of S. N. Hoyt, Esq., of Chardon, Ohio, and now has three sons and fonr daughters living, some of whom are married and reside in the immediate neighborhood of their father's residence.

Truman P. Handy

Truman P. Handy was born in Paris, Oneida county, New York, on the 17th day of January, 1807. He received a good education at an academy and made preparations for entering college, but at the age of eighteen he accepted a. clerkship in the Bank of Geneva, in Ontario county in that State. Five years later he resigned and removed to Buffalo, to assist in the organization of the Bank of Buffalo, in which he held the position of teller for one year.

In 1832 he removed to Cleveland, having been invited there for the purpose of resuscitating the Commercial Bank of Lake Erie, established in 1816, the charter of which had been purchased by Hon. George Bancroft, of Massachusetts.' Mr. Handy accepted the post of cashier and reorganized the bank, which prospered until 1842, when its charter expired and a renewal was refused by the legislature. In the financial crash of 1837 it had been compelled to accept reul estate in settlement of -the estate of its involved customers, and thus became one of the largest, landholders in the city. When its business was closed Mr. Handy was appointed trustee to divide this p.operty among the stockholders. This tusk he completed in 1845,

Meanwhile he had, in 1843, established a private banking house under the firm name of T. P. Handy & Co., in conducting the business of which he met with his accustomed success. In 1845 Mr. Handy organized the Commercial Branch Bank, under the act of legislature of that year authorizing the establishment of the State Bank of Ohio. He assumed the cashiership and was also the acting manager. The

In 1861 Mr. Handy was called upon to revive the credit of another important institution, which had been seriously crippled by the failure of the Ohio Life and Trust Company. He accepted the presidency of the establishment in question (the Merchants' Branch of the State Bank of Ohio), and under his management it rapidly recovered its lost ground. In February, 1865, it was reorganized as the Merchants' National Bank under the United States banking law, with a capital of one million dollars, six hundred thousand of which were paid in. Mr, Ilandy was elected president of the reorganized institution, and conducted its affairs with great success.

From 1850 to 1860 he also served as treasurer of the Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati railroad company, and managed its finances with sagacity and skill. This position he resigned in 1860, but has ever since been a director of the company.

Mr. Handy was also among the first to demonstrate the practicability of establishing a profitable commerce with Europe, direct from the lake ports. In 1858 he despatched three of a fleet of ten merchant vessels, mostly laden with lumber and staves, which left Cleveland for English ports, and since that time there has been more or less direct trade maintained between Kurope and the ports of the American lakes.

Mr. Handy never sought nor held positions of political prominence. Few, however, have taken so deep wn interest in educational and philanthropic causes, or labored so earnestly for their success. He served as a member of the board of education with Charles Bradburn, and was one of that gentleman's ablest coadjutors in the arduous task of reorganizing and improving the school system of Cleveland. In the 'Sunday-schools he was for more than forty years a constant worker both as superintendent and teacher, taking an active part in all measures calculated to extend their ficld of usefulness. For twenty-one years he was president of the Industrial Home and Children's Aid Society, of which he has ever been one of the most liberal supporters.

A life-long and sincere member of the Presbyterian church, he is singularly free from "isms" of any description, and at all times advocated their exclusion from moral or political theories or questions. He is broad and liberal in his views, generous and just in his acts, universally esteemed and particularly beloved by children. He is one of the few citizens to be found in any community whose effective labors for the relief of the poor and helpless, and the rescue of the ignorant and vicious, justly entitle them to the name of philanthropists. He made three extended visits to Europe, chiefly for the purpose of investigating the financial, religious and educational systems of the old

In March, 1832, Mr. Handy was married to Miss Harriet N. Hall of Geneva, New York, by whom he has one daughter, who married Hon. John S. Newbeiry, of Detroit, Michigan.

Benjamin Harrington

Benjamin Harrington was born in Shelburn, Vermont, on the 4th of February, 1806. His father, Captain Benjamin Harrington, was a native of Connecticut, and in early life had been a sea captain, but left the sea and settled in Shelburn, where for a number of years he was a leading merchant and prominent business man. He built a church, and built and owned a store, a hotel and six or more dwelling houses, in that village.

The subject of this notice was the fifth of a family of seven children. His father died when he was quite young, and he was thus thrown upon his own resources at an early age. When fifteen years old he went to Canada, where he remained several years, and then moved to Buffalo, New York. He returned to Canada at the expiration of two years, and thence moved to Cleveland in November, 1835, one year before it was incorporated as a city. He first leascd, and kept for several years, the old Franklin House.

cupacity one year. In 1841 he was chosen councilman, and the following year was again elected alderman and made president of the city council.

Mr. Harrington retired from the city government in 1843, and did not again enter it. From that time until 1858 he devoted his time and energy to the management of his business, which he began to increase by purchasing land and erecting business blocks.

He was appointed to several positions of public trust. Among others he was postmaster under President Buchanan from 1858 to 1860, and was made a State commissioner to close up the affairs of the old Commercial Bank of Lake Erie. He was one of the six who formed the banking firm of S. W.

into the First National Bank. 'The application to be thus organized was the first on record in the United States, and one of the first acted upon.

After his retirement from active business life, Mr. Harrington devoted his attention to the supervision of his property and to works of charity. He gave liberally to numerous benevolent objects, but his charity was always governed by a wise discrimination. In later life he took but little interest in politics. Te Was a man of most generous impulses, large hearted, and universally popular among all classes of people; noted for his strict integrity and honor in all business: transactions, and a self-made man in the highest sense, In every position of trust which he held he enjoyed the complete confidence of those whom he represented, and displayed upon all occasions his ability to perform the duties devolving upon him. He was a sagacious business man, a kind employer and in every respect a good citizen.

Although not a member of any church organization, he was a liberal contributor to the cause of Christianity and aconstant attendant upon divine service. For many years he was a vestryman of Trinity (Episcopal) church. He died on the 30th of January, 1878, being just five days less than seventy-two years of age.

Mr. Ilarrington was married on the 17th day of January, 1832, to Chloe W. Prentiss, daughter of Samuel Prentiss of Rutland, Vermont. Mrs. Harrington died several years before her husband. They left no family, but are mourned by the many friends to whom they were endeared by their noble qualities of mind and heart.

Iienry J. Herrick

Dr. Henry J. Ierrick, one of Ohio's native sons, who has for several years occupied a conspicuous place among the physicians and surgeons of Cleveland, was born at Aurora, Portage county, on the 20th day of January, 1833. His parents cime of New England stock, his father being a native of Massachusetts, and his mother of Connecticut. Early in life they set their faces toward the west, and located in Ohio, where, with the energy and faith necessary on the part of all good pioneers, they bravely began the battle for existence. Beneath the watchful care of the father, the sons and daughters were taught valuable lessons in the lore which leads to success; while within the sacred domain of a Christian mother's influence they drank the inspiration of her pious teachings, and ever sought to honor her precepts by. lifting their lives to the elevated moral standard which she had set up before them.

When Ilenry was buta lad, his father removed with his family to Twinsburg in Summit county, where the youth divided his time between occasional attendance at a public school and hard labor upon his father's farm and in his saw-mill. 'Thus passed his years upon the ''even tenor of their way" until he reached the age of eighteen, when an offer made by his father aroused his latent ambition, and gave shape to his whole future carcer. Of all the seven sons of his father, he alone accepted the offer made by the latter; which was that he would aid in providing a liberal education for that son who would agree to forego all claim to receive an '' outfit" at his majority.

Ifenry joyfully embraced the opportunity, and without delay began preparing for college at the Twinsburg academy, under the capable instruction of Rev. Samuel Bissell - still working on the farm during his yacation. Being duly prepared at the age of twenty-one, he entered Williams College, at Wiiliamstown, Massachusetts, where he spent four years in arduous study - during which he passed his vacations profitably in barrel-making, lumbering, and school teaching - the latter occupation also requiring his attention during two winters. He was then graduated with high honors, finding himself endowed with not only the learning of the schools, but with a good deal of practical experience and no little mechanical skill. One of his comrades at Williams was James A. Garfield, since so celebrated as a soldier and statesman, and these two, from their large, powerful forms, were known as the '* Ohio Giants."

Greatly to the disappointment of his father, who hoped to see him embrace the ministry, young Herrick decided to enter the medical professon, and, during one of his vacations, he attended a partial course of lectures at the Berkshire Medical College, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Returning to Ohio in 1858, he at once went to work for his uncle, who was a farmer. In the fall of that year, haying saved twenty-nine dollars, he set out, with his father's consent, for Cleveland, where he hoped by some means to make his way through a course at the medical college. Means he had none, save his twenty-nine dollars, and he was, moreover, ''a stranger in a strange land," but he had a stout heart, and he never doubted that he would accomplish his desire. He sought employment as a teacher, that he might earn money to pay for his tuition, but in vain. By a lucky chance he was directed to Dr. M. L. Brooks, in whose office he became a student, and whom he compensated partly with office labor, and partly with the gains derived from teaching in one of the city evening schools. By the aid of the means thus acquired he also managed to attend lectures at the Cleveland Medical College.

After teaching school subsequently (in 1859 and 1860) at Geauga Seminary, in Geaurga county, and still later in Solon, Cuyahoga county, he went to Chicago in the summer of 1860, where he resumed his medical studies with Dr. Daniel Brainard, and through the influence of that eminent surgeon he wes appointed house physician at the United States marine hospital in Chieago. Entering Rush Medical College also, he graduated from that institution in the spring of 1861 with the degree of M.D., and about that time received likewise from Williams College the degree of A.M.

Returning shortly afterwards to Cleveland, he was employed as one of Dr. Brooks' assistants at the United States marine hospital, and in February, 1862, entered the army as assistant surgeon of the Seventeenth Ohio Infantry. During a portion of his service he was in charge of General Hospital, No. 13, at Nashville, Tennessee. He received a commission as surgeon in December, 1862, and at the battle of Chickamauga, where he was in charge of the hospitals of his division, he was captured by the enemy; being conyeyed thence to Libby prison, at Richmond. At he returned to Cleveland on a twenty days' furlough, and was there married (December 8, 1863,) to Miss Mary, daughter of Dr. M. L. Brooks, his old patron and friend.

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Rejoining his regiment at Chattanooga, he accompanied Sherman's army in the celebrated "march to the sea," and at Savannah resigned his commission one month previous to the expiration of his term of service.

Although greatly benefited by his extended experience in the army, he sought to still further increase his professional knowledge in a brief season within the lecture room of a medical college in New York city, and, being there fitted to encounter with skill the difficultics of surgical science, he returned to Cleveland, where, in 1865, he became associated as a partner with his father-in-law, Dr. Brooks, with whom he continued to practice until 1871. Since that time Dr. Ilerrick has pursued alone the profession of physician and surgeon, mounting steadily in skill and fame until he is to-day a widely successful practitioner, and is confessedly a leading representative in the ''old school."

From 1865 to 1868 he filled the chair of professor of ''obstetrics and diseases of women and children" in the Charity Hospital Medical College, and upon the reorganization of that college as the Medical Department of Woostcr University he was chosen to be professor of the principles of surgery, which chair he still occupies. In 1863 he was elected -president of the Ohio State Medical Society, of which he is still an active member. Ife is also a prominent member of the American Medical Association and the Northeastern and Cuyahoga County Medical Societies. He is a frequent contributor to the valuable medical literature of the State; his papers on "tubercles" and ''the Charitable Institutions of the State," read before the State Medical Society the present year (1879) being received with marked approval.

A Presbyterian in religious faith, Dr. Herrick is an earnest Christian worker, and devotes much of his time, his energies and his means to jabors of benevolence; his heart, as well as his professional instincts responding gladly to the calls of suffering humanity, while his outstretched hand is an eager

Dr. Herrick's family consists of his estimable wife, one daughter and three sons, all of whom reside with their parents. ILaving risen unaided, save by bis own earnest and unflagging efforts, from one of the lower rounds of life's ladder to social and professional eminence, Dr. Herrick has made a record which the youth of the present time may well look upon with respect and emulation.

Rensselaer R. Herrick

Iion. Rensselaer R. Herrick, who occupies to-day the chief magistracy of the city of Cleveland, first set foot within that city forty-three years ago, at the youthful age of ten, and there he has spent the subsequent years of what has proven a busy and useful existence.

his great-grandfather's great-grandfather, Ephraim Herrick, came over from "Leicester, England, to mend his fortunes in the western world. Ephraim Ilerrick settled in Connecticut upon reaching the shores of America, and there his descendants continued to live and multiply until within less than a century, when they began to migrate from classic New England to newer and more inviting fields. 'To connect the past with the present, it may be noted that Rensselaer R. Herrick's father, Sylvester P., was born in Clinton, New York, in 1793; his grandfather, Andrew, in Connecticut, April 7, 1752; his greatgrandfather, Andrew, in Preston, Connecticut, February 10, 1727; his great-grandfatber's father, Ephraim, in Connecticut in 1692; and his great-grandfather's grandfather in Connecticut in 1638.

Andrew Herrick, grandfather of Cleyeland's present mayor, removed about 1790 with his family to Clinton, New York, in company with a band of Connecticut colonists, and became, later on, a prominent citizen of that place, closely identified with the success of Hamilton College, of Clinton, a widely known and popular institution of learning.

Sylvester P., the son of Andrew, entered in early manhood upon active business pursuits and was successively a prominent merchant in Clinton, Vernon and Utica; in which latter place he resided at the time of his death.

In Utica, on the 29th day of January, 1826, Renssclaer R. Herrick first saw the light, and in 1828 his father died. His childhood days moved uneventfully along until he reached the age of ten, when the sturdy and resolute lad set out for the West, to seek his fortune and to do his little share toward the support of his widowed mother's family.

Reaching Cleveland, he obtained employment in the printing office of the Ohio City Argus, located on the west side of the Cuyahoga. There he remained, learning the printer's art, until 1839. Ile then engaged in such occupations as he could find, and until 1843 he divided his time between attending school and earning a livelihood.

Being then seventeen years old, he decided to become a carpenter. Taking service with a prominent builder, he so improved his time and opportunities that at the expiration of three years, when he had reached the age of twenty, he began business on his own account as a builder and contractor. - This oceupation he steadily pursued until 1870, when he was able to retire from active business and to enjoy the ease which had been won by a quarter of a century of unflagging industry.

Mr. Herrick's first appearance in public life was made in 1855, when he was chosen a member of the - Cleveland city council, and this mark of public confidence was successively repeated in 1856, 1857 and 1858. After that, for the space of ten years, the pressing cares of business compelled him to decline all public honors; but in 1869, yielding to the pressure of the popular demand, he was again elected a mem- ber of the council. In 1873, 1874, 1876 and 1877 he was a ''citizen's member" of the board of improvements, and in 1879 he was elected mayor of the city for the term of two years.

Mr. Herrick joins with his public duties the presidency of the Dover Bay Grape and Wine Company, of which he was one of the organizers, and serves also as a member of the board of trustees of the Society for Savings, with which institution he has for many years heen prominently identified.

A Whig in the carly days of his career, Mr. Herrick became a Republican upon the organization of that party, of which he has since continued to be a staunch member.

The characteristics of activity, industry and good judgment stand out clear and bold in this brief sketch of the successful carcer of Mayor Herrick, and the valuable lessons taught by the unswerving steadiness of purpose which marked his progress through life may well be laid to heart by the rising generation of the present time. In every sense the author of his own fortunes, Mr. Merrick has fully earned the right to rest in mature life, and to the consciousness of haying "'made himself," adds that of knowing that his course of life has received the approbation of his fellow citizens, as manifested by the numerous public trusts conferred upon him. He has been, for the space of forty-three years, closely connected with the rise, progress and prosperity of Cleveland, and in the mellow years of life's autumn enjoys the distinction of being one of its most honored citizens.

Orlando J. Hodge

The subject of this sketch was born Noyember 25, 1828, in Hamburg, Erie county, New York. He is the son of Alfred Hodge, an early settler of Buffalo, and a descendant of John Hodge of Windsor, Connecticut, who, on the 12th of August, 1666, married Susanna Denslow, daughter of Henry Denslow, the first settler of Windsor Locks, Connecticut. The family is possessed of a complete genealogy, running from 1646 to date. Alfred Hodge, the father of the subject of this sketch, died of cholera at Buffalo, July 11, 1832.

In June, 1842, Mr. Hodge left Buffalo; landing in Cleveland on Sunday, the 12th day of that month. Here he first commenced work in a printing office, continuing in that oceupation for a number of years. In April, 1847, then in his nineteenth year, he enlisted for the Mexican war, embarking at New York the following month. Tle was destined to pass through many hardships and perils before he reached the seat of war. On the first evening out, before the transport had got fairly to sea, she collided with a Spanish man-of-war and had to put back to New York in a badly damaged condition. On the 15th of the same month he sailed again for Mexico. All went well until the morning of the 23rd, when the vessel was wrecked sixty miles from the island of

Abaco, the nearest point to land. Fortunately the volunteers and crew, of which there were about one hundred and twenty, were saved by the bark ' Alabama," bound to Havana, and safely landed at that port on the lst day of June. After spending a few days in Havana, the troops crossed the gulf and entered Mexico. Mr. Hodge remained in the enemy's country until the close of the war, doing service under Generals Zachary Taylor and John K. Wool. Hostilities having ceased, he returned to New York, and, on the 16th of August, 1849, was honorably discharged.

Shortly after, he entered Geauga Seminary, in Geauga county, Ohio. Leaving school in 1851, he taught for some time, and then again took up his residence in Cleveland. In the spring of 1853 Mr. Hodge was elected clerk of the police court by a large majority, receiving more votes than were cast for any other candidate for any office. At the expiration of a three-years term he declined a renomination.

In 1857 Mr. Hodge removed to Chicago, where he opened a printing office on his own account. He remained in that city until April, 1860, when, having disposed of his printing establishment, he went to Connecticut and there engaged in mercantile business. A short time after his arrival he was made postmaster of the village in which he resided (Robertsville), filling the office for six years. He took an active interest in public affairs, and by his intelligence and upright conduct won the confidence of all who knew him. In 1862 Mr. Hodge was elected to the house of representatives of Connecticut, and in 1864 was chosen a member of the State Senate. He served his constituents so satisfactorily that he was returned to the Senate for a second term by an increased majority, though the district had not for thirty-five years previous elected a man two successive terms. He was made presiding officer of the Senate by the unanimous vote of his colleagues, and discharged the duties of the position in a manner which was highly commended. By this time he had become prominent in State politics, and was generally respected and trusted. During the war Governor Buckingham appointed him on a commission to visit the front in the interest of Connecticut's sick and wounded soldiers. Mr. Hodge was also personally authorized by the governor to receive the vote of the Connecticut soldiers in the field cast for President in 1864. He discharged the duties of both these positions with intelligence and fidelity.

In 1867 Mr. Hodge disposed of his interests in Connecticut and returned to Cleveland, where he engaged in real estate operations. In 1571 he was elected to the city council, being successively re elected in 1873 and 1875. In 1876 he was elected president of the council, and at the end of his term he refused to be again a candidate for that body. In 1873 Mr. Hodge was elected to the Ohio house of representatives, and in 1875 was re-nominated by acclamation and elected by one of the largest majorities ever given in the county.

In 1878 Mr. Ilodge purchased the Cleveland Post, and a few weeks later a one-half interest in the Cleveland Voice. The two papers were consolidated, and he now has editorial management of the combined journal, the Vorce.

Mr. Hodge has borne an active part in the support of every public enterprise which promised to promote the growth and prosperity of Cleveland. Ie was one of the earliest advocates of the viaduct project, and to him is given the credit of heing the chief mover in getting the land along the lake for park purposes. He is a skillful debater, a forcible speaker, and one of. the best parliamentarians in Ohio. Throughout his private and public life he has maintained a character for strict integrity. He has been successful in business asa result of hard work and natural fitness for the conduct of affairs. Ile was a Democrat until the outbreak of the rebellion, but ever since has been a thorough-going Republican. Mr. Hodge was married on the 15th of October, 1855, to Lydia R. Doane, of Cleveland, by whom he has one son, Clark R. Hodge.

George William Iiowe

The Howe family is an old one in England, and dates its origin in this country from John IJlowe, born in England in 1612, who was a resident of Sudbury, Massachusetts, in 1637, and died in Marlboro in 1639. Samuel, his son, married Martha Bent, by whom he had thirteen children. 'He died at Sudbury, April 13, 1703. Moses, son of Samuel, was born August 27, 1695. He had ten children, of whom Samuel was the first male child, born in Rutland, Massachusetts. Another son, Elijah, was born in Rutland April 10, 1743; marred Deborah Smith, of Leicester, and removed to Spencer in June, 1759. They had nine children, among whom was Ehjah, born in Leicester, who died in 1816. "He married Fanny Bemis, by whom he had nine children. William, son of Elijah, and father of the subject of this sketch, was born. in Spencer May 12, 1803. In 1828 he married Miss A. 'T. Stone of Charlton, Massachusetts. They had eight children. Different members of this family have been noted for inventive genius, among whom the most prominent, perhaps, is Elias ILowe, inventor of the sewing machine, who was a nephew of Willam ILowe. he latter himself possessed superior inventive powers. At an early age he learned the trade of a carpenter and builder. After finishing his apprenticeship he entered the academy at Leicester, where he obtained a good edueation. Ile then commenced erecting buildings by contract, churehes being a specialty. In 1844 he took out his first patent for what has since become widely known as the Ilowe truss-bridge. Two years later, having made great improvements, a new patent was issued. He subsequently furnished the plans and specifications for the bridges on the St. Petersburg and Moscow railroad in Russia. He died in 1852 in the prime of life, from the effects of a fall from his carriage. He was an eminently self-made man, and had the promise of a brilliant and useful future when thus cut off at a premature age.

George W. Howe was born in Spencer, Worcester county, Massachusetts, on the 29th of October, 1832. He was educated in Springfield, and in 1852 came to Cleveland, Ohio, where he effected an engagement on the Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati railroad. Remaining in that position until the Lake Shore railroad was completed to Madison, Ohio, he then became connected with the latter.

In 1859 he abandoned railroading to engage in the milling business with Messrs. Hubby, Hughes & Co., building what is known as the National mills. This venture not proving successful he, upon the organization of the First Ohio Volunteer Artillery, enlisted and was commissioned quartermaster, equipping eleven out of the twelve batteries that went to the front. He accompanied General Barnett and his staff up the Cumberland river to Nashville, reaching that place two or three days after its evacuation by the Confederate army. They were then attached to General Thomas' division and ordered to Pittsburg Landing. Mr. Howe meeting with an accident by being thrown from his horse, was ordered by General Thomas to go ahead as speedily as possible to Savannah, get comfortable quarters and remain until recoyered. He arrived at Savannah the second day of the battle of Pittsburg Landing; the town being crowded with the wounded brought from the field of battle. He at length succeeded in procuring accommodations on one of the steamers plying between Savannah and Pittsburg Landing, and remained on board a week. He then rejoined his regiment, with which he remained until after the evacuation of Corinth.

Returning to Cleveland, he engaged in mercantile pursuits until, his health becoming impaired, he went to Europe, where he spent six months in travel and recreation. In 1867 Elias Howe wished to extend his business in Europe; G. W. Howe went to London and established headquarters for the Howe machine in that city and also in Paris - organizing branches in all the principal cities of Europe, besides looking after the exhibits of the Howe company at the Paris Exhibition.

In 1870 he returned to the States and established the business in Ohio. In March, 1873, he was sent by the company as its representative at the Vienna Exhibition. Owing to trouble with some of the American commissioners, Minister Jay appointed three citizens of the United States to act until Jackson 8. Schultz should arrive. The exhibitors, feeling that their interests were not being properly cared for, were permitted by Mr. Jay to select four of their number to act with those whom he had named. Mr. Geo. W. Llowe was chosen as one of their number. He was also made a chevalier, receiving from the emperor the order of Francis Joseph, and became a member of the Society of Arts and Sciences for Lower Austria, receiving their diploma and silver medal.

In 1874 he returned to Cleveland, and in 1876 was connected with the Ohio department at the Centennial Exhibition, remaining there seven months. Soon after the inauguration of President Hayes he Was appointed collector of customs at Cleveland, and is at present acting in that capacity. Mr. Howe has wlways heen active in the support of public enterprises, and of all local interests and improvements. IIe has been a member of the Northern Ohio Fair Association from its organization, having served three years as its secretary, and being now a member of its executive committee. From 1876 to 1879 he was a member of the police board. He is a Mason of high standing; being a Knight Templar, and recorder of the Holyrood commandery of Cleveland.

It is unnecessary to add any comments upon the traits of Mr. Howe's 'character. His record shows for itself as that of a man of enterprise, public spirit and superior ability. He was married in November, 1874, to Miss Kate Lemen, daughter of William Lemen of Cleveland.

James M. Hoyt

This gentleman was born in Utica, New York, January 16, 1815. Te received an excellent education, graduating from Hamilton College in that State in 1834. He immediately 'commenced the study of law in Utica, but in a short time removed to Cleveland, where he continued his studies in the law office of Andrews & Foot. In 1837 the partnership of Andrews, Foot & Hoyt was formed, which continued until 1848, when Mr. Andrews was elected judge of the superior court of Cleveland. This necessitated his withdrawal, but the firm of Foot & Hoyt continned until 1853, when Mr. Hoyt retired from the practice of law.

He then became extensively engaged in the purchase and sale of real estate in Cleveland and its vicinity. Ife operated on his own account and also in company with other capitalists, purchasing large tracts in and around the city, which were divided into lots and sold for homesteads. Nearly one thousand acres of city ~ and suburban property were owned by him, either wholly or jointly with others, which were sub-divided into lots and sold for settlement. He opened and named more than ahundred streets, being largely instrumental in opening Prospect east of ILudson, besides selling a large amount of land on Kinsman, St. Clair and Superior streets; also on Madison avenue on the West Side, Lawn and Colgate streets, and Waverly avenue.

In all his transactions he showed great generosity toward those with whom he dealt, and especially toward the poor and those whom misfortune or sickness garded with greater esteem and respect than Mr. Hoyt. For many years he had the power to deal rigidly with the poor with a show of justice and legality. This power he never exercised, and many are the grateful tributes he has received from the humble recipients of his favors.

In 1835 Mr. Hoyt united with the Baptist Church, in Utica, New York, and shortly after coming to Cleveland became connected with the First Baptist church in that city; being superintendent of its Sunday school over twenty-six years. He then resigned, becoming the teacher of a Congregational bible-class. In 1854 he was licensed to preach the gospel by the church with which he was connected. He was never ordained and never contemplated it; but has since then preached at intervals, and has labored more or less in nearly all the Protestant denominations, both in Cleveland and elsewhere.

In 1854 Mr. Hoyt was chosen president of the Ohio Baptist State convention, and was annually re-elected to that position for more than twenty-four years. He was also chosen president of the American Baptist Home Mission Society, the national organization for Baptist missions in North America, and retained that position until 1870, when he resigned. For thirteen years he was presidont of the Cleveland Bible Socicty, an auxiliary to the American Bible Society, of which he is now one of the vice presidents. His addresses on various occasions and his literary contributions have attracted marked attention. His article on ' Miracles in Relation to Law," published in the Christian Review, of October, 1863, presented the subject in an original and striking manner, furnishing a strong refutation of the sceptical sophistry of fume.

In 1870 Mr. Hoyt was elected a member of the State board of equalization, a body charged with a high, laborious and responsible duty, the appraisement of all the property in the State going through the hands of the board. In 1873 he represented the interests of the citizens of Cleveland on the board of public improvements.

In 1870 Denison University, of Granville, Ohio, conferred upon him the degree of LL.D. This, though a surprise to him, was considered by all who knew him as a well-merited distinction. Few men have attained a culture more genuine and liberal than he. Well versed in physical science, and thoroughly imbued with the philosophy of history, he is also well read in belles lettres and works of taste and criticism. The versatility of his talents is shown by the success he has achieved in his different callings of lawyer, business man, preacher, lecturer and writer.

Ie is a liberal contributor to religious and charitable objects, and during the rebellion rendered valuable aid in numerous ways to the cause of the Union.

Mr. Hoyt was married in 1836 to Miss Mary Ella Beebe, in New York City. To them have been born six children, Rev. Dr. Wayland Hoyt (of Brooklyn, New York) being their eldest son. The second, Colgate ILoyt, is in business with his father in Cleveland.

Hinman B. Hurlbut

New York, on the 29th day of July, 1818 and is descended from the best of New England blood. . His ancestors resided for several generations in the State of Connecticut, where his father followed the occupation of a farmer before removing to New York. His grandfather was a captain in the Revolutionary army, taking a part in the memorable battle of Long Island and other engagements. Through his mother Mr. Hurlbut is descended from Gov. Hinman, one of the colonial rulers of Connecticut.

At eighteen years of age the subject of this sketch, after enjoying such educational advantages as his vicinity afforded, removed to Cleveland and entered the law office of his brother (H. A. Hurlbut, Hsq.,) as a student. After being admitted to the bar in 1839, he at once opened an office in Massillon, Ohio, and in a short time secured a remunerative practice. In 1846 he formed a partnership with the Hon. D. K. Cartter, afterwards chief justice of the District of Columbia, their practice being very extensive and lucrative.

In 1852 Mr. Hurlbut retired from his profession, having already become engaged in the banking business as the senior member of the firm of Hurlbut and Vinton, of Massillon. He also aided in organizing two other banking houses in the same place, '' The Merchants" and ''The Union," and was a member of the State board of control.

In 1852 he removed to Cleveland and established still another banking house there, under the firm name of Hurlbut & Co., retaining, however, his interests at Massillon. He next purchased the charter of the Bank of Commerce and reorganized it, with himself as cashier and T. P. Handy as president. Mr. Handy resigned the following year, when Mr. Joseph Perkins was chosen president. After the passage of the national banking law by Congress, Mr. Hurlbut again reorganized this institution as the Second National Bank of Cleveland.

In 1856 the subject of this sketch, in company with Amasa Stone, Stillman Witt, Joseph Perkins and James Mason, of Cleveland, Henry B. Perkins, of Warren and M. R. Waite, (now Chief Justice of the United States) and Samuel Young, of Toledo, purchased the charter of the Toledo Branch of the State Bank, which they reorganized as a national bank in 1866. This bank, under Mr. Hurlbut's management was probably one of the most successful monetary institutions ever established.

'of his health, and he concluded to seek rest and recreation in an extended European tour. He returned to America in 1868, but remained in retirement until 1871, when he was elected vice president of the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis railroad company, since which time he has been largely interested in many of the railroad enterprises of the Western States. He is now president of the Indianapolis and St. Louis and the Cincinnati and Springfield railroads, and is also vice president of the Cleveland,. Columbus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis railroad.

While so largely interested in financial and-commercial enterprises, Mr. Hurlbut has found time for the gratification of a refined taste, and his large: means, acquired by business ability and application,. have been liberally bestowed on educational andi benevolent enterprises, aNd in aid of the arts and sciences as well as other kindred objects. He gave: largely to the City Hospital, of which he was the founder, and he is now the president of the society and its chief supporter. It is safe to say that there is: hardly a charitable institution in Cleveland or its vicinity to which he has not liberally contributed.

Mr. Hurlbut also established the Hurlbut professorship of the natural sciences at Western Reserve College, at Hudson, and endowed it with twenty-five thousand dollars.

He has probably collected the finest gallery of painting ever brought together in Ohio, if not in the whole West, in which are represented such artists as F. E. Church, Alex. Cabanel, Baugereau, H. Merle, L. Knauss, Bauguiet, Kaulbach, S. R. Gifford, Verboeckhoven, Beyschlegg, Meyer Von Brunn, Bricher, Felix Zerms, T. W. Wood, Jarvis McEntee, and otl:- ers only less renowned.

In early life a member of the Whig party, he took an active part in politics, and was a member of the convention which nominated General Taylor for President, and ably supported him during the succeeding campaign, making a large number of speeches in his own district. During the war for the Union Mr. Hurlbut was a staunch supporter of the government, and gave freely to various benevolent enterprises called into existence by that struggle.

Mr. Hurlbut's life and business success have been but another example of what may be expected from the sons of New England - descended as they are from the best old English stock, inspired with new life by the stirring scenes of the Western world. Many of them are still going farther on, as did their ancestors of old, to build up anew country in the distant West, and although they often have naught to begin with save their own strong arms, stott hearts and clear brains, yet again and again is Fortune seen to crown

Joun Hutchins

John Hutchins was born in Vienna, Trumbull county, Ohio, July 25, 1812. Tis father, Samuel Ifutchins, and his mother, whose maiden name was Flower, were natives 'of Connecticut, and among the earliest settlers in the Western Reserve. Samuel IIutchins first came to Ohio in the year 1798, and in 1800 drove an ox-team from Connecticut to Vienna, where he then settled. He had a family of three sons and four daughters, the subject of this notice being the fourth child. We was educated in the common schools of the county until about twenty years of age, when he pursued his studies with a private tutor, and subsequently entered the preparatory department of Western Reserve College. He commenced the study of law at Warren, Ohio, in 1835, in the office of David Tod, afterwards well known as one of Ohio's ablest war governors, and was admitted to the bar in tbe fall of 1838, at New Lisbon.

After about one year's practice of his profession he was appointed clerk of the court of common pleas of 'Trumbull county, in which capacity he served five years. IIe then resigned and entered the law firm of Tod & Ioffman, which became Tod, Hoffman & Ifutchins. THe afterward became connected with J. D. Cox, since Governor Cox, and was his partner at the breaking out of the rebellion. In 1868 he removed to Cleyeland and formed a partnership with J. K. & G. I. Ingersoll, under the firm name of ILutchins & Ingersoll. Subsequently he became associated with his son, John C., now prosecuting attorney, ind O. J. Campbell, as Hutchins & Campbell,

In the year 1858 he was elected a representative to the thirty-sixth Congress, as successor to the Hon. Joshua It. Giddings, and two years afterwards was re-clected to the thirty-seventh Congress from the same district. The territory of the district was then changed, and from the new district Gen. Garfield was chosen to suceced him. In Congress Mr. Hutchins took an active part in the advanced measures for the prosecution of the waragainst the rebellion, including the abolition of slavery and the employment of colored soldiers.

IIe had also advocated and voted for the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, and indeed had espoused the anti-slavery cause as early as the year 1833, and was an active worker till slavery was abolished. He belonged to the old Liberty party, and was mobbed in Trumbull, his native county, for declaring his convictions on the subject of slavery. In an antislavery meeting in Hudson, Ohio, about the year 1841, in criticizing what he regarded as the pro-slavery position of the Western Reserve College, he used language which was distasteful to the faculty and students, and he was thoroughly hissed by the latter.

In giving the history of the anti-slavery cause on the Western Reserve, and in reference to the anti-slayery efforts of President Storer and Professors Beriah Green and KE. Wriglit, Jr., when connected with the college, he said, "Then an anti-slavery light blazed from College Hill, but where is that light now?" when the hissing continued for seyeralminutes, but was finally drowned in cheers.

We quote from the remarks of Mr. Hutchins in the thirty-seventh Congress, as published in the lmerican Annual Cyclopedia, on the subject of using colored troops to put down the Rebellion: 'If we can take for soldiers minor apprentices and minor sous, we have the same right to take slaves; for they are either persons or property. If they are persons we are entitled to their services to save the Government, and the fact that they are not citizens does not change the right of the Government to their services as subjects, unless they owe allegiance to a foreign government. If colored persons are property we may ccrtainly use that property to put down the rebellion."

In Congress he also took up the subject of postal reform, introduced a bill and made an able and carefully prepared speech in its favor, in which he advocated a reduction of postage on letters, and a uniform rate for all distances, as well as a uniformity of postage on printed matter; and in addition especially urged the advantages of the carrier delivery system. These measures have since been substantially adopted by the government. Mr. Hutchins received special mention from the Postmaster General for his able and persistent efforts in this direction. He is at present occupied in the practice of his profession as « member of the firm of Ilutchins & Campbell. As a lawyer he occupics a high rank and has ever been esteemed by the members of the bar for his integrity, and for the ability with which he discharges the duties devolving upon him.

He married Rhoda M. Andrews, by whom he has five children, three sons and two daughters; Horace A. and John C., living in Cleveland; Albert E., re. siding in Chicago; Mary H., who is with her parents in Cleveland; and Helen K. who died of typhoid fever, at the age of twenty-two.

Levi Johnson

Ov the 10th of March, 1809, Levi Johnson, emigrating westward from New York in quest of the land of p.omise (i name then bestowed by New Yorkers upon the Western Reserve) entered Cleveland in a two-horse sleigh, with his uncle, also a western pioneer. They pushed on to I[uron county, where they halted, and whence, after a short time, Levi returned to Cleveland, beginning what proved to bea remarkable career, the history of which is a part of the early history of the Forest City itself.

Mr. Johnson was born in Herkimer county, New York, April 25, 1786, and from his boyhood until his twenty-second year labored successively as a farm- hand and carpenter; then, becoming fired with the western fever, he journeyed to Cleveland in 1809, as has just been stated. He was fortunate in finding a home in the family of Judge Walworth, for whom he contracted at once to build a framed office. 'This structure (situated where the American House now stands) was one of the first framed edifices erected in Cleveland, and its construction was an eyent of no slight importance in the little community.

Young Johnson continued to ply the saw and plane busily for the next few years, in Cleveland and the vicinity. In 1811 he married Miss Martin, of Huron county, and in 1812 undertook the then important contract of building a log court-house on the public square, at Cleveland. Completing the task, he turned his back upon carpentering and became a trader in supplies for the army on the frontier, aud, being shrewd and careful, he soon acquired what was then thought a considerable amount of money. Ambitious to extend his enterprises, he built a sixty-ton vessel, called the "Pilot," which he sailed on the lake in the Government service during the war, to his material profit.

Resuming ship building in 1815, he built the sixtyfive ton schooner '' Neptune " and several other vessels. In 1824, in company with the firm of Terhoeven Brothers, he built the '' Enterprise," of two hundred and twenty tons burden, the first steam vessel built at Cleveland. Still later he constructod the steamer Commodore. In 1830, having grown weary of marine architecture, he sold out his steamboat interests and turned his attention once more to contracts on shore. In 1831 he built the Water street light-house for the government; in 1836 he built another at Sandusky, and in 1837 constructed nine hundred feet of the stone pier on the east side of the mouth of the Cuyahoga. In 1840, 1843 and 1847 he built successively the Saginuw, Western Sister Island and Portage river lighthouses. He also built in Cleveland the Johnson Ilouse, the Marine Block, the Johnson 'Block and other important structures.

In 1858 Mr. Johnson retired from active business, and, being endowed with abundant wealth, passed the evening of life in comfort and ease. Full of years and honors, he passed away to his rest on the 19th day of December, 1871, at the age of eighty-five.

Alfred Kelley

Hon. Alfred Kelley, the second son of Daniel Kelley, was born in Middletown, Connectient, November 7, 1789. He was descended in the fifth generation from Joseph Kelley (1st) who was one of the first settlers of Norwich, Connecticut. His great-grandfather, Joseph Kelley (2d), son of the person just -hamed, removed to Vermont, and died there in 1814 at the age of nearly ninety years. Alfred Kelley's grandfather, Daniel Kelley, lived in Norwich, Con- necticut, where Daniel Kelley (2d), the father of the subject of this memoir, was born on the 27th day of November, 1755. He married Jemima Stow, daughter of Elihu and Jemima Stow, and sister of Judges Joshua and Silas Stow, of Lowville, New York, on the 28th day of January, 1787. He died at Cleveland August 7, 1831. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Kelley had a family of six sons. They removed from Connecticut to Lowyille, New York, when Alfred was nine years of age, where the head of the family was principal judge of the court of common pleas of Lewis county, being also one of the founders of Lowville academy and president of its board of trustees.

Alfred Kelley was educated at Fairfield academy, New York, and read law in the office of Jonas Platt, a judge of the supreme court of that State. In the spring of 1810 he traveled on horseback in company with Joshua Stow and others to Cleveland. He was admitted to practice in the court of common pleas in November, and on the same day, being his twenty-first birthday, he was appointed by the court to act as prosecuting attorney. He was continuously appointed prosecuting attorney until 1821, when he declined to act any longer in that capacity. In 1814 Mr. Kelley was elected a member of the Ohio house of representatives; being the youngest member of that body, which met at Chillicothe, then the temporary capital of the Sate. He continued, with intervals, a member of the legislature from Gayahen a county until 1822, when he was appointed, with others, State canal commissioner.

The Ohio canal is a monument to the enterprise, energy, integrity and sagacity of Alfred Kelley. He was the leading member of the board of commissioners during its construction, and the onerous and responsible service was performed with snch fidelity and economy that the actual cost did not exceed the estimate! 'The dimensions of the Ohio canal were the same as those of the Erie canal, New York, but the number of locks was nearly twice as great. Mr. Kelley's indomitable will and iron constitution triumphed over all difficulties, and the Ohio canal, connecting the Ohio river with Lake Erie, was finished in 1830. During its construction Mr. Kelley removed first to Akron and then to Columbus, where he made his home during the remainder of his life. After the canal was finished he resigned the position of commissioner in order to regain his health (badly shattered by close application to the duties of his office), and to devote himself to his private affairs.

In October, 1836, Mr. Kelley was elected to the Ohio house of representatives from Franklin county, and was re-elected to the same office in the next two Jegislatures. He was chairman of the Whig State Central Committee in 1840, and was one of the most active and influential managers of that campaign, in which Gen. Harrison was elected to the presidency. He was appointed State fund commissioner in 1840. In 1841 and '42 a formidable party arose in the legislature and State, which advocated the non-payment of the maturing interest on the State debt, and the repudiation of the debt itself. Mr. Kelley went to New York and was able to raise nearly a quarter of a m'llion of dollars on his own personal security, by which means the interest was paid at maturity, and the State of Ohio was saved from repudiation.

In 1844 Mr. Kelley was elected to the State senate from the Franklin district. It was during this term that he originated the bill to organize the State Bank of Ohio and other banking companies, which was generally admitted by bankers and financiers to,be the best American banking law then known. While Mr. Kelley was a member of the legislature many valuable general laws originated with him, and most of the measures requiring investigation and profound thought were entrusted to his care. He was the author, in 1818, of the first legislative bill - either in this country or in Kurope - to abolish imprisonment for debt. It failed to become a law, but in a letter to a friend Mr. Kelley said: 'The time will come when the absurdity as well as inhumanity of adding oppression to misfortune will be acknowledged."

At the end of this senatorial term Mr. Kelley was elected president of the Columbus and Xenia railroad company, which enterprise he was actively engaged upon until it was finished. He also accepted the presidency of the Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati railroad, and carried on that work with his usual ardor and ability; his labors being only surpassed by those upon the Ohio canal. With his own hands he dug the first shovelful of earth and laid the last rail. In 1850 he was chosen president of the Cleveland, Painesvilleand Ashtabula railroad company (afterward absorbed in the Lake Shore Company), and was soon actively engaged in the construction of the road. During this period occurred the famous riots of Eric and Ilarbor Creek, in opposition to the construction of the road through Pennsylvania. The success of the company in this contest was largely due to Mr. Kelley's cfforts. After the completion of these roads he resigned the presidency of their respective companies, but continued an active director in each of them to the time of his death.

Mr. Kelley closed his public life as the member from Columbus of the State senate of 1857. During the last year of this service his health was declining. Yet such was his fidelity to his trust that he ~ went daily to the senate, and he carried through the legislature several important measures for the purpose of ascertaining the condition of the State treasury, and securing the safety of the publicfunds. He was also, during his legislative career, very active in remodeling the tax laws, so as to relieve land-owners from excessive taxation and place a part of the burden on those who had property in bonds and money.

At the end of this term of the senate his health was much broken down (caused by an over-taxation of mind and body), and he seemed to be gradually wasting away without any settled disease. He was only confined to his room a few days before his death, which took place on the 2d day of December, 1859. So gentle was the summons, when his pure spirit left its earthly tenement, that his surrounding friends were scarcely conscious of the great ehange.

It has been said of him, that few persons have ever lived who, merely by personal exertions, have left behind them more numerous and lasting monuments of patient and useful labor.

Mr. Kelley was married on the 25th of August, 1817, to Miss Mary 8. Wells, daughter of Melanethon Wells, Esq., by whom he had a family of eleven children, viz: Maria Jane, who became Mrs. Judge Bates, of Columbus; Charlotte, who died at six years old; Edward, who died at the age of two years; Adelaide and Henry, who died in infancy; Helen, who became Mrs. Francis Collins, of Columbus; Frank, who died at four years old; Anna, who married Col. C. J. Freudenberg, U.S. A.; Alfred; and Kate, wife of Rev. W. H. Dunning, of Cambridge.

Thomas M. Kelley, a brother of Alfred Kelley, the subject of the preceding sketch, was born at Middletown, Connecticut, on the 17th of March, 1797. In the following year his father removed with his family to Lowville, Lewis county, New York, where the subject of this memoir resided until he came to Cleveland in 1815. In that place he made his home continuously till his death on the 11th of June, 1878. Although the facilities for education were not, as a general rule, abundant in his childhood, yet at Lowville there was, besides the common schools, an academy where the higher branches were taught, and from the specimens of its graduates who settled here we should infer they were taught with more than ordinary success.

For many years Mr. Kelley was engaged in mercantile pursuits, and especially in packing and shipping beef and pork, pot and pearl ashes, furs and some minor articles, the products of this then new region, down lakes Erie and Ontario and the St. Lawrence river to Montreal, a distant, but, for such articles, the most accessible market. After the completion of the Erie canal, in 1825, a large part of this trade was diverted through that channel. In later years Mr. Kelley was largely concerned in real estate operations and in banking, and in 1848 was made president of the Merchants' bank.

He did not, however, give his whole mind to the management of business affairs. He was aman of unquestionable integrity and unusual intelligence, and was an industrious reader, not only of current literature, but of standard works. He formed his opinions deliberately, and generally correctly, and then, like all his brothers, was prone to adhere to them persistently.

his constituents and the State valuable service. Under the old constitution the State was divided into a dozen or more judicial circuits, in each of which was a 'president judge" (a lawyer) who held courts in the various counties, and who was assisted in each county by three associates, usually among the best men but not lawyers, who could and sometimes did override the president, and who in his alsence could hold terms without him. In 1546 Mr. Kelley was appointed one of these judges, and, in the absence of the president judge, charged the grand jury in a manner much superior to that generally exhibited in such cases.

In 1841 Daniel Webster, Secretary of State under President Harrison, offered the office of marshal of the United States for the district of Ohio, then embracing the whole State, to Mr. Kelley, who agreed to accept it, but the speedy death of General Harrison and the political difficulties which arose between his successor, President Tyler, and the Whig Congress, delayed and finally defeated any action upon the proposition. This offer was the more complimentary because, owing to the then recent '' Patriot War," the relations of the United States with Great Britain were in a very disturbed condition; the northern frontier swarmed with men eager to involve the two countries in war, and the duties of a marshal required him to be a man of very great courage, firmness and discretion, such as Mr, Webster knew Mr. Kelley to be.

In 1833 Mr. Kelley married Miss Lucy Latham, of Vermont, a most estimable woman with whom he lived happily till her death in 1874. The fruits of this union were four children - one who died in early childhood; a daughter who married Col. George S. Mygatt and died not long afterwards; another daughter, now the wife of Mr. Chester J. Cole; and a son, Thomas Arthur Kelley; both of the survivors now reside in Cleveland. In his domestic relations Judge Kelley was kind, liberal and affectionate, and among his associates in the outer world he was very much esteemed. In public matters he was an active participant, and was a free contributor in money, labor and influence to all undertakings that promised to advance the common weal.

Charles Gregory King

The following brief sketch of a business life, with the portrait of its subject, will introduce to our readers Charles Gregory King, a pioneer lumber merchant of Cuyahoga county. He was born in the town of Sand Lake, Rensselaer county, New York, on the 27th of September, 1822, and is one of a family of fourteen children, all of whom lived to reach the age of manhood and womanhood. He was early initiated into the practical details of farming, which was his father's avocation. The necessity of constant industry early inured the boy to habits of self-denial, but

At the age of sixteen his father died, leaving bereaved hearts und an encumbered estate as an inheritance to his family. With the courage and determination which haye characterized his whole life, Charles, together with some of his brothers, provided a home for their beloved mother and their younger brothers and sisters. Seven years of his life were thus occupied; then his long fostered desire for mental improvement would brook no further repression, and he felt at liberty to devote the proceeds of the next few months' labor to defraying the expense of tuition in the Brockport Collegiate Institute, located in western New York.

In alternate study and teaching he spent the years until 1849, when he started west in search of occupa tion. After a long and tiresome trip, which extended into Michigan, he returned toward the East without accomplishing his object. At length, however, his courage and perseverance overcame his illfortune, and at Erie, Pennsylvania, he was engaged as a buyer for a house which was shipping lumber to the Albany market. His latent ability as a business man soon exhibited itself, and, after various promotions, he removed to Cleveland in 1852, becoming a partner in the well-known firm of Foote & King, which established the lumber yards on River street.

In the year 1862, owing to the failing health of Mr. Foote, the firm was dissolved, and for three years Mr. King conducted the business alone, at the end of which time Mr. D. K. Clint became a partner. In 1866 a new yard was established on Scranton avenue, and the house of Rust, King & Co. commenced the manufacture and sale of Iumber. In 1874, when the River street yard was given up to the city for the purpose of building the viaduct, new relations were entered into, the firm name becoming Rust, King & Clint, which it still continues to be.

Commencing with limited capital, Mr. King has carefully and thoughtfully built up an extensive business, furnishing employment to many and sharing its benefits with a liberal hand. Amid all the fluctnations of monetary affairs, he has never been called to suffer serious financial loss, and at the age of fiftysix years we find him with the harness on, still pursuing the even tenor of his business life, loved and honored in his domestic relations and esteemed by all as an upright Christian citizen. Whatever of success has attended Mr. King in his calling thus far, he attributes to the blessing of God upon the faithful use of his natural powers.

Zenas King

Zenas King was born in Kingston, Vermont, May 1, 1818. His father was a farmer in that State, but removed to St. Lawrence county, New York, in 1823. Zenas remained on the farm until he was twenty-one attention to other occupations. He settled in Milan, Erie county, and began to take contracts for the erection of buildings, in which business he developed that mechanical ingenuity which he has shown in after life. In 1848 he formed a partnership with Mr. C. II. Buck and engaged in the mercantile business, which he followed successfully for eight years. Ifis health partially failing, Mr. King disposed of his interest and engaged as a traveling agent for an which he became an agent for the Mosley Bridge Company. While connected with this company he heecame impressed with the defects of wooden bridges, and he continued to study upon the matter until he originated the '*King fron Bridge." In 1861 he obtained a patent for his invention.

The next year Mr. King removed his family to Cleveland, and erected extensive and commodious works on the corner of St. Clair and Wason streets for the purpose of manufacturing his bridges, and also steam boilers. His partner, Mr. Freese, on a dissolution of the firm took the boiler department, while Mr. King retained the bridge business.

The introduction of the bridge was a great task, for it was hard to make people believe that an iron bridge could possibly be built for fifteen hundred or two thousand dollars, when the old iron ones cost six to eight times as much, and yet were so heavy that they were capable of sustaining far less weight than the light and inexpensive ones invented by Mr. King. Knowing the value of his invention and the correct mechanical principles involved in it, he resolutely pushed its claims until his pridges are now spanning rivers and minor streams in all parts of the country from Maine to Texas, he being the first who introduced the use of iron to any extent for ordinary highway bridges.

Mr. King has already built a hundred miles of bridges, and is making larger additions to the numher every year. In 1871 he organized the 'King Bridge Manufacturing Stock Company," of which he is the president and manager. He is also president of the 8t. Clair and Collamer railway company. The "King bridge" is not only a monument of the inventive genius and business ability of Zenas K'ng, but is also a great public benefit, and as such it will doubtless be recognized in the near future.

Mr. King has long been a vestryman in St. Paul's Episcopal Church. In 1844 he was married to Miss M. C. Wheelock, of Ogdensburg, New York; they have four children living.

Jared Potter Kirtland

This eminent man - physician, scientist and naturalist - achieved decided distinction in his chosen sphere, and Cuyahoga county, where a large portion of his scientific work was done, may well feel proud of a citizen so intently devoted to some of the profoundest researches of which the human mind is capable. Dr. Kirtland was eminently a self-made naturalist, and te an inborn genius for that branch of science he added enthusiasm and untiring perseverance - twin sisters of success.

He was born in Wallingford, Connecticut, in 1795, and at the age of fifteen made his first appearance in Ohio, in Poland township, whither his father had preceded him as general agent of the Connecticut Land company. It being decided that young Kirtland should be a doctor, he was sent in 1817 to the famous medical school of Dr. Rush, in Philadelphia, and upon completing his education there, he returned to Poland, and entered upon an active medical praetice. It was during his experience as a country physician that his taste for natural science began to develop itself, and for twenty years of his life in that section he paid eager attention to the study of animal nature, with which the country richly teemed.

The publication of his extensive researches was made under the. patronage of tue Boston Historical Society, and brought him into prominent notice as a high authority in that department of science. In 1838 he was appointed to the department of Natural History in the Geological Survey, organized by the State of Ohio, and shortly afterwards was chosen to fill a chair in the Ohio Medical College, at Cincinnati. The latter position he vacated in 1838 to take a similar place in the Cleveland Medical College. In that year he purchased a residence in Rockport, and there introduced the culture of fruit, which, largely followed by others, has bestowed remarkable prosperity upon that township. Meanwhile Dr. Kirtland continued his studies as a naturalist and his lectures at the college. His developments in the field of scientific horticulture gave to that business an emphatic impetus, and his valued labors as a naturalist are perpetuated in the Kirtland academy of natural sciences, of Cleveland. At the close of an extended and useful life, Dr. Kirtland died at his home in Rockport, December 10, 1877, at the age of eighty-four.

David. Long

Dr. David Long, the first physician who located in Cleveland, was born in Washington county, New York, September 29, 1787. In 1810, at the age of twenty-three, he first set foot in Cleveland, whither he had removed to begin his career. There was no doctor in all Cuyahoga county at that early day, and the arrival of Dr. Long was hailed with much joy by the inhabitants. The arduous task of ''doctoring" in that sparsely settled country, found in Dr. Long a man well calculated to overcome its difficulties, and despite the hardships, the inconveniences and incessant labors attendant upon his duties, he pursued them with unflagging zeal, and became a very successful practitioner. He was a surgeon in the army during the war of 1812, and, as an example of what he had trained himself to do in an emergency, it is related that he rode from Black river to Cleveland - twenty-

After a continuous medical practice of upwards of thirty years, Dr. Long rested upon the well earned fruits of his industry, and at the end of an active and honorable life he dicd on the first day of September, 1851, aged sixty-four years.

Ife was one of the foremost in the prcmotion of public enterprises, and frecly gave his influence and support to numerous religious and educational institutions of his time. Although popular in a remarkable degree, he never craved political distinction, and perhaps the only public office he held was that of county commissioner. It was at the time when the villages of Newburg and Cleveland were hotly contesting for the lronor of being the county-seat, and an election as county commissioner then was no slight mark of popularity. As a physician, asa man, and as a citizen, Dr. Long achieved a high reputation, and left the heritage of an honored name not only to his descendants but to the medica] profession in Cuyahoga county, of which he was the foremost pioneer.

Robert F. Paine

The subject of this sketch was born in Madison county, New York, on the 10th day of May, 1810. Ife is the second son of Solomon J. Paine and Lucretin Bierce Paine, who were both natives of Cornwall, Litchfield county, Con: ecticut. lis father was the son of Rufus Paine, and his mother was the daughter of William Bierce, both of whom served in the American army during the entire war of the Revolution, and both of whom shared with that army the sufferings and privations of the winter of 1777-8 at Valley Forge. They both also lived to be over eighty years of age.

In March, 1815, Solomon Paine left his native town and removed with his family to Nelson, Portage county, Ohio. His entire property consisted of two horses and a wagon, and such goods as he was able to store in the latter after furnishing room for a wife and four children. After five weeks weary journeying they arrived at Nelson, where the family remained until after the death of Mr. Paine, which occurred in 1828.

Robert F. Paine's opportunities for obtaining an education were very few. He had to travel a mile and a half daily to the log school-house, and after he was nine years old was obliged to work on the farm during all but the winter months. At the death of his father, which occurred when he was eighteen years of age, he took charge of the family and continued to provide for them by his labor until the children were able to care for themselves.

In 1837 young Paine determined to become a lawyer, and, without an instructor and with but few books, he entered upon a course of hard study. Without a single previous recitation, he was examined at the September term of the supreme court, sitting at Ravenna, in 1839, and was admitted to practice. In the fall of the same year he was elected justice of the peace, and served a term of three years. Immediately after his admission to the bar he opened an office in Garrettsville for the practice of his profession.

In 1844 Mr. Paine was elected to the Ohio legisla ture, and the following year was renominated but declined; his declination being followed by his clection as prosecuting attorney of Portage county and his removal to Ravenna. At the expiration of his term of two years he removed to Cleveland, and on the 1st of May, 1848, opened a law office in that city. In 1849 he was appointed clerk of the court of common pleas, which position he held until the adoption of the new constitution in 1852, when he returned to his legal practice. In 1860 he was chosen a delegate to the Republican national convention at Chicago, which nominated Abraham Lincoln for president, and took an active part in its proceedings. He was appointed United States district attorney for the northern district of Ohio, in April, 1861, and held that position four years.

In 1869 Mr. Paine was elected judge of the court of common pleas of Cuyahoga county, which office he retained until May, 1874. During his term he disposed of an unusual number of civil and eriminal cases. Some eight or ten cases of homicide (five of which resulted in conviction of murder in the first degree) were tried before him. Among them was the noted trial of Dr. J. Galentine, convicted of manslaughter. The defense of emotional insanity had been ineffectually set up, and in his charge to the jury the judge dealt in an original and able manner with that class of defenses. The following letter was written to him on that occasion by General Garfield:

'' WASHINGTON, D. C., February 6, 1871. "Dear Judge: - Allow me to congratulate you on your splendid charge to the jury at the close of the Galentine case. The whole country owes you a debt of gratitude for brushing away the wicked absurdity which has lately been palmed off on the country as law, on the subject of insanity. If the thing had gone much further all that a man would need to secure immunity from murder would be to tear his hair and rave a little, and then kill his man. I hope you will print your opinion in pamphlet form and send it

We also quote extracts from the New York Tribune, embodying the best opinions of the country. After giving a brief synopsis of the case it says:

"But it is to the extremely lucid and sensible charge of Judge Paine to the jury that we desire to call special attention. It is not always that a judicial summing up has so much common sense crowded into it. 'If you should find,' said Judge Paine, 'that the defendant was overwhelmed by any real or supposed provocation, which for the moment deprived him of all power to control his action, and incapable of reasoning or deliberation, then inquire, did the defendant, by indulging passion, by meditating revenge and cultivating malice toward the deceased, for real or fancied provocation, voluntarily produee the inability to reason, reflect, deliberate and control his will; or washe rendered powerless in these respects by the circumstances which surrounded him, and for which he was not responsible? We do not remember in any of the now unfortunately numerous trials for homicide in which that most intangible thing, 'temporary insanity' has been the defense, to have seen the true law of the case stated more lucidly, 'The number of murders committed in cold blood, and with strict malice prepense, is comparatively small; and these are mostly perpetrated with the ulterior purpose of robbery. A murder done for the sake of private vengeance is quite another matter. The culprit broods over what he considers to be his injuries, 'cultivating,' to use the language of Judge Paine, 'a disposition to execute vengeance until his passions have become too powerful to be controlled by-his will and judgment.' Can he therefore take tle life of the subject of his hatred with impunity? "Lo my mind,' said the Judge, 'to hold thus would be to offer a premium on depravity and to encourage the cultivation of the worst elements of our nature." We do not think that we have ever seen the truth of a vexed and much discussed question more clearly stated. Laws are made and penalties more or less severe are provided for their violation, simply that members of society may have a motive, even if it be not the best one, for keeping the mastery over illicit passions. 'hus it has been held for centuries, and it is good law to-day, that the inebriety of a murderer is no excuse, and to only a limited extent an extenuation; and hundreds of men have been hanged who were intoxicated when they did the fatal deed. The case is much stronger when a man supposing himself to have been wronged, instead of seeking at the hands of the law that satisfaction which is free to all, constitutes himself judge, jury and executioner, making havoe of every principle of order upon which social institutions are founded."

In politics Judge Paine was an ardent Whig until 1848, after which he acted with the Free Soil party until the formation of the Republican party. He then united with the latter, of which he was an earnest supporter until 1872. He then advocated the election of ILorace Greeley to the presidency, since which time he has voted the Democratic ticket. During the whole of his public life, im the many responsible positions to which he has been appointed, he has maintained a high character for honor and straightforwardness, and has discharged his duties with unyarying fidelity and ability.

Ile is w self-made man of no ordinary kind, having under the most disadvantageous circumstances, and without help of any kind, worked himself up from poverty and obscurity to distinction on the bench and at the bar.

Judge Paine has been married three times - first in August, 1846, to Miss Miranda Ilazen, of Garrettsville, who died at Cleveland in August, 1848, leaving an infant daughter; second, in 1853, to Mrs. H. Cornelia Harris, who died in 1870, leaving three sons;

Richard C. Parsons

Richard C. Parsons, one of the proprietors of the Cleveland Herald, was born in New London, Connecticut, October 10, 1826. His father was a merchant of New York city, a gentleman of large business capacity, and remarkable for his benevolence and sterling character. He died in 1832, at the age of thirty-nine years. Ilis grandfather was Rev. David Parsons, D.D., of Amherst, Massachusetts, an eminent clergyman, whose ministry, with that of his father over the Presbyterian chureh of Amherst, continued uninterruptedly through a period of eighty years. The wife of Rev. David Parsons was a sister of Chief Justice Williams, of Connecticut, and a niece of William Williams, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.

The subject of this sketch received a liberal education in New England. He came to Cleveland in 1849, studied law with Charles Stetson, and was admitted to the bar in October, 1851. He took at once a prominent position, and gave promise of'a brilliant future in his chosen profession. But political life had strong attractions for him, and he immediately entered upon that series of official services which occupied his time until quite recently.