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COPYRIGHT DEPOSIT.
A HISTORY OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY
AND THE
CITY OF CLEVELAND
BY WILLIAM R. COATES 11 Assisted by a Board of Advisory Editors
HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL
ILLUSTRATED
VOLUME III
PUBLISHERS THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY CHICAGO AND NEW YORK 1924
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COPYRIGHT, 1924 BY THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, INC.
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CUYAHOGA COUNTY
AND THE
CITY OF CLEVELAND
WASHINGTON S. TYLER. An extensive manufacturing industry, one of the contributors to Cleveland's greatness in that field, stands as a monu- ment to the genius and enterprise of the late Washington S. Tyler, who for nearly half a century was a liberal minded and highly efficient business man, citizen and worker for the public welfare.
He was born in Ohio City, now known as the West Side of Cleveland, April 10, 1835. His parents both represented pioneer families of the Western Reserve. His father, Royal W. Tyler, was born in Connecticut, and in the early part of the last century came to Cleveland and settled in what was then known as Ohio City. He acquired extensive property inter- ests in Ohio, but spent his last years in Connecticut.
When Washington S. Tyler was a small boy his parents returned to Connecticut, and he was educated in that state, in the public schools and at Bacon Academy at Colchester. For three years he gained some valuable training as an employe of a dry goods store in Hartford, Connecticut. Then, returning to Cleveland, he became an employe of E. I. Baldwin & Company, pioneer dry goods merchants, and eventually his industry and good judgment won him a partnership in that firm. He withdrew in 1872 to found the manufacturing establishment which is now half a century old and is still known as the W. S. Tyler Company. This company was one of the pioneers in making use of steel wire for the manufacture of a wide range of specialties and standard products, and the company is one of the largest in that field in the United States. Like many other large and successful businesses it had a modest start. The first plant was in an old two-story frame building. The business of today has a group of brick and steel buildings on eight acres of ground, and every few years sees additions made to the plant equipment, due to increasing demand for its services and output. It includes one of the finest office buildings owned by any industry in the city. In early years the company had only a local reputation, but long before the death of Mr. Tyler its manufactured goods were sent all over this country and entered into the export trade.
Mr. Tyler founded his business only a short time before the great
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financial panic of 1873. He kept the plant going in that and subsequent crises, and from a solid foundation he kept his business growing to meet future needs. One important source of his success was his relations with his employes. He gave them his personal loyalty and demanded in turn their allegiance, and of his original group of employes most of them remained to advanced years, and when he died several of his original force of workmen were still on the payroll. All the executive officers of the company came up from the ranks. The business is still in his family, the principal owner being his daughter, Mrs. E. C. T. Miller.
Mr. Tyler was also interested in other financial organizations, being a director in the National Commercial Bank, and in various manufacturing concerns. He was a trustee of the Children's Aid Society and of the Lake- side Hospital, and was a member of the Governing Boards of Western Reserve University, Adelbert College, Hiram House and the Old Stone Church. As noted elsewhere, many of his philanthropies are continued by his daughter, Mrs. Miller. Mr. Tyler was a member of the Union, the Clifton, the Roadside, the Country and the Mayfield clubs and the Chagrin Falls Hunt Club.
His daily life was a consistent exemplification of his deep seated Christianity. He gave unstintedly and from impulses deep within his character and never for the sake of public praise. He was a plain, un- assuming gentleman, shunning publicity, and seeking the reward of his own conscience. After an active and useful career of more than four score years he passed away May 17, 1917.
In 1869 Mr. Tyler married Miss Marion A. Clark, who survives him. She was born in Cleveland, daughter of James F. and Eliza Ann (Murphy) Clark. Her father was born at Cooperstown, New York, and her mother in Connecticut. James F. Clark was an early business man of Cleveland, at first a hardware merchant, and later for many years a banker. Mr. Tyler was survived by one daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth C. T. Miller, mention of whom is given in the following sketch.
ELIZABETH CLARK TYLER MILLER. The name of Elizabeth Clark Tyler Miller is a well known one in Cleveland and throughout Cuyahoga County, for it has been associated with some of the most constructive work in behalf of charitable and civic organizations of this locality, as well as with the activities of women in the political life of Ohio.
Mrs. Miller was born at Boston, Massachusetts, daughter of Washing- ton S. and Marion (Clark) Tyler. The record of her father's successful career is published in the preceding sketch. Mrs. Miller spent her girlhood days in Cleveland. After two years as a student at Dobb's Ferry, New York, she spent a year traveling abroad, studying and visiting the different points of interest in the various European countries. Her interest in philan- thropic and charitable work began in 1888, at which time she became a member of the King's Daughters Circle, which organization was devoted to the welfare of the children of the city, especially those at Lakewood Hospital. This organization later became the Sunbeam Circle, of which she was at one time treasurer, and took for its object the welfare of the crippled children of Cleveland. Later its scope was broadened to include all cripples, who are taught vocational occupations, and given instruction
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calculated to raise their moral standards and increase their usefulness. A school was established on East Fifty-fifth Street, and busses were operated in carrying the wards to and from school. Lunches were furnished the wards without charge. This very admirable work was later taken over by the City Board of Education, and was subsequently merged with and be- came a unit of the Association for the Crippled and Disabled. This associa- tion maintains the Sunbeam Shop, where are sold all of the articles made by the wards. Mrs. Miller is still a trustee of this shop. She is also a trustee of the Babies Dispensary and Hospital, and has been since its organization, and she is a very important factor in various other benevolent enterprises, for she is a woman of deep sympathies and broad understand- ing, and feels it her duty, as well as a pleasure, to use her wealth and abili- ties to mitigate the suffering of those less fortunate than she.
However, Mrs. Miller's activities have not, by any manner of means, been confined to charitable work. She is chairman of the Cleveland, and a director of the Northern Ohio, communities on devastated France, and in recognition of her efficient services in these connections the American Committee awarded her a silver medal of honor with the ribbon. She is also a potent factor in republican party affairs, and was the founder and president of the Harding Woman's Club in 1920, and was the first woman to serve on the Republican Executive Committee of Cuyahoga County. Ever since women began taking part in political affairs in Ohio she has been a leader, and her influence has long been recognized as a strong and uplift- ing one. Mrs. Miller was the first woman to be made a member of the Tippecanoe Club, and was further honored by election as a director in 1922, and as treasurer in 1923. Her business interests are large and varied, and among other responsibilities of this nature are those connected with the directorship in the W. S. Tyler Company.
An index of the unusual scope of her interests is found in the varied memberships she has in organizations, including the following: The Royal Economic Society, the American Economic Society, the American Associa- tion for the Advancement of Science, the Genetic Association; is a life Fellow of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds in England, and a member of the American Audubon Society, the Meriden Bird Club, founder and president of the Cleveland Bird Lovers' Association, and the Cleveland Bird Club. She has been active in providing food stations for birds in the city. She is a member of the Bibliophile Society of Boston, the Brothers of the Book of Chicago, the Colony, MacDowell, Woman's City Clubs of New York, the Country, Mayfield and Clifton clubs of Cleveland, the Japan Society, and the Century Theatre Club of New York, the Cleveland Writers' Club, Fellow of the Cleveland Museum of Arts, member of the Maison Francaise, the Circle Francaise. She is a life member of the American Rose Society, of the Western Reserve Club, a republican organi- zation, and is a member of the Pioneer Memorial Association and the Gamut Club of New York. She is a trustee of the Babies' Dispensary and Hospital, and during the World war was associated with the Red Cross and other organizations for the purpose of performing war service.
Mrs. Miller was married in 1901, and she has two sons, Otto Miller, Junior, and W. S. Tyler Miller, both of whom are students of Harvard University. In her life and work Mrs. Miller has proven beyond any
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question the fact that women are just as well qualified as men for positions of trust and responsibility, and her wonderful success and the good she has accomplished are proving a stimulus to others of her sex to use their talents for the good of their communities and humanity in general.
COL. JEREMIAH J. SULLIVAN was a member of a group of financiers who aided in establishing Cleveland as one of America's great banking centers. The Central National Bank Savings & Trust Company, repre- senting two institutions which he founded, stands as a living monument to his perseverance, clearsightedness and business leadership. The late Colonel Sullivan was not only an able executive and skillful organizer, but had the personality that gained him strong and lasting friendships, and made his associates trust him implicitly. Before coming to Cleveland he had been proprietor of a country store, but subsequent years brought him into a position of prominence among the nation's bankers.
Colonel Sullivan's parents, Jeremiah J. and Mary (Moylan) Sullivan, came from Ireland in 1843, settling on a farm near Canal Fulton, Stark County, Ohio, where, on November 16, 1844, their son was born.
Colonel Sullivan attended village schools in Canal Fulton, and the first experience to take him out of his rural environment came during the Civil war, when he enlisted as a private in the Third Ohio Field Artillery. He was then in his seventeenth year, and was one of the youngest volun- teer soldiers of Ohio. He served three years, and participated in the de- cisive campaigns of Vicksburg, Atlanta and Nashville, being with General Grant at Vicksburg and General Sherman at Atlanta. He was mustered out as a sergeant in Cleveland, July 31, 1865.
When he was twenty-one years of age this young veteran became partner in a general store at Nashville, in Holmes County, Ohio. Two years later he became sole proprietor, and continued the business alone until March, 1878, when he sold out and moved to Millersburg, in the same county. There he carried on a general hardware business until President Cleveland, in 1887, appointed him national bank examiner for Ohio. Through experience in that office he gained a thorough and technical knowledge of banking. He took up his residence in Cleveland in 1889, and early the following year (1890) started to organize the Central Na- tional Bank of Cleveland. Organization of the bank was completed in May, 1890, and he served the bank successfully for ten years as cashier and vice president, and in April, 1900, became its president.
In 1905 Colonel Sullivan also organized the Superior Savings and Trust Company, and for a number of years was president of this as well as the Central National Bank. On January 1, 1921, the two banks were merged under the new title, Central National Bank Savings and Trust Company. His son, C. E. Sullivan, who for several years had been president of the Superior Savings & Trust Company, became president of the consolidated bank, while Colonel Sullivan accepted the office of chairman of the board of directors.
Colonel Sullivan's opinions on money and finance were widely quoted, and, being of a cheerful and optimistic disposition, his advice was sought continually.
Cleveland is indebted to Colonel Sullivan for many distinctive services. He was one of the few prominent American bankers who regarded with
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favor the financial legislation of 1913, known as the Federal Reserve Act, and his enthusiasm and perseverance contributed largely in bringing the Fourth Federal Reserve Bank to Cleveland.
He served as president of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce in 1905, was president of the National Board of Trade in 1905-06, and in 1899 was chosen the first president of the Cleveland Association of Credit Men. It was his idea around which other bankers of Cleveland rallied in organizing the Bankers Club of Cleveland, of which he was the first president. He also served as president of the Ohio Bankers Association. For a number of years he was treasurer of the Merchants Marine League, and was interested in Great Lakes steamship companies. He was also treasurer of the Mutual Building and Investment Company, and for a number of years he was president of the First National Bank of Canton, Ohio.
Colonel Sullivan was prominent in Ohio democratic politics before coming to Cleveland. In 1879 he was elected a member of the State Senate, representing Wayne, Holmes, Knox and Morrow counties, and in 1885 he was given a unanimous nomination and was again elected to the State Senate. Among the acts of legislation he initiated was one re- sulting in the founding of the Soldiers' Home at Sandusky, Ohio, an in- stitution for Civil war veterans. He was still a member of the Senate when he was appointed national bank examiner by President Cleveland. In 1893 he was elected colonel of the Fifth Ohio Regiment, Ohio National Guard. Colonel Sullivan was a member of the Union, Mayfield, Country, Colonial and Roadside clubs of Cleveland, and was a member of the Ohio Society of New York.
Colonel Sullivan married Miss Selina J. Brown at Shreve, Wayne County, Ohio, September 25, 1873. Mrs. Sullivan survives him. Their only son, C. E. Sullivan, president of the Central National Bank Savings & Trust Company, resides at Gates Mill, a suburb of Cleveland. Their two daughters, Miss Selma Sullivan and Mrs. H. F. Seymour, also live in Cleveland.
Colonel Sullivan died of his only illness, influenza, at his home at 7218 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, February 2, 1922. He was buried in Lakeview Cemetery.
CAPT. RICHARD J. FANNING. Veteran of three wars, Civil, Spanish- American and the Philippine Insurrection, possessed of the fighting blood of his race, Capt. Richard J. Fanning at the age of four score lives quietly retired at his home in Cleveland. Most of his life has been spent in Ohio, and for many years he was a resident of Columbus, though he grew up in Cleveland and enlisted from this city for his service in the Civil war.
All the records show that the Fanning family has always been of the Irish race. The full genealogy of the family is traced from "Brooks History of the Fannings." As nationals of other countries the Fannings have participated in many of the wars against Great Britain. There have been Fannings in America since early days in the Revolution and all subsequent wars. One spelling of the name is Fannin, and one of the martyrs of the Texas Revolution in 1835-36 was a Captain Fannin. An island in the Pacific bears the name and also one of our warships.
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The Fanning house in Waterford, Ireland, was the gift of a French Colonel Fanning, who left his fortune to the city of his ancestors to build and maintain a home for respectable old people in their declining years. Captain Fanning's grandparents, William Fanning and his wife, Fanny (Poer or Powers), lived there for many years before their deaths. Captain Fanning's parents were natives of Ireland. His mother was educated in the parochial schools of Waterford, her people being of the Wexford family of D'Arcy.
Captain Fanning's father received a college education. Being identified with the "young Ireland party" of that period, he was proscribed and in 1848 fled from Ireland to Liverpool, England, and subsequently with his wife and three children came to America, reaching Cleveland August 15, 1851. Subsequently he engaged in the meat business on Lorain Street, on the West Side, and continued active until his death in 1879. There were seven children: Richard John, William Francis, Catherine, James Ambrose, Ellen Mary, Michael Angelo and Francis Joseph. William and Ellen Mary are deceased. Richard J., James A. and Francis Joseph reside in Cleveland, and Michael and his family live in New York City.
Richard J. Fanning was born July 31, 1844, and was in his sixth year when the family settled in Cleveland in August, 1851, where he attended St. Patrick's school and promptly after passing his sixteenth year, in 1861, he volunteered, enlisting in the old Payne Building on Superior Street, near old Water Street, in Battery C of the 5th U. S. Artillery, October 5, 1861. He joined the battery at Camp Greble, Harrisburg, Pennsyl- vania, which was soon assigned to the Army of the Potomac. He par- ticipated in the seven days' battles in front of Richmond, from Mechan- icsville in front of Richmond to Malvern Hill on the James River, his left eye being injured at the battle of Gaines Mill on the second day of the fighting. He was at Centerville, Gainesville and Second Bull Run, at South Mountain and Antietam, Maryland, where he was slightly wounded but did not leave his battery. At Fredericksburg, Virginia, December 13, 1862, he was severely wounded in the left forearm, but during the rest of his service, which was arduous, he escaped injury. In June, 1864, he was honorably discharged on account of his disabilities, returning home a wounded veteran before he was twenty.
In 1866 Captain Fanning entered the Cleveland and Mahoning Rail- road service under Maj. Dwight Palmer, continuing under James M. Ferris and Joshua M. Booth, agents in turn of the Atlantic and Great Western railways, and was a railroad man until called to public service. In 1874 he was appointed by Arnold Green, clerk of the Supreme Court, as his deputy. The acceptance of this office caused him to move to Columbus. In 1877 he was elected clerk of the Supreme Court and again in 1880 was renominated by the state convention held in the old Academy of Music on Bank Street, but later met defeat with the rest of the democratic ticket. Then followed a period of service with the Pennsylvania Railroad at Columbus until 1886, when he was appointed chief clerk to the railroad commissioner of Ohio by Governor Joseph B. Foraker. In 1888 he resumed his railroad service, and about that time was elected a member of the Columbus City Council, but did not complete his term. In the fall of the same year the Republican party nominated
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him for the office of probate judge of Franklin County, but he declined the honor.
In 1890 Captain Fanning was elected at the annual convention of the Regular Army and Navy Union at Detroit, Michigan, as adjutant- general of the order composed of regulars and ex-regulars of the United States Army and of the Navy, active and retired; an order which still flourishes with garrisons in many parts of the United States, having a garrison or two in Cleveland. This position Captain Fanning held until May 1, 1898, when through the friendship of President Mckinley he was commissioned captain and assistant quartermaster in the army for service in the Spanish-American war. In August, 1899, President Mckinley again commissioned him a captain in the Forty-first Infantry, United States Volunteers, and he was ordered to report to the regiment at Camp Meade, Pennsylvania, where he was assigned to duty in Company A of that regiment. Afterwards the regiment left for the Philippines, reaching Manila the latter part of December, 1899. After a few months in the field Captain Fanning was transferred to the position of quarter- master commissary and ordnance officer at Base Hospital, Dagupan, Northern Luzon.
This was a post of arduous duties, involving the feeding and clothing of some 500 sick soldiers, building an addition to the hospital, building of barracks for the Hospital Corps, construction of an ice house and morgue. A recommendation from his superior officers stated that Captain Fanning in these duties was painstaking and efficient, performing them with entire satisfaction to all concerned.
In 1901 Hon. William H. Taft, then governor-general of the Islands, while visiting Dagupan offered Captain Fanning the position of treasurer of the Province of Tarlac, a post he filled from the latter part of March until August, when Governor Taft promoted him to the Province of Sorsogon, a much larger one in Southern Luzon. While there for a time he was acting governor while the native governor was with other governors of the provinces touring the United States.
Finally, after almost five years of service in the Philippines, becoming homesick and weary, Captain Fanning resigned in November, 1904, and returned home. This service was an experience of which he has been exceedingly proud. After a brief stay at his home in Columbus he moved to Cleveland in 1905, where he now lives.
Captain Fanning served as second and first lieutenant and captain of Battery H of the First Ohio Light Artillery, National Guard, from 1887 to January 8, 1892, resigning December 2, 1891. He was an honorary member of the Cleveland Cadets from 1890 to 1891. From 1878 to 1894 he was a member of McCoy Post, Grand Army of the Republic, Columbus, and was a member of Encampment 78, Union Veteran Legion, from 1894 to 1898, serving as its commander for two years and was appointed A. D. C. and A. A. G. on the staff of the national commander in 1894. In Cleveland he is a member of the Army and Navy Post No. 187, Grand Army of the Republic, life member of the Army and Navy Union, member of Post No. 84, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and the Officers Army and Navy Club.
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In November, 1877, about the time he was elected clerk of the Ohio Supreme Court, he married Miss Celia Maria Miller, of Columbus, a member of one of the notable families of Ohio. Her father, Thomas W. Miller, held many important positions in public affairs, being sheriff, postmaster, supervisor of Ohio canals, owner of the Ohio Statesman, the leading democratic newspaper of Columbus, and owner of the street car lines of the city. He donated the land for the Ohio State Fair Grounds, now known as Franklin Park. He was a power in democratic politics during his lifetime and an influential citizen.
The Millers were related to James G. Blaine, the Shermans and Ewings, the first wife of Thomas W. Miller being a cousin of Mr. Blaine. The marriage of Captain Fanning and wife was blessed with two talented children, Mary Miller Fanning and Cecil Raymond Fanning. The daughter graduated from a select school for girls, and has been engaged in kindergarten work for a number of years at Columbus.
Cecil Fanning, born in 1883, is called the poet singer of Ohio. He has given song recitals in every state in the Union and from end to end of Canada. He made five European tours, and made his debut in grand opera on May 23, 1924, creating the baritone rolê in the new American opera, libretto by Cecil Fanning and music by Francesco B. De Leone of Akron. Cecil Fanning's book of poems, entitled "The Flower Strewn Threshold," was published by Constable and Company. London, England, and Dutton, New York. His poem, "Spring in Sicily," received the prize at the biennial meeting of the National Federation of Music Clubs in 1923. Besides having written lyrics for most of the best song writers of the day, Mr. Fanning has written the librettos for the cantata, Sir Oluf," by Harriet Ware, and "The Foolish Virgins," music by Marshall Kernochan, and the libretto for the Indian Grand Opera, "Alglala," all published by G. Schirmer, Inc., New York. Cecil Fanning resides in Columbus, Ohio.
DANIEL R. TAYLOR. In the development and growth of many of Cleve- land's most important business enterprises a leading part for many years has been borne by Daniel R. Taylor, president of the Manufacturers Realty Company, and one of the solid, substantial men of this city, whose close association with real estate interests covers more than a half century.
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