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REYNOLDS HISTORICAL GENEALOGY COLLECTION
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William A., -- both at home. Mrs. Kirkland is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
In political matters, Mr. Kirkland votes with the Republican party, and since October 13, 1890, has held the position of Postmaster. Jlo is the oldest living male representative of this family.
C HARLES CORLETT, deceased, was one of the prominent business men at War- rensville, Ohio. Of his life we make record as follows:
Charles Corlett was born on the Isle of Man, February 27, 1820, son of William and Eleanor (Cain) Corlett, both natives of that place. In July, 1827, the family emigrated to America, and upon their arrival here settled at New- burg, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, where the mother died at the age of sixty-seven years. The father reached the advanced age of ninety-two, dying in Cleveland. He was an Episcopalian and took great interest in religious matters. In their family were eight children, four sons and four danghters, namely: William; May Gill, deceased; John, deceased; Thomas, a prominent Episcopal minister of Cleveland, Ohio; Jane Clark; Charles, whose name heads this article; Eliza, deceased; and Eleanor.
In Newburg Charles Corlett was reared, his education being received here and in Cleveland. Early in life he learned the trade of bricklayer, and this trade he has followed for half a cen- tury, working in many of the Western States. For fifteen years he was employed by William Hutchings, of Chagrin Falls, Ohio. In 1851 he made the trip from New York to California. It was in 1858 that he settled on the place where he recently died, which was then known as the Bowell farm. This farm comprises ninety-four acres, and is situated two miles and a quarter from the city limits.
Mr. Corlett was married in 1857 to Princilla Bowell, who was born near Warren, Trumbull county, Ohio, daughter of Zadick and Anna (Hill) Bowell, the former a native of Fayette
county, Pennsylvania, and the latter of Vir- ginia. Mr. Bowell moved to Ohio at an early day, and here he and his wife spent the residue of their lives, she being seventy-eight at the time of her death and he ninety-three. They had twelve children, some of whom died in in- Fancy, a record of the others being as follows: Angelina, deceased; Thomas, deceased; Mar- garet, deceased; Nancy, wife of William Still- man, also of Orange township; Rachel, de- ceased; Princilla Corlett; Eliza Pierson, de- ceased; and Reese, deceased. Mr. Corlett had four children: Walter II., now engaged in rail- roading: Arthur R., Assessor for Warrensville township; and Anna Mary and (. Bert, at home. Mr. Corlett died March 4, 1894, a highly honored citizen.
The Corlett family are ranked with the lead- ing people of the community in which they live. Mrs. Corlett is a zealous member of the Methodist. Episcopal Church. Politically, Mr. Corlett voted with the Democratic party, and for half a century was a member of the I. O. O. F.
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G GEORGE W. VAUGHAN, engineer of . the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Company, became connected with railroad service in 1881, when he engaged to run the rod for the Pan-Handle Company, on maintenance of way on the l'itts- burg Division. Mr. Vanghan was on this work in various capacities for two years, when he be- came assistant engineer. In IS54 he was ap- pointed supervisor of the third subdivision of the l'an- Handle, performing those duties until February, 1887, when he returned to the posi- tion of assistant engineer, filling it about one month, when he joined the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Company as assistant engineer; in February, two years later, was made division engineer, and in February, five years later, was made engineer for the whole line.
Mr. Vanghan was born at Paucatnek Bridge, Connectient, November 11, 1859. His com-
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mon-school training was reinforced by a syste- matic course of theory and practice in two New England colleges to prepare him for his pro- fessional career,- Warner's Polytechnic College at Providence, Rhode Island, and the Rhode Island Institute of Technology. He was not a boy of nulimited means, or even in easy cir- cumstances, and whatever he accomplished while a student was done, we infer, under some diflientties. During the summer season he was employed ou field work, both surface and sewer, putting to practical test his previous winter's term of theory. Prior to taking up his pro- l'essional studies Mr. Vaughan learned carriage- making, but never followed it. On completing his engineering course he seenred a fireman's berth on a passenger steamer on Barnegat bay and Torres river, demonstrating his ability as a first-class fireman. He was seenred next by the Potter Printing Press Company, of Plainfield, New Jersey, as draftsman, and the February following went to the Pan-Handle Railroad Company as rodman. Mr. Vaughan is a mem- ber of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and is thoroughly equipped for the profession he has chosen.
Mr. Vaughan is the son of John G. Vanghan, a carriage-maker and iron-molder, who was born in Rhode Island, in 1826, and died in 1887. HIe was employed for thirty years with Cottrell & Babroek, printing-press mamifacturers of Pawtucket. He married Susanna S. Barber, who bore twelve children, eight of whom are living. In February, 1891, Mr. Vanghan mar- ried, in Westfield, New York, Fannie S. Min- ton, a daughter of Jolm HI. Minton, an uncle of George M. Pullman. Mr. and Mrs. Vanghan have one child, Dorothy, aged fourteen months.
OHIN W. WARDWELL, receiver of the Cleveland, Canton & Southern Railroad, and for more than thirty-five years identi- fied with railroad service, was born in Salisbury, Merrimae county, New Hampshire, June 1, 1832. Ilis father was a carriage builder and of
moderate means, and was able to provide his children with only sneh school advantages as were offered in the village school, supplemented by a brief period in Salisbury Academy.
At sixteen years of age young John cast off the student's routine and took up life's sterner duties by entering a dry-goods store in Concord, New Hampshire, as a clerk, and remained there till March, 1851, when the United States & Canadian Express Company offered him a place in their employ as driver and later as messen- ger, serving till May, 1858, when he went to railroading with the Boston & Montreal Rail- road as passenger conductor, and remained with the company until March, 1865, serving in the meantime by promotion as paymaster and eash- ier, conelnding his service in the latter posi- tion. Ilis next position was with the Rutland & Burlington Railroad as general agent sta- tioned at Burlington, Vermont. In January, 1870, he retired from this road and became, on August 1st following, general passenger agent of the Concord Railroad, and gave eleven years of his best service in this capacity, retiring in 1881 and accepting the position of freight agent of the Boston & Lowell Railroad, with headquarters in Boston. In January, 1886, he was invited to become general superintendent of the Cleveland, Canton & Southern Railroad, accepting and assuming his duties the same month. This official relation existed until Sep- tember 15, 1893, when Judge Ricks appointed him one of the receivers of the road.
Mr. Wardwell's father was Reuben Wardwell, born in Pembroke, Merrimae county, New Hampshire, in 1802. He bore the title of Cap- tain because of his service as commanding offi- eer of a company of light infantry, New Hamp- shire militia. He married Mary Webster, daughter of Israel Webster, a Revolutionary patriot and a tiller of the soil, and died at thirty- six years of age. Jeremiah Wardwell, our sub- jeet's grandfather, was likewise born in New Hampshire.
Reuben Wardwell's children were: Jeanette, deceased; Harriet, deceased; George; Charlotte;
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Abial, deceased; Mary and John W. The last named was married in October, 1853, in Gil- manton, New Hampshire, to Mary J. Fifield, a daughter of Benjamin Fifield, a farmer.
Mr. and Mrs. Wardwell are the parents of Charles W., in Cleveland, and Mary F.
Politically Mr. Wardwell was reared and educated a Whig, and east his first vote for John C. Fremont.
R OLLIN CHASE SMITHI, youngest son of Iliram and Anna Smith, was born at the foot of the western slope of the Green mountains, in Monkton, Addison county, Vermont, March 12, 1827. On his mother's side he is the seventh in deseent from Aquila Chase, who emigrated from England to Massachusetts in 1630. The stock from which he descended was prolific in eminent men, the greatest of whom perhaps was Salmon Portland Chase, who was twice elected Governor of Ohio, twice United States Senator, was Secretary of the Treasury in the cabinet of Abraham Lincoln, and subsequently Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
The subject of this sketch has been both for- tunate and unfortunate, fortunate in being both able and willing to absorb some of the honor necessarily derived from so noble an an- cestry, and unfortunate in not being able, though willing, to contribute anything, as he says, to the common fund; but he has contributed con- siderable, as we shall see.
His paternal grandparents had twelve children, -eleven sons and one daughter. In his father's family were two sons and one daughter, namely: Phebe, born in 1819 and died in childhood; Philemon Brown, born in 1821, and died in Missouri in 1887; and Rollin C., who alone survives.
In the spring of 1835 his father determined to anticipate Horace Greeley's advice and " go West." Accordingly he with his family and household effects embarked on a canal- boat at
Vergennes, Vermont, which was towed by the steamboat Com. MeDonough down Otter creek six miles, to Lake Champlain, and then aeross that lake to Whitehall, New York, where they exchanged the Commodore for mules, which drew them by way of the Champlain canal to Troy, New York, thence by the Erie canal to Buffalo, and thence they came by the steamer Pennsylvania to the then village of Cleveland, Obio, where they arrived in June, 1835, weary but undismayed, and all, save the youngest boy, fierce for the coming conflict with the alnost unbroken forest. The family first settled in the township of Mayfield, Cuyahoga county, where they remained three years, and then removed to Bedford in the same county. Here Mr. Smith divided his time between hard work -- " when he could not evade it," he says-on his father's farm, and hard study, which he seemed to relish more, in the district school, and in a select school at Bedford village, taught, at different periods, by Professors Whipple, Adams and Hawley. Subsequently he continued his efforts to obtain the necessary qualifications for teach- ing by attending the Twinsburg Institute, a somewhat noted school at Twinsburg, Ohio, managed by Rev. Samuel Bissell, and later at Alleghany College, at Meadville, Pennsylvania.
llo read law two years under the direction of Samuel Adams, Esq., of Cleveland, and medi- cine one and a half years under Dr. S. U. Tar- bell, of Bedford, this State, but abandoned the visions both of the woolsack and of a life as "aid to the undertaker," and returned to his " first love," the school-room.
He began his long career as a schoolmaster in the autumn of 1845, in the township of Or- ange, Cuyahoga county, and ended it in the high school in the township of Warrensville, same county, forty-three years later, having spent his entire life as a pedagogue in the two counties of Cuyahoga and Summit. He has the satisfaction of knowing that he was almost al. ways called, and generally chosen, never having applied for more than three schools in his life. In the meantime he served two terms of three
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years cach on the Board of County School Ex- aminers in Summit county, and four terms in the same ollice in Cuyahoga conuty, also several terms as president of the County Teachers' In- stitute.
On November 10, 1853, he made the happiest hit of his life by leading, "of her own free will," to the matrimonial altar Miss Isabelle R. Deis- man, second daughter of II. L. and Letitia Deis- man, and for which stroke of good policy he has been " proud of himself " ever since. Ile has had seven children, namely: Ida Bell, born in 1856; Charles P., 1858; George S., 1865; IIenry L., 1868; Lettie M., 1871; James W., 1875; and Rollin C., Jr., 1879, -- all of whom are living except the youngest, who died of scarlet fever at the age of three years and seven months. Ida B. is married to James S. Viers, Esq .; Charles P. is editor and proprietor of a newspaper, " The Bedford News- Register;" George S. is an upholsterer in the chair factory of IIon. V. A. Taylor; Henry L. is a civil en- gineer; Lettie M. is a compositor and the fore- woman in the office of the News-Register; and James W. is a student in the Bedford high school.
About the year 1864 Mr. Smith was again fortunate, in joining Summit Lodge, No. 213, F. & A. M., and soon thereafter became a mem- ber of Summit. Chapter, No. 74, R. A. M. Ho had the honor to preside as M. E. II. P. over his chapter for three conseentive terms. Sub- sequently he dimitted from Summit Lodge and became a charter member of Bedford Lodge, No. 375, F. & A. M., and is now serving his third term as Worshipful Master of the same. Ile is also P. W. P. in Bedford Division, No. 81, S. of T., and is also " high private " in the " rear rank," as he terms it, in Goldenrod Lodge, No. 467, Knights of Pythias.
In 1882 he was elected Justice of the Peace, served a term of three years and retired, but crowned with all the honors that he craved in that direction.
Ile is now approaching the evening of life, and is endeavoring so to live that when the
summons comes to join the innumerable cara- van, he may, sustained and soothed by the belief that his life has not been all in vain, put his hand in that of the grim messenger, and in friendly companionship, without a murmur and without regret, pass on to the great majority, "where the wicked cease from troubling and where the weary are forever at rest."
AMES LAING has been for many years one of the most extensive dealers in live- stoek in Bedford township and has become thoroughly identified with the agricultural in- terests of this locality.
Ile was born in Roxburg, Scotland, Septem- ber 2, 1840, a son of James and Betty ( White) Laing, also natives of Scotland. The father emigrated with his family to the United States in 1850, and settled in Ohio, locating 100 acres of land in Cuyahoga county. Here he died in 1859, his wife having passed away in 1850. Both were worthy members of the Presbyterian Church, and politically Mr. Laing voted with the Republican party. They had thirteen chil- dren, eleven of whom still survive: Annie, rel- iet of John Dawson; Elizabeth, relict of Hor- ace E. Harriman; and Euphemia, reliet of George Thomas, --- reside in Bedford township; George and Robert are prosperous farmers in the same locality, the former residing on his fine farm of 240 acres; Margeret is the wife of Robert Forbes, the well-known Bedford mer- chant; Jessie, wife of John Waller, of Solon; Jane resides in Kansas, wife of Engene Wilcox; and Mary is the wife of William Walton, of Twinsburg, in Summit county. George White and Andrew died in infancy.
James was a lad of ten years when the family came to Bedford. Ile was reared on the home farm, and as he grew to manhood developed unusual ability in the management of the various departments of agriculture, but gave his attention more partinlarly to the purchase of livo-stock for the numerous dairies in the
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neighborhood, embarking in the business at the age of eighteen, and visiting at stated periods southerly and westerly portions of the State and sections of Michigan and Indiana. The sturdy young Seoteliman soon won for himself a repu- tation for honesty in business, and with a full share of native fact, coupled with temperato habits and business zeal and integrity, has amassed a fair competence, and gained the con- fidence and respect of the community. Ile now owns a valuable tract of 200 acres, chiefly devoted to the grazing of live-stock. The buildings are large and conveniently arranged for the various purposes to which they are de- voted.
During the late Civil war Mr. Laing served with honor as a member of the One Hundred and Fiftieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Politi- cally, he supports the principles of the Repub- lican party, but in his close application to per- sonal business has not aspired to publie office. Ile belongs to Royal Dunham Post, No. 177, G. A. R.
Mr. Laing was married in 1880, to Miss Mary, the danghter of James and Eliza Titter- ington, of Orange township. Our subject and wife are the parents of five children, -- Annie D., Mattie P., George Alexander, John W. and J. Leonard.
R N. BENNET, a well-known and re- spected citizen of Warrensville town- ship, Cuyahoga county, was born in a log house on the farm which he still owne, June 10, 1831, a son of Robert P. and Olive (Casey) Bennet, natives of Bennington, Vermont., the former born in 1796 and the latter in 1799. The father was a soldier in the war of 1812. In 1818 he came to Warrens- ville township, where he was among the first settlers, and the country was then inhabited by wild beasts. Mr. Bennet died at the age of eighty-one years, his wife having departed this life when seventy three years old. The former was a farmer by occupation, was first a Whig
and later a Republican in his political views, and was a member and zealons worker in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. and Mrs. Bennet had two children. The daughter Orilla Viana, was born January 28, 1817, was mar- ried to Franeis like, and her death occurred in Ladora, lowa county, lowa.
R. N. Bennet, our subject, received his edn- cation in the old log schoolhouse of his locality, and was early inured to farm labor. He now owns a fine farm of ninety-eight acres in War- reneville township, where he has a comfortable residence, good barns, and other improvements. Jannary 1, 1855, by Rev. Thomas Smith, he was united in marriage with Anna Cooper, a native of England and a daughter of Thomas and Ann (Wesbel) Cooper, also born in that country. They came to America in 1836, locating in Orange township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio. The father died at Warrensville, at the age of eighty-eight years, and the mother died at the home of Mrs. Bennet, in her ninety- fourth year. They had nine children, viz .: William, Mary, Thomas, Eliza, James, Homer (deceased), John, Eunice, Homer and Anna. Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have seven children: Charles M., a resident of Warrensville, is mar- ried, and has three children-Lilly, Pearl and George; Iliram, of Chagrin Falls, has one daughter, Nettie; Robert P., a resident, of Cleveland, Ohio; Eliza A., wife of Charles Sayle, of Warrensville, and they have two chil- dren, Eunice and Harry; Cora B., wife of Will- iam Moore, of Cleveland, and they have one child, Olive Pearl; Olive A., wife of F. Nelson, a resident of this township; and Dolly May, at home. One child, George, died September 1, 1875, at the age of two years.
A W. PADDOCK, a farmer of Ohinstead township, settled there in 1861. lle was born in Rockport township, in 1839, a son of Elias Denton and Delia (Nichol- son) Paddock. His father, a native of Essex county, New York, camo to Cuyahoga county
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when a young man, with his father, Anthony Paddock, who came to this county in 1827, set- tling in Rockport township, where he died. In the same township Mr. Elias Denton Paddock grew up and married, and in 1860 came to, Olmstead township, locating on Butternut Ridge, which he ever afterward made his home. Ile died in 1877. His wife still resides in this township. Of their eleven children five grew up, namely: A. W., who is the subject of this brief sketch; O. 1., who resides in this town- ship: he enlisted in 1862, in the Fifteenth Ohio Independent Battery, and served through the war; Mortimer F., who was a member of the same battery, and died here, in 1866; and Herbert L., also a member of the same regi- ment. Ile was married in 1868, and went to California in the spring of 1871, and his where- abouts is now unknown.
Mr. Paddoek, our subject, was reared in Roekport township, and has been engaged in farming. In 1861 he enlisted in the Eighth Ohio Infantry, Company HI, for three months, at the expiration of which time he re-enlisted in the same company and was assigned to the Army of the Potomac, wherein he participated in the battles of Winchester, Antietam, Fred- ericksburg, Wilderness and Gettysburg, and was honorably discharged in 1864, at Columbus, Ohio. During the service he received a gun- shot wound. Ile now owns a good farm of thirty acres.
In his political views he is a Republican, and in his social relations he has been a member, ever since its organization, of Ohinstead Post, No. 634, G. A. R., of which he is the present Commander. Of this body he has been Senior Vicar, Chaplain and Adjutant. He and his wife are members of the Second Congregational Church.
In 1865 in Cleveland, Mr. Paddock married Elmina Stearns, a danghter of Sidney and Martha Stearns, natives of Eastern States and now residing in Michigan. Mrs. Paddock's grandfather, Alvah Stearns, a native of one of the Eastern States, was one of the first settlers
in Olmstead township, and resided there dur- ing his life. Mr. and Mrs. Paddoek have had three children, viz .: Gertie, wife of Henry Daily and residing in Rockport: Mr. Daily is in the railroad service; the other two children are Ruby and Roy.
H ENRY A. GRIFFIN, editor of the Snu and Voice, and president of the Voice Publishing Company, was born in the vil- lage of Waterdown, near the city of Ilam- ilton, Ontario, of Welsh and English ancestry. Both of his parents died while he was an in- fant, and at a very early age he was thrown upon his own resources. The village school and a term or two in the Hamilton grammar school, supplemented by independent studies and read- ing, while earning a living as elerk and book- keeper, supplied Mr. Griffin with the rudiments of an education.
In 1865, at the age of twenty years, he re- moved to Wyandotte, Michigan, and engaged in mercantile business on his own account. A taste for literary work indueed him to nnder- take the publication of a newspaper in that town, the Wyandotte Enterprise, in connection with his other business, in 1872. The venture was snecessfnl, and four years later the paper was removed to Detroit and thereafter issued under the name of the Wayne County Courier. In 1880 Mr. Griffin sold the Courier and be- came a member of the staff of the Detroit Evening News, having previously attracted no- tice by some good special work for that and other Detroit dailies, In 1882 he was assigned to the managing editorship of the Buffalo Tele- graph, then owned by the Evening News Com- pany; and a year later moved to Cleveland to accept a position as editorial writer on the Press, which he filled for three years.
In 1886 the late Edward Cowles offered Mr. Grillin a responsible position, with larger op- portunities, on the staff of the Leader, which was accepted and filled, until April, 1891, when
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he became secretary of the Board of Control and private secretary to Mayor Rose, under the then new Federal plan of municipal govern- ment. In February, 1892, he was appointed Di- rector of Police, to fill a vacancy caused by the resignation of Colonel J. W. Gibbons. At the close of Mayor Rose's official term Mr. Griffin purchased a controlling interest in the stock of the Voice Publishing Company.
Mr. Griffin was married in 1867, to Miss Mary Imogene DeKalb, of An Sable Forks, New York, and they have one daughter living.
I LOHN COLAHAN, a representative citizen of Cleveland, has been a resident of this city all his life, having been born here, in September, 15-40, a son of Samuel and Harriet (Hedges) Colahan, both deceased. His Father, a native of Quebec, was a printer by ocenpation in earlier life, and later was in mercantile busi- ness and finally in real estate. He was but five years of age, in 1813, when he was brought to Cleveland, by his parents, who were of Irish and French nativity. Samuel Colahan resided in Cleveland all his life from the age of five years, excepting the two years he spent in Mas- sillon and Circleville. He followed mercantile business until 1838, from which time he was engaged in real estate until his death, in 1886. Ilis wife, a native of Virginia, died in 1887. They had tive children.
Early in life Mr. John Colahan engaged in mercantile business, then was a dealer in fire brick, sewer pipe, ete., representing one firm for thirteen years; but since 1874 he has been a dealer in real estate, giving this business his entire attention, and making a specialty of een- tral manufacturing property. He has creeted several residences, and is in charge of several large estate. In 1891 he effected one of the largest real-estate deals ever made in this city, the consideration being 8241,000 cash, and within the next twelve months he sold upward of $100,000 worth of property. He thoroughly
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