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Mr. Joseph Binehower received his early education in the district schools of Ashland County, and had four months of attendance at an academy. He had begun his career as a practical farmer when the war broke out, and on September 4, 1861, he enlisted in Company B of the First Ohio Light Artillery. He served three years seven days, and was honorably discharged at Nashville, Tennessee, September 12, 1864. He was always on duty, and the record of important engagements in which he participated includes Wild Cat, Kentucky; Perrysville, Ken- tucky ; Stone River, Tennessee; siege of Tullahoma; Chickamauga ; Look- out Mountain and Missionary Ridge, and he left the army while the Atlanta campaign was in progress. Following the war he returned to Ashland County, worked on a farm a time, also attended the academy already mentioned, and then in July, 1865, started the insurance busi- ness as already noted. He remained in Ashland County until 1866 and from there moved to West Salem, Ohio, where he remained two years, was then in Nova, Ohio, six years, and three years at Polk, Ohio, where, in connection with insurance, he conducted a stove and tin business altogether eleven years.
On July 18, 1867, Mr. Binehower married Mary A. Marks, a daugh- ter of George and Sophia (Hartman) Marks, her father a native of Richland County and her mother of Ashland County, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Binehower became the parents of five children and four are now living : John M., who died April 9, 1905; Osea A., who married Morton A. Daugherty, is now a widow, employed as a clerk in a store at Welling- ton, has one child, Frances; Fannie M. married W. J. Slemmons. a dentist at Cleveland, and they have two children, Rhea Rutheda Fay and Joseph R .; Ada S., who is secretary to the John J. Rhodes Insurance Agency Company at Cleveland; and Azalia Blanche, wife of F. A. Davies, a shoe merchant at Wellington.
Mr. Binehower has always been prominent in Grand Army circles and filled the various offices in his post. He is also a Royal Arch Mason and he and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In politics he is a republican.
For the past seventeen years Mr. Binehower has filled the office of justice of the peace, and has an unusual record in this office. He has disposed of 633 cases, and in all that time has had only six jury trials. During his residence at Polk in Ashland County, Ohio, he also filled the office of constable, deputy sheriff and town marshal. He was elected town marshal for the express purpose of putting a man out of the saloon business in the community, and he succeeded. While filling one of these offices just mentioned he also had the distinction of arresting for murder the last two criminals in Ohio who were hanged outside of penitentiary walls.
Mr. Binehower has been a resident of Wellington since 1888, at which
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time he established his office as an insurance man, and he has always . enjoyed a large and profitable business in that line. His prosperity is the more creditable on account of the fact that he had nothing given to him at the outset of his career, and has accomplished a great deal by relying upon his own efforts and courageously facing every circumstance.
ARTHUR THOMAS GLEW, D. D. S. Though a comparative newcomer to Elyria, Dr. Glew is an old resident of Ohio, spent many years in the successful practice of dentistry at Germantown, and is now fortunately located and enjoys many influential professional and social connections in his new home.
A native of Canada and of English parentage, Arthur Thomas Glew was born at Toronto May 8, 1871, a son of Thomas and Marguerite (McBride) Glew. His father was born in Yorkshire, England, and his mother in Toronto, Canada. Thomas Glew, who was brought by his parents to Canada when five years of age, grew up in that country, and became a school teacher, a profession which he followed practically all his active life, and for more than twenty-five years was engaged in his work in and around Toronto. He died in that city in May, 1903, and his widow is still living there. There were three children: Albert Edward died in Chicago in 1892; the second in age is Dr. Glew of Elyria; and Horace Greeley, who was given that name on account of his father's ardent admiration for the famous editor of the New York Tribune, is now a dentist at Warren, Ohio.
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Dr. A. T. Glew received his early education in the public schools of Toronto, prepared for his profession in the Philadelphia Dental College at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he graduated with the degree D. D. S. in 1896. He at once moved to Germantown, Ohio, and was soon recognized as one of the leading dentists in that section, and remained in practice for eighteen years. Mrs. Glew's health suffered in the climate of the valley of Germantown, and on this account Dr. Glew in June, 1914, removed to Elyria, and has since met with excellent success in this locality.
Fraternally Dr. Glew is affiliated with Germantown Lodge No. 157, Free and Accepted Masons; with the Royal Arch Chapter of Milesburg, Ohio; with the Modern Woodmen of America; and is a member of the Lorain County Dental Society and the Ohio State Dental Society. He also belongs to the Elyria Chamber of Commerce. He and his wife are both active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Elyria, and they have taken much interest in church affairs.
On December 30, 1896, Dr. Glew married Miss Martha Elizabeth Lee of Toronto, Canada. She was born in England, but when five years of age came to Toronto with her parents and lived in that city until her marriage. Her parents were Ephraim and Jane (Roberts) Lee. Her father was a dry goods merchant in Toronto and died in 1903, the same year of the death of Dr. Glew's father. Her mother is still living in Toronto. Dr. and Mrs. Glew have two children : Lillian Marguerite, who was born in Toronto, and Mildred Ione, born in Germantown, Ohio. Lillian is a member of the class of 1916 in the Elyria High School; while Mildred is in the 1918 class. Dr. Glew's offices are at 114 Middle Avenue.
ALAN R. BRANSON. The business manager of the Elyria Chronicle, Alan R. Branson, while still a young man as age is measured in years, has had a broad and varied experience in business life, and during his career has at times filled offices of public trust. He is one of the live, energetic and progressive men of his adopted city, whose enthusiasm and industry have contributed to the growth and prestige of the paper with which he is connected. Mr. Branson was born at Wellington, Ohio, October 24, 1886, and is a son of Edwin C. and Carrie Louise Branson.
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Edwin C. Branson was born at Altoona, Pennsylvania, and learned the carpenter's trade at Defiance, Ohio, where he was married. Subse- quently going to Wellington, he formed a partnership with G. H. Palmer and founded the Wellington Bending Works. This existed until the plant was merged into what is known as the Pioneer Pole & Shaft Co. After retiring from the firm he was elected county treasurer of Lorain County two terms of two years each; later was appointed tax commis- sioner of Lorain County by Governor Cox, which expired January 1, 1916. Mr. Branson is president of the Chronicle Printing Company of Elyria, although he and Mrs. Branson make their home at Wellington.
Alan R. Branson attended the public schools of his native place, and in 1904 was graduated from the Wellington High School, following which he took a course at Oberlin Business College, where he was graduated in 1905. He then went to Cheyenne, Wyoming, to enter upon his first business venture, the conduct of a hardware establishment. For several years thereafter he was engaged in playing professional baseball, at York, Pennsylvania; Worcester, Massachusetts; Ogden, Utah, and Tecum- seh, Michigan. After this experience Mr. Branson returned to Welling- ton, where he became manager of the Wellington Cold Storage Company, a position which he held for four years and which he resigned to come to Elyria and take over the business management of the Elyria Chronicle. In his career he has shown the possession of versatile talents which have allowed him to succeed in several directions, his present position being no exception to the rule. Mr. Branson is a Master Mason. A republican in politics, he has taken a lively interest in party affairs, and has appeared in a favorable light in public matters, having served as clerk of the board of public affairs at Wellington from 1911 to 1914 and as clerk of the Wellington Township School Board during 1913 and 1914.
Mr. Branson was married at Wellington, June 16, 1910, to Miss Alberta May Knowlton, who was left an orphan when not yet six years of age, and after her thirteenth birthday made her home with Dr. and Mrs. R. G. Holland, of Wellington, until her marriage. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Branson : Edwin Alan, aged four years; and Jack Holland, two years old.
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FREDERICK W. COLSON is one of the prominent members of that group of live and enterprising business men and industrial leaders who have built up and given prestige to Elyria as a manufacturing city.
Born at Kent, Ohio, a son of W. B. Colson of Cleveland, and educated in the Cleveland public schools, Frederick W. Colson began his active business career about twenty-five years ago. He has the distinction of having been the first traveling man for the Garford Saddle Company and for a number of years he was closely associated with Mr. A. L. Garford and had an important share in extending the sales of the original Garford saddles. It was in 1890 that he accepted the commission to go out on the road for this company, and he continued with the firm for about eight years. After that he was in business in Chicago, Buffalo and Cleve- land, and in 1907 returned to Elyria, and has since been actively identified with the Worthington Company and with the Machine Parts Company.
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Mr. Colson is president of the Worthington Company, the other officers of which are: H. S. Follansbee, first vice president; F. Colson, second vice president, and Thomas N. Cook, secretary ; and is vice president and treasurer of the Machine Parts Company, of which J. P. Brophy is presi- dent and H. W. Ingersoll is secretary. The Worthington Company man- ufactures a large line of wheeled vehicles under the trademark Fairy, including velocipedes and similar vehicles for children, and invalid wheel chairs and other wheel equipment and furniture for hospitals and sani-
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tariums. The Machine Parts Company also manufactures wheel goods, screw machine products, and fine reed furniture.
Mr. Colson is an honorary member of the Ohio National Guard, is a republican in politics, is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks at Elyria, is a member of the Cleveland Athletic Club, the Elyria and Cleveland Automobile clubs, the Elyria Country Club and the Elyria Chamber of Commerce. His church is the Presbyterian. At Cleveland on December 18, 1894, he married Miss Ivy Edmondson, daughter of George W. Edmondson of Norwalk, Ohio.
SMITH W. MOORE." The representative of the Ohio State Life Insur- ance Company, of Columbus, Ohio, at Elyria, Smith W. Moore has been identified with this line of business only since 1912, but in the short period of three years has become known as one of the leading insurance men of this part of the state. Mr. Moore was born at Deersville, Harrison County, Ohio, March 1, 1878, and is a son of Samuel S. and Alice A. (Smith) Moore.
The parents of Mr. Moore were married at Deersville. The father is a native of Harrison County and the mother of Canal Dover, Ohio. Samuel S. Moore was the first school principal at Deersville, and subse- quently gave up the vocation of education for that of the law, having been admitted to the bar about 1878, after some study at Hopedale, Ohio. He practiced at New Phildelphia, Ohio, for about eight years, and then en- tered journalism as editor and owner of the New Philadelphia Times, with which he was connected for eighteen years. Selling out at the end of that time he returned to his legal practice at New Philadelphia for two years, and in 1909 moved to Oberlin, Lorain County, Ohio, where he con- tinued to be engaged in practice until 1913. In that year he was ap- pointed one of the state examiners, in the Bureau of Accounting, a posi- tion which he still holds, his residence being at Oberlin, where Mrs. Moore also resides. There are four children in the family, all living : Smith W., the eldest, and the only son; Evangeline, who is now the wife of Roy Gordon, of Mineral City, Ohio; Isabel, who is the wife of Franklin D. Whitwell, of Knowlesville, New York; and Josephine, who lives with her parents at Oberlin. Mrs. Gordon is a graduate of the New Philadelphia High School and Mrs. Whitwell of Oberlin Academy, while Josephine is attending Oberlin High School and will graduate with the class of 1916.
Smith W. Moore attended the public schools of New Philadelphia, following which he took a two-year course under Prof. John P. Kuhn, who was one of the most able professors in Ohio. At the normal school he specialized in mathematics, and subsequently went to the New Phila- delphia Business College, where he took a course in stenography. He was next with James B. Clow & Company, at Newcomerstown, Ohio, for a short time, and then became associated with his father, on the latter's paper at New Philadelphia. After being thus engaged for two years, he went to Evanston, Wyoming, as assistant bookkeeper and stenographer with the Beeman & Cashin Mercantile Company, but two years later re- signed that position. to enter the service of the Union Pacific Railway Company, where he remained as night ticket agent and freight clerk for one year. Returning to New Philadelphia, he became connected with the Pennsylvania lines, at Canal Dover, Ohio, as bill clerk for one year, and then went to the Southwest, locating at Tyler, Texas, where he entered the service of the Saint Louis & Southwestern Railroad. There he was employed in connection with joint account settlements in the auditor's office for four and one-half years, when he again returned to New Phil- adelphia, and when his parents went to Oberlin he accompanied them to that place and remained there until accepting a position with the Lake
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Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad at Elyria. After working there for two years as bill clerk, in 1912 he engaged in the life insurance busi- ness with the Ohio State Life Insurance Company, in which connection he has since specialized in health and accident insurance as general agent, his offices being located in the Elyria Block. Mr. Moore has made a de- cided success of his operations in this line, and has written some large business for his company. This is recognized as one of the strongest and safest institutions in the Middle West, having a cash capital (1915) of $661,902, and total assets of over $954,722.03. Its reputation for prompt- ness and fidelity to agreements has given it high standing, a position which Mr. Moore shares among those with whom he has had transactions. Mr. Moore is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Oberlin.
On February 27, 1898, Mr. Moore was married to Miss Bertha Jones, of Stillwater, Ohio, who was born and educated there and an accomplished musician.
WILLIAM FORD LORD. A family that has been identified with Lorain County for fully seventy years is represented by William F. Lord, a well known and successful carpenter contractor at Elyria, who is himself a native of this county, and has done a good deal to extend the associations of the name with usefulness and honor in this section of the state.
Born at Ridgeville, Lorain county, September 11, 1847, William Ford Lord is a son of Thomas and Maria (Ford) Lord. Both his parents were natives of England, and after their marriage came to the United States in the early '40s, landing in New York City, and shortly afterwards set- tling at the old Village of Olmsted in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. About a year later they moved to Ridgeville in Lorain County. Thomas Lord ran away from his home in England when only nine years of age, and shipped on an ocean going vessel, and spent many years in seafaring life. He sailed both on ocean vessels and in the marine of the Great Lakes, and part of his early career was spent in the United States Navy, from which he received an honorable discharge. All this occurred many years before the Civil war, and before he had married. Returning to England, he married there Miss Ford, and then crossed the ocean to establish his permanent home in the Middle West. Many years later when he was quite an old man, he returned to England on a visit. This was about 1875. Thomas Lord owned about fifty acres in Ridgeville and cleared it out from the wilderness, partly with the help of his son William F. Six years before his death Thomas Lord moved to another place two miles distant, in Ridgeville Township, and both farms were in his estate at the time of his death. He attended with his wife the services of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church, in which he was an active member. There were four sons and two daughters in the family; all of them grew up, and three boys and one girl are still living. Sarah, the oldest, and the wife of Thomas Kelly of Olmsted, Cuyahoga County, is now deceased, as is also her husband. Minnie is the wife of Percy Saulsbury of Olmsted. The third in age is William F. of Elyria. Richard J. died at Olmsted. George lives at Olmsted. Bert H. is a resident of Elyria. All these children were born on the old farm in Ridgeville and received their early education in that township.
For many years William F. Lord was identified with the agricultural activities of Ridgeville Township. In 1895 he moved to Elyria and has since carried on a large business as a carpenter contractor, has con- structed a number of houses in and about Elyria, and has some valuable holdings in local real estate. In politics he is an active republican. While a resident of Ridgeville he served as supervisor a number of times. Fraternally he is a member of King Solomon Lodge No. 56, Free and Accepted Masons.
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September 11, 1879, he married Miss Marie Westley of Ridgeville township. Mrs. Lord was born in England, but was only nine years of age when her parents, George M. and Charlotte (Luck) Westley, came to this country. Her mother is now living at Butternut Ridge, in Lorain County, past ninety-one years of age, while her father died at Elyria in 1906. Three children comprise the household circle of Mr. and Mrs. Lord. Lottie M., Merwin H. and Frank G. were all born in Ridgeville, but finished their education in the Elyria public schools. Frank gradu- ated from the high school with the class of 1908. The son, Merwin H., married Miss Marietta Cox of Elyria, and thus there are two grand- daughters in the family, Marion and Vivian.
CHARLES W. SMALLEY, the proprietor of a flourishing grocery and bakery at No. 579 Broad Street, Elyria, is a business man and citizen of substantial standing who has won his position of honor by years of labor and intelligently directed industry. Mr. Smalley was born April 10, 1871, at Petrolia, Pennsylvania, one of the noted centers of oil production .
of the Keystone State and the home of the famous "Coal Oil Johnnie," who was a neighbor and close acquaintance of Mr. Smalley. He is a son of Lorenzo W. and Mary E. (Larkin) Smalley, the former a native of the vicinity of Elmira, New York, and the latter born near New York City. The parents were married in New York State and at an early day moved to Petrolia, Pennsylvania, where the father was engaged as an express owner and baggageman, but subsequently went to near Gilman, Illinois, in 1879. There Lorenzo W. Smalley followed farming for a period of twenty years, then moving to Onarga, Illinois, where he con- ducted a bakery and restaurant for one year, then retiring and living quietly until his death in April, 1900. He was buried at Onarga, fol- lowing which Mrs. Smalley moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where her son was at that time located. She has since made her home with the subject of this sketch. During the Civil war Lorenzo W. Smalley made an effort to enlist in the Union Army, but was unable to pass the examination for physical soundness. He was a member of an old Yankee family, while Mrs. Smalley was of Scotch-Irish descent. There were four sons in their family, all of whom are living: William L., a bachelor, who was last heard from several years ago at Sioux City, Iowa; George W., of Cleveland, Ohio, engaged in the real estate and collecting business; F. E., who is representative for the Frank Leslie Publishing Company, of New York, publishers of Judge and other magazines, having charge of their business in Texas, Oklahoma and a part of Mexico, with headquarters at Dallas, Texas; and Charles W.
The two older boys were educated in the public schools of Petrolia, Pennsylvania, while F. E. and Charles W. attended the district schools of Illinois, where the family resided at the time. Mr. Smalley's parents were not financially able to give him the education that either they or he would have desired, but he was an assiduous student, making the most of his opportunities, and when he left the district school, at the age of thirteen years, had secured a good training. At that time, to quote his own words, he "began to hustle." His first business venture on his own account was as the successor of his father in the bakery and restaurant at Onarga, an enterprise which he owned and conducted for four years, then selling out and moving, in 1896, to Cleveland, Ohio, where he secured a position as traveling representative for the great packing firm of Swift & Company. For eight years he was engaged in traveling in Cleveland and to points within fifty miles of that city, and believes that during this period he gained more real education and secured more practical knowl- edge than his schooling and experience had ever given him. On leaving
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the employ of this concern, Mr. Smalley went to Ridgeville, Lorain County, Ohio, and there, in partnership with F. S. Bates, bought a general store and conducted it under the name of Bates & Smalley for three years, at the end of which time Mr. Smalley disposed of his interests. At this time, in 1907, Mr. Smalley came to Elyria, where he bought the business of D. L. Curtis, grocer and baker at No. 579 Broad Street, where he has since carried on an excellent business in fancy groceries and bakery goods. Mr. Smalley is one of the wide-awake business men of Elyria, and is a member of the Elyria Chamber of Commerce, the Elyria Grocers' and Butchers' Association, the United Commercial Travelers and the Elyria Automobile Club. Personally he is a large, jovial man, whose many sterling qualities attract friends to him wherever he goes, but, although he enjoys the companionship of his fellows, he is more of a home man, and belongs to no fraternal orders. While they are not members, Mr. and Mrs. Smalley attend the First Methodist Episcopal Church.
On December 15, 1903, at Cleveland, Mr. Smalley was married to Miss Grace A. McGarrell of. Westfield, New York, where she was born, reared and educated, daughter of the late Michael and Zilpha (Bristol) McGarrell. Mr. McGarrell died at Westfield, in 1913, and the mother still resides there, where the family is an old and honored one. After nine and one-half years of wedded life, Mr. and Mrs. Smalley became the parents of a daughter, Marion Zilpha, who was born at the Elyria Memorial Hospital, June 22, 1913. The saddest event in Mr. Smalley's life occurred April 26, 1915, when this little one was taken away, dying at the age of twenty-two months.
LOUIS HADAWAY. The junior member of the firm of Hadaway Brothers, one of the rapidly growing business enterprises of Elyria, Louis Hadaway has been connected with this establishment since its inception and has had an active part in building up its business to its present large proportions. He is a native son of Elyria and with the exception of two years has passed his entire life here, his career being typical of the rewards to be attained through industry and integrity and the following out of an idea along well directed lines.
Mr. Hadaway was born September 19, 1878, and is a son of Charles and Margaret (Mayers) Hadaway, the former born near London, Eng- land, and the latter in Ireland. Charles Hadaway was about nineteen years of age when he emigrated to the United States and settled at Elyria, and here continued to maintain his home during a period of more than twenty-eight years, his death occurring when he was forty-eight years of age. During seventeen years of this time he was employed on the stock farm of the late T. W. Laundon, located near Elyria. Mrs. Hadaway, who survives her husband, makes her home here. There were eight chil- dren in the family, as follows : one who died in infancy ; Mrs. Kate Bath, deceased, who left two sons, now grown, Alfred and Charles, residents of Cleveland; George H., who is the senior member of the firm of Hadaway Brothers, and whose sketch will be found elsewhere in this work; Eliza, who is the wife of Alfred Myers, of Cleveland; Charles, of Elyria ; Louis; Fred, of Elyria ; and Susan, who is the wife of Walter Johns, of Cleveland. All the children were born at Elyria and here educated in the public schools.
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