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He is the head of the firm of Fahey and Company, investment bankers and brokers, of the city of Cleveland, Ohio. The company in the firm consists of two faithful employees whose worth in his eyes entitled them to the advancement. This concern began business originally as the house of Herbert Wright & Co., in 1893. with its present head as it's salaried manager. Although always the active director of the establishment he was not admitted as a profit-sharing member until 1895. Since this work has been in press, January, 1902, the change to the present style of firm went into effect. Because of its former record under Mr. Fahey's management, and its present status, it is entitled to the credit of doing the largest volume of business of any other house in its line in the metropolis of Ohio.
Fahey and Company handle all kinds of stocks, bonds and securities. Their annual transactions reach up into the millions of dollars. From a beginning so small that one man and one room sufficed, to proportions so large that twelve men and eight rooms are now required, are facts so suggestive as to need no coloring or elaboration. As head, manager, and active director, Mr. Fahey was to the fore in every department of the original firm. He was telegrapher, stenographer, typewriter, bookkeeper-four distinct professions, of which he was and yet is master. His motto at all times has been that, "If a thing is worth doing at all it is worth doing well."
He began, in 1881, his professional life in a minor capacity on
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the floor of the Corn and Flour Exchange, of Baltimore-the Board of Trade of Maryland-and before he was twenty years of age he held there the position of assistant superintendent of the Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph Company. At that time he was, and is yet considered to be, one of the finest expert telegraphers in the country. In 1887, he served the Toledo, Ohio, Grain Exchange, and later, the Chicago Board of Trade from ISSS to 1889. In the latter year he went to Cleveland where he has since continued to reside and do business. For a season there he was the agent and correspondent of the Associated Press, and was temporarily con- nected with various brokerage concerns. Because of his talents and early training, his long experience in different exchanges, and his exceeding promptness and mental activity, he has always been found to be rich in practical business suggestions. Even when a youth he was never regarded other than as a valuable adjunct in his particular lines.
Mr. Peter R. Fahey was born at Monkton, Baltimore county, Maryland, February 19, 1867. He is one of seven brothers born consecutively to John and Catherine (Ryan) Fahey, who emi- grated from Ireland in 1855. The elder Fahey was a contractor and builder of railroads. He died in 1874. The boy Peter had the advantage of only a country school education. He did such work around the farm as was suited to his years as a boy and to his physique. When the weather or the season prevented, or when there was nothing else to do, he went to school.
The one thing in which he was most punctual and steady was his serving Mass once each month in the old mission church in his native place. He looked forward to the recurrence of these occa- sions with no little interest, and when he fulfilled his task of serv- ing at the altar he felt he had performed a duty which had bound him to its discharge both spiritually and physically.
In 1881, his widowed mother with her family removed to the city of Baltimore. It was there as a youth that he laid the founda- tion of his present prosperity and prominence, and developed those characteristics and business talents which stand him in good part today.
In 1889, Mr. Peter R. Fahey was married to Miss Sadie I., the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Toole, of the West Side, Cleve-
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land. They were among the pioneer Catholics of the "Forest City." As a native of Cleveland, Mrs. Fahey enjoyed good edu- cational advantages, a prominent feature of which was her early Christian training. Because of this she is devoted to works of charity and mercy and is prominent among the Catholic ladies of Cleveland who are noted for their zeal and practical efforts for the furtherance of religion and education. Her husband's liberality in aid of these things is an incentive to her, and jointly they are credited with doing much good. To their union have been born seven children, whose names are Mildred, Ethel, Charles, Leslie, Ralph, Margaret, and Agnes.
Mr. Fahey's calling, requiring as it does both a clear head, good judgment, and instant decision, inclines him, in the way of diversion and rest, to indulge in light reading and to exercise his native muse in writing comic verses.
"But those that write in rhyme still make, The one verse for the other's sake; For, one for sense, and one for rhyme, I think sufficient for one time."
Some of his efforts are far from mediocre and evidence marked poetic talent. When these will not wholly suffice for his recreation he has recourse to the club, although by nature he is not a club man, but is more inclined to the home life. However, he belongs to the Century and the Iroquois clubs for social inter- course, to the Chamber of Commerce and the Stock Exchange for business associations, and the Catholic Mutual Benefit Association, and the Knights of Columbus for fraternal purposes. Outside of business and the demands of the clubs and associations mentioned, he belongs to his family and to himself as a reader, and as a versifier of no mean ability. Much that he has written is well deserving of praise and, indeed, would read well in print, while quite a number of his verses are of a high order of merit in both thought, arrange- ment and diction. Evidently he was born under a rhyming planet and came by his muse honestly. Of such Channing was generous enough to say :
"Most joyful let the .poct be;
It is through him that all inen see."
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MR. JAMES FARASEY.
The late Mr. James Farasey, of Cleveland, Ohio, was among the first Catholics to settle in what has been, since 1847. the See city of the Diocese. In fact there were few of the old faith either there or along the southeastern shore of Lake Erie when he arrived, in 1827. He died in 1894, after spending almost sixty- seven years in efforts to act well his part as an humble citizen of Cleveland and as a faithful Catholic head of a family.
He was born at Queenstown, in the county of Cork, Ireland, in 1816. The tide of emigration from Ireland beginning to set in, he was brought to the United States when a boy. Having few advantages, and but little to rely on as a young man, except his remarkable physique, he sailed on the great lakes from his eleventh year for fifty years. During most of this time he had interests in vessel property, and finally drifted into the business of loading and unloading the craft arriving at, and clearing from, the port of Cleveland. He continued in that line of business, added to his possessions, and became a well known figure among vessel owners ..
He was in his day the most powerful man, physically, in Cleve- land, his expansive chest, brawny frame, large head, and mild, good-natured countenance exciting in all who saw and knew him a species of wonderment blended with admiration. This was espe- cially the case on the occasion of a certain St. Patrick's day parade in Cleveland. A white horse was provided for Mgr. Thorpe to ride in the procession. The unexpected occurred when Mr. James Farasey lifted the priest, as a mother would her infant, and placed him gracefully in the saddle.
As is generally the case with large, powerful men, Mr. Farasey was slow to anger, and was unusually kind, jolly, and generous ; but once aroused by what he deemed an insult, or an injustice, few had the temerity to gainsay or oppose him. His strength was pro- digious, and he often employed it to chastise the villifiers of both his nationality and his religion.
In 1848, he was married in the first Catholic church in Cleve- land, old St. Mary's on the "Flats," to Miss Anna King, a modest and comely young lady who was also a native of Ireland. She died in 1898. Mrs. Farasey was typical of her race in virtue and devo-
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tion to religion. She was a good, kind neighbor, a true friend, and unusually sympathetic. She was blessed as the mother of fourteen children. Five of them are yet living and are residents of Cleve- land. They are Michael H .; Celia, who is Mrs. William Cooper : James D., William J., and George E. They are all talented, indus- trious, and reliable, and enjoy the confidence and respect of their fellow citizens.
The reader will not go far amiss by referring to the accom- panying portrait of Mr. James Farasey as an aid in forming a correct estimate of his character. No man with his countenance and phrenological development could be either small, insincere, or disloyal to his friends. He was the very opposite, his generosity in giving and his bravery in defending having been known to all the older residents of Cleveland. He could forgive a fallen foe, or even an ingrate, but he was ever mindful, to their sorrow, of those who joined in the prevailing custom in those early days of speaking contumeliously of the Catholic Church, the priests, or the Sisters. Next to the Church he felt himself bound to defend Old Ireland and her sons and daughters; and not a few found opportunity to bathe freely in the Cuyahoga river for venting, in words or acts in his presence, their hatred of either his religion or nationality.
The reader will not regard it improper to have these things recited as if in praise of the subject of this sketch. We may be far enough advanced. today to frown down the unjust and scurrilous things that excited and nerved Mr. Farasey to act robustly ; but in his day the means of redress, which he so effectively employed, were the only ones at hand, or at all reliable. Since then, however. few effigies of St. Patrick, wearing a string of potatoes around his neck, have appeared suspended in the streets of Cleveland, and fewer still have been the insults to religion and its ministers.
It is not so much to glory in such radical measures of redress, needful in Mr. Farasey's day, that reference is here made to them. but rather to help outline a picture of this plain, robust, honest citizen. We have already given more than the outline; the spirit and the manner of the man are more than hinted at, and scarcely an additional touch of the pencil is needful to complete the portrayal of the virility of his character, the kindness and sincerity of his heart, and the nobility of his great soul as it despised the oppressors of the poor and chastised the bearers of false witness.
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MR. JAMES D. FARASEY.
The proprietor of the Teachout Boiler Works, of Cleveland. Ohio, and the secretary of the Boiler Manufacturers' Association of the United States and Canada, is the gentleman whose name gives title to this sketch. His prominence as an extensive manu- facturer and as a man of affairs is no more noteworthy, perhaps, than is his standing as a citizen and as a deserving son of the late James Farasey who was a pioneer Catholic of the city of Cleveland. If the elder Farasey was noted for his simple life and sterling char- acter, his mindfulness of his native land, and his unswerving devo- tion to the Catholic faith, he surely left a prototype in his son James (D.) Farasey, II.
This prototype, this son, is the third oldest of a family of four- teen, born in the city of Cleveland to the late James and Anna (King) Farasey. He first saw the light December 11, 1856. Hle was baptized in the first Catholic church in Cleveland, old St. Mary's on the "Flats," and there as a boy he served Mass and made his first Holy Communion. He was cross-bearer and led the grand procession of Catholics, in 1871, when the ceremony of dedicating St. Malachy's Church was performed by Archbishop Purcell. He later became a member of St. Patrick's congregation, which he served not alone in the capacity of councilman, but also in that of a staunch financial supporter. He was married there, in 1886, to Miss Mary, The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas O'Laughlin, who, like himself, is a native of Cleveland.
Mrs. James D. Farasey is nowhere more fittingly and happily at home than when at her own hearth-stone, for her nature and training render her specially domestic. She is such, not merely in the sense of appreciating the philosophy of the poet's declaration : "There is no place like home," but more particularly in that she is convinced that it is within the sacred confines of home, at the fire- side-where woman is both queen and mother-that virtue abounds and the young receive their most lasting impressions. She believes with Longfellow that, "The bird is safest in its nest."
To Mr. and Mrs. Farasey have been born a family of six, four boys and two girls. One of the latter, little Bessie, passed away in her third year. The remaining five in the order of birth are
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named James, George, Mary, Neal, and William. The secular and religious education of each is being carefully attended to.
The public schools, imperfect as they were in his day, were the chief sources of Mr. James D. Farasey's secular education. He early began his business career in the capacity of clerk. This he followed by an attempt to learn the trade of a machinist, which did not agree with his health. He next became a steamboat clerk, which ultimately brought him into the lake transportation busi- ness. In 1886, he sold his interests in that line and engaged in the boiler manufacturing business as a partner in the Cleveland Steam Boiler Works. Seven years later he sold out his interest in that enterprise, and purchased the business which he yet continues to successfully conduct under the original name of the Teachout Boiler Works.
As a man of affairs his energy and business capacity have been the great sources of his success. Of course his honesty and reliability have also been factors, for without these no man can be successful with an approving conscience. Mr. Farasey is on the best of terms with that monitor, and having reaped according to his sowing he can be said to enjoy his prosperity, not alone in the sense of possession, but also in that there are none to dis- pute the righteousness of his methods or the validity of his title to what he has. It is in these respects that honesty proves itself to be the best policy. It wears longest, affords the greatest satisfac- tion, and is the seasoning and flavoring element that renders palatable the after-thoughts which in moments of retrospection the mind feeds upor. Business may be business, but commercial honesty and integrity are business essentials.
The gentleman here discussed is blessed with a bright mind, and with a temperament as tranquil as the summer sea. Whatever the source of his excellent disposition, its mildness, evenness and gentleness, coupled with his high sense of honor and justice, have merited for him the good will and respect of all who have had social or business relations with him. His sterling worth, his generosity and kindness, his decent regard for the opinions and rights of others, constitute a happy setting for the diamond center-piece of his personality and Catholicity.
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THE REV. JAMES J. FARRELL.
The principal facts in the career of the Rev. James J. Farrell. pastor of St. Joseph's Church, Alliance, Ohio, may be plainly set down as follows:
He was born in the county of Kilkenny, Ireland, October 18, 1860. His parents were Patrick and Catherine (Treacy) Farrell, who were also natives of that part of the country. He began early in life to prepare himself for the priesthood. His parents seconded the promptings of his heart and afforded him every advantage in their power, not the least of which was a good example. When sufficiently advanced in years and knowledge, he entered the famous monastery of St. Kierans, in Kilkenny, and there made his more advanced studies.
In 1880, before he had attained his majority, the missionary spirit impelled him to emigrate to the United States. On applica- tion he was received into the Diocese of Cleveland as an ecclesiasti- cal student. To complete his divinity studies he entered the Diocesan Seminary, and, after a four and one-half years' course, he was admitted to Holy Orders by Bishop Gilmour, January S, 1885.
Well equipped and full of zeal he began his missionary labors, at Elmore, in Ottawa county, Ohio, his first appointment assigning him to the charge of St. Patrick's Mission Church at that place. He remained there from January until October, 1885, when he was transferred to St. Mary's Church, Hudson, in Summit county. He ministered there during four years. September 1, 1889, he was appointed pastor of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, at Ravenna, in Portage county. From Ravenna, after a pastorate of over ten years, he was advanced, February 18, 1900, to his present charge as pastor of St. Joseph's, the only Catholic church in the city of Alliance.
His advent to Alliance has proved a blessing to St. Joseph's congregation. Under his wise direction and prudent manage- ment both spiritual and temporal interests have been advanced. The church needed attention, a new school has been provided, the old pastoral residence rebuilt as a commodious residence for the Sisters who teach in the schools, and also a residence for the sexton. All this has been done to meet pressing needs and in order to pre-
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pare for the future enlargement of the church and the erection of a new pastoral residence.
If these mean anything they imply the truc ecclesiastical spirit, and also the zeal, prudence, and philosophy essential to success- ful pastoral work. One, evidently not without experience and the wisdom which it teaches, has wisely said that: "Opposing duties, though sometimes talked about, do not exist. That which God does not require is not duty ; and He never requires exertions inconsistent with cach other. What is needed is wisdom to draw correct lines, and then vigor to fill them up with all our might." Duty embraces little as well as great things. It includes the temporal as well as the spiritual. If it is duty for a pastor to visit the sick, it is no less his duty to be concerned about the well ones of his flock. And since in our day the material interests of a congregation demand attention, the discharge of that obligation is regarded as no less a duty by Father Farrell than is the require- ment that he instruct the children in Christian doctrine, or preach a sermon on Sundays and Holydays.
Father Farrell's sixteen years spent thus far (1900) on the mission in northern Ohio have not been barren of good results. Wherever he labored he won the affections of his people; and the prayers and well wishes of former parishioners have always accom- panied him as helps and sources of consolation. His constancy and assiduity in the performance of his duties, coupled with his quiet manner and even temperament, have had the effect of keeping his people well disposed and of one mind, as well in temporalities as in spiritualities.
He is regarded by competent judges as a forcible and pleasing speaker, whose sermons and discourses are replete with good thought. The close observer, too, can read in his phrenological developments and countenance, as seen in the accompanying excel- lent engraving of him, the evidences of traits of character becom- ing to the priest. Among these are large spirituality, prominent intellectual faculties, reverence, benevolence, firmness, and con- tinuity. Equipped thus by nature, prepared by education, and aided by grace, it may be said of him, not so much in prophecy as by inference, that in the future as in the past he will continue to be a faithful and profitable servant of the Master.
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THE REV. PATRICK FARRELL, D. D.
The parents of the Rev. Dr. Farrell, of St. John's Cathedral. were born in Ireland. His father, William, came from near the city of Cork, and his mother. Anne Darragh, from Antrim. They were married in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1850, by the late Bishop Michael O'Connor. They reared a family of eight, four sons and four daughters. The subject of this sketch is the fifth child.
Mr. William Farrell located, in 1851. in the village of East Liverpool, Ohio, where he was associated with the pioneers of Catholicity in that now thriving pottery town. He served in the Civil War in the 115th Ohio regiment. He was councilman of the church from the organization of the parish, in 1876, to the time of his death, in 1894. His widow survives him.
The Rev. Patrick Farrell, D. D., was born in East Liverpool, . Ohio, October 28, 1862. He was graduated from the high school of his native town before he had completed his seventeenth year. The class, one of the first of the school in point of time, numbered only three. One of them is now a prominent and wealthy busi- nessman of East Liverpool, the third being a leading minister of the Methodist Protestant Church in California.
In 1881, he entered St. Charles' College, Maryland. Mt. St. Mary's of the West was closed at that time, and Bishop Gilmour sent all his boys to Ellicott's Mills. The records of the college show how the "western students," as they were called, succeeded in distinguishing themselves in the preparatory class-work. In June, 1885, Patrick Farrell finished his classical course with the highest honors in a class of twenty-four.
In January, 1886, on the recommendation of his teachers. he was sent by Bishop Gilmour to Rome, Italy, to enter the American College for the course of higher ecclesiastical studies. In 1887, he took the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. July 27, 1890, he was ordained to the priesthood by Cardinal Parrocchi in the Church of St. Apollinaris. The title of Doctor of Divinity was conferred on him in 1891. Returning to Cleveland, he was appointed by Mgr. Boff, then Administrator of the Diocese, to the post of curate at St. John's Cathedral, in which capacity he con-
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tinued until November, 1900, when he was placed in charge of that important congregation; and since this work has been in press. he received the formal appointment as pastor of the Cathedral, June 24, 1902.
During the pastorate of Father Vahey as well as that of Mgr. Thorpe, Dr. Farrell took a prominent part in parish work. A recognized authority on the liturgy of the Church, he is master of ceremonies at all episcopal functions in the Cathedral and fre- quently outside. The organization of the Marquette Club, a society of young men, well known throughout the city, is a mark of his zeal in behalf of the younger people of the parish. The frequent exhibitions of musical and literary talent displayed by the members of the club afford ample proof of the wisdom of proper direction for them, and the present pastor of the Cathedral has been the soul of the organization from its inception to the present.
Dr. Farrell was acting Chancellor of the Diocese from April 10 October, 1895. For three semesters in 1898-99 he taught Sacred Scripture in the Diocesan Seminary. fulfilling his duties as assistant at the Cathedral at the same time. In recognition of his learning he was made a member of the. Diocesan Board of Examiners whose duty it is to conduct the examinations of the seminarists as well as the junior clergy.
His priestly career of about ten years, whether as assistant pastor, or professor, has been most successful; ever gentle, kind and forbearing, he has endeared himself to the people among whom God has cast his lot. He is firm when firmness is required. always direct and forcible in utterance, especially when preaching the word of Divine Truth, but like the Master Whom he follows, gentleness and amiability are the chords by which he draws hearts to God. The head of the first church of the diocese. which he administers with marked ability, bespeaks the confidence of his bishop in placing one so young in such prominence. May he long continue in the service of God as a true shepherd of souls, is the prayer of his people.
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MR. FRANK V. FAULHABER.
There are few laymen better known or more highly respected in the city of Cleveland and northern Ohio than is the subject of this sketch: while among his Catholic fellow citizens of the old "Forest City" his name is almost a household word-a synonym for loyalty, charity, friendship, and Catholic practice.
Mr. F. V. Faulhaber's affiliations with societies of Catholics are numerous, and his positions in them have always been prom- inent and responsible. He was state president for three years of the Catholic Mutual Benefit Association, and of the Widows' and Orphans' Fund of the Central Verein he is the national treasurer. Besides his connection with the Catholic Knights of Ohio he is also a member of several parish guilds, notably St. Stephen's, of which he is treasurer. He has always been in demand as a fit person to handle and care for trust funds, and his faithfulness and strict honesty so impressed the citizens of the thirty-sixth ward in Cleveland that they elected him three times to serve them in the city council, where he acquitted himself with credit.
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