A history of Cleveland, Ohio, Volume II, Part 62

Author: Orth, Samuel Peter, 1873-1922; Clarke, S.J., publishing company
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: Chicago-Cleveland : The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 1150

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After the capture of Atlanta the Confederate general, Hood, started a flank movement around Sherman's right and Sherman at once planned and put in operation his march to the sea, leaving General Thomas to collect an army and give battle to Hood. The brigade of cavalry to which the Third Ohio belonged went with Thomas and participated in the decisive battle of Nashville in Decem- ber, 1864, which was the last of the important battles of the west. The Third Ohio Cavalry formed a part of a division under General Wilson and followed the defeated army under Hood, capturing many thousands of prisoners, mostly with- out firing a gun. After camping for six weeks at Gravelly Spring, on the Ten- nessee river, in February, 1865, they started on the Wilson raid, going to Selma, Alabama, and captured the city, destroying the base of communication and arsenal stores after a desperate fight with General Joe Wheeler. Later they captured Montgomery, Alabama, burned three thousand bales of cotton, proceeded thence to Columbus, Georgia, and on to Andersonville, where they liberated eighteen hun- dred Union soldiers and captured Captain Wertz. At Macon, Georgia, they cap- tured General Howell Cobb and about one thousand Confederate infantry, and there first learned of Lee's surrender at Appomattox, which had occurred six days before. Their joy, however, was turned to sorrow the next day by the news of the assassination of President Lincoln. Soon thereafter word came that Jeffer- son Davis with his family and quite a retinue were hastening across the country to the south, hoping to escape into Mexico. The Fourth Michigan and Third Ohio Regiments were ordered to undertake his capture. They marched about two hundred miles before striking the trail of Davis but found and surprised his camp just at daybreak one morning. They took their celebrated prisoner back to Macon, whence he was sent by rail to Washington. The Third Ohio Cav- alry remained at Macon two months and then went to Nashville, where the men were honorably discharged in the latter part of August, 1865, returning thence to Columbus, where they were paid off and disbanded.

Mr. Lawrence arrived home September 3, 1865, after four years and eigh- teen days spent as a soldier. He was glad to return to civil life but has ever been justly proud of the splendid record of the Third Ohio Cavalry, which was never once regularly defeated. His company never fired a shot when he was not

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in the ranks and he was never in the hospital nor guardhouse nor under arrest. Three of his comrades standing next to him were killed and his coat and haver- sack and hat were pierced by bullets and a ball slightly cut his upper lip before Atlanta, while a horse was killed from under him at Munfordville, Kentucky, but he was never wounded. Out of one hundred and four men mustered into the company at Milan, Ohio, in August, 1861, he was one of but sixteen who re- turned to Columbus in August, 1865.

On the succeeding day Mr. Lawrence, allowing himself no leisure, began plowing for fifteen acres of wheat on shares on land at Wakeman, ar .. d when this was completed devoted three months to hard farm labor-cutting and husking corn, digging potatoes, etc., and at the same time attending a select school three evenings each week. His soldier's pay had largely gone to his mother to aid in the support of her family, so that he had no financial resources. His education up to this time was very limited, for he had never studied grammar nor algebra, nor had he completed Ray's third part arithmetic. In January, 1866, he took up the study of bookkeeping and mathematics in Bryant & Stratton Commercial College at Oberlin, and was there graduated in May. He was then twenty-two years of age and he determined to seek business opportunities. On the 20th of May, 1866, he arrived in Cleveland an entire stranger. After tramping the streets two days and spending nearly every cent he had, he finally obtained a position in the dry goods store of Truscott & Ingham, at the corner of Pearl and Detroit streets, at a salary of twelve dollars per month and board. He was to perform the menial labor of the store but before he had been there two months he was considered the best salesman in the house, was sent to bank with the deposits and to wholesale stores to order goods, while his salary was increased to forty- five dollars per month-a good sum in those days.

In July, 1866, Mr. Lawrence became acquainted with Helen Irene Mattison, a protege of his employer, W. H. Truscott, and they were married in the Decem- ber following at the ages of twenty-three and twenty-one years respectively.

In February, 1867, seeing no future in the dry-goods store, Mrs. Lawrence left his position there and sought and obtained a position as west side representative of the Cleveland Leader. In this position he was to take charge of all the de- livery routes of all territory west of the hill on the east side and all on the west side, and to bring reports every day of anything in the way of news from the west side, for which he was to receive ten dollars a week and the profits of the

routes. He carried one of the routes himself several months, starting at five o'clock every morning and delivering from one hundred and fifty to two hun- dred papers, and returning home in time for a seven or eight o'clock breakfast. In three months he had more than doubled the Leader's circulation in his terri- tory. He did the collecting for all routes, going over each every two weeks. His profit was five cents per week on each subscriber and out of this he was to pay all carriers and stand all losses. He had to visit the west side police station at nine o'clock every night, also the fire station, and if there was any news, make note of it, write it out in the editorial rooms of the Leader, see the proof and then walk home after two o'clock in the morning to be up at five to carry his route. He had not been long with the Leader before he commenced soliciting advertise- ments, on all orders of which he was paid fifteen per cent. He also engaged to solicit orders for the annual city directory, which the Leader Company then pub- lished. He made fifty cents on each order and an additional ten cents for deliver- ing and collecting. He continued this work until December 31, 1867, and found that his net earnings amounted to little over a hundred dollars a month. On Jan- uary 2, 1868, he closed a contract with the Cleveland Herald, then the leading paper of the city, to solicit advertising, do collecting, write all paid reading no- tices and travel for weekly circulation. His first contract was on a combination commission and salary basis and at the end of the year he had earned twenty- eight hundred dollars. The firm then wanted to employ him on a straight salary, which they had previously declined to do. The negotiations resulted in their pay-

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ing Mr. Lawrence a salary of eighteen hundred dollars for 1869 and thereafter twenty-one hundred dollars per year. He continued with the Herald until April 1, 1872, when he resigned to accept the general special agency for the Wilson Sewing Machine Company at a salary of twenty-five hundred dollars a year and all expenses. In that position he was required to visit the branch houses and general agencies all over the country, investigate their books and manner of do- ing business, with authority to change or add to any system or rules that he deemed could be improved. During that engagement, which covered eight months, he visited nearly every important city in the United States, including the Pacific coast cities, also went to Japan, China and Malay, traveling in eight months over forty thousand miles and taking his first ocean voyage.

While Mr. Lawrence was employed on the Cleveland Herald the office did the press work for the Ohio Farmer and he had to go to the office of that paper each week to collect the bill for press work. Thus he gained a knowledge of the paper and its affairs. He had been reared upon a farm and at this time had had five years' newspaper experience, so that he felt equipped to conduct such a paper as the Ohio Farmer. He negotiated its purchase for ten thousand dollars, although it then had not over five thousand bona fide subscribers. Although it had been in existence for twenty-four years, it had never been a paying enterprise. Its founder, George Brown, had failed with thirty-six thousand dollars liability when it was eight years old. Others had been no more successful and on the Ist of December, 1872, Mr. Lawrence took over the paper, which was published under his name as editor and proprietor for the first time on January 2, 1873. To make the purchase he had to borrow nine thousand dollars at ten per cent interest. His friends urgently advised against this, but nevertheless, at the age of twenty- nine years, he became the owner of the Ohio Farmer, determined and ambitious to make it a success. During his first two years he employed but five people. He was then fortunate in securing M. E. Williams, assistant editor of a New York agricultural paper, to take charge of the editorial department of the Farmer, and he has since continued in that position, Mr. Lawrence attributing much of the success to his ability, sound judgment and industry. When he took possession the subscription price was two dollars per year. The paper sells for seventy-five cents per year and has a circulation of one hundred and thirty thousand. In all of his undertakings and connection with the paper Mr. Lawrence met with suc- cess, carefully forming and executing his plans and so directing his energies that the best possible results were obtained. He still retains the presidency of the com- pany, although he is not now active in the management. In 1881 he went to France, where he arranged for the sale as sole agent in the United States and Canada of Gombault's Caustic Balsam, a veterinary remedy. The Lawrence- Williams Company was then formed and has since handled that commodity, with Mr. Lawrence as president and Lyman Lawrence as vice president.

Unto Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence were born four sons: M. Lyman, mentioned elsewhere in this volume; George Stone, who was born March 23, 1871, and died October 6, 1872; Mortimer William, born June 12, 1873; and Paul Terry, born November 23, 1878. Mr. Lawrence now makes his home in Washington, the suc- cess of the Ohio Farmer rendering him financially independent, so that he is able to enjoy the comforts and the opportunities which only wealth can bring.

ELIJAH SANFORD.

Elijah Sanford, who during his connection with the business interests of Cleveland was engaged in merchandising, was born in New Haven, Connecticut, June 25, 1812. On his removal to the middle west, he located in Cleveland, where he engaged in clerking for his brother, A. S. Sanford, of the firm of Sanford & Lot. Later he was engaged in merchandising for himself at Newark,

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Ohio, and from there removed to New Orleans, Louisiana, but owing to the warm climate of that city, he returned to Cleveland and commenced clerking for Sanford & Haywood, then located where the Perry Payne building now stands In 1863 he became a partner of Mr. Haywood by purchasing his brother's in-, terest in the business, which they continued to conduct under the firm style of Sanford & Haywood. Subsequently they sold out to the firm of Short & Fore- man, but during Mr. Sanford's connection with the business interests of the city he made a splendid record as a reliable and enterprising man whose methods were progressive and whose business integrity none could question. His success was guaranteed by reason of his close application, his fair dealing and his earn- est efforts to please his patrons.

In November, 1862, Mr. Sanford was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth M. Hughes, who was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and was a daughter of William Plummer Hughes, an early resident of that city, who was a miller by trade. Mrs. Sanford is a member of the Trinity Cathedral Episcopal church and has many friends in Cleveland, where she has made her home continuously since her husband's death. It was on the IIth of May, 1881, that he passed away. At one time he was a member of the Cleveland Grays, the leading military organization of the city, and at the time of the war, though age exempted him from duty, he sent a substitute to the front. He always preferred the quiet retirement of home life to prominence in public affairs, but his substantial qualities were recognized by all who knew him, and at his death he left behind him many warm friends who entertained for him the highest regard.

CHARLES W. DILLE.

Charles W. Dille, a member of the Cleveland bar, specializing to some extent in negligence law, was born in Cuyahoga county in 1869, and with the exception of his college days has always remained a resident here. His father, W. W. Dille, also a native of this county, was for many years engaged in farming but for the past fourteen years has lived retired. He was a very skillful agriculturist of the old school and was very successful in his undertakings, bringing to bear upon his work keen intellectual force and clear discernment at a time when many regarded manual labor as the only necessary factor in farming. He represented one of the old families of this part of the state, the Dilles being among the first settlers in Euclid township, Cuyahoga county. The great-great-grandfather of Charles W. Dille came to this county from a point south of the Ohio river in 1798. His grandson, Eri M. Dille, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was up to the close of the Civil war, one of the leading stockmen of northern Ohio. W. W. Dille wedded Miss Mina T. Gilbert, a native of New York and a representative in both the paternal and maternal lines of old New England families.

Charles W. Dille was reared on the home farm in the suburbs of Cleveland and for a number of years before entering college he was engaged in railroad train service, subsequent to leaving the public schools. Desirous, however, of enjoying better educational advantages than he had hitherto received, early in the spring of 1895 Mr. Dille entered the Ohio Normal at Ada and afterward studied in the Ohio State University at Columbus, while through one semester he was a student in the University of Denver at Denver, Colorado, thus closing a college course cov- ering four years. In the spring of 1900 he was admitted to the bar in Colum- bus and since that time has been continuously engaged in practice. For the past five or six years he has devoted about half of his time to law of negligence, while the remainder has been given to general practice, and he is well versed in the va- rious departments of the profession. His prosecution of corporations on charges

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of negligence has established for him a clientele not confined to Cleveland but ex- tending throughout Ohio and the neighboring states.

Mr. Dille is a member of the Ohio State Bar Association. He also belongs to the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, with which he has been connected since his youth. His long affiliation with labor organizations has placed upon him a great amount of responsibility in connection with legislation for the protection of labor. In politics he is a republican, although not strongly partisan. In the past ycar, however, he has given some attention to political questions and now feels that conditions are such as to demand the interest and activity of all American citizens who desire that municipal, state and national government shall be for the best interests of the people at large.

In October, 1901, Mr. Dille was married in Cleveland to Miss Nettie Luster, a daughter of Samuel Luster, one of the old settlers of the county. . They have two children: Helen, seven years of age; and Elizabeth, a little maiden of two summers. Mr. Dille possesses the gift of determination necessary for success at the bar and is making gradual and substantial progress in professional lines.

CARL LORENZ.

Carl Lorenz is well known in journalistic circles in Cleveland as the Sunday editor of the Waechter und Anzeiger. He was born in Stuttgart, Germany, March 31, 1858, and lived in the land of his nativity to the age of eighteen years, when he went to Geneva, Switzerland, to supplement his early education by further study in that city. He remained there for three years and was gradu- ated from the University of Geneva in 1879.

With liberal education to serve as the foundation of his business success, Mr. Lorenz went to Paris, where he taught school for about a year and later devoted about two years to teaching languages in London. In 1881 he arrived in the United States and for two years was engaged in newspaper work in New York city. Removing westward in 1883, he located at Portsmouth, Ohio, where he resumed teaching, becoming principal of a German school, of which he had charge until 1887.

In that year Mr. Lorenz removed to Cleveland and again entered the news- paper field, while in 1889 he became connected with the Waechter und Anzei- ger. To the German-American citizens of Cleveland a comment upon his work is unnecessary, for the Sunday edition of the paper is its own recommendation and is in keeping with all that is progressive in the publication of the Sunday editions of the leading papers throughout the country. Mr. Lorenz has been actively and closely associated with many events of general importance, has cooperated in many movements for municipal progress and in 1903 was made secretary of the library board of Cleveland. He is the author of some works of poetry, fiction and dramatic writings.

DANIEL EDGAR MORGAN.

Daniel Edgar Morgan is a practicing lawyer and since 1908 has been a men- ber of the firm of Hitchcock, Morgan & Fackler of Cleveland. He was born at Oak Hill, Ohio, August 7, 1877. His paternal grandfather was a pioneer of southern Ohio and one of the earliest representatives of Welsh citizenship of that part of the state. His birth occurred in Wales and crossing the Atlantic to the new world he settled in Ohio in the early '30s and died in 1862. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Mary Davis, was also a native of Wales and died in 1880. Their son, Elias Morgan, was born July 10, 1846, and passed away in

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April, 1893. For a number of years he was connected with the railway service, but afterward became a banker at Oak Hill, acting as vice president and cashier of the Farmers Bank of that place. He married Elizabeth Jane Jones, who was born in 1853, and is still living at Oak Hill. Her parents were John J. and Nancy (Thomas) Jones. The father was a native of Wales and died in 1895. The mother was born in 1832 and is still living at Oak Hill.

In the public schools Daniel E. Morgan pursued his early education and afterward attended the Marietta (Ohio) Academy, from which he was graduated with the class of 1893. He won his Bachelor of Arts degree on graduation from Oberlin College with the class of 1897 and his Bachelor of Law degree on com- pleting a course in the Harvard Law School in 1901. The same year he was admitted to the Ohio bar and at once entered upon the active practice of law in the office of Garfield, Garfield & Howe, the senior partners being the sons of President Garfield. After a year he became a partner in the firm of Wood, Hitchcock & Morgan, which relation was maintained until the death of Mr. Wood in January, 1907. The firm was then Hitchcock & Morgan for a year, after which John D. Fackler joined the partnership under the style of Hitchcock, Morgan & Fackler. They conduct a general law practice and their business is of an important character for they have been retained as counsel in many of the leading cases tried in the Cleveland courts at a recent date.

Mr. Morgan is a republican in politics and in the fall municipal election in 1909, was elected to the city council from the twelfth ward. He belongs to the Cuyahoga County Bar Association, to the Alpha Tau Omega, a college frater- nity, to the Chamber of Commerce and to the University Club-associations which indicate to some extent the nature of his interests and the line of his activities. He is making steady progress as one of the younger members of the profession and the same qualities that have thus far characterized his work in the courts and in commercial practice will undoubtedly lead him to further success.

JOHN DICKENSON, M. D.

Dr. John Dickenson, now deceased, was for many years a distinguished rep- resentative of the medical profession in Cleveland, who with thorough understand- ing of the obligations resting upon him, performed all of his professional ser- vices in a most efficient manner, while his success was the indication of superior skill and ability. A native of Newcastle, England, he was born in 1835 and in 1845, at the age of ten years, came to America, locating in Cleveland, where he completed his education and after a review of the broad field of labor he deter- mined upon the practice of medicine as a life work. To this end he pursued a course of study in the Western Reserve Medical College, from which he was graduated in due course of time. He then located in Cleveland, where he con- tinued in the active practice of medicine until his death. At the time of the Civil war he responded to the call of his adopted country for aid in the preservation of the Union and served as assistant surgeon in the Thirty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry and in March, 1865, was promoted to brigade surgeon of the One Hun- dred and Ninety-fifth Ohio Regiment, with the rank of major. He remained in the army for four years. He also did other public service of an important char- acter, acting as health officer of Cleveland for six years, also as president of the board of pension examiners for four years and as police surgeon for some time. For fifty-one years he continued in the active practice of medicine in Cleveland, enjoying a large patronage. In no calling does success depend more largely upon individual merit than in that to which he devoted his labors and he possessed all of the requisite qualities of the successful physician who must not only have a thorough understanding of the scientific principles underlying his work but must

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possess keen insight into temperament, the power of close and careful analysis and a ready sympathy.

Dr. Dickenson was widely and prominently known in the various medical so- cieties to which he belonged, including the Cleveland Medical Society, the Cleve- land Medical Library Association and the Ohio State Medical Society.

Dr. Dickenson was married in 1866 to Miss Louisa Keppler, a daughter of F. A. Keppler, who was a prominent wholesale merchant of Cleveland in his day. They became the parents of five children, of whom two are living: Gertrude Maud, who is at home with her mother at the family residence at No. 2189 East Seventy-ninth street; and Dr. John Dickenson, Jr., a successful practitioner of this city.

The father gave his political allegiance to the republican party and was thor- oughly in sympathy with its principles but never an aspirant for office. . He held membership with the Army & Navy Post and was a member of St. Paul's Epis- copal church. His life was at all times high and honorable in its motives and pur- poses and he commanded the full esteem of those whom he met socially as he did the high regard of those with whom he came in contact in professional re- lations. He passed away February 19, 1903, at the age of sixty-nine years, re- spected and honored by all who knew him, his life having been characterized by worthy labors in the service of his fellowmen.

JOHN DICKENSON, JR., M. D.

Dr. John Dickenson, Jr., following in the professional footsteps of his honored father, is devoting his energies to the practice of medicine in Cleveland. He was born in this city, March 1, 1878, and the public schools afforded him his early educational privileges. After his graduation from the Central high school as a member of the class of 1895 he spent one year in the Case School of Applied Sciences and later entered the Western Reserve University Medical College, from which he was graduated with the M. D. degree in 1901. During the years 1900 and 1901 he acted as assistant to Dr. F. E. Bunts, who was professor of the prin- ciples of surgery and was also assistant to Dr. George W. Crile, professor of clinical surgery at the Western Reserve University. From the Ist of May, 1901, until the Ist of September, 1902, he was house physician and surgeon at St. Vincent's Charity Hospital and from 1903-05 was demonstrator of obstetrics and obstetrician to the outdoor department to the medical department of the Western Reserve University. Since 1903 he has been surgeon in charge of the outdoor department of St. Vincent's Charity Hospital and since 1907 has been demon- strator of surgery and assistant to the chair of principles of surgery in the medical department of the Western Reserve University. In 1903 he became lec- turer on surgical nursing and demonstrator of bandaging at the Training School for Nurses at St. Vincent's Charity Hospital and so continues to the present time. In May, 1909, he was appointed assistant visiting surgeon to St. Vincent Hospital and chief surgeon to the Cleveland Railway Company. The Doctor is also sur- geon for the Upson Blast Nut & Rivet Company, the Cleveland Provision Com- pany and the American Box Company.

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A history of Cleveland, Ohio, Volume II, Part 62

Author: Orth, Samuel Peter, 1873-1922; Clarke, S.J., publishing company Publication date: 1910 Publisher: Chicago-Cleveland : The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co. Number of Pages: 1150

Author: Orth, Samuel Peter, 1873-1922; Clarke, S.J., publishing company
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: Chicago-Cleveland : The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 1150