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as a special agent from 1872; and as inspector from 1880. He was appointed marshal of the District of Columbia, under President Garfield, May 16, 1881, and served until after the trial and execution of the President's assassin. In 1885 he was designated special master commissioner of the United States cir- cuit court at New Orleans to investigate the great railway strike on the Gould roads in the southwest, then in the custody of that court. He remained there in the service of the receivers of the Texas & Pacific Railway and their succes- sors until 1891. In Dallas, Texas, he was meanwhile elected commander of the large Grand Army Post there. In 1892 he was by his old-time friend, Secretary of Treasury Charles Foster, appointed inspector of public buildings. During the following winter and spring he went on a successful extradition mis- sion into the interior of Brazil. A year later another like mission took him to Central America for the American Surety Company, in whose service he con- tinued until 1902, when failing health, superinduced by malarial fever contracted in Costa Rica, compelled him to desist. He died in Cleveland on the 3d of November, 1906. He was for more than thirty years a member of the Chris- tian church and also one of the board of trustees of Hiram College, being for a considerable period president of the board. He was also a Companion in the Loyal Legion, a Royal Arch Mason and Knight Templar, the permanent sec- retary of his Regimental Society, and often served officially on his home school board and in the local agricultural and early settlers societies of Geauga county. He wrote much for the Ohio Farmer, Cleveland Leader and other papers. He is survived by his widow and the three eldest of their five children: Frederick A. Henry, whose name introduces this record; Marcia Henry, formerly lady principal at Hiram and now teacher of English in the Cleveland Central high school; and Mary A., the wife of A. G. Webb. Don Pardee died in infancy, while James Garfield, who graduated from Hiram College, is also deceased.
In the maternal line Judge Henry is also a representative of one of the old- est families of Massachusetts. His mother was the eighth in descent from Robert Williams, of Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1637, the line being Robert, Deacon Samuel, Samuel, John, Joseph, Ebenezer, Frederick and Sophia. Of these Eben- ezer Williams was a member of the Massachusetts legislature, to which he was called by the republican party, of which Thomas Jefferson was the leader, while Simon Henry, the great-grandfather in the paternal line was sent as a whig representative to the general assembly of Massachusetts. Mrs. Sophia (Wil- liams) Henry was born in Shalersville, Portage county, Ohio, November 9, 1840, and now makes her home in Cleveland during the winter months, while she spends the summer seasons at Geauga Lake, Ohio. Her grandfather, Ebenezer Williams, was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, February II, 1759, and was married in Warwick. Massachusetts, in January, 1782, to Sarah Chadwick, a daughter of John, Jr., and Sarah (Johnson) Chadwick, of Worcester, Mas- sachusetts. He represented Warwick in the general court at Boston in 1808, as an anti-federalist, or republican. He removed to Ravenna, Portage county. Ohio, in 1815, where he died in September, 1816, and his wife in September, 1817.
Frederick Williams, the father of Mrs. Sophia Henry, was born in Warwick, Massachusetts, March 2, 1799, and removed with his parents to Ravenna, Ohio, in 1815. From 1832 until 1840 he was county treasurer of Portage county and he also served for sixteen years as infirmary director. In politics, originally a democrat, the slavery issue made him a republican. A Universalist in his re- ligious views, he was converted to the faith of the Disciples of Christ, and occa- sionally preached in their pulpits. He was one of the incorporators and a mem- ber of the first and subsequent boards of trustees of The Western Reserve Eclectic Institute, which afterward, on a resolution introduced by him, became Hiram College. While thus serving he was in the board meeting to which Presi- dent Garfield as a youth applied for the place of school janitor to earn his tuition, and through all his life the future president was often a welcome guest
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in his home. Frederick Williams was married September 17, 1828, to Miss Martia Underwood, a daughter of Alpheus and Mary (Wallbridge) Underwood, who was born in Monson, Massachusetts, April 24, 1805, and died in Ravenna, Ohio, August 18, 1882. Frederick William also died in Ravenna on the 18th of January, 1888.
Both the father and mother of Judge Henry were under President Garfield's tutelage at Hiram College, and the mother is mentioned by him in his address on Almeda A. Booth (Garfield's Works, Vol. II, p. 306) as having taken part in a commencement play in 1859. The father was a personal friend of Presi- dent Garfield, and the latter gave him the credit of having done more than any other man to bring about his election as United States senator from Ohio in 1880, a few months before his nomination for the presidency.
Judge Henry acquired his early education in the district schools of Bain- bridge township and afterward spent five years in the Cleveland public schools, including a half year in the Central high school. Later he attended Hiram Col- lege, where he pursued a preparatory course and then entered upon the regular collegiate course, being graduated from Hiram College in 1888 with the Bache- lor of Arts degree. During that period he taught school for about a year. He afterward went to Dallas, Texas, and was employed in the stock claim depart- ment of the Texas & Pacific Railway Company. On his return to the north he took up the study of law in the University of Michigan and after two years was graduated therefrom in 1891 with the A. M. and LL. B. degrees. He was president of the law class in his junior year, was poet in the senior year and was chairman of the football committee of the university.
On the 5th of March, 1891, Judge Henry was admitted to the Ohio bar and at once entered upon active practice. In the fall of that year he accepted a clerical position in the law office of Webster & Angell, with whom he con- tinued for a year and a half, after which he was with Lamprecht Brothers & Company, conducting a banking and investment security business. He acted as office attorney for the firm for a year and a half and at the same time engaged in general practice. In 1894 he was examiner of claims for the Fidelity & Casualty Company of New York and also engaged in general practice. In 1897 he formed a partnership with Louis H. Winch, now of the circuit bench, and John 'A'. Thompson, under the firm style of Winch, Henry & Thompson, this relation being maintained until 1898, when he became a partner in the firm of Ford, Henry, Baldwin & McGraw. Changes in partnership occurred from time to time, leading to the adoption of the firm style of Ford, Snyder, Henry & Mc- Graw, while later Mr. McGraw withdrew and in November, 1904, Judge Henry was elected to the circuit bench, taking his seat on the 9th of February, 1905. In 1902 he was nominated by the republican party for the common pleas bench but declined to become a candidate. His present term of office covers six years. He has great respect for the dignity of judicial procedure and no man ever presided in a court with more respect for decorum than has Judge Henry. As a result of that personal characteristic the proceedings were always orderly upon the part of every one-audience, court and the officers from the highest to the lowest. His opinions are fine specimens of judicial thought, always clear, logical and as brief as the character of the case will permit. He never enlarges beyond the necessities of the legal thought in order to indulge in the draperies of literature. His mind during the entire period of his course at the bar and on the bench has been directed in the lines of his profession and his duty. He has been professor of law in the Western Reserve University Law School.
Ever deeply interested in the cause of education he is now president of the board of trustees of Hiram College, which position his father previously oc- cupied, while his maternal grandfather was one of the founders of the school at which James A. Garfield applied for a position as janitor in order to pay his tuition and was given the place-a fact which has been immortalized in poetic
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form in a poem entitled "Garfield Rang The Bells of Hiram." Judge Henry has had much to do with the upbuilding of Hiram College, taking conspicuous part in furthering its interests. Shortly after his graduation from the Michigar. University he was offered the position of instructor in economics in that in- stitution but refused to accept. He would have served under Henry Carter Adams, now statistician of the Inter State Commerce Commission. He was also offered a professorship in law in the University of Michigan but he preferred to continue in the life work for which he had prepared and in which he has since attained to high and honorable position.
On the 25th of January, 1893, Judge Henry was married to Miss Louise Adams, a daughter of Levi T. and Charlotte D. (Clair) Adams, of East Smith- field, Bradford county, Pennsylvania, where she was born October 23, 1868. She was graduated with the Bachelor of Philosophy degree in 1890 from Hiram College, where she became acquainted with her future husband. . She is the eighth in descent from George Adams, of Watertown, Massachusetts, 1645, the line being George, George, John, Ahijah, Ahijah, Caleb, Levi T. and Louise. The family was established in New England at a pioneer epoch in colonial days. Unto Judge and Mrs. Henry have been born four children, Marcia Louise, Charles Adams, Charlotte Sophia and Margaret Rhoda, the first named being now in the second year in the Central high school.
Judge Henry is a member of the Phi Delta Phi, a legal fraternity of the University of Michigan. He also belongs to the University Club, of which he has been a trustee, the Union Club, the New England Society and the New England Historic & Genealogical Society. He is also connected with The Old Northwest Genealogical Society and belongs to the Tippecanoe and Western Reserve Clubs, both republican organizations. He has always been a stalwart republican in his political belief and was active in the work of the party before going on the bench. Never neglectful of the higher, holier duties of life, he holds membership in the Euclid Avenue Christian church, of which he is one of the elders and for several terms chairman of the official board. He takes an active and helpful part in the church work and is also one of the trustees of the Young Men's Christian Association. Judge Henry is a man of scholarly at- tainments, whose thoughtful consideration of vital questions has enabled him to place correct valuation on life's contacts and purposes. He has always stood for that which is best in citizenship and in manhood and is today one of the most honored representatives of the Cleveland bar.
HARRY JAMES CRAWFORD.
Harry James Crawford, an attorney with the firm of Squire, Sanders & Demp- sey, was born in Jefferson county, Ohio, December 3, 1871. His father, Abel J. Crawford, was a native of the same county, born May 3, 1831, and his life was devoted to agricultural pursuits, making stock raising a specialty. He was a son of James Crawford, whose birth occurred in Jefferson county in 1801. His energies were devoted to farming, stock raising and milling. It was his father, James Crawford, Sr., who was the founder of the family in Ohio. He was a na- tive of Maryland and came to Ohio in 1800, settling in Jefferson county as one . of the first to locate within its borders. The state had not yet been admitted to the Union and it was largely a wild and uninhabited district, in which Indians were far more numerous than the white settlers. The Crawford family is of Welsh lineage and was founded in America in early colonial days.
In the maternal line Harry James Crawford comes of English ancestry. His mother was Mary (Hammond) Crawford, who was born in Jefferson county, Ohio, July 18, 1838, and died February 14, 1892. She was a daughter of George Hammond and a granddaughter of Harry Hammond. The ancestry of the fam-
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ily can be traced back to 1600 and it was in 1675 that representatives of the name came from England, settling in Maryland.
In the country schools of his native county Harry James Crawford pursued his education, spending his youth on the home farm in Island Creek township. He afterward had the privilege of attending the Richmond College at Richmond, Ohio, where he pursued his preparatory course and later entered the Ohio Wes- leyan University at Delaware. He began preparation for the bar as a student in the Franklin Bachus Law School. He had been graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree from the Ohio Wesleyan University in 1896 and he completed his law course in Western Reserve University with the class of 1898, at which time the LL. B. degree was conferred upon him. On the IIth of June of that year he was admitted to the bar and began practice in Cleveland with the firm of Webster, Angel & Cook, with whom he was associated for four years, when in 1902 he went to the firm of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, with which he has since been connected. He does a great deal of trial work but nevertheless en- gages in the general practice of law. He is concise in his appeals before the court, strong in his presentation of the cause to the jury and at all times is logical in his deductions, while his application of legal principles is accurate.
On the 14th of June, 1899, Mr. Crawford was married to Miss Jemima Brandebury, a daughter of James H. and Sarah (Sherrard) Brandebury, of Delaware, Ohio. They have four children: Hammond, Henry J., Jane B. and Martha H. Mr. Crawford is an independent republican and belongs to various fraternities and clubs, including the Sigma Chi of the Ohio Wesleyan University, the Phi Delta Phi, a legal fraternity of the Western Reserve University, the Hermit. Union and Nisi Prius Clubs. He has won for himself an enviable rec- ord as one of the younger members of the Cleveland bar and has gained his suc- cess in that close application and careful preparation which are indispensable elements of progress in the difficult and arduous profession of the law.
SILAS BRAINARD.
On the pages of Cleveland's history as one of the pioneer representatives of the music trade appears the name of Silas Brainard-a name that is honored and respected wherever he was known and most of all where he was best known. Coming to Cleveland during the formative period in its history he established one of the early music houses of the city and for years maintained a foremost place among the merchants of musical instruments and musical merchandise. Born in New Hampshire on the 14th of February, 1814, he acquired his early education in the public schools of the old Granite state. Coming to Cleveland at an early age he located on Superior street, where he opened a music store, having at first but one piano. Subsequently he opened the Brainard music hall which was afterward converted into the Globe theater and became the home of grand opera in Cleveland. He did much toward promoting the musical taste in this city by securing the talent of some of the most famous musicians and singers that are residents of or have visited America. He possessed an accurate ear, had the keenest appreciation for harmony and his own love of music prompted him to wish to give to others the pleasure which it brought to him. As the promoter of the Brainard music store he developed an excellent business which in time became the property of his sons.
On the 23d of April, 1840, Mr. Brainard was married to Miss Emily Mould, a lady of English birth, who crossed the Atlantic to the new world when a little maiden of ten years. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Brainard have been born seven children : Charles Silas, now deceased, who married Minnie Wetmore, of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio: Henry Mould, who was engaged in business with his father and who married Miss Frances Hills, of Cleveland ; Fannie Mould, who became the wife
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of Eugene L. Graves, of Bennington, Vermont, who is mentioned elsewhere in this volume; Emily Louise, the wife of George E. Armstrong, of New York; Arthur Wilberforce, who wedded Miss Maria Bressant, of Watertown, New York; Annie Mould; and Laura Caroline. The two eldest sons were in business with their father as S. Brainard & Sons. This was the second largest house of the kind in the United States at that time. They continued with the house after the father's death when it was conducted under the name of S. Brainard's Sons.
In his political views Mr. Brainard was an earnest republican, though he never sought nor desired office, but kept well informed on the questions and issues of the day. He attended Trinity Episcopal church, of which his wife was a prominent member, and took an active interest in all departments of the church work. His name was not unknown in connection with public and private charities, and he realized fully the obligations of man toward his fellowmen. His recrea- tion was largely found in driving, for he was very fond of horses. In Cleveland he stood as a high type of the prominent business man and citizen, practical not only in the management of his own affairs but in all of his relations to the public. He died suddenly in 1871, at the age of fifty-seven years, and thus passed away one who had left a deep impress upon the commercial history and musical develop- ment of Cleveland.
MARTIN GALE.
With the history of pioneer development the name of Martin Gale is closely associated and he was among the first to become actively identified with the oper- ation of the stone quarries in this vicinity. He arrived in Cleveland in 1834, com- ing from Plattsburg, New York. The journey westward was made on the canal and by teams and he settled at Doan's Corners, now One Hundred and Fifth street. At that time old Mr. Doan had a hotel there and the only other building of the locality was a little stone structure which Mr. Doan owned and which was used for storing corn. Mr. Gale was told that if he would move the corn out and clean the place he might live there and in that building he began housekeeping. Soon afterward he purchased a large tract of land on Euclid avenue and built a fine home, it being the most pretentious residence within a radius of two miles for many years. It was occupied by his wife for sixty-four years. Much of the land which he purchased was covered with the native forest growth, but he cleared the tract and improved it and in the course of years developed some valuable stone quarries upon the place. For a long period stone was there quarried that was used in the construction of the best buildings of the city. The railroad com- pany built a switch to the quarry, so that the stone could be shipped direct. With the growth of the city the land became more and more valuable. A part of the tract is now owned by the city and a part by John D. Rockefeller.
In early manhood Mr. Gale was married to Miss Susan Walters, of Platts- burg, New York. It was subsequent to this time that the removal westward was made and after establishing their home in Cleveland they became connected with the Euclid Avenue Methodist Episcopal church, which at that time had but ten members, Mrs. Gale was long a very active, helpful and earnest member there, taking an interested part in the church work for seventy years and at the time of her death she was its oldest member. Mr. Gale, through the period of his resi- dence here, was also an active worker in the church, doing all in his power to pro- mote its growth and extend its influence. He died in 1867 at the age of sixty-two years, his birth having occurred in 1805. His wife survived him for almost four decades, passing away in 1905 at the age of ninety years, for her birth occurred in 1815. In his political views Mr. Gale was a stalwart democrat, was always active in the affairs of the city and was looked to for good advice concerning the munic- ipal interests and welfare. The Gale home was always one of open hospitality
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and was ever the headquarters for the Methodist ministers who visited the city. While Mr. Gale passed away many years ago, he lived to witness a remarkable growth in Cleveland, for at the time of his arrival the city was but a little village, giving but scant evidence of the changes which were to occur and transform it into one of the leading metropolitan centers of the country. Mr. Gale did his full share toward bringing about is present progress and prosperity and his efforts were of substantial and material value.
Unto Mr. and Mrs. Gale were born ten children, of whom six are yet living : John W., a resident of Cleveland ; M. F., Aaron and Edwin I., all residents of Cal- ifornia ; Mrs. A. G. Stebbins; and Mrs. Charles C. Hogan. Of the daughters, Alida G. married De Witt Clinton Stebbins, who was a native of Delaware county, New York, born in 1840. He was educated in the place of his nativity and by study developed the superior musical talent with which nature had endowed him. At the outbreak of the Civil war he enlisted as a musician and served with the reg- imental band, remaining at the front until after the close of hostilities when, think- ing to find better business opportunities in the middle west, he came to Cleveland and here engaged in the contracting and building business. He had devoted but a comparatively brief period to that work, however, when his health failed him and he engaged in the real-estate business, going west to Kansas City, Missouri. There he resided for some years and on account of being a fine cornetist was en- gaged to play in the Grand Avenue church while in that city.
Mr. Stebbins was married in Cleveland in 1871, to Miss Alida G. Gale, and unto them was born one child who died in infancy. After residing for some time in Kansas City, Mr. Stebbins returned to Cleveland, where he continued to make his home until his death in 1888. Both Mr. Gale and Mr. Stebbins were highly respected men who enjoyed in full measure the confidence, good will and kindly regard of all with whom they came in contact.
HARRY HILLIARD WYLIE.
Harry Hilliard Wylie's contribution to greater Cleveland is the flourishing little suburb of Beachland-on-the-Lake, adjoining the eastern limits of the city. He foresaw the great advantages to be derived from a home on the bank of the lake, far enough removed from the din and strife of city life to insure a peaceful atmosphere. He believed there were enough people in the city who would spend an hour on the cars, going and coming, to populate such a place. Hence, where less than four years ago the grape vine flourished and the bossie cow meandered listlessly over the meadows, a multitude of houses have been built and the city man now lives in the country with every known city improvement.
Around Beachland other settlements have sprung up, Lake Shore boulevard has been extended from Cleveland beyond Beachland and well on its way to Buf- falo, and in a few years' time Cleveland's growth eastward along the lake will be phenomenal beyond question.
Mr. Wylie modestly disclaims that he is responsible for all of this great growth, but is ready to accept his share of it whenever occasion demands.
Mr. Wylie was born in Cahaba, Alabama, just forty years ago this August. His father was a Scotchman and his mother a Kentucky American. With one possessed of so much pent up vigor, he soon found the south too slow for him, and at thirteen years of age he spent his first night in New York city, sleeping in a dry-goods box under one of the arches of the new Brooklyn bridge, then just being completed. The next day he entered into partnership with another mer- chant of rather tender years, the entire tangible assets of the partnership being a blacking box with brushes, no blacking, three morning Suns and two cents in cash. This partnership flourished for a week but was terminated when Mr. Wylie ac- cepted the responsible position of "devil" on the New York Evening Sun. A
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rapid promotion followed through press room, composing room and editorial de- partment, until at sixteen we find him a full fledged cub reporter, putting in his odd hours at Cooper Union and night schools.
Mr. Wylie went to Chicago for the World's Fair, liked it and remained, work- ing on the staff of the Inter Ocean, Times Herald and other papers, leaving there in 1896 to return to New York by way of Cleveland. Cleveland was too much for him, her opportunities were too great to be overlooked, and a visit to the Heights, out Mayfield Road, convinced Mr. Wylie that here was a section for which there was a great future, so we find him in 1898 actively engaged in the real-estate bus- iness, making a specialty of farm lands east of Cleveland. What his foresight has been is shown by his success with the Gates Mills property in its infancy and a large number of farm properties, especially along Mayfield Road and its vicinity, Compton Heights, Wyldwood Heights and Yellowstone Road.
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