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Max P. Goodman attended the public schools of Cleveland until he was twelve years old, and in the meanwhile had gained admission to the high school, from which he was compelled to withdraw after two weeks, in order to assist his father. He had purchased Latin and other textbooks for his high-school work, and after leaving school he kept up his studies as far as possible. He assisted his father first at the peanut stand and later in the grocery store, and in the latter connection he served as a salesman and delivered goods to patrons. In this delivery service he first used a push-cart, and as the business prospered he was finally supplied with a horse and wagon for this purpose. In this period of his career he kept up also his study of music, and developed his special talent for the violin, in the playing of which he gained marked proficiency. When he was about fifteen years old his health became much impaired, and he was compelled to withdraw from service as driver of the delivery wagon for his father's grocery. He then initiated a course of stenography in the Spencerian Business College, and after six weeks had passed he ob- tained a temporary position as stenographer and clerk in the law office of Peter and Charles Zucker. In this office he applied himself earnestly to work and study, and in the meanwhile he supplemented his meager income by playing with an orchestra in the evenings. Ultimately he began read- ing law under the effective preceptorship of the Messrs. Zucker, and in 1894 he successfully passed the examination that gained him admission to the bar of his native state. He initiated his professional career by con- tinuing his association with his honored preceptors, the Zucker brothers, and after the elder of the two brothers had moved to New York City and the younger brother had died, some time later, Mr. Goodman succeeded to the substantial practice which had been built up by the Zuckers, his ability and careful service having enabled him since to hold this business and also to extend the same materially. He has won place as one of the distinctly representative members of the bar of this city, and he special- izes in real estate law and in the legal phases of large business interests. Mr. Goodman has been prominently identified with a number of substan- tial and important business and industrial concerns, both as counsel and official, and he had much to do with many of more recent ninety-nine-year leases of important business site properties in Cleveland. He is president of the Euclid One Hundred and Fifth Properties Company and is a direc- tor of the Youngstown & Ohio Railway Company, the Steelcraft Corpora- tion of America, the American Fire-clay Products Company, and the Eberling Machine Sales Company. He is attorney for the State Bank & Trust Company of Cleveland, is chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Jewish Community House, and is affiliated with the Masonic Order and the Order of B'nai B'rith. Though emphatically liberal and pro- gressive as a citizen, Mr. Goodman has not been ambitious for public
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office, his civic loyalty having, however, been shown during his service of one term as a member of the City Council.
Mr. Goodman married Miss Julie E. Bamberger, daughter of Frederick Bamberger, of Cleveland, who was for many years an expert machinist in the service of the White Sewing Machine Company. Mr. and Mrs. Goodman have two children, Julien Max and Maxine.
DELBERT MARTIN BADER has been a member of the Cleveland bar for thirty years, is a resident of Lakewood, his law offices being in the Ulmer Building. His time and energies have been fully taken up with his profes- sional business and his civic and home duties at Lakewood.
Mr. Bader was born at Bader farm in Delaware County, Ohio, March 4, 1870, son of Martin and Elizabeth (Howald) Bader. His parents were born in Switzerland. Martin Bader came to this country when a young man and in 1849 went out to the gold fields of California, sailing around the horn. Capt. John Sutter, the California pioneer on whose land gold was first discovered, was also of Swiss parentage, and Martin Bader found his first employment on the old Captain Sutter ranch. They were boys together in Switzerland. He spent three years in California, mining gold, and on his return East visited an uncle at Allentown, Pennsylvania, leaving with them some samples of virgin gold he had brought from California. This gold was made into various articles of jewelry, and only recently Delbert M. Bader came into possession of a large gold band ring, made from his father's gold. This ring was sent him by the grandson of his father's uncle, and the ring, now valued family heirloom, is worn by Mr. Bader's son.
From Pennsylvania Martin Bader came to Delaware County, Ohio, where another uncle lived. With the money acquired in his western ex- perience he bought some fine farming lands, and in time developed a fine estate of two farms. He died on one of these farms in 1873, while com- paratively young. In Delaware County he met and married Elizabeth Howald, daughter of Jacob Howald. She had come with her parents from Switzerland in 1849, the family landing in New York, and going thence to Cleveland and then to Delaware County, part of the journey being made on the old canal. Mrs. Elizabeth Bader died in 1879. They were the parents of seven children: William, a farmer in Hardin County, Ohio; Elizabeth, who married L. W. Sharp, a resident of Lakewood, Ohio; Celia, widow of Harry Jackson ; Emma, who married J. L. Boomer, and lives in Lakewood; Rose, wife of J. L. Gahan, of Lakewood; Delbert M., and Alice, who married J. A. Ashford, and both are now deceased.
Delbert M. Bader was reared on his father's farm in Delaware County, Ohio, and was only three years old when his father died. Later, though his older brother was the head of the family, Delbert from the age of fifteen to twenty-one had charge of and performed most of the actual work on the farm. At the same time he attended public schools, continued his education in Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, began his law course in the University of Michigan. Lack of funds prevented him from graduating, and in Cleveland he worked in a private law office and con- tinued his studies until he passed a successful examination for the bar. He was admitted in 1894 and since that year has been successfully identified with a general practice.
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Mr. Bader during the World war was a member of the legal advisory board of Lakewood District. He is a member of the Cleveland Bar Asso- ciation, Lakewood Chamber of Commerce and the Masonic order. .
On September 12, 1895, he married Miss Josephine W. Davies. They have three children: Gladys, who married Warner Bishop, of Lakewood, and has a son, Warner Bader Bishop; Delbert Overend, a student in the University of Michigan, and June Rose.
Mrs. Bader was born in England, daughter of Richard O. and Mary (Godson) Davies, and was a young woman when her parents came from England and located in Detroit and later in Cleveland. Her father for fifteen years was associated with the Cleveland Press as advertising solicitor. He is a well known newspaper man, and now spends his. winters in Florida and summers in New York, Lakewood and Kansas City, Missouri. In Florida he established the Palm Beach News, a daily paper, and also the Palm Beach Life, the weekly society paper. He owns and edits both of these newspapers. Besides Mrs. Bader the children of Mr. and Mrs. Davies are : Robert, of Niagara Falls, New York; Oscar G., of Kansas City, Missouri, and Gladys, wife of Zolton Tomm, of Lakewood.
D. T. MILLER has been an active member of the Cleveland bar for over twenty years. Being left an orphan he had to make his own way in the world from early age and worked his way through college and has achieved prominence as a lawyer and citizen on his own responsibility.
Mr. Miller, whose home is at Dover Village, was born in that com- munity of Cuyahoga County, October 13, 1867, son of Jacob . A. and Loretta C. (Porter) Miller, and grandson of Thomas Miller. Jacob A. Miller was also a native of Ohio, born at Smithville, where he learned the harness making trade. At the beginning of the Civil war he enlisted in Company I of the Twenty-third Regiment of Ohio Infantry, the old regi- ment of R. B. Hayes and William McKinley. He was in the service four years and two months, when wounded in one of the large battles of the war. He was honorably discharged from the service, and in 1865 moved to Dover, Ohio, and three years later moved out to Council Bluffs, Iowa, where he died shortly afterward. His wife, Loretta C., was born in Dover, Ohio, daughter of Dan West Porter, who came from Massachusetts to Ohio and settled at Dover, in 1834, and Laura Lilly who was also a native of Massachusetts, moving to Ohio in 1836 with her parents. Mrs. Jacob A. Miller died in 1884.
D. T. Miller attended public schools at Dover, and was still a youth when he qualified as a teacher, and for seven years his work was teaching in the public schools. He then took the three-year course in Baldwin- Wallace University law school, graduating Bachelor of Laws in 1900. Admitted to the Ohio bar in June of that year, he engaged in practice at Cleveland, his home, however, always being at Dover Village. For a num- ber of years he has been active in all the civic affairs of Dover and Rocky River villages, serving as solicitor of the Village of Rocky River practically continuously except for one term since May, 1903, at which time the municipal code was first adopted. He has been solicitor of the Village of Dover since the village was incorporated in 1911.
During the World war Mr. Miller was on the legal advisory board of
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Cuyahoga District No. 1. Fraternally he is affiliated with Dover Lodge No. 393, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Dover Lodge No. 489, Free and Accepted Masons, Webb Chapter No. 14, Royal Arch Masons, Holyrood Commandery No. 32, Knights Templar, Lake Erie Consistory of the Scottish Rite and Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine. Mr. Miller married Addie B. Standen, on December 27, 1893. Her parents, John and Carrie (Enno) Standen, were born in Ohio, and lived at Avon, this state. Mr. and Mrs. Miller have two children, Audra and John D.
JOHN M. ACKLEY is one of the oldest living native sons of Cleveland. He was born in a log house on what was Center Road, now Ridge Road, in Parma Township of Cuyahoga County, January 18, 1835. He is an engineer by profession, and a large part of his life was spent in the far West and in the South in the lumber industry.
Mr. Ackley's grandfather, Benjamin Ackley, was a native of Connecticut and served in the commissary department of the American department in the Revolutionary war. He spent the rest of his life at Castleton, Vermont. His wife was Elizabeth Buel, whose first husband was Major Lorenzo Car- ter. John Anson Ackley, father of John M., was born at Castleton, Ver- mont, in 1789 and died in 1866. He prepared for college in Vermont and took a special course of engineering in what is now Cornell University at Ithaca, New York. He was one of the few pioneers in Northern Ohio who possessed a technical education. Coming to Ohio he located in Cleveland, then a hamlet, and when Cleveland was organized as a village he was made the first marshal. For many years he did work as an engineer on state and federal projects, including the building of the Ohio Canal and improvements on the Muskingum River to provide slack water navigation. He was asked by the United States Government to estimate the cost of building a stone pier on the east bank of the river, and the itemized state- ment he submitted in 1831, is now possessed by his son, John M. Ackley. He superintended the building of this pier. After his marriage he bought a tract of land in Parma Township, the improvements consisting of a small clearing and a log house. On this land, now known as York Road, he erected good buildings and though his professional duties kept him away much of the time his home was there until his death at the age of seventy- seven. He was a member of Cleveland City Lodge No. 15, of Masons, and in 1816 served as its secretary. John A. Ackley married Miriam Emer- son, who was born in the State of Maine. She died at the age of seventy years. Their children were: Mary E., John M., Solon N., Miriam, Elisabeth, and Sarah L. The daughter Miriam married J. P. Collins, Elisabeth became the wife of Burr Robbins, the circus man, and Sarah L. married Theodore M. Towl. Julia A. married Capt. Daniel W. Stearns.
John M. Ackley first attended public schools and at the age of twelve was made a personal pupil of Professor Churchill, who prepared him for college. Owing to ill health at the time his parents decided that he was not strong enough to enter Yale College as had been planned, and instead he completed a course in the Brooklyn Academy in Cuyahoga County. Soon afterward he joined the engineering department of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway, then building the Air Line Road between Toledo and Elkhart, Indiana. He was in this service until the road was
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completed, and then went out to the territory of Minnesota, the same year that Minnesota was admitted to the Union, 1856. At that time any amount of land could be secured in Minnesota at $1.25 an acre, and Minneapolis and St. Paul were mere villages. In 1859 Mr. Ackley went out to the Pacific Coast, traveling by way of Panama and landing at San Francisco, where for a time he was associated in business with his brother David. He next went over the mountains into Nevada, and all his travels in the West were made before the construction of railways. He did a great deal of surveying work in the far West. In 1862 he was elected a member of the Nevada Territorial Legislature representing Lyon and Churchill coun- ties. At that time Samuel Clemens, better known to fame as Mark Twain, was in Nevada as reporter for the Sacramento Union, the San Francisco Bulletin and the Territorial Enterprise, collecting those experiences which he subsequently wove into one of his best known books. Mr. Ackley made his home at Dayton, Nevada and Carson City, where he served as county surveyor of Ormsby County, Nevada, Carson City, county seat and capital of territory at that time.
On returning to Cuyahoga County from the far West he was elected county surveyor in 1869, holding that office for six years. Also built a home on West Thirty-third Street. Mr. Ackley in 1887 went South, be- coming associated with the Peters Lumber Company, operating mills in Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. While connected with this company he inspected over 200,000 acres of timber land and assessing and paying taxes in these three states. The Peters Lumber Company and the J. M. Ackley Lumber Company, of whichi he was a member, cut the timber from 80,000 acres.
Mr. Ackley spent about twenty years in the South, but in 1905 returned to Cuyahoga County and soon afterward built a home on a part of the old Ackley homestead in Parma Township. He continued occasional work as a surveyor until he was eighty-five years of age, when he retired and took a trip out to California, spending four months. He now lives in the family of his daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Stumpf, in Cleveland, Ohio.
In 1857 he married Miss Jennie A. Sprague, who died in 1858. Their only son, Jena Alva Ackley, married Rena Benton, their daughter Sadie Alice, marrying John W. McFall, and the McFalls have two daughters, the great-grandchildren of Mr. Ackley. The McFalls live in Shoshone, Idaho. Mr. Ackley's second wife was Charlotte Lydia Gray, who was born in Lapeer, Michigan, daughter of Asahel J. and Jane P. (Vosburg) Gray. Mrs. Ackley died in 1909, having reared four children, named Genevieve M., John A., Helen C. and Marie E. One child, Solon, died when seven years of age. Genevieve was the wife of Edgar Laurens Hamilton. Helen C. married Lewis H. Stumpf, and their three children are Chalmers L., Miriam H. and Marie E. Mr. Ackley's youngest daughter, Marie, became the wife of J. R. Robbins, and died leaving two children named Charlotte Ackley and Mary Elizabeth.
Mr. Ackley is a member of Norris Lodge No. 301, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, at Brewton, Alabama, is affiliated with Webb Chapter No. 14, Royal Arch Masons of Cleveland, Oriental Commandery No. 12, of the Knights Templar, Lake Erie Consistory and Cleveland Council
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No. 36. He also belongs to the Early Settlers Association of Cuyahoga County, and the New England Society and Sons of the American Revo- lution.
T. SPENCER KNIGHT, a veteran of the Civil war and grandson of a Revolutionary soldier, has his home at 9507 Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, who has been very active in Cleveland business affairs for many years.
He was born at Chester in Geauga County, Ohio, June 14, 1838. His grandfather, Phineas Knight, was a native of Connecticut, and was member of a Connecticut company that fought in several battles in the War for Independence. After the war he removed to Massachusetts, where he spent the rest of his life. His wife was Mehitable Sanford, native of Connecticut, and both of them lived to a good old age.
Their son Thomas Knight was born in Massachusetts on January 7, 1800, was reared and educated there, and in 1818 made a trip to Ohio to look over the country. Going back to Massachusetts, he remained there until 1820, when at the age of twenty years he joined the family of Mr. Lyman, who were preparing to come to Ohio. In the Lyman family were Mr. and Mrs. Lyman, and three sons and three daughters. Mr. Lyman set out with a pair of horses and wagon, while Thomas Knight drove a wagon drawn by two yolk of oxen, bringing also the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Lyman. Mr. Lyman reached his location at Chester in Geauga County, several weeks ahead of Mr. Knight, and had erected a log cabin in readiness to receive the rest of his family. There were no sawmills near and wagon boxes were used to make the doors for the cabin. Thomas Knight spent some time with the Lymans and then married and lived at Kirtland. For a time he occupied half of a double house, the other half being occu- pied by the famous mormon leader, Joseph Smith and family. From Kirtland he moved to Chester, where he lived for a few years, and then to Warrensville, Ohio, where he bought a tract of timbered land. For many years he was engaged in the lumber industry. He established a sawmill and worked up his timber at Warrensville, and subsequently bought other stock. He continued in business there until 1858 when he moved to Cleveland and bought twenty acres of land bordering Cedar and Bolton, now Eighty-ninth Street, at that time in Newburg, paying $250 an acre. On one portion of this land he built a commodious brick house, a residence still standing at the corner of Cedar and Eighty- ninth streets. That was his home the rest of his life. He died at the age of seventy-nine. His wife was Lucia Melvin, who was born at Cumming- ton, Massachusetts, and died at the age of eighty-three. Her parents were Reuben and Achsah (Smith) Melvin, who were also pioneers at Chester in Geauga County, Ohio. Her mother was a schoolmate of the famous poet William Cullen Bryant. The children of Thomas Spencer and Lucia Knight were four sons, Austin M., William G., A. Lyman and T. Spencer. William entered the service of the Union at the time of the Civil war, but was soon discharged on account of disability, and A. Lyman served with the Seventh Regiment of New York Volunteers.
T. Spencer Knight acquired his first schooling at a Baptist Seminary at Chester, later the district schools at Warrensville, and finally attended Oberlin College. At the first call for troops by President Lincoln in April,
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1861, he enlisted for ninety days. The quota was filled and his company was not accepted. Subsequently when Lincoln issued his first call for three-year men, Mr. Knight enlisted on September 9, 1861, in Battery C, of the First Ohio Light Artillery. He went to the front with that regiment, and was in the battle in Kentucky, where the Confederate General Zolli- coffer was killed. From there his regiment marched to Fort Donelson, arriving a few hours after the surrender of that strategic stronghold. From there the regiment went to Nashville, and next marched to Pittsburg Land- ing, being within hearing of the guns on the Sunday morning that marked the climax of that bloody battle. His regiment arrived on the scene the next morning. Mr. Knight in the meantime was suffering a steadily in- creasing impairment of health, so that he was discharged, and it was nearly a year after his return home before his health was restored. He then entered the firm of Woods Perry Company, lumber dealers, as a member of the firm and was with that firm steadily for twenty years. Since then he has been active in real estate, building and banking business and as a business man and investor has done his part in the development of this remarkable Ohio city, which he has seen grown from a population of less than eighty thousand to nearly a million.
At the age of thirty-two Mr. Knight married Mrs. Frances B. Burgess, who was born in Aurora, Ohio, and died July 12, 1909. Their only child, Melvin, died when fourteen years of age. Mr. Knight for twenty-five years or until consolidation of the bank with the Cleveland Trust Com- pany January, 1923, was vice president of the Garfield Savings Company and is member of the board at this time. He is a past commander of Forest City Post No. 556, of the Grand Army of the Republic.
GEORGE B. CHRISTIAN, a resident of Cleveland for over seventy years, a veteran of the Civil war, was for many years active in local business and is one of the honored old timers of Cuyahoga County.
He was born at Douglas on the Isle of Man, June 23, 1846. His an- cestors for several generations lived on the Isle of Man as British subjects. His grandfather was John Christian, a native of the Isle of Man. His father, Robert Christian, was born in the Parish of Malew, on that island, acquired a good education, and while in his teens was apprenticed to a grocer, doing business at Ramsey. After finishing his apprenticeship he engaged in business at Douglas, and in 1850 with his wife and two children came to the United States, sailing from Liverpool and after six weeks landing in New York. They proceeded up the Hudson River to Albany, thence over the Erie Canal to Buffalo, and by boat to Cleveland, which was then a small city built along the lake shore and the greater part of the area of the modern city was covered either with farms or forests. He acquired land at what was then Pittsburgh, now Ontario Street, near the junction of Ontario and Huron. The improvements on the land included two frame houses and a frame store building. This land is now known as the Christian Block. For six or eight years he was in the grocery business there, after which he returned to the Isle of Man to obtain an inheritance. He then returned to his residence on Cedar near Perry Street in Cleveland. In 1864 he gave up his business to accept a position as deputy collector of customs, an office he held twenty-three years. After that he lived retired.
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and in 1887 went back to make a visit to the Isle of Man and also visited Paris. His last days were spent at the home of his son George B. near Seventy-fifth Street and Euclid Avenue. He died at the age of eighty-one.
Robert Christian married Elizabeth Bridson, who was born at Douglas, where her parents were lifelong residents. She died at the age of seventy years, and her two children were George B. and Elizabeth. Miss Elizabeth was two years of age when brought to America, was graduated from gram- mar school and high school, also from the Humiston University where she specialized in art for which she has decided talent. She also studied under R. Way Smith. Some of her paintings now adorn the home of her brother.
George B. Christian was four years old when his parents came to Amer- ica, and he was reared in Cleveland, attending the Prospect Street School located opposite the present site of the Colonial Arcade, was in the school for two years in a new building on Eagle Street, also attended the Hudson School at the corner of Carnegie Avenue and Thirtieth Street, and also the high school at Union and Ninth streets. After two years in high school he had a year's course in the Spencerian Commercial College. When he first attended school Cleveland had no street cars, and for a time he walked a mile or more to reach the schoolhouse. After leaving the Spencerian Business School he became bookkeeper and cashier for Rose and Prentice, pork packers. He left the service in 1864 to enlist in the state militia, being assigned to the Twenty-ninth Regiment of Ohio Militia. In 1864 this regiment was consolidated with the One Hundred Fiftieth Ohio In- fantry, and he was called to service for the period of a hundred days, be- ginning in May, 1864. He was in the defensive around the City of Wash- ington until honorably discharged about September 1, 1864. He did his duty in the army when a boy of about seventeen.
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