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In 1923 he was candidate for member of the City Council from the Third District. In 1924 he received the nomination on the democratic ticket for the Ohio State Senate. He belongs to the Cleveland Bar Asso- ciation, the Fraternal Order of Eagles, and St. Columbkills Catholic Church. Mr. Lyons married Miss Ella M. Longtin, a native of Cleveland and a daughter of Moses Longtin, of Cleveland, who until a few years prior to his death, in 1923, was proprietor of one of the oldest established horse-shoeing businesses in the City of Cleveland.
THOMAS J. LONG has had an active membership at the Cleveland bar for eight years, during which time he has achieved a commendable service record as an attorney and is one of the prominent younger professional men of the city.
He was born in Cleveland, January 16, 1893, son of John P. and Caro- line E. (Bowen) Long. His father was born in Lancastershire, England, in 1855. In 1861 his parents, Thomas and Margaret (Craddock) Long, left that section of England and, coming to the United States, located in Northern Michigan. Shortly after his arrival Thomas Long volunteered his services to the cause of his adopted country in the Civil war, and was serving with a Michigan regiment when he was killed in the Battle of Antietam in the fall of 1862. His widow brought her family to Cleveland from Michigan in 1875.
John P. Long for many years was a well known refrigerating engineer in Cleveland, where he died in 1918. His widow, still a resident of Cleve- land, was born at Oldham, England, daughter of Richard Bowen.
Thomas J. Long acquired a liberal education in Cleveland, attending the grammar and high schools, Western Reserve University, and in 1916 graduated with the Bachelor of Laws degree from the Cleveland Law School of Baldwin-Wallace University. He was admitted to the bar in 1916, and immediately engaged in general practice, which he has continued. He is senior member of the firm of Long and Logan, with offices in the Society for Savings Building.
For several years he has been active in democratic politics. He was a democratic candidate for the Ohio General Assembly in 1918. He is also known for his prominence in the Fraternal Order of Eagles. He was presi-
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dent in 1922-23-24 of the local aerie, and has served as chairman of the entertainment committee and chairman of the Board of Widows and Orphans Relief Committee. He is chairman of the executive committee of the building committee in charge of building the magnificent new home of the Eagles. He belongs to the college fraternities Pi Kappa Alpha and Pi Kappa Phi, and to the Cleveland Bar Association and the Ohio State Bar Association.
During the World war he was a member of the Legal Advisory Board of Districts No. 1 and 10, and did much to promote the Liberty Bond and Thrift Stamp sale.
SAMUEL A. RAYMOND. The life of the late Samuel A. Raymond covered the psalmist's span of three score years and ten, but not in mere duration did that life have its significance. A personality that was the distinct expression of a strong and loyal nature and that represented the best in ideals and traditions of culture and refinement made Mr. Raymond the true gentleman that he was, and his was the spirit that finds its best exemplification in tolerance and broad human sympathy and an intrinsic desire to contribute to the happiness and well being of others. The measure of Mr. Raymond's ability as an executive and man of affairs was indicated by his large and worthy achievement, and, all in all, he was an honored and representative Cleveland citizen to whom a tribute is consistently due in this publication.
A scion of Colonial New England ancestry, Samuel A. Raymond was born at New Britain, Connecticut, August 27, 1845, and his death occurred January 9, 1915, about seven months prior to the seventieth anniversary of his birth. He was a son of Samuel and Mary (North) Raymond, both of whom passed the closing years of their lives in Cleveland. In the year 1853 Samuel Raymond came with his family to Cleveland and here he organized the Raymond-Lowe Company, which became a leading concern in the wholesale dry goods trade throughout the territory tributary to Cleveland as a distributing center.
Samuel A. Raymond, immediate subject of .this memoir, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and was a lad of about eight years at the time of the family removal to Cleveland, and after here completing the curriculum of the public schools and also a collegiate preparatory course, he entered historic old Yale University, where he made a characteristically admirable student record and was graduated as a member of the class of 1870, his academic degree being that of Bachelor of Arts. At Yale he became affiliated with one of the leading Greek-letter fraternities and also a member of the famous Wolf's Head Society of that institution.
After his graduation in Yale Mr. Raymond returned to Cleveland and here he became associated with his brother, Henry N., in continuing the wholesale dry goods business that had been founded by their father. With this business he continued his active alliance until 1878, and he then turned his attention to the real estate business, as a coadjutor of the late Amasa Stone. The operations of these two representative citizens had much to do with the advancing of metropolitan progress and material up- building in the Cleveland district, and after the death of Mr. Stone Mr. Ray- mond was selected to assume active administration of the latter's large
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estate. From that time forward until his death, the major part of his time was given to the management of this important estate, and his able and faithful service not only increased greatly in value, but also involved judicious exploitation of its interests in such a way as to inure in large measure to general civic and material progress in Cleveland. A man of mature judgment and exceptional executive ability, Mr. Raymond left a distinct influence in connection with business activities in his home city, the while he so ordered his life in all its relations as to merit and receive the unqualified confidence and respect of his fellow men. His civic loyalty was one of action as well as sentiment, and while he was a stalwart supporter of the cause of the republican party, his personal predilictions and his large business interests both militated against his manifesting any desire for political activity or public office. He was an honored member of the Union, the University, the Rowfant and the Hunt clubs of Cleveland, as was he also of the Cleveland Country Club. For many years he was an active and influential member of the Old Stone Church (Presbyterian), of Cleveland, and of the same he served as deacon and elder. Of this church his widow continues an earnest member.
The many fine elements in the character of Mr. Raymond found their most gracious expression in the intimacies and generous hospitality of his home, the relations of which were in every sense ideal. His devotion to his home and family was one of his dominating characteristics, and yet none was more appreciative of the amenities of social life, so that he found pleasure in extending to his many friends the cordial hospitality of his home, where he was ever assured of the gracious cooperation of his wife, the popular chatelaine of the home, in which Mrs. Raymond still remains, at 3826 Euclid Avenue, the while she still maintains also the attractive summer home of the family at Gloucester, Massachusetts.
On the 20th of January, 1875, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Raymond to Miss Emma Stone, daughter of the late Daniel and Hulda (Gleason) Stone, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and a niece of the late Amasa Stone, who was one of the most prominent and influential figures in the furthering of the earlier growth and development of Cleveland.
In conclusion is entered the brief record concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond: Mary is the wife of E. M. Williams, of Cleve- land, and their five children are Hilda, Madeline, Edward P. and Mary R., and Will, deceased. Hilda is the wife of F. E. Williamson and they maintain their home with the New York Central Railroad ; Henry A., who is prominently identified with business interests in Cleveland, married Miss Margaret Garretson, and they have two children, Emma and Millicent ; Julia and Samuel Edward remain with their mother at the old homestead ; Jonathan married Miss Pauline Pollard, of Boston, Massachusetts, and in that city they maintain their home, their children being three in number : Jonathan, Jr., Pauline and Joan.
DAVID BENNETT STEUER, M. D. One of Cleveland's recognized spe- cialists in the profession of medicine, Doctor Steuer has been equally a leader in civic improvement, public health and sanitation, and some of the city's most distinctive steps in modern progress were initiated by him.
He was born in Hungary, May 29, 1866, son of Julius and Gertrude
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Steuer. His mother died in her native land. In 1879, when David B. was thirteen years of age, he came with his father to the United States, and located in Cleveland the same year. His early education had been acquired in common schools and a gymnasium in Hungary. In Cleveland he con- tinued his high school work and also attended Calvin College. After leaving school he became clerk in a drug store, and from 1887 to 1896 was proprietor of a pharmacy on St. Clair Avenue.
In the meantime, in 1889, Doctor Steuer was graduated from the Cleve- land School of Pharmacy. After that, while carrying on his drug business, he read medicine, and in 1895 was graduated Doctor of Medicine from the Medical department of Western Reserve University. From 1895 to 1900 Doctor Steuer engaged in the routine work of a general practice.
He resigned his business and professional connections altogether in 1900 to go abroad, and for three and one-half years he pursued the rigid routine of post-graduate work in such great medical centers as Vienna, Budapest, Berlin and London. When he returned to Cleveland he resumed practice as a specialist in internal medicine, and his best work has been accomplished in that special field. For fourteen years Doctor Steuer was on the staff of Mount Sinai Hospital. He is a member of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine, and the Ohio State and American Medical asso- ciations.
Outside of his profession his record is an impressive one. From 1895 to 1901 he represented the First District, comprising the First, Second, Third and Fourth wards in the City Council, and during his last term was president of the Council. His chief concern was with certain vital prob- lems involving public health and municipal duty. He was instrumental in securing pasteurized milk supply for the city ; is the father of the garbage collection and disposal system of Cleveland; and he was author of the bill in the council creating a dumping station on the lake front for the purpose of reclaiming a large tract of land there. He was instrumental in securing the opening of Bank Street, and was the first to call serious attention to the Lake Front Group Plan for public buildings. His name is closely associated with the attachment of the City Children's Hospital, and he turned the first spadeful of dirt in its construction. His influence while in the City Council also tended to permit Cleveland to a bona fide civil service for employes. Doctor Steuer is a former president of the Cleveland Pharmaceutical Association, was at one time chairman of the Cleveland School of Pharmacy, is a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, and is affiliated wtih the Masonic Order, and Knights of Pythias. He married Miss Emma Kraus, daughter of Jacob Kraus. Her father is head of J. K. Kraus & Sons, candy manufacturers of Cleveland. Doctor and Mrs. Steuer have four children. Alfred L. graduated Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University and Bachelor of Laws from Harvard Law School, and is now a practicing attorney in Cleveland. Herbert S. is also a Bache- lor of Arts graduate of Harvard, took his medical degree in Western Reserve University, and is now pursuing post-graduate work in the Cleve- land City Hospital. The third son, Wilber A., graduated Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University and is now practicing law in Cleveland. The youngest child and only daughter, Gladys, is a pupil in the Junior High School of Cleveland.
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ARCHIBALD NAIL DAWSON, A. B., M. D. One of the successful physi- cians and surgeons and prominent citizens of Lakewood is Dr. Archibald N. Dawson, who has been in the active practice of his profession in this com- munity for the past fifteen years. He is a native son of Ohio, and represents a family whose name has been identified with the history of this state since pioneer days and with the nation since Colonial days, the family having set- tled in Virginia prior to the War of the Revolution, and in Ohio in the early part of the nineteenth century.
Rev. William Chambers Dawson, father of the doctor, was born in Wayne County, Ohio, in 1851, the son of Archibald Dawson, who was born in a log cabin near the present town of Mount Sterling, Ohio. Archi- bald, Sr., was the son of Thomas Sterling Dawson, the Ohio pioneer of the family. Thomas S. was born in Virginia, of Scotch-Irish ancestors who settled in Virginia prior to the Revolutionary war, and from which state a later generation settled in Kentucky. It is a tradition in the family that it is descended from Virginia Dare, the first white child born in the Virginia colony. Thomas S. Dawson, the Ohio pioneer, came into this state soon after the close of the War of 1812.
Rev. William C. Dawson received his early education in the common schools, and was graduated from Baldwin-Wallace University in 1878. He was ordained a minister of the Northern Ohio Conference of the Metho- dist Episcopal Church, and held pastorates at Pittsfield, Wellington, Woos- ter and Elyria, Ohio. He married Mary E. Nail, who was born in Mans- field, Ohio, the daughter of Samuel Nail, who was born in Richland County, Ohio, the son of Henry and Catherine (Lewis) Nail, early settlers of that county. Rev. William C. Dawson died in 1907, survived by his widow, who resides at Brecksville, Cuyahoga County. To their marriage the following children were born: Charles A., was graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University, Bachelor of Arts, from Harvard University, Master of Arts, and from Boston (Mass.) University, Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor of Sacred Theology, and is engaged in literary work; Archi- bald, N., Doctor of Medicine; Mabel E., was graduated from Ohio Wes- leyan University, Bachelor of Arts, and is engaged in teaching ; William W., graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University, Bachelor of Arts, and from the law department of Western Reserve University, Bachelor of Laws, and is an attorney of Cleveland.
Dr. A. N. Dawson was graduated from the Ashland (Ohio) High School in 1899, from Ohio Wesleyan University, Bachelor of Arts in 1904, and from the medical department of Western Reserve University, Doctor of Medicine, in 1908. During 1908-09 he served as interne at St. Vincent Charity Hospital, and in 1910 he entered general practice in Lakewood, specializing in obstetrics of late years.
Doctor Dawson is head of the obstetrical staff of Lakewood Hospital, is a member of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine, a member of Ohio State Medical Association and Fellow of the American Medical Association. He is a member of Lakewood Chamber of Commerce, the Clifton Club, Sleepy Hollow Country Club ; Ohio Chapter, Sons of the American Revolu- tion ; and of the Church of the Ascension of Lakewood.
Doctor Dawson married Miss Jean Backus, who was born in Dedham, Massachusetts, the daughter of Arthur Mann and Eliza Jennings (Burton)
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Backus. Mrs. Dawson is a graduate of Smith College. To the doctor and wife three children have been born: William Burton, born August 19, 1913; Archibald Nail, Jr., born April 26, 1917; and Elizabeth Jane, born April 29, 1921.
TIMOTHY SHEA, who is recognized as one of the most prominent labor leaders in the country through his office as assistant president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, has had his official home in Cleveland for the past seven years. His early life was spent at an old country homestead in Connecticut of peculiar historical interest to the City of Cleveland.
Mr. Shea was born in Windham County, Connecticut, August 4, 1865, son of John T. and Sarah (Sullivan) Shea, and grandson of Timothy and Margaret Shea. His grandparents were born at Kenmane, County Kerry, Ireland. His grandfather, Timothy, was a university graduate and became a professor of languages in his Alma Mater. In 1848 he and his wife brought their family to America, locating at Windham, Connecticut, where he spent his last years. John T. Shea was born in County Kerry, Ireland, in 1832, and was sixteen years of age when he came to the United States. He grew to manhood on a farm in Windham County, finished his common school education, and subsequently bought a farm of 160 acres in Windham County. He was one of the progressive and substantial agriculturists of Connecticut. In 1876 he bought an adjoining farm of 200 acres, known as the "Cleveland Farm." This farm was the birthplace of Gen. Moses Cleveland, the founder and father of the City of Cleveland. On this old farm is still standing the house in which Moses Cleveland was born, but it has not been used as a residence since John T. Shea purchased it in 1876. It stands about a quarter of a mile from the Shea home. The members of the Shea family still own this historic old property. The old Cleveland house is a three-story frame, containing twelve rooms, and the rooms were heated by fireplaces opening out on both the first and second floors from an immense central chimney of solid masonry. They had this in Colonial times, and it is said that the chimney was constructed first and the house built around it. In 1899 a committee representing the City of Cleveland visited the Shea farm with the view of purchasing the old house and trans- ferring it to this city, to be reerected in honor of the founder of the city as the central feature of the celebration of Cleveland's one hundredth anni- versary. However, building engineers pronounced the plan impossible, since the house would have to be taken apart and transported in sections. Consequently it still stands on its original site, although rapidly disinte- grating.
On this Connecticut homestead John T. Shea spent his active career, and came to be regarded as one of the leading farmers of his day, owning one of the most beautiful estates in Windham County. He died March 18, 1898, when sixty-six years of age. His widow survived him until 1914, passing away at the age of seventy-six.
Timothy Shea, of Cleveland, grew up on the old Connecticut farm, attending public schools. In his seventeenth year, in 1882, he went to work as a railroad man, becoming a brakeman on the Norwich and Wooster Railway. Two and one-half years later he was promoted to conductor.
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Leaving Connecticut in 1886, he entered the service of the Central Railway Company of New Jersey as a locomotive fireman, and subsequently was made locomotive engineer. He was with the Central of New Jersey until he resigned to take up his official duties with the Brotherhood of Locomo- tive Firemen and Enginemen in 1902, in which year he was elected vice president of the Brotherhood. He has given over twenty years of service to this great railroad organization. For a number of years he was stationed at the official headquarters at Peoria, Illinois. In 1910 he was advanced to assistant president, the title of the office he still holds. In 1917 the head- quarters of the brotherhood was transferred from Peoria to Cleveland. and since then Mr. Shea has been an interested and public spirited resident of this city.
In 1912 Mr. Shea was selected as fraternal delegate to the triannual conference of the Associated Locomotive Engineers and Firemen of Great Britain. At a conference held in Albert Hall at Leath, England, June 12, 1912, he made one of the addresses. During the World war he served as international president of the Brotherhood. When the railroads were restored to private ownership he resumed his duties as assistant president of the Brotherhood.
Mr. Shea is a member of the Cleveland City Club, the Cleveland Auto- mobile Club, the Chagrin Valley Country Club, and the Knights of Co- lumbus. He married Miss Molly Powers, a native of Peoria, Illinois, the daughter of Michael and Mary Powers. Her father was born in Cork and her mother in Skipereen, Ireland, both coming to the United States as young people, and being married here. Mr. and Mrs. Shea have one daughter, Philomene, aged ten years.
JOHN P. DEMPSEY, chief justice of the Municipal Court of the City of Cleveland, and known as one of the representative members of the bar of Cuyahoga County, was born at Bellevue, Huron County, Ohio, on the 27th of March, 1878, and is a son of John A. and Anna Dempsey. Judge Dempsey was prepared for college by attending Sandwich Academy, at Sandwich, Ontario, Canada. In preparation for his chosen profession he completed the prescribed curriculum in the Cleveland Law School, in which he was graduated in June, 1907, and from which he received his degree of Bachelor of Laws. In 1907-8, to fortify himself further for the manifold exactions of his profession, he took courses in economics, litera- ture and philosophy at Western Reserve University. He was admitted to the bar of his native state in 1907, and one year later he engaged in the practice of his profession in Cleveland. He proved his resourcefulness as a trial lawyer and well fortified counselor, and continued to give his close attention to his substantial law business until he received, on the 1st of March, 1921, appointment by Governor Davis to his present office, that of chief justice of the Municipal Court of the Ohio metropolis, his regular election to this bench and office having occurred in November of the same year, for the six-year term beginning January 1, 1922. Thus his service has been consecutive since he served out the unexpired term for which he was first appointed.
The World war service of Judge Dempsey was initiated in the montha following that in which the United States became definitely involved in
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the great conflict. On the 12th of May, 1917, he entered the Officers Training Camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, and on the 15th of the following August he there received his commission as captain. He was assigned to Company G, Three Hundred and Thirty-second United States Infantry, and with. this command he went overseas and served on the Italian front. He continued in active service until the armistice brought the war to a close, and remained abroad in occupation duty in Austria for some time thereafter. He returned home and received his honorable discharge in May, 1919.
Judge Dempsey is an active member of the Cleveland Bar Association, and holds membership also in the Ohio State Bar Association and the American Bar Association. He holds membership also in the American Legion, the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, the famed military organiza- tion known as the Cleveland Grays, the Civitan Club, and the Shaker Heights Country Club, besides being affiliated with several fraternal or- ganizations.
MRS. W. G. ROSE is a gentlewoman of distinctive culture, has played a large part in the social and cultural life of Cleveland, is a writer and author of recognized talent, and has been active and influential in advancing charitable, philanthropic and benevolent agencies in her home city.
Mrs. Rose was born at Norton, Ohio, March 5, 1834, a daughter of Theodore Hudson Parmelee and Harriet (Holcomb) Parmelee, and a granddaughter of Capt. Theodore Parmelee, a patriot soldier in the War of the Revolution. David Hudson, a great-uncle of Mrs. Rose, was the founder of Western Reserve College, at Hudson, Ohio, which is now Adelbert College of the Western Reserve University, Cleveland. In 1855 Mrs. Rose was graduated in Oberlin College, and thereafter she became a teacher of music in a seminary at Mercer, Pennsylvania, her marriage to W. G. Rose having occurred in 1855 and their four children having been reared in Cleveland.
Mrs. Rose has shown deep concern in advancing the interests of work- ing women in Cleveland, and was the founder of the Woman's Employ- ment Society, the work of which has been of inestimable value. In 1881 she was elected president of the Cleveland Sorosis, an office which she retained three years. In 1898 she founded the Health Protective Associa- tion, and she has been prominent in the general Federation of Women's Clubs. She was a leader in organizing a civic club in Cleveland, and in establishing the first playgrounds of the Ohio metropolis. Under the nom de plume of Charles C. Lee, Mrs. Rose wrote a series of articles on the trade schools of France, and the publication of these in the daily news- papers aided in the establishing of the manual training schools of Cleve- land. She is a charter member of the local chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and has given effective service as treasurer of the National Health Protective League and president of the Cleveland Health Protective Association. Her earnest and loyal stewardship is evi- denced in human sympathy and helpfulness, and she is loved by all who have come within the sphere of her gracious influence. She is the author of three books : "Travels in Europe and Northern Africa ;" "An Album," and "Reminiscences of Character Building." Her three sons and one
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