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In 1884 he was married to Caroline Jennings, a native of Cleve- land and a daughter of John G. and Caroline R. (Conklin) Jen- nings. Mr. and Mrs. Calhoun have two children : Tracy Jennings, born in 1885, and educated at Cornell University, is now associated with his father as purchasing agent; and Miss Carol is at home. The Jennings family is an old one in Ohio, Mrs. Calhoun's grand- father, Dr. Jennings, having been one of the oldest settlers of Ober- lin.
Mr. Calhoun is a member of the Cleveland Athletic Club and is a republican but not active in public matters. In religious faith he is a Congregationalist and attends the Pilgrim church. Whenever a professional man goes into business he brings to his work a trained mind and is capable of discharging his duties systematically. Mr. Calhoun's experience as an attorney has been valuable to him since becoming the head of the immense concern with which he is now connected and he feels that he could not have made the success he has had he not possessed his legal knowledge.
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horace Arthur Fuller
ORACE ARTHUR FULLER is the vice president H of The Bourne-Fuller Company and secretary and treasurer of The Union Rolling Mill Company. For sixty-three years the family name has figured in con- nection with the business development of Cleveland, becoming a synonym for increasing activity and use- fulness as the years have gone by. A native son of Cleveland, Hor- ace A. Fuller was born September 23, 1864, his parents being Sam- uel Augustus and Julia (Clark) Fuller. The former was born in Warren, Ohio, April 8, 1837, and died October 23, 1891. His father, Augustus Fuller, came to Cleveland in 1847 and established a hat, cap and fur business. Samuel A. Fuller acquired his education in the Cleveland public schools, and following his graduation from the high school he entered his father's store as an accountant and at the age of nineteen years was made a partner in the firm. He was then con- nected with mercantile interests until 1869, when he turned his at- tention to the iron business, becoming associated with the Cleveland Iron Company, of which he was chosen secretary. In 1878 he es- tablished iron mills in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and in 1880 became the leading spirit in the organization of the Union Rolling Mill Company, serving for many years as the general manager and treasurer of the company. He was the founder and president of the Condit-Fuller Company, later the Bourne-Fuller Company. He became largely interested in the mining of iron ore in the iron ranges of Wisconsin and Minnesota and was also prominent in connection with the shipping interests of the lake. He became a conspicuous member of the remarkable coterie of men of his time who laid the foundation for Cleveland's commercial greatness and made it a world market for steel and iron products, its ramifying trade inter- ests in this connection reaching out to all the civilized countries on the globe. In his political views Samuel A. Fuller was a republi- can and served as alderman from the third district. He gave to
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municipal affairs the same careful attention which raised him to prominence as a manufacturer. He was a leading member of the Board of Trade and cooperated in every movement for the progress and development of the city. Nor was he neglectful of the higher, holier duties of life as manifest in religious work. He became a member of the Euclid Avenue Presbyterian church and sang in its choir for thirty-three years, serving most of that time as choir di- rector, while for several years he was president of the board of trustees.
In 1858 Samuel A. Fuller was married to Miss Julia Clark, who was a daughter of Albert C. and Elizabeth (Wright) Clark, and died in 1880. Her father was for many years an official in the United States treasury department at Washington, D. C., and was a well known banker of Cleveland, serving for some time as cashier of the old City Bank. After losing his first wife Mr. Fuller married Mrs. Louise Wood, a daughter of the Hon. John W. Allen, one of Cleve- land's early mayors and the first president of the Big Four Rail- road Company.
Such in brief is the history of the parents of Horace A. Fuller. To the successful management of his extensive interests Samuel A. Fuller brought a ripe experience, a keen and penetrating business judgment and above all an unimpeachable integrity. Preeminently public spirited, he was always in the forefront of every movement looking to the advancement of the city or fostering its best interests. Genial, sympathetic, companionable, he won the love and respect of all with whom he came in contact. He died suddenly of heart failure and it is doubtful if the demise of any citizen in Cleveland would have caused more universal sorrow and regret than did his. While his business career awakened admiration, his personal quali- ties endeared him to all and made him a man whose friendship was warmly cherished.
Horace Arthur Fuller was educated in the Cleveland public schools and the Western Reserve University. In 1883 he became connected with the Condit-Fuller Company and has been with this organization and its successors continuously since. In 1888 he be- came associated with the Union Rolling Mill Company, serving as treasurer and assistant general manager until 1891, when he was made secretary and treasurer and director. He is also a director of the Central National Bank, a director of the Sheriff Street Market & Storage Company, and is financially interested in various other corporations.
Mr. Fuller likewise has voice in the management of social or- ganizations, being a director of the Union Club and a director and
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vice president of the Country Club. He also belongs to the Tavern Club and to the Euclid Avenue Presbyterian church, while his politi- cal endorsement is given to the republican party.
On the 14th of April, 1886, Mr. Fuller was married to Miss Alice Tenny, a daughter of the Rev. Edward Payson and Julia A. (De Forest) Ingersoll. Her father was born May 6, 1834, at Lee, Massachusetts, and among his early ancestors were Jonathan Ed- wards, the great Puritan divine, and Sir William Bassett, who landed at Plymouth in 1621. While a child Edward Payson Ingersoll went with his parents to Oberlin, Ohio, and received a part of his scholastic training in Oberlin College, while later he entered Wil- liams College, from which he was graduated in 1855. He soon re- moved to Cleveland and became principal of the Central high school. Subsequently he studied law, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Law from the Ohio State and Union Law College. He was as- sociated in law practice with William J. Boardman for three years and then began his theological studies at Andover. In 1863 he became pastor of the First Congregational church at Sandusky and has served as pastor of the Plymouth Congregational church at In- dianapolis, Indiana, the Middle Reformed church of Brooklyn, New York, the Puritan Congregational church of Brooklyn and the Park Congregational church of St. Paul, Minnesota. After his last pastorate he was elected one of the secretaries of the American Bible Society and was serving as such at his death. The degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon him by Williams College in 1877. In 1860 he married Julia A. De Forest, of Cleveland, and they had two daughters, Antoinette De Forest and Alice Tenny. Mr. and Mrs. Fuller have two children: Antoinette, the wife of Louis Almon Pierrong, of Cleveland; and Marian. They reside on the Lake Shore boulevard at Bratenahl. Mrs. Fuller is active in church and charitable work and is most generous in her aid to the needy. Mr. Fuller finds recreation in golf, tennis and motoring and is so situated financially that he can take from his business the time necessary for pleasures and recreation that go to make up a well rounded and evenly balanced existence. He is neverthless rec- ognized as a man of force in the business world and, although he entered upon enterprises already established, has shown an initiative spirit and marked enterprise in handling and controlling these in- terests, which are of no little magnitude.
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Dabid Henry Kimberley
T T HE late David Henry Kimberley of Cleveland was a man whose marked characteristics were kindness of heart, courtesy and business strength. For years his name was intimately associated with financial af- fairs, and the banking interests of this city were safely conserved by him. His birth occurred at Great Borton, England, a suburb of Birmingham, September 22, 1842, he being a son of George Kimberley, also born in England, who became a manufacturer at Great Borton. Later he removed to Birmingham, there to engage in a grocery business until 1862, when he died aged sixty-seven years. His wife, Maria Ashwell, was born at Browns Grove, England, in 1800, and was a daughter of Rev. James Ashwell, a Baptist minister. In 1831 the latter removed his family to Cleveland, and from there to Newburg, but finally he re- turned to this city and for years preached the gospel. In those early times but little salary was paid a clergyman and so in order to sup- port his family, Mr. Ashwell worked in a nail shop six days in the week and preached on the seventh. He was twice married, but Mrs. Kimberley and her brother James were the children of the first. She was twenty-one years old and already the mother of one child when her brother James was born.
When David Henry Kimberley was five years old his mother decided to visit her parents and so with her six children set sail on the Henry Clay in 1846. One child, the eldest, and the father re- mained in England. Six weeks were consumed in making the voy- age, the family landing in New York city on Christmas eve of 1846. During the long trip, the ship caught fire but the flames were extinguished before any serious damage was done, but on its follow- ing voyage it was utterly destroyed by fire.
Leaving New York city, the little party went to Albany by water, thence to Buffalo by rail, and then to Cleveland by stage, as the lakes were frozen over. For a short time Mrs. Kimberley made
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her home with her father and then with her six children, Alexan- der, Sophia, Sarah, Frederick, Edward and David H., began house- keeping for herself. She was a self-reliant woman who lived ac- cording to strict moral precepts and brought up her children ac- cordingly. Her death occurred in 1876, and she is buried in River- side cemetery.
David Henry Kimberley only attended school until he was ten years old and then commenced earning his own living in a dry-goods house, remaining with his first employer until he was fifteen years old. His next work was on a farm but he soon found that he was not suited for that kind of labor. Like so many boys brought up on the lakes, he had a desire for a sea-faring life and so spent a year on the schooner John F. Warner and the propeller Galena.
Having worked for six years, the lad had developed a self-re- liance and at the age of sixteen he opened a meat market at the corner of Detroit and Kentucky streets in the fall of 1860. He was doing well in the spring of 1861, but his patriotism could not with- stand the appeal made to it and so he sold his business and enlisted in April, 1861, in James P. McIlbrath's Light Guard Zouaves for three months. Before the expiration of his three months' enlistment, Captain McIlbrath induced his company to reenlist, and it became Company A, Twenty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry with W. S. Rosecrans as colonel; Stanley Matthews, lieutenant colonel; Ruth- erford B. Hayes, major; General Hastings, first lieutenant; and Robert Kenedy, second lieutenant. Later J. M. Comley became major. President Mckinley went out in the same company as a private and came back as major. Probably no other company fur- nished so many distinguished men to the country as Company A, for all of these men afterward occupied high positions. It was as- signed to the Army of the Potomac and later to the Army of West Virginia. Mr. Kimberley escaped injury or capture although many were his escapes. In 1864, when he had served two months over his term of enlistment, he was honorably discharged at his state capitol, having been a brave and loyal soldier. Although a veteran at this time, he was only twenty-two years old.
Returning to Cleveland, he embarked in a flour and feed busi- ness on Detroit street and continued to conduct it for twenty-two years. From the time of his return to the city, Mr. Kimberley identified himself with the republican party and served on its county central and city central committees. In 1885 he was elected county treasurer by a majority of four thousand votes and ran far ahead of his ticket when he was reelected in 1887, retiring from that office in 1890.
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When William H. Doan died Mr. Kimberley was elected presi- dent of the Cleveland Permanent Building & Loan Association to succeed him, and held that position to his death. In May, 1891, he was elected president of the newly formed Lorain Street Savings Bank and in the same year was made president of the Northern Ohio Paving & Construction Company. At the same time he was made president of the East Harbor Boating and Fishing Club, and the Produce Exchange Banking Company. In addition he was a di- rector in the Ohio Abstract Company, a trustee of the Riverside Cemetery Association, and vice president of the Permanent Block Company.
On May 20, 1865, Mr. Kimberley was united in marriage to Miss Elsie A. Cunningham, a daughter of Archibald and Nancy (Taylor) Cunningham, the former of Pennsylvania and the latter of New York, who came to Cleveland in 1847. Mr. Cunningham was a wagonmaker in Cuyahoga Falls and was in the employ of the Cleveland, Columbus & Cincinnati Railroad for twenty-five years, becoming foreman of the shops. Later he removed to Columbus, where he was foreman of the Panhandle shops, continuing there for twenty-five years. His death occurred in Columbus. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Kimberley are four in number, as follows: David H., who is engaged in the real-estate business in Los Angeles, Cali- fornia; George G., who is in a real-estate business in Cleveland; Mabel, the wife of George R. McKay, an attorney of this city; and Rhea Nell, who was graduated from Miss Mittleberger's School and from the Emerson College of Oratory in Boston.
Fraternally Mr. Kimberley was a Knight of Pythias, and also belonged to the Army and Navy Post, G. A. R. The death of this prominent man occurred October 29, 1906, and in him Cleveland lost not only one of its most conservative bankers and progressive business men but a loyal and devoted citizen, who had the city's welfare close at heart. He was a warm, personal friend of Mark Hanna, who urged him to accept public office and went on the one million dollar bond required of the treasurer of Cuyahoga county.
The life of Mr. Kimberley was filled with noble deeds. Al- though cut off before his family and friends were willing to spare him, he had accomplished more than two ordinary men. Com- mencing his business life at a time when most lads are still in school, he never faltered but advanced steadily upward and well earned the high place to which he attained in the confidence and affection of his community.
John R. Ranny
John R. Ranney
J OHN R. RANNEY, who was a prominent represen- tative of the Cleveland bar and also left the im- press of his individuality-upon literary and musical circles and those interests which work for broad cul- ture and uplift, was born in Warren, Ohio, October 5, 1851, and passed to his final rest on the 4th of June, 1901. His father, Rufus P. Ranney, was born in Blandford, Massachusetts, October 13, 1813, and made the overland journey from New England to Freedom, Ohio, in 1824, before the building of railroads throughout this section of the state. His arrival in Cleveland was chronicled in the year 1855 and he became one of the most eminent attorneys of the city, carving his name upon the keystone of the legal arch. He was equally renowned as a con- gressman and statesman, his labors doing much to shape the political and public policy of Cleveland and the state at large. His wife bore the maiden name of Adeline Warner and was also a native of New England.
In the public schools of Cleveland John R. Ranney pursued his early education, being only in his fourth year when the removal was made to this city. He afterward continued his studies at Exeter, New Hampshire, and completed the literary course within the clas- sic walls of old Harvard in 1874. His professional training was received in the law department of the University of Michigan and in 1876 he joined his father in practice, the partnership relation being maintained between them for many years, while subsequently he was associated with his cousin, H. C. Ranney, the firm continu- ing its existence until 1891, when John R. Ranney retired. He was an excellent example of the student and lawyer of high purpose and his fellow members of the bar frequently commented upon his fine mind and excellent judgment. He ranked among the foremost law- yers of Cleveland. He was great because nature had endowed him bountifully and he had studiously and carefully and conscientiously
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increased the talents that had been given him. A ripe scholar and a giant in intellect, he was as much at home in the wide field of lit- erature as in the realm of the law and exercised discrimination in the volumes which he read. Art and music also had their place in his life and he was instrumental in organizing the Philharmonic Orchestra, of which he was an enthusiastic member.
Neither was Mr. Ranney unknown in military circles, for he served at lieutenant in the Gatling Gun Battery. Fond of outdoor sports, he belonged to the Castalia Fishing Club, and the Winans Shooting Club. While he usually gave his support to the democ- racy, upon all political questions he manifested a broad-minded in- terest, his opinions being the logical conclusion of careful consid- eration and research.
On the 17th of November, 1881, occurred the marriage of Mr. Ranney and Miss Mary Suggitt, a daughter of David and Sarah Elizabeth (Page) Suggitt, who came from Scarborough, England, to America and settled in the Western Reserve about 1850. Mrs. Ranney has been a resident of Cleveland since her girlhood and is a well known singer, for years having sung in the First Presbyte- rian, Plymouth and Trinity churches. The interests of home were paramount to all else in the life of Mr. Ranney, but home was never to him a mere local habitat. It was that place where all those graces which minister to culture and refinement are most cultivated, and art, music and literature all found expression in the life of the household. The demands of his profession were fully met, and viewed from every standpoint he was one of the greatest of those men whose names the legal profession will always treasure with gratitude and respect.
Horas Bolton
udge Thomas Bolton
UDGE THOMAS BOLTON, for many years one of Cleveland's most prominent attorneys and able jurists, ranking also as one of her foremost citizens in his day, was born in Scipio, Cayuga county, New York, November 29, 1809, a son of Thomas Bolton, who was an extensive farmer in that section of western New York. Judge Bolton first attended the district schools of his native county and at seventeen years of age entered the high school on Temple Hill in Geneseo, where he prepared for college. In the fall of 1829 he entered Harvard University, being graduated in the class of 1833, winning honors in mathematics. In this connection it is pleasant to revert to the fact that his most intimate schoolmate, class- mate and fellow graduate was the Hon. Moses Kelly, who was after- ward his partner in the practice of law for many years in Cleveland and that between the two, from their earliest acquaintance to the time when death called Mr. Kelly, there was a steadfast and unbroken friendship that was almost fraternal. With time affluence came to both and their homes were side by side. Such lifelong friendships are unusual, but whenever they do exist they indicate the presence in both parties of true and trusty qualities, with true appreciation on the one hand of the other's sterling characteristics.
Following his graduation Judge Bolton entered the study of law at Canandaigua, New York, in the office of John C. Spencer, a strong and distinguished member of the legal profession in that section. At the end of a year he came west to seek a permanent location where he might further pursue his studies and enter upon active practice. He located at Cleveland, finding that points farther west were hardly within the pale of civilization at that early day. This was in September, 1834, and Cleveland was but little more than a village of twenty-five hundred inhabitants. It was not incorporated as a city until 1836, when at a public meeting to determine on the corporate limits Mr. Bolton was appointed on a committee to draft the charter
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and urged that both sides of the river should be embraced within the boundary limits. Although he was overruled in this, the wisdom of his foresight and judgment was proven not many years afterward when that section was taken into the corporate limits of Cleveland. His active connection with municipal affairs was renewed as council- man in 1839 and as alderman in 1841.
Returning to his professional life, Mr. Bolton, who had studied law for a year in the office of James L. Conger of Cleveland, was admitted to the bar in September, 1835, by the supreme court of Ohio, on the circuit, Chief Justice Peter Hitchcock then presiding. For about a year Mr. Bolton was in partnership with Mr. Conger and then purchased his interest in the business, after which he sent for his old college friend, Moses Kelly, to join him. They formed a partnership that continued until 1856, when Mr. Bolton was elected to the bench. For many years the firm of Bolton & Kelly stood in the front rank of the legal talent of Cleveland.
As bearing upon his political career it may be narrated that in the fall of 1839 Judge Bolton was elected prosecuting attorney of the county, at which time the whig party was largely in the ascendency, commanding a plurality of from fifteen hundred to two thousand. Although he was a democrat and the candidate of that party for the office he was elected after a residence of but five years in the county. Two years later, on the expiration of his term, he was strongly solicited by both parties to accept the position for another term but declined in consequence of the inadequacy of the salary. An incident occurred during his service as prosecuting attorney which had marked effect upon the politics of Cleveland and that section of the state. Until 1841 slave owners were in the habit of sending their agents to Cleveland and causing their runaway slaves to be arrested and taken before a magistrate, when a warrant would be obtained for the return of the slaves, who would thus be carried back to cap- tivity. All this was common, creating little or no excitement, and Mr. Bolton in the practice of his profession was more frequently employed for this purpose than any other attorney in the city. In the spring of 1841, three negroes who were claimed as slaves had run away from New Orleans and were in Buffalo. The agent of their master applied to a law firm in Cleveland for assistance. At that time slaves arrested in Buffalo were in the habit of claiming a trial by jury, which was granted. To avoid a jury, some members of which might sympathize with the runaways, it was thought advisable to get the negroes into Ohio and accordingly one of the attorneys, the agent and a negro from Cleveland repaired to Buffalo. On their return the three negroes came with them and it was said they had
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been kidnaped. On reaching this city the negroes were arrested under the law of congress as fugitives from service and lodged in the county jail. Information of this at length reached the few abolition- ists then in Cleveland, among them the Hon. Edward Wade, and Hon. John A. Foote, prominent lawyers of that day. They applied to the jailer for permission to consult with the negroes, but public opinion was so strong against the abolitionists that neither the jailer nor the sheriff would permit them to communicate with the prison- ers. It came about through chance that a colored man asked Mr. Bolton if he would take up their defense. He readily assented, and being prosecuting attorney of the county and not an abolitionist-a fact which was well understood-the doors of the jail were readily opened to him and he immediately made preparation for a vigorous defense of the prisoners. A writ of habeas corpus was immediately applied for to Judge Barber, one of the associate judges at the time ; the negroes were brought before him and the case continued for ninety days to allow the defense time for preparation. When it be- came known about town that Mr. Bolton had undertaken the defense of the negroes great indignation was excited and many threatened to tear down his office and to use violence toward his person. This only aroused him to greater energy in behalf of the negroes. In the mean- time indictments had been procured in Buffalo against the alleged kidnapers and the excitement in the city greatly increased, so that on the day of the trial the courthouse was packed to the doors. Afer an investigation which lasted two days, the court discharged the defendants and they were acquitted.
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