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Republican party from the time of its organ- ization until his demise.
Judge Kennan is indebted to the public. schools of his native city for his early educa- tion, which included a course in the high school. After the completion of this curricu- lum he was matriculated in Western Reserve College (now Western Reserve University). in the city of Cleveland, in which institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1871, and from which he received his well earned degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Mas- ter of Arts. After his graduation he devoted seven years to teaching in the public schools in various parts of the Western Reserve, and he then began reading law under the precep- torship of his older brother, Colonel Cortland L. Kennan, of Norwalk. He made rapid and substantial progress in his absorption and assimilation of the science of jurisprudence, and in 1879 he was admitted to the bar of his native state, upon examination before the Ohio supreme court, in Columbus. He forth- with entered into a professional partnership with his brother, with whom he was asso- ciated in the active and successful practice of law in Norwalk until 1885, when, yielding to insistent importunities, he became principal of one of the public schools of that city, where he again did most effective work in the peda- gogic profession. In the following year, how- ever, he came to Medina and assumed the position of superintendent of the public schools of this city, where the most significant and emphatic voucher for his able service and the popular appreciation thereof is that afforded in the fact that he retained the incumbency for the long period of twenty-two years. To him the public schools of Medina owe much for their well defined and practical system of work and their general high standing. Many of those who came under his direction during their student days, and who hold him in last- ing esteem, are today prominent and success- ful in various useful vocations-a fact that remains to him a source of profound gratifi- cation. as measurably representing the tangi- ble results of his earnest efforts and his per- sonal influence.
In March, 1908, Judge Kennan was made the Republican nominee for the office of judge of the probate court of Medina county, and in the following November he was elected by a majority which amply testified to his per- sonal popularity in the county. He forthwith
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resigned his position as superintendent of schools, and has since given his undivided at- tention to the affairs of his court, where his administration is proving as fully admirable as the marked ability and fidelity of the in- cumbent would naturally suggest. He as- sumed the duties of the office in February, 1909. Judge Kennan is a man of fine intel- lectuality and broad mental ken, and while a natural student he has never lacked in the powers of practical and productive application, as his labors in his various fields of endeavor amply indicate. For twenty years he held, in addition to his position of superintendent of the schools of the city of Medina, the office of school examiner for the county.
In politics the judge has ever been arrayed as a stalwart supporter of the principles and policies for which the Republican party stands sponsor, and he has rendered effective service in its cause. He and his wife are zealous members of the Congregational church, and he is affiliated with Medina Lodge, No. 58, Free & Accepted Masons; Medina Chapter, No. 30, Royal Arch Masons; Morning Star Lodge, No. 26, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and with Evening Star Encampment, No. 300, a branch of the Odd Fellows organ- ization, in which he has served as deputy grand master of the grand encampment of the state of Ohio.
On the Ist of May, 1882, Judge Kennan was united in marriage to Miss Cora E. Pick- ard, of Norwalk, Ohio, who was born and reared in the state of New York, where she received excellent educational advantages, and where she was a successful teacher for one term. She is a daughter of James H. Pick- ard, who removed with his family from New York to Kalamazoo, Michigan, where both he and his wife died. Judge and Mrs. Kennan have two children: Ruth, who is a popular teacher in the public schools of East Cleveland, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, at the time of this writing, in 1909; and Edward, who is a mem- ber of the class of 1909 in the Medina high school.
HON. JEROME B. BURROWS .- The subject of this sketch was born at North East, Pennsyl- vania, January 18, 1834. His parents, Will- iam and Maria (Smith) Burrows, were born in 1795 and married in 1818. His father was a native of Connecticut, and his mother of Massachusetts, and at the time of their mar- riage he was a farmer and she a school teacher.
Judge Burrows has no certain knowledge of his ancestors beyond his grandparents, who migrated from New England early in the nine- teenth century, the Burrows family going to Chautauqua county, New York, in the vicinity of Jamestown, and the Smith family settling permanently at North Amherst, Lorain county, Ohio. William Burrows was the youngest of a family of nine children, and he reared a family of eight children, one daughter and seven sons. At the beginning of his married life he was substantially empty-handed, but was always able to provide his family abun- dantly with such advantages and comforts as were then found in the homes of prosperous farmers. He resided in Chautauqua county until 1832 and then for eighteen years at North East, Erie county, Pennsylvania, when, in the spring of 1850, he removed to Ohio and purchased a farm in Ashtabula county, in the vicinity of the famous Kingsville Acad- emy, with the view of giving his children the advantages of that school. Subsequently he purchased a farm near Geneva, in the same county, and spent the last ten years of his life in that village. Both he and his wife had been members of the Baptist church from their youth, but their outspoken opposition to slav- ery became grievous to their brethren, and compelled them to associate with another de- nomination. Whatever equipment their chil- dren had with which to begin the battle of life should be credited mainly to the salutary and inspiring influences of the parental home. It is, perhaps, unnecessary to say that the chil- dren were by inheritance hostile to slavery.
In the early spring of 1856 Judge Burrows, with an older brother, Hamilton, who had served in the war with Mexico, went to Law- rence, Kansas, and joined the militia organ- ized to protect the Free State settlers in that territory, and remained there until Jim Lane, with his forces, came to the rescue in July. The parental influence was again in evidence when the Civil war came. The six sons then living enlisted in the Union army in the spring and summer of 1861, and their combined serv- ice aggregated fifteen years. Two served as captains, two as lieutenants and one as chap- lain. Dr. S. S. Burrows entered the service as assistant surgeon of a regiment, and was soon advanced to the position of surgeon.
The salient features in Judge Burrows' ca- reer may be summarized as follows: He began teaching school in the fall of 1849, and conducted district and select schools dur-
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ing each winter until the spring of 1855. He attended school during the spring and fall terms, first at Kingsville Academy, and after- ward at Allegheny College and Oberlin Col- lege; but did not finish the college course. In 1853 he began the study of law in a desul- tory way as opportunity offered, and in 1855 devoted to it his entire time. He was ad- mitted to the bar in January, 1856, at Madi- son, Wisconsin, while serving for a few months as deputy clerk of the supreme court of that state. After his return from Kansas, in the fall of 1856, he was married to Clara E. Woodruff, of Geneva, whose grandfather was a Revolutionary soldier, and whose father came to the Western Reserve in 1820; opened a law office in that village, and had secured a fair practice for a beginner when the war closed his office. On April 21, 1861, he went as sergeant with the Geneva gun squad of the Cleveland Light Artillery, commanded by Colonel James Barnett, into the three months' service. This battery participated in the open- ing engagement of the war at Phillipi, West Virginia, and also in the affair at Laurel Hill and the battle at Carrick's Ford.
After the termination of the three months' service, he was deputed by Senator Benjamin F. Wade and Congressman John Hutchins to recruit a battery of artillery which the sec- retary of war had authorized them to raise. This battery he mustered into the United States service at Camp Wade, Cleveland, Ohio, in September, 1861, as the Fourteenth Ohio Battery. Afterward, while preparing for the field at Camp Dennison, Judge Burrows, by order of Governor Dennison, recruited the Fifteenth Ohio Battery. with the assurance that the two batteries should go into the field together under command of a major; but as this proposed arrangement was not sanctioned at Washington, Edward Spear, Jr., of War- ren, Ohio, first lieutenant of the Fourteenth, was elected captain of the Fifteenth Battery, and the two batteries remained thereafter dis- tinct organizations. The record of the Four- teenth Ohio Battery is its best eulogy. The full complement of one hundred fifty-six men was maintained; and, as an exception, this battery was allowed to retain its six guns after the order made by General Grant, in 1862, reducing field batteries in his army to four guns. The full roster of its officers and men during the war was three hundred ten ; and the battery was never lacking in equip- ment or readiness to meet every demand made
upon it. For more than three years Judge Burrows commanded this battery, except dur- ing the time he was absent on account of wounds received in the battle of Shiloh, and the few months that he served as chief of artillery of a division. He left the service by discharge on account of sickness, and for near- ly a year thereafter was unable to do any work.
In August, 1865, Judge Burrows opened a law office in Painesville, Ohio, and for thirty years active and successfully engaged in the practice of his profession, by which he ac- quired an excellent standing as a lawyer and a modest competence for his family. During this thirty years he was elected prosecuting attorney in 1867, state senator in 1868, mayor of Painesville in 1880 and 1882, and mem- ber of the board of education for several terms. In June, 1895, he was appointed cir- cuit judge by Governor Mckinley, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Hon. Hamil- ton B. Woodbury, of Ashtabula county. At the fall election this appointment was ratified, and thereafter he was nominated and elected for two successive terms without opposition. In 1908. notwithstanding the large increase in salary and the assurance of the bar of the fourteen counties comprising the Seventh cir- cuit that his candidacy for another term was generally desired, he decided to retire; and when his term was afterwards extended two years under the law by the death of his elected successor, Hon. E. E. Roberts, he resigned the office in December, 1908. At the meeting of the Ohio State Bar Association in July, 1909, Judge Burrows was chosen its president for the ensuing year ; and at the fall election, hav- ing been persuaded against his inclination to stand as a candidate, he was elected mayor of the city of Painesville.
Jerome Smith Burrows, his only surviving child, and the only surviving grandson of Will- iam Burrows, was educated at Adelbert Col- lege, Western Reserve University, admitted to the bar, and drifted into newspaper work. He commanded a company of volunteer infantry in the Spanish-American war, was afterwards appointed aide-de-camp on the staff of Gov- ernor Nash, with the rank of colonel, and for many years has been the managing owner and editor of the Painesville Telegraph and Painesville Telegraph-Republican.
HON. CALEB HATHAWAY GALLUP, of Nor- walk, has been among the most prominent members of the Huron county bar for half a
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century. More than forty years ago, then in the early thirties of his life, he was serv- ing in the legislature of Michigan and push- ing the first telegraph line along the west coast of Lake Huron. Later, he was a leader in the promotion of railroad building through the Western Reserve, and at a comparatively recent day was interested in the construction and operation of the Toledo, Fremont & Nor- walk Electric Railway. Almost a lifelong resi- dent of Norwalk, he has been potent in the development not only of the professional and material life of northern Ohio but of its ar- tistic, scientific, historical and charitable insti- tutions, and while leaving a strong impress on the past, he has never allowed his interest to flag in the activities of the present or the promise of the future. Although he has been retired for some years from the active prac- tice of the law, he is still connected with many large interests of his home city and is presi- dent of the Home Savings & Loan Company of Norwalk, to which he was elected in 1838, when, with several friends, he founded the institution.
Mr. Gallup has been a life member of the Whittlesey Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1877: chairman of its trustees since 1878, and its treasurer since 1901. Since 1876 he has been a life member of the Firelands Historical Society, and a trustee, librarian and curator of its museum, editor of its pub- lications since 1888, and was elected its presi- dent at its fiftieth annual meeting, July 22, 1909. He was also recently chosen a life member of the Ohio Archaeological and His- torical Society, and, commenting upon his se- lection as an executive trustee of that organ- ization in March, 1909, Hon. E. O. Randall, its secretary and editor, says: "Mr. Gallup is known throughout the country for his his- torical scholarship and for the active and ex- tensive work he has done in connection with the Firelands Historical Society, of which he has been an influential and official member for a number of years. He has always been an enthusiastic student of Ohio and western his- tory, and has written much that is interest- ing and accurate concerning the early settle- ment of the Buckeye state." Mr. Gallup is further identified in membership with the Na- tional Geographical Society, and, locally, is actively connected with the Norwalk Board of Commerce; the Young Men's Library and Reading Room Association ( free public li- brary), having been chairman of its executive
committee since 1903; and with the Huron County Children's Home Association, of which he has been a trustee since 1889 and treasurer since 1902. Such facts as these fully sustain any general assertions which may be made re- garding the breadth, strength and beneficence of Mr. Gallup's influence.
The American ancestry of Caleb H. Gallup reverts to John Gallup, who was born in 1590 and in 1630 emigrated from his native parish of Mosterne, Dorsetshire, England, and was one of a hundred and forty persons who or- ganized a Congregational church at old Plym- outh just prior to sailing for New England in the little ship "Mary and John," on the 20th of March, 1630. On the 30th of May the colony arrived at Nantasket (Hull), Mas- sachusetts, under the guidance of Rev. John Warham and Rev. John Maverick, their pas- tor and teacher. As noted in the old town rec- ords: "They were a very godly and religious people and many of them persons of note and figure, being dignified with the title of Mr., which few were in those days. Some of the principal men were Mr. Rosseter, Mr. Lud- low, Mr. Glover, Mr. Gallup and others." The wives of Governor Winthrop and Mr. Gallup . were sisters, and the latter became the owner of Gallup's Island, off Boston harbor, obtain- ing his title by grant from his even more his- torical brother-in-law. A skilful mariner, John Gallup also served as commander in the first naval action fought in North American waters - that near Block Island, Rhode Island, which avenged the murder of his friend, Captain John Oldham, by Indians, in the Pequot war of 1637. His son, John (2), also was a par- ticipant in that engagement, and was a cap- tain in the fearful "swamp fight" of King Philip's war, which occurred at Narragan- sett (South Kingston, Rhode Island), Decem- ber 19, 1675, and numbered him as one of its victims. Shortly before the commencement of hostilities, a friendly Indian had presented him with a wampum belt which was supposed to be a warning of the impending conflict. This historical relic has been carefully pre- served by the family and is now in the museum of the Firelands Historical Society.
John Gallup (2), who married Hannah Lake, was the father of ten children, of whom Benadum was the fourth. The direct line of descent is then through Lieutenant Benadum, William (5) and William (6), to Hallet, the father of Caleb Hathaway. William, of the fifth American generation, was living at Kings-
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ton, Pennsylvania, with seven children, at the time of the Wyoming massaere of 1778. His son Hallet (twenty-two years of age) escaped death by floating down the Susquehanna river, patrolled by hostile Indians, with his body under water and his face between two rails grasped in his hands. Twin daughters, five years of age, were carried off by the savages as pretty prizes, but were soon ransomed. His son, William (6), was the fourth of seven children, and was the grandfather of Mr. Gallup. The father, Hallet, was an artillery gunner in Captain Thomas' company of Penn- sylvania volunteers, and served under General William Henry Harrison in the war of 1812. He was born in 1796, married Clarissa Bene- diet, daughter of Platt and Sally DeForest Benedict, first settlers of Norwalk. The ma- ternal grandfather, Platt Benedict, was one of the promoters of the Firelands Historieal So- ciety and its president from its organization in 1857 to his death, in 1866. Eight children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Hallet Gallup: Catherine, Maria, Lydia, Carroll, Sarah, Eliza, Caleb Hathaway and Elizabeth F.
Caleb Hathaway Gallup was born at Nor- walk, Ohio, on the 10th of May, 1834; learned the full meaning of hard work and industry on a farm, and received his early education in the union schools of his native town. In 1854, after being employed for a year in the county clerk's office, he entered the freshman class at Denison University, Granville, Ohio, and in the fall of that year continued his studies at Madison University (now Colgate), at Ham- ilton, New York, where he secured the found- ing of Mu Chapter of Delta Kappa Epsilon. In 1856 he graduated from that institution as Bachelor of Sciences, and then, until the fall of 1857, studied law in the office of Worcester & Pennewell, at Norwalk. Mr. Gallup next pursued a course in the Cinein- nati Law School, from which he graduated April 15, 1858, as Bachelor of Laws, being admitted to the bar of Michigan, July 19th of the succeeding year. Elected prosecuting attorney of Huron county, Michigan, in 1860, he ably filled that office by re-election for ten consecutive years, also serving in 1866-67 in the Michigan house of representatives. His work as a legislator was largely devoted to the improvement of the waterways of his dis- trict, among his creations in that connection being the harbor of refuge on Lake Huron, near Point au Barques. In 1868 he secured the erection of seventy miles of telegraph poles
from Lexington to Port Austin, Michigan, and from Anson G. Stager, of the Western Union Telegraph Company, the completion of the first telegraph line along the west coast of Lake Huron. In 1863-65 he was deputy United States marshal specially detailed to as- sist in the enforcement of the draft, and served as a member of the Ohio National Guard in 1877-82. From 1873 to 1883 he was largely interested in the construction of the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad, serving on its directorate in 1877-79, and in 1899 he became a director and executive committee- man in the building and operation of the To- ledo, Fremont & Norwalk Electric Railway, and thus continued until the sale of the line in 1901 to the Lake Shore Electric Company. His other important connections with intel- lectual and charitable institutions of a local, state and national character have already been detailed, and there yet remains to be noted the most important phase of his life, and that of every sound-hearted American-his domestic record and relations.
Mr. Gallup has been twice married-first, to Miss Kate V. Vredenburgh, of an old New York family, descended from its pioneer Dutch settlers. Their union occurred June 20, 1860, and their one son, Richard Carroll, was nineteen months old at the time of his mother's death, May 25, 1863. The second marriage, November 3, 1869, was to Miss Helen Alphena Glover, niece of Hon. Joel Parker, war governor of New Jersey, and her death, April 8, 1872, leaving a daughter, Mabel Parker, eighteen months old, and a son, Herbert Alpheus, four days old, caused the return of the father to his old home at Norwalk. There he has since continuously resided, still a stanch actor of today and a maker of history, as well as an honored re- eorder of it.
CLARK H. NYE, probate judge of Lake county, and long identified with its educa- tional and public progress, is a native of Con- cord, that county, where he was born on the 12th of January, 1858. His parents were Henry C. and Almena E. (Clark) Nye, both also born in Concord-the former June 20, 1826, and the latter December 27, 1823. Judge Nye's father was the tenth son of Ebenezer, a very early pioneer of this section of the Western Reserve, and his mother was the sec- ond daughter of Ahira Clark, also an old set- tler of the county.
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After obtaining a common-school education, Clark H. Nye completed a course in Oberlin College, from which he graduated in the class of 1884. His early educational career covers several years thereafter, and the scenes of his work were in Ohio, Illinois (Cook county) and Idaho (Kenyon county). In 1887 Mr. Nye was admitted to the bar at Ottawa, Illi- nois, having previously pursued his studies at Elgin. He then spent a year on the United States Geological Survey in Idaho, and upon his return to Ohio, in 1890, worked on a farm and taught school for the succeeding five years. In 1895 he was admitted to the bar of Lake county, and until February 9, 1903, conducted a growing practice at Painesville. Since that date he has served with discretion, impartiality and ability as probate judge.
In politics, the judge has been a Republican, having been assessor and justice of the peace for some years before ascending the bench. As to his religious faith, he is a Congregation- alist, and in the furtherance of charitable movements has been particularly prominent in hospital work, for the past four years having been one of the most active trustees of the Painesville Hospital Association. On June 6, 1894, Judge Nye was united in marriage with Miss Eleanor S. Murray, who was edu- cated at Lake Erie College, and is the daugh- ter of George and Alvira (Garrett) Murray. Her father was a leading farmer and stock buyer of Concord, where the marriage oc- curred. The child of this union is Raymond M. Nye, born at Painesville, Ohio, on the Ist of September, 1899.
DAVID J. NYE .- Few men at the Ohio bar and on the bench deserve greater credit for the position attained than the Hon. David J. Nye, who was for ten years one of the judges of the court of common pleas for the district embracing Lorain, Medina and Summit coun- ties. David J. Nye was born in the town of Ellicott, Chautauqua county, New York, on the 8th day of December, 1843. His father, Curtis F. Nye, was a native of Vermont, and as a young man removed to New York, set- tling in the central part of the state with his parents. When of age he removed to Chautau- qua county, where his son David was born. When David was about five years of age his father moved to Otto, Cattaraugus county, where the son received his early training. His mother, Jerusha Susan Walkup, was also a native of Vermont, settling with her parents
in New York while in her girlhood. Young Nye attended the district schools until he was eighteen years of age, devoting much time during this period to work on his father's farm. He then entered Randolph Academy for the spring and fall terms of 1862, and in the winter taught district school, returning in the spring of 1863 to Randolph for one term, and the following winter taught near the academy. In 1864, upon the invitation of a friend, he came to Cuyahoga county, and taught school for four months in Bedford township. The following spring he returned to New York, remaining until fall. He then settled in Ohio, teaching school in Boston, Summit county, for the winter of 1865 and 1866. In the spring of 1866 he entered Ober- lin College in the preparatory department. Up to this period he had taught school during the winters and worked on the farm in the summer. In 1867 he entered the freshman class, and thus his collegiate course com- menced. He continued to teach school during the winters, but, however, applied himself with such diligence as to take an honorable position in the class, passing all the examinations re- quired of him with credit, just the same as if his attendance had been regular, completing his college education in the prescribed term of four years, and receiving his degree of Bach- elor of Arts in 1871. In July, 1883, Oberlin College conferred upon Mr. Nye the degree of Master of Arts. Not only was he able to maintain his literary standing as a student in college, after giving one-third of his time to the work of teaching, but during the senior year he filled the position of superintendent of schools at Milan, Erie county, to the entire satisfaction of the board of education. More than this, he found time to keep up the study of law. The bent of his mind from early boyhood had been toward the law, and his determination to qualify himself for the pro- fession was firmly fixed even before he began to teach. Upon entering Oberlin College he bought a copy of Blackstone, which he studied assiduously during his leisure hours. There seemed to be no limit to his capacity to .read and study, or to his versatility. He could manage a large public school, teach some of its classes, and hold steadily to his course in classical, psychological and literary studies, at the same time mastering the fundamental principles of law as laid down by Blackstone. After he received his degree, and at the solici- tation of the board of education of the Milan
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