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At the breaking out of the civil war he was offered the position of chief elerk of the United States Military Telegraph department with head- quarters at Washington; he accepted the place and was one of the four men who knew the secret cipher used in transmitting messages to the front. Ile was soon afterward commis- sioned quartermaster with the rank of captain, which office placed himn second in command in the Military Telegraph department with head- quarters at Cleveland; he was also assigned the duty of purchasing and supplying all the mili- tary districts with telegraphic materials. The red tape and technicalities constantly required in this branch of the Government service be- came so irksome that he resigned at the end of two years.
The largest retail jewelry business in the city of Cleveland was established and conducted by Mr. Wade; but after several years he disposed of his interests in this line, and devoted his time to the management of the family estate, which then demanded the entire attention of himself and father. Public-spirited and pro: gressive to a marked degree, he gave a liberal support to many commercial enterprises, and was prominently connected with the following corporations: As secretary of the Cleveland & Cincinnati Telegraph Company; as secretary,
treasurer and director of the Cuyaboga Mining Company; as secretary, treasurer and director of the Chicago & Atchison Bridge Company; as president and director of the Nonesuch Min- ing Company; as director of the Kalamazoo, Allegan & Grand Rapids Railway Company; as director of the Citizens' Savings & Loan As- sociation; and as president and director of the
American Sheet & Boiler Plate Company. He was an accurate accountant and a skillful draughtsman, an excellent linguist, speaking German and French fluently, and a talented innsician. He was liberal in his religious views, generally attending the Church of the Unity, of which he was Treasurer. In the midst of life's most useful and honorable ac- tivities he was approached by the pale visitant, and June 24, 1876, yielded to man's inevitable fate.
S MITH NEVILLE, secretary and treasurer of the Pearl Street Savings & Loan Com- pany, is one of the West Side's wide- awake, thorough-going and reliable business men.
Mr. Neville was born in Cleveland, Ohio, June 14, 1859, son of Smith and Charlotte (Boyd) Neville, the former a native of Cleve- land, Ohio, and the latter of Wheeling, West Virginia. The senior Smith Neville was a shipbuilder by trade, which business he followed all through life. Some time in the '60s he left Cleveland and went to Sheboygan, Wisconsin, where he died in 1872. Ilis widow is now a resident of Cleveland. The subject of this sketch is the oldest of their five children, the others being as follows: David, John, Lottie and William. William died in 1886, aged twenty years. The others are all in Cleveland. Miss Lottie is one of the popular and successful teachers of the city.
Smith Neville was educated at Sheboygan and Cleveland. After leaving school he entered the employ of the National City Bank of Cleve- land, with which he remained for twelve years,
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serving in the capacity of collector, book-keeper and teller. Upon severing his connection with that bank, he entered upon the duties of his present position. That was in 1890.
The Pearl Street Savings & Loan Company has a capital stock of $100,000. It is officered as follows: David E. Mclean, president; W. II. Humiston and George Faulhaber, vice-presid- ents; Smith Neville, secretary and treasurer. This bank does a commercial and savings bank business, issnes New York and foreign ex- ellange, and makes eolleetions a specialty.
Mr. Neville was married in 1886, to Miss Ada Bentley, daughter of Chester Bentley, a pioneer of Cleveland. Mr. Bentley came from Con- neetient to Cuyahoga county in 1832. Mr. and Mrs. Neville have three children: Josephine, Ruth and Mildred. Mrs. Neville is a member of the Congregational Church.
Politically, Mr. Neville votes with the Re- publiean party, but he has never songht any political office. IIe is a member of Ellsworth Lodge, F. & A. M.
M. MCKINSTRY, Grand Secretary of the Royal Arcanum for the State of Ohio, was born in Torrington, Conneetieut, November, 17, 1844. Anything approaching a full history of his antecedents, would, if accessible, consume an ordinary volume in itself, for his ancestors both paternal and maternal ante-date the Amer- ican Revolution, the latter especially being honored with having a representative aboard the historie Mayflower on her arrival at Plym- outh Rock in 1620. His aneestors on both sides achieved distinction in the Revolutionary war, one of them being a member of General Washington's special body-guard. The pioneer forefather of the MeKinstrys graduated at Edin- burg in 1712, and came to this country in 1718, the first of the name to land on Amerienn shores, and settled in Massachusetts. A fondness and adaptation for religions work seems to have pre-
vailed among the older members of the family, as they were ministers of the gospel. J. M. MeKinstry's great-grandfather was one of these. Ile left the old Bay State, and was the first minister to locate in Ellington, Connecticut, more than a century ago. One of his sons, our subject's paternal grandfather, Perseus McKin- stry, was a resident of Chicopee, Massachusetts, and was married to Graee Williams: he died in 1829. Their fifth child was Rev. John A. Me- Kinstry, father of the subject of this sketch. An inclination toward literary work seems to have pervaded the family, two brothers being owners and publishers of successful newspapers, viz., the Fredonia Censor of Chautauqua county, New York, and the Faribault Republican, of Minnesota.
Rev. John A. MeKinstry was born in Massa- chusetts, in 1811. His education was received in the same State; he being a graduate of Am- herst College. He was engaged in pastoral work in Connectiont until 1864, when he eame to Ohio and located in Richfield, Summit county, and in this State completed a long career, and from the standpoint of snceessful work a profitable one. llis popularity was attested by the fact that without a dissension he occupied the pastorate of the same parish for twenty-three years, voluntarily relinquishing it on aeconnt of increasing years. He died at Painesville, in 1889. Ile married Miss Mary E. Morton, a daughter of John B. Morton, of Ilatfield, Massachusetts, which family was closely intermarried with those named White, the two family lines being among the foremost in New England. John Morton Mckinstry has one brother, William A., who is secretary of the Cleveland Commercial Travelers' Assoeia- tion, and one sister, Harriett E., who is a pro- fessor in the Lake Erie Female Seminary at Painesville.
Ile received his education at Williston Semin- ary in East Hampton, Massachusetts, and at Yale College. He went to California after leav- ing sehool, and for some years was engaged in teaching in the cities of that State. He returned
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to Cleveland, and in 1869 engaged in the wooden-ware business, being one of the founders of the Forest City Wooden-ware Company.
For many years and until 1891, Mr. McKin- . stry was a " Knight of the Grip," covering in the wooden-ware trade the entire country, and visiting nearly every city of any consequence in every State. Ile is as a result most widely known as a commercial man, and greatly ad- mired by his legion of friends, both in and out of the fraternities. He became interested in fraternal benefit work in 1885, when he was made orator of To Kalon Conneil, Royal Arcanum, of Cleveland, but a few months after joining the order. Later he was made Vice Regent, and for two terms filled the office of Regent. Ilis next work was in connection with the Grand Council of the State, passing from Grand Orator to Grand Regent, reaching the latter office in 1891. In 1892 he was elected Grand Secretary, and the following year was re-elected, unani- mously. The same year he was elected a repre- sentative to the Supreme Council of the Royal Arcanum by a unanimons vote. Ile is first Vice-president of the Commercial Travelers' Home Association. For two terms he was the National President of the Travelers' Protective Association, and is Past Councilor of the United Commercial Travelers' Association. He is Past Commander of the Knights of the Maccabees, and was Grand Trustee of the same order. Hle is President of Cnyahoga Council of the Na- tional Union, and a member of the National Union Cabinet, and is presiding officer of three other orders.
Mr. Mckinstry has also achieved some promi- nence as a political organizer, and was elected by a large majority to a seat in the City Conn- cil in the face of adverse political majority, No- vember 4, 1870.
Ile married Laura M. Newton, a daughter of Lneins Newton, of Richfield, Summit county, Ohio. Mr. Newton is also of New England ex- traction, having been born in Goshen, Connecti- ent, and becoming one of the early settlers of Summit county. His wife was Caroline Broek-
way. Mr. Newton is living, at about seventy- eight years of age, and his wife is abont seventy. They have no children.
Mr. Mckinstry is by nature adapted to the offices he performs. Ever genial and courteous, he makes friends wherever he goes. He is a hard worker and puts in his " licks " when and where they will produce the greatest good for the order. Ile is an entertaining talker and an interesting speaker. Ilis speceles reveal an unusual fund of wit, and make him an excep- tional entertainer at public gatherings.
D R. E. E. BEEMAN, president of the Beeman Chemical Company of Cleve- land, Ohio, was born in LaGrange, Lorain county, Ohio, in 1840. His father is Dr. J. Beeman, now one of the oldest resident physicians of the city of Cleveland. Dr. E. E. Beeman spent his boyhood days in Lorain and Erie counties. At the age of eighteen years he made Newburg, this county, his home. ITe received a public-school education, and then attended for two years Oberlin College. At the age of eighteen years he began to read medicine, under the direction of his father, and in 1861 gradnated at the Cincinnati Medical College. In 1862 he enlisted in the army serv- ice for three months. He became one of the Cleveland Grays nuder Captain Frazee, Company D, Eighty-fourth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Serving ont the term of enlistment he returned home, and in 1862 married Mary Cobb.
During the years 1863 and 1864 Dr. Beeman was engaged in the drug business on Ontario street, being associated with his father. There- after he practiced medicine for twelve years at Birmingham, Ohio, then for six years at Wake- man, this State.
Ile then returned to Cleveland, where he en- gaged in the mannfacture of pepsin. For six years and a half he was engaged in manufactur- ing pure pepsin, and was the first to intro-
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duce pure pepsin into use by the medical pro- fession. In 1888 he formed a partnership with A. L. Johnson and William Caiu for the pur- pose of manufacturing pepsin on a more exten- sive scale than he had hitherto been able .to do. The Beeman Chemical Company was organized, with Dr. Beeman as one of the stockholders and the manager, and at that time, as now, a lady, Miss Nellie M. Horton, was employed as bookkeeper. It was she who suggested to him, in January, 1890, the idea of a pepsin chewing gum, which idea the Doctor took with favor. Ile began at once experiments, which resulted a month later in bringing forth what is now widely known as " Beeman's Pepsin Gum." At first this gum was sold in boxes at the price of 15 cents each. Its commercial success was phenomenal and far beyond the expectations of the producers. When the success of the new venture was assured the company was reorgan- ized and Dr. Beeman sold a block of stock to Miss Hortou for her bright idea, and the com- pany, realizing that the manner of putting up the guin at the expense to the consumer of 15 cents per box was not just the thing, decided to reduce the size of the package and hence the price. It was then that the present form of package at a price of 5 cents each was inangn- rated. In 1891 Johnson and Cain sold their interests to George II. Worthington, James Nicholl and James M. Worthington. The business of the concern rapidly increased in valne, and December 27, 1891, the company was incorporated as a stock company, with a capital stock of $225,000, the stock being owned and controlled by Dr. Beeman, the two Messrs. Worthington, Mr. Mitchell and Miss Horton. Dr. Beeman became president, James Nicholl vice-president, George II. Worthington seere- tary and J. M. Worthington treasurer, while Miss Nellie M. Horton became assistant secre- tary. The success of this business firm has been phenomenal. In the year 1892 a business of a half million dollars was done, and the first half of the year 1893 shows an increasing busi- ness.
In the manufacture of the Beeman Pepsin Gum are employed upward of 120 girls. They are now shipping on an average one and a half tons per day. The magnitude of the business is simply wonderful, and it appears strikingly so when it is understood that per month there are consumed 200 barrels of granulated sugar and other materials in proportion, while the labels are purchased in 15,000,000 lots. The foil used in wrapping is purchased in Germany in lots of five tons each. In Germany is also bought, in lots of two and a half tons each, the oil of- wintergreen, with which the gum is flavored.
Dr. Beeman, the subject of this sketch, is one of the best known manufacturers of chew- ing gum in the United States, and this product is widely known throughont a broad domain. He is a prominent citizen, esteemed and re- spected. Has served as a member of the Cleve- land City Council for four terms, first being elected as a Democrat, while his last two elec- tious were at the hands of the Republican party.
lle is a Royal Arch Mason, and a pleasant, genial gentleman of fine physique, manly and attractive appearance. His family consists of two sons,-Ilarry and Lester. The older is located in Orlando, Orange county, Florida.
MISS NEMTHE M. HORTON, assistant secretary and manager of the Beeman Chemical Com- pany, was born in New York State, a daughter of C. T. and Margaret Horton. The home of her girlhood was Campbell, that State, where she received a fair education in the public schools. At the age of eighteen years she came to Cleveland and for a short time thereafter was employed by her uncle, L. B. Silver, for whom she kept books. She was then for four years cashier and bookkeeper for VanEpps & Com- pany of this city. She then became bookkeeper for the Beeman Chemical Company, and it was she who suggested the idea to Dr. Beeman of making a pepsin gum. It is just to say that she took an active part in compounding tho first sample of the gum produced as well as in
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originating the idea, and she has rendered val- nable assistance in making the product a snc- cess. As a reward to her for the suggestion of this idea she was sold a block of stock in the company, and now is a part owner of this stupendons and successful business concern. Her shares render her an independent woman. . Miss Ilorton is a bright, comely little woman with black enrly hair, and is accorded promi- nent and well deserved mention in Mrs. Ing- ham's book, The Women of Cleveland, which has already been accepted as a very valuable contribution to literature relating to the achieve- ments of the many noble women Cleveland has produced.
E LIJAII D. PEEBLES, editor and mana- ger of the Berea Advertiser, was born April 16, 1835, in Middleburg township, where he was reared. His parents, the late Charles and Ineretia M. Nelson Peebles, were natives of Amherst, Massachusetts. They first settled, after marriage, in Berea, New York, where they remained one year, and in 1832 came to Cuyahoga county, Ohio, settling in Middle- burg township, three miles east of Berea. Ilis father was a farmer by occupation. He died in Middleburg, May 6, 1875, at the age of seventy- seven. His mother died in Berea, November 21, 1891, at ninety. They had four children,- two sons and two daughters.
Elijah D. was the second son. When twenty years old he attended the Baldwin University for some three years and then engaged in teach- ing till the war broke ont, when he enlisted, in 1861, in the three months' service, in the IIi- bernian Guards of Cleveland. Returning to Berea, he again engaged in teaching, chiefly in Ohio, but also in Michigan, Wisconsin and Min- nesota, until March 31, 1864, when he again enlisted, this time in Company A, Brackett's Battalion, Minnesota Cavalry, and served till May 16, 1866, when he was mustered out of the service and returned to Berea, where he engaged in farming for that suunner,
August 23, 1866, he was united in marriage with Miss Nettie Casterline of Cortland, Ohio. She was a daughter of Ludlow Casterline, and was born in Cortland, February 5, 1842. Mr. and Mrs. Peebles have three children: Lucretia M., Charles C. and John C. I.
Mr. Peebles accepted the position of principal in the Berca Union School in January, 1867, and was thus occupied about a year and a half. Ile was also principal of the Seville public schools for one year. During the summers of 1870 and 1871 he was employed as time-keeper at one of the large quarries in Berea. IIe after- ward accepted a position as principal of the Port Crescent public schools, at Port Crescent, Michigan, where he remained for five years, when he resigned and returned to Berea in the fall of 1876, and in the spring of 1877 he be- came connected with the Berea Advertiser as editor and manager, which position he has since filled.
Mr. Peebles has been connected with the Con- gregational Church since 1869. Ile is a mem- ber of the Masonic fraternity, the Odd Fellows and the G. A. R.
P ROF. EBEN FISII, formerly a teacher and now a prominent orchardist and farm- er of Brooklyn township, was born in the house where he now resides, December 24, 1836. Ilis father, Daniel Fish, a native of New London, Connecticut, came to Cuyahoga county in 1817, with an ox cart, locating upon the farm mentioned. Building a log honse, he occupied it and proceeded to clear and improve the land, on which he continued to make his home until his death, which occurred October 15, 1880, in his eighty-ninth year. Politically he was a Whig and Republican, and in religion a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Ile aided in the buikling of the first churches in the township. He was a model man, well known as a leading citizen throughout the county. Ebenezer Fish, the father of Daniel, was n na-
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tive of. Connecticut, of English ancestry. He was a descendant of one of three brothers who emigrated to this country from England in Co- lonial times. He engaged in the Revolutionary war, and finally died here in Brooklyn township, this county. The brothers of Daniel Fish en- tered from the Government much of the land where Brooklyn village now stands. Daniel married Matilda Chester, a native of Groton, Connecticut, whose father was also a native of that State and of English ancestry. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Fish had two daughters and seven sons, as follows: Alford, of Wisconsin; Lydia, the wife of Stephen Hook, now deceased; Cal- vin, who died at the age of fourteen years; Julia, who died aged forty-nine years; Charles, who was killed on the railroad; Hubbard, who gradu- ated at the Ohio Wesleyan University at Dela- ware, and is deceased; Elisha, who died while attending the same institution; Leonard, of Brooklyn township; and Eben, whose name heads this sketeh.
Professor Fish, the youngest of the family, attended the Brooklyn Academy, Baldwin Uni- versity and the Cleveland Institute, at which last institution he graduated in July, 1863. During the following three years he was principal of the Geanga (Ohio) Seminary, after which he was engaged in business in Cleveland about five years. In 1875 he located on the old homestead. Ile taught mathematics and the natural sciences for five years at Cleveland College on Pearl street, and since that time he has devoted his attention to the raising of fruit and to general farming, on the old homestead mentioned. In his political principles he is a decided and out- spoken Prohibitionist, believing in having some issue before the publie worth fighting for, or at least devoting the attention for the time being to the most important issue, and when that is settled take the next in importance, and so on.
December 14, 1865, he married Mary A. Scott Fish, a native of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, who resided successively in Kentucky, Indiana and Ilinois. She graduated at the Southern Illinois Female College, in Salem, Illinois, and taught
in the same institution a year; taught a year at Olney, same State, where she married Mr. Fish. From that point they came to Ohio, and both engaged in teaching at the Geauga Seminary three years. She was principal of the public school one year, when, on account of failing health, she was obliged to abandon the position. Mr. and Mrs. Fish's children are: Mabel I., the wife of Professor L. II. Ingham, filling the chair of Greek and natural science at Kenyon College; Florence A., the wife of Professor P. J. Mohr, principal of the high school at San Bernardino, California; M. Grace, a student at Baldwin Uni- versity; and Jessie II., attending the grammar school at Brooklyn village.
C HARLES HT. CARRAN, Deputy County Auditor, was born in Warrensville, Cuya- hoga county, Ohio, March 7, 1860. Hle is a son of Robert Carran, a farmer, who came into Ohio early in the '30s from the Isle of Man. By trade he was a shoemaker, but dis- carded the bench several years ago. He first married, when twenty-two, Miss Kneale, and they had seven children: J. J., deceased; T. J .; William, who died in the army; R. A .; and L. C. T. J. was at one time State Senator from Cuyahoga county, but is now a resident of Los Angeles, California. Our subject's mother was Ann Quayle, a Manx lady. Her children were: Francis, deceased; Charles II .; N. R .; and Martha, wife of Robert Carr.
Charles II. Carran, after passing through the grammar-school department of the Cleveland schools, entered the employ of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad Company as a clerk, remaining four years, being bill clerk for Agent Andrews of that company. In 1882 he left the railroad service and traveled for his brother, who was in the oil business. Later on he became his bookkeeper and remained with him till 1887, when he was appointed Deputy City Auditor, under Auditor Athoy. In 1891 he was elected Auditor of the Board of Educa-
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tion, but was one year later legislated ont of office. He then engaged in the oil business, and elosed it only to accept his present office.
Mr. Carran married, in Cleveland, September 27, 1892, Miss Harriet, a danghter of Louis Ritter, a pioneer to Cleveland from Germany. Mrs. Carran graduated at the Cleveland high school in 1885, being also valedictorian. She was engaged three years as teacher, the second year being special teacher of German. Mr. Carran is a Royal Arch Mason, an Odd Fellow and a Knight of Pythias.
D HI. MALONEY, commercial agent for the Chicago, Rock Island Pacific Rail- road Company for Cleveland and northern Ohio, was born in Niagara Falls, New York, February 2, 1861, and obtained a meager edn- cation from the village schools. At the age of fourteen years he commenced his railroad ex- perience by entering the service of the passenger department of the Erie Railway as office boy; and so trustworthy and efficient was he that within three months he was permitted to sell tickets at the station. He continued to serve that company at the Falls for four years, and on leaving was transferred to the terminus of the Great Western Railway (now the Grand Trunk) at Clifton, Ontario, as passenger agent. Re- maining at that point until the fall of 1881, he came to Cleveland, and on November 1 that year engaged with the New York, Chicago & St. Louis (" Nickel Plate") line as contracting freight agent, serving until about September 15, 1889, when he became the commercial agent of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company for northern Ohio, and opened an office in Cleveland, in which office he has built up a creditable and profitable business in freights to points west of Chicago reached by his line. Prior to his taking this office here this patronage had been distributed among competing lines, Mr. Maloney has an extraor- dinarily high degree of vitality and vivacity,
and is a hustler, making " life a burden " to his competitors, while he himself is as jolly a man as can be found.
Mr. Maloney is a son of John Maloney, a livery and hotel man at Niagara Falls. He was a native of county Clare, Ireland, married .
Catharine Green and brought np a family of five children, namely: D. II., onr subject; Dr. F. W., of Rochester, New York; J. B., travel- ing agent for the Grand Trunk Railroad Com- pany and Canadian Pacific jointly; Mrs. James Bampfield and Mrs. John Ellis, of Niagara Falls, Ontario.
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