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Mr. D. II. Maloney was married July 29, 1885, in Buffalo, New York, to Miss Mary Delaney, a teacher in the Buffalo public schools, and their children are Louise and Martha.
J HIOMAS W. MINSHULL, superintend- ent of the registry department of the Cleveland post office, was born at Bir- mingham, England, July 18, 1844. IIis father, George Minshull, a mechanie, died in his native country, in 1863, at fifty-five years of age. IIe married Miss Sarah Jordan, and Thomas W. was the third of their five children.
Mr. Minshall came to the United States in 1874 and secured employment with a firm of carriage workers at Orville, Wayne county. Three years later he went to Cuyahoga Falls and accepted a position with L. W. Loomis. In 1881 he came to Newburg as bookkeeper for Carlisle & Tyler, and, after serving for five years in the same capacity with the Fuller & Warren Company of. Cleveland, he was made assistant superintendent of registry, soon suc- cceding to the superintendency. Mr. Minshall is interested as a stockholder in the C. B. Mc- Elroy Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of jewelry.
November 2, 1883, Mr. Minshull married Miss Lizzio Hebebrand, born in Cleveland, Ohio, of German ancestry, and they have one child, Ilarry.
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Mr. Minshull is Colonel of the Second Regi- ment of Knights of Pythias, the largest regi- ment in the United States. He was four years Inspector General of the State, and was nomi- nated for Brigadier General at their last meet- ing, but declined. He is Past Regent of the Royal Arcanum, R. A., Past Protector of the Knights and Ladies of Honor and Past Sir Knight Commander of Columbia Tent, K. O. T. M. He is Deputy Supreme and Past Coun- cillor of the Royal Additional Benefit Associa- tion, passed through the chairs in the society of the Sons of St. George, and is at present Briga- dier General of the Uniform Rank, Royal Arcanum of Ohio.
C G. BARKWILL, secretary and treasurer of the Columbia Savings & Loan Com- pany, and one of the foremost brick manufacturers of Cleveland, was born in this city, August 6, 1847. After securing a fair knowledge of books from the public schools he began business as his father's assistant in the manufacture of brick, on what is now the site of the Standard Oil Company and of the axle works, at junction of Broadway and New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Railway.
On reaching his majority, Mr. Barkwill, having a complete knowledge of the manufac- ture of brick, opened a yard on Canal Road, and was a competitor for several years, when he retired from that work and engaged in the provision business as a member of the firm of C. Prentiss & Company. Not being satisfied with the financial results produced by this line of operation, he sevorod his connection with the firm in 1877, and entored the employ of the Standard Oil Company, with whom he con- tinued until 1881. In 1882 he again turned his attention to the manufacture of brick, with his yard at the foot of Mound street, where he still continues, enjoying a high reputation as a faithful manufacturer and dealer,
He is a member of the insurance firm of Barkwill & Kingman; is treasurer of the Can- field Oil Company, and has large real-estate in- terests in the city. In 1891 he was elected secretary and treasurer of this financial institu- tion, of which he is also a director.
Mr. Barkwill's father, Charles Barkwill, be- came a resident of Cleveland about the year 1840, soon after which he embarked in the manufacturo of brick, and was a formidable competitor for many years. Ile was born in England, and died in this city in 1884, aged sixty-eight years. His estimable wife, nee Eliza- beth Ball, survives him, aged seventy-eight years, and is the mother of two children: C. G. Barkwill and Mrs. Frank Streetor, of Paines- ville, Ohio.
Mr. C. G. Barkwill was married June 15, 1870, in this city, to Miss Maria O., a dangh- ter of a well known pioneer of Cleveland, Simeon Streetor, who came here from eastern New York early in the century, and purchased a farm of 220 acres on Broadway and vicinity, all of which is now absorbed by the city. He resided on this tract as a farmer until 1872, when he retired from active pursuits, and died in the year 1879, aged eighty-four years. His children, besides Mrs. Barkwill, were Frank Streetor, of Paines- ville, and Miss Electa A. Streetor, residing with the subject of this sketch.
Mr. and Mrs. Barkwill's children are: Faith E., a graduate of Wellesley College; Lucy, a student in the same institution; Earnest, at the Central High School; Margaret and Isabel. The family are active members of the Woodland Ave- nue Presbyterian Church.
R EV. HENRY EPPENS, pastor of St. Paul's United Evangelical Church, 518 Scoville avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, is one who by reason of his high attainments, the good he has accomplished and the promi- nent position which he holds, deserves more than passing recognition in this connection.
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He was born at Barlington, Iowa, November 25, 1846, the son of Rev. Henry and Anna (Norman) Eppens, natives of Germany. The father came to America in 1844 and his mar- riage occurred the succeeding year. Ile was a clergyman of the same religious body as is his son, and he had occupied a position of unusual prominence in his native land, having had charge for a time of a theological seminary at Hamburg, Germany. He subsequently became superintendent of an orphans' home, which in- cumbency he resigned to come to America. Arriving here he proceeded to Burlington, Iowa, where he assumed a pastoral charge. About this time (1845) the synod of the church was organized and he became one of its charter members, the entire mmmuber comprising not more than seven or eight individuals. Ile was very prominently identified with the early his- tory of his church, was widely known, a man of scholarly attainments and of pronounced ex- ecutive ability, being held in high esteem as a man of true Christian character, as a leader in the work of the church and as an influential citizen. Ile served in pastoral charges at va- rious points in the Union for a period of thirty- two years, and was then elected to a general supervision of the work of his church, assuming charge of the business affairs of the theological seminary at St. Louis, Missouri. His wife died in 1880, at the age of seventy-two years. She was a cheerful, devoted Christian woman, a cherished companion and zealous in all good works, having been a lifelong member of the church of which her husband was so worthy a disciple. Alter the death of his loved wife the venerable clergyman came to the home of his son, our subject, where he remained for a time, going thence to Lockport, New York, where he made his home with his adopted daughter until death summoned him to eternal rest. He was gathered to his fathers in the year 1884; at the advanced age of eighty years, and in his death there was a signal and solemn consistency, for he had run his course and by a goodly and righteous life had richly merited his reward.
The subject of this sketch, who is ardently carrying forward the good work to which his honored father devoted his life, was the elder of two children. The second son, Rev. Conrad Eppens, was born in 1848 and died in 1881, aged thirty-three years. His wife, Carrie, nee Herbold, is still living. Ile had been for nine years pastor of the church at Hermann, Mis- souri, and at that place he died, his untimely demise being attended with sorrowful regret by the church in whose cause he had labored so devotedly and successfully, as well as by a large circle of friends to whom he had become en- deared. His children are: Edward, who is pre- paring himself for the ministry at the theologi- cal seminary in St. Louis, Missouri; Ella, who is a capable teacher, employed at Canal Dover, Ohio; Julius; and Herman.
Lena Eppens was an adopted sister of our subject, her parents having died within a week after her birth. She was tenderly reared by her foster parents and is now the wife of Rev. Theodore Munzert, of Lockport, New York. For those who had given her affection and home she has ever maintained a true filial solicitude and has stood ready to testify her gratitude by every possible means.
Rev. Henry Eppens, Jr., seenred his theologi- cal education at the seminary in St. Louis, Mis- souri, and was ordained to the ministry May 2, 1870. Ilis first pastoral charge was at Canal Dover, Ohio, where he served for fourteen years, laboring zealously and effectively. Through his efforts a handsome and commodi ous church edifice was erected and he built up the church membership to a representative standpoint. Hle came to Cleveland and assumed his present charge in 1884, his earnest efforts having here been attended by most satisfying and goodly results. An inenbus of indebted- ness on the church property, to the amount of abont $7,000, has been nearly cleared away; the congregation has increased in membership, representing at the present time abont 125 fam- ilies; the Sunday-school has an average attend- ance of 300 individuals; and in short the church
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is in a most healthful and prosperous condition, showing the pleasing combination of a devoted people and a cultured, worthy and industrions pastor.
On the 18th of June, 1871, onr subject was united in marriage to Miss Margaret Sehlundt, danghter of Rev. J. F. Schlundt, who nt that time held a pastoral charge at Holland, Dubois county, Indiana. Mrs. Eppens' parents are still living, being residents of North Amherst, Lo- rain county, Ohio, the father having retired from active elerical labors and being now eighty- two years of age. His wife, Sophia, is now seventy-six years old. Mrs. Eppens is the sixthi in a family of eight children, four sons and four daughters, namely: Charles; Henry; Rev. John, who is at present stationed near Evansville, In- diana; Catherine, wife of Rev. F. M. Haefele, who holds a charge at North Amherst, Ohio; Jacob, deceased; a danghter deceased in in. fancy; Mrs. Eppens; and Sophia, who is at home, caring for her aged and worthy parents.
Rev. and Mrs. Eppens have six children: Frederick, a elerk in the First National Bank, of Cleveland; Christian, a bookkeeper in the same institution; Anna, Emma, Ida and Frieda.
S TILES II. CURTISS. - Whether the ele- ments of success in life are innate attri- butes of the individual, or whether they are quickened by a process of circumstantial development, it is impossible to clearly deter- mine. Yet the study of a successful life is none the less interesting and profitable by reason of the co-existence of this same uncertainty. So much in excess of successes is the record of fail- ures or semi-failures that one is constrained to attempt an analysis in either case and to deter- mine the method of causation in an approx- imate way. The march of improvement and progress is accelerated day by day and each mo- ment seems to demand of men a broader intelli-
gence and a greater discernment than did the preceding. Successful men must be live men in this age, bristling with activity, and the les- sons of biography may be far-reaching to an extent not superficially evident.
Hle whose name introduces this sketch is the junior member of the firm of Smith & Curtiss, wholesale dealers in teas, coffees and spices in the city of Cleveland. He is a native of the State with whose commercial enterprises he is now concerned, having been born in Summit county, May 27, 1846, the son of Charles and Mary (Gleeson) Curtiss, who were prominent in the pioneer history of the county named. The father was a native of Connecticut and the mother of the State of New York. Charles Curtiss emigrated to Ohio in 1840 and took up his residence in Summit county, which was then in the initial processes of reclamation at the hands of the pioncer settlers. Ile attained to a position of prominence in the community and gained recognition as a man of sterling worth and integrity. In 1860 he removed to Cleveland and at once engaged in the same line of business to which his son, onr subject, now devotes his attention. He was also interested in agricultural pursnits after his removal to Cleveland, owning and operating a fine farm. Ile was connected with the Summit county branch of the State Bank of Ohio, and retained his financial relations with this institution until it was merged into the National Bank. He was for many years a zealous and consistent mem- ber of the Presbyterian Church, and held offi. cial preferments of importance in the connec- tion. IIe was a man of unswerving integrity, a popular and public-spirited citizen and a busi- ness man of much ability and acumen, at all times careful and conscientious in his methods. The enterprise which he established in Cleve. land prospered under his effective direction and constantly increased in importance and range of operations. He continued his connection with the industry until the time of his death, when it passed into the hands of his son, as already noted. The death of this honored pioneer oc-
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curred December 27, 1872, at which time he was in his sixty-first year. Ilis wife survives him and has now attained the venerable age of eighty-one years. Her parents, Moses and Polly Gleeson, were prominent among the carly pioneers of Cuyahoga county.
Charles and Mary Curtiss were the parents of three children, two sons and one daughter. The eldest son, Charles E., took up arms in his country's cause at the outbreak of the late civil war, enlisting, at the age of seventeen years, in Battery D, First Ohio Light Artillery. He was severely wounded at the battle of Ivy Mountain, and being incapacitated for service by reason of his injuries was sent home, where he re- mained for a year, when on account of his con- tinucd disability he was discharged from further service in the field. He removed to Arizona, where he was a prominent business man and Adjutant-General of the Territory at the time of his untimely death, his demise oe- curring January 22, 1879, at which time he was but thirty-five years of age. The subject of this review was the second child, and the third was Anna, who is now the wife of Thomas II. Brooks, a well known business man of Cleve- land.
Stiles II. Curtiss was educated at the West- ern Reserve College, at which institution he graduated in 1867. He commenced the study of law, proseenting his reading under the pre- ceptorship of the prominent Cleveland law firm of Prentiss & Baldwin. He was admitted to ` the bar in 1869 and from that time continued in the practice of his profession in Cleveland until 1872, when, upon the death of his father, he succeeded to the latter's commercial inter- ests and has since carried on the business most successfully. The firm of Smith & Curtiss is one of the representative associations in its line, the business having experienced a steady and healthful growth until it is one of the most extensive in the State as considered in connec- tion with kindred enterprises, Mr. Curtiss is prominent in business circles of the city and ha- important financial interests aside from the
one already mentioned. Ile is a director in the State National Bank and the Citizens' Savings & Loan Association.
As evineing his practical interest in and sup- port of charitable and benevolent enterprises, we call attention to the fact that he is a trustee for the Children's Aid Society, and also for the Floating Bethel. He is also a trustee of the Second Presbyterian Church, of which or- ganization he and his wife are esteemed men- bers.
The marriage of our subject occurred Septem- ber 30, 1875, when he was nnited to Miss Lucia M. Stair, daughter of Edwin and Marcia 1. Stair, of Cleveland. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Curtiss are four in number: Charles E., Heury S., Edwin S. and Anna M.
F FREDERICK SPERRY WARNER, son of Warcham J. Warner, deceased, was born in Cleveland, March 6, 1816, ended his school days at Humiston's Institute, then on the South Side, and in 1861 entered the Forest City Bank as collection clerk, and remained there until it closed business. He was next employed by Orville B. Skinner at the old Mer- win street depot of the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis Railroad for several years, and then was in Toledo a year, clerking in the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad office. Returning to Cleveland, he was engaged by the old Lake Shore Railroad Company as clerk at the old pier depot until 1865, when he became bookkeeper for Corning & Company, remaining with them some nine years, and on account of ill health, in 1874, he went West and located in Independence, Kansas, engaging in hotel business as proprietor of the Caldwell House. Closing there in 1877 he returned again to Cleveland, which city he has since made his home. For some weeks after his re- turn he was occupied in renewing old acquaint- aties. April 6, 1878, he engaged in the whole- sale and retail grocery trade extensively at 163
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Ontario street, succeeding by purchase the firm of Pope & Hammer, until April 1, 1883, when he guit the business and for some years attended to the settlement of the estate of his father, who died December 1, 1883. Since that date he has devoted his time to Fire, Life and Acci- dent Insurance business as a solicitor.
He is a veteran member of Tyrian Lodge, A. F. & A. M., and a member of Cleveland Lodge, B. P. O. E.
June 9, 1880, he was married, in Cleveland, to Miss Agnes A. Morris, whose father, Jolm W. Morris, is a pioneer of this city, and for many years was a prominent ship builder. He was born in Rhyl, North Wales, February 14, 1814, and came to Cleveland June 5, 1842. Mr. and Mrs. Warner's children are: Edith Morris, Rosalind Morse, Lillian, deceased, and John Morris.
R OBERT CHRISTIAN, ex-Deputy Col- leetor of Customs at the port of Cleve- land, was born in the Isle of Man, Jan- uary 28, 1819. His parents were John and Elizabeth (Watterson) Christian.
His father, a farmer and weaver by occupa- tion, and a local Methodist preacher in his ver- nacular tongue-the Manx-Gaelie-as well as in English, died in 1844, at the age of fifty- seven years. His wife departed this life in Jime, 1822. They were the parents of two sons and two daughters. Catherine, the eldest child, was born in 1817, married Robert Cottier, of Ballaclucas Marown, and are both now de ceased, the former dying in 1852. Charlotte, born in 1818, married Robert Faraker, of the town of Peel, and died in London, in 1885, leaving five sons and one daughter, all in Lon- don. One son, Robert Faraker, is a minister in the established church. John, the youngest child of John and Elizabeth Christian, was born in 1822, and died in 1842, at the age of twenty years. Ile also had two sons and two daughters,
by his second wife, two of whom are still living, namely: Edward, in Brooklyn, New York; and Margaret, in Cleveland.
Robert Christian, the third child in order of birth, came to the United States in 1850, locat- ing in Cleveland, Ohio. While in his native country he served an apprenticeship of four years at the grocery trade, receiving only his board and lodging, and afterward followed that business on his own account twenty-four years. Ile crossed the ocean first on the ship Prince- ton, one of the Black Ball line of sailing ves- sels. In 1855 he returned to his native place, going this time on the ship Constitution (Cap- tain Caldwell), spending seven weeks on the voyage, namely, from January 28 to March 17, 1856. During this time the steamer Pacific was lost, with all on board. One man was ac- cidentally killed on the ship Constitution during the voyage.
On first coming to this country Mr. Christian spent three weeks in New York, three weeks in Albany, two months in Buffalo, where he was joined by his family, and they then came to Cleveland, on the Saratoga, the railroad being open only as far as Dunkirk. He opened a grocery store on what is now Ontario street, between Bolivar and Huron streets, and on the site the Christian Block is now located. The street was then known as Pittsburg street, later was changed to Broadway, and finally assumed its present name. In the spring of 1857 he moved his family to Cedar avenne, where he now resides. April 1, 1864, he became an em- ployee of the customs collector as deputy at the marine desk, and after eight years' service in this relation he served as general deputy for fifteen years. He left the enstoms service January 18, 1887, and has since lived retired.
He was married in the Isle of Man, August 12, 1845, to Miss Elizabeth Bridson, who died in 1884, at the age of seventy years. They united with the First Baptist Church in 1857. Mr. and Mrs. Christian have had five children, three of whom died in infancy. The chlest. living child, George Bridson, was born June
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23, 1546, and during the war was in the 100- day service, under Captain Jeremiah Ensworth, now deceased, in Company F, One Hundred and Fiftieth Regiment of the Ohio National Gnard. While stationed at Fort Totten, near Washington, District of Columbia, the regi- ment had a skirmish with General Early in his raid on Washington.
George B. Christian married Eliza Jane Worswick, of Cleveland, Ohio, October 9, 1890, and they have one child, Bessie. Mr. Chris- tian, Jr., has served as clerk in the First Bap- tist Church for the past fourteen years, and is vice-president of the Cleveland Provision Com- pany, pork-packers, with whom he has been identified for the past thirty years.
Elizabeth, the only living daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Christian, is still a member of the home cirele: she is an artist of a high degree of natural taste.
In political matters the men in this family are Republicans; and the subject of this sketch has performed an important part in his line in the best interests of the Government and city. The snecess attained by him is mainly due to his native sagacity, and to his courteous, gen- tlemanly bearing and his high and honorable business methods. He is thoroughly alive to the best interests of the day, keeping fully abreast of the times.
D R. M. L. ALLEN, physician and surgeon, 525 Pearl street, Cleveland, was born in Hancock county, Ohio, July 12, 1853. Ilis father, D. G. Allen is a native of Jefferson county, this State, and is still a resident there, on a farm, following his life-long vocation, agriculture, and also engaged in milling, hav- ing control of a large mill. Ile also raises live stock, as fine sheep and horses; but as he is now seventy-one years of age he is partly re- tired from active life. He has been an Elder in the Presbyterian Church from carly man- hood, has organized two churches and has al-
ways been a very influential man in church and other local interests. He has been married three times and has six children, Dr. M. L. being the third child by his first marriage, to Sarah McCandless, a native of Virginia. The other children are: Mary, wife of W. W. Den- nis, a carpenter of Cleveland; James B., in Maysville, Missouri, who married Miss Flora Phillips; S. M., who is a resident of Pennsyl- vania and married Anna Crawford. The sub- ject of this sketch was but one year old when his mother died, aged thirty years, a devout member of the Presbyterian Church. For his second wife Mr. D. G. Allen married Lucinda Abaugh, who also died at the age of thirty years, leaving one child, William. By the third marriage Mr. Allen wedded Mrs. Sarah Allman, and they also have one child, D. S.
In his youth Dr. Allen was educated at Har- lem Springs and Hopedale, Harrison county, this State; read medicine under the instructions of Dr. Thomas Crawford of Angusta, Ohio, and completed his medical course in the medical de- partment of the Western Reserve University in Cleveland, graduating in the class of 1888, since which time he has pursued his chosen profession at the place where he is now located, having enjoyed splendid success. In respect to the fraternal orders he is a Mason and a member of the order of Knights of Pythias.
Ile was married in October, 1889, to Miss Eva MeEntire, daughter of Peter and Mattie MeEntire, of East Springfield, Ohio. Both her parents are still living, on a farm,-the father now aged sixty-live years, and mother sixty years,-members of the Presbyterian Church. Ile is a good farmer and stock-raiser, giving much attention to draft horses. Mrs. Allen is the fourth in a family of seven children, as fol- lows: Jane, Rosa, Ross (deceased at the age of twenty-seven years), Eva ( Mrs. Allen), Vincent, Morton and -
Dr. and Mrs. Allen are members of the Lo- rain Street Methodist Episcopal Church, in which religious body he holds an official rela- tion. On national questions he is an ardent
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Republican, and has done much For his party. He is a splendid young physician, standing well in the profession and among all those who know him intimately.
Although bnt ten years of age during the second year of the last war, he has a " war record,"-at least he saw a specimen of army life, as follows: General John Morgan, while on his raid through Ohio, stopped with his mon at the Doctor's parental home, and both the men and their horses were fed, eating every- thing on the premises, both at the honse and at the barn! Each man had two horses. They arrived abont ten o'clock at night and departed about six next morning.
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