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Captain Molyneanx was with his regiment in the battles of Strasburg, Winchester, Edenburg, Gaines Cross Roads, White Plains, Front Royal, Port Republic, Bristow station and Cedar mountain, in which last engagement he had two horses shot from under him, and received three wounds, --- in the head, the right hand and the left leg. ITis wounds were healed in quarters and he remained on duty most of the time. He was present at the battle of Antietam, Berry- ville and Dumfries, and just prior to the last named engagement and after three times waiving his rank he was promoted to a captaincy, being assigned to the command of Company A, Seventh Regiment. He accepted the promotion relnet- antly, but remained in command of his company till after 1863, when his disability forced him to resign his commission.
Soon after his return to Cleveland Captain Molyneanx was prevailed npon to take command of a newly organized company, afterward Com- pany E, One Hundred and Fiftieth Ohio National Guards, 100 men. This regiment was ordered to Washington, District of Columbia, and Captain Molyneanx was assigned to the command of Fort Thayer, near Bladensburg, and took part in the repulse of General Early's attack on the capital. Upon the expiration of its time of service this company returned to Cleveland and was mustered out in August, 1864.
On re-entering civil pursuits Captain Moly- neaux arranged a partnership with G. S. New- burg and engaged in the printing and printers' supply business, contiming in the business till January, 1883, when he received the appoint- ment of Deputy County Recorder. This office he filled until June 1, 1886, when he was appointed Assistant Postmaster, by Postmaster Jones, serving until relieved by the new admin- istration in May, 1891. In May, 1892, Captain Molyneanx was appointed to serve on the Board of Equalization and Assessment for three years.
Thomas Molyneaux, the founder of the family in this country, was born in Ireland and emi- grated to America in 1832, and in company
with two brothers-in-law settled on a farm near Ann Arbor, Michigan. The Molyneanx Family were of French origin, the Captain's grand- father being compelled to leave the land of the Bonapartes because he got on the wrong side of the Revolution of 1793. Thomas Molyneanx married Margaret Twambly, whose father, Peter Twambly, was an Irish tobacconist.
Four sons were born by this marriage: Robert, now a resident of Elmira, New York; Henry and Thomas, both killed in battle; and Joseph B. Thomas Molyneanx was lost at sea while returning to Ireland to become an inheritor in an estate of the family.
May 26, 1863, Captain Molyneaux married, in Cleveland, Nettie, a daughter of William A. Lyon, an engineer and pattern-maker, and later in life an enthusiastic Freemason. The Captain's children are: William V., a clerk in the post. office; Robert T. and Ray L.
lle is a member of Iris Lodge and Webb Chapter , A. F. & A. M., of the National Union, the Loyal Legion, and of the G. A. R. Hle is a member of the Soldiers and Sailors' Monn- ment Commission.
OHN THOMAS, prominent in life insur- ance circles, was born at Duanesburg, Schenectady county, New York, in 1838. Ilis father was the Rev. W. B. Thomas, rector of the Episcopal Church at that place, and his paternal grandfather was Dr. John Thomas of Poughkeepsie, New York, who was a surgeon in the Revolutionary war, being a personal friend of General George Washington. Mr. Thomas' mother was a daughter of Henry Livingston, a Colonial officer of the American Revolution.
While he was yet a child, Mr. Thomas' par- ents removed to Poughkeepsie, New York, their birth-place, and here they edneated their son at the Dutchess County Academy, and other schools. In his fifteenth year he acquired the art of telegraphy at the regular commercial office of the city. He became an expert opera-
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tor, and was appointed to a position on the Western division of the New York & Erie Railroad. After one year's service he was made chiel operator of one of the larger offices, and in the course of another year was appointed chief operator of that division of the line, with an office at Jersey City, where he remained about eighteen months, at the close of which he accepted the position of telegraphie train dis- patcher on the Michigan Central Railroad with his office at Kalamazoo, Michigan. Ilis age was eighteen at the time of accepting this re- sponsible position, which he held for seven years. In 1863 he obtained leave of absence for the purpose of offering his services to the Govern- ment during the Civil war. For a time he served in the telegraphic corps of the army, and was then appointed train, despatcher of the United States military railroads, with the office at Alexandria, Virginia, those roads being under the superintendence of Mr. J. II. Dever- enx. In the spring of 1864, Mr. Devereux having accepted the appointment of superin- tendent of the Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad, Mr. Thomas took the position of superintendent of telegraph and train despatcher on the same road, having previously made formal resignation of his position on the Michigan Central Rail- road. In 1868 Mr. Thomas was made assistant superintendent of the Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad under superintendent William Stewart, who succeeded to Mr. Devereux' vacated post. In 1871, the Pennsylvania Company, under the general management of Mr. J. N. Mccullough, who was also president of the Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad, leased the Cleveland & Pittsburg road for 999 years. Mr. Stewart was made general freight agent for all western lines, and Mr. Thomas superintendent of the Cleve- land & Pittsburg Division. This position Mr. Thomas held for more than ten years. On en- tering the service of the Cleveland & Pittsburg Company, in 1864, his office was in Wellsville, at which point he resided until 1872, when he removed to Cleveland, having built a residence on Willson avenue, in that city.
In 1866 he suggested the establishment of the Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad Reading Room Association. This association now has a fine library of over 2,000 volumes, located in the station building at Wellsville.
In 1869 he took a very active part in the erection of the Episcopal Church in Wellsville, and soon after a rectory also. An excursion by rail to Cleveland, and by steam on Lake Erie, netted a considerable sum to the church build- ing- fund. In 1870 Mr. Thomas was largely instrumental in the preparation of a code of rules and regulations for the working of the Cleveland & Pittsburg road, which in actual Operation proved very successful. Later, and under the management of Mr. J. D. Layng, then general manager of the Pennsylvania Com- pany, a special committee of superintendents was appointed to prepare a code of rules for the governance of all the western lines of the Pennsylvania Company. Of this committee, Mr. Thomas was made chairman. The work of this committee, when submitted to the general manager and other general officers, was ap- proved, and the code of rules so prepared con- tinued in force for a number of years.
In January, 1882, Mr. Thomas was tendered --- and accepted-the position of general superin- tendent of the Chicago Division of the Balti- more & Ohio Railroad Company, with head- quarters in Chicago. This position he retained for one year and three months, when he resigned and at ouce returned to the service of the Pennsylvania Company as general superin- tendent of all northwestern lines, except the Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad. This position he retained about two years and a half, with his residence at Pittsburg. He then returned to the Cleveland & Pittsburg Division of the Penn- sylvania lines, and again resided in Cleveland. HIe held the position of superintendent and later general agent of the company in Cleveland. In August, 1892, he resigned railroad service. Ile had entered that service when fourteen years of age, and he resigned at the age of fifty- four, just forty years of servico. His resig-
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nation was tendered in order to accept tho general agency for Northern Ohio of the Berkshire Life Insurance Company of Mas- sachusetts, in which position he has charge of the Cleveland office. In 1893 Mr. Thomas was elected a member of the excentive committee of the Life Underwriters' Association, and a dele- gate to the National Convention.
From youth, Mr. Thomas has been a member of the Episcopal Church. He has for many yoars been a member of St. Paul's parish in Cleveland, and was for a long time the superin- tendent of the Sunday-school. He has many times been a delegate to the diocesan convention of the church, and the convention of 1893 elected him treasurer of the diocese of Ohio.
October 17, 1865, Mr. Thomas married Miss Elizabeth Bean, of Wellsville, Ohio. She died after a very brief illness, in May, 1869. Two sons, John and Hugh Livingston, were born in this family, the eldest of whom, John, died in carly infancy.
February 7, 1877, Mr. Thomas married Miss Margaret II. Bouton of Brooklyn, New York, and the marriage has been blessed by the birth of two daughters, Marguerite Livingston and Helen Electa.
D R. F. E. BUNTS, physician and surgeon of Cleveland, was born in Youngstown, Mahoning county, Ohio, June 3, 1861, a son of Captain William C. and Clara (Barnhisel) Bunts, natives also of this State. His father was an attorney, and at the time of his death, January 17, 1874, at the age of forty-one years, was serving his second term as City Solicitor for Cleveland.
In 1862 he enlisted in the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in Com- pany B, as Captain, but, owing to poor health, he soon resigned his position and served as Judge Advocate, and later as acting Assistant Adjutant General on the staff of Major General Rosecrans, at. Nashville, and remained in that office nuti! January, 1861.
Returning to Cleveland in 1866, he was United States District Attorney until elected City Solicitor. For a young man he had a very bright legal career before him; was extensively and favorably known throughout the State. He had a peculiar individuality that made his friend- ships sincere and lasting. He was Department Commander of Ohio in the G. A. R. for two years; was prominent in politics, a Republican and a Freemason. His greatest interest, how- ever, was in the work of the Grand Army post. Ilis wife, born in 1838, is living with Dr. Bunts in Cleveland. The children in the above fam- ily were: Henry C., an attorney in Cleveland; F. E., our subject; Cora L., wife of John Stam- bangh, Jr., of Youngstown; Fred W. and Sue A.
Dr. Bunts, whose name heads this sketch, was educated in the Cleveland high school and at Girard, where he received from General Gar- field the appointment of Cadet Midshipman to the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, in 1877. In the competitive examination at War- ren he stood No. 1. Graduating in 1881, he made a two years' cruise to the Asiatic Station, visiting the islands of the South Pacific and the principal ports of China and Japan. On this expedition he served as signal officer on the staff of Rear Admiral J. M. B. Clitz. He visited the island of Samoa, later the scene of the disaster in which three United States vessels and several German ships were lost. One class- mate, Lieutenant F. E. Sutton, was among the lost. Dr. Bunts was detached from the Asiatie Station in order to come home for promotion, reaching home in June, 1883, after an absence of two years. Ile passed the examination, then resigned and commenced the study of medicine, in the fall of 1883. Ilis preceptor was Dr. W. J. Scott, of Cleveland, and he graduated in the medical department of the Western Reserve University, in 1886. Then, until October fol- lowing, he was house physician at Charity Hos- pital. Next, associating himself with Dr. Frank J. Weed, he opened up in general practice. Dr. Weed died in 1891, and Dr. Bunts is now located at No. 380 Pearl street. He is a mem
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ber of the American Medical Association, the Ohio State Medical Society, the Cuyahoga County Medical Society, the Cleveland Society of Medi- cal Sciences and of the Ohio State Railway As- sociation; he is also a Fellow of the American Electro-therapeutic Association. He is surgeon for the Cleveland, Cincinnati & St. Lonis Rail- road Company and of the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Company. He was made lecturer on minor surgery in the medical de- partment of the University of Wooster in 1887, Professor of the same in 1888, Professor of the Principles of Surgery in 1889, and Professor of Principles of Surgery and Clinical Surgery in 1892, which latter position he filled until 1894, when he resigned and accepted the same chair in the Medical College of the Western Reserve University.
In the autumn of 1889 and spring of 1890, Dr. Bunts was in Berlin, Paris, Vienna and London, studying surgery in the hospitals of those cities. Dr. Bunts is well read in his pro- fession, in which he takes great pride and ex- hibits a high degree of skill.
In 1889 the Doctor married Miss Harriet E. Taylor, a daughter of V. C. Taylor, of Cleve- land, and they have two children. Their names are Clara Louise and Virgil Taylor. The Doc- tor is a Republican in his political sympathies.
C. ROLAND, cashier of the Cleveland post office, was born in Ohio county, West Virginia, November 26, 1846. His grand- father, Abram Rofand, emigrated to that county from castern Pennsylvania, where the family had been settled many years, near Lancaster. Abram Roland first left home at fourteen years of age, but remained in Pennsylvania until his marriage to Miss Cline, after which he settled in what became known as West Liberty, West. Virginia, near Wheeling. The valley in which Wheeling is situated was not then even a settle- ment, the Zane block-house famous in Indian warfare being built abont that time. Mr.
Roland was a powerfully built and active man, and was identified with many of the stirring events which marked the early history of Ohio county. Being a tanner, he established yards at West Liberty and conducted his trade there for fully fifty years, or until his death, which occurred about 1840.
George W. Roland, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born July 24, 1812, being one of the youngest of a large family of chil- dren. In early life he was a very active and successful business man: was a contractor and builder in Wheeling, and many of her best buildings bear testimony to his workmanship. Prior to the war he operated a large planing- mill in that city. In 1863 he moved to Belmont county, Ohio, and engaged in farming as well as building. In 1870 he moved to Dallas county, Iowa, and gave his time to agriculture till his death, in March, 1892. Ile married Susan Ann, a daughter of George Brown, who was a farmer of Jefferson county, Ohio, and they had six chil- dren, two of whom reached the age of maturity, namely: Mrs. Elizabeth McCoy, of Chillicothe, Missouri; and J. C. Roland. Mrs. Roland died in 1848, and Mr. Roland, in 1850, married Rebecca Anne Moore. The children by that umion were: J. M., a jeweler at Greenville, Pennsylvania; and Mrs. Anna Clark, of Dallas county, Iowa. The third marriage of Mr. Ro- land occurred in 1857, when he wedded Mary Ann Faris, and their children are: George B., William F. and Arthur W.,-all of whom are located in the far West.
Mr. J. C. Roland was educated in the public schools of Wheeling, completing the course at fourteen years of age, and soon afterward en- gaged in the jewelry business with a brother- in-law at Grafton, same State; but the business was cut short early by young Roland's enlist. ment for the Union in the great war. Angust 7, 1862, at Wheeling, he joined Company HI, Fifteenth West Virginia Volunteer Infantry. ITis regiment remained in that State until the spring of 1864, when it was transferred to the Kanawha valley and attached to General Crook's
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division of the Army of West Virginia. It participated in the battles of Cloyd mountain and New river bridge, May 9 and 10, and, join- ing General Hunter at Staunton, Virginia, par- ticipated in the engagement at Lynchburg, Vir- ginia, June 17 and 18. On the failure of the army to reduce the place, it retreated by way of the Kanawha, Charleston and the upper Ohio to Harper's Ferry, which point it reached in time to follow General Early and engage him at Island Ford, Kernstown, Berryville, Opequan, Fisher's Hill and Cedar creek. In December, 1564, Mr. Roland's division of the Army of Western Virginia was transferred and made a part of the Second Division of the Twenty-fourth Army Corps, Army of the James, and thrown in front of Richmond, later to the left and center of Petersburg, taking active part in the opera- tions around that city. After the fall of Peters- burg his division followed and supported Sheri- dan's cavalry to Appomattox Court House, and was in front at the attack on the remnant of Lee's army and the capture of the same, April 9, 1865. Mr. Roland's division took possession of Lynchburg, and soon afterward marched to Richmond, and was mustered out June 14, 1865. During the latter part of his service Mr. Roland was attached to brigade headquarters as Chief Orderly.
On returning to civil pursuits Mr. Roland was engaged for two years in building opera- tions with his father. In December, 1869, he came to Cleveland and connected himself with the Plain-dealer as advertising solicitor. Later he served as secretary and business manager of the concern, and after the paper changed hands was manager of the advertising department. In 1887 he accepted his present position under Postmaster Armstrong. Ile is an active mem- ber of the G. A. R., being a member of the Army and Navy Post. In 1873-'74 he was Assistant Adjutant General of the Department of Ohio. Ile is frequently a delegate to State and national oncampments, and is a Past Com- mander of his post, and a member of the Depart- ment Council of Administration.
November 2, 1869, Mr. Roland married Louise, a daughter of Hon. A. C. Ramage, of Belmont county, Ohio. Their children are Mary Louise and John C., Jr.
D E FORREST BAKER, one of the lead- ing physicians of Cleveland, located in the Kendall Building, 106 Euclid ave- mte, was born in Lorain county, Ohio, Septem- ber 17, 1851, a son of Benjamin and M. U. Baker. In his early life the father was a mer- chant in New York city, next engaged in mill- ing at Columbia, Lorain county, Ohio, and afterward traded his mill for a farm in that county, where he still resides, aged eighty-one years. For many years he has been an officer in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mrs. Baker departed this life December 22, 1860, having also been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They were the parents of three chil- dren. The eldest, Bethia W., is still at home. The second child, Merrill E., was formerly en- gaged in railroading, and is now superintendent of the Cleveland Stone Company at the West View Stone Quarry. For the past thirty-three years he has been Recording Steward in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and has also been Superintendent of the Sunday-school for many years. Mr. Baker married Engenia M., a daughter of Rev. Disbro, pastor of the Method- ist Episcopal Church. To this union has been born one danghter, Edith, wife of Professor Palmer, of Lake Forest University, Illinois.
De Forrest Baker, the youngest child in the abovo family, received his edneation in the Baldwin University. Ile studied medicine with Dr. Van Norman, later with Dr. Boynton, and graduated at the Homeopathie Hospital Col- lege of Cleveland, in February, 1878. After practicing his profession in Norwalk, Ohio, for a time, Dr. Baker came to Cleveland, and the firm of Van Norman & Baker was established. That partnership existed four years. The Doc- tor is a member of the Ohio Stato Homeopathie
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Medical Society, is a charter member of the Round Table Club, is Lecturer to the School of Trained Nurses at the Huron Street Hospital, and professor of pediatrics and diseases of the nervous system in the Cleveland University of Medicine and Surgery.
Dr. Baker was married October 19, 1881, to Miss Carrie Day, a daughter of I. D. and Eliza- beth Wagar, of Lakewood, Ohio. Mrs. Baker is an artist in oil painting and music, and a member of the New Jerusalem Church. Our subject and wife have had two children: Hazel Urania, and Elizabeth, who died at the age of four and a half months. In political matters the Doctor affiliates with the Republican party.
LIVINGSTONE TAYLOR, deceased, son of the late William and Margaret (Duncan) Taylor, was one of Cleveland's most prom- inent young business men and citizens, having succeeded his father as the head of the large dry-goods house of William Taylor, Son & Com- pany.
Mr. Taylor was born in Boston, Massachu- setts, on November 12, 1861, and came with his parents to Cleveland when nine years of age. He received his edneation in the public schools of Cleveland, lis earliest education, however, having been received from his moth- er. Ile was an ambitious student and grad- nated at an early age, with honors, from the Cleveland Central High School, being a member of the first graduating class at that in -. stitution. Upon leaving school he entered the dry-goods house of Taylor, Kilpatrick & Com- pany, taking a subordinate position as a clerk, it being the desire of both himself and father that he work his way np from the lowest con- sistent position to a place in the firm, receiving promotion as he earned it, and thus becoming a practical merchant. He was energetic, pains- taking and attentive to his duty in all the de- tails, and his advancement was rapid from a place behind the counter to one of responsibil-
ity in the wholesale department, and thence to a membership in the firm, which became Will- iam Taylor, Son & Company, in 1886. Upon the death of his father in 1889 he succeeded him as the head of the firm.
Ile was married on April 30, 1890, to Miss Sophia Strong, daughter of Mr. Charles II. Strong, one of the well known pioneer citizens of Cleveland. Mr. Taylor's death occurred on November 7, 1892. Ilis business interests upon his death were taken up by Mrs. Taylor,
There was inch in the life of Mr. Taylor worthy of emulation by the rising generation, and it is the object of this brief sketch to pre- serve for the future the salient points in his character. Though but thirty-one years of age, his snecess in business was far beyond that of the average man of his years, and his reputa- tion in commercial circles, both at home and abroad, was most enviable. The establishment of which he was the head was one of the largest and most substantial in the State of Ohio, and it was dne to a great extent to his efforts and methods that it reached the proud position it then and now occupies. He was a member of the Board of Trade of Cleveland, and was in- terested in public matters to the extent of lend- ing his aid to all movements having for their aim the building up, beautifying and edifying of the city. But it was aside from the busy marts of commerce and business that the char- acter of Mr. Taylor was most beautiful, his worth as a Christian man and worker overshad- owing somewhat the brilliant man of business. Hle was a member of the Case Avenne Presby- terian Church, and was one of the most active and persistent workers in the church. His pas- tor paid the following tribute to the life of Mr. 'Taylor:
" His godliness was a particularly prominent trait in his character. There are two conditions in which it is hard to live a truly religious life- in poverty, and in prosperity. I can easily un- derstand how heavy business responsibilities and cares may tend to draw a man's attention away from religious matters, but such was not
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the case with Mr. Taylor. He was present at the regular meetings of his church, the morn- ing preaching, the evening service, the prayer meeting. I ever know just where to cast my eyes to find him. He was always faithful in attendance so long as his health remained. When, one by one, the activities of his life were given up, I knew that his devotion to God was as great as ever. There were three things that characterized his life and made it round and complete. They were his godliness, his truth- fulness and his manner of taking God into his affairs of life."
Another minister, and a warm personal friend, compared the life of Mr. Taylor as a whole with that of John the Baptist, whose allotted work was finished before his death, and said: "As one to whom the departed brother was as a son, I feel that I can answer the question, 'Why was his life so brief?' It was because his work was finished, his allotted task ended, his eonrse fulfilled. Ilis life was not a failure, not an un- completed fragment, but a full, round exist- ence."
The following tribute is from a co-laborer in Y. M. C. A. work :
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