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In 1859 thero came n consistent recognition of his ability in his election to the chair of oh-
stetries and diseases of women and children, in the Homeopathic Hospital College of Cleve- land. In the following year he was granted a still more marked preferment, being elected to the presidency of the institution, which office he filled until 1868.
As a teacher of obstetrics, Dr. Sanders is a recognized authority, standing second to no other in the Union, and being regarded as the equal of any European instructor. With the exception of two years, he has delivered at the college, the yearly course of lectures on obstet- ries for a period of thirty -four years, and he has occupied the chair of physiology, also that of principles of practice. In 1880 he was elected to the important office as Dean of the Faculty, which position he holds at the present time.
The Doctor is a member of the State Homeo- pathie Medical Society, of which he was for a number of years treasurer, and chairman of the Bureau of Obstetriey, and for one year presi- dent. Ile is also a member of the American Institute of Homeopathy, of which organiza- tion he has served, at different intervals, as vice-president, president and chairman of the bnrean of obstetries, having been the incumbent in the office last noted for a term of many years.
In recapitulating the Doctor's college ser- viees, we may here record that he has been identified with the Homeopathic Hospital Col- lege of Cleveland, in various official capacities, for thirty-four conseentive years; that for thirty-two years he has been professor of ob- stetrics; for one year professor of physiology; and for one year professor of principles of prac- tice. This record is perhaps withont a parallel in the State. In connection with his professor- ship, he also served as president of the college For six years, and as dean for seven years, which latter inemubeney he is still holding with honor to himself and the institution. Incidentally, it is worthy of note that the Homeopathie Hos- pital College of Cleveland, now the Cleveland University of Medicine and Surgery, is the oldest (with consecutive history) Homeopathic college in the world.
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In 1892 the honorary degree of LL. D. was conferred upon Dr. Sanders by the Illinois Col- lege at Jacksonville. Though the Doctor has nearly reached the three-score years and ten, which are pronounced as man's allotment, he is enjoying excellent health, is robust and vigorous and seems yet in the prime of manhood. He has been a close student during his entire mature life, and has never flagged mentally or physi- cally under the severe test of continuous ap- plication and labor. He has ever maintained a progressive attitude in his professional work, and has kept thoroughly in touch with all ad- vances in the medical science, and familiar with the most modern and approved methods. By virtue of his ability and high position as an obstetrician, his services and presence have been in great demand in cases of consultation, far and near. In the treatment of the diseases of children especially, has he gained an enviable reputation, and an extensive and representative practice.
As a citizen, the Doctor follows out the same rule as that which he has retained in the line of his profession: he has kept pace with the latter- day progress, and has maintained a lively and active interest in all that tends to conserve the public welfare. He has a passionate fondness for poetic literature.
October 25, 1854, Dr. Sanders was united in marriage to Miss Albina G. Smith, daughter of Ezra and Amy G. Smith, well known residents of northern Ohio, both now deceased. Our subject and his wife became the parents of six children, three of whom are living, namely: Dr. J. Kent Sanders, A. M., who is a graduate of Illinois College, and of the Homeopathic IIos- pital College of Cleveland, at which latter he graduated in 1881, and in which he now holds preferment as professor of the principles and practice of surgery and of surgical pathology. He has been a practitioner in the city for sev- eral years, and is one of the most thoroughly informed and most capable of the younger surgeons of the State, having studied abroad, in the hospitals of Paris, Berlin, Vienna and other cities.
In 1886 he was united in marriage to Miss Nellie Louise, daughter of Hon. Charles A. Otis, of the Otis Steel Works, and formerly Mayor of Cleveland. Albina G., daughter of our subject, is a graduate of Miss Middle- burger's school in Cleveland; and Franklin B., a graduate of Adelbert College, class of 1892, is now in the employ of the Western Reserve Bank of Cleveland.
F W. DAVIS, a physician and surgeon at No. 387 Pearl street, Cleveland, was born in Merrimac county, New Hampshire, July 14, 1853, a son of William S. and Maria E. (Widmer) Davis. The father was born in Boston, September 25, 1825, moved with his parents to New Jersey when young, and fol- lowed the sea for thirteen years. During the late war he enlisted in Company C, Thirteenth New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, and after three years of service was prostrated by a sun- stroke, from which he never fully recovered. After returning to his command, he was trans- ferred to the navy, where he served until the expiration of his teri of enlistment. Dr. Davis was at first a carriage manufacturer by occupa- tion, and was senior member of the firm of Davis & Son. He was one of the founders of the Brothers Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, and was a member of the I. O. O. F. and of the E. E. Sturtevant Post, G. A. R. Ilis death oe- curred in February, 1890. Mrs. Davis, a na- tive of Switzerland, resides in Concord, New Hampshire, aged sixty-six years. They were the parents of six children, all still living.
F. W. Davis, the only one of the above family in the West, came to this city in 1872. He se- cured the position of clerk in the office of Sn- perintendent of the Lake Shore Railroad, and while there also read medicine with Dr. G. O. Spence and W. H. Kitchen. In 1882 he graduated in the medical department of the Western Reserve University, and immediately began the practice of his profession, on Pearl
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street, Cleveland, and is well and favorably known as one of the prominent young physi- cians of the city. He is genial, pleasant and courteous, and in every way worthy and es- teemed citizen, as well as a practitioner of skill and ability.
In 1876 the Doctor was united in marriage with Miss Hannah M. Hubble, a daughter of Oliver C. and Harriet Hubble, both now de- ceased. The father was born in Newburg, Ohio, in 1818, was a farmer in early life, and afterward became a teacher of penmanship and art. After residing in Chagrin Falls and Strongsville, he came to Cleveland in 1862, lo- cating on the West Side, where he died May 2, 1890. Mrs. Hubble was born in England, came with her parents in a wagon from Phila- delphia to Ohio at the age of sixteen years, was married in Chagrin Falls, and her death oc- curred in 1888, when she was aged sixty-six years. Mr. and Mrs. Hubble were the oldest members of the Franklin Avenue Christian Church. Our subject and wife have one child, Howard H. Mrs. Davis is now a member of the Disciple Church.
E A. HANDY, chief engineer of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company, was born in Barnstable, Mas- sachusetts, April 4, 1855, educated in the pub- lie schools of his native village, and completed a course in the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology in 1875. For two years thereafter he was engaged in important work in South Boston Flats, in the improvement of Boston harbor, as assistant engineer and inspector of masonry. The next year his alma mater numbered him among her faculty as instruetor in civil engi- neering. Next for two years he was engineer in southern Colorado for the Atehison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Company, on construction work; then was locating engineer for the Mox- ican National Railway, then in process of con- struction, and in a year was made chief engi- neer of the northern division of that line.
In 1888 he accepted a position as engineer for the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Rail- road Company, on the Lake Shore division; and in June, 1891, was made chief engineer of the road.
Hle is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. His efficiency as an engineer is best evidenced by a reference to the import- ant trusts he has filled sinee his gradnation.
Ilis father, Job W. Handy, was born in Mas- sachusetts, became a sea captain, and died in 1873, at the age of fifty years. He married Miss Rebecca, a daughter of John Otis, a de- seendant of a brother of the famous James Otis of the days of 1776. John Otis married a Miss Hinkley, a descendant of Governor Hinkley, of Massachusetts. Captain Handy's children are seven in number, and all living, namely: Jolm O., a ranchman in Texas; James O., a chemist in charge of the Pittsburg testing laboratory; E. A., our subject; Leon S .; Ella, wife of E B. Rogers, of Boston; and Annie and May.
Mr. E. A. Ilandy was married in Milton, Massachusetts, March 26, 1890, to Amy, a daughter of John Littlefield, of an old New England family, descended on her mother's side from the Kings and Gannetts. Mr. and Mrs. Ilandy have two children, named John Little- field and Edward Otis.
W D. BUSS, city passenger agent of the Pennsylvania lines, was born in Oneida, Carroll county, Ohio, March 16, 1847, grew to maturity there, receiving a liberal English education, and when eighteen years of age received the appointment as agent for the Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad Company at Onoida. He remained there till March, 1874, when he was transferred to Canal Dover, Ohio, in the same capacity, serving till October, 1879, when he was moved to Cleveland and given charge of the Newburg station. In 1884 he was appointed chief clerk to assistant general passenger agent C. L. Kimball, and in 1888 succeeded C. B. Squire as city passenger agent.
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Ilis father, A. E. Buss, born in New Hamp- shire in 1814, eame to Ohio in 1839, locating in Oneida, and formed a partnership with George Hull, and they established a merchan- dising business and remained together till 1872, when the death of the former separated them.
A. E. Buss was a leader in thought and action in Carroll county, and although in no sense a politician he was put forward twice by the Republican party as a candidate for the Lower House of the State Legislature and was as often elected.
Ile married in New Hampshire, Harriet Adams, and reared seven children, namely: Frank, who died during the Civil war, in which he served as a Union soldier; Mary, wife of Rev. J. S. Ross of Sharon, Pennsylvania; and W. D.,-the others being deceased.
In 1871 Mr. W. D. Buss was married, in Oneida, to Fanny S. Gardner, whose parents were from Utica, New York. The children of this nniou are: Charles M., Deputy Clerk of the United States District Court, aged twenty; Harriet M .; Charlotte A .; Mark A .; William G., Robert A. and Dorothy HI. Three little ones were taken away in one day by diphtheria, in 1891, -- Lanra M., Catherine and Walter.
Fraternally Mr. Buss is a Freemason, a Past Master of Newburg Lodge, and a member of Baker Chapter. Ile is now serving on the School Board of this city, being elected to that body in the spring of 1892.
W ILLIAM HORN, Bishop of the Evan- gelical Association, resides at No. 1225 Slater avenue, Cleveland, Ohio. Of his life we make record as follows:
Bishop William Horn was born in Siegen, Westphalia, Prussia, May 7, 1839, son of Jacob and Margaretha (Giebeler) Horn, both natives of Prussia, and members of the State Church of Prussia. Ilis father was a miner by occupa- tion, passed his life in Germany, and died in that country at the age of fifty years. His mother subsequently became the wife of Her-
man Schneider, and in 1855 came to America with her two sons, onr subject and his half brother, Jacob Schneider, the latter being now a resident of Omaha, Nebraska. She died in 1890, at the age of seventy-four years.
Upon their arrival in this country, Mrs. Schneider and her family located in the woods of Wisconsin, and in one of the frontier schools of that State William bent all his energies to- ward mastering the English language. He had received a fair education in Germany. One of his first ocenpations here was that of teaching country school. The county superintendent visited his school, and as a result of that visit, and without further examination, gave him a certificate of qualification of the highest terms as a teacher. At the age of twenty-two he be- came a missionary of his church in Wisconsin, and served as such for a period of ten years, at. the end of which time he was elected editor of the Evangelical Magazine, and in 1871 moved to Cleveland, Ohio. This position he filled for eight years, rendering most efficient and accept- able service. In 1879 he was made editor of the Christliche Botschafter, the official organ of the Evangelical Association, and continned at its head until 1891, when he was elected Bishop of the Church by the General Conference held at Indianapolis. Since the death of Rev. Mar- tin Laner in Jannary, 1893, he has, in addition to his official duties, taken the responsibility of the German Sunday-school literature of the church.
Bishop Horn was married May 24, 1864, to Miss Mary Fishbnek, daughter of Anthony Fishback, of Hartford, Wisconsin. Following is a record of their family of seven children: Edward, bookkeeper in the Evangelical Pub- lishing Ilonse, Cleveland; Ella, a teacher in the Ebenezer Orphans' Home, at Flat Rock, Ohio; Delia, a teacher in the public schools of Cleve- land; Frank, a machinist; Oscar, a student in Adelbert College; and Linda and Clara, pupils in the Cleveland public schools.
Bishop Horu is a living illustration of Ger- man gonius. He has a genial disposition, is a
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natural humorist, is endowed with a great meas- ure of originality, has a retentive memory, and all this, together with his eloquence, renders him an intellectnal and efficient worker in the church. He is perfectly familiar with German literature and keeps fully abreast with the on- ward march of literary science, both in the Ger- man and English languages. He has not only acquired a great store of useful information con- eerning the greatest achievements of the land, but he also has the happy faculty of making use of his possessions, being able to apply his re- sources to the best advantage. His literary productions are many. He has written a num- ber of books, among which are the " Life of Garfield " and the " Life of Bishop John Sey- bert;" also translated a number of books, all of which are well received by the public. Ile is also a natural poet. The extensive hymnology of his church, comprising not only the regular Church Hymnal, but also a number of Sunday- school song books and singing books of devo- tional order, contains a number of his poetical productions, some of which are perfect jewels and have become treasures of song in the church, and will be sung by the Evangelical people long after the days of Bishop Horn. One of his latest productions is the translation of the "Curfew Bells." It was published and by request re-published in the Evangelical Magazine, and read with deepest interest and great pleasure by the many thousands of readers of the magazine.
As an editor he wielded a fluent pen and great infinence throughout the church. Ilis editorials were always well received outside the church, as well as in the church, and his judg- ment upon the foremost questions of the day was appreciated. Ilis political views are those advocated by the Republican party.
As a preacher he has been warmly received in the church wherever it was his lot to serve. ILis fine physigne, his heavy, bushy hair, his sinall, dark piercing oye, all combine to render him a commanding figure. He is a fluent speaker, his natural gift of poetry frequently
asserting itself when he becomes warmed up with his subjeet. Indeed, he is one of the most eloquent orators in the German language in this country.
As bishop, he has shown fine exeentive abil- ities in the administration of the episcopal work in his church, and is well received.
UCIUS F. MELLEN, was born July 16, 1831, in Hampshire county, Massachu- setts, edneated in Northampton, that State, and came to Cleveland in 1852. For sev- eral years he was engaged in mercantile busi- ness, and during that time was elected a mem- ber of the Board of Education. During the pe- riod of the late Civil war, he was secretary of the Northern Ohio Soldiers' Aid Society and also of the Christian Commission. For several years he has been a Deacon of the Plymouth Congregational Church, Superintendent of Sun- day-schools and an officer of the Young Men's Christian Association, etc., being efficient in all the religious work he undertakes.
Ile was one of the American Commissioners to the Paris Exposition of 1867, and secretary of the commission, being abroad nearly a year in this capacity. He was appointed United States Commissioner to the World's Fair at Vienna in 1873, but on account of ill health de- elined. In 1876, while living in West Spring- field, Massachusetts, where he purchased a small farm, he was appointed a State Commissioner to the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia.
Although not a politician, Mr. Mellen has al- ways been an ardent Republican and a strong believer in a protective tariff.
In 1881 he returned to Cleveland and there- after for twelve years he was Superintendent of the City Infirmary Department, having charge of all the ont-door relief, and was also Superin- tendent of the City Hospital and City Infirm- ary, and is also connected with other charitable organizations for the relief of the poor.
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In 1854 he married Caroline S. Simmons, of Northampton, Massachusetts, who died snd- denly in January, 1892, at Cleveland. She was a devoted, useful, Christian woman. By this marriage there were two children: Lewis Ar- thur, married and living in Kansas City, Mis- sonri, who has two children, a son and a dangh- ter; and Carrie Agnes, who married Warren K. Palmer, of the Cleveland Window Glass Com- pany, who has two danghters.
W ALTER R. WOODFORD, general manager of the Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling Railway Company, Cleve- land, Ohio, is a native of the State of New York, born in Chautanqna county, in 1857. His parents, M. S. and Caroline ( Reed) Wood- ford, were natives of the State of Conneetient and England respectively; they resided many years in New York.
Young Woodford received a thorough ednea- tion in the Fredonia (New York) Normal School, and when he had finished the course took a position with the Great Western Rail- way Company of Canada as stenographer; at the end of one year he seenred the same position with the Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee Railway Company at an increased salary. When another twelvemonths had gone by he went to Chicago to enter the freight department of the Michigan Central, where he remained a year and a half. During the next three years he was chief elerk in the telegraphic department of the same road, and then was made eltief elerk and purchasing agent of the Ft. Wayne & Jack- son Railroad. Ilis next position was with the Wheeling & Lake Erie as chief elerk, from which he was promoted to the office of assistant general manager and purchasing agent for the same road; he was afterward in the course of time made general superintendent of the sante road; after two and a half years he resigned the place to accept the position of general man- ager of the Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling road,
which duties he assumed in March, 1893. IIe is interested in other commercial enterprises in the city, and is the efficient manager of the Pittsburg & Wheeling Coal Company.
Ile is a man of unusual exeentive ability, and has steadily advanced in the estimation of his associates since his entry into commercial cireles. He is genial of disposition and strong in his friendships; in business he is prompt and painstaking, and as a loyal eitizen he has no superiors. In politics he is independent, voting for men rather than for declarations of principles.
Mr. Woodford was united in marriage, in 1891, to Miss Isabella Wheeler, a daughter of Maro and Susan A. Wheeler, of Toledo, Ohio.
E DWIN L. THURSTON, a leading patent lawyer of Cleveland, was born in Paw- tucket, Rhode Island, October 3, 1837, a son of Thomas E. and Annie W. (Falconer) Thurston, natives of Rhode Island.
The paternal grandfather was Thomas Thurs- ton, a native of Newport, Rhode Island, the old home of the Thurston family, which settled here at an early date. The paternal great- grandfather of our subjeet was also uamed Thomas Thurston, and he was a son of William Thurston, whose father's name was also Will- iam Thurston, a son of Jonathan, a son of Ed- ward, whose father was Edward Thurston, whose marriage with Elizabeth Mott in Rhode Island oceurred in June, 1647, being the third mar- riage recorded in the society of Friends in that State. IIe was a "freeman" in 1655, and was a prominent citizen in his community. He was of English origin. Maternally the subject of this sketeh is of Scottish origin. His mother, Annie W. Faleoner, was a daughter of Jolm and Margaret Faleoner, natives of Scotland.
Edwin L. Thurston is the only child brought up by his parents. Ilis childhood and youth were spent at Pawtucket and Providence, at which places he attended school. In 1881 Mr.
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Thurston graduated at Brown University, and immediately went to Chicago, where he studied law under private preceptors. In 1884 he was admitted to the bar, and at Chicago took up the practice of his profession. October 3, 1887, Mr. Thurston located in Cleveland, and, be- coming a law partner with Mr. Leonard Watson, practiced with that gentleman for two years, and thereafter alone till September, 1892, when Mr. Francis J. Wing, his present partner, be- came associated with him. Mr. Thurston's practice has been mainly that of patent lawyer, and his success has placed him among the fore- most of this class of attorneys.
He is a prominent Master Mason, and mem- ber of the Civil Engineers' and other clubs.
C YRUS POWERS LELAND, Auditor of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad, is a descendant both paternally and maternally from one of the Puritan fathers, Henry Leland, whose birth occurred in England in 1625, and who emigrated to Massachusetts in 1652 and died at Sherburne in 1680. His son, Hopestill Leland, born 1655, died at Holliston, Massachusetts, in 1739. Samnel Leland, the next in line, born in 1711, died at Holliston, in 1783. His son, Asa Leland, born in 1738, moved to Chester, Vermont, and died in 1822. The next in line was also Asa Leland, born in 1770, emigrated to New York, and died at Otto, in 1832. Ilis son, Cephas R. Leland (father of C. P.), was born in 1807. His home was Irving, New York, and by occupation he was a lawyer. In 1850 he emigrated to Milwaukee and died a month later, leaving a widow and two children almost destitute.
Cephas R. Leland married Orpha Powers, who descended directly from Henry Leland before named, as follows: Ebenezer Leland, born in 1657 and died in 1742; James Leland, born in 1687 and died in 1768; Thankful Leland, born in 1724, married Lemmel Powers and died in 1769. Their daughter Abigail was President Millard Fillmore's first wife.
Lemmel Powers was born in 1756 and died in 1800, a Baptist minister. The next in line, Judge Cyrus Powers, born in 1779, died at Kelloggsville, New York, in 1841. His dangh- ter, Orpha, born in 1810, died in 1870, is the mother of the subject of this sketch. ller children were: Cyrus P., born July 31, 1836; and Amy Jane, born in 1838, deceased wife of George W. Perry, an attorney of Superior, Wis- consin. She left one child, Lonise W. Perry, who married C. F. Chapman, a civil engineer of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
At fourteen years of age Cyrus P. Leland scenred a position in a drugstore at $1 a week, which went to the support of the family. In 1854 he became an employee of the Milwaukee Sentinel office, severing his connection there in 1855. May 21st of the above year he began his railroad career in the office of the Milwaukee & Chicago Railroad, as a bookkeeper and general utility man in the general office of this railroad. From June 11, 1860, to Jannary, 1869, he was general accountant of the Michigan Southern & Northern Indiana Railway Company, now a part of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company. From July 1, 1861, to Jan- uary, 1869, he was also general ticket agent of of the same road, and Jannary 1, 1869, he was appointed anditor of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company. Ile is president of the Association of American Railway Ac- connting Officers, a national organization.
Mr. Leland has been a factor in the develop- ment of one of the greatest railroad systems in the country. He has compiled a history of the road from the official records, in itself a monu- ment to the memory of the worthy anditor. Among his literary productions is a paper read before the Statistical Association at Chicago at the World's Fair on the subject, Value of Freight Statistics. During his long service Mr. Leland has compiled and issnod thirty-three conseentivo annual reports of the Michigan Southern, Northern Indiana and Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railways, a record unsurpassed in this country and probably in the world. These re-
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