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J. T. Carter, the subject of this sketch, at- tended the public schools of Cleveland until fourteen years of age. He next entered the Western Reserve Academy, a part of the Adel- bert College, and also attended the latter insti- tution. By doing double work he prepared himself for college in two years instead of four. After graduating at the Homeopathic Hospital College of Cleveland, in the class of 1889, Dr. Carter began the practice of his profession in this city, and has ever since met with flattering success. He served one year in the Huron Street Hospital as resident surgeon, but re- signed his position there to accept a chair in the faculty of the Cleveland Medical College. He is still a member of the faculty of that in- stitution. Dr. Carter writes for medical jour- nals, is a member of the County, City and State Medical Societies, also a member of the Ameri- can Institute of Homeopathy, and is Lecturer to the Training School for Nurses of Cleveland.
He was married in December, 1891, to Miss Alice Hanchette, a daughter of Erastus Han- chette and a member of an old family of the Western Reserve and New England stock. She was a successful teacher of Cleveland for eight years before her marriage. Her great-grand- father served in the Revolutionary war. Mr. and Mrs. Erastus Hanchette still reside in this city. They are the parents of four children: Lewis, who resides in Chicago; Edward, of this city; Alice, wife of our subject; and Jossie, who has been a successful teacher in the public
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school for the past five years. Mr. and Mrs. Carter are members of the Calvary Presbyterian Church. In political matters the Doctor affili- ates with the Republican party. He is an apt student, keenly alive to the latest and most im- proved methods, and believes in keeping pace, professionally and otherwise, with latter-day progress.
A. INGERSOLL, secretary and treasurer of the Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad Company for more than a quarter of a century, was born in Lorain county, Ohio, March 30, 1827. His birth occurred on a farm, his father, Marshall Ingersoll, being a tiller of the soil, and his youthful education was of the pioneer country-school variety. At seventeen he began the battle of life independ- ontly, serving a clerkship with a merchant in Elyria, Ohio. In 1853 he engaged in a mer- eantile venture at Grafton, Ohio, which he con- ducted till his decision was made to become a resident of Cleveland.
October 1, 1856, Mr. Ingersoll embarked on his long and uninterrupted career of railroad work, becoming at that time way-bill registrar, and succeeding in a few years to the auditor- ship of freight accounts. This work he per- formed so satisfactorily that he was made general bookkeeper of the company, filling that position with the same standard of excellence which marked his service in all prior capacities and retiring only to accept a higher position with the company, that of secretary and treas- urer, entering on his new duties January 1, 1866.
Marshall Ingersoll was born in Berkshire county, Massachusetts, January 29, 1802. His father, Major William Ingersoll, emigrated to Ohio in 1816, settled in Lorain county and there died, in 1836, at seventy-five years of age. His wife was Mercy Crocker, who bore him eleven children, Marshall being the ninth. The latter spent his active life in Lorain county,
but died in Cleveland, September 5, 1874. Ilis children by marriage to Sarah Ann Taylor, a daughter of Jesse Taylor of Lorain county, formerly from Pittsfield, Massachusetts, were: G. A .; Imey M., widow of W. F. Hurlbut, of Elyria, Ohio; and Frank A., a commercial traveler of New York city.
November 1, 1853, the subject of this sketch married, in Lorain county, Lois Y., a daughter of William Race, a farmer. Mr. Race was born in Berkshire county, Massachusetts, and came to Ohio in 1830. He married Vienna Joiner, and became the father of eight children. Mr. and Mrs. Ingersoll are the parents of Seymour R., a taxidermist and fruit-farmer of Ballston Spa, New York; Winifred, wife of Ralph L. Fuller, of Cleveland; and Ina I., now Mrs. Wallace B. Goodwin, of the machinery supply house of Jones & Company of Cleveland. Mrs. Ingersoll's death, July 29, 1881, resulted from an injury received by the running away of a team. Mr. Ingersoll's second marriage oc- curred August 2, 1883, the lady being Joanna M. Minor, daughter of Edwin Fuller of Cleve- land, a canal man and a real estate dealer.
Mr. Ingersoll is financially interested in several enterprises of this city, among them being the Union Steel Screw Works and the Walker Manufacturing Company, both well known and strong institutions. IIe has de. voted almost an average lifetime to the service of one corporation, and has merited the long lease on the office of secretary and treasurer which he is now enjoying.
W ILLIAM A. BABCOCK, president of the Bishop and Babcock Company, manufacturers of air pumps, brass goods, tacks and nails, with office and shops at the corner of Kirtland and Hamilton streets, Cleveland, and vice-president of the Standard Tool Company, manufacturers of twist drills, with shops located on Central avenue and Cleve- land & Pittsburg Railroad, was born in South
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Coventry, Tolland county, Connecticut, March 18, 1843, was reared on the farm at South Cov- entry, receiving the usual schooling, and at the age of eighteen years was apprenticed to Will- iam Mason, in Tannton, Massachusetts, to learn the machinists' trade; and while thus engaged the great war came on and the shops were closed; and he went to Springfield, that State, and was employed in the armory shops. In 1862 he enlisted in a company made up of tool- makers for the war, but within three days' time and before the company was detailed it was de- cided by the Government anthorities that the men would be of more value to the progress of the war if they should remain at home engaged in the manufacture of firearms, etc .; accord- ingly they were set to work at their old trade again. About the middle of the year 1863 Mr. Babcock went to Norwich, Connectient, and en- tered the employ of the Norwich Arms Com- pany, remaining there till the close of the war, in June, 1865. Next he was jointly employed by the Morse Twist-Drill Company, of New Bed- ford, Massachusetts, A. G. Coes & Company, Worcester, Massachusetts, and II. A. Rogers & Company, of New York, as traveling salesman, in which position he spent the following fourteen years, selling machinery railway supplies and machinists' tools. In 1879 he came to Cleve- land and engaged in his present business where he is now at the head of the concern and of a large business. His gentlemanly manner and honest dealing gives public satisfaction and in- sures success to his company. ITis residence is 2010 (old nninber 1715) Enelid avenue.
He is a member of Holy Rood Commandery, K. T. In his political principles he is a Demo- crat. His father, William Babcock, was also born, reared, lived and died in South Coventry, his death occurring in 1870, when he was aged sixty-five years. He was a farmer and hatter, having a hat factory on his farm, in which he made hats exclusively for the Southern planters' trade. ITis wife, Esther E., was a daughter of Timothy and Tirzah (Badger) Loomis, and she survived him many years, dying in December,
1891, on the old homestead, which now is the property of our subject, Mr. William A. Bab- cock, and his sister, Mrs. Prince. They reared three children, namely: Ellen, wife of J. V. B. Prince, of Brooklyn, New York; Mary E., wife of William II. Yeomans, of Columbia, Connecticut; and William A., whose name in- troduces this sketch. The nephew of the latter, Howard W. Yeomans is now employed in The Bishop & Babcock Company's office.
According to Himnan's historical record, and Weavers' history of Ancient Windham, Connect- ient, our subject is a descendant of James Bab- cock, born in Essex, England, in 1580. James was a Puritan minister in Wivanhoe, England, and was of Saxon origin. Ile was the brother of Richard Babcock, who ocenpied the family mansion. His coat-of-arms was a shield with several cock's-heads upon . it with the mnotto, Deus spes mea (God is my hope). The early family were seated in Essex county, England, at the time of the Norman conquest. Sir Will- iam Seager, in his visit to the county of Essex in 1612, states that " Sir Richard Badcock was the nineteenth in descent from the first holder of the family mansion there," -- which is said by relatives to have been standing in 1850. Ephraim, the grandfather of William A., al- though but fifteen years of age, was in the Rev- olutionary army from March 5 until Decem- ber 31, 1778, and from January 10 to Febrn- ary 16, 1778. He was made a pensioner in 1818.
His mother, Esther Elizabeth Loomis, de- scended from John Loomis, who was born about 1570 and died between April 14 and May 29, 1619. Ilis original will, still on file in the court for the counties of Essex and Hertford, England, was formally proven by the executor, his son Joseph, the 21st of June, 1619. His five chil- dren emigrated to New England before the year 1640. Joseph Loomis sailed from London, April 11, 1638, on the ship Susan and Ellen, as appears by the customhouse books and by other documentary proofs, and arrived in Boston, July 17, 1633. Mr. Babcock has three volumes
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of the genealogy of the Loomis family, con- taining over 28,000 names of the descendants, published by Elias Loomis, LL. D., a professor at Yale College and the popular anthor of col- lege text-books. It is an exhaustive anul de- tailed proof of his being a descendant of John Loomis, whose first sou, Joseph, was born in 1590. The town records of Windsor, Connect- ient (volume 1, February 2, 1640) show that Joseph acquired several large tracts of land both on the Farmington and the Connecticut rivers, partly from the town and partly by purchase.
IIis mother Esther also descended from Giles Badger, who came from England and settled in Newbury, now Newburyport, Massachusetts, about 1635, as appears by Weaver's history of Windham and by a book in the Case Library (B 57, 300) entitled " Memoirs of the Rev. James Badger." The latter was the nephew of Mr. Babcock's great grandfather. Ilo was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, then studied to become a minister, was appointed as a mis- sionary, by the Connecticut Home Missionary Society, to preach to the settlers and Indians on the Western Reserve. In Angust, 1801, he preached in Cleveland, when there were only two families in the place. In Newburg, now a part of Cleveland, there were five families.
The ancestry of the subject of this sketch, as systematically as we can give it withont dia- grain, is, so far as known, as follows:
William Babcock, the father of W. A. Bab- cock (our subject) was born in South Coventry, Connectient, July 12, 1804, and died March 16, 1870. June 19, 1839, he married Esther Eliz- abeth Loomis, who was born in Andover, Con- uecticut, February 1, 1818, and died in South Coventry, December 12, 1890.
William Babcock's father, Ephraim Babcock, was born September 3, 1763, was a soldier in . the Revolutionary war, and died February 26, 1828. His wife Thirza was born in February, 1766, and died October 13, 1827.
Elisha Babcock of Coventry, born July 19, 1746, married Elizabeth Preston, and was the father of Ephraim.
Simeon Babcock, of Coventry, father of Eli- sha, married Abigail Hudson, October 5, 1736. IIe died November 30, 1751.
Shineons' father, Jonathan Babcock, was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1651, and died January 5, 1731. His wife Mary died January 28, 1719. Jonathan's father, James Babcock, Jr., died in 1690; his father, James Babcock, was born in Essex, England, in 1580.
The mother of the subject of this sketch, al- ready mentioned, was the daughter of Timothy Loomis, was born in Lebanon, Connecticut, May 14, 1786, and died in Andover, that State, May 17 1860. October 2, 1808, he married Tirzah Badger, who died in South Coventry, saine State, May 14, 1863.
Timothy's father, Dan Loomis, was born in Lebanon, Connecticut, Jannary 22, 1758, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and died in Cov- entry August 22, 1841. Ile married Saralı Field.
Tirzah Badger Loomis' father was Enoch Bad- ger, Jr., who married Mary Lamphear, February 11, 1773.
Enoch Badger, Jr.'s father was Enoch Bad- ger, who settled in Coventry before 1748. He died September 4, 1793, aged seventy-nine .. His father, Nathaniel Badger, settled in Nor- wich, Connecticut; he married Mary Hunt, March 27, 1693. He died at Coventry, Feb- ruary 7, 1752; and his father, Jolm Badger, was born June 30, 1643, and married Rebecca Brown, October 5, 1691. He was the son of Giles Badger, who camo from England and set- tled in Newbury, now Newburyport, Massa- chusetts, about 1635, as already mentioned. IIe married Elizabeth Greenleaf, daughter of Edmond. He died July 10, 1647.
Dan Loomis' father, Timothy Loomis, was born in East Windsor, Connecticut, Angust 24, 1718, and died June 20, 1785. Ile married Anna Taylor, who died March 7, 1799. Timothy Loomis' father, John Loomis, an ensign, was born in Hatfield, Massachusetts, January 1, 1681, and died in Lebanon, Connectient, in 1755. October 30, 1706, he married Martha Osborn, who was born April 10, 1687.
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Thomas Loomis, the father of the last men- tioned, was born in Windsor, Connecticut, De- cember 3, 1653, and died August 12, 1688. March 31, 1680, he married Sarah White (a daughter of Daniel White), who was born in Hatfield, Massachusetts, October 15, 1662.
Thomas Loomis' father, John Loomis, was a deaeon who came from England in 1622, and died September 1, 1658. February 3, 1648, he married Elizabeth Scott, a daughter of Thomas Scott, of Hartford, Connecticut.
Joseph Loomis, father of John, was born in Braintree, Essex county, England, in 1590, and died November 25, 1658: his wife died Angust 23, 1652. Jolm Loomis, father of Joseph, was born probably about 1570, and died between April 14 and May 29, 1619.
September 21, 1876, the subject of this sketch married Miss Gertrude A. Bunker, who was born in Brooklyn, New York, November 13, 1812, a daughter of Thomas Gorham Bunker, who was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts, Jan- uary 8, 1793, and died in Brooklyn, October 9, 1852. May 24, 1819, the latter married Sally Amelia Raymond, who was born in Norwalk, Connectient, Jannary 4, 1801, and died in Brook- lyn, November 26, 1883.
Richard Bunker, Jr., father of T. G., was a native of Nantucket, and married Lois Cart- wright, a native of the same place. Richard Bunker, father of last, was a native of that place, and married Eunice Mitchell, also a na- tive of the same place. Richard's parents, Thomas and Anna (Swain) Bunker, were also natives of Nantucket, as were also Thomas' parents, Benjamin and Deborah (Haddock) Bunker. Benjamin's parents were William and Mary (Macy) Bunker; and William's father, George Bunker, married Jane Godfrey, who after his death married for her second husband Richard Swain, who moved to Nantucket prior to 1660. George's father, William, was a IFugnenot from England.
The maternal grandmother of the present Mrs. Babcock was Sukey (Brown) Raymond, who was born in Norwalk, Connectient, July 4,
1769, and died in Brooklyn, New York, in April, 1865. Her father, Jedediah Brown, was born September 10, 1743, in Norwalk, and Novem- ber 13, 1768, in that city, married Mary Lock- wood, a native of the same place.
G EORGE ARMSTRONG GARRETSON. -Among the representative citizens of Cleveland is Mr. George A. Garretson, who, as president of the National Bank of Commerce, ocenpies a prominent place among the leading bankers and financiers of the city.
Heis anative of Columbiana county, Ohio, was born on the 30th day of January, 1844. ITis ancestors on the paternal side came to America from Holland about the year 1700. They be- came Quakers and for many years were promin- ent members of that society. Ilis maternal an- cestors came to this country from Scotland during the seventeenth century and settled in Pennsylvania. Seven of them served with credit through the Revolutionary war, and several par- ticipated in the wars with England in 1812 and Mexico in 1846.
Iliram Garretson, father of our subject, was born in 1817 in York county, Pennsylvania, and was the son of George and Anne (Griffith) Garretson, who in 1820 left Pennsylvania and came to Ohio, settling at New Lisbon, Column- biana county. He was given a good common- school education, after which he entered his father's store as a clerk. When about nineteen years of age he took charge of a trading boat on the Ohio river and made several trips between Pittsburg and New Orleans, following which he returned to New Lisbon and engaged in busi- uess, continuing until the winter of 1851. The next spring he removed to Cleveland and associ- ated himself with Leonard and Robert Hanna in the wholesale grocery business, under the firm name of Hanna, Garretson & Company. After a successful career the firm was dissolved, in 1862, and Mr. Garretson immediately estab- lished the firm of H. Garretson & Comany, for
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the transaction, mainly, of Lake Superior com- mission and forwarding business, the firm build- ing a fine line of steamers for the trade. At the same time Mr. Garretson secured the agency for all the Boston and New England mining companies located on Lake Superior, purchasing their supplies and having charge of all trans- portation between Boston and the mines. In 1866 ill health compelled him to relinquish this large and important business, and he turned his attention to banking.
In company with J. 11. Wade, Amasa Stone, George B. Ely, Stillman Witt and others, he projected and organized the Cleveland Banking Company, which went into business under his presidency and management on February 1, 1868. Two years later this institution was merged into the Second National Bank of Cleve- land, of which Mr. Garretson was prevailed upon to become cashier. In the spring of 1873 his health again failed him, compelling his temporary retirement from active business, and he went to Europe under appointment by President Grant as United States Commissioner to the Vienna Exposition. The American de- partment of this exposition was in a bad con- dition and was reflecting discredit upon the Government, and the then commissioner was removed and Mr. Garretson appointed to fill the vacaney. He brought order ont of confusion, and so highly esteemed were his services that the emperor of Austria decorated him with the imperial order of Francis Joseph.
Upon his return from Enrope he was elected president of the Second National Bank. He was a director in the Citizens' Savings & Loan Association, and held large interests in several other important enterprises of the city.
For his first wife Mr. Garretson married Margaret King Armstrong, the danghter of General John and Isabella ( Me Kaig) Armstrong, who removed from Pennsylvania to Colombiana county, Ohio, in 1804. She had three children, and died May 16, 1852. The subject of this sketch is the only one of the children living. Septem- ber 8, 1856, Mr. Hiram Garretson, for his
second wife married Mrs. Ellen M. Abbott, nee Howe, of Springfield, Massachusetts, and by this marriage there were three children, the only one now living being Mrs. Ellen G. Wade, wife of J. 11. Wade. Mr. Garretson's death occurred in Cleveland on May 7, 1876.
The subject of this sketch was reared in Cleveland, and was given the benefit of excep- tional educational advantages. After attending the public schools of the city for two years he entered a first-class private boarding school at Cornwall-on-the-Iludson, New York, where he pursued his studies until the breaking out of the late Civil war. Returning to Cleveland, he answered his country's eall for volunteers. On the 26th day of May, 1862, when but eighteen years of age, he enlisted as a private in Com- pany E, Eighty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, was mustered in at Camp Chase at Columbus, was soon sent to the field, served in Maryland and West Virginia, and on the 20th day of September of the same year was mustered out. A number of Ohio regiments were then being organized for three years' service and the young soldier was promised, and made ar- rangements to accept, a commission as Second Lieutenant in one of them, but as about that time a vacancy occurred in the United States Military Academy at West Point, and he was tendered a cadetship by the Honorable A. G. Riddle, M. C., which he accepted. He entered West Point on the 20th day of June, 1863, and graduated on the 17th day of June, 1867, and mpon the same day of his graduation was ap- pointed Second Lieutenant of the Fourth United States Artillery. He served with that regiment at different posts during the years 1867-'68, and in 1869 was appointed Signal Officer on the staff of Major General Jolin Pope, commanding the department of the Lakes at Detroit, Michi- gan. In 1869, the Government began prepara- tions for reducing the army to a peace basis, and inactivity and slow promotion being the result Mr. Garretson resigned from the service on the 1st day of January, 1870, with the permission of General W. T. Sherman, Commander-in-
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Chief, and with the full understanding that in ease of need at any time his services would be tendered to the Government.
After resigning from the regular army Mr. Garretson engaged in mercantile business in Cleveland and continued in that line until May, 1875, when he entered the Second National Bank of Cleveland, of which his father was then president. In February, 1879, he was appointed assistant cashier of the bank, and a year from that date was made cashier. In 1883 the charter of the Second National Bank expired by limitation, and the National Bank of Commerce was organized, with practically the same stock- holders as its predecessor, and Mr. Garretson was appointed cashier of the new bank. Upon the death of Mr. Joseph Perkins, president of said bank, in 1885, Mr. J. 11. Wade was chosen president and Mr. Garretson vice president, and following Mr. Wade's death Mr. Garretson was elected president, which position he holds at the present time, being one of the youngest bank presidents in Cleveland, and that too, of one of the city's leading banks.
Having received a military education Mr. Garretson naturally felt an interest in the State militia, but owing to business reasons was com- pelled to decline any appointment until 1877, when at the time of threatened riots in the city, he assisted Colonel W. II. Harris, late of the United States Army and a graduate of West Point, in organizing the First Cleveland Troop of Cavalry, of which Colonel Harris was captain and Mr. Garretson First Lieutenant. He re- tained his commission in the above organization until 1884, when, upon the resignation of Col- onel Harris, he was elected to succeed him in command of the company. In 1887 the troop joined the Ohio National Guard, Mr. Garretson remaining in command until 1892, when busi- ness interests compelled him to resign and give up military matters, notwithstanding tempting offers of high rank in the State service had been repeatedly made to him. On January 12, 1880, Mr. Garretson was appointed Colonel and Aid. do-camp on the staff of Governor Charles Foster,
and upon the re-election of the Governor in 1882 was recommissioned for two years, and served until the expiration of his term on Jan- uary 14, 1884.
Mr. Garretson is a member of the order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. He is a trustee of the Lakeside Hospital, and takes a strong interest in other charitable and benevo- lent institutions of the city. He has always been a Republican in politics, but has never had political aspirations.
Ile has traveled extensively in the United States, and has made two extended tours in Europe and the East, visiting all the important points of interest in those countries.
Mr. Garretson was married on the 21st day of September, 1870, to Miss Anna Scowden, daughter of the late Theodore R. Scowden. Her death occurred in August, 1886, and on the 5th day of December, 1888, he was married to Miss Emma Ripka Ely, daughter of the late Honor- able George II. Ely, one of Cleveland's promin- ent and deservedly honored citizens. Two chil- dren have been born by this marriage,- Margaret Ely and George Ely.
V. DAWES, secretary and treasurer of the Garfield Savings Bank Company, has been a citizen and business man of Cleve- land since September, 1887. Ile began busi- ness with the Cozad, Belz & Bates Abstract Company, and continued in its service until his election as secretary and treasurer of the Gar- field Savings Bank Company, July 1, 1892. This bank was at that time a new institution, it having been established with a capital stock of $50,000, all paid in. It now has deposits aggre- gating $100,000 and a surplus of $2,000.
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