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Mr. Dawes was born in Cummington, Massa- chusetts, May 30, 1870, and his boyhood and youth were spent on his father's farm. Ilis primary education was received in the district schools, and his linal school work was done in the Cummington High School, where he grad-
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uated at the age of seventeen. He then, in 1>57, came to Cleveland and, as above stated. has been a resident here ever since.
The Dawes family were among the earliest settlors of New England. Senator Dawes, of Massachusetts, belongs to one branch of the family. Charles W. Dawes, our subject's father, was engaged in agricultural pursuits all his life with the exception of the time he spent in the service of his country during the Civil war, his service being chiefly in the South. Ile married a daughter of P. Bates, who was also a de- scendant of New England pioneers, and they became the parents of three children, J. V. being their second born and the only one of the family now living outside the borders of the old Bay State.
J. V. Dawes was married in Cleveland, Jnne 3, 1891, to Nellie II., danghter of Byron Fay, of the firm of Wood & Company, merchants of Cleveland. Mr. and Mrs. Dawes have one child, Byron F., aged two years.
J S. LINDSEY, paymaster of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway. Company, and for forty years a faithful servant of the company, was born in Hampshire county, Massachusetts, July 9, 1822. Ile secured a liberal education at the village schools and beeame quite apt at busi- ness, having an opportunity to gain experience from his father's vocations, he being a country merchant, Postmaster and Magistrate. Ile also attended Wilbraham Academy and a simi- lar institution at Amherst, Massachusetts. When twenty years old he left the paternal roof and began railroad work on the Boston & Albany as clerk for the agent at West Brook- field, Massachusetts, displaying rare talent for one of limited experience, in making out re- ports, etc., without assistance, munch to the sur- prise and pleasure of his superiors.
The California gold excitement took posses- sion of him and in 1849 he sailed around Cape
Horn to the El Dorado of the West, and was absent between two and three years prospect- ing and mining the yellow metal.
In 1851 he returned East and again sought railroad work, engaging with the Boston & Al- bany and the Worcester & Nashua at Worces- ter, and leaving their road to enter the service of the Lake Shore, which he did October 20, 1853, being stationed in Cleveland as ticket agent of the Sandusky division. His first change of position placed him in the treasurer's office, where he remained one year. He was then made paymaster of the Toledo division, and three years later was requested to assume charge of the freight office of the road at Cleve- land, remaining five years. Ile was appointed assistant superintendent of the Cleveland & Toledo Railroad in 1863, and fifled the position till 1867, when he succeeded to the superin- tendency, serving until January 1, 1870, when he was appointed paymaster of the consolidated lines, -the Lake Shore & Michigan Sonthern.
In the twenty-three years and a half which Mr. Lindsey has served as paymaster he has paid out of his car to employees more than $80,000,000, and has covered a distance of 225,- 000 miles, an unparalleled record in this or any other country.
Mr. Lindsey has been honored by the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern by the change in the name of a town on its line from Washing- ton to Lindsey.
This branch of the Lindseys is early Colonial with reference to its time of founding in Amer- iea. The history of its establishment is quite unusual and romantic, and is as follows:
A Scotchman named Lindsey and his sons in command of an English war ship put into a New England harbor at Salem, Massachusetts, for repairs, and while so lying in wait one of the sons made the acquaintance of and married the daughter of the captain of the port. When the repairs were made and the vessel ready for sea, the young husband sailed with his erew ex- peeting to reach England and make proper ar- rangements for taking up his residence in
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Massachusetts. But while sailing in the Bay of' Biscay they were attacked by a French fleet and all were reported lost by the blowing up of the vessel. A son was born to the widow in America and from this son springs the Lindsey family. One of his descendants, Habakkuk Lindsey, our subject's great-grandfather, lived and died in Saken, near North Danvers, Mas- sachusetts. He married Mary Green, October 6, 1741, and reared three children, one of whom was Habakkuk, our subject's grandfather. Ile was a minute man during the war of the Revo- Intion and participated in the battles of Lexing- ton and Stillwater. Ile married Joanna, a daughter of Gideon Gowings, at Linfield, and was a farmer. Ile moved to New Salem in 1790, where he died Jannary 12, 1835. His son, Stacy Lindsey, was our subject's father. lle was born in North Danvers in 1756, May 12, and married, in Sterling, Massachusetts, in 1816, Haley Wilder. Their children are: Au- gusta II., married Josiah Miller; Catherine J., wife of L. G. Mason; Theodore S., married first Rebecca Dane at West Brookfield; she died in Cleveland in 1879. They had the following children: Theodore D., born March, 1857, now a dentist; Nellie F., born December 12, 1860, married first C. W. Johnson, deceased, her second marriage occurring in 1893 to E. S. Teichman. Mr. Lindsey's second marriage oe- curred February 22, 1888, to Mrs. Ida Rigg, a daughter of James Stoddard of Norwich, Con- nectient. The other members of Stacy Lind- sey's family were: F. W., assistant paymaster; llarriet F., married Rev. G. II. Newhall; George W .; and Mary E., wife of O. G. Ilolt, at Willington, Connecticut.
OIIN M. FRASER, M. D., a leading phy- sician of Cleveland, was born in Column- biana county, Ohio, January 15, 1852. Ilis parents were John and Margaret Fraser. The father was a native of Pittsburg, Pennsyl- vania, coming with his parents to Ohio shortly after his birth. John Fraser was a thrifty
farmer and a publie-spirited citizen, and was for many years associated with those who were active in the best interests of the county. lle did his full share to promote the welfare of his community, to which he came as a pioneer. Ile died in 1873, aged sixty-seven. Ile and his wife were members of the Scotch Presbyterian Church. Mrs. John Fraser was born in 1816 and died in 1890. She was a devout Christian of sweet and noble character, and a most ex- emplary wife and mother.
Our subject is the seventh son and ninth child in a family of fourteen children, of whom only ten are now living. William C., an elder brother, enlisted in 1862, in Company C, Seventy-eighth Regiment, and marched with General Sherman from Atlanta to the sea, was a builder of the pontoon bridges, and served three years, his service terminating at about the time the war closed. He never was wounded or taken prisoner and stood the service well. Ile is now a contractor and builder at Wells- ville, Ohio. William Fraser has an enviable reputation as a brave, earnest and patriotic sol- dier as well as a good citizen, such as gives character to a community.
Dr. Fraser was educated in Washington, Pen- sylvania, receiving the degree of A. M. Ile read medicine under Dr. Norman P. Sackrider, of Cleveland, Ohio, and attended the Western Reserve Medical College, where he graduated in March, 1881. He began his practice on Woodland avenue in Cleveland, remaining there until Angust, 1893, when he removed to his present location on Erie street. Ile was demonstrator of anatomy in Wooster Medical College for four years, and has been physician in charge of St. Mary's Orphan Asylum on Harmon street for the past three years. He had three years of experience in teaching in Colum- biana county.
Ile is a member of the Cuyahoga County and State Medical Associations. He is a Repub- liean in politics. He is well-read in his profes- sion and stands well as a progressive physician and surgeon, as well as enterprising citizen.
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He was married December 27, 1882, to Miss Mary G. Hardie, daughter of George and Isa- bell Hardie. The Hardies were of Scotch descent, but the father of Mrs. Fraser deseended from the French Huguenots. Dr. and Mrs. Fraser have two children: Fanny Edith and Ruth Huntly. Both parents are members of the United Presbyterian Church.
H ORACE B. CORNER, secretary and treasurer of the Citizens' Savings & Loan Association of Cleveland, Ohio, was born in McConnellsville, Ohio, June 26, 1846. Sinee 1857 he has lived in Cleveland. His education was received in public, private, and commereial schools. At the age of fifteen lie began his business career, his first occupation being that of newsboy. At different times later on, he visited his muele in Massachusetts, where he learned something of farming. When he returned to Cleveland after his first absence he engaged in gardening, and made money enough in one season to carry him through Eastman Commercial College. Then he went to Column- bus, Ohio, where for two years he was employed in a dry-goods establishment, following which he was in the employ of the Buckeye Insurance Company, of Cleveland, two years. In 1870 he became connected with the Citizens' Savings & Loan Association. From time to time he has been promoted, and has filled every position from the lowest up to the one he now ocenpies, the duties of which he assumed January 1, 1894. He has been a director of the association since Jannary, 1889.
Mr. Corner's other official positions are as follows: IIe is treasurer of the Cleveland Bethel Union; treasurer of the Bethel Associated Charities; treasurer of the Kalamazoo, Alle- gan & Grand Rapids Railroad Company; registrar of the Cleveland Rolling-mill Com- pany ; and trustee for numerons Innds. He isa member of the Chamber of Commerce and of St. Paul's Church.
Mr. Corner is a son of William M. Corner and Mary Trow Bassett. The latter was born in Massachusetts, December 18, 1818. She was edneated at Mount Holyoke Seminary under the noted Mary Lyon, and for many years tanght a private school in this city, before which she was principal of Worthington (Ohio) Seminary and Howard University at Washington, District of Columbia. She was the mother of two chil- dren, the other being Charles Corner of New York - eity. The last years of her life were spent in the South, and her death occurred at Savannalı, Georgia, December 10, 1893.
November 24, 1884, Mr. Corner married Amelia C. Ranney, eldest daughter of Henry C. Ranney, of this city. They have two sons.
OHN A. ZANGERLE, one of the many members of the Cleveland bar, and a member of the law firm of Thieme & Zan- gerle, of Nos. 618, 619 and 620 Society for Savings Building, was born at Hancoek, Michi- gan, April 12, 1865. His parents were Adamn and Marie (Ritter) Zangerle, both natives of Ilesse Darmstadt, Germany. Adam Zangerle was a mason and contraetor at Haneock, Michi- gan, and in 1866 removed to Cleveland and en- gaged in the wholesale liquor business on On- tario street, in which he is at present engaged.
The gentleman whose name heads this brief outline was reared in Cleveland and was edu- cated in the public schools. In passing through the course of the high school he stood fair in rank and graduated president of his elass. After leaving sehool he engaged in mercantile life in the wholesale drug house of Benton, Myers & Company, where he spent two years. He next engaged in the mnsie-printing business and continued in it about two years. While engaged in that line he desired to prepare himself for the legal profession, and in order to seenre necessary money he taught night school for four years, during which period he was studying law with Judges Burke and Ingersoll. In January,
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1891, he was admitted to the bar and immedi- ately went into the office of Mr. Thieme, and a year later formed a partnership with him.
lle early conceived the idea that politics would be a fruitful mode of advertising and bringing himself before the people, and in April, 1891, ho was elceted as a Democrat from a heavy Republican district, as a member of the Board of Education, entering as the youngest member of the board. Since that time he has been quite active and has been en- gaged more or less in polities; is at present Chairman of the Democratie Central Commit- tee of the county, having been chosen to that place in 1893. He has been chairman of vari- ous political organizations and committees. Hle is also a member of numerons social and ath- letic organizations,-Cleveland Grays, Cleve- land Gesangverein, Socialer Turn Verein, Lake- xide Cycling Club, and other social and athletic organizations.
M. SOUTHERN, a representative citizen of Cleveland and one of the most eminent builders, first became a resident here as early as 1839, brought here by his parents when a young child. He was born in Ithaca, New York, in 1837, a son of William and Anna (Pixley) Sonthern, natives respectively of Mary- land and Connecticut. His father was of Ger- man ancestry, and his mother of New England. On their first arrival in Ohio they located in Rockport for a short time, and then came to Cleveland. The father was a farmer, and also a dealer in staves, shipping to England. He fol- lowed this business extensively for many years and died in 1871, at Rockport, Ohio, at the age of seventy-one years. Ilis wife survived mutil 1876, when she died at the age of sixty-nine years. Of their nine children who grew to maturity, six are living. A record of all is as follows: Julia, widow of Peter Bowers, a resi- dent of Rockport; William, who died of in- juries received in the war, in which he had served throughout its entire period, in light ar-
tillery; Lemmel M., whose name heads this sketch; Christopher, a fruit-grower of Rock- port; Mary, who married a man named Ander- son and is now deceased; Joseph, a gardener and orchardist of Rockport; Elvira, now Mrs. John Ingram, of Cleveland; Julius, a mer- chant and fruit-raiser of Cleveland; and Susie, now the wife of Peter Clampitt, of East Cleveland.
Mr. L. M. Sontheru, our subject, was reared and educated in Cleveland. A part of his edu- cation he received in a log school-house on the West Side. While his schooling was limited, he has always had the talent of elose observa- tion, which has enabled him to obtain in the school of practical life the most important ele- ments of a useful education, having been one of the best and most active business men of the city. When but eight years of age he began to provide for himself, and up to the present time he has never received a dollar excepting what he has earned. Indeed, he really earned his first money when but five years of age,-a six-pence. Ilis employment, especially in earlier life, has been various, -- making hay, ped- dling fruit, entting wood, etc., and he has passed through all the hardships generally in- dent to pioneer life, and experiencing also many of its pleasures, as, for food he often had veni- son, wild turkey, wild honey, etc., and for free- dom all that the unorganized West afforded at that day. He has visited the red man in his tent, has Iminted deer and turkey in what is now the very center of this great city, and his home was, of course, the familiar old-fashioned log cabin.
When bnt thirteen years of age he exhibited the spirit of trade and business. Having saved up $12.50 by working for only ten and twelve and a half cents a day, he invested it in a ten days' option on four acres of land, and within four days afterward he sold three and a half acres of it for what the entire lot cost him. On the remaining hall aere he built a house and cleared $275 on the whole deal. Between four- teen and fifteen years of age he began to learn
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the builders' trade, working at first for two years for two shillings per day and board. After completing his apprenticeship he followed his trade some twenty years longer, erecting many buildings in Cleveland, -- "from the bot- tom of the cellar to the top of the chimney." And he was a fine mechanic. During the above period he also dealt in real estate. Ile was the first to " allot " land in Cleveland, the first to make improvements on allotments, the first to conceive the idea of grading the streets and enrbing and paving them, of laying side- walks, putting in a water and sewer system, ete. Ile was the first man north of the Ohio river to introduce the practice of paving streets with brick; was the first to pave a residence street in this city outside of Case avenue. Ile also opened and led in the real-estate business here, reviving it on three distinct occasions from a stagnant condition. He was the first to inaugurate a heavy real-estate business in Cleveland. He bought the largest allotment ever purchased in this city or county, paying for it $335,000, which plat lie soon disposed of for over $500,000. Ile gave a check for $10,- 000 down, and in five months paid the balance ont of the sale of the property. This was in the fall of 1879. Between 1867 and 1873 Mr. Southern acemulated $175,000, but the finan- cial stress setting in during the latter year find- ing him loaded with real estate, resulted in his loss of every dollar of the accumulation. Dur- ing that painful period of monetary stringency he lay qniet, awaiting opportunity, excepting that he improved his time somewhat in another direction, by prospecting for minerals in Colo- rado, in which he located several valuable mines, some of the best in the State, but, being unable for want of funds to develop them, his bonds finally ran ont. Since that time the mines have increased in valne, away up into the millions, -and he has never realized a dollar from them. For two of the poorest of those mines Senator Jones paid $200,000. The result shows the superior judgment of Mr. Southern in locating mines.
One of his heaviest real-estate deals was his purchase of a lot on Euclid avenue, for $100,- 000, and in just three days he sold the same for $107,500! IIe has drawn a single personal check for $156,000. During the year 1880 he did a business of over a million dollars. He has handled more property than any other man in the county, and his maine appears upon moro deeds than that of any other man in this county. IIe has made upward of fifty allotments, -- over 3,000 acres altogether,-in this eity. IIe platted the Wade Park allotment of fifty acres, where he spent upward of $150,000 in improvements. In order to consummate one transaction he promised his New York customer immediate transportation as soon as the business was set- tled, if he missed the train, -- which proved to be the case, when Mr. Southern hired a special train and sent his client on his way rejoicing. Ile has been a close attendant to his business, only occasionally making trips from the city, and they were short. Being a fine mechanic, he has originated and exeented many improve- ments in building. Ile originated the double- cased pipe and double wrapping with asbestos paper. Of the thousands of houses he has built in Cleveland he has taken a personal in- terest in each one to make them as convenient and comfortable as possible.
In his political views Mr. Southern is a Re- publican, with a high sense of the "moral" in government. He is" kind, considerate and patient; has never forcelosed a mortgage, although he has taken thousands. He is liberal to a fanlt. He has donated liberally to the building of every church in the city. Practi- cally he emphasizes the maxim that what ono does he should do well. Being pleasantly dis- posed, he enjoys life and the friendship of thon- sands of fellow-citizens, and is an affable gentleman.
December 20, 1861, is the date of his mar- riage to Miss Libbie Gale, who was born in East Cleveland, a daughter of Martin Gale, who came from Plattsburg, New York. Mr. and Mrs. Sonthern have two children: William M.,
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engaged in real estate and married to Miss Stanley; and Kittie M., now the wife of Walter King, an optician. The family are Methodists in their religious connections, and they reside in an elegant mansion on Lamont street, at the east end of the city, which location has been their home for thirty-five years.
T HOMAS JOPLING .- The late Thomas Jopling was one of Cleveland's successful and deservedly honored citizens: by his death the city lost one of the ablest finan- ciers, a leading manufacturer, and a man who in addition to splendid business talent, was dis- tinguished for his unswerving integrity and genial kindliness. He was closely identified with several important industrial and financial institutions, being at the time of his death one of the managing directors and financial man- ager of the Otis Steel Company, which is one of the largest concerns of the kind in the country and of which he had been the leading spirit for many years.
Mr. Jopling was born in Northumberland county, England, on the 10th of January, 1841, of poor but well connected parentage. Upon the untimely death of his father through an ac- cident, seven young children were left without provision for their rearing and education, but were adopted by relatives. Fortunately for Mr. Jopling, he was taken in charge by his mother's brother, Mr. Thomas Halliday, a man of nuusually fine character, without children of his own, and successfully engaged in the man- agement of extensive coal and iron concerns. Hle gave the fatherless lad a good, plain En- glish education and then took him into his own office to commence his business training. After a couple of years, Mr. Halliday obtained for his young nephew another position, where he would have opportunities of acquiring more varied experience; it was in the office of the Sheepbridge Iron Works, then managed by the late William Fowler, M. P., a brother of Sir
John Fowler, the eminent English civil engi- neer who built the London underground rail- way. The young man remained in the office of the Sheepbridge Iron Works upward of four years, and in that time laid the foundation for the splendid business career which followed.
In 1864 he was married to Miss Mary Clay- ton, a danghter of John Clayton, a well known colliery proprietor and a highly respected citi- zen of the ancient town of Chesterfield. In the same year Mr. Jopling gave up his position under Mr. Fowler and came to the United States as a country of larger opportunities than his native land. He had a fancy for farming, and purchased a small farm near Enon Valley, in Pennsylvania. However, as he was without practical knowledge of agriculture it required but a brief experience to demonstrate to his satisfaction that farming was not his vocation, and he determined to return to his old employ- ment at the first suitable opportunity. It was fortunate for himself, family and the city of Cleveland that he so determined, as otherwise the talents of a brilliant financier and a man of extraordinary business capacity must have been lost to the world. He obtained a position in the office of the late Freeman Butts, a coal op- erator in Pennsylvania, once a resident of this city. Later on Mr. Jopling formed a partner- ship with William A. Robinson, also of Cleve- land, and opened a coal mine near Palestine, Ohio.
While thus engaged he met and became ac- quainted with C. A. Otis, founder and propri- etor of the Otis Iron Works of Cleveland. Mr. Otis is above all things a judge of men, and, quickly noticing Mr. Jopling's fine business capacity, he made him a proposition to come to Cleveland and take charge of his office. Mr. Otis's offer was accepted and Mr. Jopling came to the city, -a step that was never regretted by either gentleman. Mr. Jopling had charge of the office of the Iron Works until they were sold, and then became a partner with Mr. Otis in the erection of the new Otis Steel and Iron (Company's) Works, which went into operation
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abont 1874, with Mr. Jopling as finaneial man- ager. Later he was instrumental in success- fully negotiating and completing the sale of this large concern to an English syndicate. IIe retained an interest in the works, and was made one of the managing directors of the new com- pany,-a position he held at the time of his death.
Mr. Jopling was one of the founders, and president, of the American Wire Works, an- other of Cleveland's large and important manu- factories. He was vice president of the East End Savings Bank, and a director of the Citi- zens' Savings and Loan Association. He was largely interested in the Mutnal and Orient lines of lake boats, also in the Cleveland street railways and various other enterprises in this and other eities. Ilis wonderfully elear and di- rect business insight, his sound and experi- enced judgment, as well as his well known dis- position to render aid and lend his influenee to all worthy purposes, eansed him to be freely called upon for advice and assistance, and also became the means by which he acquired varions interests in many corporations and companies. At all times he was prompt in aiding and abetting all movements looking toward the building up of his adopted eity, and inereasing her industrial and commercial importance.
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