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perience in all kinds of city engineering work. On the death of Mr. Walter in 1881, he was placed in charge of his work, and made fourth assistant city engineer, by the eity engineer, B. F. Morse.
Ile continued to act as engiucer, having special charge of surveys; from that time to May 20, 1893, when he was retired by John II. Farley, the newly appointed Democratic dirce- tor of public works, in order to make room for one of the latter's political supporters. This was done after he had served twelve years at the head of the survey department of the city, under Engineers B. F. Morse, C. G. Force, W. P. Riee, and Director of Public Works R. R. Herrick, his salary having been raised three times during this period. He was made third assistant engineer by Director Herrick, but no particular change was made in the nature of his duties.
While filling the above positions, he in per- son made the surveys for the Kingsbury ran viaduct, and Central viadnet routes, and pro- pared all the deeds, resolutions, ordinanees and descriptions necessary for the purchase or ap- propriation of the land for the same, costing over $200,000, and also made the survey and prepared similar papers for the opening, by ap- propriation, of Walworth street, in the valley of Walworth run, from Seranton avenne to Gordon avenue, a distance of about two and a half miles, whiel eost over $100,000. He also made or directed all other surveys by his de- . partment, such as those for defining old streets and opening new ones; for dock lines; to define city property, etc. Ile examined and reported to the chief engineer upon all the plats and maps subdividing lands, and laying out new streets within the city, that have gone on record during the past twelve years,-some 325 in all. In this work he corrected many errors and doubtless saved much litigation, that would otherwise devolve upon future generations.
In 1880 he was one of the founders of the Civil Engineers' Club of Cleveland. In ISS5 he was elected treasurer of the club, and was
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re-elected four times, serving five years. Ile also served one year as corresponding secretary and one year as a director. In August, 1884, he prepared and read before the club a paper entitled " The Original Surveys of Cleveland," which was published in the Journal of the As- sociation of Engineering Societies for that month, with accompanying maps. This paper has since been frequently in demand by sur- veyors and others interested in the carly his- tory and survey of the city.
Soon after leaving the city's employ, Mr. Baker entered the race for the nomination for County Surveyor on the Republican ticket, and in September, 1893, received the nomination, defeating five other candidates, and having a plurality of the popular vote, and a final dele- gate vote in the convention of 269 ont of a total of 386 cast. In November following he was elected Connty Surveyor by a majority of nearly 9,000 over his Democratie opponent. He took possession of his office on January 1, 1894, and has already exeented a large amount of work for the citizens of the city and county. With a complete force of expert assistants and an equipment of the latest and most improved instruments, he is prepared to make all kinds of surveys and do a large class of engineering work. The brief mention of his official career and publie work outlined above demonstrates his competency l'or his present position and for the kind of work he advertises to do. With all the superior advantages possible, therefore, he is prepared to locate uncertain or disputed prop- erty lines, to survey and lay out subdivisions, street lines, lots, farms, roads, drives and private grounds, to prepare maps, descriptions and deeds, and do all the engineering work re- quired for grading, curbing, paving, sewering, ete., of new streets, with plans and estimates of cost.
Mr. Baker is unmarried, and is now residing on Prospect street. His parents are dead, his father, the late Robert Baker, who was for many years the Secretary of the City Infirmary Board, having died in January, 1891, and his mother
six months later. Ilis only innnediate relative living is his sister, Mrs. George II. Foote, of this eity. Ile is a member of the Ohio Society of Surveyors and Civil Engineers, and also a member of the Cleveland Athletic Club. In polities he is a Republican, and has been so since his lirst vote. Though never a politician, he takes an active interest in the success of his party, and is a member of both the Tippecanoe and Cnyahoga Republican Clubs.
R EV. AUGUST GERARDIN, pastor of the Annunciation Catholic Church of Cleveland (French), was born in France, May 4, 1844, a son of J. E. and Theresa (Toussaint) Gerardin, both parents being na- tives of France. The father was a life-long teacher, and taught for the greater portion of his life in Riche. Here he taught for thirty years and here he died. He taught in the county of Meurthe, France, and as a teacher he was distinguished. He died in 1863, at the age of sixty-four years. Ilis wife's death preceded his one year, she dying at the age of sixty-two years. Both of these parents were life-long and faithful members of the Catholic Church, and the excelleney of their precepts were telling upon the character of their son, whose name introduces this brief sketch.
Rev. Gerardin is the youngest of seven chil- dren, of whom three still live. In 1864 onr subject came to America and direct to Cleve- land, where he completed his theological studies at St. Mary's Seminary under the tutelage of Rev. Saleune, now at Long Branch, New York, and Dr. James Stremler, superior. His pre- liminary education was obtained in France at Pont-a- Mousson. Ile was ordained priest in Cleveland, December 16, 1867, by Bishop Rappe.
Rev. Gerardin's first work as a pastor was at Upper Sandusky. He was next sent to Galion, Ohio, where he became pastor in 1868 and served until 1877. During the period he was
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at Galion, Ohio, he built what is now known as the St. Patrick's church of Galion, a large, commodious building, and also completed a building and inaugurated what is now a large school. From Galion Rov. Gerardin came to Cleveland in 1877. The parish in Cleveland was inaugurated in 1868 by Father A. Sanvadet, and is known as the Annunciation, of which Rev. Gerardin became the second rector. At the time he became director there were 125 families in his congregation, and the number of families has been increased two-fold. His church is in a healthy condition and is growing.
Rev. Gerardin has been very successful in church work, his success being due to his dili- gence, his watchful care and his ability as an organizer. Ile is highly esteemed and beloved.
R EV. WILLIAM YOST, treasurer of the Missionary Society of tho Evangelical Association, Cleveland, Ohio, dates his birth in Womelsdorf, Berks county, Pennsylvania, December 25, 1830.
Ilis parents, Jolin and Margaret (Lauer) Yost, were natives of Germany. John Yost was a cooper and farmer by occupation; lived to the advanced age of ninety-two years, and died in Berks county, Pennsylvania, in 1887. llis wife died in 1850, at the age of fifty years. Both were members of the Evangelical Associa- tion. They came to America in 1823 and sot- tled in Pennsylvania, where they spent the rest of their lives, honored and respected by all who knew them. William was the fourth born in their family of six children, four of whom are living. One son, Fred, went out to California in 1848, and is now a well-to-do citizen of Stockton.
William Yost was odneated in Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania; but on account of failing health was compelled to leave the college before he completed his course. Ile was then employed for a short time as book- keeper in Reading. At the age of twenty-two
he entered the ministry of the Evangelical As- sociation, and for eleven years was a circuit preacher, spending two years at each appoint- ment, all the time the regulations of the church would allow. For the past thirty years he has been one of the officials of the church. He was elected corresponding secretary of the Mission- ary Society of the Evangelical Association in 1863, which position he held for sixteen years. Then for eight years he was one of the man- agers of the Publishing House of the Associa- tion. He was elected to hiis present position in 1887. For four years, in addition to his other duties, he served as one of the editors of the Missionary Messenger, and at present is also general statistical secretary of the Evangelical Association.
Mr. Yost was married, March 9, 1855, to Miss Maria Il. Gish, daughtor of Abraham and Elizabeth Gish, of Northampton county, Penn- sylvania. They have five children, namely: Ella, Howard, Emma, William B., and Bessie. Ella is the wife of Robert O. Preyer, a lumber dealer of Elizabeth City, North Carolina. They have four children, Auna, Willie, Allen and ITelen. Howard, bookkeeper for the Society for Savings, resides in Cleveland. He married Miss Kate Wyant, of this city, and they have three children, Malcomb, Ransom and Harold. Emma is the wife of Dr. M. J. Blien, of San Antonio, Texas, and their children are Marion and Iloward. William B. married Miss Flor- ence Yost, of Twinsburg, Ohio. He is a trav- eling salesman for a wholesale hardware com- pany of Cleveland. Bessie, the youngest, is at- tending the Cleveland high school. The family are all members of the Evangelical Association.
Rev. Yost is favored with a goodly portion of sound practical sense, which is enlivened with a very ready and almost inexhaustible amount of mother wit. llis temperament being rather lively, the result is that he is nearly always in good humor and is a kind and pleasant com- panion. Ilis perceptive powers are acute and always on the alert. Ilis slender form is well " proportioned and is wiry and tough, and, being
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quick and supplo in his actions, he is able to do a great deal of work with comparatively little exertion.
In the discharge of his official duties he is panetnal and reliable. In financos he is "quite at home" and hence makes a first-class treasurer of the Missionary Society and the Orphans' Home of the Evangelical Association. Indeed, in every position to which he has been called, he has discharged his duty with the strictest fidelity.
As a preacher of the gospel, Mr. Yost has met with eminent success. He studies his texts well, presents the truths contained therein earnestly, gracefully and effectively. While he served as preacher on circuits and stations he was everywhere successful in leading souls to Christ and building up the church. Besides the various official positions which he has filled, he has been a member of a number of General Conferences, and assisted materially in shaping legislation for the church by that body.
Mr. Yost is without doubt one of the most useful men in his church, an honor to its min- istry, and as a member of the church leading a blameless and exemplary Christian life.
A M. MOZIER, superintendent of trans- portation of the New York, Pennsyl- vania & Ohio and the Chicago & Erie Railroad Companies, comprising all their lines west of Salamanca, New York, was born in Morrow county, Ohio, May 31, 1843.
Like most men who are guiding spirits in the destinies of prosperous corporations, he was once a country lad, being a son of L. D. Mozier, a farmer who settled in Morrow county, where Edison now is, in 1835. Mr. Mozier's best educational advantages were the high schools of Mount Gilead, Ohio. He became a telegraph operator at Delaware, Ohio, for the " Big Four" Railroad Company, served as operator and ticket agent at Crestline, Ohio, for the same company, and at this juneture he decided to undertake a merchandising venture in the same city, but one
year's experience found him again ready to re- sume railroading. He was made operator for the Pennsylvania Company at Rochester, Penn- sylvania, and soon after was transferred to the Panhandle as train dispatcher, and was made chiel dispatcher and manager of telegraph, re maining with the company ton years. He then returned to the " Big Four" Company as chier train dispatcher and soon afterward was pro- moted to train master of the Indianapolis & St. Lonis Division, completing seven years' service with them.
Mr. Mozier came to the New York, Pennsyl- vania & Ohio in 1888, as superintendent of the Third and Fourth Divisions, with headquarters at Galion, Ohio. January 1, 1891, he was pro- moted to his present office, where he has since served with the exception of seven months, during the reorganization of the Chicago & Erie Railroad, when he was detailed to act as its superintendent.
Besides being active in the operating depart- ment of the several roads with which he has been connected, Mr. Mozier has been very much interested in the subject of switches and signals, for the improvement of which he has invented and patented devices that are absolutely safe, and which are being quite generally adopted on trial. For the manufacture of these devices a plant is in operation at Galion, of which Mr. Mozier is president, the institution being known as the " Mozier Safety Signal Company." They turn out the " Mozier Three-Position Sema- phore " and the " Mozier Safety Signal," for nse in connection with the " Mozier Block System," or as train order signals.
Mr. Mozier's father was born in Vermont, came into Morrow county, Ohio, when a youth, and died there in 1885, aged eighty-four years. In early life he was a prominent school-teacher, bnt devoted his later years to the farm. lle married Abbie Lonisa Harrison, of the same stock as the two presidents Harrison. Joseph Harrison, the father of Mrs. Mozier, married Miss Crane in New Jersey, settled in Morrow county early in its history, and was a merchant.
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An unele of our subjeet, Joseph Mozier, is the famous American sculptor. Ile studied in Italy and remained there, being one of the first of our artists to achieve a reputation in foreign countries. On his visit to England he was crowned by the Queen as a token of her appro- bation of his work. His masterpiece was one of the rare marbles on exhibition at the World's Fair.
L. D. Mozier was the father of seven ehil- dren, viz : Joseph W .; William HI .; D. C., a deceased banker of Mount Gilead, Ohio; A. M .; G. W., of Kansas City, Missouri; Mary L., wife of G. A. Dodge, of Valparaiso, Indiana; and Charles R., of Edison.
A. M. Mozier married in 1865, at Crestline, Ohio, Miss Marianne, a daughter of William II. Borie, from near Cumberland, Maryland. The children of this nnion are Marion Lee, train dispatcher at Huntington, Indiana, on Chicago & Erie Railroad, and Edna Louise.
E LBERT IRVING BALDWIN .- The late E. I. Baldwin, who died on the 27th day of January, 1894, was one of Cleve- land's most prominent business men and de- servedly honored citizens. As the founder and head of the well-known dry-goods house of E. I. Baldwin, Hatch & Company, he was for over forty years identified with the commercial in- terests of the city, and during that period he built up one of the largest mercantile houses in the State of Ohio, and established a most enviable reputation both as a merchant and as a man and citizen.
Mr. Baldwin was a native of Connecticut, having been born in New Haven on the 13th day of May, 1829. He spent his early life in his native city, and received excellent educa- tional advantages. At the age of nineteen years, health being none too robust, he decided upon a more active life and began his mercantile entreer by entering the establishment of Sandford & Allen, a leading dry goods house of New
Haven. In order that he might learn the busi- ness thoroughly and gain practical experience, he took a subordinate clerkship and passed through all the grades to the position of con- fidential clerk. From New Haven he went to New York city, and entered the house of the old firm of Tracy, Irwin & Company, and there remained until the year 1853, when he removed to Cleveland.
When Mr. Baldwin came to Cleveland he found the field well occupied, there being a very large number of dry-goods houses in the city, most of them doing business on the old fashi- ioned credit system, and failures of course com- mon. The outlook was not favorable: the store he had engaged was said to be on the "wrong side " of the street; older merchants prophesied a speedy failure; and competition was strong, going so far in its efforts to injure the young merchant by circulating false reports eoneerning his credit. In October, 1853, Mr. Baldwin opened business under the firm name of E. I. Baldwin & Company, in the new block on the corner of Superior and Seneca streets, and con- trary to predictions sneceeded from the very be- ginning. Ile commenced with a stock valued at $16,000, and at the end of the first year the sales amounted to over $43,000. This was an encouraging result. The history of the firm from that time to the present has been one of continued success and progress, every year wit- messing a marked increase over the former. From the beginning the firm possessed the en- tire confidence of the largest and best merchants in the East, and having conducted their business in a strictly honorable manner and selling only good articles, and at reasonable profits, and al- lowing no misrepresentations, has retained enstomers from year to year, in many instances keeping their trade for a period of twenty years.
The first direct importation of foreign dry goods to a Western city was made in 1857, by E. 1. Baldwin & Company, and to this firm is largely due the introduction of modern and im- proved methods of conducting business, which
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are now very generally adopted by all good merchants. The rapid growth and expansion of their retail business some years since decided them to abandon the general jobbing trade and devote more attention to the distribution of goods among consumers, a stroke of policy which proved eminently successful. Perhaps no business requires greater talent to proscente with profit than the management of a large em- porinm of dry goods. Natural ability, self-re- lianee, good judgment and quick perception are necessary, and must be supplemented by close application and unswerving integrity. All these qualifications were possessed to an emin- ent degree by Mr. Baldwin, combined with a kind and courteous nature and charitable dis- position, which made him not only a successful business man but also eudeared him to all with whom he came in contact, both in the store and in the outside world. The career of Mr. Baldwin demonstrates that an establishment for the sale of merchandise can be so condneted as to prove a peeuniary benefit to a city and means of ele- vating the tastes of a community, besides giv- ing permanent and useful employment to large numbers of persons, who are surrounded by good influenees and instrneted to regard honesty as not only the " best policy " but as abolutely essential to the holding of any position in the honse.
During the first three years of the existence of the firm, Mr. Silas I. Baldwin, father of E. I., was associated with it in a financial way, and upon his retirement Mr. Henry R. Hatch, brother-in-law to the head of the firm, was ad- mitted to a partnership. In 1863 Mr. W. S. Tyler, an employee, was given an interest in the business, and in late years Messrs. W. S. Jenkins, G. T. Sehryrer, P. Doimer and A. E. Hatch were taken into the firm, and in 1887 the firm was changed to E. I. Baldwin, Hatch & Company. To meet the demands of their trade the firm in 1863 purchased a piece of land on Superior street, whereon stood at that time part of the city buildings, and erected the elegant store now occupied by them, which at that early
day was ore of the finest in the city, and to day compares favorably with the leading business honses, notwithstanding the great progress of late years in architecture and building.
Mr. Baldwin never enjoyed vigorous health, but until within a few years of his death was able to carry his full share of the burden of the large business of his firm, and had a thorough knowledge of its details. Of a naturally retir- ing disposition, and with a distaste for publi- city, Mr. Baldwin would never permit himself to be drawn into political matters, contenting himself with his business, his family, friends and acquaintances. Ile found much pleasure in books and in travel in his own and foreign countries, having returned from an extended visit to Europe only about two weeks before his death. He was an Elder and Trustee of the Second Presbyterian Church, and was ever ready to lend his aid and influence to the promotion of every useful and philanthropie enterprise, and benevolent institutions were ever welcome to his hearty aud liberal charity. Mr. Baldwin was a warm friend and supporter of Oberlin College, and erected at that institution Baldwin Cottage, at a cost of 830,000, and at his death left the cottage a bequest of $25,000.
Mr. Baldwin was married in 1855, to Miss Mary Jeannette Sterling, daughter of Oliver L. Sterling, of Lima, Livingston county, New York.
D R. IL. C. EYMAN .- Among the leading physicians in the treatment of nervons diseases in the State of Ohio, and par- tienlarly those in which insanity is involved, is Dr. II. C. Eyman, the efficient superintendent of the Cleveland State Hospital, at Newburg.
This gentleman was born in Fairfield county, Ohio, September 13, 1856, the son of a farmer in fair eirenmstanees, having been in earlier life a school-teacher. The subject of this sketch completed the preseribed conrse at Fairfield Academy, tanght school for a time, and then began to prepare himself for his life calling, that of medicine. Entering the Columbus
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Medical College in 1877, he graduated there three years later, and since then has made nen- rology and diseases of the brain and nervous system his great specialty. ITis first location for practice was in Tarlton, Pickaway conuty, Ohio, where failing health at length forced him out of practice, and within two years after locating there he entered the drug business in Lancaster, this State. Ile became assistant physician at the Athens Asylum in 1884, and in July, 1887, was appointed assistant superin- tendent of the asylum at Toledo, aiding in the opening of that institution. His ability in the treatment of the unfortunate inmates there be came so well known that when the Newburg Asylum needed a new man at its head Dr. Ey- man was selected; and so well fitted is he for this important work that, although he is a Democrat in polities, and officials in those places fluctuate with each new State administra- tion, he has been retained by the present Gov- ernor.
To Dr. Eyman belongs the credit of banish- ing from the hospitals of the State the last of the deviees for mechanical restraint. Two years ago, when he was promoted from the position of assistant superintendent at the Toledo Asy- Inın to his present place, of the 700 patients his predecessor had to deal with, forty on an average were secluded every day, and an average of twenty-six were daily subjected to mechanical restraint, principally by the use of the maff or the straight-jacket; and besides this nineteen cribs were in constant nse. It is said that if even a well man were fastened in a erib two days he would be on the verge of insanity if indeed not wholly demented; yet it was assumed that such a contrivance had some value in treat- ing those who are mentally diseased! Since the abolishment of all these barbarous devices Dr. Eyman manages a larger minber of patients, and more satisfactorily and far more humanely, than were before treated.
The Doctor is also professor of mental and nervous diseases in Wooster College. He was chosen to the lecturership in this institution in
1891, and to the chair above mentioned in 1892. Ile is a member of the American Medico- Psychological Association, before which he read a paper in 1892 entitled " The Effects of Ignor- ance and Superstition on the Treatment of Men- tal Obliquities." He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the new Massillon Asyhun.
The founder of the Eyman family in Ohio was the Doctor's grandfather, Henry Eyman, who, a farmer, settled in Fairfield connty, Ohio, in 1800 .. Henry Eyman, the first, settled in Virginia over 200 years ago, and his grand- children aided in the contest for American in- dependence. Each sneeceding lineal descend- ant from Henry the original to Henry the Ohio pioneer had only one son. The latter had two sons, viz .: II. B., the Doctor's father, and W. S. II. B. Eyman taught school several terms before he finally settled down on the farm. He spent the last ten years of his life in New Salem, Ohio, serving the city as Mayor. Ile died July 5, 1893, aged seventy-four years. Ife married Mary A., daughter of Christian Baker, -- who was a prominent Democrat and in 1850 a member of the State Legislature, -- and a niece of Daniel Keller, another prominent politician and legislator. Mr. Baker was a large land-owner and wealthy farmer who came from near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, abont 1800. He had been a soldier in the war of 1812, attaining some rank, and died in 1875, aged eighty-four years. For his wife he mar- ried Magdalena Ruffner, of Fairfield county, and their children were six in number, one of whom was Emannel, a member of the Legisla- ture in 1876 and once the Democratic candidate for Secretary of State. Mr. II. B. Eyman had eight children, namely: D. S., of Fairfield connty ; Samantha, now Mrs. Aaron C. Hender- son; Maggie, wife of T. J. Spitler, a wealthy farmer of Fairfield county; C. B .; Frank P., a railroad man on the Chicago & Northwestern line; Dr. II. C., our subject; Louis E., a drug- gist of Lancaster, Ohio; and II. E., train dis- pateher on the Northern Pacific Railroad at Stephens, Minnesota.
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