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About 1860 the city of Cleveland began to seenre a mimber of manufacturing concerns, and soon after that, the war breaking out, business
began to revive, and the financial prospects of the young merchant began to brighten. As early as 1866 the firm of E. I. Baldwin & Com- pany saw that the future would bring a great reduction in values, and at once began to reduce the stock in their wholesale department, which by hard pushing was brought down to almost nothing. The judgment and foresight of the firm was amply demonstrated in a compar- atively short time afterward, and redounded to to their credit and round standing both at home and abroad.
In 1867 Mr. Baldwin, the head of the firm, on account of failing health was compelled to go abroad, and this threw the burden of the entire business upon Mr. Hatch. In 1856 Mr. S. 1. Baldwin, father of Mr. E. I., who was in- terested in the firm financially, withdrew from the same, and then E. I. Baldwin and Mr. Hateh constituted the firm of E. I. Baldwin & Company until during the '70s, when Messrs. W. S. Tyler and G. C. F. Hayne entered it, and the firm name was later changed to E. I. Baldwin, Hatch & Company. The above gentle- men subsequently withdrew from the business on account of failing health. The business continued to grow meanwhile, until it reached the magnitude of almost a million dollars an- nnally, and other partners were admitted. For several years prior to his death the health of Mr. Baldwin was such that he was unable to give much of his time and attention to the busi- ness in general, and the details of the same were left to Mr. Hatch and the junior partners. Upon the death of Mr. Baldwin, Mr. Hatch as- sumed all the responsibilities of the firm of E. I. Baldwin, Hatch & Company, taking Mr. Baldwin's interest and retaining all the junior partners with the exception of N. S. Jenkins, who was compelled to retire on account of fail- ing health.
It is Mr. Hatch's aim and purpose in assim- ing the business to conduct it upon the same high plan which brought such worthy success to the old firma, and to increase and extend it as the needs of the growing city of Cleveland
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require. Mr. Hatch has not confined his at- tention altogether to the business of his firm, but has been and is at present connected with several well-known and snecessful institutions of the city. He was a corporate member and for several years one of the finance committee of the old Savings Society; was one of the orig- ginal stockholders and directors of the Cleve- land National Bank; one of the the original members and one of the finance committee of the Savings and Trust Company, and is Vice President and Trustee of Lake View Cemetery Association. He is also an active member of the Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Hatch is and has been for several years an Elder of the Euclid Avenne Presbyterian Church. He is Vice President of the Humane Society, and in this direction has rendered valu- able and lasting service to humanity. In 1890 he purchased ground and on the same erected a permanent builling for wails at a total cost of $20,000, which is a memorial to his deceased wife and is known as The Lyda Baldwin In- fants' Rest. He was one of the original mem- bers of the Associated Charities of the Bethel, and continued to hold the membership therein for many years, and was active in seenring the building for that institution. He is also a Trustee of the Young Women's Christian As- sociation. He is of a sympathetic and chari- table nature, and his donations to charity have ever been generous alike to organized institu- tions and to individuals. As a citizen he is progressive, wide and liberal in his views, and is always to be found on the sound and conser- vative side of all public movements, lending his aid and influence to all worthy enterprises hav- ing for their object the welfare and building up of his adopted city and losing no opportun- ity of advancing and increasing her commercial, industrial and social importance.
Mr. Hatch has spent two years and six months in Europe traveling with his family, during which time he visited all the points of interest upon the continent and the British isles and the Mediterranean countries, his travels ex-
tending ont of the ordinary bounds of tourists, particularly of business men, he visiting parts of Russia, Norway, Sweden, Egypt, Palestine and Greece.
In October, 1857, Mr. Hlatch was married to Miss Lyda Baldwin, of New Haven, Connecti- cut, who was a sister to the late E. I. Baldwin, and was a most estimable woman, and much be- loved by all who knew her. Her death occurred in May, 1886. Six children were born to this union, four dying in infancy. The living chil- dren are Alice G., wife of Charles L. Peek, of Cleveland, and Miss Anna L.
In November, 1888, Mr. Hatch was married to Mary Cummings Brown, of Newark, New Jersey, and to their union one daughter has been born, Esther.
A T. HILLS, attorney at law, Cleveland .--- Like most Americans, Mr. Ilills is un- able to trace his ancestry through many generations to some remote and distin- gnished personage. He is a descendant in the fifth generation from one Charles Hills, who, coming from England, settled in New York city during the latter part of the seventeenthi century. The family remained in New York State until our subject's great-grandfather, also bearing the name. Charles removed to Ohio, settling in the southwestern part of the West- ern Reserve, in the year 1820, with a portion of his family, including Thomas, grandfather of A. T. Charles Hills married Elizabeth Frost, who had come with her parents from Holland about 1760. Charles and Elizabeth Hills had nine children, of whom Thomas, the fourth, was born in the year 1794. Ile was married in 1822, to Susannah Aumend, whose father, Adam Anmend, had come from Holland, and whose mother, nee Christina Albright, was a native of Wittenberg, Germany. These parents were married in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and later resided in Huntingdon, same State until 1820. Christina was a descendant of the family from
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whom the religions sect of Albrights took its name. Adam and Christina Anmend removed to Ohio, settling in 1820, in the northern part of Richland county, Susannah being then twen- ty-eight years old and the eldest child. Thomas Hills resided upon a farm in the vicinity of Plymonth, Richland county, which he entered from the Government in 1826 and cleared of its dense forest. Of their six children, George Albright ILills, the second born, was the father of A. T., whose name introduces this sketch.
After attaining his majority Mr. George Hills remained with his parents, caring for them in their declining years, and succeeded to the homestead, which he still owns and occupies at the age of sixty-eight years. January 5, 1854, Mr. George Hills married Sarah A. Jones, of Scotch and Welsh descent, her ancestors having come to this country during the Colonial period and actively engaged in the Revolutionary war. George and Sarah Hills had seven children, namely: Adin Thomas, our subject; Florence Elizabeth, Watson James, Artie Susannah, Mary Frances, Carrie Bell and Andrew Jackson, all of whom-both parents and children-are still living excepting Andrew, who died in 1890, at the age of twenty-two years; Florence and Car- rie are unmarried and reside with their parents on the farm; Artie married James Gibson and lives in Salt Lake City; Mary is likewise un- married and resides with Artie; Watson James is married and is a resident of Laramie, Wyo- ming, where he is practicing law and speculat- ing in land.
Mr. A. T. Hills, the eldest of the family, was born on the old homestead, October 20, 1854, and, like his brothers and sisters, was brought upon the farm, where he remained until of age. lle completed his school days at the high school of the village of Plymouth, Ohio, during the winters when he was twenty and twenty-one years old, and thereafter taught a district school in the neigborhood for one term of six months. Determining to attend college he began prepar- ation by studying Latin and Greek, under the instruction of Rer. Howard S. Stough, now
professor of languages at Midland College. He entered Wittenberg College at Springfield, Ohio, in 1876, and gradnated in 1880, having completed a full classical course.
In the following August he commenced the study of law in the office of Dirlam & Leyman at Mansfield, Ohio, and was admitted to the bar in May, 1882. In Angust he came to Cleve- land and began the practice of his chosen pro- fession, opening an office at 219 Superior street, where he remained until the spring of 1884, when he formed a partnership with M. B. Gary and N. A. Gilbert, under the firm name of Gary, Gilbert & Hills, located at 243 Superior street. In 1885 Mr. Gary retired from the firm, since which time the firm naine has been Gilbert & Hills. Mr. Hills has pursued a gen- eral practice, and has had charge of a number of important cases. He has met with success as an attorney, and has secured a firm place at the bar, being regarded one of the leading young members. He was one of the first at- torneys in the celebrated Reason Glass will forgery case at Ashland, Ohio. He wrote a small treatise, " On Commercial Law," for use in schools and business colleges, which was pub- lished in 1893.
Mr. Hills was married in June, 1886, to Miss Sarah C. Tucker, daughter of J. A. Tucker, M. D., a physician practicing at Plymouth, this State, and they have three children,-Homer, Myra and Harold. Mr. Hills is a member of the Second Presbyterian Church.
R EV. PHILIP STEMPEL, formerly pas- tor of the Protestant Evangelical Church at West Side, Cleveland, Ohio, was born at Lambsheim, Germany, July 2, 1824. His parents, David and Frederica (Stachler) Stempel, died in the old country; they had three sons and two daughters, of whom the subject of this sketch was the youngest and the only one who came to America.
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Mr. Stempel was educated at Kaiserslautern, Germany, and came to America in 1849, set- tling at Brighton, Cuyahoga county, where he was a teacher and a pastor at the same time for four years. Desiring a broader field of work he removed to Cleveland, in 1853, where he was pastor of a congregation which met in a small frame building on Kentucky street. The corner-stone of the first house of worship be- longing to this society was laid November 28, 1853, and the corner-stone of their next building was laid September 18, 1859; and the corner-stone of the present church edi- fice, where Rev. William Angelberger is pastor, was laid July 28, 1866. Mr. Stempel built and served in these three churches an aggregate of twenty-two years. He was a very successful minister, industrions in the cause of his Master.
In 1875 he accepted a call to Hamilton, Ohio, where he served until some time in the spring of 1889, when, owing to ill health, he determined to spend the remainder of his life among the scenes of his first labors. Dur- ing his ministry he baptized 5,301 persons, buried 5,242, married 4,402, confirmed 2,770 children, and administered communion to 11,- 992 people. As a citizen he won the esteem of all who knew him. He was a man of large ability and an earnest Christian worker. In the Conference of the German Protestant Evangelical Church he was a prominent figure. Previons to his sickness, he had taken the deepest interest in everything which was de- signed for the advancement of the public good, especially in church channels.
He was married October 25, 1853, to Miss Elizabeth Gerlach, daughter of Henry and Catherine Gerlach, natives of Germany, and at that time residents of Cleveland. In the family were four danghters, namely: Katie, wife of George Rupp of Hamilton, Ohio, whose living children are Nettie E., George S. and Waldo .J .; Jennie, a graduate of Hope Seminary, Indiana, and is a teacher in the public schools of Cleve land; Anna, who married Prof. Jesse Blick-
ensderfer, resides at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, having two children, Jesse and Raymond; Elise, now Mrs. W. Dringfelder, residing at Hamilton, Ohio, and has two children,-Louise and Willie. All the family are members of the church of their noble parents.
R EV. WILLIAM ANGELBERGER, pas- tor of the United German Evangelical Church, corner of Bridge and Ken- tucky streets, Cleveland, Ohio, was born in Welschmeurenth, Baden, Germany, October 20, 1844. llis birthplace is located only a short distance from Karlsruhe, the capital of Baden, which was originally a French colony of Protestant people who had been expelled from France at the time the edict of Nantes was re- pealed, in 1685. Ilis parents, honored resi- dents of that place, were Johann and Magdalena (Durand) Angelberger, both of whom are now deceased. Our subject received his education partly in his native home, partly at Basel, Switzerland. Jacob Angelberger, grandfather of the subject of this review, was for many years Rathschreiber, or clerk of the town board in the colony noted. Hlis maternal grand- father, John Durand, was a school teacher of that place for a long term of years, and after- ward held the position as principal of the school in one of the neighboring towns, Eggen- stein. A number of his pupils are residents of Cleveland at the present time.
The father of onr subject was a fresco painter, an artist in his line and a man honored and esteemed by all. He died in 1871 at the age of fifty-five years, and three years later his wile died, aged fifty-six years. William Angel- berger is the second in a family of five children, namely: Minnie, director of a kindergarten at her native village; our subject; Henry, who came to this country in 1872 and died in Wis- consin, at the age of forty-one years; Carl, who is a contractor in Cleveland; and Fred, who is Mayor of his native town of Welschenreuth. 11
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is worthy of incidental note that the father held a distinctive preferment in this village, having been a member of the Church Council, which was a position of much responsibility, whose tenure was a significant voucher for the ability of the official and for the confidence in which he was held in the community.
Rev. William Angelberger received his theological education at Basel, Switzerland, and was ordained to the ministry of the Lutheran Church at Weier, Alsace, by Inspector Buech- senschnetz, who was inspector of the diocese of Lnechselstein. In 1870 our subject came to America, having been sent hither by the mis- sionary society of Basel. He located in the nothern part of Illinois, whence he later re- moved to southern Wisconsin, thence to the State of New York, and finally, in 1880, to Cleveland, where he accepted charge of his present congregation, working ardnonsly and faithfully. His church was organized in 1853 by Rev. Philip Stempel, who remained in pas- toral charge nntil about the year 1876, when he accepted a call from Hamilton, Ohio. After his removal the church fell into nufortunate desnetnde. When the present pastor assumed charge four years afterward, he had thus a heavy burden to bear, a herenlean task to ac- complish, in rehabilitating the church and in- fusing new vigor into the work. In accom- plishing the desired ends he was altogether sne- cessful, bringing abont the npbuilding of a good, strong and progressive church organization. The church is the second oldest of its denomi- nation in the city of Cleveland, and its member- ship represents about 350 families.
The admirable success of the popular pastor of the church has been dne to untiring energy and well directed effort, with the enlistment of the hearty support of a kind and liberal-hearted people. On coming to America Rev. Angel- berger nuited with the Evangelical Synod of North America, to which he now belongs, being of the Ohio district.
He was married in 1871 to Miss Lena Engel, daughter of George and Maggie Engel,
who came from Alsace, Germany. Rev. and Mrs. Angelberger are the parents of threo in- teresting children: Minnie, Lillie and Lenchen. Two children, Willie and Carl, are deceased.
The subject of this review is in nature and temperament much of an optimist, cheerful in disposition, courteous and scholarly and popu- lar with all who know him. He has traveled extensively, has seen much of the world and is broad and progressive in his views, standing as a most worthy representative of the church of his choico.
R EV. EBENEZER BUSHNELL, D. D., a Presbyterian minister of Cleveland, was born at Granville, Ohio, November 18, 1822, now the only child living of Thomas II. and Charlotte (Bailey) Bushnell. The senior Bushnell was a civil engineer and surveyor, following his vocation nutil his death in 1838, at the age of forty-nine years. He was noted for his painstaking acenracy, in which he had great ambition, and this talent and dis- position he had inherited from his father, a gradnate of Yale College. He was a prominent man both in his profession and society.
The gentleman whose name heads this sketch has been a minister of the gospel ever sinco 1850. As a pastor he had one place twenty- five years, namely, Fremont, this State; and he was pastor at Burton, Geanga county, Ohio, seven years; at present he is preaching only occasionally, having left the pastorate in 1882, on account of failing health. He graduated in 1846, at Western Reserve College, afterward named Adelbert College, of which he is now secretary and treasurer, when that institution was at IIndson. To defray his expenses at college he learned the carpenter's trade, taught vocal music, etc. Toward the last of his school life he was principal of the preparatory school and then tutor in the college. On the organi- zation of Western Reserve University in ISSI, he became a Trustee and Secretary and Treas-
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urer of that cluster of institutions, having been a Trustee of Western Reserve College since 1861. lle is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa and the Delta Kappa Epsilon societies. In his political principles he is a Republican. Ile had an unele in the war of 1812, and a brother in the great war of 1861, and ho him- solf assisted in the raising of sokliers for the last war, and during the last year of this strng- gle he was in the service of the Christian com- mission in the Army of the Potomac.
In 1850 he married Miss Julia E. Baldwin, a daughter of Sylvester Baldwin, of IIndson, and they had four children, namely: Eliza, wife of William A. Byal, of Findlay, Ohio; George B. of Cleveland; Albert, a clerk in the general Post Office Department at Washington ; and T. H., a lawyer of Hurley, Wisconsin. Mrs. Bushnell died in September, 1856, and in 1858 Mr. Bushnell married Miss Cornelia Woodruff, of Mansfield, this State, and a dangh- ter of Rev. Simeon Woodruff, and by this marriage there are three children,-Annie, Charlotte and Edward. Mrs. Bushmell has been very prominent in the church missionary societies.
Mr. Bushnell's remote ancestry were English, and one of his forefathers was prominent in the early history of Norwich, Connectient, and another invented a torpedo for the destruction of war vessels.
R EV. G. HEINMILLER, editor of the Christliche Botschafter, the German official organ of the Evangelical Associa- tion, was born in Albany, New York, October 15, 1853.
His parents, Henry and Helena (Reich) Hein- miller, natives of Germany, were married in settling in Albany, New York, from whence they subsequently removed to Howard county, lowa. Their removal to lowa was in 1869. Henry Heinmiller was a reernit in the German
army, but was in no wars. After locating in Albany he worked at the trade of cabinetmaker, and upon going to lowa he settled down to the quiet life of a farmer. He is still living, now in his seventy-fourth year, he having been born in 1820. His good wife passed away in 1892, at the age of sixty-eight years. Hers was a lovely Christian character and she was a devoted member of the Evangelical Association. Mr. Heinmiller has for many years been a member of this church. Ile is now rotired from active life. They had a family of ten children, all of whom are living except two. The oldest, Jacob, who was a journalist in Albany, New York, died at the age of thirty-eight years; and the young- est, Emna, died at the age of fourteen.
After attending the public schools in Albany, New York, and in Iowa, the subject of onr sketch entered the Northwestern College at Naperville, Illinois. Ile also taught school one term, and while attending and teaching school he began the work of the ministry. In 1878 he went as a missionary to Europe, and was at Dresden, Strassburg, and Reutlingen, having his home longest at the last named place. He was engaged as teacher in the seminary of his church for a period of six years, this institution being a missionary seminary in Wurttemberg.
In 1891 Mr. Heimniller was elected to his present position for a term of four years, by the General Conference of his Church, and was recalled from the old country. Altogether he spent thirteen years in Europe, six years as teacher and seven years as an itinerant minister. In the mean time, in 1883, he returned to America as a delegate to the Gen- eral Conference at Allentown. Ile was also a delegate to the General Conference of 1891, at Indianapolis.
Rev. Hejnmiller is an imposing figure, of a
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him in favor with all who cultiva ... ance. He is a deep thinker, and has always applied himself with untiring energy to the
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study of abstruse problems, and thus has gath- ered a rich treasury of knowledge in many branches of science. He is particularly well versed in the diversified phases of dogmatics, and is perfectly convers mit with ancient cand modern literature and thought. He has served the church in various relations, such as Presid- ing Elder, editor of European publications, teacher, etc., and at this writing is editor of the Christliche Botschafter, the oldest, largest and most widely circulated religions weekly publica- tion in America.
Ilis sermons are logical, full of thought, de- livered in elegant language and a forcible style, and carry with them the force of conviction. As a writer, he wields a fluent pen, and has the happy faculty of saying much in few words, always to the point and just what he means. In his private intercourse, he is rather backward and modest, which explains the reason why he had to be brought foith and pushed to a front position in his church. A man of deep piety and profound sincerity in all his relations with his fellowmen, he has before him the prospects of a grand future which waits to crown with success every character of merit.
G EORGE G. MULHERN, superintendent of the Cleveland City Railway Company, is a most familiar figure in the ranks of Cleveland business men. He came to this city thirty-two years ago from Cornwall, Ontario, almost a beardless youth, and seenred work as a day laborer on the street railroad, be- ing then built on Ontario street. ITis next job was as a lumber piler for Mr. Sturtevant, then a large dealer on the river. A grocery clerk- ship next offered itself to Mr. Mulhern, and at this business he remained until 1863, when he became a street-car conductor on the West Side, and in 1867 was promoted to the position of superintendent of the line. In 1870 Mr. Mul- . hern was elected superintendent of the Rocky
River steam railroad, and when it was sold out to the New York, Pennsylvania, & Ohio, eight years later, he returned to the West Side line in the same capacity.
Mr. Mulhern is a thorough railroad man. Many and wonderful changes have been wrought in rapid transit for Cleveland under his pro- gressive regime. He has developed a great system of roads from a few small lines cover- ing what are now down-town streets. He is a man whom experience educated. The common schools put him in possession of a frail Form, and work and experience braced it up and filled in the necessary material to produce a practical and competent man.
In 1889 Mr. Mulhern was elected nnani- mously a member of the Board of Education, to fill a vacancy. In politics he supports his friends for office, but on que-tions of State and national importance he is Democratic.
In September, 1869, George C. Mulhern married Mattie, a danghter of W. B. Smith, from Linden, New York, who for sixty years was a resident of Cleveland, and in later life engaged in the undertaker's business. Two daughters are the only children of Mr. and Mrs. Mulhern: Mabel, a graduate of the Cleve- land high school; and Maud.
E DWARD A. MERRITT, anditor and assistant treasurer of the Cleveland Stone Company, is a native of Marquette, Michigan, where he was born February 12, 1862. HTeis a son of Daniel II. and Harriet L. Merritt. Both parents are residents of Mar- quette, Michigan, where they have resided since 1857. For a period of about five years the father resided in Cleveland. He was in the employ of the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Rail- way Company. He followed the railroad bnsi- ness until 1875, since which date he has been interested in the iron business in the Lake Superior district.
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