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cellorsville Mr. Bander rendered valuable ser- vices by promptly furnishing ammunition to forces engaged in that position of the field, and thus enabling them to repulse the enemy, vir- tnally saving the day. At Cedar Mountain Mr. Bander did a bravo and brilliant act in rescuing the colors of a Connectient regiment, which, however, were stolen from him, and at the battle of Manassas ho accomplished one of the most daring and yet innocent feats of tho war. At this battle, in a moment of confusion, his divi- sion was separated from its command and lost. Sergeant Bander in an effort to join his com- mand took a certain course, but where it should lead him he hardly knew. He and his fellow soldiers, with their blue coats covered with dust, somewhat resembled in appearance the enemy with their coats of gray. This enabled them to pass through Longstreet's command with eighteen wagons and forty soldiers withont being observed until they had almost reached their own command, when their identity was discovered by the enemy, who fired upon them, withont effect, for their own command sent out a detachment which made safe their escape. This passing through the lines of the enemy was not intended, for they had fallen in among the enemy not knowing really whither they were going. However, the feat was an unpree- edented one and nothing like it afterward oc- curred.
Mr. Bauder is a charter member of Memorial Post, G. A. R .; is Past Colonel of Merwin Clark command, U. V. U .; Colonel on the staff of the Commander-in-Chief of Union Veterans' Union; Secretary of Cuyahoga County Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument Association; member of the Masonic and other orders; ex-President of the Seventh Regiment Association; ex-President of the County Auditors' Association, and was President of the Day on decoration exercises in 1889. For five years he was member of the Public Library Board.
Upon his return from war he was united in marriage, September 14, 1864, with Miss Eliza- beth Page, danghter of the late General C. W.
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Page, ex-Mayor of Norwalk. Upon the con- summation of his marriage he settled down in Cleveland, and became chief clerk in the for- warding department of the Cleveland & Pitts- burg Railroad, in which capacity he served seven years. He was then bookkeeper for the Jackson Iron Company for five years. In 1879 he was elected County Auditor, in which office he served two terms, being re-elected in 1880. Ile was then associated for several years with E. Day & Company in the iron-storage business. In 1886 he was elected Justice of the Peace, to which office he was re-elected in 1889. Mean- while he studied law and passed a successful examination at Columbus in 1890, carrying the honors of a class of sixty-three. Now being ad- mitted to the bar, he located in Cleveland, and has since been actively engaged in a general practice of the law. Mr. Bander is a friend of edneation, is especially fond of literature and history, now being a trustee of the Western Re- serve Historical Society. IIe has contributed to literature several well-received articles.
C HARLES F. LEACHI, Secretary of the Board of Education of the City of Cleve- land, is a native of the Empire State, being born in Utica, June 19, 1862. IIe was educated at the Westfield (New York) Academy, and in February, 1880, came to Cleveland. Here he read law in the office of Neff & Neff, and in 1884 was admitted to the bar.
Mr. Leach opened an office in this city at once and remained in practice until April, 1889, when he accepted the appointment of First AB- sistant City Clerk. In the spring of 1892 he was tendered and accepted his present respon- sible position. Hle originated a plan for a sink- ing fund to pay the large indebtedness of the Board of Education, and succeeded in having a bill passed creating a sinking fund commission, and he is now Secretary of that commission. His services in formulating a new and compre. hensive system for the management of the busi-
ness of the schools have received the public ac- knowledgment of the school director and have added much to his reputation.
Mr. Leach is a representative Republican, and he has attained some distinction as an or- ganizer; and he is known throughout the State as an eloquent political speaker. He is a son of William C. Leach, a manufacturer of Penn- sylvania, but now retired. Charles F. Leach married, in Cleveland, Lelia L., a daughter of T. C. Burton, of South Haven, Michigan. Their children are: William F., Roscoe C., and Amaryllis L.
J HTEODORE M. BATES, son of the late Isaac Bates, of Cummington, Massachu- setts, was born in that town, March 19, 1858. When only four years of age his father died, and with his widowed mother he lived in his native town, where he attended the common schools till he was thirteen years of age. In 1871 his mother became the wife of Mr. Lewis Ford, of Cleveland, to which city he at that time cainc. ITe resided with his step- father in what was then East Cleveland, where he attended the high school. Ile spent one year surveying with Mr. J. L. Cozad, and the next two years were spent in the office of the city civil engineer of Cleveland, who at that time was C. II. Strong. After 1875 he attended college at the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, completing his literary education. Dnr- ing his vacations he read law under the in- struction of Judges Pennewell and Lainson. Ile entered the law department of the University of Michigan, and graduated in 1879, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Laws. Subsequently he was admitted to the Michigan bar, and also the Ohio bar, and located in Cleveland, where he was employed with the firm of Odell & Cozad, abstracters of titles, with whom he remained till 1883, when the firm was dissolved. He became at that time a partner in the new firm of Mil- lard, Belz and Company which was then formed
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and later became Cozad, Belz, Bates & Company; this was incorporated in 1891, with a capital stock of $100,000, under the name of The Cozad, Belz & Bates Abstract Company, for which company Mr. Bates became manager and attorney. The firm is now of considerable im- portance and does a large and lucrative business. Mr. Bates was elected to the City Council in 1890, re-elected in 1891, and was for one year Vice President of the council. In 1890 Mr. Bates received an unsolicited appointment through Hon. T. E. Bnrton, member of Con- gress, as superintendent of Ohio for statisties of division of farms, homes, and mortgages, for the eleventh eensns, in which position he was em- ployed six months, having under his direction over forty men engaged in taking the abovo statistics in the different connties of the State. In April, 1892, he was appointed member of the Board of Equalization and Assessment of Cleveland, of which board he was president for the ensning year, and he was re-appointed to the same office in April, 1893, for a term of three years, and is acting in said capacity at the present date, giving his entire time and atten- tion to the duties of said office.
In 1882 Mr. Bates married Miss Olive Cozad, daughter of his partner, Mr. J. L. Cozad, and they have had five children, of whom three boys and one girl snrvive. These children are Clif- ford, Stanlee, Russell and Rosamond.
W S. KERRUISH, an active and success- ful member of the Cleveland bar, was born in Warrensville, Cnyahoga county, Ohio, October 30, 1831. Mr. Kerruish was edu- eated at the Twinsburgh Institute, Western Re- serve College and Yale College, at which latter institution he graduated in 1855.
Predilection led him to the study of law, which he pursued in the office of Ranney, Backus & Noble at Cleveland, and was admitted to the bar in 1859, since which date he has practiced law in this city with abundant success and a constantly growing reputation. In the
practice of law he has been associated in part- nership with some of the ablest members of the Cleveland bar. He has been identified with various Cleveland publie and benevolent organ- izations, and indeed he is not only a represent- ative lawyer of merit and respectability but is also esteemed and respected as a citizen.
He is a ripe scholar, being a constant student, and as a speaker he is of force and eloquence, and hence is a strong advocate at tho bar.
H ARVEY D: GOULDER .- Among the prominent attorneys, not only of the eity of Cleveland, but of the United States, Harvey D. Goulder sustains high rank. He was born in Cleveland, March 1, 1853, as a son of Christopher B. and Barbara (Freeland) Goulder.
Mr. Goulder's early education was obtained in the publie schools of this city. In 1869, when only sixteen years of age, he graduated at tho Central Iligh School of the city. Ilis father was a lako captain and young Goulder oven before completing his education became a lake sailor. Summer seasons were spont in sail- ing, and during the winter seasons he applied himself to study. He entered the law office of Tyler & Dennis and took up the study of law. Later he served for two years as entry clerk for Alcott, Horton & Company, dry-goods dealers, then, after sailing for a short time on the lakes as mate of a vessel, he entered the law office of the late Jolin E. Cary, a leading administrator lawyer, who was for a number of years a mem- ber of the well-known firm of Willey & Cary. In May of 1875 Mr. Goulder was admitted to the bar and at onco entered upon his profes- sional eareer, in which he has been deservedly successful. For a time he and Alexander Had- den were associated together, but for many years was alone. In the spring of 1893, how- over, ho admitted Samuel II. Hadding as part- ner, formerly of the law department of the " Big Four " Railroad.
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Mr. Goulder has gained considerable promi- nenee in his profession, and is esteemed as a lawyer of learning and an advocate of power and eloquence. In the practice of his profes- sion Mr. Goulder has made a specialty of mari- timo and insurance law, and in these branches he has long since been acknowledged as a lead- er of the Cleveland bar, and the peer of any other in the United States. In nearly all the most important maritime casos arising upon the lakes his services are sought by litigants. It must be understood, however, that his mari- time practice is in the main confined to cases arising out of questions concerning lake navi- gation. At present Mr. Goulder is general counselor for the Great Lake Carriers, and in this position he has considerable and important practice for the Association of Cleveland Ves- sel Owners. Not only is he prominent in his profession but also has he taken conspicuous part in public affairs. IIe is a member of the Cleveland Board of Connsel, and for the last several years has been one of the vice presidents of the Cleveland Board of Trade.
Not only is he a man of great intellectual power, but of excellent physical development. He is a fine specimen of manhood, and has borne in mind the principle that to have a sound mind one must have a well developed physique.
November 11, 1878, Mr. Goulder married Miss Mary F. Rankin, daughter of J. E. Ran- kin, D. D., who was then pastor of the First Congregational Church, of Washington, Dis- triet of Columbia.
A RTHUR A. STEARNS, attorney at law though one of the younger members of the Cleveland bar, sustains a good repu- tation as a lawyer. He was born in Cuya- hoga county, Ohio, July 18, 1858, received his early schooling in the public schools and attended Buchtel College at Akron, Ohio, at which institution he graduated in 1879. Ile then attended Harvard Law School, where he
graduated in 1881, receiving the degree of LL.B. HIe was admitted to the bar in 1881 at Cleve- land, Ohio, where he has continued ever since in a remunerative practice.
Mr. Stearns has been a trustee of the Buchtel College for a period of over ten years; was financial agent for this institution during the years 1887 and 1888, has always manifested great interest in and rendered much assistance to his alma mater.
Mr. Stearns was married, in 1888, to Miss Lilian G. Platt, of Glendale, Ohio.
H ON. SAMUEL ELADSIT WILLIAM- SON, attorney at law, was born in Cleve- land, Ohio, April 19, 1844, received his early education in the public schools of Cleveland and afterward attended the Western Reserve College, at which institution he was graduated in 1864. Hle then attended the Har- vard Law School for one year and was then ad- mitted to the bar, in September, 1866. IIe be- gan the study of law in the office of his father, with whom he commenced the practice of his profession in February, 1867.
In the practice of law, Mr. Williamson was associated with his father for about two years. After 1869 he was associated with T. K. Bol- ton, the law firm being Williamson & Bolton, and was discontinued in 1874, after which date Mr. Williamson was associated with Judge J. E. Ingersoll, which association ended in 1880. In November of this year Mr. Williamson was elected Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and served two years, resigning in September, 1882, to accept a position with the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad, as its attorney. In this capacity he has continued to serve this company, and in addition to his practice of law in the interests of this corporation he has done important corporation practice for other com- panies. As a lawyer, Judge Williamson sus- tains an appropriate rank in his profession.
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In 1878 Judge Williamson was united in marriage with Miss Mary P. Marsh, of New Haven, Connecticut, a sister of Professor Marsh, of Yale College. Judge Williamson has two daughters by this marriage. In 1881 Mrs. Williamson died, and in 1884 Judge William- son married, for a second wife, Miss Harriet W. Brown, daughter of Rev. S. R. Brown, D. D., of East Windsor, Connectient, and by this mar- riage there is a son.
C F. WIIEAL, assistant superintendent of the Cleveland City Railway Company, and a gentleman, perhaps, without a rival as a bnilder of street railways, was by nativity a subject of the English crown, being born in Gloucestershire, old England, September 16, 1843. He was a farmer's son and was equipped with a liberal education and a business experi- ence sufficient to enable him to compete suc- cessfully with his American consin in the strng- gle for physical existence. In 1867 he left England and came direct to Cleveland. He be- came interested in the construction of street railways almost immediately as foreman for Hathaway & Robinson, a prominent contracting firm of this city, who put in lines of railway in Toronto, St. Catherine's, Belleville, Kingston, London and St. Thomas, in Canada, Fargo, North Dakota, St. Paul and Minneapolis, Min- resota, and, in the South, in New Orleans, Louisi ana, in the West, at St. Louis and Kansas City, Missouri, and Topeka, Kansas, and probably a dozen towns over Ohio, not including Cleveland. In this city they built the Payne avenue and Superior street lines, the St. Clair street and the Broadway and Newburg lines.
Upon his locating permanently in Cleveland, Mr. Wheal was made assistant superintendent of the Payne avenue and Superior street lines, at first and for many years propelled by horse power, when it required 800 head of horses to operate them successfully. Mr. Wheal is a
plain " business " man,-keeps business and pleasure apart from each other and enjoys both equally well.
Mr. Wheal is a son of Charles Wheal, who has one other son, now a farmer in England. The subject of this sketch married, in Racine, Wisconsin, Mrs. Mary Owen, and has three daughters,-Helen, Fannie and Frederica.
Mr. Wheal is a member of the Red Cross So- ciety and a leading and valuable member of the Cleveland Gun Club. He was for seven years the champion of Ohio with the shotgun and won three prizes in succession in shots at Niagara Falls, Cleveland and Chicago, beating 149 men in one day in Cleveland. During their last shot Mr. Wheal won the first prize of the Cleveland Gun Club. Quail and pigeon shooting is Mr. Wheal's favorite sport. He has a record of having killed 1,123 quail in less than twenty- six days' actual work. In trap shooting his record is sixty-nine pigeons without a miss, -- 96 out of a possible 100.
(OEL WALTER TYLER, general attorney for the Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling Railroad Company, was born in Portage county, Ohio, and he has ever since resided in this State. In his early boyhood days he evinced a decided love for study and general reading, this characteristic being stimulated by his com- ing under the influence and tuition of a gentle- man who was a good scholar, thoroughly versed in literature, and had a charming faculty of imparting his knowledge to others. He took a very kindly interest in the young student, aud embraced every opportunity to instruct him while in attendance at the school he then taught, and while attending an academy which opened in the neighborhood. Through these special advantages, and by untiring application, this boy, at the age of ten years, became greatly advanced in elementary education. He could work out the problems in the arithmeties then
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in common use, viz .: Daboll, Adams' new edition; and then there was Pike's arithmetic, a little antiquated, but full of intricate ques- tions, which were handed this boy by his in- structor to test his capacity for working out puzzles in arithmetic.
Young Tyler was well versed in English grammar and geography. Ilis friend above mentioned was a physician, and at about the age of ten kept him in his office and taught him physics, anatomy, physiology and chemistry. It was the wish of the boy's mother that he should fit himself for the medical profession. This he declined to do, although very fond of the study, but disliked the doctor's professional practice. In the meantime he commenced the study of Latin with a clergyman. Ile had thus been nnder private tuition and academical instruction until about the age of fourteen. At abont this time he attracted the attention of a gentleman who resided near him, a surveyor, who had a great love for science, but at that time was termed a "free-thinker." Ile took the Boston Investigator, and had many infidel works, such as Tom Paine's Age of Reason, Volney's Ruins and other like works. This scientist engaged yonng Tyler, then in his fif- teenth year, to take the district school where he (the scientist) resided. The home of the boy while teaching was at the house of this gentle- man, who put into his hands many scientific as well as skeptical works. He especially in- structed him in the geography of the heavens. He could go out any clear evening and point ont many constellations. Through these ob- ject lessons the boy received valuable instruc- tion. Notwithstanding young Tyler was so being surcharged with skeptical lore, he became convinced that the teachings of Christ should be followed, and claims to be a Christian to this day, although not in accord with denomi- national erecds.
After completing the term of school for which he had been engaged, he immediately went to Hudson, then the home of the Western Reserve College, and entered a preparatory
school for college,-first intending to take the whole classical course; but from studying nights his eyes failed him for a time. After recover- ing his sight he commenced studying in the scientific department of the Western Reserve College, and attended the scientific lectures of Professors Loomis and St. John delivered to the senior class of the college. He was confined in a dark room for about six months, but by the aid of an aperture in the darkened window a, person whom he engaged for the purpose was enabled to read his lessons to him, and in this way he committed rules and definitions in the Latin grammar and in mathematics.
Geometry was his favorite branch of mathe- maties, and even after opening an office for the practice of law he kept geometrical diagrams hanging in his office, and often of a morning would go through the demonstration of some theorem therewith connected, and continued to give private instructions in mathematics. About this time, not being driven by elients, in con- nection with one of his pupils, he employed a native Frenchman to instruct them in the French language. Through this one, and some other instructors, he acquired some knowledge of this language.
One of his pupils was Charles Wilber, after- ward State Geologist of Illinois. While Pro- fessor Wilber was delivering a course of lectures in Cleveland, Ohio, several winters ago, he got np a surprise party to Mr. Tyler, several of his old students coming to his house unexpectedly to him, but known to his wife, who served refreshments, and a very enjoyable time was the result.
When abont eighteen Tyler commenced the study of law in Hudson with Esquire Wheadon, and continued studying with him over two years. Part of the time he was obliged to pur- sne his studies at night, while teaching days in the same place. Having so studied the re- quisite time required by law in Ohio for ad- mission to examination, Mr. Wheadon handed him a certificate entitling him to examination for practice, but at the same time advising him
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to enter an office where there was more general practice than he had, Wheadon's specialty being eqnity and chancery practice, in which he was very proficient.
Following this advice Mr. Tyler obtained ad- mission into the office of Tilden & Ranney, then in active practice in Ravenna, Portage county, Ohio, and studied with them one year and a half, making his whole term of law study three years and one-half, and then he was admitted by tho Supreme Court of Ohio to practice as an attorney and counsellor at law, and solicitor in chancery, in all courts of record of the State of Ohio. It may be here premised that he has since been admitted to practice in all the Fed- eral Conrts, including the Supreme Court of the United States.
After visiting the " west." as it was then called, that is, traveling over Illinois and Wis- consin, and looking around Ohio, Mr. Tyler finally conelnded to locate in Garrettsville, Ohio; several lawyers who had started there had made a success, and this encouraged him to make a trial at Garrettsville. He practiced law in Trumbull, Portage and Summit connties, while having his office in Garrettsville; that is to say, he had a few cases in each of these counties.
In the year 1851 Mr. Tyler removed to Kent, Ohio, then named Franklin Mills. Having taken considerable interest in politics, a con- vention for the nomination of State Senator, while being held at that place, through a com- mittee, offered him the nomination for the posi- tion of State Senator, Portage and Summit be- ing the two counties to be represented; it was allotted to Portage as being entitled to the can- didate. At first Mr. Tyler thought he would accept the offer, being flattered by what he then considered a high compliment.
IIe was then making by economy a comfort- able living by his profession, and taking this matter for a few hours in consideration as to accepting this offer of candidacy, an anecdote came into his mind that he had recently licard, of the man who had been very poor, but linally started poddling, whereupon ho. improved his
raiment and " fleshed up; " but, on being com- plimented for his improved appearance by an intimate friend, the peddler begged this friend to forbear such compliments, for while he ad- mitted he was living so well, it was h -- 1 on his family! so Mr. Tyler declined going to Colum- bas on borrowed capital, to get good clothes, and feeding on luxuries while his wife and boys were poorly provided for.
Abont the time he removed to Kent con- siderable interest in banking, manufacturing, railroading and other corporations was mani- fested. Mr. Tyler took a deep interest in sev- eral of these, and made corporation law a special study, drawing up articles of organization for independent banks, etc.
About 1853 came an era in the history of this country for the projecting and building of railroads. A certain company was organized, named The Franklin & Warren Railroad Com- pany. All railroad company charters were by special enactment subject to the general law of 1818, and this special charter was passed March 10, 1851: it gave very extensive privileges. A company under it was authorized to construct a railroad to the cast line of the State of Ohio, and extending in a westerly direction and south- westerly direction to connect with any other railroad within this State which the directors of the company might deem advisable, and also authorized to comect with any other railroad company, or consolidate its capital stock with such company, upon such terms as might be agreed upon with such company, authorizing the company thus chartered to connect with any railroad either within or without the State. €
The company having been organized and surveys made, by order of the court, its name was changed to the Atlantic & Great Western Railway Company. This was the Ohio portion, and afterward two other companies were organ- ized, one in Pennsylvania and one in New York, extending the line to connect with the Erie Railway at Salamanca, New York. What we wish, however, particularly to call attention to, is the fact that the subject of this sketch
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