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The boyhood of A. M. Gordon was spent in assisting his father at work and attending school, until the breaking out of the Civil war. On the 18th of December, 1861, he enlisted in a com- pany in the Forty-fifth Regiment of Ohio Vol- unteers, which was later consolidated with the Sixty-seventh and was known as "Company G, Sixty-seventh Ohio Volunteers." With his regiment he served through the campaigns of West Virginia and was at Cumberland, Mary- land, and Winchester, Virginia, in General Lander's Division. Alter driving Jackson out
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of the Shenandoah valley they went to the Penisula under MeClellan, and following Me- Clellan's retreat they were sent to Suffolk, Vir- ginia. From Virginia they went to the Caro- linas and took part in the siege of Charleston, South Carolina. They were next transferred to the Tenth Army Corps under General Q. A. Gilmore. They captured Morris island in 1863 and made an assault on Fort Wagner on the night of July 18th, when Mr. Gordon received a wound in the musele of the right arm, which disabled him for active duty nntil the following September, when he returned to his regiment in time to take part in the second assault on Fort Wagner. They remained at the siege of Charles- ton until operations closed, and then went to Ililton Head, where the regiment re-enlisted for three years, or until the war was over. IIe then returned home on a veteran furlough. In April following he returned to Camp Distribu- tion, near Washington, and from there went to Yorktown. On the 4th of May they started for Richmond, Virginia, and landing at Bermuda Hundred on the 6th of May the regiment was included in what was known as the Army of the James, and for two hundred days they were under fire. He was slightly wounded at Wier Bottom Church, and on October 13, 1864, at Chapin's Farm, Virginia, he was wounded in the left shoulder, the bullet lodging under the shoulder blade, where it still remains. He was sent to the hospital at Fort Monroe, but was transferred from there to Cleveland, at which place he was discharged from the United States general hospital on July 18, 1865.
After the war Mr. Gordon began canvassing for books, following which he was an agent for George A. Bicker for the sale of lightning-rods. In 1873 he engaged in the map business in Cleveland, for Titus & Company. In 1884 he formed a co-partnership with B. N. Grifling and engaged in the publishing business, which partnership continned until 1892, when Mr. Griffing retired from the business, and then for two years he was in business with Mr. Lake. The firm is now Gordon, Lathrop & Company.
He is also engaged in the real-estate business in Bedford.
Mr. Gordon is a member of the F. & A. M., Bedford Lodge, No. 375, of Summit Chapter, No. 74, and of Holy Rood Commandery, No. 32, Knights Templar; is at present Junior Vice of Royal Dunham Post, No. 177, G. A. R., is Master of Work in Golden Rod Lodge, No. 467, Knights of Pythias, and Captain of Golden Rod Division, No. 113, Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias.
Mr. Gordon is a self-made man and deserves well the suceess he has made of his life. Before he had seeured more than an ordinary amount of schooling, and had had an opportunity of mastering a trade, lie answered the eall of his adopted country for troops to put down the re- bellion, and for four years he was at the front. After the war he began withont means, and, ac- cepting the best that was offered him, took up book canvassing. From that he passed on to the publishing business, succeeding at each nn- dertaking, through determination and the exer- cise of industry and perseverance. Through all his business life he has followed closely the teachings of his good old parents, and honesty and integrity have ever been characteristics of his life. As a citizen he enjoys the respect and esteem of those who know him, as he is ever ready to lend aid and assistance to all worthy public enterprises, and has given freely of his time to further the development and growth of his city and county.
YEORGE CARMONT, a New York, Penn- sylvania & Ohio yard master at Cleve- land, is a native of the Forest City, being born here October 12, 1859. Ilis father, Samuel Carmont, was a sailor, born on the Isle of Man in 1820. He began salt-sea voyages from London, England, and sailed the ocean until some time in the '40s, when he came with his wife, nee Catherine Murray, to Cleveland, and sailed the lakes some years before entering the employ of the Atlantic & Great Western Rail-
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way Company, remaining on its pay roll fifteen years. Ile died in 1885, at sixty-five years of age. His children were: Ella, wife of M. Martin, of Cleveland; Joseph Carmont, of Meadville, Pennsylvania; William, on the Phila- delphia Record; George and Sarah.
George Carmont attended the Kentucky Street school until fourteen years of age, when he secured work in a nut and bolt factory. He concluded to try sailing after awhile and went aboard the steam barge Anna Smith as second cook, occupying various positions,-wheelman, afore-the-mast, etc. He tired of navigation and in 1879 began railroading; was brakeman for the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Company three and a half years, before he was made yard condnetor, and this position was succeeded after six and a half years' service by a promotion to yard master. He is a member of the O. R. C. and K. of P.
In 1888 Mr. Carmont married Belle Shoe- maker, of Cardington, Ohio, a daughter of Albert Shoemaker, originally of Pennsylvania.
W ILLIAM M. FORBES, a trusted em- ploye of the Erie Railway Company, was born in MeCoy's, Ohio, February 19, 1851. ITis father, William J. Forbes, moved to Bellaire, this State, where the son was reared, receiving the rudiments of an English education. At the age of fourteen years the latter became train boy on the Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad, in which position he con- tinned four years. He then entered service on the Atlantic & Great Western Railroad as a brakeman on a freight train, from which posi- tion he has risen by successive steps to the place he now occupies; and he is now completing his first quarter of a century of railroad service with the Erie Company.
William J. Forbes was born near Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1822, and became a wood. turner by trade. He served in the Forty-third
Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the war, par- ticipating in many hard-fought battles and in the heavy campaigning of the Army of the Tennessee. His later life was devoted to rail- roading, -- first on the Cleveland & Pittsburg line, and lastly on the Atlantic & Great West- ern Railway. He died in 1885. His wife, whose name before marriage was Keziah Me- Carty, was born in Pennsylvania, and died in Cleveland in 1882, aged fifty-five years. Their children are: John, an engineer on the Valley road; William M., whose name heads this sketch; Melvin L., an engineer on the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Railroad; and Sarah J., wife of William D. Fleet, of Cleve- land.
William M. Forbes was married in Solon, this State, April 22, 1873, to Addie O., daugh- ter of Ilenry Baldwin, who is now a resident of Newburg, Ohio. Mr. Baldwin was born at Aurora, Ohio, seventy-one years ago, and has devoted his life to farming. He married Ma- hala McClintock, born in New York State in 1824, and one year younger than himself. Their children are three in munber, as follows: II. M., of Geneva, Ohio; Mrs. Forbes, and A. C. Baldwin, an engineer of the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Railroad. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Forbes are: Harry B., born July 2, 1876, and is a machinist by trade; Clay W., born April 12, 1879; and May, born April 18, 1881.
Mr. Forbes is a brother in the O. R. C. and E. A. U.
C HIARLES RUDOLPHI, freight conductor, was born in Hirschberg an der Saale, Ger- many, April 13, 1845. In 1852 his father, Charles Rudolph, Sr., emigrated with his family to America, taking a sailing vessel at Bremen, and for 101 days were struggling through uncontrollable adverse circumstances, in which provisions became so exhausted as to produce a starving condition, but fortunately
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landed at Quebec, Canada. From there the father took his family to Buffalo, New York, remaining till 1854, when Cleveland finally re- ceived them. Mr. Rudolph was a tailor by trade, but never followed it to the exclusion of other work. He died in 1885, aged seventy- one years. He married Christina Franke, who died Jannary 18, 1866. They had the follow- ing children: Charles; Carrie, now Mrs. Adam Krug; Lonisa, wife of Fred Miller, a mechanic; Annie, who died April 18, 1885, at the age of twenty-seven years; and Clara, who married Edward Forscher, of Cleveland.
Charles Rudolph, Jr., attended school one year in Germany, and after coming to the United States was a pupil in the English schools of Buffalo and Cleveland. His first employment on leaving school at fourteen was in a splint broom factory; next we find him in the office of the Waechter am Erie, a German newspaper published in this city, where he remained long enough to become a practical printer.
At this juncture the war came on and Mr. Rudolph enlisted in the Twentieth Ohio Volun- teer Artillery, whose officers are well known men of Cleveland. This battery was made a part of the Army of the Cumberland and en- countered the enemy first at Liberty Gap, Ten- nessee. Several smaller engagements followed before the campaign terminated at Chicka- manga.
At Dalton Mr. Rudolph was captured, but in three days paroled, guarded through the Rebel lines and compelled to make Chattanooga on foot, there rejoining his battery. When he left Chattanooga it was to return to Cleveland to be mustered out, having served not quite three years.
Mr. Rudolph then turned his attention to cigar-making, and continued it until 1867, when he entered the service of the Cleveland & Pitts- burg Railroad Company as freight brakeman. In 1871 he was made a freight condnetor, and has since remained in that capacity.
In 1874 Mr. Rudolph married, in Kent, Ohio, Josephine Sears, whose father, Edward Sears,
was a mill man of Randolph, Portage county. Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph are the parents of two daughters, Ada Daisy and Josephine Elizabeth.
Mr. Rudolph is a Knight of Pythias and a member of Memorial Post, G. A. R.
F E. SQUIRE, yard-master of the Valley Railroad, began his railroad career with the Atlantic & Great Western Company, now a part of the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio system, as yard switchman, serving two years. He began braking then on the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern in 1870, where he was soon promoted to be foreman, remaining with the company eight years, the last year as a condnetor. Ile transferred his services next to the Chicago, Alton & St. Louis Railroad Company, and was stationed at Alton, Illinois, as yard-master for nearly five years, going next to Booth, Missouri, for the same company, in the same capacity. He returned to Cleveland in 1883 and was in the employ of the "Big Four" as yard conductor. Four years later, when he left them, he took the Nickel Plate and retired from that company's yard to a run on the road, and on the completion of his year came to the Valley Company in 1890 as brake- man, being soon made night yard-master, and in 1892 became day man.
Mr. Squire was born in Salem, Ohio, June 29, 1853. Ile is a son of C. R. Squire, some years ago an inventor of some prominence, giving his attention to improving and patenting appliances for sewing-machines. He was a blacksmith and a tanner in early life. During the war he was chief clerk for Gordon MeMil- lan, a large wholesale house of Cleveland, and at one time was in the employ of the "Big Four" Railroad Company at Salem, Ohio, as station agent. Ile was born in Vermont and came West in 1827, at eleven years of age, with his father, Jesse Squire, a cirenit preacher, who settled near Norwalk. Mr. C. R. Squire mar-
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ried Miss Lorinda' E. Deming, of Brownson, Ohio. Her children were: C. A., F. E. and W. A. Squire, all railroad men.
Frank E. received a liberal education at Bald- win University, at Berea, Ohio, and attended a military academy at White Plains, New York, for two years. On taking np life's realities he engaged to work for the West Side Street Rail- road Company, laying traek on Pearl street. His next work was mining coal at Fulton, Ohio, after which he began railroading.
On Christmas day, 1874, Mr. Squire married Miss M. D. Lewis, of Rockport, a daughter of F. G. Lewis. Of the five children by this mar- riage, four are living,-Leora A., Edith May, Inella Mand and Frank Leroy.
Mr. Squire is a member of the Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias, and is Secretary of the Switchmen's Mutual Aid Association.
W II. GARLOCK, the leading lanndry- man of the city of Cleveland, was born near Rochester, New York, August 13, 1842, a son of Elisha Garlock, a native of the same State, born in Herkimer county, in 1810. ITe was a farmer's son and chose his father's oceupation for a livelihood for himself, giving his attention to no other branch of business, and his success warranted his retiring on reaching the shady side of life. For his wife he married Iney Wilkinson, and they have the following children: James S., a lawyer at Rochester; Dr. F. R., a prominent physician of Racine, Wis- consin, and surgeon for the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad; Elizabeth, wife of J. B. Miller, a retired farmer of Parma, New York; Sarah, wife of William Burritt, a New York farmer; S. G., engaged in the electrical business in St. Louis, Missouri; C. M., a physician in Rochester; and Martin, operating in the Oil Fields of Pennsylvania.
W. II. Garlock completed a course in Falley Seminary, Fulton, New York. Immediately succeeding this he engaged in teaching district
school near Rochester, following it up seven winters. He married then Miss Adell Ingell, a daughter of William Ingell, of Fulton, New York, but now a retired resident of Anamosa, Iowa.
Mr. Garlock engaged in the " gents' furnish- ing " business at Fulton for a period of one year; then was six years at Seranton, Pennsyl- vania, in the same business, in partnership with J. C. Highriter, but enjoyed no exceptional prosperity. At this time Mr. Garlock decided to go West, and accordingly disposed of his business interests in Seranton and located in Dayton, Ohio, embarking in the same business alone, believing that it could be conducted prof- itably withont the assistance of a partner, and his expectations in this plan were realized, and for six years this business enjoyed a prosperity hitherto imknown to its proprietor. Deciding to change his business and establish a steam steam laundry, Mr. Garloek eame to Cleveland, in 1882, and opened out on Sheriff street. Ilis business was of course light at first, not mate- rially exceeding $10,000 the first twelvemonth. The annnal business in ten years reached $100,000, and the foree employed reached ninety persons. In this venture Mr. Garlock's ex- pectations were again realized. At the meeting of the National Laundrymen's Association in 1892, Mr. Garloek was chosen its president to serve one year. This is the only official capacity in which he ever served.
Politically Mr. Garlock is a Republican and fraternally a Chapter Mason.
B F. ROACHI, a passenger conductor, was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, July 4, 1842, a son of James William and Mary Eliza- beth (Simpson) Roach. His father was born in Pennsylvania, and was killed while driving a stage over the mountains in 1844, leaving two children: James William, who started for Chi- cago abont forty years ago, and has never been heard from since; and B. F., our subject. The
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mother is now Mrs. Calvin S. Spooner, of Black river, Lorain county. B. F. Roach accompanied his mother on the journey from Erie, Pennsyl- vania, to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1852, and soon after began work for himself. He was first em- ployed as cabin boy on Lake Erie, and was after- ward engaged in fishing on the lakes till 1861. Ile was next employed by Mr. Johnson, and then resumed the occupation of fishing on the lake. In the latter part of 1861 he began work on the railroad, first on the Bee line and after- ward on the " Big Four " Railroad. Mr. Roach made his first run as a regular conductor in 1864, and May 21, 1879, as shown by a certificate from Superintendent Robert Blee, was made a passenger conductor.
Mr. Roach was married at the age of twenty years, to Miss Catherine, a daughter of William Dewyer, of Sandusky, Ohio; she died November 30, 1875, leaving four children: William, who was killed in Chicago while in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company; Mary, the next in order of birth; Nellie, wife of William C. Offutt; and Anna, now Mrs. John A. Leim- kuelher, of this city. In 1880 Mr. Roach was united in marriage with Mrs. Nellie McDonald, nee Dewyer, who was not a relative of his first wife. They had one child, Daisy, born May 4, 1882. Mrs. Roach departed this life in the spring of 1883.
B. F. Roach is a Democrat in politics.
W ILLIAM M. BARNES, passenger con- ductor on the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad, was born in Cleve- land, in May, 1845. At fourteen years of age our subject was employed by the Lake Erie Rolling Mill Company, and became a merchant- iron roller by the time he had comploted his three years' service. From this he enlisted in the Union army, Company E, Eighty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, three months men, under the venerable Colonel Pickands. Ho
was stationed at Cumberland, Maryland, and did picket duty until the expiration of his service. He was mustered out, and re-enlisted, this time in Company A, Captain Paddock, "Cleveland Grays," One Hundred and Fiftieth Regiment. Again his service was confined to anty within the barracks at Fort Lincoln, Wash- ington, until his discharge was duo.
In 1862, on completing his brief public-school career, he decided to engage in railroading for the time being, and accordingly sought a posi- tion on the Cleveland & Toledo road, and was taken on as a yard brakeman, under Yard-master Colwell, long since retired to the farm in this county. In this capacity and as yard conductor and assistant yard-master, Mr. Barnes served until 1866, when he severed his connections with the company, and proceeded to St. Louis, Missouri, where he took the position of general yard-master for the Missouri Pacific Railroad. This position he filled one year, when he went to the Iron Mountain road, and was for a brief period baggageman, and later conductor of a mixed train, changing again the next year to the Union Pacific Railroad Company. He took charge of the construction train there, and re- mained with it until the completion of the road into the Rocky Mountains, and consequently was one of the first conductors over the road to Laramio, Wyoming. At Cheyenne, the historic mountain city, he was for three years yard- master of the Union Pacific yards.
In 1873 he returned to Cleveland, and entered the employ of his former company, the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad, where he has since remained. After leaving the Union Pacific Company at Cheyenne, he became a pioneer conductor on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, and when it was completed to Fort Kearney he left and made Cleveland his home.
Mr. Barnes' father, William M. Barnes, camo to Cleveland from England, and was hero en- gaged in contracting, designing and building, but diod comparatively young, about 1850. He married, in this city, a Mrs. Giles, und they
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had two children, William M. and David D., the latter engaged in the oil business in Collin- wood.
Mr. Barnes married, in Norwalk, Ohio, No- vember 15, 1868, Miss Hattie E. Winton, of North Amherst, Lorain county, Ohio. They have had six children: Minnie E., Edward L., Birdie, Bessie, Hazel and Helen. Mr. Barnes is a member of the Order of Railway Con- duetors.
E. SMITH, passenger conductor on the Valley Railroad, was born in Xenia, Ohio, March, 1853, and at the age of fifteen years applied himself to the study of telegraphy at Milan, Indiana, and in 1869 was able to do acceptable work. Then for three years he was operator for the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad Company at Milan. Next he was employed as clerk in the roadmaster's office at Meadville, Pennsylvania, for the Atlantic & Great Western Railroad Company, and in the course of two months he was sent to Cleveland in charge of a construction train, to do dock-repairing about the old river bed, requiring a few months. July 6, 1874, he went regularly npon the road as a brakeman, and in 1876 was made a freight con- ductor, which position he filled until 1886, when he entered the service of the Valley Road, in November. Ile is a member of the O. R. C., a Master Mason, being a member of Ellsworth Lodge, and also a member of Riverside Conn- cil, Royal Arcanum.
Mr. Smith's father, Adam Smith, was an okl railroad man, who was track superintendent for the Cincinnati, Wilmington & Zanesville Rail- road, now the Cincinnati & Muskingum Valley, and was afterward a roadmaster on the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad. He died in 1892, at the age of seventy-two years. He was born in the north of Ireland, and came to Ohio in 1845, locating in Greene county, where he married Sarah Galigher, of Irish birth, and now a widow of Seymour, Indiana. Their children were: Anna, of Seymour, Indiana; James E., of Cleve-
land; Adam, of Colorado City, Colorado, and employed on the Colorado Midland Railroad; William J., an engineer on the Cincinnati Sonthern Railroad; Mrs. Sarah E. Proctor, of Dillsborough, Indiana; Kate, wife of John Myers, a conductor on the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad, of Seymour, Indiana; Mrs. William Cox, whose husband is a conductor on the same road and residing at the same place; and Joseph, another railroad man of the sune city.
Mr. Smith, whose name heads this sketeh, married, in Cleveland, in 1878, Miss Sarah E. Moore, who was born in Wihnington, Delaware, a daughter of Louis A. Moore, who was a cooper by occupation. Mr. and Mrs. Moore came to Cleveland in 1869.
The children of Mr. J. E. Smith are: Iris M., James C., Charles Adam and Edward B.
J. FORBES, an engineer of the Valley Railroad Company, was born in Little Washington, Pennsylvania, August 9, 1849, a son of W. J. Forbes, whose history ap- pears in the sketch of William M. Forbes, in this volume. In 1850 the family moved to McCoy's Station, Ohio, and there and at Belle- aire onr subject seenred a limited education. Ilis first work as a contributor to self support was as newsboy on the Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad, running between Pittsburg and Belle- aire and served in that capacity four years. He then came to Cleveland, where he secured the position of fireman on the Atlantic & Great Western Railroad, afterward the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Railway, under engineer William Dykes, one of the pioneer railroad men of this locality. In 1873 Mr. Forbes was pro- moted as engineer. He afterward worked for the Connotton Valley Company six years, being stationed at Canton, Ohio, but in 1888 returned to Cleveland, and has since been one of that road's best men. In his social relations, Mr. Forbes is a member of the B. of L. E., also of Centennial Lodge, No. 213, K. of H.
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Hle married in this city, October 1, 1874, to Ella Wolf, who was born in Allentown, Penn- sylvania, October 1, 1856. Her father, Jacob Wolf, came from that city to Cleveland, where he still resides, and is aged seventy-four years. His wife, nce Julia Willdoner, was the mother of live children: David, of Louisville, Ken- tucky; Caroline, wife of John Wilson, of Ma- rion, Ohio; Kate, now Mrs. William Callow, of Cleveland; Ella, wife of Mr. J. J. Forbes; and Harry J. Wolf. Mr. and Mrs. Forbes' children are: Julia K., aged sixteen years; Arthur D., fourteen years; Ethel G., twelve years; and Viola L., five years.
C APTAIN HENRY J. JOHNSON was born in 1834. Ilis father, Captain Jona- than JJohnson, came from New York State when a young man, settling in Cleveland, and lived on Water street opposite the home of his brother Levi, and here was born the subject of this sketch. Several years later the father removed to Ashtabula, Ohio, and there at the age of sixteen years Henry began his career as a sailor. He sailed under Sol. Rummage, his cousin, on the schooner Wings of the Morning, for three years, during which time his father met with misfortune, losing his property and thus being under the necessity of launching out in some other field of adventure. The latter removed to Cleveland, where he died in 1856, leaving a widow and two daughters for his son Ilenry to support. To this duty Henry applied himself with commendable willingness, and in 1857 it was fortunate for him that he became captain of the T. P. Handy, owned by H. J. Winslow, in whose employ Captain Jolmson re- mained ten years, during which time he became interested in several vessels with his employer, and in 1869 he came to land and retired from service.
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