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Lineoln, Washington, District of Columbia, until discharged. In the spring of 1864 Mr. Fey re-enlisted, for three years, in the One Hun- dred and Sixty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and this regiment did duty in the Shenandoah valley, where Mr. Fey was forage master of his division, and no doubt studiously set about ar- ranging and executing plans for discovering and bringing into view much bacon, corn meal and flour from blind cellars, hollow trees, and from under brush piles in the dense forest. On ar- riving at Alexandria, Mr. Fey was appointed Pro- vost Marshal's clerk, and so remained until mnstered out at Columbus in December, 1865.
He returned to Cleveland and resumed his duties at his old desk, his place having been held open for him. In 1865 he was made as- sistant bill elerk, and in 1881 he became chief bill clerk. In 1889 he was made rate clerk, serving till September, 1893, when he succeeded to his present position.
March 6, 1866, Mr. Fey married Henrietta, a daughter of D. G. H. Thomson, of Fremont, Ohio. Six daughters are the result of this union, viz .: Millie, Anna, Emma, Julia, Flor- ence and Ida. The first four are high seliool graduates; Julia is a teacher in the city schools; Anna is assistant cashier of Burrows Brothers; and Emna is bookkeeper for G. HI. Lytle.
The family are members of the English Lu- theran Church.
R OYAL TAYLOR, one of the prominent and highly respected citizens of Solon, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, was born in Aurora, Portage county, this State, Oc- tober 5, 1820.
His father, Worthy Taylor, was a native of Blandford, Massachusetts, and was a soldier in the war of 1812, while Samuel Taylor, our sub- jeet's grandfather, was a Revolutionary soldier. The latter was of English and Scotch extraction. It was in 1806 that the Taylors came to Ohio and settled in Aurora, they being among the
pioneers of that part of the Western Reserve and occupying a leading place among the early settlers. Colonel Royal Taylor, an uncle of our subject, was an officer in the late Civil war. Samuel Taylor was a drover and cheese dealer, and for many years did an extensive business in this line. His son Worthy was also engaged in the cheese business for many years, shipping by flatboat to the Ohio river and Southern market. The mother of Royal Taylor was before her mar- riage Miss Harriet Kent. She was a native of Massachusetts, but for many years a resident of Geauga Lake. Worthy Taylor and his wife had eight children, two sons and six daughters, namely: Harriet, wife of L. S. Bull, of Solon; Royal; Emerett Burroughs, deceased; Wealthy Eggleston, of Anrora; Arabelle, wife of Charles Burroughs, of Aurora; Eliza Parker, of Ravenna; Homer, of Aurora; and two, a son and daughter, who died in childhood. The mother of this family died at the age of fifty-two years, while the father lived to be ninety, his death occurring in 1887. He was a Republican in politics, was for thirty years a Justice of the Peace, and was a devoted member of the Disciple Church for forty years.
Royal Taylor was reared and educated in his native town. In 1843 he came to Solon, set- tled on a tract of wooded land, and as the years rolled by cleared and improved a fine farm of 233 acres. For thirty years he was engaged in the dairy and stock business. Since then, for the past twenty years, he has devoted some time and attention to the real-estate business, in which he has been very successful. He has a comfortable home in Solon, and is surrounded by all that goes to make life happy.
Mr. Taylor has been thrice married-first, in 1845, at Aurora, Ohio, to Miss Sarah Smith. Some time after her death he wedded Luey Wallis, a native of New York and a daughter of John Wallis. They had two sons, J. E. and G. W. The former is manager for the Har- bough Oil Co., of Cleveland, and the latter is chief clerk of the Richmond & Danville Rail- road Co., at Washington, District of Columbia.
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The mother of these children died in 1890. February 14, 1893, Mr. Taylor married Mrs. E. G. Morse, of North Solon. She was born in Oil City, Pennsylvania, daughter of John W. and Lavina (Carroll) Hickman, and, like Mr. Taylor, had been married twice before. By her first lisband, Lemuel S. Clark, she had two children, Edith L. Clark and O. S. Clark.
Mr. Taylor is a Republican, has served as Township Trustee, has been delegate to varions conventions, and has always taken a commend- able interest in public affairs. He has been a member of the Disciple Church for over forty years, and held various offices in the same, and liberal in contributing to the same.
W ILLIAM CHRISTIE, the pioneer and veteran general superintendent of the Cleveland Gaslight & Coke Company, was born in Falkirk, Stirlingshire, Scotland, September 6, 1826. He obtained a passably good edneation for a laboring man's son, learned blacksmithing, and at twenty-two years of age came to free and progressive America, easting his lot at first in New York city. The first four years he was employed at the Astor House and the Broadway Theater, at both which places he was a manipulator of their gas supply. In 1852 he was induced to go to Auburn, New York, and there aided in constructing the city gas-works, and was superintendent of the same at the time of severing his commection with it in 1856. Ile came to Cleveland that year, in company with Thomas Hoadley, and both en- tered the employ of the Cleveland Gaslight & Coke Company, Mr. Christie being machinery foreman. IIe next did duty as a blacksmith for a number of years, and in 1860 was made sil- perintendent of the works, which position he has ever since held, having in some measure a hand in the development of the present im- mense 'plant from a very insignificant institu- tion. No part remains as a reminder of pio- neer days.
Mr. Christie's father, William Christie, was a brewer by occupation. Ile married Jemet Taylor, and they had eight children. A brother of our subject, Henry, came to this country in 1842 and started for California during the gold excitement and was lost. A sister, now Mrs. Campbell, is still living in Scotland.
In 1853 Mr. Christie married, in Anburn, New York, Miss Ellen Moss, and their children number seven, namely: William, superintend- ent of the gas-works in Corning, New York; Frederick, deceased; Frank, a machinist for the Cleveland Gaslight & Coke Company; Louia, Jolin and Harry are deceased; and Charles, su- perintendent of the Cleveland Gas Works. Mrs. Christie is aged sixty-two years, and at this writing is enjoying a tour of the Sandwich Islands. She is a lady of extended traveling ex- perience, having visited Enropean conntries and viewed the decaying ruins of the wonders of mediaeval and modern times.
C HARLES H. CHRISTIE .- If General Superintendent William Christie and Engineer Hyde are the oldest men in point of service now connected with the Cleve- land Gaslight & Coke Company, the gentleman whose name heads this sketch must be the next, ns he used to be a constant attendant on the works in the latter part of the '60s, when he wore " knee pants" and was a sonree of mneh amusement about the premises. "Charley " is not very old yet, being born January 30, 1865; was in school periodically until near eighteen years of age, when he was hired regularly and placed on the pay roll as a pipe-fitter and man of general work. At the age of twenty-one he was made assistant superintendent of Works No. 1, and held the position until 1888, when succeeded to the superintendency. In 1891 he was transferred to the new works on Wilson avenne, and has charge of a force of 125 men.
Mr. Christie is the sixth in order of birth of the children of William Christie, general super-
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intendent of the Gas Works. June 16, 1892, he married Miss Martha Herold of Akron, this State, who spent much of the years 1893-'94 reenporating her health in the Rocky monn- tains, Ilonolnhi and other points. Mr. Christie belongs to the Cleveland Yacht Club.
E W. CANNELL .- The acquisition of the territory of the Connectiont Western Reserve by the State of Ohio and its ap- parent adaptability to agriculture and commer- cial pursuits led to its rapid settlement and de- velopment, beginning with the present century. The existence of this vast unsettled domain, so promising to the home-seeker and so easy of access, became known throughout all Christen- dom, whose nations contributed of their best fiber and purest blood to the settlement and de- velopment of a great State.
Among the sturdy sons of toil to seek a home in this new country and to cast his lot with the sparse settlements in Cnyahoga county, was Patrick Cannell, a Manxman, fresh from his native isle, and accompanied by his four grown children. He possessed but small means, and with this he purchased a fifty-acre tract of heavy timber land, and although seventy years of age, set about hewing out a home with almost as much energy and hope as a man of half his years.
Ile brought with him the doctrine of John Wesley, and was a prime mover in the estab- lishment of early Methodism in Newburg. IIe was the first Sunday-school superintendent in the township, and was, in short, a leader in all matters calculated to benefit society and to con- tribute to the education of the young. He died fifteen years after making his settlement, at the age of eighty-five, with the knowledge of hav- ing done his whole duty to God and man. The lady who became the wife of this venerable pio- neer was a Miss Margaret Quayle, and their four children were: John, the father of the sub-
ject of this sketch, born in 1800; Thomas; Jane, who married William B. Corlett; and Margaret, the wife of William P. Corlett. John Cannell married Jane Quiggin, who is still liv- ing, at ninety-three, in full possession of all her powers, and gladdening the home of her aging children. He was twenty-seven years old when he gave np the life of a seaman and fisherman in Europe and accompanied his father to the United States, becoming a permanent settler in Newburg. He inherited his father's notions of the requirements of good citizenship and was consequently serupulously honest, remarkably industrious, sympathetic and charitable. He was an active worker and officer in the Method- ist Church and one of the founders of the first Methodist Church of Newburg. He never shirked a duty, public or private, and was fre- quently called on to fill various township offices. He was fairly thrifty but never desired to ac- cumulate great wealth, and died in comfortable circumstances. The later years of his life he was an invalid, and his death, in 1869, was an irreparable loss to his family, his friends and to his community.
Eleven children were born in the family of Jolin and Jane Cannell, viz .: John, who died in 1842, a mechanic; Thomas E., a shoemaker, who died in 1888; his twin brother William died in infancy; Jane J., who married S. A. June, and died in 1888; Elizabeth, the deceased wife of W. H. Kelley: she died in 1877; Emily A., who married first James Watson, and see- ondly George June, and died in 1891; Charles, in the oil business in Titusville, Pennsylvania; Louisa E., who married first Andrew Stone, and secondly James Jenkins, and is a resident of Cleveland; Henry A., who died in the army in 1864, an lowa soldier; and Eli W., whose name heads this sketel.
The last mentioned was born February 5, 1844. He grew up on the farm and obtained an elementary education from such schools as were afforded the country youth before the war. He became the mainstay at home quite early in his 'teens, because of his father's illness, and
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conducted the operations of the old homestead, which he now owns, continuously from then till 1885, when he gave it up to devote his at- tention to his growing mercantile interests.
IIe always puts his best energies into his business of whatever character, and in conse- quence is an interesting competitor. IIe bilt mp and is conducting the leading business in feed, grain, timothy and clover seed, lime and plaster, in Newburg, and is an active spirit in other enterprises in that city, among them being the South Cleveland Banking Company, of which he is a director, and the Provident Building and Loan Company, of which he is vice- president.
Mr. Cannell married in Newburg, November 22, 1871, Miss M. E. Corlett, a daughter of Daniel Corlett, a history of whose family ap- pears in full in the sketch of C. Corlett, on other pages of this volume. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Canuell are Charles: E., born in 1872; Eli Scott, born in 1871; and Eva J., born in 1879.
Mr. Cannell is a prominent member of the I. O. O. F., of Newburg, having filled all the chairs of the local lodge, and served as repre- sentative to the State Grand Lodge.
AMES E. TERRY, general freighit and passenger agent of the Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling Railway Company, first en- gaged in business in the railroad line at Jasper, Michigan, in the spring of 1872, as a local freight and ticket agent for the Canada Sonthieru Railway Company, and after five years' service there he was transferred to Monroe, Michigan, in the service of the same company. In 1880 he resigned to become freight and ticket agent at Jackson, Michigan, for the Fort Wayne, Jackson & Saginaw Railway Company; in Jan- uary, 1883, he went to Marietta, Ohio, in tho position of freight and ticket agent for the Clevoland & Marietta Railway Company, and in
June, 1883, was made general agent; January, 1885, assistant general freight agent and later assistant general freight and passenger agent of same company, with headquarters at Cambridge, Ohio. In November, 1886, he accepted the position of general agent of the Wheeling & Lake Erio Railway at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, having charge of the Pittsburg and Mahoning valley territory. Ile remained at this point until the opening of the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway into Wheoling and Steubenville, when he was transferred to the latter city, and there remained nutil March 7, 1893, when he resigned this position as general agent of tho Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway to accept the position of general freight and passenger agent of the Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling Railway Company, which position he now fills.
Mr. Terry was born in Erie county, Pennsyl- vania, February 13, 1840, brought up on the farm and secured such an education as he could in the country school. Angust 11, 1862, he enlisted for the cause of the Union and of good government, joining Company D, One Hun- dred and First Ohio Volunteer Infantry; was mustered in at Monroeville and saw service in the army of the Cumberland, participating in tho battle of Perryville, Kentucky, and in thio Stone River engagement, where he was wounded, and whilo being transferred to Louisville hospi- tal was captured by Mosby's cavalry at Harpeth Shoals, Tennessee; was paroled and sent on to Louisville, Kentneky, and afterward to Column- bus, Ohio. After being exchanged he was then placed on detached service nutil mastered ont at the close of the war, having been in service two years and eleven months.
In August, 1865, he located in Fairfield, Michigan, and spent the next seven years in agricultural pursuits, and this brings us up to the time he commenced railroading, as already stated.
This gentleman is a son of Norris Torry, who was born in the State of New York and was engaged in farming as a life business. He married Miss Sally Farrington, danghter of
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David Farrington, a New York farmer, and they had six children, four of whom are living, namely: Mrs. Mary T. Cherry, of Minnesota; L. L. Terry, of Nashville, Tennessee; George K., of Fremont, Ohio; and J. E., the subject of this sketch. In the fall of 1863 he moved from Ohio to Michigan, and died January 21, 1880, at the age of seventy-three.
Mr. Terry was married in Huron connty, Ohio, September 5, 1861, to Mary T. Maynard, a danghter of David T. Maynard, and their children are: W. A., commercial agent of the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway at Pittsburg; I. B., general agent of the Northwestern Gas Company at Fostoria, Ohio; C. L., stenographer in the office of the general freight and passenger agent of the Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling Railway Company. Mr. Terry has been a mem- ber of the Masonie order ever since 1863.
P. GAGER, general agent of the Ameri- can Express Company at Cleveland, was born in Warren, Ohio, February 9, 1853, a son of L. F. and Harriet (Douglass) Gager, natives of Connectient, who moved to Hartford, Trumbull county, Ohio, when their son was about four years of age, and after residing there until 1861 moved to Salem, this State. The father died December 23, 1890, in Conneaut, at the age of seventy-four years, and the mother in 1893, at the same age. For the last sixteen years of her life she was a resident of Cleve- land, excepting eighteen months at Conneaut. Of their children the following nine are living: Mrs. E. II. Eggleston, of White Haven, New York; Mrs. E. C. Hagar, residing at Joliet, Illinois; Mrs. C. B. Warren, of Cleveland; Miss Clara Gager, also of this city; L. F., Jr., of Salem, Ohio; J. D., residing at East Orwell, Ohio; J. P .; E. II., a resident of Madison; and C. A., an optician of Cleveland.
In 1869 Mr. J. P. Gager, of this sketch, en- tered the employ jointly of the Missouri, Kan- sas & Texas Railroad and the Wells-Fargo Ex-
press Companies, following up the advance of constrnetion of that railroad through the Indian Territory. In 1871 he returned to Salem, where he was associated with his father in busi- ness a year. Then he was employed by the Adams Express Company at Salem for two years, and ever since then by the American Ex- press Company, first at Mansfield, Ohio, as clerk, then chief bill-maker in their Cleveland office three years, the next two years as route agent between Cleveland and Buffalo and between Cleveland, Pittsburg and elsewhere, and then cashier at Cleveland for six years, and finally was promoted to his present position as general agent at Cleveland. Since he began for tlie Adams Company he has given his entire time to express business, and of course made himself quite thorough in the knowledge of the busi- ness many years ago, and his long continnance therein and many promotions are evidence of his reliability.
He is a member of tho Enelid Avenue Coun- eil, R. A. M .; of Forest City Tent, K. O. T. M .; of Cuyahoga Council of the National Union; of the Expressmen's Aid Society; a member of Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, and in poli- ties he is a Republican.
December 6, 1874, at Salem, he was married to Miss Rose Walker, and they have two chil- dren,-Beatrice S. and Rae W.
(AMES BELL, a farmer of Orange town- ship, Cuyahoga county, was born in Becket, Massachusetts, February 21, 1821, a son of John C. and Anna (Stewart) Bell, na- tives also of that State. In 1825 the family emigrated to Geanga county, Ohio, but in 1839 the father sold his farm there and came to Chagrin Falls, where he died in May, 1842. Ilis wife survived until early in 1870.
James Bell, one of the youngest of his par- ents' eight children, four sons and four dangh- ters, came with the family to Chagrin Falls at the age of eighteen years. After his marriage
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he resided for a short time in Orange township, was then engaged in blacksmithing and farming at Troy, Geanga county, and in 1855 located on his present farm of 100 acres in Orange town- ship.
Jannary 6, 1842, in Portage county, this State, Mr. Bell was nited in marriage with Miss Matilda 11. Curtis, who was born in En- clid township, this county, July 31, 1823, a daughter of Richard and Clarissa (Dille) Curtis, natives respectively of Ilartford, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania. The parents died in this State, the father in Portage county, and the mother in Lake county. They had seven chil- dren, five sons and two daughters, of whom Mrs. Bell was one of the younger members. Our subject and wife have also had seven chil- dren, namely: Franklin W., who married Evelyn Gaylord, and is engaged in business in Cleve- land; Rosetta A., wife of II. I. Monningstar, also of that city; Milton A., of Cleveland, mar- ried Hattie Foster; Ellen M., wife of Sanford Eddy; James R., a dentist of Cleveland, mar- ried Amelia Andrews; Havilah M., of Chagrin Falls, married Mary Rodgers; and George C., married Molly Haag, and is engaged in business in Cleveland. Mr. Bell has been an active worker in the Republican party since its organ- ization, and both he and his wife are members of the Free-will Baptist Church.
J RACY W. SCOTT, one of the prominent citizens of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, was born at Chester, Geauga connty, Ohio, August 8, 1831. His great-grandfather, David Scott, was born and reared in Massachusetts, and served as an officer in the Revolutionary war, afterward being sent to the Legislature of his State. He was a scholar, a man of ability and renown, and a prominent member of the Masonic order. His death occurred when he was ninety-two years of age, at Meadville, Pont- sylvania, where he is buried.
His son, John Scott, the grandfather of onr subject, was born in Massachusetts and came to Chester, Ohio, in 1817, as one of the first set- tlers of the town. Hle married Betsey Weller, also a native of Massachusetts, and of German and Holland Dnteh ancestry. John Scott and his wife had eight children, viz .: Samantha, Ansel, Elijah W., Susan, Lydia, Renben, Har- mony and Mary L. Bonton, of Wheaton, Du Page county, Illinois. The grandfather died at eighty-two years of age, and the mother Angust 14, 1824.
Ansel Scott was reared and educated at Ches- ter, and at twenty-two years of age married, in Mentor, Lake county, Ohio, Esther Brace, a lady of good family. She was born in Massa- chusetts, of Dutch ancestry. Mr. and Mrs. Ansel Scott had five children, viz .: Tracy W., Milan V., deceased (of this town), P. P., of Chester, Ohio; Perry C., deceased; and Noble W., a successful physician of Huntington, In- diana.
The father died at Chagrin Falls, at the age of seventy-two years. Politically he was a Re- publican, formerly an old-line Whig, and in re- ligion a member of the Disciple Church. The mother died April 7, 1888, at eighty years of age. They were honest Christian people, be- loved by all who knew them.
Tracy W. Scott was reared and educated at Chester, and at the age of nineteen was clerk- ing in a store, and later engaged in business for himself. In 1873, in company with his brother, he entered upon the business of banking, and dealt extensively in stocks in Chagrin Falls. Upon the death of his brother in 1884 he re- tired from the banking business, as well as all other active pursuits, except tho care of his real estate and moneyed interests.
Mr. Scott was married October 25, 1866, at Chester, Ohio, to Martha Milliard, a woman of intelligence and good family, born at. Russell, this State, and educated at Hiram, Ohio; was a daughter of Cyrus and Sally (Serdan) Milliard. Her father is living in Chagrin Falls; the mother died in 1872, at Chester. Mr. and Mrs. Scott
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have two daughters: Loa E., a graduate of ITiram in 1892, and now teaching in Hiram College; and Marcia, a student at Hiram Col- lege.
Mr. Scott was formerly a Republican, but is now a Prohibitionist. Ile was nominated as a candidate for the Legislature on the Prohibition ticket in 1893. He is a member of the Dis- ciple Church, and of the Golden Gate Lodge and Chagrin Falls Chapter of the Masonic order. ITe has been active in the cause of edu- eation, of temperance and of religion.
A USTIN CHURCHI, of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, is one of the well-known early settlers of the township, where he was born September 19, 1838, a son of Ilenry and C. (Sanderson) Church. Henry Church, Sr., was born March 5, 1805, in Amherst, Mas- sachinsetts, and reared in that State. His father was Joseph Church, also a native of Massachu- setts, and the mother was Betsey (Kellogg) Church, born in Massachusetts. The Churches were represented in the Revolutionary war and also in the war of 1812. Henry Church, Sr., married Jerusha Bigelow, and they had one danghter, Jerusha Pepper, of Massachusetts. Henry Church and his family came to Chagrin Falls, Ohio, in 1834. Five of the children of this family lived to grow up, viz .: Janie E., of Red Lands, California; Henry, of Chagrin Falls; Austin and Royal, in business together in their native town; and Clara T. Hunt, of Red Lands, California. Two are deceased. The father was a Republican in politics, and served as Justiee of the Peace for some time. Ile followed the voeation of a blacksmith. He was a good mechanie, an honored and respected citizen of Chagrin Falls, and died in November, 1878, at seventy-four years of age, and the wife and mother August 23, 1878, at sixty-six.
Austin Church learned the trade of black- sinithing from his father when he was a boy, but is now a general mechanic. In 1864 ho
enlisted in the One Hundred and Fiftieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry and served till the close of the war.
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