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In politics he is a Republican.
Mr. Emery was married in 1855 to Miss Antonette A. Burke, danghter of Barzillai B. and Prudence Burke, of Newburg, Ohio. They have four children, viz : Louisa, wife of L. W. Prior, resides with her father, her two children being Emory and Russell; Alfred B., engaged in a coal and teaming business in Chicago, Illi- nois, he and his wife, nee Laura Hartwell, hav- ing two sons, Fred and Clarence; Antonette Augusta, who is attending kindergarten school in Boston, preparing herself for a teacher; and Christopher, who is a student in the Cleveland Business College. Mrs. Emery's father was among the first settlers of Cleveland, being brought here when eight years of age by his
parents in their location here. In tho war of 1812 he was a drummer, and afterward was a farmer. In 1865 he received an autograph letter from General Winfield Seott, written at the age of seventy-nine years, without glasses. Mrs. Emery's mother was a daughter of Cap- tain Philo Taylor, who kept one of the first hotels in Cleveland. This hotel stood near the present site of the New England Ilonse.
OIIN A. THORPE, division superintend_ ent of the Cleveland Electric Railway Com- pany, is one of those progressive young men whose success is dne to an invincible am- bition to go up higher and to avoid a confinn- ons and never-ending tread in the paths of the plodder or mediocre citizen. Hle is of humble parents, who were of foreign birth and most limited means, and as a consequence was forced to be content with only a smattering of an edu- cation, obtained at the Cleveland city schools. At ten years of age we find him employed in a coal-breaker, sorting out the slate, and on leaving Seranton, Pennsylvania, his old home, and be- coming a Cleveland boy, he sold papers, blacked boots and did any other honorable service to earn an honest penny. His mother secured two stands at the market and put her young son into the management of one of them. His next work was in a cooper shop of the Standard Oil Company, where he remained twelve years, completing his trade and becoming an efficient workman.
Ilis railroad experience begins with his exit from the cooper shop in 1881. He was ap- pointed a conductor on the Brooklyn line and was promoted to be starter at the corner of Pearl street and Clark avenue, and so remained until the consolidation in 1893, when as a re- ward for long and valnable service he was made division superintendent, having charge of all Sonth Side and West Side lines of the Cleveland Electric Company.
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Mr. Thorpe was born in Seranton, Pennsyl- vania, May 2, 1857. In 1866 his father, J. J., a native of Dublin, Ireland, came to Cleveland and was employed on the street railroad work for a number of years. Ile emigrated to the United States in 1856, locating in Seranton, Pennsylvania. He married Catherine Garrity, who bore him six children, viz .: W. J., on the Cleveland police force; T. P .; Ella, wife of John Rushman; May, wife of G. O. Brainard; and Katie, single.
In April, 1883, Mr. Thorpe married, in Cleve- land, Miss Katie, a daughter of Timothy D. Ryan, of Ohio. Of their five children, four are living: William S., of Cincinnati; Grace A., Joseph E., Maudie Josephine (died. in June, 1892, at five years of age). and Estella.
A J. EIIRLER, one of the oldest railroad men in Cleveland in point of residence, and now local freight agent of the Cleve- land, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Lonis Railroad, popularly known as the " Big Fonr," was born in this eity July 27, 1846. His father, Joseph Ehrler, of German birth, born in the province of Wurtemberg, came to Cleveland in 1838. While able for duty he followed merchant. tailoring. In his latter years he was almost an invalid, dying in 1888, at sixty-nine years of age. He married a Hanoverian lady named Annie M. E. Hackman, who died in 1874, at fifty-six. Her children were: A. J .; Magdalen, wife of M. Nisins, of Cleveland; John, de- ceased, and Mary.
A. J. Ehrler attended the Cleveland publie and private schools, and after he began business attended night school, condneted by Lawyer Brown.
Ilis first work of importance was for Mr. A. M. Perry, a Cleveland miller, having charge of the retail department, remaining with him nearly two years, when his railroad career opened by accepting, February 1, 1861, a minor position with the Cleveland, Columbus & Cincinnati
Railroad Company, then jointly operated with the C. & E. and B. & E. roads. He performed service as ealler and tally man for three years, when it was observed by the general agent, Dr. Hills, and the chief clerk, J. T. R. MeKay, that he possessed a fitness for peculiar and important duties, which the management decided should be undertaken. This work was of a secret nature and the person who did it was nothing short of a detective from one railroad investi- gating the business methods of one of its con- neetion, touching the matter of earnings on mileage. Dr. Ilills appointed Mr. Ehrler to this diffienlt task and sent him to Toledo to keep " tab" on the Cleveland & Toledo Railroad Company's business. He was absent on duty four weeks, and his work was so well performed that Dr. Hills wrote him a personal letter con- gratulating him on his success and stating that his report contained just the information the company desired, and, granting him a two weeks' vacation, requested him to report for regular duty at an appointed time. Ile was given a clerkship in the local freight office, and was promoted in line for meritorious service, and in 1883 was given charge of the central freight station. Ten years later he was made local freight agent of the " Big Four."
While Mr. Ehrler was in the employ of Agent Hongh, of the Cleveland, Columbus & Cincinnati, Mr. Valliant, agent of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad, ap- proached him with an offer to accept a position with his company, which proposition Mr. Ehrler submitted to Agent Hongh, and then and there an agreement was entered into between the two agents not to interfere with each other's em- ployees, which agreement has been strictly lived up to.
D R. ANNETTE T. WINSHIP, physician, 363 Prospect street, Cleveland, was born in Cumberland county, Maine, a dangh- ter of Oliver and Clementine ( Morton) Winship, natives of the same State,
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Dr. Winship received her literary training at the Maine State Seminary, taught school two years in Maine and three in Massachusetts, and afterward in the high school in Dover, New Hampshire. Afterward she read medicine umler the instructions of Dr. N. R. Morse, of Salem, Massachusetts, and then attended the medical department of the Boston University, gradu- ating in the class of 1882. She began the practice of her chosen profession in Cleveland, in the spring of 1883, and has enjoyed marked success. She has a general practice, which is mainly among women and children. She is now on the staff of the Women's and Children's Dispensary at Cleveland, and she also has been a member, from the first, of the Girls' Educa- tional and Industrial Union, and in religion she is a member of the Free Baptist Church.
EORGE CAUNTER, a prominent con- tractor of Cleveland, was born in England, in 1849. He learned his trade from his father, John Cannter, a large contractor, whose ancestors for many generations were mechanics. Devonshire, Ashburton, and White- combe were the scenes of the operations of Jolin Caunter. His wife's maiden name was Elizabeth Ilanaford.
George Caunter came to the United States in 1871 and located in Cleveland, engaging in building, which he has continued with but a single interruption to the present time. The year the Nickel Plate Railroad was completed he went into Hancock county and purchased timber land, put in a sawmill and laid out a town, calling it Townwood. Upon elosing ont this business he went Sonth and was engaged in operating a gold mine for three years in North Carolina, being part owner of the business. Ile then returned to Cleveland and invested in the Stevens Dishwashing patent, and became vice- president of a company formed for the purpose of mannfacturing the machine. He is inter-
ested in the Cleveland Molding and Manufac- turing Company, and was its president. Mr. Caunter is fond of the turf and is the owner of some animals that have developed some con- siderable speed. As a contractor Mr. Caunter's work reviews as follows: Ilis first contract was for the building of a residence on Scoville ave- nue; residences of F. Hirshimer, M. J. Mandel- baun, M. Baker, Theo. Sandford, Julius Feiss, John W. Heiser and L. Ernstine. Business blocks: Garlock block, W. J. White, gum fac- tory, Woodland avenne street-car barns, Hays Building, John Guetz, Haber Brothers and HIalle Buildings, the new Sheriff Street market, Grand Stand for the Cleveland Driving Park Company, West Side Police station, Cleveland City Hospital, and many churches and school buildings of the city, and is now contracting for the King and Uhl block and the new per- manent building.
Mr. Caunter married, in England, Elizabeth Ann Townsend, and their children are: John- Harold, Stephen Edward, George Gilbert, Lilian May, and Mand Mary.
Mr. Caunter is a Forester, a member of the Royal Arcanum, Cleveland Builders' and Deal. ers' Exchange, and the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce.
AMES LUKE, an engineer and one of the most trusted employes of the Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad Company, was born near London, England, October 14, 1848. Be- ing but four years of age when his parents died, he was brought to America by an unele, who proceeded on to California, leaving him in charge of a man nained John G. Abraham, a farmer near Wellsville, Ohio, who died June 25, 1889; and his wife, nee Sarah Coe, died in Au- gust, 1884. By Mr. Abraham was young James brought up to the usual work of the farm. At nineteen he decided to become a railroad man, and secured a position as fireman on the road under Engineer B. Rand; in 1876 he was pro-
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moted engineer, and followed that responsible calling until 1888, when he came into the Cleve- land yard of his company.
October 18, 1876, is the date of Mr. Luke's marriage, in Wellsville, Ohio, to Lanra Frances Mackenzie, whose father, Norman K. Macken- zie, married Lydia S. Gaver, and was a physi- cian. Mr and Mrs. Enke's children are named John Mackenzie and Edgar Gaver. The family belong to the Hongh Avenne Reformed Church.
(AMES NELSON BRAINARD, one of the pioneers of Brooklyn township, Cuya- hoga county, Ohio, is the oldest of the nine children of Seth an 1 Delilah Brainard -a family which is well known in Cuyahoga county.
James Nelson Brainard was born in Haddam, Connectient, December 30, 1812, and in 1815 came with his parents to Cuyahoga connty, in an ox-cart, being thirty-five days on the road. His father's log cabin was one of the first houses raised in that part of the township. Amid frontier scenes he grew up, his education being limited to that receive l in the little log school- house near his home. He helped his father to clear their land, remained at home until he was twenty three years of age, and then started out in the world to do for himself. His first loca- tion was in Parma township, where he cleared up and developed a farm. That farm he still owns. During his early life he took great pleasure in hunting, being noted far and near for his skill as a hunter. At that time the forest not only abounded in game of all kinds, but in it Indians were also found.
In May, 1835, Mr. Brainard was married to Carmelia A. MeComber, whose death ocenrred in 1842. She was the mother of three children: George E., who resides in the State of Wash- ington; Charles W., a resident of Michigan; and Betsey D., who died at the age of eight and a half years. November 19, 1812, Mr. Brain- ard married Incia Rudd, a native of Jefferson rounty, New York, who was born April 10,
1822, and who came to Cuyahoga county in 1831, when she was twelve years old. Her parents, Horace and Doreas (Wakefield) Rudd, were natives respectively of Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Horace Rudd settled in Mayfield township, Cuyahoga county, at an early day, spent his life on a farm, and died in August, 1866, in his eighty-first year. Ilis wile died at the same place, at the age of sixty- seven years. Mr. and Mrs. Brainard are the parents of seven children, four danghters and three sous, namely: Carmelia A., widow of Lester D. Taylor; next came a son who died in infancy; Martha M., at home; Eliza M., wife of B. II. Brainard, of Mayfield township; Lillian A., wife of Benjamin R. Schaef, of Brooklyn Village, Ohio; Seth L., who died at the age of three months; Frank R., who married Rosa- mond M. Clayton, resides at the old homestead.
Mr. Brainard remained on his farm in Parma township until 1860, when he moved to May- field township, and since 1870 he has resided at his present home. All these years he has been extensively engage l in general farming. Ile owns 122 acres of land. Politically he is a Re- publican, and has served as School Director and Supervisor.
AWSON STILES, a most familiar figure in the operating department of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad Company, is a representative of one of the old- est families of Ashtabula county and conse- quently of Ohio.
Aaron Stiles, the worthy founder of the family in this State and grandfather of our subject, was born in Connectient, May 19, 1776. In 1810 he brought his family into Ashtabula county and made a settlement in Harpersfield township, where he improved a farm from the wild forest and reared a family of seven children. His wife, a Connectient lady, was Miss Abagail Cahoon. Ezra, seventh child of Aaron Stiles and the Father of Lawson Stiles, was born in October,
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1816, and died in 1883. Ile adopted the ocen- pation of his ancestors and spent his whole life in his native county. Hle married Cynthia Kingsley, whose father, John Kingsley, was an itinerant Methodist preacher, who covered nearly the whole of northern Ohio territory organizing churches, and was one of those self-sacrificing semi- missionary preachers whose labors did much to place Methodism on a sure and substan- tial foundation in the Western Reserve. Ile married a Mrs. Williams, who upon his death again married-this time Bartholomew Hogarty. Ezra Stiles was the father of three children,- Lawson, Mary Lonisa and Loton M., deceased, a conductor who was killed by accident in 1891 in the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern yards at Ashtabula.
Lawson Stiles, born September 18, 1843, se- cured a village-school and academic education, left the farm at eighteen years of age, and his first permanent employment was in the service of the Cleveland, Painesville & Ashtabula Rail- road Company, being the first of his tribe to desert the farm and break the record of a long line of husbandmen. He began his service as freight brakeman, on May 21, 1864, was pro- moted to freight conductor January 8, 1866, and since 1880 has been in regular passenger ser- vice. During all these twenty-nine years of his service he has not failed to sign the pay-rolls a single month, giving practically an uninter- rupted service.
September 20, 1870, Mr. Stiles was married in Ashtabula county, Ohio, to Leonora A., dangh- ter of F. N. Bond, a farmer of Morgan town- ship, that county. Only one of Mr. and Mrs. Stiles' three children is living: All'red E., nineteen, in the fourth year in the Cleveland high school.
This Stiles family was represented in the early Colonial history of America by one Francis Stiles, who obtained a grant from Lord Salton- stall to establish a colony on their property near Windsor, Connectient. Francis Stiles left Mil- brook, Bedfordshire, England, with a company of twenty-live persons, on the ship Christian,
and in 1635 landed at Windsor, or what is now Windsor, Connecticut. He met with some dif- lieulty in the new country by opposition from prior settlers, but. being a man of decision and firmness readily established and maintained his rights.
One hundred and three years from the date of his settlement, John Stiles, the great-grand- father of our subject, was born. He served through the Revolutionary war and died at Windsor.
Mr. Stiles is a member of Lake Shore Lodge, No. 307, F. & A. M., Madison, Ohio; of Webb, Chapter, No. 14, R. A. M., Cleveland; and Cleveland Division, No. 14, O. R. C.
G EORGE W. PARSONS, the senior con- ductor in the service of the Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad Company, was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, November 11, 1830. His father, Jehn Parsons, was a native of the " Blue Grass " State of Kentucky, but in his youth went into Pennsylvania, from which State he found his way to Ohio, abont 1837, locating in New Lisbon, where he pur- sued his trade of stone-cutting until his death, the next year, at the age of thirty-three years.
His wife was a grand niece of James Wilson, one of the signers of the Declaration of Inde- pendence, and of the live children of this mar- riage three are still living. Besides our subject two daughters survive,-Mrs. MeBride, at Evansville, Indiana, and Mrs. Bender in Erie, Kansas.
Upon the death of his father young George was bound ont to a gentleman, Joseph Straughu, a Salem (Ohio) farmer, with whom he remained until reaching his majority, when, for his faith- 'ul service and general good demeanor, he was presented by Mr. Stranghn with eighty acres of lowa land, two suits of clothes and a bible,
On casting about for an opening Mr. Parsons saw that railroading presented some possibili-
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ties for an ambitious yonth, and he decided to try that. The Fort Wayne was just building through Salem and Canton, and he helped lay the track between those two points. Ile then came to the Cleveland & Pittsburg, which was also being built. February 2, 1852, while the line from Pittsburg to Cleveland was under construction, Mr. Parsons was acting conductor of a gravel train. After the opening of the road for business Mr. Parsons served suc- cessively as brakeman, baggage man, freight conductor, and finally, April 1, 1861, was pro- moted to the position of passenger conductor, running over the Tuscarawas branch. He has probably traveled a greater distance than any other man on the system, making twice the cirenit of the earth annually.
No incident or accident has ever happened to mar the superior record of Mr. Parsons as a safe and faithful man in the performance of his duty or to interfere in any way with the com- fort of a single passenger or employee.
September 24, 1854, Mr. Parsons married at Smith Ferry, Pennsylvania, Helen Grace, a daughter of William MeKinnell, a Scotchman, who in the old country was a lace merchant. HIe resided in Liverpool, England, where Mrs. Parsons was reared. She was educated in Wales. The family came to the United States in 1846, locating in Steubenville and later in Wellsville, Ohio, where he died in 1864, aged sixty-five years. Ilis wife, nee Agnes Hall, bore him five children, two of whom are still living.
Six children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Parsons, viz .: Agnes Amelia, wife of George Bruner, of Chicago, Illinois, a prominent rail- road man of the Cleveland & Pittsburg Rail- road; George C., an expressman in the employ of the American Express Company, who mar- ried May, a daughter of ex-Superintendent Hulburd of the American Express Com- pany; Willie, deceased; Jennie, wife of C. R. Whitlock, of New York city; Marion E., wife of John Widlar, of Cleveland, agent of W. P. Willis, a New York importer.
Mr. Parsons' life has been an exceedingly active one, devoted to the single business of railroading, and with one company. Employ- ers have changed, superintendents have come and gone, and new men have grown old in the service, all under the eye of George W. Parsons.
EORGE W. ARBUCKLE, a leading practitioner of medicine in the city of Cleveland, was born in East Liverpool, Ohio, on the 29th of January, 1846. His father's name is S. C. Arbuckle, while his mother's maiden name was Sarah A. Hughes, and both are of Scotch and French lineage. His mother, born in Ohio, died in August of 1878, and the father, a native of Pennsylvania, died in February, 1892, both in St. Paul, Min- nesota. The maternal grandfather of Dr. Ar- bnekle served as a soldier under Napoleon, under whose command he crossed the Alps and with him participated in the famous battle of Waterloo.
Until our subject was nine years old the fam- ily resided in East Liverpool. They then re- moved to St. Paul, Minnesota, and in that city the son grew to maturity and attended the pub- lie school. At the age of twenty-two years ho entered the wholesale grocery store of his brother, who is now a retired merchant of St. Panl. In the employ of his brother he re- mained until 1878. From an early age he had a manifest love for the subject of medicine and allied subjects, and throughout his early life he improved every opportunity of gaining knowl- edge relating to these subjects, and long before he entered the profession in which he has been so successful he was known as " Dr. Arbuckle." In 1878 he entered . the State University of Iowa, where he took a course of lectures in medicine, and in 1879-'80 he attended the Hahnemann Homeopathie College at Chicago, where he graduated in the spring of 1881. His preceptor was Dr. Charles Draper Williams, who was one of the most noted physicians of his
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day, being known throughout the United States. lle was the chief founder of the Cleveland Homeopathic College. With Dr. Williams our subject studied and prepared himself, in the main, for his profession. While under the guidance of Dr. Williams he was sent by the doctor to Pine City, under a call for a physician to administer to the wants of an afflicted popu- lace, who were in the midst of an epidemic of scarlet fever. Upon this errand Dr. Arbuckle distinguished himself by handling his patients with phenomenal skill and success. After
graduating in his profession he located in Min- nesota and there he practiced until November 1, 1884, when he removed to Toledo, Ohio, where he intended to locate, but became dissat- isfied with the place and surrounding country, and came on to Cleveland. Here he has practiced since May 1, 1885. He was appointed surgeon for the Valley Railroad Company and held the stine position for five years, when the road changed management and surgeons. The Doc- for holds a clinique in the Cleveland Homeo- pathie College of General Surgery. He has a large practice and pays special attention to the
treatment of the diseases of women and chil- dren. Hle belongs to the clinique of gynaecol- ogy in the College Hospital of Homeopathy in Cleveland, in company with Dr. Biggar and others of merit and prominence in their profes- sion, both as practitioners and instructors. He is a member of the Round Table Club and Medical Society, and is also a member of several other prominent medical organizations. Fra- ternally he is a member of the I. O. O. F., and of the A. F. & A. M. In 1893 Dr. Arbuckle was the regular nominee of the Republican con- vention for the office of Coroner of Cuyahoga county, and at the general election in Novem- ber was elected by a majority of 7,791 votes, for a term of two years, beginning January 1, 1894.
Dr. Arbuckle married, in Stillwater, Minne- sota, December 23, 1868, Miss Martha St. Clair, who died February 15, 1870, at the age of twenty-three years. One child, a son, who died in infancy, was born by this marriage. September 7, 1871, the Doctor married Miss Elizabeth A. Caine, a danghter of Thomas A. and Lucinda Caine, and by the second marriage six children have been born, the oldest being Samuel T., a student at the Cleveland Homeo- pathie Medical College; the second, George W., is also a student at this college; the third child is Elizabeth Miranda; the fourth, Daisy Viola; the fifth, Cora Pearl; and the sixth, Myrtle Ivy.
The Doctor and wife and family are of the Presbyterian Church faith. Politically Dr. Ar- buckle is one of the active Republicans of the city.
He himself is one of eight children who grew to maturity, and the following are their names: Ann J., wife of Captain Jeremiah Weber, of St. Paul, Minnesota; Samuel Culbertson, re- tired merchant of St. Paul, served in Company A, Sixth Minnesota Regiment; Thomas Hughes, a retired citizen of East Liverpool, Ohio; Ben- jamin Franklin, who died at Helena, Arkansas, as a soldier in Company A, of the Sixth Minne- sota Regiment; Francis Marion, a resident of St. Paul, Minnesota, served for six years as
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Sherifl of that county, and is now a real-estate dealer; the next child in order of age is George W. Arbuckle, the subject of this sketch, while the next is William II. W., a resident and speen- lator of St. Paul; the last is Alfred J., a resi- dent of the same eity.
The father of these children was a snecessful contractor and bnilder. He was a mason by trade, but building and contracting was his life business. Ile retired from aetive business life in 1868 and died in 1892, at the ripe old age of eighty two years.
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