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Boardman Pearse was the second son and third child in the above family. He was in his third year when he came to the farm on which he now lives, and where, with the exception of one year spent in Indiana, he has passed his life. At the time he went to Indiana he was about twenty- one. All these years he has been engaged in general farming. A portion of the old home farm has been disposed of, some of it bringing the handsome price of $1,000 per acre. Mr. Pearse now retains only forty-nine and a half acres of the original traet, it being adjacent to the city.
September 15, 1817, Mr. Pearse married Isa- bel Rathbun, who was born in Avon, New York, January 20, 1820. They have had seven chil- dren, namely: Scovil V., Mary (deceased), Lonisa, Incy A., Ellery F., Alice E. and Perry G.
Previous to and during the war Mr. Pearse was a strong anti-slavery man. He has been a Republican ever since the party was organized. In his prime he took an active part in local affairs, and for a number of years served as School Director of his district. For many years he has been an Elder in the Presbyterian Church.
S HERMAN B. INGERSOLL, M. D., was the son of the late Cyrus Ingersoll, who was born in Lee, Berkshire county, Massa- chusetts, September 2, 1802. His mother was Fanny (Humphrey) Ingersoll, who was born in
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North Goshen, Litchfield county, Connecticut, June 9, 1808. Cyrus Ingersoll came to Ohio with his father, Calvin Ingersoll, when he was about twelve years old, and lived in Mentor, Lake county, Ohio, where he grew to manhood, and was there married to Lydia Barlow. They rettled in Mentor, where she died. They had two children, only one living to grow up, Cyrus J., who died in Madison, Lake county, Ohio, during the sixties.
Cyrus Ingersoll and Fanny Humphrey were married in the old Franklin House on Pearl street, Cleveland, Ohio, Angust 14, 1844. They settled in Parma township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, in the spring of 1848. Here Cyrus Ingersoll died, November 8, 1877. The widow still survives.
Sherman B. Ingersoll was the only child. Hle was born in Spencer township, Medina conty, Ohio, January 28, 1848. Hle was but three months old when his parents settled in Parma township, where he grew to manhood, and has always resided. He received a common- school education, and afterward took up the study of medicine, gradnating in the class of '70 at the Medical Department of the University of Wooster. Dr. Ingersoll, however, abandoned his profession, and has given his attention to farming. lle is the owner of 135 acres of land, well improved.
ITe was married in Berea, Ohio, December 24, 1877, to Miss Fannie A. Watson, daughter of James and Mary (Burton) Watson, who are residents of Brooklyn, Cuyahoga county, Ohio. Mrs. Ingersoll was born near Berea, Ohio, No- vember 28, 1855. Four children were born in the family of Dr. and Mrs. Ingersoll, viz .: Wade Hampton, Nina Estella, Lula Lorena and Mary Burton. Mrs. Ingersoll died April 1, 1890.
Dr. Ingersoll has taken a decided interest in political affairs. Ile has been a candidate for the Legislature on the Democratic ticket, but was defeated. Since 1870 he has been a dele- gate to all the Democratic county conventions, and has been chairman of the Cuyahoga County
Democratie Central Committee for four years. In 1893 he received the nomination for County Commissioner on the Democratic ticket, but was defeated by his opponent on the Republican ticket. Ile has also been active in local affairs, having held the office of Clerk of Parma town- ship since 1871, and having served for a num- ber of years on the School Board. He has also been one of the directors of the Parma and Brooklyn Plank Road Company since 1877, and is the present superintendent and secretary of the company.
D ANIEL MCAFEE, an ex-soldier of the Civil war and one of the well-known citizens of Solon township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, is a native of the Emerald Isle, born in county Derry in the year 1830, son of James McAfce.
When he was eighteen years of age Mr. Mc- Afee landed on American soil, and with this country he has ever since been identified. For two years he worked at the blacksmith trade in the city of Philadelphia. From there he came to Bainbridge, Ohio, and continued working at his trade for some time. When the war eame on he was among the first to enlist his services l'or the protection of the Union. It was in 1861, and as a member of the Second Ohio regulars that he enlisted. He was chief of me- chanies and was stationed at and near Washing- ton for some time. Once he was captured by the enemy. For twenty-six days he was held a prisoner at Belle Island. After the war Mr. MeAfee bought his present farm, 150 aeres, which is now well improved with good build- ings. He keeps a dairy of twenty-three cows.
Mr. MeAlce was married April 3, 1852, to Mary Isabelle Huddleston, who has proved her- self a helpmate in the truest sense of that word. She was born in Belfast, Ireland, daughter of Gilbert Huddleston. Her father reached the advanced age of eighty two years. He is de- ceased. Her mother, now eighty-three, is still
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living at the old homestead near Mr. Mcafee's. They had six children: Mary Isabelle, John, Adam, James, Margaret and Sarah. Mr. and Mrs. MeAfee have four sons, viz .: Thompson, a resident of the State of Michigan; William, contractor and builder at Newburg, Ohio; Nor- ville, a telegraph operator at Bedford; and James, engaged in the practice of medicine at Cleveland.
Politically, Mr. MeAfee is a Democrat. Ile has served four terms as Township Trustee. Hle is a Presbyterian, and three of his sons are members of the Disciple Church.
R OBERT HI. HILL, auditor freight re- ceipts for the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Ry. Co., Cleveland, Ohio, was born near London, England, February 25, 1832. In 1842, at the age of ten years, he came to this country, and was sent by his par- ents to a private school near Boston, Massachu- setts, but left school at the age of fourteen. Ile studied land surveying and when twenty years old was employed on a government survey in Canada. Afterward he was employed as a draughtsman for abont five years in the State Engineer's department of New York. In 1857 he was engaged in surveying, but as there was little of such work to do in that year of busi- ness depression, he abandoned the occupation, and in September, 1858, entered the service of the Michigan Southern Railroad Company. Since that time he has been continuously in the service of that company and its successor, the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company. Ile was at first employed as a clerk in the Toledo freight office; afterward, in 1863-64. as station agent at West Detroit and Detroit, Michigan; in 1865 was contracting freight agent at Chicago; in June, 1866, was appointed chief clerk of the general freight de- partment, Michigan Southern & Northern In- diana Railroad; and in June, 1869, was made chief clerk of the department of freight accounts
for the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Rail- way. In December, 1890, the title of that ollice was changed to " Auditor Freight Receipts." Mr. Hill has been in the railway service thirty- six years and is well known among railroad officials and agents, and his whole service has been characterized by the strictest fidelity in. the performance of every duty that devolved upon him.
Ifis father, Charles Ilill, an actor and theat- rical manager, married Miss Ann R. Fair- brother, of London, England. ITis only brother is Barton Hill, well known as an actor and stage manager.
Mr. Ilill was married at Rochester, New York, in 1855, to Miss Mary J. Jones, oľ Greece, Monroe county, New York. They have two sons and two danghters. The older son, Charles R., is traveling auditor of the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad, and lives at Albuquerque, New Mexico. The other son, Arthur E., is em ployed in the audit department of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway, and the daughters, Rosalie and Grace, reside with their parents in Cleveland.
H ENRY RUSSELL, a large general con- tractor of Cleveland, was born in Stock- ton-on-Tees, England, September 27, 1840, a son of Samuel Russell, who moved to West Hartlepool in 1850 and was a foremost contractor of the place. Ile in- structed his son from his youth in those prin- ciples of mechanies necessary to make him an efficient workman.
July 20, 1868, the subject of this sketch reached Cleveland. He came here for the pur- pose of a permanent residence. He was en- gaged the first three years as a superintendent of workmen on salary, not taking any contracts nor being known as an independent builder un- til 1873. Ile confines himself to . no especial class of buildings, having erected many business blocks, factories, residences, etc., some of which
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are the residences of Jolin E. Ensign, W. J. Morgan, Dr. Strong, J. 11. Wade, II. E. Teach- ont, Messrs. Barker and Strauss, R. HI. Boggis and C. J. Morgan; and the factories of the Cleveland Foundry Company, Taylor & Boggis Foundry Company, and Silas Merchant's Tonn- dry, and the Wade and Sargent blocks.
Mr. Russell employs from sixteen to lifty men, and has built up a splendid business and an enviable reputation as a builder in Cleve- land. Ile was the first vice president of the Employing Carpenters' Association of Cleveland.
Mr. Russell married, October 12, 1865, Hannah, a daughter of John Wilson, a miller by trade. To them have been born: John Wil- son, an architect of Cleveland; Ann Elizabeth; Samuel, a mechanic, and a partner with his father, firm of Russell & Son; Harrie and Emily.
Mr. Russell is a devont Christian gentleman and active worker in the ranks of the Salvation Army and does his whole anty to man and to his Maker withont reserve.
G EORGE H. BILLMAN, attorney at law, Cleveland, Ohio, is one of the rising members of the bar of Cuyahoga county. He was born at Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, and received his elementary education in the public schools of his native town. He was afterward a student at the Western Reserve Academy, at the United States Military Acad- emy at West Point, and at the University of Wooster, Ohio, being graduated at the latter institution with the degree of A. B. in 1887. Having determined upon the law as his profes- sion he entered the University of Michigan, from which he received the degree of LL. B. in 1889. Hle was admitted to the bar of Cuyahoga county in December, 1890, and since that time has been practicing in Cleveland. For two years he was associated with the Hon. Henry MeKin- uey, under whose direction he had begun the study of law. He now occupies offices at Nos. 929 '30 '31, Society for Savings Building, working independently.
Politically Mr. Billman alliliates with the Republican party, taking an active interest in the issues of that body. He is a member of the Enelid Avenne Presbyterian Church. A young man of many social accomplishments, ho enjoys a wide circle of friends.
N EWMAN ROBINSON, of Bedford, Ohio, was born in Newburg, Onyahoga county, March 20, 1817, a son of Stephen and Mary (Benedict) Robinson. The father was from St. Lawrence county, New York, and the mother was a native of Vermont. Mr. Stephen Robinson was in the war of 1812. In 1813 he came to Cuyahoga county with his family, and December 31, 1818, settled in Bed- ford as one of the first settlers of the town. Stephen and Mary Robinson had twelve chil- dren, viz .: Daniel, Isaac, Nathan, Maria, Eb- enezer, Anna, Ezra, Nathaniel, Sally, John, Newman and Cornelia. Of this number two are now (1893) living -Sally and Newman; John departed this life Jannary 7, 1894, aged seventy-nine years. Their father was a farmer, politically a Whig, and religiously a member of the Baptist church. He died September 13, 1832. The mother died March 14, 1854, at eighty-two years of age.
Mr. Newman Robinson, the eleventh of the twelve children, received his education in Bed- ford schools, and by practical experience after- ward in doing business. His first work was driving an ox team in a brick yard; later he worked on a farm. In 1810 he bought a tan- nery learned the trade of his workmen, and carried on this business successfully for thirty- three years. He also engaged extensively in shoe manufacturing for many years. In 1878 he sold ont the tannery business, and has since been in the shoe trade. In 1860 he built a fine two-story brick building for his business, which was burned in 1891. In 1892 he built a three- story brick block, a credit to the town,
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Mr. Robinson was married September 26, 1839, to Lanra Kenyon, born at Adams, Jeffer- son county, New York, a daughter of James and Hannah (Oatman) Kenyon, both natives of New York, the father from Jefferson county and the mother from Herkimer county. They came to Bedford in 1838. The father was a soldier in the war of 1812. He died March 2, 1873, and the mother October 7, 1875. They had seven children, namely: Laura, Lodusca, Caroline, Roderick, James, Lncy Ann and Adaline. The father was a farmer by occupa- tion, a Democrat and a member of the Baptist Chirch.
Mr. and Mrs. Robinson have had three chil- dren: Frederick II., born February 17, 1841, died June 29, 1865; F. A., born September 15, 1850, died May 30, 1852; and Dora B., born June 27, 1858, died September 26, 1SS0; she was a successful and popular teacher, active and zealons in church and Sabbath-school work; her death was a great loss to her parents, the church, the Sabbath-School and the village.
Mr. Robinson is a Prohibitionist. He has been a member of the Town Conneil, and Treasurer of the School Board. For forty years he has been a Deacon in the Baptist Church. Ilis wile has been active in the W. C. T. U. She united with the Baptist Church at the same time with her husband.
P. MCKINNEY, a mason, contractor and builder, and member of the City Council from the Second District, was born in county Leitrim, Ireland, in November, 1840. lle arrived in Cleveland May 4, 1867, and the first year was a lay workman at his trade. Hav- ing a small surplus fund aceninnlated from his year's work, in 1868 he engaged in contracting and has followed the same business since, taking aud completing many large contracts for build- ings of every description. He is well known in his line, and his reputation for fair and square dealing is untarnished.
Mr. Mckinney became interested in politics as soon as he became a citizen, and at once iden- tified himself with the Democracy. His first candidacy was in 1884, when he made the race for Coneilman from the Seventh ward, but was defeated. Ile was not again a candidate until 1891, when he made the race for the Council from the Second District, and was elected with- ont opposition. In this Council he was chair- man of the committee on Harbors and Wharves; and was on committees on License, Public Works, Streets and Railroads.
In April, 1893, Mr. Mckinney was re-elected to the Council by a majority of over 800 votes. llis committee relations are much the same as they were in the previous Council of 1892. 11. introduced a resolution, which was manimonsty adopted, providing that street railroads should not be granted any further privileges; that they should agree to pave sixteen feet of any street to be used by them as a right of way for a double track, and seven feet for a single track; and to give transfers for one continuons ride on all branches of the same company with which they come in contact. Ile was the same year inter- ested in a measure to reduce the price of gas from $1.00 per 1,000 feet to $0.60, which re- sulted in a compromise of 80,80 per thousand. Ile also secured the passage of a resolution fore- ing the cable road to run a night car between 12 p. M. and 6 A. M. In the present Council he is interested in seenring the passage of the Rus- sell Scofield Street Railway ordinance, a much needed franchise at this time.
Mr. Mckinney is a son of John McKinney, a farmer, who married Catharine MeMorrow, now a resident of Cleveland. John McKinney died in Jinmary, 1889, at seventy-six years of age. Ilis children were: P. J .; Bridget; Cath- arine, wife of James Mehan; John, deceased; Terens, deceased; Mary Ann and Margaret, both deceased.
Mr. MeKinney is often a delegate to county and State conventions of his party, and was present at the national convention when General Hancock was nominated for President of the
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United States. He was treasurer of the county central committee during Johnson's first cam- paigu, receiving and disbursing more than $10,000. In 1884 he was vice president of the Seventh Ward Democratie Club. The same year he passed through an almost fatal spell of sickness, and on his recovery read from half a dozen papers the announcement of his death!
In February, 1886, Mr. MeKinney married Eva, a daughter of George Thoma. Their chil- dren are Patrick J., Mary Ellen and John Ilenry.
Mr. MeKinney is a member of the A. O. II., of which he is State Treasurer for Ohio, and a Knight of St. John.
1 OIIN JASTER, eashier of the Woodland Avenue Loan Company, engaged in the banking business in 1867, as collection clerk for Henry Wick & Company, just as he had completed a course at Bryant & Stratton's Business College and was but fifteen years of age, and he remained in the employ of that in- stitution uninterruptedly for twenty-two years, serving in the several capacities of bookkeeper, discount clerk and teller, retiring when he was holding the last named position. Ile aided in the organization of the Dime Savings and Bank- ing Company, but before final articles of incor- poration were issued. he cast his lot with the Woodland Avenne Loan Company as its cashier. In November, 1889, this institution had a capi- tal stock of $50,000, one year later its capital was increased to $150,000, and during the sum- mer of 1893 the capital was again increased, this time being brought up to $250,000. Its author- ized capital is now (February, 1894) half a mil- lion dollars, of which half is paid up; and the deposits now amount to $1, 100,000, with a sur- plus of $50,000. During the recent panie this bank paid currency, refusing to permit custom- ers to use pay-roll checks. They not only had a plenty of currency with which to meet the de- mand made on them, but also helped enstomers of other banks to meet their pay rolls.
Mr. Jaster was born in New York city, March, 1852, and the same year his father, also named John Jaster, came to Cleveland and opened a merchant-tailoring establishment, and remained in that business permanently for thirty years or more, enjoying a successful trade. Ile is now retired, and aged seventy-live years. His birth ocenrred in Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Ger- many, and he emigrated to this country in 1851. Ile married Miss Navian and had three chil- dren: J. W., Charles and Moritz, -all living in Cleveland.
Mr. Jaster, whose name introduces this sketch, is usually independent in politics, tak- ing active part in publie affairs, but prefers to keep out of " politics," although he watches the general trend of them with a sharper eye than he appears to have in that direction. Once he was nominated for the Board of Education on the Democratie ticket in a very strong Repub- lican district, and lacked only twenty-one votes of being elected.
Ile was married in this city, in the antumin of 1877, to Miss Iney Abrecht, a daughter of Lonis Abreelit, a jeweler, and they have three children: Clara, fifteen years of age; Jessie, thirteen: and John, Jr., seven years of age.
G AMALIEL E. HERRICK, the subject of this sketch, was born January 17, 1827, in Wellington, Lorain county, Ohio. His father was a descendant of the Revolutionary stock, of that name, of Berk- shire county, Massachusetts, and came to Ohio when a young man. Mr. Herrick's grandfather, Francis Herrick, was a Colonel in the war of 1812, and the Herrick family owned one-fourth of the township of Wellington. He receivod his early education in the common schools, and subsequently attended Oberlin College, where he spent nearly three years, being forced to leave college at that time on account of ill health. He began the study of law in the ollice of Andrews, Foot & Hoyt in 1850, and was ad.
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mitted to the bar in 1852. Some time after- ward he bought ont the business of the law firm of Cowles & Mastiek and began the practice of law alone. Mr. Herrick was so successful dur- ing the first eight months of his law practice as to be enabled to pay the entire purchase price. His practice kept increasing in a general way and so continned for ten years. In the mean- time he admitted to a partnership Merrill Bar- low, and the firm name became Ilerrick & Barlow. This partnership lasted until Mr. Barlow was appointed by Governor Brough Quartermaster General of Ohio. He then prae- ticed alone until the year 1873, when he ad- mitted his brother J. F. Herrick as partner, which partnership lasted abont fifteen years.
Mr. Herrick has for the greater part of his law practice had the care and management of large estates, and large properties belonging to others. Ile has handled the property of several large estates for a term of over twenty years, to the entire satisfaction of his clients. Besides being president of the Cleveland Linseed Oil Company, Mr. Herrick is a director in the East Cleveland Railway Company, and is engaged in many other large business enterprises. He has been Trustee of the First Presbyterian Church for fifteen or twenty years, and for the past ten years President of the Board of Trustees of that elmreh. He is also a Trustee of the Cleveland School of Art, Cleveland Bethel Union, and the Humane Society. He has not only given freely of his time to these societies and organizations, but has always responded promptly and gener- ously with financial aid when solicited or occa- sion required.
Ile has been very successful in his undertak- ings, and has amassed a large amount of property from which he derives a good revenne. Hle has always been an energetic factor in any movement, private and public, which had for its object the benefit of the business interests of the city, and is highly regarded both personally and professionally. Mr. Herrick was married to Ursula Andrews, daughter of Sherlock .J. Andrews, of Cleveland, Ohio, in January, 1860,
and they have had five children, of whom two daughters and one son are now living. His son, Frank R. Herrick, graduated at Yale in the class of 1888, and took a post-graduate course at Harvard, and is now engaged in the practice of his profession as a member of the firm of ller- rick & Hopkins, at Cleveland. The daughters are Ella II. and Ursula A., one of whom has just finished her education, and the other is still pursuing her studies.
C CHIARLES W. CHASE, a representative business man of the city of Cleveland, was born in Portage county, in this State, in the year 1846, of New England ancestry. His father, Captain Charles W. Chase, was born and bronght up on the island of Nantucket, Massachusetts, and, in common with a large majority of the inhabitants of that island, he adopted a seafaring life. At the age of four- teen years he shipped on a whaling vessel as a " boy before the mast," the duties of which sit- nation he performed faithfully, and continued in the service for over twenty years, rising through the various positions incident to the business until he became master of a vessel. His mother also was of the good old. New England stock, being a great-grandchild of Captain Hezekiah Coffin, who commanded the ship Beaver, of Boston Harbor " tea party " fame.
Mr. Chase, whose name introdnees this brief biographical sketch, was edneated in the com- mon schools of his native county, and completed his school days in the higher grades at the acad. emy at Newton Falls, Ohio. In the spring of 1864 he came to Cleveland and engaged in the clothing business, becoming a clerk in the store of C. H. Robison, on Superior street, who was then known as the " Yankee clothier." He re- mained there about two years, and then entered the employ of J. H. De Witt & Company, and then continued with James W. Carson, the sue- esssor of De Witt & Compmy. In 1872 Mr. Chase became a member of the firm, which was
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changed to James W. Carson & Company, and remained in that relation until January, 1882, when, the business becoming unprofitable, the firm was obliged to make an assignment.
Soon after this Mr. Chase became identified with the enecessiul merchant-tailoring business of James H. Cogswell & Company, who snc- ceeded to that branch of the business after the Carson failure; he remained there for eight years.
In 1872 Mr. Chase was married to Miss Al- mira F. Cowles, a daughter of the late Edwin Cowles, and they have had three children, only one of whom is now living, namely, Ilelen E. Upon the death of Mr. Cowles in 1890, Mr. Chase became a trustee and secretary and treas- urer of his estate, to the interests of which he has mainly confined himself up to the present time. Ile is also prominently identified with other business interests, being a director and sceretary of the Cleveland Leader Company, and also holding the same positions in the Cowles Electric Smelting and Aluminum Company, the W. B. Davis Company, men's furnishers, and tho Maple Grove Dairy Company, large dealers in dairy products, and pioneers of the practice of delivering milk and eream in glass bottles.
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