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In addition to his numerous business duties, Mr. Chase has found time to attend to church and benevolent work, and in these relations is connected with the Young Men's Christian As- sociation as director and vice president, and with the Second Presbyterian Church in several of. ficial relations. For many years Mr. Chase has been an active and consistent member of that influential denomination of working Christians.
OIIN I. NUNN, an embalmer and funeral director, at 559 Woodland avenue, has been identified as a business man with the city of Cleveland since 1881, when he opened up his present business on the East Side.
lle is a son of Isidor Nnnn, one of the old settlers of this city. Ilis father was born in
Germany, September 12, 1832. His parents died in their native land, where he was reared and edneated. At the age of eighteen years Mr. Isidor Nunn came to America, and coming to Cleveland located in this city abont 1850, and for nearly a half century he has resided here. In early life he had learned the cabinet-maker's trade, and at this he was employed until 1866, when he opened up an establishment of his own in the furniture and undertaking business. About the year 1870 he disposed of the furni- tnre feature of his business and thereafter turned his whole attention to undertaking. lle is one of the active and progressive men of this city to-day; is an active director in the Lorain Street Bank, and sustains other important busi- ness relations.
He married in this eity, Carolina Muller, who has borne him a family of nine children, as fol- lows: John I .; Charles F., deceased, dying after reaching a very promising and enviable posi- tion and reputation in the undertaking business; Lizzie; Caroline; George, deceased; Frank G .; Lena; Adolph and Willie. The father of these children belongs to that sturdy, honest Tentonic class of people, more often referred to as " our good German citizens." In politics he has al- ways been a stanch Democrat. He has a good and faithful wife, who was a devoted mother and loved friend. Death claimed her in 1875.
Their son, John I., whose name introduces this personal sketch, was born in Cleveland, Angnst 23, 1860. He attended the city schools and then gained a practical education in a local business college. He adopted the vocation of his father, that of an undertaker, and spent much time in preparation for the business. One year was spent in the West at Kansas City, Missouri. He then returned to Cleveland and began a business for himself. Ile has enjoyed a wide and extended patronage and has made a close study of embalming, in which he is one of the most successful and best informed undertakers in the city of Cleveland. He is one of the most successful young business men of the city, and socially and politically he is of influence. In
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1890 he was brought before the people as a Democratic candidate for the office of City Councilman for the Fifth ward, an overwhelm- ingly Republican ward. Notwithstanding, Mr. Nunn was elected, as the first Democrat ever elected in the district. IIe was re-elected in 1891, and to-day he stands as a popular and in- fuential man in the ranks of his party, and is esteemed as a wise and safe public offieer.
Ile is a member of the Funeral Directors' Association of the State of Ohio, of which he was secretary for a member of years. Ile has also been president of the same association, and to its interests he has devoted time and atten- tion, striving to dispel the prevailing idea that the association is one formed for pecuniary pur- poses rather than for the purpose of educating its members to a higher standard in their pro- fession.
Mr. Nunn was married June 2, 1885, to Miss Mary F. Lenze, a native of Pittsburg, and they now have three children, viz .: Isidore, Alardees and Olga.
A LVA BRADLEY, who died November 28, 1885, was for many years a leading character and citizen of the city of Cleve- land, to which place he came in the year 1859. Ile was born in Ellington, Connecticut, November 27, 1814, a son of Leonard Bradley, and when a small child his parents removed to Ohio. When a lad of fifteen years Mr. Bradley began the life of a sailor on the Lower Lakes, and followed that life for twenty-five years. lle then settled in Cleveland, and became manager of a fleet of vessels of which he was the princi- pal owner, and from that day to his death he was one of the most active vessel men and heaviest vessel owners whose craft plied upon the Groat
Lakes. The first vessel of his ownership was known as South America, which was lost after a few years of service. Among the several ves- sels which he had constructed were the South America, Dayton, Birmingham (schooner), pro-
peller Indiana, Ellington and Oregon,-all of which he sailed. Other vessels built by him were the Charles Griswold, Bay City, Wyllington, Queen City, Kimball, Wagstaff, J. F. Card, Es- canaba, Newgana, Maria Cobb,-all of which were built at Vermillion. The first vessel built by him in Cleveland was the Fayette Brown; then followed the S. J. Tilden, Bradley, Thomas Quayle, Cobb, Rhodes, steamer Fay, steamer Chamberlain, schooner John Martin, steamer E. B. Hale, steamer Henry Chishohn, steamer R. P. Ranney, and steamer City of Cleveland. Mr. Bradley also owned the steamer Fred Kelley, the Warner, steamer Superior, the Sandusky, the steamer Sheldon and the Ely.
Ile remained actively engaged in the marine business until the date of his death, devoting fifty years to the business either as a sailor or vessel owner. Ile was also largely interested in real estate in the city of Cleveland, and at the time of his death he had accumulated a very large fortune. Ile began in life with no other capital than willing hands and an ambition to succeed. Perseveranee, taet and enterprise en- abled him to amass a fortune of over $2,000,000.
Ile was married, in Milan, Ohio, to Helen Bur- gess, who is still living, and they have the l'ol- lowing children: Elizabeth, the wife of N. S. Keller; Eleanor, wife of C. E. Grover; Manetta, wife of C. F. Morehouse; and Morris A.
Morris A. Bradley was reared in the city of Cleveland, received his first schooling in the publie schools of the city and then attended Hiram College. In the year 1881 he became associated with his father in business, as elerk. Upon the death of his father he was made one of the excentors of the large estate, and since that time his time and attention have been given to the management of the same, as well as to his own private business interests. He is inter- ested in the vessel business as a member of the Bradley Transportation Company, and the Ohio Transportation Company, of which companies he is president and manager. He succeeded his l'ather as president and manager of the Bradley Transportation Company, his father having
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been its president from its organization in 1882. Mr. Bradley is also president of the State Na- tional Bank, and also of the Cleveland and Buffalo line of steamers. Since the death of his father he has built the steamer M. B. Grover, the steamer Pasadena, the steamer Hesper, the steamer Gladstone, the steamer George Stone, and the steamer Alva, and has purchased the barge Adriatic and the steamer Southwest.
Hle is largely interested in real estate in the city of Cleveland, and he and other members of his family have been instrumental in the build- ing of several important business and other bloeks in the city.
T. HAYDEN, traveling anditor for the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company, first engaged in railroad busi- ness in September, 1860, as a ticket agent at Adrian, Michigan. A few months later he was transferred to Hillsdale, that State, as station agent, where he remained eleven years; the next succeeding two years he performed the same same duties at Kalamazoo, and when he made a fonrth change it was to enter on his duties as traveling anditor for the company, this appointment being made May 1, 1873.
Mr. Hayden was born at Northampton, Mas- sachusetts, November 4, 1825. His primary and grammar-school training was all received in the same village and most of it in the same building. At thirteen he was left an orphan by the death of his mother, and two years later he set ont alone for Syraeuse, New York, and joined his brother, who was a carpenter and joiner, and at this business he engaged as an apprentice to his brother, serving six years, as was the ancient enstom.
Instead of following his trade, however, he turned his attention to merchandising; but in this his reward was not satisfactory, and he sold ont his business therein and went to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he became secretary of the Mutual Firo Insurance Company, and in this
capacity he was engaged until he decided to enter railroad business. Ilis only brother, E. T. Hayden, still lives in Syraense.
In that city, November 12, 1846, Mr. Hayden married Miss Caroline Nolton, a daughter of Lyman and Sarah Nolton, and a sister of Mrs. C. P. Leland. Mr. Hayden's children are three in number, namely: Charles J. and Frank N., of the Fidelity & Casualty Company, of Chicago; and Gertrude, wife of S. M. Bond of Cleveland. Mrs. Hayden died February 28, 1890, aged sixty-five years.
Mr. Hayden joined the Masonic order at Milwaukee in 1854, taking the three first de- grees there; he received the council, chapter and commandery degrees in Hillsdale, Michigan, and the ineffable degrees in Detroit, when he was initiated into the Scottish rite, August 15, 1865. Ile has passed all the chairs in the council, chapter and commandery, being five years Master, and one year presiding officer of the Grand Council of Michigan. Since 1886 he has been secretary and treasurer of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Mutnal Life Insurance Association.
W S. SNYDER, chief depnty Sheriff of Cuyahoga county, was born in Brim- field, Portage county, Ohio, August 9, 1865, and was edneated liberally in the public schools of Brimfield and Ravenna. At fifteen years of age he entered the shoe honse of E. D. Sawyer, of Cleveland, as a clerk and remained five years, or until Mr. Sawyer's election to the sheriff's office, when he was made a deputy, and on Sheriff Ryan's accession to office Mr. Sny- der was appointed chief deputy.
T. E. Snyder, our subject's father, was born at Rootstown, in 1842, and engaged in the shoe business in Cleveland for a number of years, but is now a merchant of Brimfield. Peter Sny- der, grandfather of W. S., was born in Snyder connty, Pennsylvania, the original home of this German family. He emigrated to Portage
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connty, this State, in 1836. He married llen- rietta Wagner, and they had eight children, six of whom are still living. The ancestor to whom eredit is due for the settlement and naming of Snyder county, Pennsylvania, was Peter Sny- der, a German subject, who emigrated to this country in old colonial days.
T. E. Snyder married Miss Alice, a danghter of William Kelso, one of the first settlers of Portage county and proprietor of the old Union Hotel. The children of this union are: Carrie, wife of V. E. Underwood; W. S .; Howard and Clarence.
W. S. Snyder married June 6, 1889, in St. Lonis, Missouri, Miss Annette, a daughter of F. W. Rosenthal, a wholesale carpet dealer of St. Louis. Mr. and Mrs. Snyder have one child, William Robert.
H C. STUDLEY, of Cleveland, was born in South Byron, Genesee county, New York, Angust 2, 1844, and lived on a farm until the age of six years, when his parents removed to Rochester. Hle attended the public schools, and at sixteen left the high school to accept the position of cashier in a dry goods house. After serving in this capacity and that of assistant bookkeeper in two other and larger stores, he was tendered and accepted a position in Jay Cooke & Company's First National Bank in Washington, in September, 1864, filling the position of individual and gen- eral bookkeeper and receiving teller. At this time the famous firm was acting as general agent for the United States Government in the sale of the varions issnes of bonds anthorized by Congress to supply the needs of our great army, to sustain our conntry's eredit and to perpetuate onr national unity. The subscrip- tions for these bonds came from all parts of the country and passed through the hands of the First National Bank. In July, 1870, Mr. Studley resigned his position there to accept that of teller and assistant cashier of the First National Bank of Cleveland, Ohio. In Febru-
ary, 1873, the Society for Savings-now the largest banking institution in Ohio and one of the largest savings banks in this country-ten- dered him the position of mortgage and interest clerk, which he accepted and which he now holds.
Mr. Studley has been actively identified with benevolent institutions of the city,-prominently with the Lakeside Hospital. In 1871 he was elected its treasurer, holding the office till 1883, when he resigned to enter the Board of Trus- tees. Ile served in the latter capacity until 1892, when he was chosen secretary of the hos- pital, which oflice he now holds.
Mr. Studley is a son of Luther Studley, who was born in Byron, Genesee county, New York, October 21, 1805. Ilis forefather was from Wales, coming to America many generations ago and settling in Massachusetts, whence the family afterward drifted into western New York. Lnther Studley was a land dealer in the later years of his life, and was engaged in business in Rochester. At Batavia, that State, he married Miss Lucy A., a daughter of Thomas Main, who was a farmer. February 25, 1882, Mr. Studley died, leaving the following chil- dren: Seymour L., now a resident of Omaha, Nebraska; Il. C., the subject of this sketch; and Francis L., wife of William Davis, of Rochester, New York.
Mr. II. C. Studley was married in Cleveland, October 1, 1874, to Ella M., a danghter of Dr. Philo Tilden, who was a prominent pioneer and business man of the Western Reserve, settling at Unionvifle in 1826. For four years he was a practicing physician over a seope of country many miles in extent. He became interested in the iron-ore business, and saw an opportunity to build up an industry in the manufacture of east and pig iron. He built the first blast for- nace on the lake, at Black River, and subse- qnently built three other furnaces, and conducted the business until 1868. He supplied the Fed- eral Government with much of his manufac- tured prodnet during the Civil war, for ord- nance and vessel armor.
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Ile was from Pawlet, Vermont, his birth- place, gradnated at the Burlington, Vermont, Medical College, and died in 1884, at the age of eighty-two years, leaving five children. Ilis' wife, who was a Mrs. Bradley, of Le Roy, New York, died in 1873.
Mr. II. C. Studley's children are: llenry T., drowned June 24, 1890, at the age of fourteen years; Rachel M , now aged fifteen; and Edna F., fourteen. The family are all members of the Second Presbyterian Church.
EORGE L. CASE, attorney and real-es- tate dealer, Cleveland, was born October 5, 1842, at Sharon, Medina connty, Ohio. ITis father, Seth A. Case, was born Jan- nary 10, 1814, in New York State, and when ten years of age came to Ohio, with his father, who settled in Medina county, where he lived the remainder of his days. lle was an esteemed pioneer of that county, a man of sterling ehar- acter, who commanded the respect of his neigh- bors and acquaintances, and a pioneer and leader in all temperance, church and educational work. Ile was a mechanical genius, and operated a wagon and carriage factory for a number of years at Sharon, where he died in 1885, having retired from active business ten years pre- vionsly. The Case family is of English origin, the carly representatives of the family in this country settling in Connectient.
The subject of this sketch, after attending the common schools, entered the academy of his native town and completed the course there. In 1862 he entered the quartermaster's depart- ment in the United States Army service at Nashville, Tennessee, where he remained till 1863, when on account of ill health returned to Sharon, where for two years he was engaged in farming. Ho then came to Cleveland and en. gaged in the real estate business, to which he confined himself till 1876. He subsequently located in New York city, where he studied law in Columbia College, and graduated in the
spring of 1880, at which time he was admitted to the bar of that State. Ile practiced his pro- fession in that State for about two years and then returned to Cleveland, being admitted to practice in the State of Ohio in June, 1883, since which time he has been an active and suc- cessful member of the Cleveland bar. Mean- while he has been largely interested in the real- estate business, building in the city on an aver- age of abont twenty honses per year for the last five years. Mr. Case is one of the leading Pro- hibitionists of the State, and has been actively engaged in the interests of his party since 1871. He has been for the last several years chairman of the county exeentive committee, as well as a member of the Ohio State executive committee, and was for two years treasurer of the latter. In 1892 he was a Prohibition candidate for Secretary of State, and made a very creditable race, running ahead of his party ticket, though he was defeated beeanse of the weakness of his party, which has steadily gained in its strength from the time of its organization in the State.
In 1887 Mr. Case was married to Miss Ella Zerbe, daughter of the late Jonathan Zerbe, of Massillon.
Mr. Case has always been a man of temperate habits, hence his enthusiasm as a Prohibitionist. His moral character is above reproach, and as a citizen he is of progressive spirit. He has been a stanch friend of education, and has for the last several years been a trustee of Bnehtel College, of Akron, Ohio.
JOHN C. HARDENBERGH, Councilman from the Tenth District of Cleveland, Ohio, was born in Providence, Rhode Isl- and, August 28, 1848, and was liberally edu- cated in the schools of that historie city, and at. the proper age became an employee of the Franklin Machine Company, conducting an es- tablishment for the manufacture of cotton machinery, for the purpose of learning the ma- chinists' trade. In 1876 he was seized with a
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desire to come West, and in response to it located in the metropolis of Lake Erie the same year. He was with the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Company as a machivist one year; the next year he decided to parsno a different line of work, and accordingly became a locomotive fireman, October 15, 1881. He received his promotion as locomotive engineer, and continned on the railroad in this capacity until July, 1591, when he retired to engage in a less hazardons employment. For a period he was in the tea and coffee business, but is now connected with the Allied Publish- ing Company.
Mr. Hardenbergh became interested in poli- ties some years ago as a local worker and or- ganizer of the Single Tax forces, but not until 1893, when a new Councilman from the Tonth District was to be named, did he bloom ont as a eandidate with his eonsent. Hle went through a heated campaign and was elected by 133 ma- jority, succeeding Councilman Ptak.
In the organization of the Council into com- mittees Mr. Hardenbergh was placed on the committees on Claims and Accounts, Wharves and Harbors, and Labor,-being chairman of the latter. One of his favorite measures before the Council has been a bill to abolish the con- tract system and allow the city to do its own work without the intervention of contractors. Ile introdneed a bill providing for the construc- tion and operation of all street railroads in the city, believing that the municipality ought to reap the profits incident to the operation of rail- road lines over its thoroughfares. Ile is now a member of the Legislative Committee of the Conneil, to which these bills were referred. The bills are now before the Legislature of Ohio for passage.
Mr. Hardenbergh is a son of Fayette Har- denbergh, of Providence, Rhode Island, who was a machinist and was for years foreman of the Franklin Machine Company, of that eity. He died in September, 1893, sixty-nine years of age. His ancestors were Holland Dutch, some one of whom founded the family in New
England during Colonial times. Our subject's mother, Ama J., was a daughter of Stephen Clark, of an old Rhode Island family and a car- penter by trade. The children of Fayette Har- denbergh and wife are: Anna C., wife of Israel Arnold, of Lonsdale, Rhode Island; John C .; Amy, now Mrs William Trafford, of Fall River, Massachusetts; and Carlton, of Providence, Rhode Island.
John C. Hardenbergh was married in Boston, Massachusetts, September 26, 1870, to Anna E. Wood, whose father, William Wood, was a ma- chinist there. By this marriage there is one child, Alice, now Mrs. John Mehringer, of Brooklyn village, Ohio.
Mr. Hardenbergh was for a year Chief of Division No. 318, B. of L. E., and is Still a most active promoter of the interests of the order, being a member of the General Board of Adjustment, and a member of the Legislative Committee, composed of twenty eight persons. lle is also identified with the Orangemen, Odd Fellows and with the Protestant Association of Apprentice Boys. He is most heartily in favor of fraternities organized for legitimate mutual good, and is frequently found in the field of such organizations.
C HARLES J. ESTEP, attorney and coun - selor at law, Cleveland, was born Inly 23, 1858, at Cadiz, Harrisou county, Ohio. After graduating at the high school of Cadiz, he was sent to Wooster University, where he spent three years in study. Very early in lite he manifested a taste and disposition for the legal profession, and left college at the end of his third year to begin his study of law in the office of his father, J. M., a leading lawyer of that section. He advanced very rapidly in his studies, and within two years was enabled to pass an examination snecessfully before the Supreme Court at Columbus, to be admitted to the bar in October, 1881. For a time there- after Le remained in the office of his father,
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with whom he began the practice as his partner. William G. Estep, his brother, was admitted to the bar May 1, 1884, and taking his place with his father brought about the occasion of Charles J. coming to Cleveland, where he opened an office and began what has proven a sneeessful career as a lawyer. In the spring of 1887 he was nominated on the Democratic city ticket for Police Proseentor, and as such was elected. Ilis ability in that position was so marked during his first term that he received a renomination (by acclamation) by his party, which was really in the minority in the city, but by the aid of Republican votes Mr. Estep was re-elected, in the spring of 1889, being one of the only two Democrats elected on the ticket. During Judge Hutchins' occupancy of the police bench, Mr. Estep was called to take his place for a few weeks, which place he filled with considerable credit. In April, 1893, he was appointed lirst assistant in the department of law in the mini- cipal government of Cleveland.
Mr. C. J. Estep married, in 1889, Miss Edith G. Arthur, by whom he has a son, Arthur.
S EYMOUR F. ADAMS, attorney at law, Cleveland, was born July 3, 1837, at Vernon, Oneida county, New York, a son of Silas and Alvira Adams, of Oneida Castle, New York. His father was born also at Ver- non, July 4, 1809, and he has been a hortienl- trist and farmer of some note. In 1858 he located at Oneida, New York, where he still resides, at the age of eighty-font years.
Mr. Adams was educated at Hamilton Col- lege, Clinton county, New York, where he graduated in 1858, with the degrees of A. B. and A. M. Hle then as an instructor took charge of the classical department of the Oneida Seminary, where he remained one year, and was then elected by the trustees of the Vernon Academy as its principal, in which capacity he served one year. The profession of law ap- peared early to invite Mr. Adams into its realm,
and in 1860 he began its study at the University of Albany, New York, and graduated there with the degree of LL. B., in May, 1861, was ad- mitted to the bar in the same year, and com- meneed practice in Lewis county, that State.
The breaking ont of the war changed the operations of Mr. Adams. In July, 1862, he enlisted in the Fifth New York Heavy Artillery as Second Lieutenant. February 11, 1863, he was promoted First Lientenant, and early in 1865 as Captain. Having been a law graduate and a lawyer by profession, he was called upon to perform the duties of Judge Advocate in the division of which his regiment was a part, being detailed by the commanding officer of his di- vision, and npon this detailed duty he served nearly half of the first year of his army life. In 1863 with his regiment he went to Harper's Ferry, where he was detailed as Ordnance Of- ficer, in which capacity he served several months. Later he was detailed as Aid-de-camp on the staff of General Max Weber, commanding officer of the division, who afterward was re- lieved by General John D. Stevenson, and he appointed Captain Adams his Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, and as sneh he served until mustered out of the service in July of 1865. He was a participant in many important battles and campaigns, as the battles of the Shenandoah Valley, under General Sigel and Sheridan, etc.
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