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George P., one of seven children, two of whom died in early childhood, began work for himself in the store which he now occupies in 1867, as clerk for John Rock. Five years afterward Mr. Herman became a partner in the business, under the firm name of John Rock & Company, and in 1891 he purchased his part- ner's interest, since which time he has continued as sole proprietor. He employs fifteen men in the sale department. The store is located at 981 and 983 Woodland avenne, and is one of the largest in that part of the city.
In 1875 Mr. Herman was united in marri- age with Miss Anna Darmstaetter, a native of Germany, and a daughter of Gabriel and Anna M. Darmstaetter, natives also of that country. To this union have been born six children, -- Hattie, Georgo C., Cora Anna, Walter C., Elsie and Beatrico Rubie Ethel. The eldest died at the age of four years. Mr. and Mrs. Herman are members of the German Evangelical Church. In political matters, the former affiliates with the Republican party. Ile has ever been a most worthy and serviceable citizen, giving his influence to forward all movements and enterprises which have for their objeet the improvement of the city. He is an excellent business man, and is classed among the responsible, worthy and enterprising men of the city.
G EORGE MARCHI .- Among the promin- ent and representative citizens of Chagrin Falls is Mr. George March, president of the Chagrin Falls Banking Company.
Mr. March was born at Windsor, Ashtabula connty, Ohio, May 30, 1848, and is the son of George and Lanra Ann (Blakslee) March. The father was a native of Sutton, Massachusetts, where he was born in 1791, and in that town was reared. Ile learned the trade of machinist. From Massachusetts he removed to Windsor, Ohio, locating at the latter place and engaging in farming in 1841. In 1819 he removed to Chagrin Falls, and there resided throughout tho
remainder of his life. He was a Republican in politics and a member of the Masonic lodge. Ilis death ocenrred in 1863. His father was Daniel March, who was a native of Sutton, Mas- sachusetts, and was of English descent, the Marches coming to America from England in 1620. The mother of our subject was a native of Connecticut, and removed to Clarendon, Ohio, when young with her parents. She died in Chagrin Falls, in her eighty-fifth year. Her father was Ozi Blakslee, who was a native of Connectient and was a soldier in the war of 1812. He was of English descent. Five chil- dren were born to the parents of our subject, as follows: Eliza, of Chagrin Falls; Laura, who died at the age of thirty years; Mary, who died at the age of about seven years; George, our subject; Sarah, who died at the age of thirty years.
Our subject came to Chagrin Falls the day bofore he was one year old. He was reared in the same place and secured his education in the public schools of the district. The death of his father when he was but a youth threw him upon his own resources, and at the age of fifteen years he commenced to work for C. Bull- ard & Lord, in the wooden-ware business. Ile continned with this firm as an employee umtil 1872, when he bought an interest in the busi- ness, and retains the same, at present, the firm being known as Bullard & March. In 1886 he was elected superintendent of the Chagrin Falls & Southern Railroad, and held that position until the sale of the road to the Cleveland & Canton Railroad Company. Upon the organization of the Chagrin Falls Banking Company in 1890, Mr. March was elected president of the same, and holds that position at present. Ile is also president of the Chagrin Falls Manufacturing Company, who manufacture all kinds of sad- irons. llo is also interested in the cattle busi- ness in Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico, and is a Director of the American Cattle Com- pany of Colorado.
lle is a member of the Masonic fraternity, alliliating with Golden Gato Lodge, No. 245,
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being Master of that lodge at present; is a mem- ber of Chagrin Falls Chapter, No. 152, a thirty-second-degree Mason and also a Mystic Shriner. Politically he is a Republican, with Prohibition tendencies. Ile has served several years in the City Council of Chagrin Falls.
From the above outline of Mr. Marchi's life it will be seen that he has been an active man, and has met with more than the average degree of snecess. He is a self-made man and owes his present position in life entirely to his own efforts and enterprise, backed by a character for honesty and integrity. He has always dis- charged in a faithful and satisfactory manner the duties of the different positions he has been called to fill, and while yet a comparatively young man has established a reputation for fine business and executive abilities second to no citizen of Chagrin Falls.
Mr. March was married in 1875, to Sarah W. Wales, who was born at North Abington, Massachusetts, and is of English descent. To this union three children have been born, as fol- lows: Fred G., born 1878, and died at the age of five years; Forest O., born in 1883; Herald W., born in 1886.
Mr. and Mrs. March are members of the Congregational Church, of which Mr. March has been a Trustee and Treasurer for some time. Ile has also been interested for several years in the lecture course, which has proved a great suecoss.
AMES WRIGHT, of Cleveland, was born in Scotland, February 6, 1820, an only son, and the only member of the Wright fam- ily who ever left Scotland. His father died in 1819, and in 1886, at the age of seventy years, his mother died, and both lie side by side in the cemetery at Berwickshire, Scotland, with their many ancestors.
Mr. Wright started from home at the early age of ten years, traveling through Scotland, England and Ireland. In 1837 he came to this country and located in Cleveland. llis first
employment was in steamboat painting, and while thus engaged he sailed on all the princi- pal rivers of the United States. At one time he was assistant foreman in Eage Company, No. 1, of Volunteer Firemen; later he purchased several acres of land, where he engaged in gar- dening; then was proprietor of a paint and paper store, which business is now carried on by one of his sons.
Mr. Wright was first married November 5, 1845, and to this nnion were born five children, two now living, -- John J. and Walter E. Wright. One son, A. F., died in 1892.
In 1861 Mr. Wright was united in marriage with Mary E. Goodsell, of New York city, and they have two children, ---- Ilelen and Louis.
Politically Mr. Wright is a stanch Republi- can. He is one of two charter members of the St. Andrews society now living, and is a worthy representative of the business men of the early days, also a highly esteemed and valued citizen.
JOHN R. EDWARDS, engaged in the coal trade and teaming in Cleveland, was born in this city in 1812, a son of Rodal- phus and Sophia (Musson) Edwards. His mother was born August 15, 1819, has been an honored resident of Cleveland for many years, and is a worthy member of the Presbyterian Church of East Cleveland. His father is de- ceased. Mr. and Mrs. Edwards had eight chil- dren, viz .: Sarah A., at home; John R., our subject; Cherry, deceased at the age of seven years; Mary J., widow of the late D. P. Brower, and a resident of this city; Lydia E., wife of N. Cates, of Cleveland; Julius S., a lumber and coal dealer of this city, married Anna Adams; Sophia R., widow of Edward Roberts; and one who died unamed.
Jolin R. Edwards received his education in Newburg, Ohio, under the tutorship of Prof. A. Spencer, and afterward was engaged in clerking for four years. At the opening of the late war he enlisted in Company II, One Hundred and
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Fiftieth Ohio National Guards, was engaged on garrison duty at Fort Slammer, near Washing- ton, District of Columbia, three months, and took part in one skirmish. After returning home, Mr. Edwards resumed clerking for two years. He was then the owner of a large stone quarry for ten years, employing on an average twenty men. llis next venture was in his present business, under the firm name of Ed- wards Brothers, which partnership continued until 1889, and since that time onr subject has remained alone. He now owns about fifty head of horses.
In 1865 Mr. Edwards was united in marriage with Miss Mary M. Brower, a native of Summit connty, Ohio, and a daughter of D. P. and Ma- tilda Brower, and they have four children: John R., who assists his father in the office, married Jennie, a daughter of Rev. Daniel Ew- ald, of Cleveland, and they have one child, Helen; Pearl Alberta, who has been a teacher in the Lincoln school for the past two years; Sadie May, a pupil in the Cleveland high school; and J. R., attending the Lincoln school. Mr. Edwards is a member of the American Legion of Honor, and is a stanch Republican.
D R. M. MACHIOL, Rabbi of the Scoville Avenue Temple, Anshe Chesed, was born in Germany, November 13, 1845, a son of Zadik and Esther Machol. The father was a merchant in Europe, but August 19, 1893, at the request of their children, they came to America. They now reside in Leavenworth, Kansas, where they celebrated their Golden Wedding January 3, 1893. Mr. and Mrs. Ma- chol have four children: M., our subject; Han- nah, wife of Charles Salinger, of Leavenworth, Kansas; Henrietta, wife of A. Hyman, of Onaga, that State; and Jennio, wife of A. Salinger, also of Leavenworth. Mr. Machol has reached the age of seventy-four years, and his wife is seven- ty-one years of age. The latter's mother lived to be 101 years of age, and Mr. Machol's mother
reached the age of 106 years. Mr. and Mrs. Machol are most excellent people, and carry the respect and esteem of a large circle of acquaint- ances.
Dr. Machol, the subject of this sketch, re- ceived his education in the Theological Semi- mary of Breslan, Germany, where he graduated in 1869. Ile then came to the United States, spending the first two years at Leavenworth, Kansas, and was then called to what is now one of the largest congregations in Chicago, remain- ing there four years. Since 1876 he has filled his present position in Cleveland, which alone speaks in the highest terms of commendation respecting his ecclesiastical and executive abil- ity. On first taking charge of the church they worshipped in a small building on Eagle street, but with the increase of membership they were compelled, in 1886, to build the present temple, which will seat 1,700 people. Over 210 fami- lies are now members of the church. The Sunday School, which contains a membership of over 200 children, occupies five large rooms on the lower floor.
Dr. Machol was married in 1871, to Miss Minnie, a daughter of Bernhard Rosenthal, for- merly a Rabbi and teacher in Wurtemberg, Germany, for thirty-nine years. He died at that place in 1874, at the age of sixty-five years. He was an intelligent and useful man, and was highly respected by all who knew him. His widow afterward came to this country, and lived with our subject until her death, in 1879, at the age of sixty-eight years. Mr. and Mrs. Rosenthal had six children, namely: Rosa, wife of D. Frey, of San Francisco; Emma, now Mrs. S. Mooney, and a resident of Aspen, Colorado; Max, of Cincinnati, Ohio, married Miss Mary Rosenthal; Minnie, wife of our subject; Bettic, wife of S. Weinberger, of Idaho Springs, Colo- radu; and Anna, wife of J. Timendorfer, en- gaged in the insurance business in Cleveland. Mrs. Machol came to America at the age of sixteen years, and is now forty-three years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Machol have five children, namoly: Jacob, twenty-one years of age, was
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formerly engaged in the study of art, but was obliged to abandon that oeenpation on account of his eyes, and is now the editor of the Jewish Review; Ilenry, nineteen years of age, is a pharmacist of Cleveland; Bernhard, who grad -. uated at the Cleveland high school at the age of seventeen years, is now a junior in the Adelbert College, and is preparing himself for the Uni- versity; Gertrude, fifteen years of age, is at- tending Miss Andrews' school; and Ernest, aged twelve years, is a pupil of the public school. In his social relations, Dr. Machol is a member of the Masonic order, Chicago Lodge, No. 443. Ile is a man of excellent scholarship and ability. of fine personal appearance, and is much re- spected wherever known.
H B. CODY, a dealer in real estate at 5 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, was born in Painesville, Ohio, October 12, 1866, a son of Lindns and S. Amelia (Farns- worth) Cody, of English ancestry. He was about four years of age when his parents moved to Michigan, whence after a year they removed . to Lincoln, Nebraska, where they resided four years, and the father was engaged in the whole- sale grocery trade. Since then our subjeet has been a resident of Cleveland. He graduated at Adeibert College in 1891, and previously had taken a course at the business college of this city. Being thus thoroughly equipped for business, he associated himself with his brother in 1889, succeeding their father in the real-cs- tate business. Since that time they have made the following allotinents: Arlington, now ealled Livingston, fifteen lots; Plymouth Place, about fifty lots; Logan Court and Woodard Place, sixty lots; Wade Park, 100 lots; Fenton & Cody Plat, near Madison street, off Cedar ave- nne, 100 lots; Beulah Park or Camp Lake- wood, seventy-five lots, where Mr. Cody eonduets the Camp Lakewood Hotel; the Cody allotment on Enelid avenne, seventy-five lots; and in con- neetion with their father they opened the Cody,
Hill & Spencer allotment on Enelid avenue, of 140 lots. They have also erected upward of 500 honses in Cleveland, and they are still con- stantly engaged in the work of building. Mr. Cody also owns lands in Michigan.
Our subject has been one of the most snecess- Inl young real-estate dealers in the city, being a man of thorough mettle.
Ilis father, Lindus Cody, was born in Daven- port, Iowa, in 1840, the son of Philip and Har- riet M. (Sherwin) Cody. Philip Cody died in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, and his wife, Mrs. Harriet Cody, died here in Cleveland. Mr. Cody was reared principally in this city, as he was brought here from Davenport by his parents when he was four years of age. At the age of twenty-one he was engaged in gardening in East Cleveland for three years; was next en- ployed in the Imnber business in Michigan for four years; then he was a general merchant in Lincoln, Nebraska, two years, and two years in the wholesale grocery trade; next, returning to Ohio, he entered both the general mercantile and real-estate business in Collinwood, and seven years afterward he disposed of his mer- chandise and moved into the city of Cleveland to engage in real-estate allotments, building, selling, ete. He erected the reaper works in Rockport, the Summer block on the lake front, a fine double dwelling on the corner of Lexing- ton and' Willson avennes, assisted in the erection of the New Philadelphia (Ohio) pipe works, was president of the company, and he is still en- gaged in building,
In the line of gospel missions he has been a great worker. First he established the Congre- gational Church of Collinwood, where he started the mission, which finally grew into a self-sup- porting church; and he started the mission on Central aveune, now called the Gospel Union Church. In all, he has given twenty-five years to mission work. For twenty years he was as- sociated with the Congregational Church, but now he holds his membership in the " Gospel Union " Church. lle is proprietor of the camp grounds at Collinwood on the lake front.
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Being an active prohibition worker he has been placed in nomination by his party for various oflices.
Mr. Cody is a cousin of Colonel William F. Cody (" Buffalo Bill"), and was born in the same town as the celebrated sportsman of the " wild West." He was married in 1861, to Miss S. Amelia Farnsworth, a native of New York, and they have nine children, namely: Harriet E., wife of A. J. Marsh, a real-estate dealer; Lillie S., engaged in educational and journalistic work in New York; H. B. and F. L., dealers in real estate in Cleveland; Mary A., now studying for foreign mission work in New York city; Arthur P., a student of Hudson College; Ethel J., Belle G. and Gertrude.
T' HOMAS WILSON .- Among the many prominent and representative citizens of Cleveland few are more favorably or widely known than Captain Thomas Wil- son, who for years has been one of the leading and most successful navigators and vessel build- ers and owners of the city, and has been most closely identified with the ship-building indns- try and shipping interests of the Great Lakes.
Captain Wilson was born on October 31, 1838, at Fifeshire, Scotland. He comes from a scafaring family, his father and both grand- fathers having been sea captains. His father, Captain Thomas Wilson, Sr., was appointed as a customhouse officer at Gwedore, in the north of Ireland, when our subject was a child, and thither the family was removed and resided for several years. In 1854 the family came to the United States and located in Philadelphia. At Gwedore, where the early boyhood days of our subject were spent, the educational advantages were not of the best, and his opportunities of acquiring an education were limited. Yet by close application, led on by an ambition to gain knowledge, the young fellow became proficient in the common English branches, which was
sufficient for all practical purposes, and this, added to his sturdy, sterling character, which had been fostered and nourished by good and devoted Christian parents, gave him a fair start in life, though not possessed of means.
Immediately following the removal of the family to America young Wilson, then but six- teen years of age, following the natural bent of his inclination, adopted the life of a sailor, thus following in the footsteps of his ancestors. For three years he sailed the seas, beginning as a " ship boy." During this time he gained a thorough knowledge of seafaring, and his stock of general information was largely increased by a visit to numerous foreign ports. After three years' service upon the high seas young Wilson came to the Great Lakes, first as a wheelman, and soon advanced to mate and captain, and in the latter capacity commanded quite a number of lake steamers. Among navigators he was considered a safe and perfectly responsible cap- tain, and his services were consequently always in demand. For as many as twenty-five years Captain Wilson's home, it might be said, was upon the lakes, and during all that time he was recognized by navigators and those interested in shipping as one of the most cautious and re- liable captains on those waters, and his genial and hearty nature made him a general favorite among owners, sailors and the traveling public.
Having been successful in accumulating some capital, and growing tired of continuons sailing, in 1872 Captain Wilson built an excellent freight steamer, which he named D. M. Wilson, a name given to a son, whose birth at about that time had so gladdened the home of the Captain and his most estimable wife. The building of the D. M. Wilson proved a success- ful venture, and stimulated the Captain's am- bition to become more largely interested as a vessel owner, and he built next the steamer Iliawatha and her consort the Minnehaha. Then followed the building of the Tacoma, Wallula and Kesota, and in 1886 the George Spencer. Later he built the Wadena, Missoula, Spokain, Yakima, the names of the vessels be-
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ing suggested by a trip the Captain made through the great Northwest and Pacific coast country several years ago. Each of the fore- going vessels were large and especially adapted tor service on the Great Lakes. As a navigator and vessel owner Captain Wilson has met with marked success, and his success may be solely attributed to his fidelity, his integrity and his perseverance.
Besides Ins interests as a builder and owner he is, and has been since its organization, presi- dent of the Ship Owners' Dry Doek Company, president in 1893 of the Lake Carriers' Asso- ciation, president of the Huron Dock Company, director of the American Steel Barge Company, and vice-president of the Central National Bank of Cleveland. He is also largely inter- ested in Lake Superior iron mines.
Among all of Captain Wilson's business associates, friends and acquaintances he is re- garded as a man of remarkable force of char- acter, and one glance at his robust physical proportions, his clear and intelligent eyes and rugged face, is sufficient to stamp him, even among strangers, as a man endowed with more than ordinary abilities, and one who has prop- erly used the talents and faculties bestowed upon him by a generous Providence. The in- fluence of the moral and religions training given him while a boy by his parents, added to the sterling worth imparted to him by his Scotch ancestors, caused Captain Wilson to grow np as a manly, conscientious youth, scor- ing everything low and mean, and early in life commanding the confidence of all who knew him. And these traits of character grew and expanded as he developed into a man, and with years were amplified to the broadest degree, and to-day his word is regarded as good as his bond, and in all matters, whether pertaining to business, religious, social or political affairs, he is looked upon as a man of vigorous and healthy opinions, and as possessed of the necessary conrago to express and maintain his convictions. He is fair, just and kind, yet determined. Ho abhors hypocrisy, his belief and feeling being
to picture and represent everything in its true colors, be they bright and pleasant or dark and gloomy. No principle he holds should be compromised, and no stop be made at an inter- mediate point. In taking a stand on any im- portant question, be it moral, religious, social or business, he invariably reasons it from all directions and deliberately and calmly arrives at his conelnsion, and from these conclusions it is difficult to shake him; yet at the same time he is not bigoted or self-important, but on the contrary is always open to conviction, and is unpretentious " and modest in his bearing. Among the rich and influential he is respected for these sterling qualities, and among the poor he is loved for his charity.
With all of his varions and pressing business cares Captain Wilson has found time and op- portunity to discharge the religious and social duties of a man of his position in life. He is a firm and active friend of temperance, and has done much to promote that good and worthy eause. Ilo has always been a friend to ednen- tion, and has been for years a supporter of Christianity. Ile has been for years an official member of the Enclid Avenue Congregational Church, of which he has been a firm and valu- able friend.
Ilis charity is unbounded and yet nnostenta- tious. For a long time it has been his plan to place a liberal snm in the hands of his pastor at Thanksgiving and Christmas-tide for the pur- pose of purchasing delicacies for distribution among the poor of his church, strictly enjoining on his pastor that the source of these gifts should not be made known. In behalf of sev- eral benevolent organizations of this city he lias rendered active assistance and given liberal contributions. Among these organizations may be mentioned the Sentnan's Floating Bethel, of which he is president. In fact, Captain Wil- son is always ready and willing to improve each and every opportunity of doing good unto his fellow man, and few exercise better judg- ment in rendering aid to the needy and dis- tressed, both in bodily and spiritual comfort.
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Fraternally he is a member of the Masonic order, being a Royal Arch Mason.
In September, 1870, Captain Wilson married the daughter of Honorable David Morris, of Cleveland, and located in what is known as the " East End." Here he has ever since resided. One son and two daughters have been born in his family. In January, 1886, however, the son, when just budding into a noble and prom- ising youth, possessing the sterling character of his race, passed away in death, at the age of thirteen years, sadly and irreparably breaking the happy family circle.
E LIAS B. PIKE, a farmer of Orange town- ship, Cuyahoga county, was born at Vet- eran, Chemung county, New York, June 30, 1822, a son of Sewall and Permelia (Beards- ley) Pike, natives of Massachusetts and Connect- icut, respectively, and members of prominent old families. The paternal grandfather of our subject was a soldier in the Revolutionary war; and the maternal grandfather, Elias Beardsley, took part in both the Revolution and the war of 1812. Sewall Pike died in Chemung county, New York, at the age of fifty-six years, leaving a wife and six children, viz .: Betsey, David, Lucy, George W., Francis and Elias B. Our subject is now the only survivor of the family. In 1840 two brothers, George W. and Francis, came to Cuyahoga county, Ohio, and two years afterward they were joined by the mother and Elias B. George W. was a blacksmith by trade, and for a number of years lived with the Shakers. The mother died in Orange town- ship, at the age of fifty-one years. Mr. and Mrs. Pike were members and active workers in the Methodist Church.
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