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Elias B., the subject of this sketch, received his education in Chemung county, New York. Ile came to this county when it was compara- tively a wilderness, and was obliged to make his own roads. He now owns a valuable and well- improved farm of seventy-five acres, where he
has a comfortable residence, 16 x 24 feet, with an L, 16 x 30 feet, has two large barns, and all other necessary farm improvements. In politi- cal matters, Mr. Pike affiliates with the Re- publican party, and has served his township as Trustee and as a member of the School Board.
October 15, 1846, he was united in marriage with Elizabeth Barns, who was born in New York, July 25, 1828, a daughter of William and Margaret (Doty) Barns, natives of Vermont. They came to Cuyahoga county, Ohio, in 1842, and afterward removed to Illinois. The father died at the latter place at the age of forty years, leaving nine children: Myron, Harriet, William, Elizabeth, Thirza, Lorenzo, Margaret, James and Jeannette. The mother departed this life in Minneapolis, Minnesota, at the age of eighty- five years. Both she and her husband were members of the Methodist Church. Mr. and Mrs. Pike have three children, namely: Andrew S., a resident of North Solon, who has two sons, Archie E. and Wilson S .; George W., of New- burg, Ohio, who has one son, Eugene B .; and Eveline L., wife of C. C. Lowe, who has six children,-Victor E., Darwin E., Edith E., Clyde E., Grace E. and Chester C. Our sub- jeet lost two children by death,-Emma E. at the age of one year, and Edie J., aged three years. Mr. and Mrs. Pike are members of the Methodist Church.
R ICHARD WILITLOCK, a farmer of Orange township,. Cuyahoga county, was born in Devonshire, England, Feb- ruary 22, 1838, a son of Elias and Mary (Stoneman) Whitlock, also natives of that coun- try. They came to this country in 1843, and resided in Cuyahoga county, Ohio, until their death, the father dying at the age of sixty years, and the mother at the age of sixty-two years. They were prominent and industrious farmers, and were respected by all who knew them. Mr. and Mrs. Whitlock had eight chil-
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dren, namely: Ann, Christopher, John, Mary, Fannie, Samuel, Richard and Grace. One child was drowned while erossing the ocean.
Richard Whitlock, the subject of this sketch, came to Cuyahoga county, Ohio, when five years of age, received his education in the district schools of Orange and Solon townships, and has resided in this neighborhood since his marriage. Ile now owns a valuable and well improved farm of 104 acres, where he has two good resi- dences, fine barns, and a large dairy.
Mr. Whitlock was married February 22, 1869, to Elizabeth Thompson, who was born, reared and educated in Solon, this county, a daughter of Christopher and Elizabeth (Forest) Thompson, natives of Yorkshire, England. The parents died in Solon, Ohio, the mother at the age of sixty-four years, and the father aged sev- enty-two years. They had six children,-John, Robert, Sharlotte, Elizabeth, Rebecca and Will- iam. Mr. and Mrs. Whitlock have two chil- dren,-Minnie and Samuel, both at home. One child, Otto, died at the age of five years. Mr. Whitlock is independent in political matters. Both he and his wife are members of the Free- Will Baptist Church, in which the former holds the office of Deacon.
A NDREW DALL .- Prominent among the leading contractors and builders of Cleveland is Mr. Andrew Dall, junior member of the well-known firm of Mc- Allister & Dall. Mr. Dall is a native of Scot- land, having been born in Markinch, in the year 1850, and is the son of Andrew and Elizabeth (Davidson) Dall. Andrew Dall, Sr., a native also of Scotland, served an apprenticeship of seven years at the stone-cutting trade, in his native country, was married, and in 1852 came with his family to the United States, locating in Cleveland. He was a skilled mechanic, am- bitions and enterprising, and it was not a great while after coming to Cleveland before he was contracting and building on his own account. Ile was successful from the beginning and soon
became identified with his adopted city as a leading contractor and citizen. Among the conspicuons buildings he erected were the Ran- dall, Wade and Backus residences, the St. Paul's Episcopal Church, and the dormitory and Adel- . bert College. In partnership with his son, our subject, he erected the Euclid Avenue opera house. His death occurred in 1887, after a life of great activity and usefulness. His success may be ganged by the change in his financial condition during his life in Cleveland. IIe came here a poor man, but died possessed of a competency, leaving his family in comfortable cireninstances.
The children of Mr. and Mrs. Dall were six in number, only three of whom survive, they being Robert Dall, a contractor of Toledo, Ohio; Mrs. John Protheroe, of Cleveland; and our subject.
The subject of this sketeh was given a common-school education in the public schools of Cleveland. Following in the footsteps of his father, he served an apprenticeship at the stone- cutting trade, making himself thoroughly familiar with all the details of that trade and becoming a most efficient workman. In 1874 he was taken into his father's business as a partner, and together they erected many build- ings of note in Cleveland and neighboring eities. In 1877 Mr. Dall engaged in business by himself for a time, and crected among other buildings the Wilshire Building on Superior street, the Fairmount Pumping Station, the residenees of S. T. Everett, the City Hall at Troy, Ohio, the Eaker buildings and Public School Library at Dayton, Ohio, and the post office and customhouse at Grand Rapids, Michigan.
In 1888 he formed a co-partnership with Mr. Arthur McAllister, and the firm of McAllister & Dall has taken rank as one of the most snc- cessful contracting firms in Ohio. Among the important buildings they have erected, and which will remain as moments of their skill and proficiency, are the Society for Savings building, the Calvary Presbyterian church, the
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residences of J. E. French, II. R. Hatch and S. F. Haserot, on Euclid avenne, and of Samnel Mather on the Lake Shore east, and the Erie County Savings Bank at Buffalo, New York, which is one of the handsomest and most sub- stantially constructed buildings in the country, being of granite, nine stories high on one street and ten stories high on another, exclusive of attie and basement, and they rebuilt Enelid Avenne opera house. They also built the Soldiers' and Sailors' Momment in Cleveland, which will itself be a lasting evidence of their handiwork.
Mr. Dall was married in 1873 to Miss Alice, daughter of John Bennett, one of Cleveland's old and well-known citizens, and once Chief of the City Fire Department. Six children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Dall, as follows: Emma, who graduated at the Brown-Hathaway school in 1893; William, who is with C. F. Schweinfurth, one of Cleveland's leading arehi- tects; Elizabeth, John, Joseph and Irene.
The above ontline shows what Mr. Dall has accomplished as a contractor and builder, and when his age is considered his achievements have been great and far beyond those of the average contractor of his years. And as a man and a citizen he has builded in character as snc- cessfully as he has in stone and mortar, and he enjoys an enviable reputation as an enterprising, energetic and honorable citizen. Ile is a self- made man and owes his present position in the business world entirely to his own efforts. Hle began at the bottom and climbed to the top, nn- aided save by his own energy, perseverance and pluck. He has a special skill in handling heavy material and attends to all the mason work of his firm. His executive ability is great and his snecess in handling men equal to that in hand- ling matter.
As a citizen Mr. Dall takes an active interest in the affairs and institutions of his city .. Ile is an ardent Republican and renders his party aid, but has never consented to stand for office. Ile is a friend to the public schools, believing firmly in that system of education.
A friend says of him: " His chief character- istic is his absolute reliability. IIe is a splen- did mechanic, a successful builder, and a good man and citizen. Ile is broad and liberal in his views, enterprising and energetic, charitable, kind-hearted, and thoroughly consistent in all his actions."
EORGE M. IIICKS, son of the late George B. Ilicks, of Cleveland, was born February 20, 1859, in this city, attended the public school, and graduated at the high school of Cleveland in 1877, after which he attended Delaware College for a short time.
In 1884 he began the study of law in the office of Burke, Ingersoll & Sanders, in whose office he remained two years, being admitted to the bar at Communbus in 1886, at which date his professional career began. In 1887 he became interested in real estate, and since that time he has handled a very great deal of real estate, and as a dealer in the same he has achieved more than ordinary success. In fact he has done but very little in general law practice, his time being mainly devoted to the real-estate business. Ilis plan has been to purchase larger tracts of land, platting the same, and selling it in town lots. As a business man he is regarded as a very far- seeing, shrewd and close calculator. He is of a progressive spirit and has a zealons interest in the growth and development of the city of Cleveland, in which he has always resided, and to the prosperity of which he has made liberal contribution.
IIe is married, having wedded, in 1889, Miss Jennie King.
Mr. Hicks' father, George B. Hicks, was born June 10, 1831, at Canton, St. Lawrence county, New York. At an early day he came to Ohio, and was one of the first telegraph operators of the country. In fact he became an operator when telegraphy was almost in its infancy. In 1860 he invented a repeater which is yet in use by the Western Union Telegraph Company.
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George B. Bicks was elected General Manager of the Associated Press, in which capacity he aeted ten years. Later he became president of the Forest City Varnish, Oil & Naphtlia Com- pany, of Cleveland, and also president of tlie Cleveland Telegraph Supply & Mannfaeturing' Company, and to the invention and manufacture of electrical appliances he gave mneh attention, and well succeeded. Unfortunately death came to him in 1873, when he was just in the noon- day of his life.
AY PHELPS DAWLEY was born at Ravenna, Ohio, March 7, 1847, was brought np on a farm in his native county and gradnated at the Ravenna nion school in 1869. He then attended the Eclectic Institute at Iliram, of which James A. Garfield then had control as principal. Later young Dawley at- tended the Western Reserve College at Hudson, where he spent three years, completing the classical course.
In 1871 he entered the law ofliee of Hon. J. M. Jones of Cleveland, and pursued his studies until 1872, when he was admitted to the bar. He remained with Mr. Jones until he (Jones) was elected a Judge of the Superior Court in 1873, at which date Mr. Dawley and S. M. Stone became partners in the practice of that profession, and continued as such for about fonr years. In 1878, Mr. Stone having gone to New York, Mr. Dawley associated himself with Judge J. K. Hord, and still later with IIon. Martin A. Foran. At present Mr. Dawley is alone in the praetiee, and in his profession he he has achieved more than ordinary suceess, and is esteemed both by his professional brethren and the public at large.
In 1882 he (usoliciting) was elected to the Board of Education for the Second Ward, and also a member of the Board of Library Man- agers, and in public life he has always appeared a progressive and sagacions character. He was one of the first in the counsel for the State in
testing the constitutionality of a certain liquor law, in which case the opinion of a previous conrt was reversed. Ile appeared as eonnsel for the St. Clair Street Railway Company of Cleveland in several important eases, and was for some time an attorney for that company. In criminal practice he has achieved considerable success and did some brilliant work in the trying of one Moran for murder, heand his partner Hon. M. A. Foran defending the prisoner.
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In 1864 Mr. Dawley enlisted in Company C, Eleventh Infantry, Fourteenth Army Corps, and served until the close of the war, as a pri- vate, and Orderly at the headquarters of Gen- eral Jefferson C. Davis. He was but seventeen years of age when he enlisted in the army ser- viee, and soon after his enlistment was detailed as orderly to the headquarters of General Davis, for the purpose of carrying dispatches from one quarter to another, all messages being oral, and consequently his work was an important as well as dangerous one. Ile was also a participant in all of the engagements of his command, and was one of those who made the famous march with Sherman to the sea.
Mr. Dawley married, in September of 1873, Miss Iva G. Canfield, danghter of Harrison Canfield of Pennsylvania, and they have four children: William J., Arthur Addison, Frances Canfield, and Rnby Louise.
A G. FRISBIE, who has been engaged in the real-estate, loan and investment busi- mess at 5 Euclid avenue since March, 1889, is entitled to representation in this Instory of the leading men of Cleveland. lle is a native of Geanga county, Ohio, born Angust 15, 1866.
His father, Dr. Stephen Frisbie, a well-known physician of Geauga county, is deceased. The first twenty years of Mr. Frisbie's life was spent upon a farm, receiving his earlier edneation in the public schools; in connection with the common branches of the public school, Mr.
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Frisbie took a business conrse and also studied umsie. When launched out on the world for himself, he began by teaching music in the public schools of Painesville, Chardon and Fairport. After teaching three years in the above places, he accepted the position of head bookkeeper for George M. Hlicks.
One year later they formed the partnership of ITicks & Frisbie. They were associated four years, during which time they successfuly handled the Orchard Grove Allotment. The partnership being dissolved, Mr. Frisbie opened his present office in July, 1893, doing a general business of real estate, loans and investments. Ilis Euclid avenue allotment, consisting of fifty lots, he disposed of in thirty days. He has just purchased three allotments, comprising 500 lots, which with his usual snecess will certainly be disposed of in a comparatively short time. Ile is one of the most progressive members of business circles in Cleveland and is ever upon the alert to aid in the development of any pos- sible resource in the State.
Mr. Frisbie was married in 1890 to Miss Florence Johnston, one of Cleveland's most talented readers, a daughter of C. HI. Johnston of this city. Two children have been born of this union, Esther L. and Charles Arthur.
R ICHARD E. GARRATY .- Probably no citizen of Brecksville township ineluded in this volume has figured in so many positions in life as the gentleman whose name introduces this sketeli, and who is a native of Montreal, Canada.
Ilis father, James Garraty, was'a native of Maidstone, connty of Kent, England, and was born in 1801, and the father of the last men- tioned died in the Peninsular war, serving with honor in the English army. Onr subject's great-grandfather lost his life in the battle of Trafalgar, under Admiral Nelson. Thus it will be seen that Mr. Garraty, onr subject, has de- seended from a line of military families. James
Garraty was but four years of age when his father died, and he was brought up by the Duke of York, and the father's commission was con- ferred upon this young man. At Waterloo his youth deprived him of active work under the commission given him, and at his request the commission of Bugler was granted him. The evening before the great battle he was in a de- tachment of English soldiers who encountered a detachment of French cuirassiers in a corn- field seven miles from the renowned field of the battle of Waterloo, and with a force of 700 they came out with only seventy, and not an officer! IIe was present at the Waterloo en- gagement, officiating as Bugler. At the age of twenty-one years he received his commission, and he served thirty-one years in the British army, in various military and scientific posi- tions. In 1841 he was sent to Canada to quell the revolt there, and was discharged from service with a pension, and was placed at the head of a noted seat of learning in Canada, a government institution.
During the latter years of his life he pur- chased a beautiful homestead in the parish of St. Henri de Mascouche, where he resided for the remainder of his life. Ilis homestead was a very pleasant and popular resort for all army officers and military men of note who resided in or visited Canada. He had married, in Dnb- lin, Miss Anna Whyte, who was born in Sep- tember, 1811, in Warwickshire, England, and they reared seven children, our subject being the first son and second child. He died in 1877, and his mother in 1860, and their remains now sleep side by side in the family vault, near the homestead in Canada.
Mr. Richard E. Garraty, whose name heads this sketch, left home at the age of ten years, on account of the prospect of too severe a dis- cipline in military life, ete. When thirteen years old he began to learn the blacksmith's trade, but left that before he completed his ap- prenticeship. Being somewhat of a roving dis- position, he concluded to seek his fortune in the United States rather than remain at a good
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home in the old country and be under a dis- cipline so slavish and nonsensical as antiquated conservatism had conferred upon the present generation. Crossing the St. Lawrence river at Ronse's Point, he proceeded to Albany, New York, and found work at his trade, where he remained for a number of years. Ignored by his father, he never returned home except to see a dearly beloved mother in her last hours.
Soon after coming to the United States he endeavored to enlist in the Federal army, but his youth prevented him. Having found friends in Albany, he remained and prospered, continu- ing in the employment of one man for seven years. From 85 a week his wages were finally raised to $3 a day. After the death of his mother, however, he did not immediately return to the United States, but went to his native city and found employment at his trade for two years in the Canada Marine Works. Next he was at Albany again for six months. In the spring of 1866 he came to Cleveland and for the first five years was employed at his trade in the shops of the Atlantic & Great Western Railway.
May 28, 1868, he married Miss Pauline Kreckel, a native of Nassau, who was brought to the United States when a babe by her parents. Mr. Garraty then took up his resi- dence at 74 Merchant avenne, Cleveland. Some time later, failing sight necessitated the aban- domnent of his trade, and he opened a general store, the business of which constantly increased and soon became profitable; but the "panic" of 1873 made the collections slow and business dropped off, so that in addition to the store he took an agency for the Sandusky Lime Com- pany for a short time. He exchanged his busi- ness and property in Cleveland for his present farm of 200 acres, in December, 1875, where he has since been engaged in general farming, devoting his attention principally to the rearing of horses, of which class of animals he is an ardent admirer. He seemed to adapt himself to farming as readily as to any of the other omployments in which he has been engaged,
and has reaped success. As a systematic, thorough farmer he ranks foremost in the township.
In his political sympathies he is a Republi- can, and although a regular attendant at the elections he takes no Further interest in the oflive-seeking efforts of any one. Both himself and wife are members of the Methodist Episco- pal Church. Being fond of reading he is well posted on scientific and general matters.
Ilis children are Alfred J., a graduate of Berea University, and Wilhelmina B., a most interesting daughter receiving a thorough course of education.
W. DERTILICK was born in Norton township, Summit county, Ohio December 14, 1840, a son of Ananias and Samantha (Squires) Derthick, natives of Portage county, Ohio. His paternal grandfather, James Der- thick, was born in the State of Massachusetts, of English descent, and the mother's people were also from the old Colony State. The father died in 1861 but the mother survives and is a resi- dent of Bedford. They : eared a family of five children: James W., Huldah, F. A., H. A., de- ceased, who was a member of the United States Army, and J. W., the subject of this notice. Mr. Derthick was a chair maker by occupation. Hle was a zaalons member of the Disciple Church. Young Derthick acquired a good edn- cation by diligent study and wide reading at his father's fireside. He was reared to the life of a farmer and still devotes his energies to tilling the soil. He owns a traet of thirty-four acres in an advanced state of cultivation, and he has a good residence delightfully situated, command- ing a fine view of the surrounding country.
Ile was married in 1861, to Alicia Inbbell, a daughter of Dr. A. T. Hubbell, who was dur- ing his life one of the most prominent physi- cians of Bedford. In 1864 Mr. Derthick en- listed in the service of his country, becoming a member of the One Hundred and Seventy- seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was in
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Tennessee in 1864, and went round by North Carolina, etc., with Sherman. He belongs to Bedford Lodge, No. 375, A. F. & A. M., is one of the active members of the Disciple Church, and takes a deep interest in the work of the Sabbath-school in which he is a teacher.
Mr. and Mrs. Derthick are the parents of a family of ten children, four dying early in life: Henry J., a graduate of the Bedford high- school class of 1891, is a snecessful scholar at Hiram College; Mary was a member of the high-school class of 1893; Paul and Pearl are twins; Lee and John, both graduates of the high school, died at the age of twenty years.
E DWARD MEACHER, a farmer of Roy- alton township, was born in Bucking- hamshire, England, December 1, 1834, a son of Thomas and Sarah (Woodman) Meacher. ITis father, a farmer by ocenpation, rented 700 aeres of land from Lord Bridgewater for many years. In May, 1836, the family sailed from Liverpool to New York, and afterward came to Cnyahoga county, Ohio, where the father pur- chased 350 acres of timber land in Royalton township. Ilis death occurred August 1, 1873, his wife surviving until Jannary 5, 1884, and they were buried in the Royalton cemetery. In political matters, Mr. Meacher was a free-silver man and abolitionist. Both he and his wife were members of the Baptist Church. Two children were born in the family of Mr. and Mrs. Meaeher in England: Thomas, a farmer of Royalton township; and Edward, whoso name heads this sketch. Two moro children were added to the family in Royalton township, namely: Charlotte, wife of William Tompkins, of Benton Harbor, Michigan; and Charles A., who died in this township, at the age of thirty- one years.
Edward Meacher, the subject of this sketch, was brought to America when a babe. "Ile at- tended the district schools during the winter months, and was also a pupil of the old school
located on Prospect and Erie streets, Cleveland, his parents having resided in that city two years. He deelined further educational advan- tages. Soon after his marriage Mr. Meacher located on his present farin of 100 acres, where he erected a pleasant home in 1875, and has the 'farm under a fine state of cultivation. In ad- dition to general farming, he has conducted a dairy for many years. In political matters Mr. Meacher was formerly a Republican, but has sinee joined the ranks of the Prohibition party.
Ile was married December 5, 1858, by Rev. Silas Barnes, to Ann R. Rogers, who was born in Somersetshire, England, October 16, 1839, a daughter of Edwin and Rachel (Winsor) Rogers, who came on the Hindoostan from Bristol to the United States in May, 1849, landing in New York after a rough passage of six weeks, and shortly afterward resumed the journey to Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Rogers purchased a small farm in Warrensville, and Mrs. Meacher attended the common schools of that district. Mr. and Mrs. Meacher had one son, George E., born November 29, 1859, who died June 15, 1886, and was buried in the Royalton cemetery. For many years prior to his death he was Su- perintendent of the Baptist Sunday-school at Royalton Center. Mr. Meacher contributos largely to that church.
JOHN WESLEY CHAMBERLAIN has been identified with the history of the township in which he resides since 1861 C and is numbered among the most successful agriculturists of Cuyahoga county. Ile is a native of the State of Ohio, born at Twinsburgh, Sunnit connty, January 31, 1832, a son of Hiram and Susan (Wilson) Chamberlain. The mother died when John W. was a child of four years, leaving three other children: Reuben, Anna and Sylvia. The father was married a second time, and by this union two childron were born, Carrie and Asel. He still survives, at the advanced age of eighty-four years. John
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