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went into service again, being discharged May 20, 1865. Ile remained in Philadelphia nntil 1866, and then started a grocery store at Wilkes- barre, Pennsylvania. During this time he was a great Republican politician, a high officer in the Union League of Pennsylvania and stumped the Eastern States for General Grant. In 1868 he moved to Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, and undertook the publication of a German Repub- lican newspaper. Later he became Government mail agent on the Lehigh Valley Road, the printing office having burned out withont in- surance.
In the spring of 1872 our subject was called to the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and sent to the Pennsylvania Avenue Church of Baltimore, Maryland. He remained there three years, as long as the rules of his church would allow any minister to remain in one place, and during this time he organized the German Bund of Young Men's Christian Association, becoming its General Secretary. In 1875 he was sent by his church as a missionary to Galveston, Texas, and then to Waco, same State, in 1878. In 1879 he was appointed Ger- man General Secretary of the International Committee of the Young Men's Christian As- sociation of the United States and Canada, with headquarters at New York city. In 1880 he was called by Mr. Dwight L. Moody to assist him as a German evangelist. He then visited all the prominent cities of the United States, and becoming overworked was sent to Germany by his friends of New York. There he had an operation performed for an abseess eaused by ex- posure in the late war. During his convales- cenee he was called by Professor Christlieb and Court Chaplain Stoecker to become an evan- gelist in Germany, and until 1889 he worked as an evangelist in both Germany and America. While an evangelist in Germany Mr. von Sellnembach labored among the highest as well as the lowest of the people, being supported by the influence of the Countess Waldersee and also that of Count Bernstorff, the Chamberlain of the late Empress Angusta. In Berlin and
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other cities he organized the Young Men's Christian Associations on the American plan, with great success.
In 1883 Mr. von Schluembach started a Ger- man colony in Texas, where he joined the Evan- gelical Synod of the United States, which sent him in 1890 to his present church, to rescene the building from the hands of the marshal in the the United States Court of Cleveland.
In 1892 the church of Schifflein Christi be- came again an independent congregation, and called Mr. von Schluembach for its permanent pastor. The congregation has since increased in membership, and is gradually emerging from its trouble.
Mr. Sellnembach is a man of broad and en- lightened views on all subjects of general in- portance and is well-informed and ripe in the experience of the world. In person he is of goodly size, strongly built and robust, with the soldier's movement and bearing. Ile possesses a vigorous intellect, is quick in perceptive fac- ulties and of a genial, kind and gentle disposi- tion. ITis eyclopædic learning, his capacity for various literary work, his devotion to books, and more than all the sterling elements of large and noble manhood which he possesses, are among the qualities which even a comparative stranger will soon recognize. He is classed among the best and most noted citizens of Cleveland.
M M. HOBART, one of the prominent members of the Cleveland bar, and senior member of the well known law firm of Hobart & Bacon, is a native of the old Bay State, having been born at Am- herst, Massachusetts, on March 26, 1846. Ilis parents were Edmund and Esther (Montague) Hobart. ITis father still resides in Amherst, and has been a prominent man in his locality all his life, having held at different times many positions of honor and trust. The Hobart family originally came from Hingham, England, the first one of the name in America being the Rev. Peter Hobart, who eamo over in 1632, lo-
cating first in Hingham, Massachusetts, near Boston. Ile had five sons, and all were minis- ters of the Congregational Church.
Esther Montagne, Mr. Hobart's mother, was the daughter of Moses Montague, of Sunder- land, Massachusetts. She died in 1851, leaving our subject as an only issue. The Montagues are from the well known English family of that name. His father married again and two sons were born to him by his second wife, one of whom is deceased, and the other, Frank Adams, resides on the family homestead with his father.
Mr. Hobart prepared for college at Williston Seminary, East Hampton, Massachusetts, and in the fall of 1868 entered Amherst College, from which he graduated with honor in 1872. In the fall of the same year he entered Colum- bia Law School in New York city, but soon afterward failing health moved him to suspend his studies for a time and upward of a year was spent in traveling in Europe. In the fall of 1874, however, his law studies were resmined at Columbia Law School, and in May of the follow- ing year he graduated. Following his gradu- ation he was admitted to the bar in New York, then in Massachusetts, and later in Ohio. In July, 1875, he located in Cleveland, where he soon succeeded in gaining a good practice. During the years 1877 and 1878 Mr. Hobart was acting City Proseentor of Cleveland, and in 1880 was appointed by President Hayes as Supervisor of the United States Census for the Sixth District of Ohio. For one term, during the years 1881-'82, he served as clerk to Mayor Herrick and the Board of Improvements. At the municipal election in 1888 he was elected from the Fourteenth ward as a member of the City Council, which body upon its organization chose him as its president.
Mr. Hobart has continued the practice of law since 1875, with the exception of the time he served as Mayor's elerk, has met with success, and is now recognized as one of the able mem- bers of the bar, with a large clientage and a firm position. The firm of Hobart & Bacon was formed in June, 1887.
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Mr. Hobart is a member of the Masonic fra- ternity, being a thirty-second-degree Mason and a member of the Mystic Shrine. He is also a member of the Masonic Club.
Mr. Hobart was married on December 5, 1882, to Miss Peckham, of Lebanon, Connecti- ent, and they have had two children: Marion Montague, born November 9, 1885; and Harold Peckham, born Angust 22, 1888. Mrs. Hobart is a highly educated and estimable lady. Through her mother she is closely related to the late Jeremiah Mason, of Boston, the distin- guished jurist, and through her father to Erie's hero, Commodore Perry. Her father, James M. Peckham, was one of the most prominent and esteemed citizens of Lebanon, Connecticut.
H ON. WILLIAM J. WHITE, Member of Congress from the Twentieth Ohio Dis- triet, is a native of the Dominion of Canada, born in 1850. Ilis early yonth was spent on the farm of Benjamin Crafts in Geauga county, Ohio, and for two years he lived in the home of M. B. Crafts, a cousin of the IIon. C. E. Crafts, present Speaker of the House of Representatives of the General Assembly of Illinois.
At the age of eighteen years he came from his country homo in Geanga county to the city of Cleveland. ILis boyhood had been of peculiar privation and hardship, and he had been exposed to temptations to which a character of less strength and poise must have yielded. Although deprived of a mother's loving care in his child- hood the principles of truth and honor had been instilled in his nature from his very existence, so that he passed into manhood with an untar- nished reputation. His education was obtained by attending the public schools in winters and two terms in an academy.
The beginning of his commercial career was in Cleveland, where he began a small business in the sale of confectionery and popcorn. His connection with the chewing-gum trade dates
from the winter of 1871. Going to the estab- lishment of Merriam, Morgan & Company to purchase paraffine he was refused a less quantity than a case, costing $24. He did not have a sufficient sum, and was obliged to defer the ex- periments which he purposed making with the wax. In the spring of 1876 he bought a rem- nant of stock from the assigned of George E. Clark, manufacturer of the " Bnsy-bee " gum, in order to get the tin prizes to put in popcorn bags. This purchase included the equipment used in the manufacture of gum and a small amount of paraffine. With this Mr. White at once began the experiments he had had so long in contemplation, meeting with great difficulty in removing the gum from the marble slab; but in this, accident, or destiny, favored him; some of the paraffine dropped on a greased slab, hardened quickly and was easily removed. Soon followed Mr. White's first brand of chewing- gum, which was called the " Mammoth." The venture was successful and the demand steadily increased in both the wholesale and retail trade. The first shipment was made to George Schoff, Massillon, Ohio, and consisted of fifty boxes at thirty cents a box. Two years later Mr. White introduced the " Diamond " brand of chewing- gum, which was put upon the market through the confectioners and proved an immense snc- cess. Eighty girls were at one time employed in the manufacture of this especial brand, aud the sales were enormous. The increase in the business of manufacturing gum necessitated the abandonment of the confectionery trade, and the candy-wagon of Mr. White was given in charge of another person.
All went well for a season; then there was a change in the wheel of fortune, and Mr. White was left with a large stock of goods, machinery and $500 in cash, but no further demand for his manufactures. This failure was probably dne to mismanagement on the part of jobbers. Mr. White went out on the road, visited Buffalo and Jamestown, where he placed some goods, and also made a shipment of a few cases to Chi- cago; later he visited Peoria, Burlington, Keo-
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kuk, Quincy, Hannibal and St. Louis, taking orders for the old-fashioned " Mammoth," " White Mountain," and " Diamond." At the end of a three-years struggle he had gained an invaluable experience, and had become ac- quainted with many of the wholesale dealers. In 1882 " Pietre Tablets " and " Cleveland Bell," two new brands, were placed upon the market, a large order being shipped to Akron, Ohio. Mr. White continued a heavy business upon a small capital, and in 1882 went out on the road as his own salesman, continning to work in this line until 1887, when the trade was sufficiently established to permit his retirement. The responsibility had so increased that he deemed it advisable to take a partner in the business, and in June, 1885, C. T. Ileisel be- came a member of the firm. This arrangement did not prove satisfactory, however, and No- vember 14, 1885, the partnership was dissolved, with the written agreement that Mr. White was to continue in the manufacture of gunn. He had largo demands, and was scarcely able to fill the orders received the last part of the year 1886.
Placing the " Red Robin," the leading brand in chicle gnin, on the market, he pushed its sale with great zeal, advertised it extensively and succeeded in creating a heavy demand. Imitations soon fol- lowed, so it became necessary to manufacture the same goods under a new name not descrip- tive; the result was the famous "Yucatan," placed on the market December 1, 1886. Seventeen stores had it on sale, and it was as- certained that a gum flavored with peppermint was a good seller. Mr. White continned the manufacture, pushed the sale, and has met with a success rarely egnaled in the commercial world. The number of pieces of " Yucatan" sold in 1887 were, 4,799,000; in 1888, 66,636,- 700; in 1890, 126,874,000; and in 1893 the business had increased to nearly 150,000,000. Mr. White has originated every brand mann- factured in his establishment, and most all of his machinery has been modeled by himself, and on nearly all he holds patents. In March,
1888, he purchased two acres of land on the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad, west of the city, and there built one of the largest chewing-gum factories in the world. The business has been phenomenal, and " White's Yncatan Chewing-gum " is known around the world. In his factory are employed 285 people, the greater proportion being girls.
He is also interested in a number of different enterprises to which he has brought the same sagacity and sound judgment which have characterized all his movements. His Two Minute Stock Farm, the home of many fine horses, is situated in Rockport township. IIis employees hold him in the highest esteem, and he is known in commercial circles as a man of the strictest integrity. Ile is essentially self- made, the success he has attained being the result of unflagging industry and untiring effort.
Mr. White was nnited in marriage, April 23, 1873, to Miss Ellen Mansfield, daughter of Orange and Maretta (Howard) Mansfield. Mrs. White was born in Cleveland, July 12, 1850; she is a lady of refined taste and lovely disposi- tion, and has been a most valuable assistant and an unfailing source of enconragement to her husband through all his years of toil. Mr. and Mrs. White are the parents of eight children: Willie B., Harry W., Gloria Marie, Charlie G., deceased, Pearl Maretta, Miles Arthur, Ada Maloria and Ralph Royden. Their beautiful home "Thornwood " is situated in the midst of a lovely grove on the shore of the lake midway between the city and Rocky river; it is a typical American home, the center of luxury, taste and refinement; a lavish hospitality is dispensed, and a generons hand is extended to the needy and less fortunate in life.
Politically Mr. White is identified with the Republican party. In 1889 was elected Mayor of West Cleveland village, declining a renom- ination at the expiration of his first term. He was elected a member of Congress in the fall of 1892; and although his Congressional record is in its infancy it is safe to predict for him a more than ordinarily useful career. A
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man without affectation, clever and generous to a fault, he is held in the highest regard through- out the social and commercial world in which he has moved.
M ORITZ S. LIEBICH, one of the most prominent artists of Cleveland, Ohio, has been a resident of this city since 1863. Hle is a native of Saxony, Ger- many, born March 9, 1825, and is a member of one of the titled families of the Empire. Ile was reared and educated in his native land. In early youth he developed a marked taste for artistic drawing, but entered the more practical walk of commercial life. In 1862 he emigrated to America and since that time has cultivated his talent in art. lle has devoted many years of his life to teaching, some of his pupils hav- ing attained not only enviable reputation but fame as well. For twelve years he was teacher of free-hand drawing in the Jewish Orphan Asylmn, and during a long period had a private school. In 1876 he and his son, A. K. A. Liebich, opened a photographic studio, and four years later opened a gallery at the corner of Ontario and Iluron streets. In 1890 they re- moved to their present quarters, 86 Euclid avenue. Mr. Liebich superintended the con- struction of the studio during the erection of the building, and it is fitted out with all the most approved appliances of modern photo- graphic art. They have a large patronage, de- manding the most finished and artistie work. In 1885 a branch establishment was opened on Broadway, which has since been sold. In the Euclid avenue studio several superior artists are employed in the exeention of high-class work, all of which is undor the direct supervision of the younger Liebich.
Moritz S. Liebich was married in Germany to Alino Gorlach, who is now deceased. There were born to them a family of five children, three of whom are living: Jennie is the wife of Albert. Petersilgo, a druggist of this city ; A. K. A.
is associated with his father; Rosa resides with her father. Mr. Liebich is an honorary member of the Cleveland Gesang- Verein, which he joined thirty years ago. He has been a prominent figure in many other German societies in this city, and is held in the highest esteem by a wide circle of acquaintance.
Arthur K. A. Liebich was born in Germany, September 10, 1854, but was reared in this city. In his youth his attention was directed to art, and at the age of sixteen years he took up pho- tography to which he has since devoted his best efforts. Visiting the principal cities of this country he has investigated the most approved methods and studied under the direction of the most advanced photographers. Years of loyalty to his art have brought their reward, and Mr. Liebich has to-day the gratification of being classed with the leaders in his especial line of work.
IIe is a member of Concordia Lodge, No. 345, A. F. & A. M .; of Webb Chapter, No. 14, R. A. M .; or Hollyrood Commandry, No. 32, K. T., and of Lake Erie Consistory. He is Past Chancellor of Criterion Lodge, No. 38, K. P., and of Argonaut Division, U. R. He is Regi- mental Quarter-Master of the Fifth O. N. G., receiving his appointment in 1891. Hle is also a member of many of the German societies of the city. Mr. Liebich was married in 1881 to Miss Alice A. Lacey, of Aurora, Ohio.
C HARLES B. COUCHI, purchasing agent for the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad, was born in Massachusetts, Berkshire county, in September, 1838, and be- gan railroad work on what is now the Franklin branch of the Lake Shore Railroad, thirty-three years ago. Ile was rodman of a surveying party, and on leaving this position became assistant engineer of the road, connected then with the Cleveland & Erio. Upon the consolida- tion in 1873, Mr. Conch was made division superintendent From Cleveland to Buffalo, which
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position he filled until 1890, when he took pos- session at his present oflice. This is only a very brief resume of a long and faithful service for one company, and not pretending to be a de- tailed account of the vast labors performed or the many aims accomplished in his efforts, with his official associates, to build up a great trunk line of railroad and develop a new country.
H ON. JOSEPHI T. LOGUE, Judge of the Police Court of the city of Cleveland, was born in Northfield, Summit county, Ohio, July 9, 1849. His father, J. W. Logue, D. D., a United Presbyterian minister, and the founder of the first church of that de- nomination in Cleveland, was born in York, Pennsylvania, in 1812. Ile prepared for the ministry in Albany, New York, graduating at Union College there. He came to Cleveland in 1843, and until ten years ago was a most active man in church work. Dr. Logne married Mary Jane Cooper, born in Baltimore, Maryland, and edneated in an academy of that city. Their oldest child is: Jane C., now Mrs. Rev. W. T. Campbell, D. D., of Monmouth, Illinois; Mrs. Campbell graduated at Oxford University, Ohio, where she was for some years lady principal, and she was elected lady principal of Mon- mouth College, Illinois, and retired from school work only upon her marriage. The others born in this family were: Judge Joseph T .; Nettie G. (deceased), wife of J. C. Alexander, now Commissioner of Cuyahoga conuty; and Rev. J. R. Logue, pastor of the United Presbyterian Church in Washington, Iowa.
Judge Logue studied in the district schools of Northfield, Ohio, and took up languages with his father. At nineteen years of age he engaged in the grocery business in Northfield, and was so engaged four years. He then de- cided to pursue the law, and began a course of reading with Emerson & Wildes, of Akron, Ohio, and completed it with Brinsmade & Stone,
of Cleveland, being admitted to the bar April 20, 1876. Hle theu opened an office and was engaged in general practice till 1891.
Judge Logue is a strong party man in poli- tics. Ile is a Republican and has served his people as Councilman, being elected first in 1887 from the Nineteenth ward, and re elected in 1889. Hle was a member of the Board of Improvements and was chairman of the Judi- ciary Committee. In the spring of 1891 Judge Logue was the party candidate for Police Judge and was elected by a majority of 2,200. In April, 1893, he was re-elected by a majority of 2,835, while the city went Democratic by 1,500 votes !
August 30, 1881, Judge Logue married, in Cleveland, Nellie J., a daughter of E. C. Greer, a real-estate dealer, who married Jennie M. Boothe.
Judge and Mrs. Logne are the parents of two children, Roy G. and James Cooper.
C HARLES P. SALEN, Secretary of the Board of Elections and the popular leader of the young Democracy of Cuyahoga county, was born in Portsmouth, New Hamp- shire, December 5, 1860. Ile came to Cleve- land iu 1866 with his father, Peter Salen, the pioneer West Side photographer. Peter Salen was born in northwestern Germany, sought a home in the United States when a mere youth, settling in Boston, Massachusetts, and later moved to Portsmonth, New Hampshire. Ile married Fredericka Wyx, from Reims, France. She died in 1874, her children being Louis (de- ceased at the age of twenty-two), Matilda J., Charlotte and Charles P.
" Charley" Salen secured his education at the graded schools of the West Side, Cleveland, and graduated at the high school in 1878, com- pleting a four years' course in three years. In 1874 he entered Concordia College, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, and pursued his studies there one year. In 1880 he entered the office of the
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old West Side Sentinel, severing his connection with it only when he embarked in the newspaper business for himself, forming a partnership with E. M. Heisley and starting a weekly Democratic organ. Upon being elected City Clerk iu 1883 he disposed of his paper and did not again Enter newspaper work till the expiration of his term of office in 1885, when he started the Graphie and condneted it two years, disposing of it ou again assuming the duties of the office of City Clerk. Upon Mr. Salen's first election to this office he was the youngest city oflieial ou record, being then only twenty-two years of age. Ile came into promi- nenee by being the founder of, and prominently connected with, the Young Men's Democratie League of Cleveland, an organization made up almost entirely of first voters. Hle served the league both as president and secretary. On the expiration of his two terms as City Clerk Mr. Salen became interested in the building up and the improvement of Beyerle's Park, managing it two years and making it the most celebrated out-door amusement resort between New York and Chicago.
The Cleveland Morning Times was started in 1889, with Mr. Salen as eity editor, who con- tinned in that relation six months. In 1890 he was made Secretary of the Board of Elee- tious, and the next year, when the ballot reform law was introduced, he was chiefly instrumental in outlining the working of the Australian bal- lot system, developing a complete system of booths, ete. In the spring of 1893 Mr. Salen was advocated strongly by the young Democrats of Cleveland as a candidate for Mayor, and after a warm fight was defeated by a close vote. To him also belongs the credit of discovering Tom L. Johnson in politics, whom he brought out in 1888 and secured his nomination to Congress. In 1890 and 1892 he managed Mr. Johnson's campaigns, when he was elected, overcoming a Republican plurality in 1892 of 2,500, making a total Democratie gain of 6,000 votes, the largest gain shown by any district in the United States.
Mr. Salen has attended every county conven- tion sinee reaching his majority. Frequently he represents his party at State conventions, being chairman of the Cuyahoga county delega- tion at the Cincinnati convention in 1893. He was a delegate to the National Democratie Con- vention of 1892 at Chicago, from the Twentieth Ohio District, and was one of the fourteen original supporters of Grover Cleveland for a third nomination. Mr. Salen is interested in several business enterprises of Cleveland, and is a safe, conseientious business man. Hle pos- sesses the confidence of the citizens of the Forest City irrespective of party, and a bright future is predieted for him.
M ORTON W. COPE, a representative member of the Cleveland bar, and a son of the late Lindley Cope, was born on the 25th day of February, 1855, at Smithfield, Jefferson county, this State. IIis parents were Lindley and Elizabeth Cope. The father was born near Smithfield, in 1824, and to farming the greater portion of his life was devoted. Ile was an extensive dealer in, and breeder of, sheep and other live stock. He died rather early in life, being but forty-two years of age at the time of his death. He was a son of Joseph Cope, who was a native of Pennsylvania, from which. State he came to Ohio about 1823. The subject of this sketch is a representative of the seventh generation of the Cope family in America. The first of this family in America came from England about 1670, and settled in eastern Pennsylvania.
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