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daughter of Ambrose and Susan (Hollister) Dun- ham, natives of New Hampshire and Ohio re- speetively. The paternal grandfather was John Dunham, who emigrated to Cuyahoga county in 1818. Mrs. Dunham was a daughter of Enos and Elizabeth (Bidwell) Hollister, natives of Connectient. Mrs. Hathaway is one of a family of seven children: Hon. Fred Dunham is a resident of Kansas; Mary Rathburn also resides in Kansas; Estella Lyle lives in Port- land, Oregon; and Maria, Levi and Royal are deceased. The last named was a soldier of the Rebellion, a member of the Forty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and lost his life in the ser- vice. The Royal Dunham Post, G. A. R., of Bedford, is named in his honor. Mr. and Mrs. Hathaway are the parents of three children: Oriana, wife of C. L. Hoover; Adda M., a teacher of music in Southern Christian Insti- tute; and Fanny A., a student at Hiram Col- lege.
Politically our subject is an ardent supporter of the Prohibition party, and has been an in- defatigable worker in the ranks of this organi- zation. Ile is a consistent member of the Dis- ciple Church, and in this cause has also labored with characteristic zeal.
H ON. THEODORE E. BURTON, an em- inent lawyer of Cleveland, is a native of Jefferson, Ohio, born December 20, 1851, a son of William and Elizabeth (Grant) Burton. His father was a native of Orange county, Vermont, and his mother of Holbrook, Litchfield county, Connectient. It is supposed that the Burton family is of English origin; the parent tree of the family came from Eng- land and settled in New London, Connecticut; while the Grant family from which Mr. Burton descends traces its origin to Matthew Grant, a native of England who came to that State as early as 1637.
Rev. William and Elizabeth Burton were re- markable characters. They were married in
1836, in Ohio. He graduated at Dartmouth College in 1815, and came to Ohio in 1825, a Presbyterian elergyman, and preached at Cirele- ville, Jefferson and other places in this State. . He finally died at Austinburg, Ashtabula coun- ty, Ohio, at a ripe old age, in 1858. Ile was a bright scholar, a devont Christian and able di- vine, still well remembered as a good man and consistent minister of the gospel. Ilis wife, a college graduate of Ipswich, Massachusetts, came to Ohio in 1833 for the purpose of teach- ing school, and while engaged in her profession here she married Mr. Burton.
The youngest of their ten children was sub- ject of this sketeh, the greater part of whose early childhood was spent in the village of Aus- tinburg. At the age of thirteen years he went to Grinnell, lowa, where two of his brothers were residing, and attended Iowa College to the end of the sophomore year, and then went to Oberlin, where he graduated in 1872, and afterward was a teacher for two years in the same institution, his specialty being Latin. Next, he went to Chicago for the purpose of studying law, under the guidance of the noted Lyman Trumbull, once one of the most prominent United States Senators. In due time he was admitted to the bar and at once began the practice of law at Cleveland in 1875. llis career as an attorney and counselor has been marked by phenomenal success; in the law he is an adept; as an advo- cate he is persuasive and eloquent; and for the last several years he has been prominent in the the arena of politics, as well as in the profes- sion of law.
The first elective oflice which he held was that of City Councilman, elected by the Fourth ward, and served 1886-88, accomplishing some of the most important work concerning publie measures that he has ever done, and, as the an- nals of the political history of the city of Cleve- land give ample evidence, gaining popularity as his work became known. Being a Republi- can, he was selected by his party to represent this (the Twenty-first) district at Washington, and accordingly he was elected, in November,
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1888. During his term of service he met the most sanguine hopes of many stanch friends. In 1890 he was renominated, but by this time the State had been so re-apportioned that his district was made Democratic, and he was con- sequently defeated.
Mr. Burton is a very pleasant-mannered and affable gentleman, communicative, modest and dignified, is a close student of works of high literary character, being especially fond of the elassies. IIe is a member of several literary as- sociations of high order, and upon certain sub- jects he has delivered several well received lee- tures.
D R. HORACE BLACK VAN NORMAN, 289 Pearl street, Cleveland, Ohio, is one of the eminent physicians of the city.
He was born in Nelson township, Halton county, Canada, March 11, 1834, son of Will- iam and Gills (Black) Van Norman. Ilis father, a native of Canada, and a prosperous farmer, died February 8, 1549, while in the prime of life. The mother of our subject, a native of New Brunswick and a daughter of a Scotchman, William Black, lived to the age of seventy-three years, her death occurring in 1855. Both were active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and Mr. Van Norman served as an officer in the church and as Sunday-school superintendent for many years. The Doctor is the oldest of their nine children and is one of the six who are still living, the other five being as follows: Minerva, wife of B. W. Wetmore, Geneva, Ohio; Dr. E. V. Van Norman, San Diego, California; Elvinda, widow of B. W. Sabin, Berea, Ohio; Marinda, wife of Dr. H. II. Bartlett, Orange, California; and Bertha, wife of Dr. E. B. Sabin, Church's Corners, Michigan.
Dr. H. B. Van Norman obtained his literary education in Baldwin University, at Berea, Ohio, receiving the degree of A. B., and subsequently that of A. M. He began the study of medicine in Cleveland, studying under Drs. Sanders,
Wilson and Boynton, and entered Cleveland Homeopathie Hospital College, of which insti- tution he is a graduate with the class of 1864. Having completed his medical course, he en- tered upon the practice of his profession in Warrensville, Ohio. In 1866 he removed to Ashtabula, Ohio, in 1871 came from there to Cleveland, and here. he has since conducted a successful practice. Both as a citizen and a physician, he ocenpies a leading place. He was elected to the professorship of the Theory and Practice of Medicine in the Woman's Homeo- pathie College, in which capacity he served for some time. Afterward he was employed as lee- turer on Sanitary Science and Hydropathy in the Cleveland Homeopathie Hospital College. Ile was Curator of this college for several years. The Doctor, besides having written numerous articles for medical journals, reported on bureans and read many papers before the different so- cieties of which he is an honored member; he is a member of the Cleveland Academy of Medi- cine, the East. Ohio Medical Society, of the American Institute of Homeopathy, and the Medical Society of the State of Ohio, being vice- president of the last named organization. He is also a member of the Masonic order, the 1. O. O. F., Royal Areanum, Chosen Friends and Royal Templars of Temperance. Both he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episco- pal Church.
Dr. Van Norman was married in 1855 to Miss Jane R. Hoadley, and, while they have had no children of their own, an adopted daughter was for many years the light and joy of their home. This daughter is now the accomplished wife of Dr. W. E. Wells, of Cleveland.
Mrs. Van Norman was born in Lorain county, Ohio, May 21, 1836, daughter of Samuel B. and Jemima R. (Hickcox) Hoadley, natives of Connectient. Saumnel B. Hoadley came to Ohio as early as 1826, and settled in Lorain county, where he was a merchant and farmer. He died in 1817, aged thirty- seven years. In 1831 he married Miss Jemima R. Hickcox, daughter of Eri Hickeox, whose father, Jared Hickcox, and
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his family, were the first to settle in Middle- burg, Ohio, they having come hither from Connecticut with teams, and having remained in their wagons until the first house there was built. Eri Hiekeox was born in 1790, and died January 21, 1864; and his wife, Alea Hoadley, whom he married February 22, 1813, was born in 1795, and died February 27, 1864. They had six children, two of whom are still living -- Mrs. Hoadley and Alma II., wife of Dr. D. G. Wilder, Oberlin, Ohio. Mrs. Hoadley has been a resident of Cleveland for the past twenty-two years, her home being with her only child, Mrs. Van Norman. She is a member of Franklin Avenne Methodist Episcopal Church.
J HOMAS BIDDULPH, deceased, was an early settler and prominent farmer of Brooklyn township. Born in England, March 17, 1521, he was brought to Cuy- ahoga county by his parents in 1833, in their immigration to this country, locating upon un- improved land in this township. He was an in- dustrious farmer, a good citizen and became well known in the county. Politically he was a Republican. Ile died August 25, 1889, and his son Joseph E., yet unmarried, now carries on the Farm, residing with his mother on the old homestead, which comprises sixty five acres. The son also is a zealous Republican in his po- litical principles and a highly respected young man.
Hle was married at the age of nineteen years, in 1840, to Miss Hannah Dutton, who was born in England, August 2, 1519, and came to Cleve- land at the age of thirteen years, and still re- sides on the old homestead. Her father, Ed- ward Dutton, a native also of England, settled in this county in early times, and remained a resident here until his death. Mr. and Mrs. Biddulph were the parents of eleven children, ten of whom grew up to the age of maturity. The names of all are: Emma, deceased; Stephen W .; Mary A., the wife of Thomas Heffron; Har riet, deceased; Belle, the wife of Josoph Sarver;
Joseph E .; Maria, who married Warren Herring- ton; Lina, the wife of Levi Meacham, who is the County Clerk of Cuyahoga county; Ella, who married Hiram Goodale; Thomas, Jr., and Ma- tilda, the wife of William Langrell.
R EV. GEORGE W. PEPPER, ex-Chap- lain, ex-Consul to Milan, author, lec- turer, etc., resides at 1021 East Madison avenue, Cleveland, Ohio. He is a na- tive of Belfast, Ireland, born November 25, 1836. llis parents were Nicholas and Rachel (Thornburg) Pepper, natives of county Down, Ireland. Ile was educated at a royal academie institution in his native city. While still a resident there, he wrote to the celebrated Neal Dow of Maine, inquiring into the particulars of the new liquor law introduced by him, and after obtaining them attended as a delegate a con- vention of leading temperance reformers at Manchester, England. On his return home he wrote a series of letters for the Belfast papers, explaining the temperance movement then in progress, and urging the propriety of introduce- ing something like the " Maine liquor law " in his native city. At length he called a public meeting, which was addressed by leading mem- bers of the different churches, and this laid the foundation for the United Kingdom Alliance, for the suppression of the liquor traffic, which became the nuelens of the greatest temperance organ in northern Europe.
Mr. Pepper came to the United States in 1854, attended Kenyon (Ohio) College a year, and then entered the North Ohio Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he is still a minister. His " cirenits," or fields of service, in succession were; Mohawk Valley, Coshocton county, one year; Chesterville, Mor- row county, three years; Wellington, one year; and then for three years he was Chaplain of the Fortieth Regiment of United States Infantry, under General Nelson A. Miles, now command- ing at Chicago. While serving in this capacity he was appointed by General Howard to visit
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every county in the State of North Carolina, to look after the freedmen and establish schools for them. In July, 1867, he accepted an invi- tation from the citizens of Raleigh, that State, to deliver the Fourth-of July oration for that year, in which he pleaded for the Southern soldiers, now that the war was over, and that the North and the South should be bound to- gether in the bonds of everlasting brotherhood. The Southern press spoke very kindly of the address.
When passing through Richmond with Sher- man's army, he had an interview with General Lee, in which that noted Southern general re- lated the following incident of the surrender of the Confederacy to General Grant: Ile, General Lee, had ordered his adjutant-general to sur- render the horses as well as the munitions of war; wherenpon General Grant turned immedi- ately and said, " No, General Lee; keep the horses; the poor people will need them to tend the spring crops." General Lee shook like a leaf and wept. "General Grant," said he to Mr. Pepper, " instead of thinking of his vic- tory, was thinking of the poor people of the Sonth."
One of the proudest recollections of his life, is that when the Union was threatened by its own ungrateful children, and the sceptered tyrants of the Old World were rejoicing in the prospective overthrow of the American Govern- ment, on the first Sunday after the firing on Fort Sumter, at Keene, Coshocton county, Ohio, Mr. Pepper preached on the national struggle, its sanctity and grandeur, from the text, "Out of the South cometh a whirlwind." At the conclusion of the service, while singing the . Star-spangled Banner," he recruited 100 men, of which company (11) he served as Captain.
After the close of the war, Mr. Pepper wrote " The personal Recollections of Sherman's Campaigns," with reference to which General Sherman afterward wrote him a letter saying that it was the best work of the kind that had been written.
In 1570, Mr. Pepper resumed the pastorate. His first station then was Wooster, Ohio, where he remained three years, the extreme limit as yet allowed by the general law of the church; then in succession Galion three years, Mount Vernon three years, Bellevne three years and Sandusky one year. Then he made a tour abroad visiting Ireland, France, Germany and Italy. In 1882 he was returned to Wooster, where he again served three years, after which, in 1884, he participated in the campaign for Blaine for President of the I'nited States, making his first speech in Cooper's Institute, New York city. This speech was occasioned by an incident of his visit to Ireland. While in that country he delivered a speech in his native city, wherein he spoke of the queenly position of women in America, stating that every mother who rocked the cradle was a queen, and that they were more refined in their feelings than any queen who ever swayed the English scepter; that he had in his congregations in Ohio, more than 500 such queens, any one of whom could run the govern- ment of England, for $500 a year, as well as Queen Victoria, who filched from the people $2,500,000 a year. The policemen who were there and other detectives informed the chief of police of this " disrespectful reference to the queen," and the next day two policemen went to the place where Mr. Pepper was stopping and threatened to arrest him; whereupon he presented his passport signed by James G. Blaine, Secretary of State, and said to the gen- tlemen, " If you arrest me, I will cable Mr. Blaine, and in forty-eight hours he will hold the British ambassador a hostage until my re- lease." The policemen immediately apologized and departed. Mr. Pepper then said, " If Mr. Blaine ever becomes a candidate for President. of the United States I will take the stump;" and this he did, in 1884. This story he related in a public oration at Mansfield, Ohio, when Senator Sherman presided, and presented that city with seventy acres of land for a park.
After the conclusion of that political cam- paign, Mr. Pepper was stationed at Ashland,
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Ohio, where he remained four years, the general rule of the church allowing a longer pastoral period than formerly. A year later he was visit- ing his daughter at Washington, District of Columbia, on whose invitation he called upon Mr. Blaine. The latter asked, " Why were you not here sooner? What country do you want to go to?" Mr. Pepper replied, " I want nothing, have asked nothing, and expect nothing. I have no letters or recommendations from any one." Mr. Blaine, insisting, offered him the consulate at Milan, Italy, adding that he was a
minister and needed rest and a change, etc. The daughter desiring to go abroad, Mr. Pepper, in order to gratify her, accepted the position, and set sail in April, 1889, and returned in January, 1893, and now, at this writing, he is engaged in the lecture field, which he will continue until next fall, when his conference meets, to whose advice he will be subject. Mr. Pepper is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic.
In Ireland, in 1853, Mr. Pepper married Miss Christiana Lindsey, daughter of Samuel Lind- sey, Esq., and by this marriage there were six children, namely; George, who is superintend.
ent of the Ninth Railway Mail Division, from New York to Chicago; Samuel Arthur, who is superintending a ranch and mine, at Miles City. Montana; Charles M., who for seven years has had charge of the Chicago Tribune, Washington correspondence; Lena, an artist, who pursued her studies at Milan; May, a writer for maga zines and a correspondent of the press; and Carrie, who lived in Washington and was a brill- iant writer and correspondent for a syndicate of newspapers; her death occurred in 1889, when she was aged twenty four years, at the home of her brother in Washington. She was frequently a guest at the White House, and Mrs. Harrison paid a handsome tribute to her memory. Mrs. Senator Ingalls, from Kansas, sent a letter of condolence, in which among other things she said that Carrie was her " idea} of a perfect lady." All the children living are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and all graduates of the University of Wooster excepting the eldest.
After the death of his daughter, Mr. Pepper returned from Italy, to visit the heart-broken mother, who returned with him to the land of sunshine, art and song, and died there in 1891, of typhoid fever. She had been a life-long member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. ller remains were brought to America, and buried beside her daughter in Lakeview come- tery.
Mr. Pepper was in Italy during the excite- ment caused by the Italian massacre at New Orleans, Louisiana, and he reports that the citizens of northern Italy generally approved of Mr. Blaine's disposition of that unpleasant affair. Ilis popularity in Italy was very great. The leading papers there said little or nothing about the New Orleans trouble, knowing, per- haps better than the Americans themselves, what kind of desperadoes those Italians at New Orleans were. As a consul, Mr. Pepper was diligent in looking after the interests of his people. Milan, as is well known, is the musical center of the world, attracting thither many young ladies from America. While abroad,
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Mr. Pepper made a tour through Egypt, the Holy Land, Turkey, Greece and other countries of Asia and Europe.
Chaplain Pepper is an orator of national fame. The titles of his lectures are: Sherman's March to the Sea, England and the English, Old Rome and New Italy, Labor's Problem (Communism or Monopoly?), Orators and Ora- tory, Froude's Ireland from a Protestant Stand- point, The Humors of the Pulpit and the Pew, Curran and Irish Eloquence, O'Connell and his Times, The Slaughtered (Temperance), Luther and the Reformation, George Stephenson (Father of Railways), Home, Marriage and Divorce, Ireland and the Irish, America and the Americans, The Ireland of To-day, Italy, Egypt, Constantinople, Greece, ete.
Concerning Mr. Pepper's lectures, we have before us hundreds of favorable press notices, from which we quote a few, as specimens: "The Rev. George W. Pepper delivered a lecture last evening in Music llall before a large audience. In closing the reverend gentleman eloquently urged his hearers to unite." --- Boston Herald. "Straight and wiry, cagle-eyed and sharp- featured, Mr. Pepper speaks with a force and earnestness that rarely fails to carry conviction. He spoke nearly two hours, ably and eloquently, and created a most favorable impression."-New Ilaven Union. " The second lecture filled every seat in the spacious building. Earnestness is a marked feature of his eloquence, which, how- ever, is set off' with ornate and studied phrase- ology, a fine voice and a good presence." -- San Francisco Chronicle. " The lecturer possesses rare forensie powers. The lecture was replete with historical events, biographical sketches, etc. The eulogium upon Robert Emmet was a rare piece of word-painting, and the peroration was full of genuine Celtic fire." -- Virginia City (Nevada) Enterprise. " Rev. G. W. Pepper lectured last evening at Mercantile Hall. About 500 persons were present, including many of the wealthy and influential citizens of the city. For nearly two hours the lecturer kept the audience spell-bound by his eloquence. Any-
thing short of a verbatim report would fail to do justice to the lecture. He concluded with an eloquent peroration. The lecture was fre- quently applanded, and will long be remembered by those who were present."-St. Louis Re- publican. " Rev. George W. Pepper, of Ohio, lectured last evening at Guard's Hall before a large and enthusiastic audience. His stage appearance was good, his command of language ready almost to a fault."-Denver Tribune. " Never before in the history of Lincoln, was there an andience assembled which contained citizens of more distinguished and higher stand- ing than the one gathered last night. We give a verbatim report of Rev. Mr. Pepper's eloquent lecture, As the speaker finished, the applause, which had been frequent and extended through- out the evening, broke forth in deafening rounds, forcibly expressing the audience's ap. preciation of the logical and eloquent address." --. Daily State Democrat, Lincoln, Nebraska. " In a captivating and thrilling strain did he dwell on the career of O'Connell and his contem- poraries. With a pathos so deep and effective did he picture the dark shadows which sur- rounded his life and beset his path that the eye moistened at their recital; and when the chains of young Emmet were made to clank, and the murderers of Ireland, their hands reeking with blood, were held up to the exceration of man- kind, the audience burst by common consent into long and loud continued cheers at the names of those who had offered themselves as a holocaust on the altar of their country; and louder and louder became the enthusiasm as the lecturer related a standing toast in the Shears family, ' May Ireland never want a Shears to clip the wings of tyrants! We never had the pleasure of listening to a more finished oratori- cal effort." --- Irish Canadian. " The Rev. Cap- tain Pepper delivered his popular lecture in this city on Tuesday evening last. The lecturer met us in that free and easy manner that generally pleases and wins our sympathy at once. He gave a clear and interesting description of the Irish character, as being carnest, impulsive,
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witty, patriotic and eloquent. At times the eloquence of the lecturer was extraordinary."- College Transcript, Delaware.
Concerning Mr. Pepper's personal character and his book, " Sherman's Campaigns," we add . the following testimonials: " George W. Pep- per, Captain Eightieth Ohio Volunteers, en- gaged at the battle of Farmington, luka, Corinth; Chaplain of the same regiment; en- gaged at the battles of Chattanooga, Mission Ridge, Resaca, Kenesaw mountain, Atlanta, Sherman's Georgia and Carolina Campaigns; Aid-de-camp in the above engagements; Chap- lain Fortieth United States Infantry; in the Freedmen's Burean, and Assistant Superin- tendent of Education."-Colonel Henry, in his " Military History of Civilians in the Regular Army." " For gallant and meritorious con- duet in the war, I recommend Chaplain George W. Pepper, formerly Captain Eightieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, for brevet promotion."- E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War. " I am well pleased with your book. Hundreds of officers and soldiers will prize it, and peruse it with pleasure, because it groups all those events in an interesting and attraetive style, easy of reference and intelligible to all."- W. T. Sher- man, General.
0 SWALD KAMM, Treasurer of Rockport hamlet, and Postmaster of Kamms .post- oflice, was born in Switzerland in Septem- ber, 1815. There he grew to manhood and lived till February, 1867, when he came to America. His parents were Jacob and Mary Kamm. The father was a school teacher for thirty years, and was also in the employ of the Government for many years before his death, which occurred in Switzerland JJuly 1, 1888.
Of a family of twelve children our subject was the second. On arriving in America in February, 1867, he came direct to Cleveland, where he lived about eight years, and then re- moved to Rockport hamlet, where he has since
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