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been a resident. He was engaged in the grocery business in Cleveland, and has followed the same business in Rockport. He was appointed Post- master of Kamms postoffice under President Cleveland's first administration and has held the oflice since.
Ile was married in Cleveland, Ohio, Septem- ber 25, 1873, to Miss Lena Klane, daughter of Charles and Adelaide (Colbrunn) Klane. Mr. Klane died in Cleveland, Ohio. Mrs. Lena Kamm was born in Rockport township, Jannary 16, 1853. Mr. and Mrs. Kamm have had six children, -- Jacob, Frederick, Louisa, Lena, Os- wald and Dora. Dora died when about two and a half years old.
S R. HAYES .- It has been said that he is handicapped who is the son of a dis- tinguished man, from the fact that during his career invidious comparisons will be drawn. The subject of this sketch, who is the son of President Rutherford B. Hayes, needs, however, fear no comparison, for in the field of usefulness to which he has turned his attention and effort he has met with unqualified success.
One of five children, S. R. Hayes was born in 1871, at the family homestead in Columbus, Ohio. He received a thorough education, and upon completing his studies at once entered upon an active business career.
From 1889 until 1892 he held a position in the counting-room of the First National Bank of Fremont, Ohio, after which he accepted a position with the Thompson-Houston Electric Company at Cincinnati, Ohio, which ineumbeney he resigned to accept the office of manager of the Cleveland offices of the General Electrie Company, of Boston, assuming the duties of the responsible office in 1893. March 1, 1891, ho resigned his position with the General Electric Company to accept a position as traveling sales- man for the Sperry Electric Railway Company, of Cleveland.
Mr. Hayes is a member of the Greek college fraternity, the Delta Kappa Epsilon, and has
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also been prominently identified with the order of Sons of Veterans, in which organization he held for some time the position of Captain.
Enjoying a marked popularity in both busi- ness and social circles and recognized as a capable, discerning and conscientious young business man, Mr. Hayes well merits the atten- tion accorded him in this connection.
H ENRY PARKER, M. D .-- We are now permitted to direct attention to one of the most widely known and popular res- idents of Berea, a man held in the highest estimation for his marked professional ability as well as for his his character and bear- ing as an individual. Dr. Parker was born in Brunswick, Medina county, Ohio, April 8, 1824. His father was the late Henry Parker, a native .of Wallingford, Connectient, where he was born June 4, 1792, and where he lived until 1815, when he emigrated to Ohio and settled in Brunswick, Medina county. On the 16th of March, 1816, he was married to Miss Malinda Harvey, and they are said to have been the first white couple to wed in the town of Brunswick. Ilenry Parker, Sr., died about the year 1826, when the subject of this review was abont two years of age. The mother was afterward mar- riedl to Abraham Conyne, of Strongsville, Cuy- ahoga county, a miller by trade and occupation. The family removed to Strongsville in 1830.
Dr. Parker's early life was passed chietly in as- sisting his stepfather in his mill and he received a somewhat limited common-school education. Hle continued to live in Strongsville until 1844, when he left home and went to La Porte, Indi- ana, where he followed the occupation of a painter about one year and then returned to Cuyahoga county, finding employment at mini- mum wages in a woolen mill at Berea. The young man was ambitious and aspiring and had Formulated plans for the directing of his future life upon a broader plane of thought and ac- tion. Accordingly in 1516 he began the study
of medicine, and in 1854 graduated at the American Medical College, at Cincinnati, Ohio. lle then located in Berea, March 10, 18-19, where he has since enjoyed an extensive and representative practice, not only in the city but in a wide extent of country adjacent. Since 1871 he has been a member of the Ohio State Medical Association and has held the honorable preferment as president of that organization, and in 1872 became a member of the National Eclectic Association.
November 23, 1874, Dr. Parker was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Sherwood, dangh- ter of Solomon and Aurilla Sherwood, of Roy- alton, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, who were among the carly settlers of that town. Mrs. Parker was born August 18, 1824. Dr. and Mrs. Parker became the parents of four children, one of whom died in infancy. Henry E. was born November 20, 1851, and is now a physi- cian in practice at Lorain, Lorain county, Ohio; he was married at Montville, Medina county, Ohio, March 15, 1878, to Miss Cora McConnell. James M. was also a physician and was engaged in practice at Vanlue, Han- cock county, Ohio, where he died on Janu- ary 21, 1883, soon after locating there; he was born in Berea October 13, 1853, and was mar- ried, at Attica, Seneca county, Ohio, September 2, 1880, to Miss Hittie Gilmer, who, with one child, survives him. Charles W., the youngest son, was born August 22, 1860, and was mar- ried, in Chicago, Illinois, December 15, 1885, to Miss Fannie Frayer.
Dr. Parker was one of the orginators of the Berea Savings & Loan Association. He has never been a seeker after publie or official pre- ferments, although he has been elected to fill various township and village offices, the duties of which he has discharged to the satisfaction of all. In 1862 he was appointed by Dr. J. S. Newbury, of Cleveland (who was general man- ager of the Western Sanitary Commission) to perform the duties of Camp and Hospital In- spector, receiving his commission from the Sec- rotary of War, Edwin M. Stanton, and Surgeon-
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General Hammond. Ile served in this capacity two and one-half years, until Sherman's cam- paign to Atlanta, to the satisfaction of the Government and the soldiers as well. He was located during the service in West Virginia, with the Army of the Cumberland and the Fourteenth Army Corps, under General Sher- man.
The Doctor stands forth pre-eminently as a type of the self-made man, has achieved dis- tinctive success and honor in his life work and is one who is most clearly entitled to represent- ation in this volume, which has to do with the leading citizens of that portion of the State of Ohio in which he has so long lived and labored.
R EV. THEOPHIL LEONHARDT, pas- tor of the United Evangelical Zion's Church of Cleveland, was born in Wur- temberg, Germany, February 8, 1853. Ilis parents were Louis and Barbara (Boch- ringer) Leonhardt. Ilis father, a merchant, died in 1873, aged seventy-three years, and his mother died the same year. Both were life. long members of the Evangelical Church.
The subject of this sketch is the third in a family of four children, all living, namely: Mary, wife of David Müller; Louis; Theophil and Catherine, wife of Christian Seitz. Mr. Leonhardt was educated in the Mission College at Basel, Switzerland, in the Seminary at Nur- tingen, Germany, and in America spent two years in a theological course in Marthasville, Missouri. Before coming to America young Theophil was in the Servian army-in 1876- 1877-for thirteen months, in a war with Tur- key. He came to America in 1880, and was in the orphan asylum a few months as teacher, until the next school year began, when he be- gan his studies in Marthasville, Missouri. Ile was ordained in Cleveland in the church where he now has charge, in the year 1883. He was here first as vicar, then was made the pastor, in March, 1884, and has served as such since that time.
Under Mr. Leonhardt's eare the church has increased one hundred per cent. in numbers, having now 300 active and 400 passive mem- bers. The Sabbath-school numbers over 900. The small building in which the congregation worshiped is now used for a school and a bean- tiful and commodious edifice has taken its place. This has sittings for 1,500 people, and is sometimes filled so that extra seats have to be provided. The congregation is made up of good and appreciative German people.
Mr. Leonhardt is a very hard worker, adding to his other duties the superintendency of the Sabbath-school. Ilis well directed efforts have been a great benefit to the church and com- munity. The church has been most fortunate in his pastorate.
Mr. Leonhardt was married September 30, 1884, to Miss Anna Remelins, daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth (Bower) Remelins. Her father was born in Germany and came to Cleve- land in 1848, where he has since resided. Ile is a ear inspector at the Union depot, and is sixty-three years of age. llis wife died April 14, 1890, aged fifty-nine. She, with her hus- band, was a member of their son-in-law's church. Mr. and Mrs. Remelius had seven children, three dying in early childhood. The living children are these: Louis, residing in the West; Louisa, wife of Gordian Duffuer, residing on Lorain street, Cleveland; has three children,- Frederick, Alma and Elmer; Mrs. Leonhardt; Charles, residing in Cleveland, a machinist in the electric power house; married Mary Clark.
Mrs. Leonhardt is a lady of culture, easy and pleasing manners, and a great help in the ardnous and iimportant labors of her husband. They have five children, viz .: Theophil D., Louis C., Thusnelda E., Carl F. and Armin E. Mrs. Leonhardt and the children are members of the Zion Church.
Mr. Leonhardt, while in Germany, was a teacher for three years and a half in a school founded by Gustav Werner. Here 1,300 chil- dren and old people of various classes-the poor, the vicious, the crippled have been
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taught and cared for. This was one of the noted institutions of that part of Germany. Mr. Werner originated the plan, collected the money and brought about the organization of the institution. Ile died in 1886, at seventy-six years of age. Ilis death was greatly lamented.
While in the war Mr. Leonhardt was in eight battles, and ten or twelve dangerous skirmishes. In 1876 he was wounded by the bursting of a shell, a flinder of which struck him on the left side of his face, knocking him senseless. He was carried to the hospital, where he remained three weeks, and then re- turned to his command. From that wound he will carry, while he lives, a large scar on his neck and face. He held the commission of Second Lieutenant, which he was afterward obliged to resign on account of impaired health, the result of a prolonged attack of yellow fever. On leaving the army he returned to his home, and enme to America in 1880.
Mr. Leonhardt is a man of fine personal ap- pearance and of easy, pleasing manners. His fine scholarship and extended acquaintance with the world, his generous and affable ways, added to a pleasing presence, have ever been helpful in his church work. He is an honored citizen of whom his community may be proud.
A T. MITCHELL, a leading business man of Newburg, Ohio, and a member of the pop- ular firm of Mitchell Brothers, dealers in hardware, was born in Ravenna, Portage county, Ohio, November 22, 1856, and removed to Newburg, Ohio, with his parents in 1860; was educated in the grammar and high schools of Newburg, and on leaving them, in order to become more familiar with business forms, en- tered the Spencerian Business College, and took his diploma in 1871. He then launched out on his successful career, first as an employee of of his father, and soon afterward as a member of the firm of R. Mitchell & Son. This firm continued in business until R. Mitchell reached
his sixtieth year, when upon his desire to retire a reorganization was effected, and the firm of Mitchell Brothers came into existence, com- posed of A. T. and R. T. Mitchell.
In its infaney this business was cooped up in one end of a dwelling with a capacity of about 500 square feet, with a tinshop as the chief at- traction; now two buildings are required to ae- commodate their immense stock of hardware, stoves, implements, tiling, etc.,-one 100 x 21 feet and two stories high, and the other 50 x 100 feet, a wareroom, besides a large storeroom in
the yard. This popular house was founded in 1860 by R. Mitchell, the venerable father of the subject of this sketch. He is the pioneer hardware merchant of Newburg. His first business in this State was in Ravenna, where he located in 1856 and became a member of the firm of Beckley & Mitchell, for four years. His first attempt at business in the West was in Beloit, Wisconsin, where he was employed as foreman of a finner's shop for two years.
lle was born in Washington county, New York, thirty miles north of Troy, Jaunary 30, 1827. Ilis ancestors on the father's side were of Scotch origin: his grandfather, John Mitch ell, emigrated from Scotland to America dur- ing the last years of the eighteenth century. By trade he was a slater, and while engaged at this vocation in New York city, he fell from a build- ing and died from the effects of the injuries. lle left only one child, a son, John, the grand- father of A. T. Mitchell, who remained with his mother in New York city till he was fifteen years of age, when he and his mother and step- father moved to Washington county. There young John learned the trade of carpenter and builder, married and became a contractor of some note. In 1833 he moved to Oswego county, where he was an active business man, a manufacturer of stoves, being the first to turn out the Hathaway cookstove, with a descend- ing ilne, producing an article equal almost to the more modern stove. He made also the Clute iron moldboard plow, among the first in exist once with a metal moldboard, and contin
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ned to prosecute his business to the time of his death, in July, 1853. His affliction was cancer of the stomach, and he was taken away prematurely, being only fifty-nine years of age. He married Lois Hall, a New England lady, a native of Connecticut, who died in 1831, leav- ing lour children, as follows: Thomas, who died in 1891, in St. Joseph county, Michigan; Abi- gail, who married a Mr. Row and secondly a Mr. Coats, and is now a widow residing in Wayne county, New York; Nancy, now Mrs. Shaver, also a resident of Wayne county; and Robert.
The last named was "bound out" in the old- fashioned way, at ten years of age, to Daniel G. Merriman, a tinner of New Haven, Oswego county, where he was to serve an apprentice- ship of eight years at the tinner's trade, reeeiv- ing three months' schooling each winter, his board and clothes and his usual two suits of clothes on becoming twenty-one; but his health failed because of the confinement, and he was released from the trade at the end of three years. He returned to his father and remained with him till he reached his majority, engaged in farm work. At twenty-one he renewed his acquaintance with his half completed trade and made it his business ever after.
He married, in Ontario, New York, October 29, 1853, Catherine Melissa Cain, a native of the Isle of Man and a daughter of William Cain. The children by this marriage were: Mary Eliza, who died in 1888; A. T., the snb- jeet of this sketch; Robert T., and Kate Lois.
Mr. Mitchell schooled his sons in the busi- ness to which he gave the best years of his life to establish, and at sixty years of age turned it over to them and retired from active business pursuits.
Mr. A. T. Mitchell is a director in the Sonth Cleveland Banking Company, in the Ohio Na- tional Building & Loan Company, and, in con- junction with H. Nason, was one of the origin- ators of the latter. He is secretary of the Meale Lumber Company, and president of the Mitchell Brothers Company, who were incor-
porated on April 5, 1894, for the purpose of conducting a general hardware, stove, tinware, etc., business, with a capital of $15,000. Ile has passed the chairs in the local lodge of the 1. O. O. F., and is a trustee of that lodge.
Ile was married June 12, 1890, to Jane E. Corlett, a daughter of Daniel Corlett, a history of whom will be found in this volume.
JOHN CARLISLE .- Conspicuous among the men of prominence in Cleveland, whose enterprise, business sagacity, up- right methods, liberality and public spirit have contributed to the growth of Ohio's metropolis, rendering it a leading factor in the advance- ment of the State and county, stands the name of the subject of this sketch, who, although having gone to his reward, has left a legacy rich in good influenees which will endure for many years to come.
Mr. Carlisle was a native of Chillicothe, Ohio, born October 29, 1807. His parents were John and Betsy ( Mann) Carlisle, the father a native of county Tyrone, Ireland, and the mother of Pennsylvania. Our subject made the most of limited educational advantages, such as were afforded in the schools of those early days. He began for himself as a shoe merchant, under the firm name of "Carlisle & Fisk." At a later date he sold ont to Mr. Fisk, and Mr. Carlisle was appointed toll collector on the Ohio canal at Chillicothe, which position he held for some years. Subsequently he was en- gaged in pork-packing, the firm being "Carlisle & Reid." Their brand of pork and hams was well established throughout many of the States. Ilis next adventure was in coming to Cleveland in 1850. This city about that time was con- sidered a fine opening for business ventures, being then, as well as since, the commercial center of a large and attractive territory.
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ness. ITis location was on Merwin street, near the business place of R. T. Lyon, who was among the early few who are still left. Mr. Carlisle was a man of good business methods, of strict integrity and great industry. His generous impulses and kind heart induced him to keep himself back in trying to help others along. Ile did an extensive business and sue- ceeded well.
HIe was married in Gloncester, Massachusetts, October 29, 1835, to Miss Mary Beach, dangh- ter of William and Mary Beach, all natives of Massachusetts. Mr. and Mrs. Carlisle had nine children, viz .: William B., who died Angust 9, 1885, at the age of forty-seven years; John, who died December 17, 1855, at the age of forty-six years; Andrew, born in 1841; Amelia B., born in 1843; Henry N., who died Mareh 11, 1857, aged ten years and six months; Ger- trude A., born in 1819; Mary Belle, who died September 27, 1852, aged one year and three months; Irwin C., born in 1853; and Charles F., born in 1856.
Dr. Irwin Carson Carlisle, the eighth child of John and Mary (Beach) Carlisle, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, February 28, 1853. He was edneated in the Cleveland public schools, read medicine under Prof. II. W. Kitchen, and graduated in the medical department of the Wooster University, elass of 1875. Sinee 1876 he has been a continuous practitioner in Glen- ville, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Car- lisle has been the attending physician to the hos- pital for convalescent children -- "Rainbow Cot- tage",-from its organization in 1891. He has been a member of the Board of Health since its organization in the village of Glenville.
Careful judgment and integrity of purpose have characterized his professional career, and he has been eminently successful, and has gained not only financial prosperity but also that other most valuable and necessary require- ment, the respect and esteem of his fellow-men. The Doctor is prompt to aid any outerprise tending to benefit his community and is justly recognized as a liberal-minded and progressive
citizen. Ile was married December 20, 1880, to Miss Ella, daughter of William and Lydia A. (Barber) Phillips, of whom see elsewhere in this volume. The home of the Doctor and wife has been blessed in the birth of one child, Mary Antoinette. Dr. Carlisle and wife are members of the Presbyterian Church. His parents were members of the Presbyterian Church for more than a generation, his father a Deacon in his church (the Westminster) for many years.
The Doctor is a member of the Cleveland, the Cuyahoga County, and the Ohio State Medi- eal Societies. Ile is also a frequent contributor to the medical journals of the day. In polities Dr. Carlisle is an ardent Republican.
Mr. John Carlisle's death occurred December 28, 1868. Ilis wife is still living, with her son, in St. Louis, Missouri, at the advanced age of seventy-eight years. As mother, companion, Christian and friend, no language can speak her praise too warmly. She is all these fine words imply. Mr. Carlisle was for many years a citizen of Chillicothe, Ohio, and the following tribute from the Cleveland Leader attesting his worth as a husband, a father, and a citizen will find a responsive echo from all who knew him here. The Leader says:
" We have to record the death of another prominent eitizen of Cleveland, John Carlisle, Jr., who was during the early part of his busi- ness life a resident of Chillicothe, where quite a number of his relatives still reside. For some eighteen years past, with but a brief inter- val of absence, he has been well known in the forwarding and commission business in Cleve- land, Ohio. After forty years of more or less active business life, marked by industry, fidel- ity and honesty, he has departed from the scenes of his business associations and from the midst of his many friends in private life at the still prime age of sixty-one.
"Few business men in our country were better known for simplicity of character, single- ness of purpose, or sterling honesty in dealing. Ile was too modest to claim distinction, and too
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conscientious to take advantage of circumstances that might have led him on to fortune. In his public and private life he was, perhaps, without exception respected and beloved. While in his religious convictions he was sincere and decided, he was without bigotry and far removed from Phariseeism. In politics he was most earnestly patriotic and keenly alive to the best interests of his country.
" But it is in that dearest and most saered of earthly circles, the family home, that he will be most missed. Among his children he was the companion and confidant, always interested in what grieved or gratified them, and with the little ones a child in full and cordial sympathy. llis family and friends have the supreme satis- faction of a full assurance that to the very best of his knowledge and ability he did well the work that was given him to do and has thus left an example well worthy of imitation. Like these, may we well exclaim with the poet:
. Lenves have their time to fall,
And flowers to wither in the north wind's blast, And stars to set; but alt, thou hast
All seasons for thine own, O Death.'"
To know John Carlisle was to respect and es- trem him. Indeed, few men in the country had more friends than he. Mr. Carlisle's memory will live in the hearts of the people where he was known long after that of less important personages shall have passed away, and his name will be handed down to future generations as a synonym for all that is good, pure and upright.
R EUBEN IIALL, one of the well-to-do farmers and leading citizens of Dover township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, is a son of Charles Hall, one of the pioneers of the county.
Charles Ilall was born in Lee, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, in 1798. In 1811 he came from Massachusetts to Ashtabula county, Ohio, with his father, Moss Hall, and in that county was reared. He was married there at.
the age of twenty-two to Lucy Seymour, who was born in Plymouth, Connecticut, in 1800, and who had come to Ohio with her father, Ziba Seymour, and family. Soon after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Hall came to Cuyahoga county and settled in Dover township. That was in 1821. Here they continued to reside the rest of their lives. Mrs. Hall died in Con- nectient, whither she had gone in quest of health in 1844. Mr. HIall survived her a num- ber of years. lIe was a farmer by occupation, and was prominently identified with local affairs. HIe was one of the first members of the Episco- pal Church in Dover township. They had a family of live children, viz .: Eliza, who became the wife of George Porter, died in Dover town- ship, December 27, 1844, at about the age of twenty years; Mary Ann, who died December 5, 1841, aged about seventeen; Reuben, Ziba S. and James.
Renben Halt was born in Dover township, on his father's farm, June 18, 1827. Here he was reared, and here he has always resided. Ilis early life was not unlike other farmer boys of that period. lle remained a member of the home circle until after his marriage. Then for five years he rented his father's farm. At the end of that time he purchased seventy acres of land from his unele, Edwin Hall, and upon this place he has since resided. He has been suc- cessful in his undertakings. By honest indus- try and good management he has accumulated considerable property, being now the owner of 174 acres of land, on which he has erected a set of good buildings.
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