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Mr. Ilall was married March 26, 1850, to Miss Rebecca Smith, a daughter of the late Hiram Smith, one of the early pioneers of Dover township. Mrs. Hall was born in this township, June 6, 1827, and died here in Janu- ary, 1861. In Angust, 1861, Mr. Hall was again married in this township, this time to Miss Matilda Lilly, who was born here in 1829, daughter of Abinus Lilly, who was drowned while crossing the Rocky river, about 1840. Mr. Hall and his present wife are the parents
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of three children: Clara E., wife of George 1. Cooley; Charles E .; and Lney S., wife of Rev. C. A. Vincent, of Boston, Massachusetts.
Enterprising and public-spirited, Mr. Hall has all his life taken a deep interest in local affairs. He has filled various township oflices, among which are those of Assessor, Township Trustee, etc. During the war he enlisted, May 2, 1864, in Company I, One Hundred and Fif- tieth Ohio National Guards, and was in the 100-day service. lle is a member of the G. A. R., Olmsted Post, No. 634. Both he and his wife are members of and active workers in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
R EV. THOMAS MISICKI, D. D., pastor of the St. Adalbert parish at Berea, Ohio, was born in Przeworsk, Galicia, Austria, December 31, 1866. His father is An- drew and his mother Veronica (Chmurowicz) Misieki. Ilis l'ather is a contractor and builder in Przeworsk. In 1893 his age is sixty-nine years. The mother died in 1893, at the age of sixty-seven years, a life-long member of the Catholic Church and an excellent woman. There are only two brothers who comprise the children of these parents, namely: Ignatins, the older, born July 31, 1863; and the subject of this sketeh. Ignatius has been professor in a college in the city of Jaroslan for the past four years.
The subject of this sketch, Rev. Thomas Misieki, received his primary education in his native city. Later he attended a high-school in Crakow. lle was there eight years, and passed his examinations, giving evidence of ex- cellent scholarship. lle then attended the seminary in Crakow, where also at a later date he attended the university, at which he gradu- ated in February of 1889. He was ordained priest May 19, 1889, and then took a special course of two years, at the close of which he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity. le studied Hebrew, Syriac and Arabic, in which he
became accomplished, as he is also an adept in Latin and Greek. By special permission he taught these languages in the seminary, and was teaching the Latin and Greek languages in the Seminary of St. Vincent of Paula, just be- fore he embarked for America, March 1, 1893, having obtained first permission from his su- perior cardinal, his object being to simply visit America. He was for three months in Winona, Minnesota, as an assistant in St. Stanislaus (Polish) Church. Ile was received into the diocese of Cleveland by Right Rev. Bishop Horstmann and stationed in Berea as pastor of St. Adalbert's Church, a few months since. Here he has under his charge 350 Polish fami- lies and thirty German families. Ile also at- tends missions at Grafton, at Lorain and at other places, In Berea he has a large school taught by four sisters of St. Felix from Detroit. Here are taught 300 children. Rev. Misicki is an accomplished scholar, able as a speaker and as an organizer is equally skilled. As a singer he is of marked ability, having one of the finest of tenor voices. He speaks Polish, German, French and English, his special studies being oriental languages. He is a writer of note, con- tributing many valuable articles to the Polish papers in America.
S HERBURN HENRY WIGHTMAN, of Cleveland, was born in this city, August 28, 1819, a son of John J. and Deborah ( Morgan) Wightman. John Wightman was a descendant of Elder Valentine Wightman, the founder and father of the first society of Bap- tists in Groton, first exercising his gifts among a few willing hearers, and afterwards gathering a church, of which he was the pastor, from 1710 to his death, June 9, 1747. Ilis son, Rev. Tim- othy Wightman, occupied the same pulpit and oflice atter him for 49 years, and until his death, Nov. 14, 1796, in his 78th year, and was succeeded by his son, Rev. John Gano Wight- man, who filled the same office for nearly forty-
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five years, and until his death, July 13, ISIt, aged seventy-four. Such a period of ministry over the same church held in succession by father and son and grandson for a period of a hundred and thirty years is believed to be with- ont parallel in the history of American churches. Rev. Palmer G. Wightman, a grandson of Rev. John Gano Wightman, is still pastor of this samo church, but did not immediately sneceed his grandfather, a period of three or four years intervening. Many of the descendants of Elder Valentine Wightman have filled the pastoral ollice.
John J. Wightman was born and reared in Connecticut, but came to Cuyahoga county, Ohio, in 1811, locating on ten acres of land in the Woodland Hills. The county was then a part of Trumbull county, and they were obliged to go to Warren to pay taxes. He took part in the Indian wars, was at the battle of Fort Meigs, and participated in many other engagements. Although reared in the Baptist faith, Mr. Wightman becante an active worker in the Dis- ciple Church, and the late Rev. Alexander Campbell was often a guest at his home, as was also Garfield's father and mother. His death occurred in 1837, at the age of forty-nine years. His wife departed this life in September, 1827, at the age of thirty-two years. She was a mem- ber of the Baptist Church.
Sherburn HI. Wightman, the fifth in a family of eight children, and the ouly one now living, was seriously injured by falling from a horse when eight years of age, and has only partially recovered from its effects. Ile is now engaged in the real-estate business. He has also served sixteen years as Deputy County Tax Collector, having held that office under four different county treasurers. Mr. Wightman has lived where he now resides, No. 169 Union street, since 1875.
December 2, 1814, he was united in marriage with Miss Sarah L. Warner, who was born in Newburg, Ohio, August 16, 1991, a daughter of Darius and Delilah J. Warner, formerly of Cuyahoga Falls, The mother was born in Vir-
ginia, in 1796, came to Ohio at the age of five years, and her death occurred August 27, 1863. The father, born in New York, January 20, 1798, came to Ohio in 1809, and died in 1872. Mr. and Mrs. Warner had three children. The eldest, Lydia, married James Skinner, and both are now deceased. They had two children: Laura, born in 1840, married William Belden, who died at Atlanta, Georgia, while serving in the late war, at the age of twenty-seven years; and Jared, born in 1860. Their second child, Ezra G., married Rachel Burgess, and resides at Byron Center, Michigan. They have had four children,-Jefferson (deceased), Charles, William and George. Mr. and Mrs. Wight- man have had five children, namely: Adelaide, deceased October 2, 1891, at the age of forty- six years; Albina D., wife of Michael Williams, of Cleveland, and they have two children,- Sarah, wife of Harl Benethum; and Sherburn Herman; Avery J., of California, married Elizabeth Ringen, who died January 17, 1891, and their four children are: Zetta A., Sherburn Henry, Marion and Agnes M .; Ilerman, de- ceased at the age of one year; and Sarah, at home. Mr. and Mrs. Wightman are members of the Christian Church, in which the former has served as Elder for many years. In politi- cal matters, he was formerly a Whig, and now affiliates with the Republican party. Wight- man strect of Cleveland is named in honor of the family which our subject represents, and is said to run through his father's farm.
C HARLES A. POST, secretary and treas- urer of the East End Savings Bank Com- pany, began in banking business in this city in 1869, with Everett, Weddell & Com- pany, as a bookkeeper, remaining with them until 1883, and retiring as a teller in their con- cern. His resignation was caused by ill health, and in order to recuperate he went to the sea- board at New York city, and engaged in other pursuits until July, 1856, when he returned to
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Cleveland restored to normal health. He assisted in organizing the East End Savings Bank Com- pany, which was chartered in August, 1886, with J. 11. MeBride as president, V. C. Taylor and Thomas Jopling as vice-presidents, and Charles A. Post as secretary and treasurer. The capital stock at the commencement, December 18, 1886, was placed at $100,000; now it is $200,000, and the deposits amount to $900,000, with a surplus of $60,000.
Mr. Post was born in East Cleveland October 28, 1818, educated in the public schools, and was a elerk in a merchandising establishment at different times before going into the Bank of Everett, Weddell & Company. Ile was elected to the City Council in 1580, and re-elected in 1882, serving until he determined to go to New York in 1853, when he resigned. Hle is treas- urer of a number of corporations besides the East End Bank, -the National Electric Valve Company, of the Maple Grove Dairy Company, and of the Casino Mine Company.
As to the fraternal orders, Mr. Charles A. Post is a Master Mason and Knight Templar, and a member of the order of K. of P'. He is also a member of the Union Club, treasurer of the Rowfant Club, and president of the Twilight Club. His greatest recreation being tennis- playing, he is president of the East End Tennis Club. In religion he is an active member of the Enelid Avenue Congregational Church.
Ilis Father, Nathan Post, a native of Burling- ton, Vermont, came to East Cleveland in 1848, and purchased property on Enelid Avenne, the site of a well-known hotel in early times. He was a harness-maker by trade, and the inven- tor and patentec of many articles of harness and saddle ware. Ile was also interested in the first malleable iron foundry established in this city, and induced skilled foreign labor to locate here to aid in operating the plant. For his wife he married Miss Laura J. Lord, of Madrid, New York, whose ancestors were pioneers in New England. Mr. Nathan Post died in 1869, aged sixty-nine years, and his wife died in 1875. Their children were Helen E .; Sarah M., who
died in 1875, the wife of L. J. Wadsworth; Nathan L., who died in October, 1893; Mary R .; Laura J., who died in 1885, the wife of Dr. G. C. Ashmon; Francis W., Charles A., and James R. The last named was educated in this city, and when he engaged permanently in busi- ness he entered the employ of Root & MeBride Brothers, where he still remains. January 1, 1879, he married, in Manchester, Iowa, Miss Mary A. Roe, and their only child is Bessie May. He is a prominent member of the Euclid Avenue Congregational Church, and is most active in promoting the interests of the Young Men's Christian Association of this city, of which he has been a director for many years, and was especially active in the ercetion of their new hall.
H T. ANDRUS, freight agent of the Penn- sylvania Company in Cleveland and a veteran in railway service, was born in Austinburg, Ohio, December 28, 1839. In 1850 his father, Marvin T. Andrus, moved to Ridgeville from Austinburg, and in 1857 to Cleveland from Ridgeville, and entered into commission business, and later on railroad ser- vice, retiring to private life in 1887. Marvin T. Andrus was born in Morean, New York, his ancestors coming from Burlington, Connecticut. lle learned blacksmithing and followed it to- gether with farming until his removal from Eagleville in 1850, having resided there twelve years. lle died in Cleveland in 1891, at eighty-three years and nine months of age. Ile married Amanda, a daughter of George Calkins, a farmer. The Calkins family came from Waterburg, Vermont, and are of Welsh de- scent. The children of this union are: George W .; Emmet II., deceased; II. T .; Helen, de- ceased; Emma, deceased; Frank; and Minnie, wife of A. W. Strong, a Cleveland broker.
II. T. Andrus was educated in the public schools of Cleveland, and in 1857, on assuming the duties of real life, entered the employ of
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the Pennsylvania Company as errand boy in the freight office, and in 1861 was made cashier, which important position he filled continuously till 1888, when he received his appointment as ยท agent.
Politically Mr. Andrus is a Republican, ally- ing himself always on the side of true Ameri- canism. In lodge circles Mr. Andrus is a Royal Arch Mason.
Mr. Andrus has been twice married, first in 1863, at Norwalk, Ohio, to Gertrude Adelade, a daughter of Elias Harris, of Seville, Ohio. Mrs. Andrus died without issne in 1869. In 1872 Mr. Andrus married Ellen Melancia, a daughter of Edwin Hill, of Gardner, Massachu- setts. Of this union are born Harry L., Clar- ence M., Alice 11., Carl E. and Pant W.
W 11. STEWART, the subject of this sketch, was born at Crossreagh, near Coleraine, connty Londonderry, Ire- land, June 3, 1855. His parents, Samuel and Alice Houston Stewart (the latter of whom still lives in Ireland), were of Scotch Irish ancestry, and Mr. Stewart's life has been characterized by the enterprise of the sturdy race from which he sprung.
Mr. Stewart received his early education in his native land. At the age of fifteen he came to the United States, and, linding in the Western Reserve surroundings congenial to his tastes, located in Cuyahoga county. In 1883 he was married to Miss Elma J. Burgess, a lady of intelligence and good family, daughter of J. M. Burgess of Orange township.
In politics a staunch Republican. Mr. Stew- art lilled acceptably for six years the office of township Trustee, and served for two terms as a member of the Board of Education. In 1892 he was appointed by Dr. MeNeal as Assistant Dairy and Food Commissioner, which position he still holds. He is a member of Golden Gate Lodge, No. 215, F. & A. M., Chagrin Falls Chapter, No. 152, and Oriental Commandery, No. 12, K. T.
Mr. Stewart has been a resident of the town of Solon since 1880, and at present owns one of the finest farms in the township. Socially frank and genial, and carrying into his business life, energy and integrity, Mr. Stewart, although comparatively a young man, is recognized as a prominent citizen of the place.
E P. WILMOT, attorney at law, Chagrin Falls, Ohio, is a native of this State, I born at Mantua, Portage county, March 11, 1851. His father, Amzi Wilmot, was also born at Mantna, in the year 1523; he was a son of Ella and Lucretia (Blair) Willnot, who emi- grated to the western Frontier from New En- gland in 1810. The grandfather of our subject bore arms in the war of 1812, serving as captain of a company. Amzi Wihnot married Minerva S. Dudley, a native of New York and a member of one of the oldest families of the Empire State. He died in 1889, while she survived until only 1861. They were the parents of a family of four children: E. P., the subject of this biography; Addie S., one of the most sue- cessful teachers in the public schools of Youngs- town; Carrie E. Spray, a resident of Mantua, Ohio, and Amelia M., who was for several years prominently known as a teacher of the Lima (Ohio) schools. The father was a farmer by occupation, and through many seasons tilled the soil that has been in the family over eighty years. Politically he gave his allegiance to the Republican party, and was a warm friend of the lamented James A. Garfield.
Young Wilmot enjoyed superior advantages to those which were afforded his father; the common-school system had been established, and he was also a student at Hiram, which had become a center of learning for the Western Reserve. Having determined upon the law as his vocation, he began to read in 1874 nader the guidance of Judge Henry C. Raney; later he was associated with Judge Luther Day and Judge George F. Robinson. In 1876 he was
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admitted to the bar. Years of experience and uninterrupted devotion to his profession have won a place in the front ranks of Cuyahoga county's leading lawyers. For nine years he served as Justice of the Peace and discharged the duties of that office with unswerving fidelity. Politically he adheres to the principles advo- cated by the Republican party. He is a mem- ber of Golden Gate Lodge, No. 245, F. & A. M., and of Chagrin Falls Chapter, No. 152, R. A. M.
Mr. Wilmot was united in marriage in 1884 at Chagrin Falls to Emma J. Waterman, a native of the State of New York, and a daughter of John Waterman. They have one son, Virgil P. Mrs. Wilmot is an active mem- ber of the Methodist church.
W ILLIAM FREDERICK FIEDLER, Prosecuting Attorney of the City Po- lice Court of Cleveland, Ohio, and one of the best known and most promising young members of the Cleveland bar, is a native of the Forest City, having been born in the okl Sixth Ward on October 8. 1862. His father was Conrad F. Fiedler, who was one of the old and well-known citizens of Cleveland, he hav- ing during his life been an active man and for a number of years an official. He was a native of Wurtemberg, South Germany, where he was born in 1818. Hle finished his schooling and learned the trade of mason and was married be- fore leaving the old country. In 1850 he ar- rived in the United States and came direct to Cleveland, where he continued to reside until his death in September, 1887. He was engaged extensively as a mason contractor for many years, and for a number of years was the city's Inspector of Sewers, Culverts and Pave- ments. During the cholera epidemic in this country his wife died, leaving two out of three children. The children are: Mrs. Catherine Becker and Mrs. Annie Renner, both of Cleve- land. In 1854 he was married to Mary Agnes Zipperlen, who was born in Wurtemberg, Ger-
many, and survives her husband. Five chil- dren were born by this union, three of whom died in infancy, leaving two sons, our subject and his elder brother, Conrad E., who is a eiti- zen of Cleveland.
The immediate subject of this sketch has al- ways resided in Cleveland. He attended first the public schools of the city, passing through them all and graduating at the high school in 1882. He then took a post graduate course in the Central high school in order to prepare himself for college, and in 1553 entered Adel- bert College, and taking a classical course grad. uated with honor in 1887, standing fifth in a class of seventeen. One year was then spent in the office of F. C. Friend, in Cleveland, in preparation for the Cincinnati Law School, and in the fall of 1888 he entered that excellent in- stitution, at which he graduated in 1889 with the degree of LL. B., and in the following June Adelbert College conferred upon him the degree of A. M. He then entered the practice of law in Cleveland.
In 1890 Mr. Fiedler was an unsuccessful can- didate for Councilman from the Seventeenth Ward of Cleveland on the Republican ticket, and in 1891 was one of the four candidates for the nomination before the Republican Conven - tion for the office of Prosecuting Attorney for the City Police Court, and receiving the nomi- nation was at the coming election chosen to that important position by a majority of over 1,500 votes; and so successfully did he dis- charge the duties of the office that in 1893 he was nominated without opposition and re- elected by a majority of almost 3,000 votes.
Mr. Fiedler has fulfilled the duties of his of- fice in an able and conscientious manner, win- ning the admiration of the court and bar, and has won lasting laurels as a public officer. As a lawyer he has for some time been recognized as one of the most brilliant and promising of the younger members of the Cleveland bar.
In polities Mr. Fiedler is an uncompromis- ing Republican, yet at the same time is broad and liberal in his views, and his tolerance has
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won him many friends even among the opposi- tion. It is the opinion of his many warm friends that higher and more important official honors await Mr. Fiedler, and they expect to have the pleasure at no distant day of seeing him on the bench. He is a Knight of Pythias and a member of the Tippecanoe Club.
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lle was married on Angust 23, 1893, to Miss Clara E. Woldmann, of Cleveland, who at that time was one of the efficient teachers in the Fowler public school, and who is the daughter of Professor Hermann Woldmaun, one of the oldest and best known of Cleveland's educators, who is at present a professor at the Central high school.
W ASHINGTON IRVING POPE (bet- ter known as " [. W." Pope), corre- >ponding secretary of the Cleveland Window Shade Company, was born in Otsego county, New York, near Burlington Flats, September 14, 1834. llis father, Lewis S. Pope, was a native of Fairfield county, Con- nectient, and was a farmer in early life and later a shoemaker by trade. After his marriage he located in Monroe township, Fairfield county, and abont 1823 moved to Otsego county, New York, locating at Burlington Flats, where he engaged in farming. In 1835 he emigrated to Geanga county, Ohio, settling in Auburn town- ship, on a farm; in 1839 moved to Troy town- ship, where he lived till 1869, when he changed his residence to Chagrin Falls, where he died, in 1875, a member of the Masonic fraternity and a Spiritualist, although in earlier life he was a " materialist." In polities he was at first a Democrat, then Whig, Free Soil and Repub- lican. For many years he was Justice of the Peace in the township of Troy, Geauga conuty. IIe was well known as a speenlator in live stock, and was the first man in his vicinity to agitate the question of not pasturing cattle or other live stock at large in the public highway. While positive in his views and radical for re- forms, he was liberal, as any one is inelined to
be who is well posted in the rights of man and in the doctrinal issues of the parties.
Lewis Pope, grandfather of I. W. Pope, was also a native of the " Land of Steady Habits." The line comprises descendants of Thomas Pope, who emigrated from England in 1627, binding himself ont for seven years' service in order to pay for his passage to America. Ile first settled in Massachusetts, and afterward in Connecticut, in both of which States he fol- lowed the vocation of an agriculturist. At his death he left an estate of $5,000.
Lewis S. Pope married Miss Charry Smith, who also was a native of Connectient, born and reared near Milford, New Haven county, and died in Chagrin Falls, at the age of eighty- eight. Her Father, David Smith, a blacksmith by trade and of Scotch and Irish descent, is supposed also to have been a native of Con- necticut. Ile participated in the Revolutionary war, and died in his ninety-third year. He had but one son, David Smith, Jr., who died in Chagrin Falls, in his eighty-seventh year; was an early settler of the Western Reserve and well known. In the family of Lewis S. Pope were four sons and four daughters, namely : Lines S., Luey A. and Andrew D., all deceased; Cornelia T., widow of Miles Punderson and re- siding in Iliram, Portage county, this State; David L., a prominent and influential farmer of Troy township, Geauga county; C'harry M., wife of 11. M. Ilervey, of North Madison, Lake county, Ohio; Mary J., widow of Charles Onderdonk, of the same place; and 1. W., whose name heads this sketel.
The last mentioned was one year old when his parents settled in Geanga county. He completed his school days by attending two terms at the firmum Institute (since College). At the age of nineteen years he married and commeneed housekeeping. A few years after- ward ho purchased his father's farm in Troy township, and followed agricultural pursuits there until the autumn of 1861, when he moved to Chagrin Falls. The next year he bought the Union Hotel property, and conducted hotel
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business there about two years, when he bought the Eggleston House, now the Hotel Irving, named in his honor, and remodeled and added to it. In 1568, in partnership with Messrs. Parker and Pratt, he bought an interest in the old Lower paper mill, then devoted to the man- ufacture of straw paper, with a thirty-four-inch machine, became the business manager and re- built the structure and added to its capacity, enabling the company also to manufacture manila and flour-sack paper. In 1869 or 1870 Mr. Pratt sold his interest to John Bleasdale, and the firm name became Parker, Pope & Company; in 1871 Mr. Parker sold his inter- est, and the company's name became Pope & Bleasdale. This company increased the volume of production from 1,500 pounds a day to 5,000, and made paper bags. In the spring of 1875 Mr. Pope soll out to Mr. Bleasdale, who operated the mill until the following autumn, when he made an assignment to E. W. Force. Mr. Pope, being the principal ereditor, organ- ized a joint-stock company known as "The Chagrin Falls Paper Company," and they pur- chased the property. In the same year Mr. Pope, with partners, erected a large paper-mill at New Castle, Pennsylvania, of a capacity of about 8,000 pounds a day, and he had the su- perintendeney of the mill, meanwhile having also the management of the old Chagrin Falls establishment. In 1879, in company with ten other men, he built the railroad from Chagrin Falls to Solon, he becoming chairman of the construction company. In 1880 the president, Mr. Reid, and General Manager Waddell of the railroad company undertook to take possession of the road without fulfilling their contract, when Mr. Pope discovered the movement and " threw himself into the breach," taking posses- sion of the locomotive and control of the en- gineer and holding the train until his associates and other trustworthy men came to his assist- ance; and the train was put upon its regular run. President Reid and Manager Waddell were ejected until they should pay their fare; an appeal was taken to the courts by the presi-
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