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dent, and after some months Mr. Pope pur- chased the stock of the original railroad com- pany and its bonds for himself and associates, and was elected president. He had the prop- erty soll at public auction, and in the interest of himself and associates purchased it, they having organized the Chagrin Falls and South- ern Railroad Company. Mr. Pope was presi- dent until 1885.
His business enterprises were generally sue- cessful; but the mill at New Castle was burned in the fall of 1883 with all its contents, with but little insurance. At the close of the year it was found that the business at Chagrin Falls was unsnecessful, and Mr. Pope placed his en- tire property in the hands of a committee of three of his creditors for the protection of those who had befriended him and the Chagrin Falls Paper Company. This was done during the first part of January, 1854.
After being thrown out of business Mr. Pope started out on the road for the Cleveland Win- dow-Shade Company, well knowing that the lack of employment would injure the useful- ness of any man. In July of the same year he met the president of the Marietta & North Georgia Railroad Company, who made him an offer to handle their securities in the markets, which was accepted, and he commenced opera- tions in September. Associating himself with a number of gentlemen, he repaired to New York city to negotiate the seeurities, and within a year arranged for the sale of the entire railroad property, and it passed into other hands; but during this time he also secured the business of handling the property of two other roads, - one in Ohio and one in Virginia, effecting con- tracts between the presidents of the two com- panies and representatives of London capital- ists. For that purpose he went to New York city to arrange for the construction of over 500 miles of track, the contracts amounting to about $13,500,000; but the contractors from London failed to carry out their agreements: after about two years' labor they failed for about $250,000.
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Although Mr. Pope's labors in this direction were lost, he was not idle, meanwhile finding other channels of work. In company with other gentlemen he purchased some real estate in East New York, platted, graded and soll it, settling up all matters within one year, thus furnishing him enough to support himself and family; but he concluded that life would be pleasanter to be associated with his family again, and accordingly, in December, 1888, he returned to Cleveland, and has since been asso- eiated with his son, Lines Irving, in connection with the window-shade company. lle, Lines Irving Pope, is now president and general manager, and also acting tre isurer, of the com- pany, and also of the Falls Hotel Company in conducting the Hotel Irving, where the sub- jeet of this sketch now makes his home. On one occasion he was employed by a company to go to Arizona and buy the petrified forest there, but, finding the title to the property imperfect, declined to make the purchase.
As to his views on national questions Mr. Pope is a Republican. Early in life he was prominent in local politics. In 1860 he was eleeted Trustee of Troy township, Geauga coun- ty; about 1868 he was elected a member of the Council of Chagrin Falls; and in 1874 Mayor of the village of Chagrin Falls, in which office he served for four years.
He was initiated into the order of O.ld Fel- lows in 1855, in which he has passed all the chairs, as well as in the Encampment; has been a member of the Masonie order since 1865, in which lodge he has been Secretary; and he was a member of the order of Knights of Pythias for many years. He is a zealous and able ad- vocate of the public-school system and of our form of government. As to the religions he is liberal in the widest sense. In psychologi- cal seience he is a Spiritualist; is now filling the position of second vice-president and seere- tary of the Lake Brady Association of Spiritu- alists.
Mr. Pope was married January 15, 1854, in Troy, Geanga county, to Miss Rebecca A.
Whitcomb, a native of the same township, born September 9, 1827. Her father, Israel Whit- comb, a native of Massachusetts and of Scotch ancestry, came to Ohio about 1809, and was a blacksmith and farmer. Her mother, whose maiden name was Abigail Holman, was also a native of the Bay State, of English descent. Mrs. Pope is the seventh and youngest child in their family. Mr. and Mrs. Pope have a son and a daughter; Lines Irving, was born in Troy, above mentioned, September 12, 1856, graduated at Chagrin Falls high school, at tended Buchtel College at Akron, this State, two and a half years, and has been manager of the Cleveland Window Shade Company from its first establishment, and is now its president and treasurer. He came to Cleveland in 1880, where he still resides, a successful business man. Hle married Aurelia Douglass September 25, 1877, and has one daughter, Eleanor, born June 8, 1890. lle is a member of the Masonic or- der, was a Councilman for the Thirty-seventh ward of Cleveland in 1890-'91; is a public- spirited man, and is now vice-chairman of the relief committee of the sixth district of this city. Ilis sister, Gertrude A., was born in Cha- grin Falls, April 3, 1870, and is now the wife of Ralph W. Hayes, city editor of the Joliet (Illinois) Republican. She is a graduate of Oberlin (Ohio) College, and was married Octo- ber 27, 1892, and now has a son, born August 15, 1893, and named Everett Pope Hayes.
R EV. D. HENRY MULLER, D. D., the Presiding Elder of Cleveland Dis- triet of the East Ohio Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, is a native of Baltimore, Maryland. His ancestors gener- ally have been members of this church. When a young man he left the city of Baltimore, be- gan his ministerial work very early in life, served one year in the Baltimore Conference, and in the Wisconsin Conference for five years, being stationed at Oshkosh and Milwaukee.
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For his ministerial work he was prepared at the theologieal school at Evanston, Illinois, having previously graduated at an academy in the city of Baltimore. He came into the ministry with a liberal education and with a mind and char- acter well suited to the calling, and to all this has been added a devout religious nature. In 1866 he was transferred to the Genesee Con- ference and was in Buffalo and Rochester, New York, for twelve years. From 1875 to 1877 he was pastor of Union Church in Covington, Ken- tueky. In 1879 he was transferred to the Erie Conference and served the First Methodist Episcopal Church at Erie for three years. In 1882 he was transferred to the East Ohio Con- ference, in which he preached five years, preaching at the Scovill Avenue and Central Churches in Cleveland. He was also located for four years at Canton, Ohio, where he preached in the First Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1891 he was appointed Presiding Elder of the East Ohio Conference and in this work he is still engaged, residing in Cleveland, Ohio.
The Illinois Wesleyan University, in 1875, conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity, and in 1893 the Mt. Union College conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of., Laws. Great success has attended all his la- bors as a minister. Ile is a preacher of elo- quenee and learning, carries conviction and en- kindles interest and enthusiasm.
W ILLIAM W. CALHOUN, whose name is well known in connection with the horticultural interests of Cuyahoga county, was born at Beaver Dam, Erie county, Pennsylvania, January 10, 1838. His parents, John C. and Polly (Coun) Calhoun, were natives of New York and Pennsylvania respectively; the father was a carpenter and joiner by trade, and followed this vocation all his life. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, and was discharged in Buffalo after that city had been burned. In
1814 he removed to Ohio, and there died at the age of eighty two years; his wife is also de- ceased. They reared a family of nine children, seven of whom still survive.
Our subject was engaged in gardening and huckstering in this county when there was a call for men to go to the front in defense of the Nation's tlag. Responding to that call he en- listed in Battery I, First Ohio Light Artillery. His first engagement was at Fredericksburg; later he was at the extreme right at Chancellors- ville, where he loaded the first piece fired there. He was transferred to the Twentieth from the Eleventh Army Corps, and was afterward in the siege of Chattanooga and the Atlanta campaign. Ile left Sherman before the famous march to the sea was begun, as he was in another wing of the army. When hostilities ecased he was at Dalton, Georgia; he was honorably discharged at Chattanooga in June, 1865, and soon after- ward arrived home. He was twice wounded with bullets, but received a more serious injury from a falling cannon. Battery I was said to be the only battery that dismounted their cannon in drill. This greatly pleased General Sehurz, and he promised the battery a great honor. This honor later proved to be the privi- lege of firing the salute to President Lincoln when he viewed the troops of the army of the Potomac. Prior to the campaign of Gettysburg the troops were called out for inspection by General Schurz. No. 1 piece, weighing 1,240 pounds, was attended by W. W. Calhoun and Morris Porter. While holding the piece in a perpendicular position, waiting for the order to dismount, the cannon tipped and doubled Mr. Calhoun to the earth. He was then sent to the hospital at Frederick City, where he remainedl several days. The injury to his back which he then received is said by doctors to be the cause of locomotor ataxia, from which he now greatly suffers. After his return home he resumed his old occupation of gardening.
Mr. Calhoun was married in the autumn of 1866 to Miss Helen Bosley, who died in 1872, the mother of three children: Alice Myrta,
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Sterling Wallace and Louis Byron. His second union was to Julia Berghoff, a daughter of Nicholas and Ellen Berghoff: one child has been born of this marriage, Anna Ellen, who is still a student; Sterling W. and Louis B. are engaged as traveling salesmen: Alice has won an envi- able reputation as a teacher.
In polities Mr. Calhoun is an ardent Repub- lican; he has been a member of the G. A. R., and was Colonel of the Ellsworth command; he was also Inspector General of the Union Veterans of Ohio and Indiana. Ile has an attractive home in East Cleveland and lives for the comfort and happiness of his family, of whom he is justly proud. Mrs. Calhoun is the third of a family of five children: Anna, wife of John Hess; Josephine, deceased, was the wife of Nicholas Hess; Frances and George. The father is still living, at the age of seventy-six years; the mother died in 1865, aged thirty- three years.
R EV. ANTHONY HYNEK, pastor of the St. Wenceslas Catholic Church, Bo- hemian, on Arch street, in the city of Cleveland, was born in Seez, Bohemia, in 1839, the only child of Peter and Catherine Ilynek, who died when he was a mere child. lle pursued his school studies in the gymna- sium at Komotan, Bohemia, for eight years, then at the University of Prague, and next studied theology in the Episcopal Seminary in Leitmertz, where he was ordained priest in 1865. For three years he was then assistant pastor or chaplain in Radonitz, and for an ad- ditional period of three years he held a similar position at Gartitz, and in 1871 came to America.
For nearly a year after coming to this eoun- try he was an assistant priest in Allegheny City, of the Pittsburg diocese; then he came to Cleveland, where he organized and became pas- tor of the congregation (Bohemian) of St. Pro- kop (in Latin, Procopius). Purchasing four
lots, 140 x 160 feet, he had the plan devised and executed for the church edifice. He prosecuted his work here with success until 1573, when he became pastor of the St. Wenceslas, which posi- tion he is now filling with acceptable fidelity. For the first two years in the last relation he remained also the pastor of St. Prokop's Church. For his present charge he has succeeded in building two very nice schoolhouses, with rooms sufficient to accommodate about 400 pupils, and he has also succeeded in building a hall and a parish home (parsonage). Besides, he has inaugurated eight benevolent societies and done mneh other work too tedious to describe in this connection. Ilis congregation grew so large that in 1882 he had to divide it, organiz- ing the congregation of St. Mary's of Our Lady of Lourdes, Bohemian, on Ham street, for which he bought six lots and erected a tempo- rary church building. Also in 1553 he origin- ated St. Adalbert Church, Bohemian, on Lin- eolu avenne, buying four lots, 178 x 200, build- ing and enlarging a few years later a tempo- rary church edifice, which is also used for a school.
Under his charge Mr. Hynek has 400 fami- lies. llis old church is nicely furnished, hav- ing stained-glass windows and frescoed walls, while outside the best improvements appear; but it was so small and far from the center of the parish that in 1886 he bought from O. M. Stafford five lots on Broadway, for $10,250, and thereupon has now built a new house of wor- ship, in Gothie style, which when completed will have cost about $80,000, and will be one of the largest and finest churches in the beautiful city of Cleveland; the architect is Mr. Van Deodde. This church has six bells, costing $2,400, the weight of the largest one being 7,000 pounds. The front of the building and the two towers are of stone; the other walls, of briek. The dimensions of the building are 90 x 175 l'eet; and the height of the principal tower is 228 leet.
In 1890 was celebrated Father Hynek's sil- ver jubilee of twenty five years of successful
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priesthood. llis congregation and associates made him donations of church ornaments, chalices, pictures, etc., the cost of all which probably reaching $1,500.
A review of Father Hynek's work is of inter- est, and the success that he has achieved in building up the several congregations with which he has been connected as pastor and or- iginator, marks him as one of the strongest or- gauizers and enthusiastic workers as a pastor; and, being a man of a high order of education and a speaker of power and eloquence, his in- fluence is perceptibly felt among his people, who have unlimited confidence in him, and re- pose in him great deference.
D R. JONATHAN MACK VAN NOR- MAN, 289 Pearl street, Cleveland, Ohio, dates his birth in Canada, September 1, 1823. His parents were Isaac and Catherine Van Norman, natives respectively of Pennsyl- vania and New Jersey. Isaac Van Norman was a local preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church, was by occupation a farmer and mill- wright, and was a man of more than ordinary genius. He was in his ninety-third year at the time of his death. His wife lived to be seventy. She was a remarkably sweet singer, and her life, like that of her worthy husband, was adorned with rare Christian graces. They had ten chil- dren, Jonathan M. being the ninth born. Out of this family of four sons and six daughters, only the Doctor and three sisters remain. They are as follows: Betsey, wife of Ira Bullock, In- gersoll, Canada; Sarah Ann, widow of C. M. Luke, Toronto, Canada; and JJare Mack, widow of A. D. Emory, Burlington, Ontario.
Dr. Jonathan M. Van Norman received his classical education in Victoria College, at Co- burg, but graduated in medicine at MeGill Uni- versity, Montreal in 1850. Immediately after his graduation he began the practice of his profes- sion at Burlington, Ontario. He spent about one year there, then about two years in Hamil- ton, Ontario, and from there removed to De-
troit, Michigan, where he remained for twenty- nine years, meeting with eminent success. At the end of this time overwork and ill health compelled him to seek a change of location, and he spent one year among friends in Hamilton, Ontario. October 19, 1889, he took up his abode in Cleveland, with his nephew, Dr. U. B. Van Norman, and here he has since remained, not, however, in active practice.
While a resident of Canada, the Doctor was commissioned Coroner of the counties of Went- worth and Halton, in which capacity he served seven years, resigning when he came to the Uni- ted States. This was a life appointment, was made by the Crown, and was unsought and un- expected by him.
Dr. Van Norman was married in the spring of 1850 to Miss Sarah Eliza Emory, daughter of A. D. Emory. She died April 11, 1891, aged sixty-one years, and without issue. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and hers was a beautiful Christian character. The Doctor is also a member of this church, and both he and his nephew are earnest temperance workers. The elder Doctor has since its or- ganization occupied the position of Grand Sec- retary of the Ohio jurisdiction, Royal Templars of Temperance, and is also Associate Supreme Medical Examiner for the Royal Templars of the United States. While he takes pleasure in administering to the temporal wants of the sick, his greatest deliglit is in administering to their spiritnal wants, and much of his time is spent in talking, singing and praying with the sick and afflicted.
0 TIS HARRISON GOULD, one of the prominent pioneers of Cuyahoga county, is a native of New England, born in Hampshire county, Massachusetts, November 15, 1815. His father, Daniel Gould, was born in the same place, November 11, 1780; he was a carpenter and tanner by trade. In 1817 he emigrated to Delaware county, Ohio, and two years later removed to Sum-
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mit county, Ohio, where he resided three years, working at his trade. In December, 1825, he came to Cuyahoga county and took up his abode in a log house on land in Bedford township. In January, 1526, he brought his family to the present site of the village of Bed- ford, and there erected the second frame house in the settlement. Here he remained the rest of his life, which ended after eighty-four years. Ile was a member of the Disciple Church, and was a deacon of that society. lle was a mem- ber of the Whig, Free Soil and Republican parties successively, and served as township trustee and as school director; he was the first mayor of the village of Bedford. He married Mary Snell, a native of Massachusetts and a daughter of Isaiah Snell, who was also born in Massachusetts of English lineage. The paternal grandfather of our subject was Daniel Gould, Sr., a native of Massachusetts and a descendant of English ancestors; he lived to the age of eighty-six years. Mary Snell Gould died at the age of seventy-eight years. Otis Harrison Gould is the eldest of a family of five children: Laura S. Remington died November 14, 1893; her husband Stephen G. Remington, was promi- nently and favorably know as one of the early educators of this county; he died July 2, 1890; Orris P. was born in 1819; Dr. Charles L. was born in 1825 and died in 1861; Ralph E., born in 1828, died in 1835. Otis II. was an infant of two years when his parents came to Ohio. He received his education in the log schoolhouse with its primitive furnishings and yet more primitive instruction. When he had grown to manhood he began to learn the carpenter's trade, and incidentally chopped a good deal of cord- wood, and assisted in the erection of sawmills in different localities.
In 1842 Mr. Gould went to Steuben county, Indiana, and remained there three years during which time he served as minister in the Dis- ciple Church. Upon his return to Bedford township he purchased the farm on which he still lives, having disposed of a tract of 160 acres, which he had previously bought.
lle was first married at Cleveland, Ohio, in 1867, this union being to Elizabeth Prestage, who bore three children, all of whom died in infancy. The mother is also deceased. Mr Gould was married a second time, July 25, 1871, to Margaret Whiteside, who was born in county Monaghan, Ireland, October 29, 1847. She came to this country with some relatives in 1867. Iler parents are Michael and Nellie Whiteside, natives of Ireland; they crossed the sea to the United States of America in 1881, and settled on an improved farm; the father died at the age of eighty-four years; the mother survives at the age of seventy-eight. Mr. and Mrs. Gould have a family of six children: Mamie E., born May 26, 1872, is a graduate of Iliram College; Charles J., born October 1, 1873, is a student in the Western Reserve Uni- versity in Cleveland; Annie L., born May 8, 1875, is a student in Iliram College; D. Lewis was born November 18, 1878; Hattie B. was born January 5, 1881; and O. Edward, born Jannary 6, 1885.
Politically Mr. Gould acts with the Repub- lican party, and has represented that body in several local offices, discharging his duties with ability and fidelity. IIe and his wife belong to the Disciple Church, in which they are un- tiring workers.
C HARLES YARHAM, Middleburg town- ship, was born in Norfolk county, Eng- land, November 12, 1820, a son of Will- iam and Mary (Williamson) Yarham. When he was thirteen years old he came with his parents to Canada, where they died. In 1843 he removed to Cuyahoga county, Ohio, and set- tled in Rockport township, where he lived two years, in 1815 removing to the farm in Middle- burg township, where he has since lived. This farm comprises fifty-eight acres, and he has added to its value by improvements.
Hle was married in Canada, May 31, 1812, to Miss Jano Tadhope, who was born in Lanark-
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shire, Scotland, June 11, 1820. She came to Canada with her father and the family, the mother having died in Scotland. Her father, William Tudhope, died in Canada; her mother was Agnes Cadso. Mr. and Mrs. Yarham are the parents of two sons: William J., the eldest; was a member of the sixty-fifth Ohio Light In- Fantry, and was a prisoner of war confined in Libby prison, where he contracted small-pox and was taken to the hospital at Danville, North Carolina, where he died, in January, 1863; Walter, the second son, was a soldier in the army a sharpshooter -and was shot at the capture of the Weldon Railroad, in Virginia, in August, 1864. Mr. and Mrs. Yarham have one adopted daughter, Bessie JJ. Yarham.
Mr. Yarham filled some of the minor offices of the township in an early day, and was School Director for sixteen years.
EVERETT HL. JOHNSON, a worthy citizen of Dover township, Cuyahoga county, is the son of Ilon. Leverett Johnson, who was born in Woo.Ibury, Connec- tient, July 17, 1797; and his wife, nee Abigail Cahoon, was a native of Vergennes, Vermont, born May 6, 1796. They arrived in Cuyahoga county in October, 1810, and were married in Dover township, where they passed the re- mainder of their lives. They had reared nine children, of whom the subject of this brief sketeh was the seventh.
lle was born September 17, 1827, in Dover township, where he has always resided. No- vember 14, 1852, he married Miss Marietta Reed, who was born in Conneaut, Ashta- bula county, this State, December 15, 1835, a daughter of Benjamin and Maria (Patterson) Reed. They had seven children who grew up, of whom Mrs. Johnson was the eldest. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson have had five children, two of whom died in childhood.
Mr. Johnson has been a Notary Public since 1872, was Justice of the Peace twelve years,
and has held all the township offices with the exception of Treasurer. He has always taken an active part in the public welfare, taking a zealons interest in the cause of the Republican party ever since its organization. lle and his wile have taken an active and efficient part in religious work, and for many years, Mr. John- son has been a Deacon of the church.
RED MORWICK, a passenger condnetor on the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad, and an efficient and faithful employee, began braking for the com- pany in 1869. Within three years he was put upon a stone train as condnetor, and in time reached higher grades of service, by degrees, being given, in 1887, a passenger run.
Mr. Morwiek was born in Cleveland, Febru- ary 27, 1850, attended public school, St. Mary's Catholic School and the Cleveland Institute, under Professor Humiston. Then he was clerk for R. M. N. Taylor in his grocery house, next was two years with William Il. Sholl in the beef and pork packing business, and then com- menced railroading as brakeman on the Lake Shore road about two years, starting in 1867. In 1869 he commenced for the Big Four Com- pany as brakeman, and later worked up to bo freight conductor, which position he had from 1873 to 1888, since which time he has been passenger conductor for the same company. He is a member, and has been secretary, of the Order of Railway Conductors, Cleveland Divis- ion. During the war he was employed by the Government about three months, but not as an enlisted man, in taking care of stock.
lle was married April 13, 1874, to Miss Lottie Geiger, daughter of Michael Geiger, of Cleveland, and Mr. and Mrs. Morwick have two children,- Jennie 1 .. and Freddie T. Both the parents are members of the Catholic Church.
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