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Luther Brainerd grew up on his father's farm, attended school in the log schoolhouse near his home and also took a course in the academy at Brooklyn village. He has been en-
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gaged in general farming all his life. IFe owns fifty acres of good land and is comfortably situated.
Mr. Brainerd was first married in 1841 to Marcia Sprague, a native of New Hampshire, who died some years later, leaving him with a family of three children, Naney A., Lewis A. and Frank L., all of Brooklyn township. He was married in 1881 to Ann J. Sprague, a na- tive of Ohio, and a sister of his first wife.
Mr. Brainerd takes a commendable interest in the local affairs, and has held several of the school offices. Formerly he affiliated with the Republican party, but of recent years he has been a Prohibitionist. For many years a mem- ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church, he has served in it as a Trustee, Steward and Treasurer.
M W. CARLISLE, merchandise broker and manufacturing agent, residing at 1289 Cedar avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, was born in Chillicothe, Ohio, October 26, 1828. Ilis parents were John, Sr., and Elizabeth Carlisle, of whom see elsewhere in this volume. lle was educated in the common schools of Chillicothe, and in the Chillicothe Academy. In the latter, for many years, his instructor was William D. Wesson, one of the noted and highly accomplished educators of that part of Ohio.
After school days he engaged in the lumber business, owning a sawmill at the mouth of Sunfish creek in Pike county, Ohio, on the Ohio canal. He owned then about 5,000 acres of well timbered land. He turned the timber into Inmber, and after the great fire in Chillicothe of 1852 he sold a large amount of lumber for rebuilding the houses of the city. It was a splendid business at that time. He sold the sawmill in 1855, and then went West to Illinois and traveled several years prospecting. IFe was appointed during . the late war by Governor Dennison as sutler for the Thirty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and continued as sutler for that regiment until the war closed in 1865.
After the war he engaged in the wholesale gro- eery business in Chillicothe, Ohio, under the firm name of Allston & Carlisle. In this he continued for two years, then sold out and went to Cincinnati, Ohio. Ile also engaged in the same business there, and had a branch house in Memphis, Tennessee, where they supplied the five government hospitals with all kinds of food. In this they were prospered. IIe closed that business out in the fall of 1865, then managed the Cincinnati (Ohio) house until 1866, when he sold that out too, and returned to Chilli- cothe, where he remained some time. In 1876 he engaged in the flouring business in the town of Worthington, Nobles county, Minnesota, which he conducted for two years, afterward selling out and returning with his family to Chillicothe, where he remained until he came to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1883. IIe has been engaged in his present business ever since.
Ile was married to Miss Emma V. Barr, September 1, 1859, in Chillicothe, Ohio, daugh- ter of John II. Barr, an editor at Wilmington, Delaware. Following were Mr. and Mrs. Carlisle's children: Henry Nelson, Jr., who died at six years of age; William Woodson, manu- facturer of varnishes and chemicals in Chicago, Illinois; Charles Arthur, residing at Sonth Bend, Indiana, and is a member of the cele- brated and world renowned Studebaker Broth- ers Manufacturing Company, the largest and wealthiest concern of its kind in the world: September 17, 1891, he married Anne, only daughter of Hon. Clem Studebaker, the presi- dent and founder of the Studebaker Company; Isabella Barr, only daughter, resides with her parents; John Andrew, Harvard student; Addi- son Alexander, electrical engineer, who was in charge of an extensive and important division of the electrical lighting of the World's Colum- bian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois, in 1893, in- elnding the famous Peristyle, Casino, Music Ilall and the Grand Basin; Meade R. and Me- Lain D. (twins), who both died in infancy; Robert S., a student in the public schools of Cleveland.
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Both our subject and wife are members of the Presbyterian Church. In the communion of this church they have been faithful and de- voted for many years. Upright and honorable in all his dealings, Mr. Carlisle conducts his business by methods which commend him to the favor and confidence of the trade, and he is justly regarded as one of Cleveland's most worthy and influential citizen3.
John Carlisle, Sr., was a native of Ireland, who came to America in the latter part of the eighteenth century, and it is presumed settled in Pennsylvania. He came to Chillicothe in 1798, while this State was yet one of the Ter- ritories, and settled there. lle was a pioneer merchant, having a main store in Chillicothe, and branch stores in surrounding towns. He obtained all his goods from Philadelphia over the mountains, and in his trips back and forth . he traveled on horseback. He did an extensive business for that day, and toward the close of life for a number of years was elected and re- elected to the important office of Commissioner of Ross county, Ohio. Ilis re-election for sev- eral terins speaks in unmistakable terms of the high esteem in which he was held for his official services well rendered in a place of public trust. He was well and favorably known for many years over the southern portion of Ohio. In the matter of dress, he loved the fashions of other days, etc., wore knee buckles of pure silver, as were worn in Colonial times. These knee buckles are still in possession of the fam- ily. The First Presbyterian Church of Chilli- cothe, Ohio, had a debt. hanging over it for many years which the society could not liqui- date. Mr. Carlisle paid the debt from his own purse, and presented the same free of debt to the Presbyterian Church members of Chilli- cothe. lle was for many years a member of the Presbyterian Church. His wife, too, was one of the pillars of the same church. She was a generous, kind-hearted, charitable Christian woman, fully living up to the precepts of the gospel and possessing all the qualities of noblest womanhood. She was highly esteemed and
loved by a large circle of acquaintances. The John Carlisle pew in that church was reserved for them for many years in token of his many kind and courteons services rendered.
The nine children born to John Carlisle, Sr., and wife are as follows: Andrew, deceased; William, deceased; John, deceased; Eleanor Ann, deceased; Henry Nelson, deceased; Eliza- beth, widow of the late Rev. Irwin Carson, for many years pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Chillicothe, Ohio; Lucy, an invalid for many years; Julia, deceased, who was the wife of Samuel P. Officer: she died in the twenty-third year of her age; Meade Woodson, the youngest.
M. W. Carlisle's father was an ardent poli- tician and a great admirer of Henry Clay, with whom he was intimately acquainted, and our subject has in his possession, signed by Henry Clay, Secretary of State, a passport dated Jan- nary 25, 1827, also a letter to an influential friend, highly commending him as a friend and an acquaintance of many years' standing, when Mr. Carlisle visited Mexico. On April 4, 1807, the fifth year of the independence of Ohio, he received a commission as Captain of Ohio mili- tia. Said document is yet well preserved and in the possession of our subject. John Carlisle, Sr., died in Chillicothe, Ohio, July 19, 1847, at the ripe old age of seventy-six years. His wife died January 28, 1849, aged sixty-two years. The lives, influence and example of this aged couple are an endearing heritage to the family, the community in which they lived, and the church of their choice.
Charles Arthur Carlisle, assistant general manager and purchasing agent of the Chicago & South Bend Railroad, with office at South Bend, Indiana, was born May 3, 1864, at Chilli- cothe, Ross county, Ohio, being the son of Meade Woodson and Emma O. Carlisle; was educated by a private tutor, and entered railway service in 1883, since which time he has been employed as follows: 1883-'84, messenger for the Marietta & Cincinnati Railway, now the Cincinnati, Washington & Baltimore Railway; 1884-85, with the Ohio State Journal at Co-
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lumbus, Ohio; 1885-'86, bill and freight clerk for local freight of the Nickel Plate Railway at Cleveland, Ohio; 1886-'87, assistant chief clerk in local freight and cashier of the same road; 1887-'88, cashier of joint stations of the same road at the same place; 1888-'89, private secre- tary to the general manager of the Toledo & Ohio Central Railway at Toledo, Ohio; 1889- '90, private secretary and purchasing agent of that road at the same place; 1890-'91, purchas- ing agent of the Toledo & Ohio Central and Toledo, Columbus & Cincinnati Railways, at Toledo; 1891-'92, purchasing agent of the Toledo & Ohio Central, Toledo, Columbus & Cincinnati and Kanawha & Michigan Railways, with headquarters at Toledo; and 1892 to the present, the office already mentioned; and he was chosen treasurer February 1, 1893.
W A. SPILKER, manager of the National Furniture Company of Cleveland, was born in Cuyahoga county, December 29, 1857. llis father, Henry Spilker, was born in Prussia, in 1822. IIe left his native land in 1848 and came to Cleveland, where he was en- gaged as a well-digging contractor so long as he was in active business. Ife married in Cleve- land, Annie Schriber, a lady of Swiss birth. Of this union eight children were born, six of whom are now living. W. A. is the eldest and he received his education from the city schools. In 1870 he left school and entered on a three- years term as an apprentice at upholstering. On the completion of his apprenticeship he was engaged by James Moriarity, a well known dealer, now on Euclid avenne, with whom he remained eight years. Ile then took the manage- ment of Herman Junge's furniture establish- ment and conducted it successfully ten years; and in January, 1889, Mr. Spilker was a prime mover in the organization of the National Furni- ture Company, of which he is a stockholder, director and manager.
Mr. Spilker evinced a liking for political bouts, and demonstrating his strength as an organizer of political forees he soon became a party leader. In 1890 his party put him forward as a Republican candidate for Councilman from the Thirty-fifth ward. This ward was very strongly Democratie, but Mr. Spilker's personal popularity carried him through with a safe inajority. Upon districting the city Mr. Spil- ker was thrown into the Ninth district, with a Democratic majority of 1,300 to face. IIe made the race again in 1892, and was elected in the face of these great odds, coming out of the fight with a majority of 57 votes.
On the organization of the Council Mr. Spil- ker was chosen its Vice President. Ile is chairman of the committee on Fire and a mem- ber of the committee on Police and Department Examination.
June 6, 1879, Mr. Spilker married Lottie . Unkrich, of German birth, and a daughter, Elma, twelve years old, is their only child.
Mr. Spilker has been prominently connected with the bowling fraternities of Cleveland for a number of years. He was active in the organ- ization of the old Forest City Club, and was many years its president. Ile is a Knight of Pythias, and was First Lieutenant of the Red Cross Division till his election to the Council.
S TEPLIEN R. SQUIRE, of Berea, was born in Addison, Vermont, July 18, 1814, where he spent the first sixteen years of his life. Ilis father, Rev. Jesse Squire, a Methodist preacher, married Mary Roscoe, and in 1833 he brought his family to Ohio, set- tling in Elyria. He died at the residence of his daughter in Cuyahoga county, about 1854. Stephen R. came to Ohio with his father and learned the blacksmith's trade, serving an ap- prenticeship of five years. IIe followed his trade for many years in different places, and in 1848 came to Berea, where he remained till about 1887, when he moved to his farm in
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the vicinity of that village. After spending three years on the farm he returned to town, where he lives a retired life.
Ile was married in Lorain county, Ohio, April 22, 1819, to Mrs Julia Porter Hoadley, widow of James Hoadley, who died in Colum- bia in 1844. She had one son by this marriage, Rev. B. J. Hoadley. Mrs. Squire was born in Strongsville, Cuyahoga county, May 15, 1826, where she was reared. They have had two children: George, who died when about four- teen years old; and Frank, who married Lula Richards, and is a farmer by occupation. Mrs. Squire's father was Chipman Porter, and both her parents were natives of Massachusetts, who came to Berea in its early days and lived there until their death.
Mr. Squire was a member of the Berea School Board for a long term of years. Mr. and Mrs. Squire have been members of the Methodist Episcopal Church for many years, in which re- ligions body he has heldl numerous offices.
AMES ALBERT ANDERSON, late of Bedford, Ohio, was one of the most active business men of the place. IIe was born in Trumbull county, Ohio, August 24, 1834, a son of William Anderson, an early settler of the county, who had charge of the infirmary there for some time. Ile was a native of Ohio, and died in early life, leaving a widow and two children.
James A. was educated at Mt. Union College, Ohio. Later he went to Rockford, Illinois, where he elerked in a store for some time. Afterward he went to Charles City, Floyd county, Iowa, where he resided for some time on a farm. From thenee he returned to Ohio, and started in the coal business with his step- father, William Cranage. They carried on an extensive business in eoal in Columbiana county for many years. Mr. Anderson settled in Cleve- land, where he lived for over thirty years. Hle
moved to Bedford in 1889, laid out Glendale and made the allotment to Bedford. Ile also put in the electric lights at Bedford and was most active in the improvement of the town.
Mr. Anderson was married June 23, 1881, to Miss Kate Kuhn, a lady of edneation and good
family, a successful teacher before her marriage, teaching for seven years in the grammar school at Salineville, Ohio. She was born in Indiana county, Pennsylvania, as a daughter of Rev. Samnel Kuhn, a prominent United Presbyterian minister.
H ENRY M. MATHEWS, an auetioncer and the proprietor of a livery, feed and sale stable in Sonth Brooklyn, Ohio, is prominently identified with the progress and development of this town.
Mr. Mathews was born in Brecksville town- ship, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, September 3, 1850. Ile is a son of George Mathews and a grandson of Moses Mathews, the former a native of New York and the later of Vermont. Moses Mathews emigrated with his family to
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Ohio at an early day and settled on a farm in Parma township, Cuyahoga county, George Mathews at that time being a mere boy. George grew up on his father's farm, and was engaged in farming for many years. Hle was married in Brecksville township to Clementina Righter, a native of Newburg township, this county. Her father, John Righter, was born in Penusyl- vania, and was one of the first settlers of New- burg township. Ile served in the war of 1812. From Brecksville township George Mathews ro- moved to Royalton township, this county, where he still lives. Ile and his wife had a family of three children, two sons and one daughter.
The subject of our sketch attended the dis- triet school at Wallings Corners until he was eighteen years of age. Early in life he dis- played a fondness for stoek, and when he was only fifteen years old commenced speculating in cattle and hogs. When he was eighteen he be- gan business for himself, farming and buying and selling stock, and at the age of twenty he launched out as an anetioneer, responding to calls from various places throughout the county.
November, 23, 1876, he married Miss Tamer Oakes, who was born in Royalton township, this county, daughter of Henry and Hannah Oakes, early settlers of Cuyahoga county. Mr. and Mrs. Mathews have one son, Mort II., born June 21, 1879.
After his marriage Mr. Mathews removed to West Richfield, Summit county, Ohio, where he lived two years, engaged in auetioneering and stock dealing. Since 1878 he has been a resi- dent of South Brooklyn. For four years he was landlord of the old Fuller house which stood on the present site of the Johnson house. After his hotel experience he devoted his time wholly to the buying and selling of stoek and to quetioneering, and ere long gained a reputation for being the most successful auctioneer in the county. Ilis stock business inereased to snch an extent that in 1890 he found it necessary to build his present stables. These stables have a capacity of forty head of horses. lle annually handles no less than twenty car-loads of horses.
When the village of Brooklyn was incorpo- rated Mr. Mathews was one of its first council- men, and so well did he serve the people that he was elceted for a second term. lle is a member of Riverside Lodge, No. 346, K. of P., and of Empire Lodge, I. O. O. F., at North Royalton. A self-made man, and one of the strictest in- tegrity whose word is as good as his bond, Mr. Mathews is deservedly popular among his fellow citizens.
M ARCUS A. BROWN, deceased, was for many years a respected citizen of Parma township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, and as such it is appropriate that personal mention be made of him in this work. Follow- ing is a brief sketch of his life:
Marens A. Brown was born in Waterbury, Vermont, July 28, 1818, and in his native place his boyhood days were spent. In 1833 he left the Green Mountain State to seek a home in the West, in the fall of that year landed in Cuyahoga county, Ohio, and in Parma township pur- chased a tract of land, which, ere long, he developed into a fine farin. This farm com- prised 242 acres, its location being in the center of the township. In this county, December 28, 1843, he married Miss Artemosia Burnham, a native of DeKalb, New York, born October 19, 1823. As the years passed by sons and daughters grew up around them, and some of the little ones who came to bless their home were taken away in infaney. Of their family of twelve children we make record as follows: Francis W. is a resident of Cleveland, Ohio; Henry E. resides in Toledo, Ohio; Washington I. lives in Cleveland; Agnes L. is the wife of C. II. Stearns, Cleveland; Nora A. is the wife of A. W. Parsehen, Cleveland; Albert, Alice and Emma died in infancy; George A. also makes his home in Cleveland; Edgar N. is a resident of Parma, Ohio; Marcus E. lives in Parma township, Cuyahoga county: IIattie II. is the wife L. D. Klein. Tho parents of this
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large and highly-respected family have both passed away, the mother having died November 20, 1888, and the father October 9, 1893. The Former was a member of the Presbyterian Church, and both by their many estimable traits of character won the respect and esteem of all who knew them.
Their son Mareus E. was born in Parma township April 19, 1860, and in Cuyahoga county was married May 30, 1888, to Miss Mamie A. Putnam, a native of Platteville, Wis- consin, born August 30, 1868. They have three children, Grace A., Fred 1. and Ethel M.
E N. GATES, a prosperous farmer and dairyman of Brooklyn township, and a soldier of the last war, was born on the farm where he now lives, December 14, 1841. Ilis father, Clark S. Gates, was born in Delhi, New York, and came to this county in 1824, locating upon this place with his father Na- thaniel Gates, a native of Connecticut. At that early day they came with ox teams, much of the way on unimproved roads and fording un- bridged streams. Arriving here they found plenty of work to do in the way of clearing land and placing the necessary improvements upon it. Mr. Clark S. Gates did most of the work in improving the homestead. IIe was well and favorable known throughout the county. llis father huilt a saw-mill, which he ran many years. Was a Republican in his political views, and Assessor of his township many years, and Trustee. Ile was a member of Glenn Lodge, No. 263, I. O. O. F., and of Brooklyn Post, No. 368, G. A. R., having in the last war been the Major of the First Ohio Battery of Volunteers.
For his wife he married Sarah A. Ilinkley, a native of Connecticut, who was a young girl when brought by her father, Isaac Ilinkley, to this county, and she died at the age of sixty-two years; and Mr. Gates, to whom she was married in this township, died in his seventy-third year, highly respected by all who knew him. Ilis
children are: George II., of Cleveland; Walter II., of Brooklyn township; Edwin N., whose name heads this sketeh; Charles S., who died when young; Cynthia M., deceased; and Cap- tain Alvin S., on the Cleveland police force.
August 3, 1862, Mr. E. N. Gates enlisted in Company A, One Hundred and Twenty-four Regiment, Ohio Volunteer' Infantry, as a private, nder Captain William Wilson, and continued. in the service of his country until the elose of the war in 1865, participating in some heavy battles, as Chickamauga, September 19, 1863, where he was wounded in the hand by a minie ball. IIe was taken to the hospital at Nashville, Tennessee, and afterward transferred to other places. IIe had charge of 150 men at Tod Barracks, Columbus, Ohio, for ten months.
In 1863 he married Mary E. Styer. For his second wife he wedded, in 1872, Ellen C. Prindle, a native of Lorain county, this State, reared in Cuyahoga county. Mr. and Mrs. Gates have a daughter and a son,-Amy A. and Ilarry L.
For many years after the close of the war Mr. Gates was engaged in various kinds of busi- ness, in Cleveland,-the milk trade for eleven years. In 1886 he located upon the farm where he now lives and farms ninety acres of land, of good quality, and is prosecuting the dairy busi- ness. Ile is a member of Glenn Lodge, No. 263, I. O. O. F., of Brooklyn Lodge, No. 163, K. of P., and of Brooklyn Council. Politically he is a stanneh Republican.
W ILLIAM J. ROBERTSON, car account- ant of the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Company, was born September 7, 1864, at Oswego, New York, a son of Andrew and Ruth (Glassford) Robert-
son. Until he was fourteen years old he at- tended the public schools at Oswego. At that time he entered the employ of the Western Union Telegraph Company as messenger, and later was employed in the office of J. B. Don- nelly, retail coal dealer. Leaving Oswego in
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the summer of 1883, he located at Chicago and secured employment as clerk in the car ac- conntant's office of the Chieago and North- western Railroad Company, where he remained until 1886. Ile then went to St. Paul, Minne- sota, as chief clerk, and later as acting car accountant of the Minnesota & Northwestern Railroad Company, and in 1888 came to Cleve- land to accept the position of chief clerk of the department over which he now presides, having been promoted November 15, 1891.
Mr. Robertson was married July 28, 1891, in Chicago, to Josephine Augusta, daughter of Dr. Augustus Pool, of Oswego, New York.
H R. MOORE, the general freight agent of the Cleveland, Canton & Southern Railway Company, entered the railroad service in Cleveland, in 1872, in the capacity of clerk, in the local office of the Lake Shore & Michigan Railroad Company. Ile continued with that company in various clerical positions, sixteen years, when he was made the company's contracting freight agent, serving until Jannary, 1890, when he was tendered and accepted the office of general freight agent of the Cleveland, Canton & Sonthern Railroad Company.
Mr. Moore was born in Cleveland, February 16, 1856, and received a liberal education, graduating from the High School in 1872.
EWIS B. IIERRINGTON .- A descend- ant of one of the pioneer families of Cuy- ahoga county, and himself a native of this county, where his entire life has been passed, it is certainly most congruous that special men- tion of Mr. Ilerrington be made in this con- nection. Ile is now a prosperous farmer and well-known resident of Rockport hamlet, his birthplace having been in Middleburg town- ship, where he was ushered into the world August 5, 1823.
The father of our subject, the late David Ilerrington, was a native of Otsego county, New York, whenee he came to Ohio in the fall of 1820. This long and wearisome journey to the new and slightly developed section of the Union was made on foot, and in the light of the conditions prevailing in that same section to-day it is almost impossible to imagine the scene which must have presented itself to this en- ergetic and courageous pioneer. He reached Cuyahoga county in due time and there he re- mained during the following winter. In the spring he returned to his home in Otsego county, but in 1822, with his wife and one child, he again set forth for the Western Re- serve, this time with the intention of settling permanently and establishing a new home in Cuyahoga county. The trip on this occasion was tedious in the extreme, being made with ox teams, which transported the little family and all their worldly possessions. They were compelled to ford or swim the swollen streams along the route, and through the whole dis- tance they found only two streams which were spanned by bridges. Arriving at their desti- nation they settled in Middleburg township, where they remained until the early spring of 1824, when they removed to Rockport town- ship and settled on the farm where our subject now resides. The maiden name of David Her- rington's wife was Alma Card. These honored pioneers both passed their remaining days in Rockport township, where the father's death occurred September 21, 1849, and the mother's April 12, 1881. They had seven children, namely: William, Lewis B., Elijah D., Daniel, Lucy, Horatio and Martin.
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