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In 1876 he spent several months in travel through Great Britain and the continent. Being a close observer of men and affairs, the trip was fraught with the most valuable and interesting experiences.
Ilis religious faith is broad and liberal. He believes that all men will in the end be saved; that the eternal purposes of the Almighty will never be thwarted or turned aside by his erea- tures; that " Ile is good to all and His tender mercies are over all his works; " that the
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human mind is so organized that it will yield to treatment; that the wicked by association, discipline and punishment, under the guidance of the Divine Wisdom, will in the end be saved. It is a dim subject, but any other conclusion fails to satisfy the inquiring and intelligent mind. " If thon shouldst mark iniquities, who could stand?" Self-denial under God is the great power to reform the world, and all creeds and doctrines that do not teach and enforce this will prove a failure. Second probation is a thing to be hoped for in keeping with the eternal fitness of things.
Mr. Wagar ascribes to ambition, industry, contentment and a firm reliance on the Divine guidance to carry out the destiny that is as- signed to every one to perform with fidelity and to honor our calling.
Mr. Wagar has always enjoyed good health, never having ealled a physician, and is still bright and vigorons in his old age. He is one of the very few who remain that connect the early pioncer days with the present. Ile has witnessed the wonderful changes that have taken place. A dense forest, where the howl of the wolf and the screech of the panther have been heard, is now supplanted by the hum of the electric cars that pass by his door. He has seen Cleveland grow from a small villago with a few hundred inhabitants to a large city with over 300,000 inhabitants.
After fifty years of the elosest and holiest associations, Mr. and Mrs. Wagar celebrated the anniversary of their marriage with a golden wedding, to which relatives and cherished friends were bidden. Such happy privileges come to l'ew in life. May the touch of Time rest lightly upon their venerable heads and the shadows fall gently on their declining days!
C APTAIN JOHN B. HIALL, one of the oldest navigators living in the city of Cleveland, was born in Sackett's Harbor, Jefferson county, New York, in April, 1838. llis parents were John and Carrissa A. (Waldo)
Ilall. The father came from Alnwick, North- umberland, England, the family removing to this country about the close of the war of 1812. The greater part of his early life was spent in the business of rope-making, while his later days were spent on a small farm in Oswego county, New York. Carrissa A. Waldo was a native of Champion, Lewis county, that State, and she bore her husband two children, namely: Jolin B. and Margaret.
The subject of this sketch began the life of a sailor in 1855, on a tug boat. Ile was commis- sioned pilot in 1861. The first vessel he com- manded was the Olean. Ile has sailed upon all of the five great lakes, except Lake Ontario, with the following vessels: the Newburg, the Blanchard, the Dean Richmond, the St. Louis, the New York, the Toledo, the Havana, and for the last five years, ending in 1892, commanded the Corrona for the Mutual Transportation Com- pany of the eity of Cleveland. It is worthy of note that during the whole of his life as a navi- gator he has never lost a vessel.
In 1892 he permanently located upon terra firma. Ile then accepted the position of agent for the American Steel Barge Company at Cleve- land, which position he now holds.
Captain Ilall is a man of fine physique, and is well preserved both in body and mind. Ile is a man of pleasing appearance and genial dis- position, and is very popular wherever known.
W ILLIAM SIXT, of Rockport Hamlet, Ohio, was born in the kingdom of Wurtemberg, Germany, January 13, 1823, was brought up and educated in his na- tive country, and, leaving school at fourteen years of age, learned the business of butelier- ing, which he followed for two years in Wur- temberg, and for eight years in Ilolland, emi- grating from Holland to America in 1847. He eame to Cleveland, Ohio, where he kept a meat market and continued to do butchering till 1852, when he removed to Middleburg town- ship; thero he followed his trade for three
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years, after which he returned to Cleveland, where he remained till 1857. Ile then removed to Roekport township, loeating in that part now known as "Rockport Hamlet," and here he added to his regular trade the business of a sa- loon. In 1867 he relinquished the business of. butchering and built the hotel known as The Sherman House, in Rockport Hainlet, the keep- ing of which has since oeenpied his attention.
Mr. Sixt was married in Cleveland, Ohio, in March, 1850, to Miss Barbara Noderer. They had four children, namely: Matilda; Edward (who receives personal mention elsewhere in this volume); Lorinda and Emma. Mrs. Bar- bara Sixt died in Rockport in 1859. Mr. Sixt was again married, in Liverpool, Medina conn- ty, Ohio, to Johanna Hoeing. They have seven children, namely: Mena, Lydia, Wm. D., Emma, George, Charles and Herman.
Mr. Sixt has held the office of School Direc- tor and of Township Treasurer for sixteen years.
S OLON WRIGHIT SMITII was born in South Amherst, Massachusetts, February 21, 1816, where he lived the first twelve years of his life. Ile then removed with his father's family, of which he is the eldest child, to Marion, Wayne county, New York, where they remained four years. In the spring of 1832 the family emigrated to Ohio and settled in Middleburg township, this county, on the farm where the subject of this sketeh still re- sides, he having been at the time sixteen years old. For fourteen years they lived in a log house, which, in 1847, gave place to a comino- dions frame dwelling.
The country at that early date was covered with an almost unbroken wood, with but few roads laid out. The Bagley road was not chopped out, and was not made passable for teams until some years afterward. Mr. Smith helped to eut ont and open up all the roads in the east part of the township, where he lives, ruiming from the pike, the latter of which he has lived to see a fine paved avenne. Hle car-
ried surveyor's chain aud ax in the surveying of lots on each side of the pike, from the Parma line to the home of the late Ami Lovejoy. This was in the year 1833, the lots having previously all been taken up. On the street were then lo- cated Messrs. Lebbens Pomeroy, Daniel Smith with his seven sous, Charles Peebles, Major Bassett, Andrus Green, the Intehinsons, Ful- lers and others, who soon gave to that part of the township quite a cultivated appearance, transforming the dense forests into a beautiful land of smiling meadows and fields of waving grain.
The country abounded in game. Mr. Smith was a good marksman and was one of the famous hunters of those early days, having brought down a large number of deer, turkey and other game. One time he had been gone from the house only thirty minutes when he re- turned having shot and secured two large deer. Ile is acquainted with much interesting general history of the early settlement of the township. As a resident of sixty-two years, he has wit- nessed the great changes transpiring in that time. He was a Trustee of the township six years, until he declined to serve longer. llas been a life-long and snecessful farmer, has al- ways been a stanch Republican, his first vote for president being cast for General William Ilenry Harrison.
Ilis mother, whose maiden name was Naney Williams, was born in Easton, Massachusetts, May 30, 1794, and died in Middleburg, Ohio, March 24, 1890. She was remarkable for her healthful life and for her pleasing, happy dis- position. Although nearly ninety-six years of age, she passed away while yet in the beight of her beauty and loveliness.
His father, Daniel Smith, was born in Am- herst, Massachusetts, November 15, 1791, and died in Middleburg, July 17, 1866. He was a noted musician, was fife Major in the war of 1812, also a well-known and popular shoe- maker in the early history of the township.
The parents were both members of the Pres- byterian Church. They had nine children:
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Solon W .; Emeline E .; wife of Charles W. Bailey, died in Middleburg; Dwight C., who died in Middleburg; Daniel W., a resident of Delta, Ohio; Orman L., of Middleburg; Orus F., died in Mineral Ridge, Ohio; George E., died in Middleburg; Lyman J., of Toledo, Ohio; and Charlotte E., of Middleburg, Cuya- hoga county, Ohio.
C HARLES W. DAVIS, a young and pro- gressive man of business enterprise, was born in the city of Cleveland, June 30, 1867, a son of Dr. E. F. Davis, mentioned fur- ther on.
Mr. Davis is engaged in the real-estate and insurance business (office at 462 Pearl street), in which he has given evidence of ability and has been successful. ITe has had a systematic business education, having gradnated at the Spencerian Business College, after having at- tended the high-school of the city of Cleveland. Ile is a gentleman of easy manner, is a pleasant converser, and, although a young man, evinces extraordinary business tact. Ile is a director of the Ohio Savings Building and Loan Associ- tion. Politically he is a Republican, and takes a decided interest in the issues of the day.
In 1891 he married Miss Pauline R. Fetter man, of Cleveland, and both himself and wife are members of the Disciple Church, in which field they take an active and efficient part. Their residence is at 1328 Detroit street.
Dr. E. F. Davis, father of the preceding and a prominent physician of Cleveland, was born at Poland, Ohio, in 1829, a descendant of an early family in the settlement of this country. His ancestors were of Welsh origin, and among them there were several who were participants in the Revolutionary war as Colonial soldiers.
Dr. Davis graduated at the Eclectic Medical Institute at Cincinnati, Ohio, and has been in the active practice of medicine for forty yeurs. Twenty-three years ago he came to Cleve- land, and has since been prominent in the medical
profession at this place. He is an old practi- tioner, thoroughly well np in his profession, never having much love for politics, though a zealous Republican.
Besides being prominent in his profession he snstains important business relations, being president of the Ohio Savings Building and Loan Association, and connected with other business enterprises. In these relations also he shows that he is a man of shrewd judgment. Fraternally, he is a member of the Order of Odd Fellows. Ilis residence is at 1330 Detroit street.
C J. MILZ, president of the Bedford Chair Company, has been identified with the manufacturing interests of this place since his youth. Ile was born at Wheeling, West Virginia, December 14, 1858, a son of C. J. and Margaretha (Kloz) Milz; the father was born in Bavaria, Germany, and was a marble- entter and sculptor of some ability. There were four children in the family: Mary Wilson, who resides in Chicago; Louis and Philip, citi- zens of Bedford; and C. J., the subject of this notice. Young Milz was reared and educated at Bedford, and at the age of sixteen years se- cured a position with the Taylor Chair Com- pany; he remained with this firm until 1890, when the Bedford Chair Company was orga- nized with Mr. Milz as president; G. L. Bart- lett, vice-president; George McFarland, secre- tary; W. O. Gordon, superintendent.
The plant belonging to this corporation con- sists of a number of substantial buildings fitted with all modern mechanical appliances. Thirty- five men are employed.
Mr. Milz was united in marriage December 25, 1882, at Bedford, Ohio, to Miss Adelle Lamb, who was born in the State of Minnesota, the daughter of Hudson and Sylvia (Chamber- lin) Lamb, pioneers of Minnesota. Mr. and Mrs. Milz are the parents of two children: Ivan J. and Eva.
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Mr. Lamb died in his frontier home, but his wife survives him and is now a resident of Bed- ford.
In politics our subject affiliates with the Democratic party. He has always been inter- ested in broadening the opportunities offered the youth of this republic for acquiring an edu- cation, and at one time served very acceptably as a member of the School Board. Ile belongs to the Masonic order, being a member of Bed- ford Lodge, No. 375.
J S. EVANS, superintendent of telegraph of the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Rail- road Company, entered the service of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad Com- pany as extra operator, having just completed his preparations at Columbus Grove, Ohio. His first permanent position was at Tontogany, Ohio. IIe remained with this company until 1879, be- ing located at Tontogany, Perrysburg, and lastly at Deshler, before joining the Baltimore & Ohio Company at Garrett, Indiana. He was stationed there two years, when an order transferred him to Chicago, concluding his service with them one year afterward. His next work was for the Chicago, Pekin & Southwestern, stationed at Streator, Illinois, but he remained only six months, when he returned to Chicago for the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Company, as operator in the local office, in 1883. In the fall of 1884 he was removed to Fort Wayne, Indi- ana, as trian dispatcher, performing these duties till June, 1892, when his service was again re- warded by another promotion, being made sup- erintendent of telegraph with headquarters in Cleveland.
Mr. Evans was born in Putnam county, Ohio, November 3, 1862. ITis Father, D. W. Evans, was a farmer, a Welshman by nativity. IIe lo- cated in Eastern Ohio in 1833 and devoted his lifetime to farming. He married, in Portage. county, Ohio, Margaret Price, who died in 1876, Mr. Evans died in 1891, at the age of seventy -
even years. They had six children, five of whom are now living. Of the three sons two of them are mechanics: one John D. Evans, in Columbus, Ohio, and the other, E. D. Evans, in Chillicothe, Missouri.
J. S. Evans married, September 28, 1887, at Fort Wayne, Indiana, Miss Jennie Shoaff, and they have one child, Margaret, born March 22, 1890.
Mr. Evans is a member of the Association of Train Dispatebers of America, with the Tele- graphers' Mutual Benefit Aassociation, Rail- roaders and Telegraphers' Aid Society, and of the Railway Telegraph Superintendents' Associ- ation.
R OBERT FINDLEY PAINE was born in Connectient, May 10, 1810. Ilis ances- try can be traced back to Robert Treat Paine, a signer of the Declaration of In- dependence. When he was two years of age, his parents moved into New York State and very soon came West, settling in Portage county, Ohio.
Young Paine educated himself, as it were, his parents being too poor to send him even to the district school. While clerk at a cross- roads store he read law and was admitted to practice. In 1818 he was elected to the State Legislature, being compelled to go to Columbus on horseback, there being then no railroads. In the Legislature he secured the passage of the first law giving woman rights in property.
At the expiration of his term in the Legisla- ture, he resumed the practice of law, in Cleve land, and during the war was United States District Attorney for the Northern Ohio Dis- triet. Later he was elected to the Common Pleas Bench of Cuyahoga county, on which he served with distinction, retiring in 1874.
Judge Paine died September 23, 1888, leav- ing three children, all of whom are now living.
Robert F. Paine, Jr., was born in Cleveland, March 8, 1856, being the eldest son of Judge
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R. F. Paine. Robert Jr., received a common- school education. In 1879 he squeezed his way into journalismn, securing a position as reporter on the Penny Press, a paper just started in Cleveland by the Seripps brothers, of Detroit, Michigan. At twenty-five years of age young Paine was the editor-in-chief of a daily news- paper that was already on a prosperous basis, and this position he is still holding, the title of the paper, however, having been changed to The Cleveland Press.
A J. IIENSEY, vice-president of the Taylor Chair Company, is one of the progressive and energetie business men of Bedford. lle is a native of Ohio, born at Solon, Cuyahoga county, August 28, 1846, a son of Robinson W. and Lueinda (Brown) Hensey, na- tives of New York and Connectient respectively. The father emigrated to Cuyahoga county in 1840, and at the end of eight years returned to New York. He came again in 1877 and here passed the remainder of his days, his death oe- eurring in May, 1891, at the age of seventy-four years. The mother died in 1888, aged sixty- nine years. Young HIensey was reared and educated in Jefferson county, New York. ITis first experience with the world was as fireman in the employ of the Rome, Watertown & Og- densburg Railroad Company; he was promoted to the position of engineer, and served in this important capacity four months. He then went to the oil region of Pennsylvania, where he re- mained until 1865, coming in that year to Ohio.
Mr. Hensey was united in marriage . in 1872 to Caroline Taylor, daughter of W. O. and Har- riet M. Taylor, of Bedford. There were born to them six children: Joseph William, Ilattie L., Andrew F., Otto R., Vincent B. and Ada May. The mother died October 28, 1888. Mr. Ilen- sey was married a second time in 1891, to Mag- gie Gallagher, a daughter of Anthony and Elizabeth (Kavanaugh) Gallagher, residents of Newburg, Ohio.
Politieally our subject is identified with the Republican party. Ile was Mayor of Bedford in 1885 and 1886, and for two years was a member of the City Council; he has also served very acceptably as a member of the School Board. Ile belongs to Bedford Lodge, No. 375, A. F. & A. M., to Summit Chapter, No. 74, R. A. M., and to Holyrood Commandry, No. 32, K. T., having been made a Mason at Conneaut, Ohio, in 1868; he has a high standing in the order, and during two terms has been Master of his lodge.
EWIS A. FOWLES, of Middleburg town- ship, Ohio, was born in this place Feb- ruary 6, 1823, a son of Abraham and Rachel A. (Ilickox) Fowles, natives of Water- bury, Conneetient, where the father was born in 1790, and the mother in 1797. She came with her parents to Cuyahoga county in 1809, and he in 1811. They were married in Middleburg township, and there made their home until their death, the mother dying February 11, 1846, at forty-nine, and the father November 28, 1848, at fifty-eight years of age. They had a family of ten children, two sons and eight dangliters.
Lewis A., the fifth child of the family, has always lived in his native plaee. Ile was mar- ried in Brooklyn township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, March 26, 1845, to Miss Hannah Fish, who was born in Stonington, Connecticut, December 13, 1825. IIer father was Ebenezer Fish, and her mother Joanna (Stanton) Fish, both natives of Connecticut. He came to Cuyahoga county prior to the war of 1812, in which he served, returning afterward to Con- necticut, where he was married and lived for some years, and then returned to Cuyahoga county, settling in Brooklyn village, where he died in 1880, his wife dying in 1849.
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ing. Ile owns a fine farm of some 115 aeres, on which he has erected good buildings and made valuable improvements.
Mr. and Mrs. Fowles are parents of live children, viz .: Joanna, the wife of F. M. Root (whose biographical sketch appears in this volume); llelen M., the wife of Thomas C. Mattison; John L., who married Julia Lyman; Arthur S., who married Adeline Ody; and Cora E., the wife of Inther Lyman.
Mr. Fowles has held the office of township Trustee for five years and that of township As- sessor one year. Ile has taken an active part in local affairs and also in political matters, as a Demoerat.
G BORGE N. WATSON, M. D., a success- ful practitioner of medicine at Brooklyn village, where he has practiced for tive years, is a native of Cuyahoga county, being born at Berea, February 22, 1853. His parents are James M. and Mary (Burton) Wat- son, and they now reside at Brooklyn village. At Berea Dr. Watson first attended school, and he graduated at Baldwin University of that place in the year 1881, completing a scientific course. Itis tastes and inclinations invited him into the inedieal profession, and he entered the Missouri Medical College at St. Louis, Missouri, at which institution he graduated, and then immediately he entered upon the practice of his profession in the city of St. Louis, afterward practicing at Carlisle, Illinois. Some five years ago he located at Brooklyn village, and since that date he has been one of the most prominent, active and progressive of his profession.
Ile is a member of the Cuyahoga County Medical Society, also of the Cleveland Medical Society and the Ohio State Medical Society. lle is also an enthusiastic member of several fraternal associations, being a Past Master of Brooklyn Lodge, F. & A. M., Past Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias, and is also a member of the Independent Order of Foresters ..
In 1885 the Doctor was fortunate in secur- ing in matrimony the hand of Sarah A. Davies of Berea, Ohio. He and his wife sustain happy and pleasant social relations and are favorably regarded by many stanch Friends as leading and representative citizens.
Ț B. CUYLER, round-house foreman of the Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad Com- pany of Cleveland, is now entering on his twenty-ninth year in his present posi- tion, and many and great are the changes he has witnessed in those years. Ile has in reality lost only two weeks from canse, though he has lost six weeks by absence From the city, two of which were spent in visiting the Centennial and two in visiting the World's Fair.
lle entered the shops of the New York Cen- tral Railroad Company at Rochester, New York, as an apprentice and remained with the com- pany four years, when he was made an engineer on the Great Western Railroad, now the New York, Pittsburg & Ohio, doing duty there two years, at the end of which time he came to the Cleveland & Pittsburg at Cleveland. Politically he votes for the "best man."
Mr. Cuyler was born at Rochester, New York, November 1, 1842. He received his education in the public schools of that city, go- ing into the railroad shops in 1858. Ilis father, Cornelius Cuyler, was a stone cutter by trade, born in Rochester in 1797, and died there in 1873. Ogdensburg, New York, was the origi- nal home of the family. It was there that our subject's grandfather, Thomas Cuyler, was born. lle settled in Rochester when there were so few houses it could hardly be called a village. The Cuylers came from the south of Ireland to Nova Scotia when all America was subject to the British crown. From Nova Scotia a branch of it drifted into New York. Hence the Ameri- can existence of our subject.
Cornelius Cuyler married Julia Blake, born in Limerick, Ireland, in 1811. Their six children
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are all living, viz .: Margaret, now Mrs. Cor- nelins Shahen; Catherine, wife of James Barr, of Philadelphia; T. B .; William Henry, in Philadelphia; and Mary, now Mrs. Burrows Dalbrow, of the Quaker City.
January 18, 1865, Mr. Cuyler married, in Cleveland, Maria J. Shannon, a daughter of John Shannon, an old resident of Cleveland and a mechanic. Twelve children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Cuyler, six of whom are living: Charles, Gertrude, William, George, Frank and Blanche, all unmarried.
EHIEL H. DUNHAM, one of the suc- cessful farmers of Strongsville township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, has been a resi- dent of this township all his life.
Mr. Dunham is a son of John and Elizabeth (Hungerford) Dunham, natives of Herkimer county, New York. They emigrated from that connty to Cuyahoga county, Ohio, prior to 1820, and first settled in Independence town- ship. From there they removed to Bedford towhship, same county, where they spent the rest of their lives and died, his death ocenrring in 1847, and hers during the latter part of the seventies.
lehiel H1. was born in Bedford township, June 26, 1826, was reared there on his father's farm, and continued to live in that township until 1856, when he settled in Strongsville township. Here he has since made his home and farming and dairying have been his chief occupations. lle owns 274 acres of land, most of which is in Strongsville township, and on his farm he has erected a nice set of buildings and has other- wise made valuable improvements. Ile is a charter member of the Strongsville Grange.
Mr. Dunham was first married in Ossian, New York, June 1, 1854, to Mary E. Osborn, a native of the Empire State. She died in Strongsville township, August 12, 1875. Ilis second marriage occurred February 22, 1877, the lady of his choice being Miss Mary A. 1
Ilanchett, a native of Erie county, Pennsyl- vania, born December 13, 1845. Her parents, Cyrus and Mary (Reed) Hanchett, both na- tives of New York, settled in that State after their marriage, removed from there to Pen- sylvania, and in Erie county of the latter State her father was killed while cutting down a tree. That was some time in the '50s. Her mother died in Strongsville township, Cuyahoga county, Angust 26, 1890. Mr. and Mrs. Dunham have three children, -Brayton G., Ida E. and Ola A.
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