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Andrew Cozad, father of M. E. Cozad, of this city, was born in Washington county, Pennsy- Ivania, November 7, 1801, and died May 20, 1873, after a life of useful activity. A lad of seven years when his parents came to the west- ern frontier, he also tasted of the privations of pioneer life, and grew to manhood amidst the wildest surroundings. At the age of twenty- four, May 12, 1825, he was united in marriage to Sally Simmons, a daughter of Ephraim and Polly (Sparger) Simmons. Mrs. Cozad was born at New Hartford, Oneida county, New York, August 17, 1805, and died April 6, 1884. Nine children were born of this union: Jane Celestia, Mary Ann, Nathaniel C., Justice L., Charlotte, Andrew Dudley, Henry Irving, Sarah L., and Marcus Eugene. As he grew to mature years he became deeply interested in public affairs, and filled many of the local offices. IIe was also active in educational and temperance work, and from the founding of Shaw Academy until his death was a trustee of that institution. He was a faithful reader of the Congressional Globe, and was thoroughly posted upon all matters of national interest. His creed was, " IIe that feareth God and worketh righteous- ness is accepted."
Justice L. Cozad was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and grew to manhood upon his father's farm. He received his education in the public school with two years at Austinburg and one year in the Cleveland University. In 1852 he entered the employ of the Cleveland, Columbus & Cin- cinnati Railway Company, and three years later joined the Government survey in Kansas and Nebraska. In 1861 he went on the Bellefon- taine railroad as chief engineer and general superintendent, and also had control of the Bee Line and Cleveland, Columbus & Cincinnati Railway from Cleveland to St. Louis. IIe lo- cated and built the line between Indianapolis and Terre Haute, acting as chief engineer. In 1875 he went into the abstract business under the firm name of Odell & Cozad, this relation- ship existing nine years. At the end of this period he became a member of the firm of
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Cozad, Beltz & Bates, who do a large and pros- perous abstract business. lle was married in 1858 to Miss Artemisia Whitman, a native of this city and one of the teachers in the publie schools. They are the parents of four children: Florence S. is at home; Olive is the wife of Mr. Bates of the abstract company; Jennie and Gertrude are missionaries to Japan, where they have been since 1888. Jennie was married in the " Flowery Kingdom " to the Rev. Horatio B. Newell, and they have two children. Before going to Japan these two danghters spent a year in preparation at Oberlin College. Their de- parture was the first break in the family circle, but they deemed their mission worthy of the sacrifice. Both are thoroughly well educated and accomplished, and they have made admir- able records.
Modes of travel being yet quite primitive in Japan, Mr. Cozad sent his daughters each a wheel, one a bieyele and the other a tricycle; these inventions of the nineteenth century have afforded them much comfort and pleasure in the far-distant land of the Mikado.
H G. SIPHIER .- America is so thoroughly cosmopolitan in the make- up of her popu- lace, representing all sorts and conditions of men from all sections of the globe, that it would be difficult to determine with any degree of satisfaction as to which foreign nation has contributed the best element in our con- glomerate national fabrie. It is, however, safe to say that Germany has given ns a large con- tingent of strong, honest, enterprising, intellect- mal and patriotic citizens, and that we owe much to the influence of this element.
The subject of this brief sketch now holds the responsible preferment as Deputy Treasurer of Cuyahoga county, a position whose holding stands in unmistakable evidence of his character and ability. II. G. Sipher was born in the kingdom of Wurtemberg, Germany, September 3, 1842, being a son of Gottlob and Regina
Sipher. He passed his boyhood days in his native land, receiving his educational training in the public schools there. Finally, as his seventeenth birthday anniversary drew near, the young man prepared himself to emigrate to America. We can well imagine what must have been the hopes and aspirations of the youth at that time and how he must have been an object of solicitous care to the honest and faith- ful friends who assembled in the village street to wish him God speed on his eventful voyage and to extend the best wishes for his success and happiness. To thus break away from home ties implies a courage and fortitude that few, perhaps, realize. In due time our subject was in transit on the deep, passing his birthday anniversary, noted above, at sea. On reaching the United States he proceeded forthwith to Medina, Ohio, which place was the residence of an older brother. In that town he remained until 1871, being employed in the interim at tho shoemaker's trade.
In January, 1865, with a patriotic devotion for his adopted country, he enlisted for service in the late civil coufliet, becoming a member of Company A, One Hundred and Seventy-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He had taken out his naturalization papers in the November previ- ous and his first ballot for President was cast for Abraham Lincoln. ITis loyalty to the cause was firm and true and he served in the war un- til its close, being mustered ont at Nashville, Tennessee.
In 1871 Mr. Sipher came to Cleveland and engaged to clerk in the dry-goods business of J. C. Spieth ou Woodland avenue. Three years later he started a dry-goods establishinent on Lorain street, West Side, and there carried on a successful business until 1888, when he disposed of the same, two years later accepting his present position as a deputy in the office of the County Treasurer. From 1881 to 1883 he was a mem - ber of the Board of Education; he was at one time Deputy Sheriff, and has held other posi- tions of public trust. In his political proclivities he has ever been strongly arrayed in line with
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the Republican party, and he has been a member of the Republican Central Committee for the past eight years.
In the matter of fraternal affiliations Mr. Sipher retains a membership in the I. O. O. F., being connected with Amazon Lodge, No. 567; with North Wing Encampment, No. 88, and with Lakeside Canton, No. 29. He is Commissary of the Sixth Regiment, with the title of Captain. Ile is a trustee of the order, and has filled the chairs of Grand Secretary of the Ohio Division of the Independent Order of Foresters, of which he has been a member for the past fifteen years. He is also a member of the G. A. R., Army & Navy Post.
July 9, 1865, he was united in marriage to Elizabeth Schmoltz, and their home has been brightened by the presence of three children, one of whom, Arthur, died at the age of twelve years. The two who remain are Cora L. and Charles F. The pleasant home of our subject is at No. 1007 Lorain street.
S AMUEL C. EVANS, M. D .- Occupying a position of unmistakable prominence among the members of the Cleveland medieal profession, and recognized as a physi- eian of high attainments, there is signal eonsis- tency in according to Dr. Evans a place is this volume. IIe is the manager of the Evans Med- ieal Dispensary, located at No. 43 Publie Square, and is one of the most capable practitioners in the city, in his line. He is what is technically known as a specialist, giving his attention par- ficularly to the treatment of disorders of the skin and blood. The modern tendency to spe- cialize the different branches of medical science in reference to the treatment of specifie disoases or maladies of allied order, is one that is to be looked upon with satisfaction and approval by all who understand the trend of the matter. It is simply an impossibility for a physician in general practice to keep himself thoroughly in- Formed, by either reading or personal investi.
gation and experiment, as to the advances made in the treatment of the manifold diseases to which human flesh is heir. It is then expedi- ent that there should be pathological specialists or experts, men who have not covered the entire reahn of medical study but whose decisions in regard to certain lines of disease and their treat- ment may be considered as authoritative.
Dr. Evans was born in the city of Cleveland, March 29, 1845, a son of William and Anne (Weleb) Evans, both of whom were natives of Ireland. Their marriage occurred in New York city, and they came westward to Cleveland as early as 1826. The father was a contractor, having given special attention to railway con- struction. A noteworthy fact is, that he put in operation the first dray ever used in the eity of Cleveland. Ile was a man of sterling integ- rity, and was held in high esteem. Ile died in 1874, at the advanced age of eighty-four years, his widow passing away five years later, at the age of seventy-eight. They had eleven chil- dren, of whom we make record as follows: James Evans, who was chief engineer of the ill-fated steamer Lae la Belle,-which was run into by the steamer Milwaukee and sunk in November, 1866,-and thus lost his life while at his post of duty. Three years later the ves- sel was raised and onee more put into service, only however to meet a similar disaster, going to the bottom while on the route between Grand Haven and Milwaukee, entailing the loss of many lives. The boat was again raised, re. paired and put into operation, and for the third time went down, with all on board!
John W. Evans, the second son, is the pat- entee of the appliances utilized in extracting linseed oil by the use of naphtha, and is the general superintendent of the Cleveland Lin- seed Oil Company, in which he is a large stock- holder. This company has two extensive plants, one located in Chicago and the other in Cleve- land.
Willie, the third son, died when only a year and a half old. Margaret is the wifo of P'. O'Brien, a retired merchant of Cleveland; Eliz-
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abeth is the widow of J. N. Walsh, onee a pros- perons grocer of the same city; Mary is the wife of John Welsh, of Cleveland; Joseph is a machinist of this city. IIe enlisted, in 1861, for service in the late war, in Company B, Eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, being only seventeen years of age, and served continuously for three years and twenty-nine days, participating in nearly eighty general engagements. Being a member of the Army of the Potomac, he took part in nearly all its engagements. Was never wounded or taken prisoner. The seventh child is Richard, who is now solicitor for the Mann- facturers' Record, of Baltimore, Maryland. Ile also saw active service on the field of battle, going out as a drummer boy at the age of four- teen years, in the same company which his brother Joseph entered. At length he returned home, and afterward enlisted in the Sixty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry as a private, was even- tually taken siek, sent to the hospital and finally discharged, by reason of disability. Frances is the wife of Frank Wagner, an old prominent funeral director of Cleveland; and George is agent for the Cincinnati Brewing Company, his territory embracing northern Ohio.
Dr. Evans, the subject of this sketch, re- ceived his preliminary education in the public schools of Cleveland, and in 1886 took one course of lectures at the Western Reserve Col- lege, and completed his studies at New York in 1887. He had gained a practical knowledge of medicine and had been in successful practice for years prior to entering a medical college, having from the beginning given special attention to skin and blood diseases. In those special lines he has treated many severe cases of chronic dis- ease, and has effected some really remarkable cures by reason of his thorough knowledge of the nature of the disorders and the most effec- tive remedial agents to be employed.
In 1869 the Doctor married Miss Louisa An- toinette Weinstein, a native of New York city and of French extraction. They have had two children: Georgie, who died in early childhood; and Samnel William, a member of the class of
1895 in the medical department of the West ern Reserve University, and a young man of much promise.
As to his political predilections Dr. Evans is an independent thinker and voter. In his per- sonal appearance he is prepossessing and of fine manner and address, genial and courteous, and is honored and esteemed professionally and so- cially. He is a veteran of the war of the Re- bellion, having served as a member of Company E, of the One Hundred and Fiftieth Volunteer Infantry.
ENERAL II. N. WIIITBECK, of Berea, Ohio, was born in Columbia county, New York, in December, 1836. When he was still a child his parents removed to Mon- roe county, that State, where he passed his boy- hood days until he was thirteen years old, when the family removed to Lorain county, Ohio. IIe acquired a good business education in Oberlin College, and was first employed as clerk in a store at Elyria, Ohio, and in 1858 came to Berea and engaged in mercantile business until October, 1861, when he recruited Company E, Sixty-fifth Ohio Regiment, being commissioned Captain of the company. He served in that capacity until December, 1862, when he was promoted Major; the following spring he was commissioned Lieutenant Colonel, and afterward Colonel, and still later brevetted Brigadier- General, serving till August, 1865. IIe was wounded three times: first at the battle of Stone river, slightly; next at Chickamauga, severely, the missile passing through the left arm, en- tered the left side, and was extracted from under the right shoulder blade; and lastly at Kenesaw mountain, severely, so that he nearly lost his life. For nearly a year he served on conrt martial, at Nashville, Tennessee.
On leaving the army he returned to Berea, and on account of ill health was unable to en- gage in active business. In the autumn of 1881 he was elected Treasurer of Cuyahoga county,
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on the Republican ticket, and at the end of two years was re-elected. He has done considerable work for his party. Fraternally, he is a mem- ber of the Masonic order, the Loyal Legion and the Grand Army of the Republic.
Ile was married in Lorain county, Ohio, to Miss Frances C. Perry, a native of Elyria, that county. She died in Berea, in August, 1886, after a short illness, leaving four children, as follows: Mary A., who became the wife of F. T. Pomeroy; Helen F., who is the wife of E. F. Schneider; Horatio N., the youngest son, died in Cleveland, at the age of twenty-one; and William P., who died at Berea, at the age of thirty-one years.
EORGE CARLTON MAPES, one of the leading undertakers and furniture dealers of Collinwood, was born in Mayfield township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, June 29, 1844, a son of Iliel S. and Mary Jane (Field) Mapes, the former born in New York and the latter near Lake Champlain, Vermont.
The father, a farmer by occupation, was Cap- tain of the first militia ever organized in this section. IIe came with his mother, Julia (Smith) Mapes, to Cuyahoga county in 1812, his father, Seth Mapes, having arrived here a few days before, and was preparing a home for his family. Mrs. Mapes covered an ox cart with canvas, made such preparations as she could for the journey, and with her children started for Cuyahoga county. She cared for her little ones and drove the oxen the entire distance, arriving safely in due time, as much to the pleasure as to the surprise of her hus- band. She was a woman of wonderful courage, and was well and favorably known in her com- munity. She lived to the age of eighty-seven years. The farm on which the family located was contiguous to the Garfield place, and is still in possession of the Mapes family. When eighteen years of age Hliel Mapes, the father of our subject, ent thirty-two cords of wood, for
which he received the first pair of boots he ever owned. In addition to his other interests, he served as Township Trustee nearly one-half of his life. IIc died at the age of sixty-seven .years. His spotless life, fidelity and integrity will be cherished by all who know him, and to know him was to love and admire him for his many virtues and his good business methods. Mr. Mapes was three times married, and our subjeet is the seventh in a family of thirteen children, all of whom are living. Mrs. Mapes died in 1848, at the age of thirty-two years. She joined the Methodist Episcopal Church in early life, and lovingly continued in its commun- ion until her death. They soon became accus- tomed to the hardships, suffering and incon- venionees incident to Ohio pioneer life.
G. C. Mapes, the subject of this sketeb, at- tended the public schools, and later entered the academy at Mayfield. Ile was patriotic in spirit, and during the late war enlisted seven times, but was rejected on account of physical disability. Ile, however, spent a short time with the One Hundred and Third Ohio Regi- ment. In 1874 he opened a real-estate office in this city, which he continued until 1881, and since that time has been engaged in the under- taking and furniture business. His line of goods and equipments are the latest improved and in keeping with the best in any city. In 1888 Mr. Mapes was elected Mayor of Collin- wood, and served in that position one term. He is a man of energy, enterprise and vim. Ilis life furnishes a good example of what will and perseverance can accomplish when coupled with honesty and strict integrity of character.
In 1863 our subject was united in marriage with Miss Ilenrietta, a daughter of Walter and Amanda Frissell, both now deceased. The father died at the age of eighty-two years, and the mother died at the age of eighty years. Mrs. Frissell came from Massachusetts, coming to Evelid township in an ox sled, covering the whole distance in six weeks in the dead of win- ter. Mr. and Mrs. Mapes have four children: Harry S., cashier and credit manager of the
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Sherwin-William's house in Chicago; Carey, deceased at the age of four and a half years; Will Carlton, also deceased; and Harvey Gny. The eldest, Harry S., married Etta Florence Darby: Ralph C., their only child, died at the age of two and one-half years.
Mr. and Mrs. Mapes are members of the Disciple Church, which was organized at their home in 1880, and the former has served as its Trustee since that time. IIe was also the first Superintendent of the Sunday-school. The church now contains a membership of 311, and the Sunday-school has over 200 members. In his social relations, Mr. Mapes has filled vari- ous chairs in the Odd Fellows order, and is also a leading member of the A. O. U. W. Politieally, he is a firm believer in the princi- ples set forth by the Republican party.
W S. JONES, deecased, president and treasurer of the Citizens' Savings and Loan Association of Cleveland, was born in Cuyahoga county, Ohio, April 13, 1837. In point of settlement this is not an old family in Ohio, or even in the United States. Jolm Jones, our subject's father, was a poor, indus- trious English boy, having found his way to Cleveland in 1829. He was born in Hereford- shire in 1812, and was only seventeen years of age when he cast his lot in the Forest City, friendless and practically peuniless. Ile turned his hand to any legitimate labor that would yield him an honest dollar, and in a few years had earned and accumulated a sum sufficient to enable him to enjoy a good degree of financial independence. In middle and later life he en- gaged in the livery and transfer business in this city, meeting with his usnal success, and leaving, at his death in 1873, a good estate.
W. S. Jones was educated in the city schools of Cleveland, graduating at eighteen years of age. Ile entered the office of G. A. Hyde, of this eity, for the purpose of acquiring a practi- cal knowledge of civil engineering, which busi-
ness he expected to engage in, but eircum- stanees controlled otherwise, and when he made a new business arrangement it was to enter the office of the county Auditor as draughtsman; later he became Deputy Auditor, and by reason of his popularity and efficiency ho succeeded to the Auditorship in the fall election of 1868. Hle was re-elected in 1870 and again in 1872, and elosed his public service by resignation in January, 1575, to accept the position of vice- president and treasurer of the Citizens' Savings and Loan Association. Thenceforward he de- voted his time to the management of this insti- tution, keeping abreast of the times and main- taining for it a high standard, and a public con- fidence unsurpassed by any similar institution in the city.
In 1892 Mr. Jones succeeded to the presi- deney of the bank. IIe had other interests in and ont of Cleveland, and was officially con- neeted as follows: For a number of years treas. urer of the C. W. & M. R. R .; treasurer of Kalamazoo R. & G. R. R .; director in the National Bank of Commeree of Cleveland, and a stockholder in manufacturing and other insti- tutions in this city; treasurer and trustee of the Children's Aid Society and Cleveland Bethel Union; director of the Valley Railroad, and vice-president of the American Casualty Com- pany. The several business positions are pointed ont as evidence of the varied business relations he has long since sustained in the business world.
As a business man, Mr. Jones was character- ized by sagacity, marked executive ability and shrewd commercial talent. His snecess in the business world was due to untiring energy, to- gether with his ability to grasp a business situ- ation with a comprehensive idea of all its bear- ings and the probable outcome or result of any business conrse or plan of operation. Ile always maintained a strict character for probity, and always shared the confidence of those who were permitted to come in contact with him in the transaction of business. While in public oflice he was as efficient as in the business world, and
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was one of the most popular officials who had ever served in a county office. Politically he was always a well pronounced Republican, but after his resignation of the office of county Au- ditor he has never sought political preferment. However, he never grew less enthusiastic in the interests of the party to which he always be- longed. This respected and esteemed citizen was such by reason of having improved every opportunity of doing good which has been afforded him, and by living a moral, honest and active life.
Ile died November 29, 1893, after an illness of some six weeks, brought ou by exposure at the World's Fair. By his death the social cir- eles of Cleveland, as well as the business men, suffered a great loss. Resolutions to this effect were passed by the Board of Trade, Citizens' Savings and Loan Association, Children's Aid Society, Cleveland Clearing-House Association, and the Bethel Association. The Bankers' Re- view of December, 1893, says he was a leading man in Cleveland's banking business.
A V. KURTZ, a well known resident of Cleveland, occupies an important and responsible position as local manager of the Postal Telegraph Cable Company, and there are many points of interest to be noted in tracing his life history through its stages, taking cognizance of his rise as a result of na- tive ability and indefatigable perseverance.
Ile was born in Cleveland January 13, 1852, and secured a high-school education, but it was not permitted him to be afforded those advanced educational opportunities which are so often of- fered and so often fail of appreciation. Ilow- ever, there are more roads than one that "lead to Rome," and the boy set out to make his way in life and to attain such measure of success as it was in his power to gain. In 1869 he be- came messenger boy in the employ of the West- ern Union Telegraph Company, and it is in- teresting to note his progress along that line to
which his earliest efforts were devoted after he had found it necessary to resign his studies in school and to turn his attention to undertakings that would yield immediate pecuniary returns. In time he mastered the science of telegraphy, and has been an operator for a full quarter of a century, and for eight years of this time he was in the employ of the same company over whose local interests he now presides.
Through faithful service, close attention to business, and assiduous toil, he advanced step by step from one position to an other of greater trust and responsibility, being in turn an operator, clerk, bookkeeper, cashier and finally, in 1885, being appointed local manager of the Postal Telegraph Cable Company's offices, 117 Superior street. In this position he has had the general supervision of thirty-one operators, who are under the direct charge of Mr. E. W. Col- lins, as electrician and chief operator; also of eleven branch offices in divers quarters of the city. He has six clerks and thirty-eight mes- senger boys, in charge of B. J. Ross, chief clerk. The financial affairs are directed by the cashier, Mr. J. II. Matthias, who has two as- sistants. An idea of the responsibility involved may be gained from even these brief statistics in regard to the work over which he is placed in charge.
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