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His work in the interests of the company has been important, exacting and successful. Ile had the general supervision of the work of en- closing the trunk wires in conduits running through the fire limits of the city to the Cuya- hoga river at the Columbus street bridge, the work being accomplished at a cost of $15,000. Mr. Kurtz was for some time connected with the Union Building and Loan Association as cashier.
Our subject was united in marriage, June 18, 1878, to Miss Nettie Morse, a daughter of George W. Morse, an old resident of Ashtabula county, who at present is living in Cleveland, ns a retired business man. Mr. and Mrs. Kurtz have three children: Grace, born in 1879; Haydn, in 1885; and Gaylord in 1892.
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As the name indicates, our subjeet is of German extraction, his father, who was a na- tive of the Fatherland, having for many years been engaged in the business of carriage manu- facturing in Cleveland, where he died in 1876, at the age of sixty-eight years.
In his political adhereney our subject is a stalwart Republican, taking mneh interost in the issues of the day. Ile and his wife are zealous members of the Disciples' Church.
OHN T. R. MCKAY, late general freight agent of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company, was born March 31, 1838, at Toronto, Canada. Ifis father, Alexander McKay, was born in the north of Scotland. He came to North America in 1826 and to Cleveland in 1817, and was en- gaged in merchandising here. The gold fever of 1849 took him to California and nothing was ever heard of him again. He married Miss Louisa R. Hamilton, of Toronto, Ontario, who died in 1892. Their children were: John T. R .; Captain George A., Deputy Revenue Collector; Fred A., who died in 1871, as a result of ex- posure while a soldier in our late war; and Belle, deceased.
John T. R. secured his education principally in the public schools of this city. At fifteen he was office boy for one or two firms in this city, and the next year was given a clerkship in the office of the Cleveland & Toledo Railroad Company. Hle rose rapidly by promotion, pass- ing through the minor grades of clerkships. In 1867-'68 he was general agent of the Merchants' Despatel Transportation Company at Cleveland. In 1869 he was appointed chief clerk of the general freight department. In 1877 he was appointed assistant general freight agent, and on April 28, 1885, succeeded to the office of general freight agent. Ilis death, September 5, 1893, the day of his wedding anniversary, closed a long and useful career, and in it the company
lost a faithful and efficient officer whose services were in the highest degree satisfactory to the management.
Mr. MeKay married Melissa, a danghter of J. C. Black, of Saltsburg, Pennsylvania. Mr. Black was a contractor by occupation and eame to Cleveland in 1819. Ile married Miss Katherine R. Davis, of Baltimore, Maryland, who bore him four children.
To Mr. and Mrs. McKay were born: George F., September 27, 1861; Katherine, wife of Charles A. Akers; Ella M .; Charles E., in the general freight office of the Lake Shore & Miehi- gan Southern Railway; E. W., clerk in the Merchants' Despatch office; John A. and Edith A.
George F. MeKay began business at eighteen, as a elerk in the general freight office of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway. From September 1, 1881, to April 30, 1885, he was secretary to the general freight agent. May 1st of the same year he was made chief clerk of general freight department, and July 1, 1889, division freight agent.
June 8, 1886, Mr. MeKay married Aliee M. Watterson, a history of whose father, John T. Watterson, appears in this volume. Mr. and Mrs. McKay have no children.
E C. SHELDON, the paymaster of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Rail- way Company, for the Buffalo division, began railroading as early as 1861, as messenger boy in the office of Agent T. S. Lindsey, whom he now succeeds as paymaster. Ifis first pro- motion placed him in the general freight agent's office as a clerk, where he remained until the consolidation of the roads forming the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern system then enter- ing the local freight ofliee. A year afterward he was transferred to the treasurer's office, where he remained until June, 1873, when he went with the late General J. 11. Devereux, president of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago
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& St. Louis Railway Company, as private secre- tary, and in February, 1875, received the appointment of paymaster of the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis Railway Company, and continued with that company until December, 1886, when he became cashier for the local treasurer of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company, succeed- ing his father in this position. Upou the resignation of T. S. Lindsey, Mr. Sheldon was made his successor, January 5, 1894.
November 22, 1846, Mr. Sheldon was born in Genesee county, New York. Not long after this date his father, Edward Sheldon, returned to his native town, Hartford, Connectient, and engaged in railroading on the Hartford, Provi- dence & Fishkill Railroad, where for a number of years he was condnetor. In 1852 he came to Cleveland, and as passenger conductor took the second train out of this city on the Cleve- land & Toledo Railroad.
On retiring from the operating department of the road Mr. Sheldon entered the treasurer's office, and at his death in 1886 was cashier of that office. Ile was born in 1823, and in his youth was trained in his father's store for a dry- goods merchant, and engaged in that line for himself for some time, but at length preferred to turn his attention to something more excit- ing and less confining to a narrow rut. The Sheldons were originally from England, coming to America in Colonial times and probably making their settlement in Connecticut. The most remote ancestor of whom anything is definitely known was Charles Sheldon, the grandfather of E. C., our subject. IIe was born in or near Hartford, and was a merchant of the old capital town. He married a Miss Lawrence and died in 1856, aged about sixty five years. They had ten children, of whom four are now living, in their native State. Edward Sheldon, father of E. C., married Harriet Curtiss, whose father, Ichabod Curtiss, moved to Ashtabula county, Ohio, upon the settlement of the West- ern Reserve, and died there in 1865, aged sixty- eight years. Edward's children were: E. C.
(our subject): and Harriet C., who married E. D. Wheelock, of Chicago; the other two died in infancy.
Mr. E. C. Sheldon was married in Ashtabula county, Ohio, November 4, 1874, to Miss Ella S. Newton, whose father, II. P. Newton, resid- ing near Kingsville, is a farmer and a pioneer settler from the State of Massachusetts. Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon have the following named children: llarvey D., paymaster's clerk in the service of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad Company, and born in 1875; and Minnie E., born in 1878.
B. IIANNA, the invincible and indefatig- able secretary and treasurer of the Cleve-
land City Railway Company, was born in Columbiana county, Ohio, near New Lisbon, August 26, 1854. He is a son of K. Ilanna, born in the same county, November 7, 1824, whose business career has been as a merchant, a manufacturer and later a street-railway man, being now assistant treasurer of the Cleveland City Company. In 1861 he moved to Cleve- land, and in 1868 to Chicago, Illinois, where he resided till 1874, returning thence to Cleve- land. Mr. K. Hanna is a son of Benjamin Hanna, an unele of M. A. Hanna, whose sketch appears in this work. K. Hanna married Mary Ann MeCook, a danghter of Dr. George L. MeCook, an uncle of the " Fighting MeCook " of our Civil war. Five children are the result of this union, two sons and three daughters, the sons being J. B. and Edwin.
J. B. Hanna secured a grammar-school edu- cation at the Cleveland and Morrison (Illinois) public schools. He began his business life as a bookkeeper in Illinois, and four years later re- turned to Cleveland and entered the employ of Rhodes & Company, coal and ore dealers, etc. He was stationed at Ashtabula Harbor three years, looking after the receiving and shipping of this company's coal and ore. On leaving this company Mr. Hanna became interested in street-
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railway work, being made secretary and pur- chasing agent of the West Side Street Railway Company in 1883. Upon its consolidation with the Woodland avenue line he was elected to the same office, and again succeeded to it npon the consolidation with the Cleveland City Cable Railway Company in 1893, forming the Cleve- Innd City Railway Company. In January, 1891, he was elected to the office of treasurer also. He is a stockholder in the road. Mr. Ilanna has been treasurer of the Ohio State Tramway As- sociation since 1885, and secretary and treasurer of it since 1889, and has been active in the in- terests of street railroads throughout the State.
He is a Republican in polities and is very active in local campaigns, but never has time to devote to politics as a business. He is un- married.
H ON. RICHARD C. PARSONS, a prom- inent lawyer and citizen of Cleveland was born October 16, 1826, at New Lon- don, Connecticut, of distinguished Pur- itan ancestry. After having received a liberal education he began the study of law, in 1846. In 1845 he came to Ohio, and was admitted to the bar in Cuyahoga county in 1851. IIe was elected to the City Council in 1852 and in the spring of the following year was made presi- dent of that body. In this official capacity be- gan his publie career, which has been distin- guished by earnestness, integrity and sincerity of purpose, and which has been so abundantly filled with honor. In 1857 he was elected to the Legislature of the State of Ohio as a mem- ber of the newly founded Republican party, and was re elected in 1859, being chosen Speaker of the House of Representatives. Ile was scarcely thirty-three years of age when he was elevated to this responsible and distinguished position, where he acquitted himself as a legislator of marked ability and wisdom. When President Lincoln took his office he appointed Mr. Par- sons as Minister to Chili, which appointment
Mr. Parsons declined, and accepted the Consul- ship to Rio de Janeiro, remaining in that capacity one year, when he resigned and soon thereafter was appointed Collector of Internal Revenue at Cleveland, and still later Marshal of the Su- preme Court of the United States, which posi- tion he held from 1866 to 1872. In 1872 he was tendered by President Johnson the position of Assistant Secretary of the Treasury or Gov- ernorship of Montana, both of which he de- clined. In the latter year another honor came to Mr. Parsons in his election to Congress from the Cleveland Distriet. In Congress he dis- tinguished himself as one well fitted for the office he held. Ile was directly instrumental in securing the Life Saving Service at the Cleve- land port, also the lighthouse for the Govern- ment pier, and the commencement of the work of building the Cleveland breakwater.
From early life Mr. Parsons has displayed remarkable literary taste and ability, and from 1877 to 1880 was editor and principal owner of the " Cleveland Herald," but disposing of the same he resnmed the practice of law, in which he has also gained an enviable reputation for himself. lle has always been conspienous as an active and progressive Republican in poli- ties, and was among the anti-slavery men of 1848, in resisting the spread of slavery into the Territories of the United States. Some of his literary speeches and lectures have been gatlı- ered together and published, and have been read with unnsnal interest by a wide cirele of readers.
P ROF. JOHN W. LANGLEY, of the Chair of Electrical Engineering in the Case School of Applied Science at Cleve- land, is a native of the city of Boston, born in 1841, one of the three children of Sam- uel Langley, who was an active business man, as well as literary, and an early stockholder in the Boston Athenenm; he was also a collector of choice notable books.
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The subject of this sketch graduated at Har- vard in 1861, as a Bachelor of Science in chem- istry, and was a tutor there for six months. Ile then entered the United States Navy as assist- ant surgeon, in which position he continued until 1864, when he resigned to travel and study his favorite branches in Europe, where he spent a profitable your. Next he was professor of chemistry and physical science at Antioch (Ohio) College until the reorganization of that institution in 1867. After further study in Boston and Cambridge he was appointed profes- sor of natural philosophy in the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, where he remained two years, resigning in 1872 to take a business position ; but after a short time he was appointed professor of chemistry and allied sciences at Western (Pennsylvania) Uni- versity, which place he held until 1875, when he was called to the chairs of chemistry and physics in the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, in 1875. This place he resigned to be- come consulting electrician and metallurgist at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and thence he was called in 1892 to the chair he now ocenpies, mentioned at the introduction of this sketch. On his arrival here the department of Electrical Engineering was created, which, by putting in an ample system of equipments, he has rapidly brought up to a standing equal to that of the other departments.
From the University of Michigan Prof. Lang- ley has received the degree of Ph. D. He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, New York Academy of Science, is honorary member of the Society of Engineers of Western Pennsylvania, of the Society of Civil Engineers of Cleveland, of the Electric Club of Cleveland, and a correspond- ing member of the British Society for the Ad- vancement of Science, and is the author of a number of scientific papers.
In 1871 he married Miss Martica, a daughter of Don Jose Carret, of Cuba, and has four children: Mary W., Martica J., Annie W. and Samuel P. The Professor's ancestry on the
British side were participants in the war of our Revolution in 1776; his mother's father was engaged on coast defence during the war of 1812; and his father died in Barton in 1888, at the age of seventy-seven years; his mother is still living.
RION L. NEFF, a well-known member of the Cleveland bar, was born May 15, 1848, at Winchester, Preble county, Ohio. (For history of the family see biography of W. B. Neff.) In August, 1861, at the age of thirteen years, Mr. Neff enlisted as a drum- mer boy in the Thirty-fifth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. During his service in the war there were three generations of his family in the ranks,-himself, his father and grand- father. As a drummer boy he passed through the campaigns conducted by General Thomas against Zollicoffer in Kentucky, and Generals Grant and Sherman in Mississippi and Tennes- see, in which the battle of Shiloh was fought, the siege of Corinth was conducted and the march from Corinth to Iuka, Mississippi, and Tuseumbia, Alabama, was made. After a serv- ice of thirteen months the young patriot was severely injured, and was discharged.
In 1863 he entered Oterbein University at Wellsville, Ohio, and later was a student in Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio. After some time spent in the law office of I. N. Alexander at Van Wert, Ohio, he entered the Law School at Cincinnati, Ohio, as a member of the senior class, with which he was graduated in 1875, On the fifteenth of May following he came to Cleveland to engage in the practice of the law with his brother, W. B. Neff; this part- nership was continned with success until the election of the brother to the office of prosecut- ing attorney in 1890, and since that time Mr. Neff has been practicing alone.
Hle is a member of Brooklyn Post, No. 368, G. A. R., of which he has served as Commander for two years. To his exertions, as much as to
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those of any other member, is due the success that attended the erection of a Memorial Hall, which was constructed at a cost of ten thou- sand dollars, and is without exception the finest property owned by a G. A. R. post in the Western States. In politics Mr. Nell' adheres to family tradition and practice, giving his un- divided support to the Republican party. But while he takes an active interest in affairs of State he has never sought nor held public office.
lle was united in marriage July 3, 1877, to Miss Frances R. Dodge of Beverly, Mass., the daughter of Joseph Dodge, deceased. Two daughters and a son have been born of this union. Young Milton Dodge Neff has the proud distinction of having laid the corner- stone of the G. A. R. Memorial IIall, above mentioned, at the age of six years, and of hav- ing contributed the first money to the erection of this building.
A DELBERT N. RUSSELL, physician and surgeon, Collinwood, Ohio, was born in the State of New York, at Toddsville, Otsego county, May 20, 1850, a son of Levi N. and Philina (Joslyn) Russell, natives of New York State. The paternal grandfather of Dr. Russell was Gideon Russell, a native of Massachusetts, descended from English ances- tors; the great-grandfather was a soldier in the war of the Revolution and lost his life in the struggle. The maternal grandfather, Elezerian Joslyn, was also of Puritan stock.
Dr. Russell is the oldest of a family of six six sons and one daughter. His youth was an uneventful one, the monotony broken only by the change of seasons which brought a change of ocenpation. He assisted his father in the cultivation of the farm, and attended the ses- sions of the seminary at Cooperstown until he finished the literary course of that institution, afterward following teaching for five years, and in the spring of 1871 he began the study of his profession, Dr. J. K. Lening acting as his pre-
ceptor for three years. In the meantime took three winter courses of lectures in the medical department of the University of New York, and in the spring of 1874 was graduated with the degree of M. D. Ile immediately engaged in practice with his preceptor, and during the two years following acquired a valuable expe- rience. The next four years were spent in this vicinity, and in 1880 he came to Collinwood, where his efforts have met with most gratifying results in making many warm friends and building up a lucrative practice.
Dr. Russell was married July 30, 1873, to Miss Anna Miller, who survived three years, her death occurring August 8, 1876. Ilis sec. ond marriage was to Miss Anna Butler, a native of Otsego county, New York, and a daughter of William and Vanchie Butler, who descended from English ancestors. One child has been born by this union, a daughter named May.
The Doctor is a member of the Masonic order, belonging to Thatcher Lodge, No. 439, Webb Chapter, No. 11, and Oriental Com- mandery, No. 12, Cleveland; he is also a mem- ber of the Knights of P'ythias, of Lakeside. The residence he occupies is fitted np with all modern conveniences, such as extensive water privileges, with power for extingnishing fires and irrigation of lawn, and natural gas from a private well on the premises for lighting and heating. The furnishings are most harmonious, showing the cultivated and refined taste of the family.
A Mck. MORISON, brother of Honor- able David Morison, mentioned in an- other place in this volmine, was born in this county .Inly 8, 1846. He was reared and educated here and began life inde- pendently in 1871, when he purchased a tract of land at Put-in- Bay Island and was engaged for about three years in grape-raising and wine- making. Following his disposition of this property Mr. Morison returned to Cleveland and
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has since devoted himself to speenlative invest- ments in real estate. He is also employed by Morison & Massey, looking after their Glenville allotments.
Mr. Morison's life has been very quiet and unprotending, having no ambition beyond that of being a patriotic and progressive citizen.
He was married August 22, 1890, at Elyria, Ohio, to Miss Annie L. Sturdevant, a daughter of S. R. Sturdevant, of Ravenna, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Morison have one child, Fanny Amanda, born February 2, 1892.
N F. GOLLING, M. D., is a native of the Buckeye State, born at Twinsburg, Summit county, July 21, 1860, the son of William M. and Anna Golling. The Doe- tor's father, William M. Golling, was born in the city of Muelburg, State of Baden, Ger- many, and served in the German Revolution of 1848, being a Corporal in the Artillery Pioneer when he was but eighteen years of age. Ile and his wife Anna landed in the city of New York in 1854, remained there two years, then removed to Ohio, where he has resided ever since, following his trade, blacksmithing. The Doctor's mother, Anna, was born in the town of Grosbeiberaw, State of HIessen.
Dr. Golling was two years old when his par- ents moved to Bedford, Ohio, and there he grew up to years of maturity, attending the public schools during the regular sessions, and being employed through the vacations in a chair factory, where he was well disciplined in habits of promptitude and industry. When he had begun the study of medicine in 1883 it was under the instruction of Dr. C. W. Hains, of Bedford, now a resident of Kent, with whom he continued a student three years. In the winter of 1881-'85 he took his first course of lectures in the Cleveland Homeopathic Ilospi- tal College: this institution is now known as the Cleveland University of Medicine and Sur- gery. There Dr. Golling was graduated, a
member of the class of 1887, and immediately thereafter began his practice at Bedford. At the end of twelve months he went to Windham, Portage county, Ohio, where he resided until 1889, returning then to Bedford. Ilere he has established a large practice, which has resulted satisfactorily, professionally and financially. Ambitious of attaining superior excellence in his profession, he has been a close reader of all the medical literature of the day, and is thoroughly well informed upon all the discoveries of science and the improved methods of the leading prac- titioners of the world. Ile also holds a certifi- cate of surgery granted him by the surgeons of IIuron Street Hospital of Cleveland, Ohio. Ile prefers surgery rather than the general practice of medicine, and in a few years hopes to prac- tice it almost exclusively. llis success in ob- stetrical surgery has been unparalleled by any young physician in this branch of the science. Ile has a wide patronage, inelnding a number of the surrounding towns and villages. Although deeply engrossed in his practice, the Doctor finds time for social obligations, and is one of the honored members of Bedford Lodge, No. 375, F. & A. M., and Summit Chapter, No. 74, R. A. M.
Dr. Golling was united in marriage, Novem- ber 6, 1886, to Miss Etta M. Ozmun, a daugh- ter of Levi and Emily L. Ozmun, of Boston, Summit county, Ohio, the birthplace of Mrs. Golling. The Doctor and his wife have a son, named Herbert F.
F RANCIS M. CHANDLER .- In 1637 William Chandler and his wife Annis came from England and settled in Rox- bury, Massachusetts. Their numerons descend- ants are to be found in all portions of the United States. The names of many of them are prominent in the history of the country, among whom are numbered the late llon. Zach- ariah Chandler, President Rutherford B. Hayes
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and Hon. George Bancroft, the maternal an- cestors of the two latter having descended from this puritan stock.
Captain Thomas Chandler, son of William and Annis Chandler, married Hannah Brewer, of Andover, Massachusetts. Ensign Ilenry Chandler, son of Captain Thomas and Hannah Brewer Chandler, married Lydia Abbott of En- field, Connectient. Nehemiah Chandler, son of Henry and Lydia Abbott Chandler, married Mary Burroughs, of Enfield, Connecticut. IIon. Joel Chandler, son of Nehemiah and Lydia Ab- bott Chandler, married Abigail Simmons of Alstead, New Hampshire. Captain Joel Chand- ler, son of Joel and Abigail Simmons Chandler, married Sophia Smith, at Alstead, New Hamp- shire. Joel Alonzo Chandler, son of Joel and Sophia Smith Chandler, was born in Alstead, New Hampshire, May 30, 1824, and came to Ohio in 1835 with his parents, who first settled in Cleveland bnt later moved to Richfield, Summit county, Ohio, where he was married to Martha M. Buck, daughter of Ieman and Polly Buek, who came from New York State to Ohio in 1830. Of the seven children born to Joel Alonzo and Martha Buck Chandler, but three survive, the subject of this sketch, Francis M. Chandler, being the eldest, whose paternal ancestry is given above. In 1888 Joel Alonzo Chandler returned to Cleveland, where he re- sided until his death, which occurred Angnst 6, 1893, leaving his wife, two sons and one dangh- ter surviving. Francis M. Chandler was born in Richfield, Summit county, Ohio, May 3, 1851. He received an academical education at the Richfield Academy, and on leaving school engaged as a clerk in a store at West Richfield. In the fall of 1874 he came to Cleveland, where he has since resided. Two years later he was appointed a Deputy Clerk of the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas, and held this position until he resigned in 1883. Meanwhile he read law under the tutorship of August Zehring, and in 1883 was admitted to the bar. In the same year he entered into a partnership in the practice of law with F. N. Wilcox, which
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