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continned until 1886, when he was appointed Deputy County Recorder. In February, 1888, he resigned as Deputy Recorder to accept the appointment as Chief Clerk of the Probate Court.
Mr. Chandler has twice been married. His first marriage was in 1876, to Eflie M. Barney, who died in 1888, leaving a son, Clare DeForest Chandler. Ilis second marriage ocenrred in 1891, to Mary G. Mahon, by whom he has one son, Francis Mahon Chandler.
In politics Mr. Chandler is a stanch Repub- lican and stands high in the local councils of that party. IIe is a pleasant, unassuming gentleman who enjoys a wide and favorable acquaintance throughout the city and county, and is a popular and highly respected citizen.
E WYLLIS OSBORN, manager of the Cleveland Press, is a native of this city, born June 23, 1860. His parents, L. T. and Elizabeth Dane (Dodge) Osborn, were na- tives of Ohio. ITis mother's parents, Herry and Angeline Dodge, were pioneers from New England to Ohio, where they brought up and educated their children, -five sons and one daughter. The daughter, now aged fifty-six years, is now residing with Mr. Osborn, the subject of this brief account, and is a devout Christian woman, a member of the Euclid Avenue Baptist Church. Mr. L. T. Osborn was the only son of Timothy Osborn, and settled in Cleveland many years ago. Ile had two ehil- dren, namely: Angie, and E. Wyllis, above named.
The latter was educated in this city, in the public schools, and entered business early in life, following various mercantile pursuits. In 1879, being recommended for the position of general office man for the Britton Iron & Steel Company, of Cleveland, he was chosen for that place and soon became partner and director in the concern, and at length secretary und trons- urer, which position he resigned in 1886, after
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a seven years service, to accept the business management of the Cleveland Press, an in- fluential newspaper. Since his connection with this paper it has more than doubled in size and circulation.
Mr. Osborn is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and of the Union, Athletic and Roadside Clubs, and First City Troop Cavalry Company. It may be said that he is very fond of horses and is considered a good horseman. The mental equipment for the responsible posi- tion which Mr. Osborn now holds has been ob- tained by his own perseverance, in spite of all obstaeles, and this fact shows that he has a strong mind and energetie disposition, inherited by nature. Having nothing to start in business life with for his own maintenance, he has honestly and industrionsly made his way to an influential and responsible position, where he is giving satisfaction to all parties he serves. A greater future evidently awaits him.
D AVID S. BRAINARD, deceased, was for many years a well-known and highly respected citizen of Cuyahoga county, Ohio.
Ile was born on the farm where his widow now resides, at the corner of Seranton and Brainard avenues, Cleveland, July 27, 1815, son of Ozias and Mary (Strong) Brainard, both natives of Connecticut. They were married in Connecticut, and all their family were born there, with the exception of David S., whose birth occurred two years after their arrival in Cuyahoga county, Ohio. Ile was the second white child born in this township, Isaiah Fish being the first. In their large family five reached adult age, their names being as follows: Indiana, wife of Irad Akin; Betsey, wife of Marvin Brainard; Noah; Laura, wife of Will- iam J. Case; and David S.
David S. Brainard was reared on his father's pioneer farm, and early in life proved himself to be the possessor of more than ordinary abil-
ity. In addition to carrying on his farming operations, he also dealt in stock, and was in- terested in railroad and various other enter- prises. And whatever he undertook he gave to it his undivided attention, success in his enter- price usually being the result. Aside from his own business affairs, he found time to fill the various local offices to which he was called. For many years he served as township Clerk and Treasurer, and also as a member of the School Board. Indeed, lew men in this part of the eonnty were better known or more highly esteemed for their true worth than was he.
Mr. Brainard was married in 1838, to Miss Catherine E. Prame, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Stisser) Prame, who were born, reared and married in New York, and who came with their family to Ohio in 1833, Mrs. Brainard at that time being sixteen years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Prame subsequently removed from this county to Wisconsin, where they died, she in 1845, aged sixty-six, and he in 1848, aged sixty-nine. Both were born in 1779, his birth oceurring on the 27th of March, and hers on the 30th of the same month. They had a fam- ily of four, namely: Peter II. Prame, a mill- wright by trade, who died in Wisconsin, aged seventy-two years; Margaret, wife of James Starkweather, she and her husband both being deceased; Mrs. Brainard; and Reuben, who re- sides with his sister. Mr. and Mrs. Brainard had two children: Mary E. and Susan C. The latter was the wife of J. M. Curtis, of Clark avenue, Cleveland. She died, leaving an only child, Ruth. Mr. Brainard departed this life in 1880.
H ONORABLE CARLOS M. STONE, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, was born at Strongsville, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, on March 27, 1846. He was educated at Oberlin College, graduated at the Ohio State and Union Law College at Cleveland, Ohio, in 1869, and was admitted to the bar in the same year.
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Ile began to practice his profession in 1870, and in 1871 was elected Proseenting Attorney for the city of Cleveland, for a term of two years. From 1873 to 1876 he was a member of the law firm of Brinsmade & Stone; from 1876 to 1879, a member of the law firm of Stone & Hessenmueller. In the fall of 1879 he was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Cuyahoga county, for the term of two years, and in 1881 re-elected to the same office, for a term of three years.
Retiring from this office after five years' ser- viee, he again took up the practice of law, as a member of the law firm of Stone, Ilessemmueller & Gallup. In the fall of the same year, 1885, he was elected Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Cuyahoga county, for a term of five years, at the expiration of which he was re- elected, in the fall of 1889, for a second term.
In polities Judge Stone has always been a Republican. He was chairman of the County Republican Central Committee during the presidential campaign of 1884, but since his election to the judgeship in the Court of Com- mon Pleas, the etiquette, dignity and useful- ness of his position have not permitted him to take an active part in polities.
In 1872, Mr. Stone and Miss Jeanette Follett, daughter of Eliphalet Follett, of Lick- ing county, Ohio, were united in marriage, and their children are Ruth F. and Katharine F.
H L. SEXTON, M. D., a resident phy- sician of West Cleveland, Ohio, was born at Elsie, Michigan, a son of Charles and Naney (Lewis) Sexton. Ifis father is a native of Conneetient and his mother of New York State. They both reside in Miehi- gan. In the common schools of his native town, Dr. Sexton received his early education, and for a time he attended Hillsdale College; leaving college he came to Cleveland, where he embarked in the drug business. He acquired a thorough and practical knowledge of pharmacy,
so indispensable to the successful practice of medicine. Ile took up the study of medicine in the Cleveland Homeopathic Hospital College and later eontinned his studies of medicine at the Cleveland Medical College, a diploma from which institution he holds. He gained con- siderable experience by practice in the Huron street hospital, from which he also holds a diploma. Here, under competent supervisors he was enabled to make practical application of his knowledge of medicine.
He began the practice of his profession in West Cleveland, and has already gained a very desirable practice. IIe is a member of the Carroll Dunham Medical Association. He is progressive and active in his vocation, and keeps abreast with the advance of his profession.
OSEPHI E. STUBBS, D. D., LL. D .- Ilolding preferment as the official head of a notable institution of learning, a man of crudition and ripe scholarship, honored alike for his ability and worth of character, it is manifestly most consonant that in this work there be incorporated a resume of the life his- tory of Dr. Stubbs, President of Baldwin Uni- versity, Berea, Ohio.
The son of Colonel J. D. and Mary J. (Gray) Stubbs, the subject of this review was born at Ashland, Ashland county, Ohio, March 19, 1850, being reared to man's estate in his native town. His father, who is now living a retired life at Ashland, was for many years a promi- nent business man of that place, where, in his declining years, he rests seenre in the esteem and good will of the entire community to whose best interests he has ever been devoted. During the progress of the late war of the Rebellion Colonel Stubbs was very actively identified with the valiant work of the Union forces, having been in service for eight years and having served mnuch of this time as a mem- ber of the staff of the late lamented General James A. Garfield. After the close of the war
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his services were enlisted for some time as superintendent of the military railroads in the South. The wife of Colonel Stubbs is a daughter of the late Rev. David Gray, a promi- ment figure in the early annals of Ohio church history.
Colonel and Mrs. J. D. Stubbs had six children, concerning whom we offer the follow. ing brief record: Elizabeth, the eldest, became the wife of Jacob I. Dorland, of Ashland; David D. is secretary of the corporation operat- ing the Oriental & Occidental Steamship Line and has his headquarters at San Francisco, California; John C. is vice-president of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company and is also a resident of San Francisco; Joseph E. is the subject of this sketch; Mary N. is a teacher in the Asbland high school; William M. was the agent of the Standard Oil Company at Sacra- inento, California, where he died in 1886.
Joseph E. Stubbs completed the work of the common schools in Ashland, and after graduat- ing at the high school entered the Ohio Wes- leyan University, at Delaware, Ohio, where he graduated in the class of 1873. The year prior to his graduation he was elected as tutor in Latin and Greek at the university and filled that position most acceptably for three years, when he was obliged to resign, by reason of impaired health. thereupon purchased the Ashland Times, of which he continued editor and publisher for a terin of six years. Within this time he also held the incumbency as Superintendent of the Ashland public schools, manifesting marked business and executive ability.
In June, 1886, Dr. Stubbs was elected to the important and exacting position which he now holds,-that of President of Baldwin Univer- sity. That he was ably qualified for the ef- fective discharge of the onerous duties of this oflice was a fact recognized by those through whom came the preferment, and his administra- tion of affairs has proved beyond cavil that the trust could not have been assigned to better keeping. The Doctor has spent one year (a
portion of each 1890 and 1891) in Berlin, where he pursued a special course of study. April 26, 1894, he received and accepted an election to the presidency of the State Univer- sity of Nevada at Rono, Nevada, and he will retire from Baldwin University August 1, 1891.
lle was united in marriage, at Ashland, Ohio, July 10, 1873, to Miss Ella A. Sprongle, eldest daughter of L. J. Sprengle, who had been editor and proprietor of the Ashland Times for more than a quarter of a century. Mrs. Stubbs is also a graduate of the Ohio Wesleyan University. The Doetor and Mrs. Stubbs are the parents of four children: Theo- dore W., Elizabeth S., Ralph S., and Ruth G.
Baldwin University, which, in its methods, discipline, facilities and corps of instructors, takes rank with the best of the modern institu- tions of higher education, was founded in 1846 by the late John Baldwin, of Berea, Ohio, who has left this most noble monument to his practical philanthrophy and public spirit, -an enduring memorial and one that will cause his uame to be held in perpetual honor. Mr. Baldwin was born in Branford, New Haven county, Connecticut, October 13, 1799, and his death occurred in Louisiana, December 28, 1884.
The present average number of students en- rolled at the university is 220; the buildings, grounds and permanent improvements of the institution are valued at $125,000, and its maintenance is assured by an endowment fund of about $160,000.
M AJOR CYRUS II. DE FOREST, as- sistant accountant for the Society for Savings, was born in Cleveland, May 30, 1835, a son of a prominent pioneer of this city, the late Tracy R. de Forest, who cast his fortunes with the metropolis of Ohio as early as 1834. Traey R. was born in Chenango county, New York, and was by trade a mill- wright.
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One of the first extensive manufacturing con- cerns in this city organized about that time was the Cuyahoga Steam Furnace Company, in which Mr. de Forest was employed as superin- tendent from its inception, and to the success of which his efforts were directed until the firm of Kennedy, De Forest & Randall was organ- ized in 1867, being the successor of Parish & Knight, a well remembered and substantial con- cern. This new firm and its successor, Ken- uedy, De Forest, Parsons & Company, did a large business in sheet-iron and copper work for boats, which business patronage was drawn largely by reason of Mr. De Forest's extended acquaintance among vessel owners and marine men generally, resulting from his long connee- tion with the Cuyahoga Steam Furnace Com- pany and a service of many years as United States Inspector of Marine Boilers. Mr. De Forest was thoroughly well informed on all matters pertaining to steam boilers, and by rea- son of this ability he was appointed in 1855 by the Secretary of the Treasury United States In- specter of Marine Boilers, being the first for the port of Cleveland. He resigned his office in 1873 and devoted the remainder of his life to his private interests; and his death in 1887 closed a prosperous and useful and honorable career.
The De Forests of America descended di- rectly from the De Forests of Avesnes, France, the Avesnes family from the De Forests of Cambresis, and they from the Sires de Trith of the First and Fifth Crusades. Of the Avesnes family there were four brothers living in Ley- den, France, in 1606, one of whom, Jesse, had a son, Isaac, born in 1616. On October 1, 1636, Isaac de Forest sailed from Amsterdam in the yacht Rensselaerwyck, Captain Jean Tiebkins, for New Amsterdam, New York. Isaac de Forest was married in New Amster- dam, June 9, 16-11, to Sarah du Trieux. From them and through their son David, and through David's son Samuel, and through Samnel's son Joseph, descended Gideon de Forest, the latter the father of Tracy R. and the grandfather of
Major Cyrus II. Gideon de Forest and his three brothers, Samuel, Abel and Mills, were all born under the same roof in Stratford, Con- necticut, were all soldiers in the Revolution, all received pensions, and, in 1835, when the youngest was over seventy years of age, held a reunion at Edmeston, New York, when they came together for the first time during moro than half a century. Gideon de Forest was married to Hannah Birdseye in 1794, and in the following year moved to Edmeston, Otsego county, New York. He died December 9, 1840, in his seventy-sixth year. Of Gideon's eight chil- dren but one, the youngest, Mrs. Harriet Ful- ler of Sherburne, New York, is now living. Tracy R. de Forest, next older than Harriet of Gideon's children, was born February 2, 1811, and was married at Black Rock, now part of Buffalo, New York, on May 22, 1833, to Julia Ann Sutherland, and their children were Cyrus IIenry, our subjeet; Louis Germain, who served during the Rebellion, first as Adjutant of the Seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, afterward as Captain in the One Hundred and Fiftieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and died in 1870 from dis- ease contracted in the service; Julia Ambrosia, who became the wife of Rev. Dr. Edward P. Ingersoll and died in 1865; Charles Lee, who died at Jacksonville, Florida, in 1888; Maria Louise, who died in 1865; Albert Wright, a resident of this city; and Mary Franees, with whom the mother, in her eighty-second year, is now living.
After receiving the best education afforded by the public schools of Cleveland, Cyrus II. entered the service of the O'Reilly Telegraph Company as messenger boy, and soon there- after became an operator, serving as such in Cleveland and Massillon. Ile was among the very first to read by sound, and in fact he never used the paper ribbon. Surveying, however, was his chosen profession, and, with a wider field in view, he went West in 1856, locating in Omaha, then a frontier town in the early days of its existence. There he was in govern- ment employ surveying public lands, laid out
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town sites, etc., until the discovery of gold at Pike's Peak (really at Cherry Creek, the present site of Denver), when he with a party of five others, with two wagons, started for that region. The party made the trip in twenty-one days, " footing it" the entire distance, and it was considered a quick trip in those days.
lle remained in the mountains, prospecting and mining with varying success, until the Civil war came on, when Governor Gilpin of Colo- rado, commissioned him as Second Lieutenant of Company A, Second Colorado Cavalry. Hle, with Captain James HI. Ford, soon raised a company and was mustered into the service at Fort Garland, Colorado, December 21, 1861; was promoted First Lieutenant, January 5, 1862, as Captain of Company C, August 24, 1864, and brevetted Major United States Vol- unteers, March 13, 1865, for gallant and meri- terious service in New Mexico.
After a year's field service in New Mexico and Northern Texas, and participating in the battles of Glorietta and Peralta under General Slough and Canby, respectively, Lieutenant de Forest was appointed Aid-de-Camp to General Carleton, who succeeded General Canby in com- mand of the Department of New Mexico, and served in that capacity as Acting Assistant Ad- jutant General of the Department upon the staffs of Generals Carleton, Sykes, and Getty, successive department commanders, until his final muster out of service, September 30, 1867.
Before Major de Forest was finally mustered ont and upon a reorganization of the regular army, he was appointed Second Lieutenant of the Thirty-fifth Infantry, United States of Amer- ica; but, the military service having no charms for him in times of peace, he declined the com- mission and entered the Surveyor General's office at Santa Fe, New Mexico, as chief dranghtsman, where he remained until 1870, when he returned to Cleveland. Ifere he be- came Deputy Clerk of the Superior Court, and upon its demise Deputy Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, serving under Clerks Cogswell,
Hinman and Kitchen until 1884, when he en- tered the employ of the Society for Savings, where he is now the assistant accountant.
In polities Major de Forest is uncompromis- ingly Republican. He was a member of the Centennial Couneil from the then Second ward. Two measures of special importance received favorable action by this body, namely, the Cen- tral Viaduet ordinance, and an ordinance leas- ing the canal bed to the Valley Railroad Com- pany, both of which received Major de Forest's support.
0 RRA A. KINNEY, foreman for the Cleveland Stone Company, was born in Medina county, Ohio, January 20, 1846. His father was S. E. Kinney, a farmer by oceu- pation, and young Orra was reared on his father's farm, where he remained till he became of age, and received a common-school education. After leaving home he spent some three years in New York on a farm, and in 1872 came to Berea, soon after taking up the stone business. In 1876 he became connected with the Berea Stone Company as foreman, and when the Berea Stone Company consolidated with the Cleveland Stone Company Mr. Kinney still continued in the capacity of foreman, which position he has since filled.
In 1884 he went to California, where he spent one year, during which time he lost his first wife, Mrs. Lora (Crocker) Kinney, to whom he was married in Berea, January 29, 1872. She died in California, January 5, 1884. Hle was again married in Berea, January 29, 1856, to Mrs. Anna Bixby, of Chicago, a lady of fine business ability and many accomplishments.
Mr. Kinney has been a member of the Coun- cil of Berea, and has been connected with the Baptist Church, but in 1887 became a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, with his wife. Ile has taken quite an active part in temperance work and has been interested in all that tends to promote the welfare of the com- munity in which he lives.
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JIis father, Sanford E. Kinney, was born in Madison county, New York. Ile taught school for many years, although the last years of his life were spent in farming. He died at his home in Litchfield, Medina county, Ohio, a sin- cere Christian. His wife, nee Sarah Chace, was born in New York State. She died at Litch- field, five weeks previous to her husband, in 1892, and both lie buried in the same grave. They had three children who lived to grow up, -Orra A., Matilda and Alora.
- ONES S. DICKLE, junior member of the J. L. Hudson clothing firm, Cleveland, and general manager of their business, is best described by the word " hustler." In the eighteen years or more since his advent in the clothing trade he has made for himself a name and a place seldom reached by men of his age; for his company ranks among the foremost in their line in America, the volume of their sales probably exceeding that of any retail clothing house in any city of similar size on the conti. nent.
Mr. Dickle's first essay in business life was in the clothing trade, when he was employed by the noted house of C. R. Mabley, of Detroit, while he was yet a lad. Later he occupied re- sponsible positions in J. L. Hudson's various branch establishments at Sandusky and Toledo, Ohio, and Jackson, Michigan. When in 1885 Mr. Hudson made his great deal in Cleveland and bought out the Excelsior clothing house, Mr. Diekle, then in his twenty-eighth year, was elected its manager. Cleveland offered a large field for an enterprising man like him, especially when backed by Mr. Hudson's great capital, keen judgment and shrewd foresight, and the opportunity was well improved. The city already had large clothing houses, but none of them had ever been run in the manner which Mr. Indson made so successful in Detroit and elsewhere; his methods were of the " booming" kind,- buying great lots at ent prices, advertising ex- tensively and selling at prices that would insure
ready transactions. And Mr. Dicklo was just the sort of man to inaugurate these methods in this city. Ile entered into the execution of them with " heart and soul," and some of the most brilliant advertising in the clothing line ever done in Cleveland was done by Mr. Dickle. lle has always been a strong advocate of special sales, working for the multitude and not for the few; and he has also been a believer in the policy of low prices and quick movement of goods. Consequently the Cleveland publie soon ascertained that the announcement of a great sale at the Excelsior meant low prices and exceptionable values.
The Hudson establishment has always had the reputation of being willing to buy anything that could be bought right, and Mr. Dickle stands shoulder to shoulder with Mr. Hudson as an advocate of this policy. The store is a gents' clothing-house, but it is quite within possibilities that they would buy a train load of coflins, a cargo of shoe-pegs or a dozen elephants if the prices were low enough with the cer- tainty that the proper advertising would insure their quick sale at a profit. So far as we know, however, Mr. Dickle has not yet speculated in these articles last mentioned, but more than once has he sailed in and handled large quantities of ladies' goods, such as cloaks, etc., that he had bonght at a bargain; and on one memorable oc- casion he drew such a flock of ladies to the store that it became his turn to say " No," close the doors and temporarily keep back the crowd! One of his great purchases, some time ago, was of the salvage remaining from the fire of Klein, Goodhart & Koch, said to be valued at $200,000; it was bought by Hudson & Diekle in just one- half hour from the opening of negotiations. Mr. Dickle's face is one of the most familiar at the New York clothing markets, known to all his customers as characterized by black hair, brilliant black eyes, fine physique, commanding in appearance and pleasant and genial to all. Ile is an excellent example of what ambition, self-reliance and intelligence ill wdo for a young man.
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