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Martin Kelleyy
alfred Kelloggs
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His advent into the elothing trade was uniqne. Ile straggled into Detroit not many years ago, badly in need of a job. Entering Mabley's es- tablishment, of which J. L. Iludson was then the manager, he asked whether they needed any help. It was just prior to a big fair; the town would soon be full of people, and indeed more help was needed. . "Can you sell clothing?" asked the manager, looking the applicant over. " I think I can," was the modest reply. " Well, come around Monday and I will see what you can do." Mr. Dickle departed and entered the clothing store next door. " I want to get some clothes," said he to the elerk. Ile was hard to suit. Ile questioned the clerk sharply abont the merit of the goods. The clerk, expatiating, pulled down snit after suit, going through the whole stock, but could not make a sale. Mr. Dickle went out and entered another store, going through the same performance, and ere long he had examined every clothing stock in Detroit, and knew as much about the business as any ordinary salesman could tell. So, on Monday he returned to Mabley's, according to agree- ment, was placed at work, and soon proved to be one of the liveliest and most efficient sales- man the house ever had. Mr. IIndson's keen judgment of men came into play when he started in business for himself, and Mr. Dickle was one of his first selections, who has proven himself one of the most successful of his as- sistants.
Mr. Dickle is of German ancestry, a Penn- sylvanian by birth, a Presbyterian in religion, active in all the general business interests of the city, a member of the Board of Trade and of about all the seeret and social organizations of the city. His snecess in business and accumu- lations of wealth have been such as to enable him to invest $50,000 in stocks, ete., outside of his business as a clothier. He became a part- ner in the business in 1889. The J. L. Hudson clothing house in Cleveland suceceds Stein, August & Garson, who opened the " Excelsior" clothing house in 1883, and failed on account of inefficient management; Mr. Hudson took
the management in 1885, and under the man- agement of Mr. Dickle the business has proven a decided success from the very beginning.
This great Cleveland establishment is known throughout the country, and is said to be one of the finest clothing stores in America. It com- prises two floors 90 x 175 feet, where they employ upward of 100 elerks. The stock is complete in its various departments, presenting a clean and fresh appearance. A most notice- able feature of this fine store is a show window 28 x 40 feet, which is probably the largest in the world. The establishment is one of nine similar concerns condueted by Mr. Hudson, lo- eated at the following points: Cleveland, Detroit, Grand Rapids, St. Paul, Buffalo, Norwalk, To- ledo, Sandusky and St. Louis. In addition to the above he has a large clothing manufacturing establishment at Lansing, Michigan.
A LFRED KELLOGG .- Among the well known citizens of Cuyahoga county, Ohio, is Alfred Kellogg, of No. 624 Scranton avenue, South Side, who was born in this county, in November, 1820, and is the son of Martin Kellogg, who was one of the pioneers of Ohio and was a prominent man of the South Side half a century ago. The latter was born February 16, 1793, in East Hampton Parish, Chatham, Middlesex county, Connecti- eut, of Irish parents. He was the son of Mar- tin Kellogg, who was a native of Marlboro, Con- neetient and was born about the year 1765. Ilis wife, nee Rachel Hosford, was the daughter of Dudley Hosford, of Marlboro, and she bore him six children. He died in 1825, and his wife in 1850.
Martin Kellogg, father of our subject, was reared on his father's farm and received a com- inon-school education. In 1817 he came to Ohio, with three young men companions, but remained only one summer, returning to his old home, and on June 2, 1818, he was married to Laura Adams, the daughter of Benjamin Adams, of
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West Chester, New London county, Conneeti- cut. In company with the families of Judge Barber and Messrs. Watkins, Branch and Ansel Young, Mr. Kellogg and his young wife set out on the return to Ohio, and made the entire journey by ox team, consuming forty days, and arriving in Cleveland in July, 1818. He settled in Brooklyn, on a farm which is now within the city limits of Cleveland, a portion of which is owned by onr subject and upon which stands his present handsome and substantial residence on Scranton avenue. Ile at once began clearing the land, and, although beset with all the trials and hardships of the pioneer, never once became discouraged or disheartened, and at the end of a few years had a comfortable home for his family and was doing nicely. In 1856 his wife died, and on March 8, 1860, he was married to Miss Laura Walker, who died July 17, 1863. IIis death occurred on the 25th of August, 1863. lle was the father of four children: Alfred, Horace, Charles M. and Sandford B., all of whom are now deceased except his first born, our subject. He was a man of stanch integrity and high moral courage, an enterprising citizen and one who took an active part in forwarding local improvements and the best interests of the community. He was originally an old-line Whig, but upon the birth of the Republican party he became a stanch adherent of that or- ganization. Although taking an active interest in political and public questions, he never sought or held office of any kind.
Alfred Kellogg was reared on the farm, and received his education, as is commonly expressed, by holding the plow. His attendance at school was limited to a few months during the winters, and even this ceased as soon as he was large enough and old enough to make a "full hand" at work on the farm. But he made the best of his limited opportunities and secured a good practical education, which was supplemented with native shrewdness and keen judgment, in- dustry and integrity, and his success in life has been in no wise hampered by the want of a better clucation. He followed in the footsteps of his
father and became a farmer, and, as his friends and neighbors say, a "good one at that." Ile carried on farming until 1870, tilling the soil of the old homestead on the South Side; but about that time, the city having grown rapidly and encroached upon his farm, he decided to plat and sell the remainder of the old farm, and in a few years' time had reduced it to about two acres, which he retained for a residence and grounds. For several years Mr. Kellogg was engaged in the packing business, but was suc- ceeded in that business by his son Horace, since which time he has lived retired, taking the world easy, surrounded by his family and enjoy- ing the fruits of a well spent and active life.
On the 22d day of March, 1843, Mr. Kellogg was married to Louisa E. Ackley, daughter of Asa Aekley, a pioneer of Cuyahoga county, who settled on a farm near the infirmary. She bore him three children and died in 1885. The fol- lowing year he was married to Elizabeth A. Plumb, whose family were among the pioneers of Wayne county, Ohio. The children of Mr. Kellogg are as follows: Edward M., deceased, born in 1845; Horace, born in 1849, and now engaged in the packing business in the firm of Kellogg and Jenkins; and Frank, born in 1854.
G ENERAL MORTIMER D. LEGGETT, of Cleveland, Ohio, has for years been prominently identified with the interests of this country and has distinguished himself in more ways than one. Volumes might be written upon the early life, army service and subsequent career of this well- known man, and yet much be still omitted. To give even the most suecinet narrative of his life requires much more space than can be given on these pages.
General Leggett's early days were spent in New York and Ohio, and amid the best social and educational influences. Ilis parents, Isaac and Mary (Strong) Leggott, were residents of
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Ithaca, New York, where the son, Mortimer D., was born April 19, 1821. The family removed to Montville, Geanga county, Ohio, in 1836. The life of the son was that of the farmer boy of his day, and if no means of rare culture or expansion of mind were open to him in the small, back country town, he was given that which was of more use,-enough physical ex- ereise to give him a strong, hardy frame, and such moral and religions surroundings as to make him a true-hearted and earnest man. Such time as could be taken from the farm work was given to his books, of which he was very fond; and in his home education he was aided by his parents and older sister. When eighteen years of age he attended a teachers' seminary or training school, where he gradu- ated at the head of his class. After this he im- mediately gave his attention to teaching, not with the purpose of making it his life work, but as one of the stepping-stones to the pro- fession he had marked out for himself --- that of the law. His success in the schoolroom was such as to warrant the statement that had he continned in that line of labor he would long since have become eminent as an educator; but as soon as his means would permit he began the study of law. Ile passed a creditable examina- tion and was admitted to the bar in 1844. About that time he became greatly interested in the public-school question, and in the new canse he and others stumped the State. The result of the movement was the passage of the experimental law applicable to Akron, in 1846, out of which grew the grand common-school system of Ohio. In the meantime Mr. Leg- gett had been still further preparing himself for his chosen profession, with the intention of entering upon its practice at onee. With the passage, however, of the Akron school law he was pursnaded to take charge of the organiza- tion of the schools thereunder. His signal success at Akron made his services in demand at Warren, where he also rendered efficient service. The value of his labor during those experimental days can hardly bo overestimated.
In 1850, relinquishing his school labors, he opened a law office at Warren, and was re- warded with a good practice from the start. Ever in love with educational work, he found time occasionally to still pursue it, and in 1856- '57 we lind him holding the responsible posi- tion of Professor of Equity, Jurisprudence and of Pleading and Practice in the Ohio Law Col- lege. In 1857 he was led to change his resi- dence, going to Zanesville, where he continued in practice and at the same time had general supervision of the public schools. Here he re- mained until the breaking out of the Rebellion.
Mr. Leggett had a personal acquaintance and friendship with George B. McClellan. When the latter took command of his troops and moved into Virginia, Mr. Leggett accompanied him as a volunteer aid, without pay, and was soon convinced that the war was to be a length- ened contest that no three months' campaign would end. Returning to Ohio, he was com- inissioned by Governor Dennison, in the latter part of 1861, to raise and organize the Seventy- eighth Regiment of Ohio Infantry. IIe en- listed as a private, being the first man to place his name upon the roll of the regiment. Ile went at his work with tireless devotion and energy, and in the short space of forty days had enlisted the full number of 1,040 men. As Colonel of the regiment he went South with it and reported for duty to General Grant at Fort Donelson. It is a matter of regret that we must of a necessity pass hastily over his army life; indeed, to give it in full would be to write a history of the war, and that is not the purpose of this work. Suflice it to say that in less than three years he made the phenomenal stride from private to Major-General; nor was his promo- tion the result of favoritism. It was based upon true merit. A born commander of men, and with natural military genius, it would have been a strange combination of adverse cireum- stances that would have kept him from pro- motion. In the battle of Shiloh he received his first wound, but did not leave the field. May 16, 1862, while in command of the ad-
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vanee on Corinth, he had one horse killed under him and another wounded, he himself escaping uninjured. At Champion Hills he received a severe flesh wound in the thigh, in the beginning of the fight, but " he concealed the wound even from his staff, and remained on the field, com- manding his troops throughout the battle." But it was at Vicksburg that he most dis- tinguished himself. The morning after the fight, although severely wounded in the left shoulder, right side and elsewhere, he was helped to mount his horse, and rode into the city at the head of his brigade. For these and other meritorious services he was fittingly re- warded. IIe was with Sherman on that mem- orable march to the sea, and his last engage- ment was in South Carolina. "At the grand review of the armies at Washington, at the close of the war," says one writer, "no general officer was more warmly or cordially received in the President's pavilion than was General Leg- gett, or congratulated with greater warmth and heartiness by the President and Secretary of War. He was on that day recognized as one of the heroes of the land." So high an authority as Whitelaw Reid says, in his "Ohio in the War," of General Leggett:
" Ile is strictly a moral man, never drinks anything that will intoxicate, never smokes cigars, never chews tobacco, never uses profane language, and never plays cards, and drinking and eard-playing were always prohibited at his headquarters. ITis services lasted from the be- ginning to the close of the war; they were always honorable, often ardnous, and sometimes distinguished, so that in the end he came to command the trust of his superiors, the admi- ration of his soldiers, and the gratitude from the country which all deserve who add capacity and skill to their personal devotion."
The war over, he resumed the practice of law at Zanesville, Ohio. Again and again he was urged to try his fortune in the field of politics, but as often declined. During the war a warm friendship had sprung up between him and General Grant, which friendship still continued,
and when the latter was elected to the presi- dency he proffered more than one position to his old companion-in-arms. They were all de- elined by General Leggett, with one exception, that of Commissioner of Patents. For this position he was partienlarly adapted, and in it served most acceptably for a term of four years, from 1871 to 1875. At the expiration of that time lie resigned his office and removed to Cleveland, where he has since resided. Here he opened a law office, but made patents his specialty. Ilis tastes ran naturally in that direction, and his experience in Washington had given him an insight into the business that no other form of preparation could have afforded. Soon he commanded a very large business in this direction, and praetieed in all the United States courts throughout the entire country east of the Rocky mountains.
General Leggett has been of practical useful- ness to the manufacturing and business inter- ests of Cleveland and the West in more ways than one. He was one of the organizers of the Telegraph Supply Company, which was sue- eeeded by the Brush Electrie Company. Of the latter he was president until 1884. Ile was also president of the Cummer Engine Com. pany, formed in 1881 for the building of steam engines. Ile was vice-president of the Cow- ings Steel Casting Company and of the Walker Manufacturing Company, and has also been in- terested in other important enterprises needless to mention here. In 1884 his desire for rest led him to take a trip to Europe, and before going he resigned the presidency of the Brush Company and the Cummer Engine Company, but he is still a member of the board of direet- ors of each corporation. In 1880 he was elected a member of the Board of Education of Cleve- land, and two years later was chosen a member of the Board of Managers of the Cleveland Public Library, in both of which positions ho rendered valuable service. Politically, he aflili- ates with the Republican party.
July 9, 1844, he married Miss Marilla Wells, daughter of Absalom Wells, of Montville Cen-
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ter, Ohio. She died in 1876. Remarkable for her intelligence, charming grace and cheerful disposition, she was loved by all who knew her. They had five children, only one of whom is living, namely, Mrs. Il. A. Seymour, of. Washington city. The other four were W. W. Leggett, a lawyer of Detroit, who died in 1892; Mortimer Leggett, who died at Cor- nell University in the fall of 1873; L. L. Leggett, engaged in business with his father, and died suddenly of apoplexy, April 2, 1894; and one that passed away in infancy. The General was mar- ried in 1879 to his present companion, Miss Weltha Post, daughter of II. C. Post, of San- dusky, Ohio.
S HERLOCK J. ANDREWS, a jurist learned and distinguished, and one of the foremost of the brilliant lawyers who have made the bar of Ohio famous, was born in Wallingford, Connecticut, November 17, 1801, and died in Cleveland, February 11, 1880.
ITis father, John Andrews, was early in the present century a distinguished physician and a citizen of great prominence in Connecticut. llis son, the subject of this sketeh, was pre- pared for college in the Episcopal academy at Cheshire, and after a thorough course there was sent to Union College at Schenectady, New York, where he graduated with high honors in the class of 1821. Soon afterward he became the professional assistant of Benjamin Silliman, Sr., the eminent scientist of Yale College, and intimate friend of Dr. Andrews; and for several years he filled the position to the great satisfae- tion of the distinguished professor, who took him into his family and gave him a father's care; and who, in his private journal, subse- quently published, speaks of his young associate in the highest terms of praise and affection.
Having early chosen the law as his profession, Mr. Andrews, during his residence in New llaven, studied it assiduously, and after attend-
ing lectures at the law school there was, in 1825, admitted to practice. In the same year he severed his relations with Prof. Silliman, and, following the example of many young men of that period, came to the Western Reserve and located at Cleveland. Soon afterward he became the partner of Judge Samuel Cowles, with whom the relation continued until 1833, when the latter retired, and the firm of Andrews & Foot was formed, which subsequently became Andrew, Foot & Iloyt.
Very early in his professional life Mr. Andrews gained prominence. Ilis brilliant talents, marked industry, and social qualities made him a leading man in the community. In 1840 he was elected to Congress, where he served with honor. In 1848 he was appointed Judge of the Superior Court of Cleveland, which was afterward legislated out of existence by provision of the Ohio constitutional con- vention, of which Judge Andrews was a con- spicuous member. On the bench he displayed eminent talent, and maintained there, as in every other official position, an irreproachable reputa- tion as a public servant.
Upon returning to practice, Judge Andrews, warned by failing health, partially retired from active life, and thereafter was only engaged as counsel and advocate in important cases. In 1873, chosen by both the Republican and Demo- erat parties, he was again a member of the State constitutional convention, where his long experience, wisdom and ability gave him a com- manding position, and he was made chairman of the Judiciary Committee, having declined a nomination, and certain election, as presiding officer, tendered him by his Republican col- leagues.
During his entire professional career of more than forty years, Judge Andrews held front rank. Logic, wit, sareasm and pathos, all rein- forced by a well disciplined and cultivated mind, stored with wide and varied learning, were at his command in rich profusion. There were others who equaled him in technical pleading; but, where he was supported by his convictions
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of right, no other advocate in his day was so irresistible before a jury, or was more suc- eessful. In every phase of his professional life he commanded the universal respeet of both beneh and bar. In politics he was first a Whig and then a Republican. He was not, however, an extreme partisan, and freely condemned party measures which he deemed wrong.
In 1928 Judge Andrews married Miss Ur- sula Allen, of Litchfield, Connectieut, daughter of llon. John Allen, a former member of Con- gress from that State, and a leader of its bar. Five children survive him, namely: Misses Sarah J. and Cornelia B. Andrews, Mrs. Ursula M. Herrick and Mr. William W. Andrews,- all residing in Cleveland; and Mrs. Harriet S. Whittelsey, of Wallingford, Connecticut. Judge Andrews was a Christian gentleman, a faithful friend and an affectionate husband and parent. He passed away ripe in years and wisdom and universally beloved and admired, and will. be remembered as representing the best type of American manhood,-able, pure, lovable and accomplished. The announcement of his death was received by the public with great sadness. The courts in Cleveland immediately adjourned. Upon their records were spread the appropriate resolutions of the bar, and the Supreme Court in entering those tributes upon its journal paid very nuusual honor to his memory as a distin- gnished lawyer. llis death ended an honored and blameless life, and found him prepared for immortality.
H ENRY II. JOHNSON, a real-estate dealer and broker of >toeks and bonds, Cleveland, is one of the eminently sne- cessful young business men of the city, whose career is now fairly begun. Ilis business life had it- beginning in this city about fifteen years ago, when, after completing his educa- tion at Soula's College at New Orleans, Lonisi- ana, he became his father's agent to transact any business pertaining to his real estate and
other property interests. In 1882 he engaged regularly and permanently in the real-estate business, handling it as an investment. ITis efforts have been directed toward the improve- ment of what may be termed suburban prop- erty, by laying out allotments and putting them on the market at popular priees, and by erect- ing business and other blocks in the vieinity as an inducement to homeseøkers and speculators and as evidence of his faith in the future of this eity. He is a stockholder in the Cleveland City Railway Company, and handles its stock and bonds as its agent. He was one of the five incorporators of the Permanent Loan Associa- tion, in which he was made a director. Ile built the Johnson bloek in 1892, and is inter- ested in a fine block now being ereeted.
In business Mr. Johnson acts with much de- liberation. He is a student of the real-estate and stock markets, and is therefore "well up" on the values. When he deeides on an invest- ment it is certain that the profits will drop into his money-box. ITis counsel and advice are frequently songht and carry much weight. IIe was a member of the committee of the Cleve- land Athletic Club to select and purchase a site for the organization, and he is a member of the Forest City, Roadside and Union Clubs.
Mr. Johnson was born in New Orleans, Lou- isiana, Jannary 14, 1860. IIis father, William C. Johnson, the pioneer and popular general superintendent of the Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad Company, was born in Connecticut, in 1814, and was married in that State to a lady of the same surname. He came to this eity in 1836, and when the Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad was constructed he was appointed shop foreman or superintendent, and some years afterward was promoted to the position of gen- eral superintendent. He was an employee of the company about thirty years, and invested his earnings in the stock of that road, and of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad and in Cleveland real estate; consequently when he resigned his office he was worth a good sum. Ile was one of the first
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inen to take stoek in the Society for Savings early in its history. He was always an active, restless man, not content without employment; and his determination to spend his last years in retirement and rest was probably his death sen- tence; for his enforced idleness worried him so that he died in two years, being then seventy- two years of age: his wife followed two years later.
February 10, 1891, Mr. II. II. Johnson, our subject, married Miss Helen Hathaway, a daughter of Charles Hathaway, whose history appears in this volume.
R EV. JOHN J. WALKER, pastor of St. Matthew's German Evangelical Lutheran Church in the city of Cleveland, is a native of Germany, where he was born October 10, 1550. His parents, John J. and Anna (Besch) Walker, were residents of the kingdom of Wurtemberg, and there at Sondel- fingen occurred the birth of our subjeet. When he was a child of six years his father, who was a shoemaker by trade, emigrated with his fam- ily to America. lle settled in Kent county, Michigan, near Grand Rapids, loeating in a seetion that was not at that time reclaimed from the wilderness. There he developed a fine farm and became recognized as one of the prominent and successful farmers of that portion of the Peninsular State. In the work of the farm he wa- greatly assisted by his son, our subject. Ile died in 1556, at the age of sixty-seven years. Ile, as well as his worthy wife, was a life-long member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church.
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