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Mr. Hoyt was born in Addison, New York, June 8, 1834, and soon afterward his parents moved to Onondaga county, same State, where he grew up. ILis father, Nathan G. Hoyt, was a native of Connecticut, born near Ridgefield, that State, and moved to New York State at the age of nineteen years. He learned the trade of cabinet-making at Auburn, that State, and fol- lowed it as a means of livelihood in subsequent years. Ile came to Ohio in 1852, and died in Elyria, this State, in 1882, aged seventy years. For his wife he married Miss Harriet Hoyt,- ne relation traceable, but remotely of the same stock probably, as her ancestors were also Con- neetient people. She died in 1893, at the age of eighty four years. Their children were; Will- iam; Nathan G., Jr., of Wellington, Ohio;
Hannah J., who married James Penfield, of Elyria; Mary E., wife of T. B. Prentiss, a Bos- ton printer; and Henry, a conductor on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fo Railroad in Kansas.
William Hoyt worked with his father four years before coming west, but did not turn his attention in the direction of his trade on reach- ing the new Western country. January 3, 1858, he married, in Cleveland, Miss Harriet, a daughter of Sheridan Roberts, of Warren, Ohio, who has two living children, the other being Mary A., the wife of T. M. Knight, of Cleve- land. Mr. and Mis. Hoyt's children are; William, Jr., a baggageman on the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad, who married Mary White; Lillian and Ida,-both unmarried.
Mr. Iloyt is a Master Mason of Cleveland City Lodge.
D R. FRANK W. SOMERS, a young and promising physician, with an office at 1545 Lorain street, West Cleveland, was born January 25, 1863, at Chardon, Geanga county, Ohio. His father, Lyman Somers, was born in New York State and removed to Ohio about 1840, and is now a resident of Chardon.
Dr. Somers obtained a preliminary education in the public schools of his native town and en- graged in school-teaching for four years, and then began the study of medicine in the Cleve- land Medical College, from which institution he holds a diploma, and after receiving a diplo- ma from the Huron Street Hospital (Institute), he entered upon the practice of his profession. While in college he was on the dispensary staff and also took charge of the clinique. In one month he treated 161 cases. In his individual practice he is fast gaining prominence. Ile is a member of the Canal Dunham Medical Asso- ciation, and is otherwise prominently associated in his profession.
In March of 1886, Dr. Somers wedded Josie Bartell, of Chardon. lle is also a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in politics
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he is a conservative man, being a Republican; yet he is a very warm friend of the cause of temperance and has embraced a very considera- ble portion of the principles of the Prohibition party.
L EVERETT TARBELL was born at Cha- grin, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, now Will- oughby, Lake county, November 27, 1819. His father, Colonel Abner Chapman Tarbell, was born in Colchester, New London county, Con- necticut, August 4, 1791, and died January 3, 1869, aged seventy-seven years, on the farm on which he located on coming to Willoughby in 1817, and which is now owned and oeenpied by Frank Rockefeller, -- " Lakeland." Before leay- ing New England he learned the tanning, har- ness-making and shoemaking trades, which were of inestimable value to him during the first years of his life in Ohio.
To illustrate the condition of this part of Ohio at the time of its settlement, it must be said that he needed chains to haul the timber together to be burned, and a kettle in which to cook food. To obtain these articles Mr. Tar- bell went to Cleveland, fourteen miles away, on horseback, and bought a bar of iron, which he took home upon the horse, and from which a short-linked chain was forged by a blacksmith named Titus. This chain is now in the posses- sion of one of his descendants. On another trip he purchased an iron kettle and carried it to his home in the same manner.
In politics he was originally a Whig, and subsequently a stanch Republican.
In 1816 he was married to Luey Parks Jones, a daughter of Asa Jones, who served as a soldier through the Revolutionary war, including the campaign which ended at Valley Forge. She was a typical New England woman, well edu- eated for the times, but thoroughly domestie in her habits and tastes. She passed away Octo- ber 4, 1836, respected by all who knew her. In the spring of 1538 he married Miss Mary
K. Watson, who bore him two sons: George W., who lives in Madison, Lake county, Ohio; and Abner HIclon, who resides at Wickliffe, on a part of the old homestead. She was a very estimable woman, of good family, and made for him a happy home during the remainder of his life. She died in Willoughby in the year 1875. Leverett Tarbell, the subject of this shetch, is one of three children by the first marriage of Abner C. and Lucy P. Tarbell. The eklest, Dr. S. U. Tarbell, now deceased, was one of the most prominent and successful physicians of Cuyahoga county. He died September 9, 1877, leaving a widow, but no children. Lucynthia Jones Tarbell, unmarried, resides at Willoughby, Ohio.
The subject of this sketeh was a diligent pupil in the common schools of his native town, and subsequently extended his education at the select school at Willoughby, at the Western Reserve Teachers' Seminary at Kirt- land, Ohio, -- Asa D. Lord, principal,-also at the Bacon Academy, Colchester, Connectient. In the winter of 1837-'38, he taught in Kirt- land, Lake county: in the winter of 1838-'39 in South Willoughby. In the fall of 1839 he went to Quaker Springs, Saratoga county, New York, in which place he taught a five months' term of school. In the spring of 1840 he went to Colchester, Connicetient, worked on a farm during the summer, and in the autumn entered Bacon Academy as a student. On leaving the academy he went to Oxford, Che- nango county, New York, where during the win- ter of 1840-'41 he taught a term of school. In the spring of 1841 he returned to Ohio, took a term of school at Kirtland, and during the winter of 1841-'42 taught a term of school in the John Doan district in Euclid township. During the interim between the spring of 1842 and the fall of 1847 he alternated between Ohio and Chicago, Illinois, teaching school in Ohio three winter terms, one in Willoughby village, two at . Đoan's Corners," now a part of Cleve- land, and engaged in real estate and mercantile business in Chicago.
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In August, 1817, he returned to Willoughby, remaining there until September 22, when he came to Bedford to visit his brother, Dr. S. U. Tarbell, who was located there. Finding an open- ing as elerk that pleased him in Watson I. Gray's general merchandise store, he sent his horse back to Willoughby and went to work.
After remaining in the store fourteen months he entered upon the study of medicine with his brother. This he found too confining for one of his stirring disposition, and on the 9th of February, 1849, he bought a stock of drugs, groceries and provisions, and entered upon a mercantile career for himself. He followed this business successfully for twenty-five years, together with dealing in real estate, serving the Government as Postmaster for two terms, the village government as corporation Clerk for several terms, and served the people of Bedford township as Justice of the Peace until he re- fused to serve longer. He was the first Notary Public appointed by the governor of Ohio in Bedford, and still holds a commission from Governor Mckinley.
He was a pioneer in improving the village in many respects, among which improvements may be mentioned the fact that he cut and laid the first flagstone walk, which proves to be ex- actly on the grade since established by the cor- poration engineer. Ile also placed the first curbing and sold the first barrel of kerosene, with lamps in which to barn the same.
Ile is still actively engaged in caring for his own family and property, and in advancing the interests of the community in which he lives.
On December 7, 1850, Mr. Tarbell was mar- ried, by Rev. R. Nutting, Jr., at Ravenna, Ohio, to Mary Helen, daughter of John and Marilla Holt Tinker, who were originally from New England. Mrs. Tarbell is a lady eminently domestic in her tastes and habits, and yet is act- ive in furthering the best interests of the peo- ple among whom she resides, and is especially zealous in the cause of temperance. She was born in the State of New York, May 22, 1829, and came to Ohio when five years of age. She
traces her ancestry back to the Mayflower. Three children were born to them, --- two sons and one daughter: Linn Parks was born Sep- tember 24, 1851, in Bedford, married to S. Jennie, daughter of John N. and Mary Roy, of Cleveland, November, 1879, and they have two children (Jean and Roy Shellon), and resides and is engaged in business in Cleveland; May, widow of Grove G. Cannon, was born in Bed- ford, October 15, 1858; and John Dwight, born July 20, 1865, a civil engineer by profession. Ile was edneated in Bedford, also at the School for Civil Engineering and the Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland. As a business man, Mr. Tarbell is careful, methodical and exact, giving to each his due, and requiring the same in return. As a citizen he is public- spirited, and true to what he believes to be Tor the best interests of the people at large. As a friend he sticks closer than a brother. As a politician he is far seeing, saying little, but do- ing much, and often represents his baliwiek in Republican conventions. As a public officer he knew his duty and did it fearlessly. His aim through a long and success'nl life has been to do unto others as he would that they should do unto him.
T HOMAS S. DUNLAP, attorney-at-law, 639 Society of Savings, Cleveland, is a native for the Buckeye State, born at Wooster, July 28, 1867. ITis father, Silas G. Dunlap, was a minister of the Presby- terian Church. For some time prior to his death in 1870 he devoted his energies to seenr- ing funds for the founding of Wooster Univer- sity, with which institution he was connected when he was approached by the Pale Visitant. He was a native of Ohio, of Scotch-Irish anees- try. Thomas S. grew to maturity near the place of his birth. He attended the common schools until he had mastered the elementary branches, and then entered the University of Wooster, at which he was graduated in 1887.
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Ilis profession was yet to be mastered. Under the guidance of S. N. Coe he began to read law, and afterward spent one year as a student in the law department of the University of Michigan. In 1890 he came to Cleveland, where he has been giving his attention to general practice. Possessing more than ordinary ability, ambitions and energetic, it is safe to prediet for him a successful future.
In politics Mr. Dunlap gives his allegiance to the Democratic party. Ile is a member of the Beta Theta l'i fraternity.
J F. MYERS, conductor on the Valley Railroad, was born in Allegheny, Penn- sylvania, November 27, 1847, a son of J. C. Myers. The latter was born in llanover, Germany, in 1813. In 1837 he came to the United States, and, not being able to hire his passage, walked from Baltimore to Pittsburg, and cast his fortunes with Allegheny City. He was a zealons worker, and his mereantile ven- ture, in which he engaged in early life, yielded him good returns. Ile is now retired from active business, in the enjoyment of a small fortune, and in the midst of his life-long neigh- bors and friends. Mr. Myers celebrated his golden wedding April 13, 1893. Ile was mar- ried to Margaret Schodde, a native of Germany, and they had five children: J. A., a retired farmer of Londonville, Ohio; J. F., our subject; Caroline, wife of J. D. Simen, a shoe dealer of Allegheny, Pennsylvania; Margaret, wife of F. W. Basselman, also of that city; and William 11., a traveling salesman of Pittsburg.
J. F. Myers, the subject of this sketch, re- ceived a liberal edneation in his native city, where he became an efficient accountant, having prepared himself for that special work while a student at the Iron City Business College. He devoted about fifteen years of his life to that work, having filled responsible positions with well known firms of Pittsburg. In the spring of 1875 Mr. Myers laid aside his well acquired
profession, and took a more active outdoor work. Ile seenred the position of brakeman on the Allegheny Valley Railroad, three months after- ward was promoted to yard clerk, serving in that capacity three years, in the following year was made assistant yard master at Pittsburg. remaining in that position three and a half years, and for the following four years was em- ployed as freight conductor on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. During the next three years Mr. Myers was engaged in farming operations in Beaver county, Pennsylvania. He resumed railroading in 1889, and has since served as conductor on the Valley Railroad. In his social relations he is a member of the O. R. C, of which he served as Junior Conductor one term.
September 14, 1871, Mr. Myers was united in marriage with Caroline M. Schutte, whose father, Henry Schutte, was a native of Germany. After coming to this country, he became a gro. cer of Allegheny, Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Myers have two children, -- Benjamin, chief bill clerk for the firm of Strong, Cobb & Compris ; and Stella D., a dressmaker.
G FORGE L. QUAYLE, manager of the Ship Owners' Dry Doeks in Cleveland, was born in this eity in 1842. Ilis father was Thomas Quayle, a long-time and well known resident of Cleveland.
Mr. Quayle was educated in the public schools here, learned the carpenter's trade and also ship- building. During the progress of the Civil war he spent one year in the marine service of the United States, his work being the construction of convoys upon the Mississippi river. After the close of this one year's service he returned to Cleveland and became associated with his father and two brothers under the firm name of Thomas Quayle & Sons, shipbuilders. In this business he was actively engaged until 1591, when the firm discontinued business. Mr. Quayle then accepted the position he nov sts- tains. He is also a stock owner in the business
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of the Ship Owners' Dry Docks Company, a stockholder as well as director in the Wilson Transit Company of Cleveland, and a director in the Garfield Savings Bank, East Cleveland. These business relations of Mr. Quayle are pointed ont as evidence of the importance of his work as a business man, and as such he ranks as a snecessi'ul man. Especially has he been very successful in the business of shipbuilding, in which he has been engaged almost continuously sinee his early boyhood. Ilis long experience, together with his mechanical genins, places him among the most able shipbuilders of Cleveland, which justly boasts of its many large and sne- cessful shipbuilders.
Mr. Quayle resides in East Cleveland. Ile is now President of Board of Trustees of this hamlet, and this public position is some evi. denee of the esteem and confidence in which he is held by his fellow citizens. Mr. Quayle is alive to the interests of Cleveland and its sub. urban towns. Ile is a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. For years he has been a member of the Masonie order, being a Scot- tish-rite Mason and belonging to the Mystic Shrine.
Mr. Quayle was married in Cleveland, in 1870, to Miss Winifred Johnson, of Pittsburg. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Quayle has been blessed by the birth of three children, --- George 11., Winifred and Eleanor.
G EORGE HI. OLMSTED, one of the lead- ing insurance men of Cleveland, has been a resident of this city since 1867, coming here as the representative of the Atlantic Life Insurance Company of Albany, New York, with which company he was associated for ten years,- umtil they retired from business. Dur- ing the last two years of that time he was super- intendent of agencies for the United States and Canada. For a year or two after this he traveled us special agent for the Brooklyn Life Insurance
Company of New York; and he rosigned this to take a half interest in the fire insurance agency of S. S. Coe, with whom he was associated until his death, which occurred in 1883. The busi- ness was continued under the same name, Coe & Olmsted, until the death of Mrs. Coe in 1889, when Mr. Olmsted succeeded to the entire busi- ness. The present firm of George H. Olmsted & Company was formed in 1889 and also the firm of Olmsted Brothers (George HI. and (). N.), who had taken the State ageney for Ohio and Indiana, for the National Life Insurance Company of Vermont, and they are doing double the volume of business that was being done by the company in the United States at the time when they first took charge of these two States. George II. Olmsted & Company do a fire and plate glass insurance business, being general agents for northern Ohio for the Metropolitan Plate-Glass Insurance Company. The firm of Olmsted Brothers represent also the Standard Accident Insurance Company. They are located in the Atwater building, at the foot of Superior street.
The gentleman whose name heads this sketch has been treasurer of the National Safe and Loek Company ever since the organization was a year old. Ile is also one of the directors of the Woodland Avenne Savings and Loan Com- pany, and director of the Cleveland Truuk Company.
Ile is a native of Lagrange, Lorain county, Ohio, born September 21, 1843, the son of Jonathan and Harriet (Sheldon) Ohnsted; was reared and educated in that county, excepting that he took a course in the Eastman Business Col- lege at Poughkeepsie, New York. For about three years he taught school. He kept books and elerked in a store for a year at Grafton, Ohio, and then took an ageney for a door-bell, which he introduced in Michigan and Wisconsin, and in the spring of 1867 opened out in the insur- ance business. He is now a member of the Board of Fire Underwriters; also a member of the Chamber of Commerce and of the Young Men's Christian Association.
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Ile was married in Saybrook, Ohio, in 1872, to Miss Ella Kelley, and they have two chil- dren,-Grace and Howard. Mr. and Mrs. Ohusted are members of the Wilson Avenue Baptist Church, in which he is a Deacon. , Ile resides on Wilson avenne.
Mr. Olinsted's parents made Cleveland their home for a number of years, coming here in 1872. His father, who had been a farmer, died in 1877, at the age of sixty-eight years.
S ARDIS EDGERTON, one of the rep- resentative citizens of his locality, was born on his present farm in Royalton township, June 8, 1839, a son of Sardis Edger- ton, Sr. The latter was born in Holly town- ship, Franklin county, Massachusetts, January 14, 1808, and his father, Ezekiel Edgerton, was a native of Hartford, Connecticut, of English extraction. Sardis Edgerton was a scythe-snath- maker by trade. In the fall of 1831, with a horse and wagon, he joined his brother in Brecksville township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, where he followed his trade for a time. After his marriage he located on the farm where onr subject now resides, which he bought in three purchases, and at that time the country was inhabited by wild animals. Mr. Edgerton located on the portion of the farm where he in 1855 erected the present, substantial brick res- idence. In political matters, he was first a Whig, afterward became a stanch Republican, and for a number of years served as Township Trustee.
He was married in Newburg, Cuyahoga county, March 18, 1831, to Emeline Inghram, a native of New York. They had the following children: James, of Cleveland, Ohio; Eliza, deceased at the age of two years; Sardis, our subject; Ann Eliza, wife of Oliver Ellsworth, of Hinckley, Medina county, Ohio; Sylvia, now Mrs. Morris Kemp, of Berea, this county; Ada- line, wife of Henry Akins, of Royalton; Maria, wife of John Sampson; Emma, a resident of
Cleveland; and Rhoda, wife of George Wood, of Ashtabula, Ohio. Mr. Edgerton survived until April 6, 1890, his wife having died April 26, 1885, and they were buried at Royalton Center. They celebrated their fiftieth anniver- sary March 18, 1881.
Sardis Edgerton, the subject of this sketch, was reared as a farmer boy, but at the age of twenty-three years began learning the brick- layer and plasterer's trade, which he followed about twelve years. After his marriage he re sided with his parents two years; afterward located a short distance east of their home, but on the same farm, where he remained seventeen years; and since May, 1882, has resided at the old homestead. In his political relations, Mr. Edgerton is a staneh Republican, his first presidential vote having been east for A. Lin- coln, and has held the position of Township Trustee.
September 11, 1862, our subject was united in marriage with Merey M. Akins, who was born in Euclid township, this county, October 29, 1842, a daughter of llenry and Mercy Akins. To this union have been born three children: Rosella E., deceased at the age of two years; Willis S., a farmer of Royalton township; and Carlos II., at home. Mr. and Mrs. Edger- ton are members of the Methodist Church at Royalton Center.
A BEL FISHI, a prominent farmer of Brook- lyn township, is a native of the same township, born February 8, 1832. Ilis father, Esquire Jonathan Fish, was born December 5, 1787, in New London county, Connectient, where he was brought up, and he came to Cuyahoga county in 1817, settling in Brooklyn township, and purchasing and locating upon a farm where the subject of this sketch now resides. This place at that time was of course a dense wilderness of woods. Building a log honse Mr. Fish proceeded to occupy it and improve the land until his death, February 15,
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1870, in his eighty-second year. He was a prominent man, having been a captain of mili- tia in Connecticut, and in this county Justice of the Peace many years, and was known on that account as . Esquire " Fish. He was also. a trustee of the township here, taking part in the very first town meeting, and afterward was Assessor, etc., of the township. In his polities he was a Whig and Republican. George Fish, Father of Jonathan, was a native of Connecticut, of English ancestry. The mother of Mr. Abel Fish, whose name betore marriage was Sarah B. Young, was born in East Haddam, Connect- ieut, and came to Cuyahoga county in 1819, and died here December 11, 1893, in her eighty. second year. Her father, Ansel Young, was also a native of the " Land of Steady Habits," and supposed to have been of English ancestry. Mr. Jonathan Fish and wife were married in Brooklyn township, and became the parents of two sons and one daughter, namely: Abel, whose name heads this sketch; Jefferson; and Maria B., the wife of James Brainerd.
Mr. Abel Fish was reared on his father's farm, his native place. December 28, 1858, he married Emeline M. Brainerd, daughter of Willard and Harriet Brainerd and a native of Brooklyn township. After his marriage Mr. Fish located upon the old homestead, where he still lives, proseenting agricultural pursuits in general, and also conducting a dairy. Ile has forty-four acres of fine land, which is situated in the outskirts of the city of Cleveland. In his political sympathies he is an ardent Republican. He has been Township Trustee, a member of the Council of South Brooklyn and Supervisor of Public Highways. He has been a member of Glen Lodge, No. 263, I. O. O. F., since 1855, and of Brooklyn Post, No. 368, G. A. R. Dur- ing the war he served under the three-months call, under General Burnett, and also served three months in the Eighth Independent Bat- tery, at Johnson's island; also three months with the same battery on detached duty in Cleveland. lle is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, zealous and consistent, and has been
Superintendent of the Sunday-school, etc. Ile and his wife are members of the Old Settlers' Association, and among the prominent people of the county. They have two children: Jessie, the wife of George Cook, of Brooklyn village, and Sheridan P., of South Brooklyn.
H ENRY M. FO VLER, a worthy citizen of Cuyahoga county, was born in Can- field, Ohio, September 29, 1830. Ilis father, Dr. C. R. Fowler, was born in Danbury, Connectient, in October, 1802; and his mother, whose name before marriage was Mary Holland, was born in Annapolis, Mary- land, in 1812, and both were among the early settlers of Mahoning eounty.
Mr. HI. M. Fowler received an academic education, and after arriving at the age of tif- teen years became an apprentice at the printing business, in the office of the Mahoning Index, the first newspaper published in Canfield. After working three years there the office was destroyed by fire in 1850. He then completed his apprenticeship in Cleveland, in the otlices of the Herald and Plaindealer. Ile was em- ployed ,as a "jour." printer in a number of offices, in Cleveland, Chicago, Kankakee, l'itts- burg, Galion, Ashtabula, Chardon, etc., the rates those days being as low as 20 to 25 cents per thousand ems for composition on daily pa- pers, the compositor making on an average about $8 to $10 a week.
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