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H ON. MILO S. HAYNES, well known throughout northeastern Ohio, is a resi- dent of Strongsville township, Cuyahoga county. Ile was born and reared in the township in which he has ever since resided and in which he is now an honored resident, his birth having oceurred July 14, 1830. ITis an- cestry is traceable back to Walter Ilaynes, who came to this country from Wales, settling in Boston in 1639.
Mr. Haynes' father, the late Abijah Haynes, was born in Vermont, March 12, 1806, and his mother, nee Roxanna Stevens, a native of Mass- achusetts, was born March 18, 1806. They came to Cuyahoga county, Ohio, with their parents when children, in the neighborhood of 1816, and here they grew up. They were mar- ried in Brunswick, Medina county, Ohio, in 1829, and soon after their marriage settled in Strongsville township ou the farm now owned and occupied by the subject of this sketeh. Here they spent the residue of their lives, hon- ored and respeeted by all who knew them. Mrs. Haynes died September 14, 1856, and Mr. Haynes, after surviving her a number of years passed away on the 14th of September, 1887. They had four children, of whom Milo S. is the oldest.
Milo S. Haynes improved the opportunities afforded him for an education, and at the early age of seventeen taught school ono term. After that he turned his attention to work at the
blacksmith trade, at which he was engaged for three years. Since then he has devoted his energies to farming and has also dealt in stock to some extent. His furin comprises a hundred acres of fine land.
Mr. Haynes was married in Parma township, this county, April 9, 1862, to Miss Elizabeth Hobbs, who was born in England, February 17, 1833. They are the parents of three children: Florence R., wife of Ellsworth Sanderson, of Cleveland; and Tamzen E. and Josephine, both popular and successful teachers.
Politically, Mr. Haynes has been identified with the Republican party ever since it was or- ganized, and has rendered it much efficient ser- viee. He has filled various local offices, and in the fall of 1891 was eleeted on the Republican ticket to a seat in the Seventieth Ohio General Assembly.
C LARENCE C. HODGMAN, one of the respected farmers of Parma township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, is the youngest in the family of Robert and Julia A. Hodgman. He was born in this township July 31, 1855, was reared here on his father's farm, and in this township he has spent the whole of his life, with the exception, however, of one year, when he was a resident of Brooklyn township, also in this county. All his life he has been engaged in agricultural pursuits. He owns seventy-five aeres of well-improved land, upon which he has erected a nice set of farin buildings.
Mr. Ilodgman was married in Parma town- ship, December 6, 1877, to Miss Emmet Hum- phries. She was born in this same township, August 30, 1855. Iler father, the late Henry Humphries, was a native of England. Her mother, nee Caroline Day, also a native of England, was born in Gloucestershire, Novem- ber 14, 1823. They were married in England and came to America in 1819, their first settle- ment here being in Cleveland. A year later they came to Parma township, where her father
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spent the residue of his life and passed away, and where her mother still resides. They had four children, of whom Mrs. Hodgman was the third born. Mr. and Mrs. Hodgman are the parents of three children: Alice M., Harvey 11. and Elsie E.
Mrs. Hodgman has been a member of the Presbyterian Church from her girlhood.
J OJIN. T. WATTERSON .- One of the old- est and best-known builders of Cleveland is John T. Watterson, whose history as such begins away baek in the '40s, when there was only one steam engine in the eity, and when the city limits bounded a village of a few hundred people.
Mr. Watterson was born in Cuyahoga county, February 12, 1828. His father, Win. Watter- son, settled on a farm there the year before. Ilis birthplace was on the Isle of Man. He was a prominent representative citizen, active in everything conducive to the best interests of the county. He neither sought nor held pub- lie office, nor had he any history as a military man. Ile belonged to a training company in those good old days, and supported Henry Clay for President. He married Ann Sayde, by whom eleven children were born, and all lived to maturity. They were John T., William, Mrs. Sarah Payne, Moses G. (President of the Dime Savings Bank of Cleveland), Harrison, Joshua, Henry, Cæsar, Edward, Robert and Charles. Cæsar was killed in the engagement at Good Hope Church during the civil war. John T. Watterson secured only a very meager education. His opportunities were not good, being confined to an attendance at school dur- ing the winter season only. He was appren- ticed carly in life to J. J. Lewis, of Newburg, to learn the carpenter's trade. On completing this and not finding an over-abundance of work, he decided to try his hand at contracting, tak- ing for his first contract, in 1857, the building of the National Oil Mills, It is interesting to note the number of the structures, and also the
character of many of them, creeted by his hand (so to speak) since then, -the buildings of the Rolling Mills, Otis Steel Company, Cleveland Iron Company, Cleveland Rolling Mill Com- pany, Plate Mill, the wire, flour, and the Union Mills, at Newburg, the Emma Blast Furnace, Lampson & Sessions Nut and Bolt Works, Up- son Nut Company's Works, Collins Nut and Bolt Works, Riverside Foundry, Maher & Brayton's Wheel Works, Lake Shore Foundry, the Powell Tool Company, Cleveland Spring Company, American Wire Company, Warner & Swasey's Telescope Works, Standard Sewing Machine Company's Works, and Cleveland City Forge and Iron Company's Works. Ile built the Valley Furnace at Sharon, Pennsyl- vania, the Alliance Steel Works, and many others. Important industries at Cleveland are sheltered by structures of Mr. Watterson's building. It will be noticed that his work has been confined chiefly to heavy building, yet some quite expensive residences might be men- tioned as a credit to his workmanship.
Mr. Watterson is a member of the Builders' Exchange and Employing Carpenters' Associa- tion. In 1879 he was a member of the City Couneil of Cleveland, and did good service and made a useful and conscientious public servant.
In 1853 Mr. Watterson married, in this county, Margaret, a daughter of Robert Cren- nell, a Manxman, who settled in Cuyahoga county in 1827. Eight children are born of this union.
E E. MORSE, general manager of the Morse Detective Ageney of North America, with the main office in the Society for Savings building, Cleveland, was born at Virgil, Cortland county, New York May, 31, 1850, a son of Joseph C. Morse, who was a farmer in New York State during his early life. In 1852 the father brought his little family to Michigan, where he soon afterward entered the employ of the Michigan Sonthern and Northern Indiana
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Railroad, which was just being completed, being located at Three Rivers, Michigan, as their agent for eleven or twelve years, and opening and closing that branch of the road while there. He was next associated with William Griffiths in private banking and in milling. In the bank was a large sale, which seemed to be burglar- proof, but one morning they found it blown open and the contents gone! This event finan- cially crippled Mr. Morse, although the business of the bank was continued until the "flour panic " of 1569. Soon after the robbery Mr. Morse was called to Toledo, where he was em- ployed as trainmaster, then to Detroit, as agent of the company, which position he left on ac- count of being compelled to work on Sundays. HIe then took charge of a train from Chicago to Toledo as condnetor, on the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad, and was subse- quently requested to return to Three Rivers, where he had formerly been agent. llis family were located there, and the mill was still in progress, under the management of William Griffiths, and this they condueted together until the " flour panic " of 1869, spoken of, when the business went down, and Mr. Morse was again left a " financial wreek."
lle next accepted a position as traveling agent for the South Shore Fast Freight Line, and shortly afterward he was appointed general agent at Toledo, and soon after that again his son, our subject,-who had some experience in detective work, was placed on the line ostensibly as traveling agent, but in reality to look after claims, ete. As traveling agent the father is still in the service of the same line, which is now known as the Erie & Pacific De- spatch, the South Shore Division, and the Great Western Despatch Division, -- all of which have been consolidated. Hle travels an average of 60,000 miles annually. Although seventy years of age he is a man well preserved and as able to fulfill his station as ever.
Mr. E. E. Morse, whose name introduces this sketch, was a lad about twelve years of age when the bank robbery noted took place, and he
took great interest in looking up the mystery, in order to obtain elnes to the criminals, which he at length was successful in discovering, and which led to their capture and conviction. Thus encouraged, he thereafter made detective work a systematie study. Ile traveled with his father a great deal, rapidly learning the ways of the world. At the age of sixteen years he entered the Highland Military Academy at Worcester, Massachusetts, where he spent two years, when he came to Cleveland, accepted a position on the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Fast Freight Line, and still continued to develop his talent for detective service.
In 1871, after the great Chicago fire, he was temporarily thrown oni of his position on the railroad, and, taking a sleeper on his way to Cleveland, he happened to ocenpy a berth with the mayor of this city, Mr. Pelton, who at onee offered him a place on the police force, which he accepted. Being a man of fine physique, weighing some 275 pounds and being six feet tall, dressing well, etc., he was immediately placed in a responsible position. Six days after he commenced his duties he was made drill- master of the police force, and continued in that department of the city government for ten years, although at first he intended to remain only through the first winter! After a few months he became so proficient in his work that he gave a drill in the rink for the entertainment of the public.
The following spring, when the police com- mission was formed, he was placed on patrol. man's duty for a few weeks only, and then he rapidly rose, overstepping others and being ap. pointed lieutenant of the force, which he held until he resigned his position on the police force altogether. Ilis strict discipline while drill- master, his rapid rise to the head of the depart- ment, etc., naturally eansed dissension among the envions, but he proved himself to be one of the most popular men ever on the Cleveland force. Mr. Morse is a sure " shot" with the re- volver, being able with it to ent a telegraph wire from the top of the highest building.
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After his resignation in Cleveland he went to Buffalo, New York, and accepted a position ostensibly as an employee in ordinary work for a company. After accomplishing his work for them, and finding things becoming " warm," he accepted the position as chief of police of Toledo, Ohio, where he found all the opposition imaginable, occasioned of course by his being "imported." However, he satisfactor- ily completed his task there, being "chief" in every respect. Hle reorganized the force, and after getting matters in good shape he resigned and "jumped" to San Francisco, California, where he accepted a position under Detective Lees, the oldest detective on the coast, for ont- side work. Mr. Morse was placed on work for all transcontinental and steamship lines term- inating at San Francisco. Next he went to New Mexico and later to old Mexico, where he did much in his line. During the three years 1882 to 1885 he covered a vast amount of ter- ritory. In the latter year he located in Chicago, where he was engaged by the Pinkerton De- tective Company for a short time, acting as drill-master for about 800 men during the great Stock Yarks strike; and next for a year he was with the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad Company, where he started in again on his own account, -- first in Kansas City, then in Denver, etc.
During this period he married a Cleveland lady, for whose health the altitude of Denver proved too great, and they returned East, stop- ping in Detroit, Michigan, in April, 1889. Purchasing the store of George L'Homedean, he engaged temporarily in mercantile business, but in the fall he opened a detective agency in the old Walker block and did a successful business. On the 1st of April, 1891, he moved to Cleveland, changing his headquarters to this city, moan- while retaining the office in Detroit, where he has a suite of several rooms on the second floor of the Walker block, with four entrances and all con- veniences for a first class office. Ile is there- fore well prepared to transact all kinds of de- tective work. On coming here he brought with
him two men, a woman and a boy, to aid in the work, and he has since increased his force of talent, and can supply all demands in his line. lle runs the business systematically and thoroughly. Having read law two years, in the office of Brinsmade & Stone, he finds that the knowledge thus gained is of great aid. In 1893 he organized the Morse Detective Agency of North America, with a capital of $50,000: E. E. Morse, president.
In social matters Mr. Morse is a member of the Sons of the Veterans of the Revolution, and in politics is a Republican.
H ON. JOSEPII C. BLOCII .-- Precedence in any of the several professional lines, to whose following both pre-eminent as well as mediocre ability has been given, can be attained by no side path, but must be gained by, must be the result of, subjective and native talent, supplemented by the closest appli- cation and a breadth of intellectuality that will render possible the ready and practical use of mere theoretical knowledge. Among the large number who essay the achievement of honor and preferment in technical professions the per- centage of failures is far in excess of that of successes, -a fact that but lends succinct proof of the statements just made.
An attorney of high reputation and one suc- cessfully engaged in the practice of his pro- fession in the city of Cleveland, is he whose name initiates this biographical sketch. Ile was born in Hungary, October 24, 1856, the son of Edward and Lena Bloch. Though the dawn of his life was ushered in far from the scene of his present field of labor, yet so soon did he leave the land of his nativity that in sympathy, loyalty and close identification he could scarcely be more clearly a "child of the republie" than he is of the land where he has passed the major portion of his life. He came to the United States when a lad of nine years, and in his boyhood was accorded the privileges
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of the common schools in the vicinity of his home. Just at that time when his character was in a formative state, and when such a test would prove the mettle of his composition, the youth was thrown upon his own resources. Un- dismayed by the unpropitious front presented by fortune, he went bravely forth " with a heart for any fate," accepting whatever work he could find to do, in the meanwhile struggling to im- prove every opportunity which could aid him to attain one great desideratum, a good educa- tion. He was ambitions and determined to fit himself for a professional career. He was not even a casnist in his youth, and soon decided upon the exact course to which he should bend his energies. He determined to prepare him- self for the practice of law, and in due time was enabled, by frugality and self-denial, to matricu- late at the law school of Cleveland, completing his teclinical studies in the University of Iowa in 1879. He had educated himself both in a literary and professional way by defraying his incidental expenses by his own earnings.
The secret of his success lies principally in the fact that he has always improved his time. le has always been an ardent and close student; he has been successful. Is this not in natural sequence? Ile has gained an enviable reputa- tion not only in his profession, but has estab- lished for himself a position of honor and esteem as a good, progressive and worthy citi- zen. It is the record of such lives as this that should prove both lesson and incentive to rising generations, and how readily contemporary biography thus offers its own justification.
Mr. Bloch has always taken an active interest in politics, and has been an able and zealous worker in the ranks of the Republican party. In 1891 he was elected to the General Assem- bly of the State of Ohio, receiving a represent- ative support and a flattering majority at the polls. lle secured a larger number of votes than any other man on the ticket,-an evidence of his popularity and of the confidence in which he is held by the people of the district in which his nomination and candidacy were made. While
he was in the Legislature he served on the im- portant municipal committee of corporations and publie lands and buildings. In his official capacity he gave nnmistakable evidence of his ability and rendered such service as marked him as a capable legislator.
Fraterually our subjeet is identified with the Knights of Pythias, having passed all the chairs of that order. He is also prominent in his asso- eiation with other fraternal and beneficial organ- izations.
The marriage of Mr. Bloch to Miss Mollie Fedder was celebrated in the city of Cleveland in 1884. They are the parents of two children, Julia and Edward.
C HARLES HI. ROCKWELL .- Continned success is the ultimate criterion of merit and reliability in the world of commerce, and this fact is exemplified in the case of the enterprises with which the subject of this re- view is so intimately identified. Mr. Rockwell is the vice-president and manager of the West- ern Mineral Wool Company, and is secretary and treasurer of the Buckeye Electric Company, which corporations conduct flourishing and im- portant enterprises in the Forest City. Mr. Rockwell has been a resident of Cleveland sinee 1885, in which year he came here from New York and effected the organization of the Min- eral Wool Company, of which he has been vice-president and manager ever since. The in- ception of this industry was one of modest order, but with a keen discernment and prescience of what might be developed Mr. Rockwell suc- ceeded in organizing a stock company and in commencing operations in an unpretentious style. The sales of the product the first year reached an aggregate of only about 300,000 ponnids. At the present time the company have factories in operation in Chicago and St. Louis, in addition to the original plant in Cleveland, and the annual output has brought about the average sale of 12,000,000 pounds of the wool
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each year. The success which has attended the industry bears honor to the projector, who has practically retained the entire management of operations from the start. When he came to Cleveland Mr. Rockwell was an entire stranger to the business men of the city, but with conti- dence in the outcome of the enterprise which he purposed to establish, he at once began the ercetion of a plant, utilizing his personal funds for this purpose. He thus made ready for the business before he approached the citizens of Cleveland with a request for assistance in carry- ing forward the undertaking. Ile had made sufficient progress along the line of inaugu- rating the business to convince those impor- tuned of the legitimacy of the same and of the good faith of the projector. Consequently he had little difficulty in enlisting the necessary capitalistie co-operation.
The organization of the Buckeye Electric Company was mainly brought about by Mr. Rockwell, the enterprise dating its inception back to 1890. The organization was completed for the purpose of providing a suitable plant and engaging in the manufacture of inean- deseent electrie lamps. The company's factory is located at 1927 Broadway, in this city, and the business represents an invested capital of $100,000. The undertaking has proved sue- cessful and has already yielded good returns.
In the historic old city of Tarrytown, Now York, and within a stone's throw of the exact spot where the celebrated Major Andre was captured, our subject first saw the light of day, the date of his nativity being December 11, 1845. His parents were George and Sarah (Tunis) Rockwell, both of whom were descended from old Revolutionary stock, the father of the former having been an active participant in that memorable struggle when the vigorous young nation threw aside forever the heavy yoke im- posed by the mother country.
The patriotic ardor of the ancestor just noted must have been transmitted to our subject, for at the age of seventeen years he was moved to take part in the nation's second great struggle
for freedom, enlisting, in September, 1862, as a private in the One Hundred and Second New York Volunteer Infantry, and serving valiantly until the close of the war. He was mustered ont as First Lieutenant in November, 1865. lle was an active participant in many important battles, among which we name the following: the battles of the Potomac, from Chancellors- ville, including that of Gettysburg and Lookout. Mountain, the campaign of Sherman to Atlanta, and many other minor conflicts.
July 23, 1866, in the city of New York, Mr. Rockwell took nnto himself a life companion in the person of Miss Letitia Dawnes, a daughter of George and L. Harriet Dawnes, honored residents of the Empire State. Mr. and Mrs. Rockwell have one daughter, Hattie D.
In his political adherency our subject is an ardent Republican; in his fraternal associations he is prominently identified with the 1. F. & A. M. As a business man and a citizen he is held in that high esteem which comes as the reward of honorable dealing and progressive spirit.
S IR FRANCIS DRAKE, formerly one of the most prominent lake men of the city of Cleveland, was born at " Hardscrabble Ilill," Union, New York, December 13, 1818. Being very young when his father died, he came West at the age of fourteen, settling at Cleveland. A year later he pushed further West, to Black River, Ohio, where he started as an apprentice in shipbuilding for William and Bnel Jones, his first work being on the schooners Florida and Juniet. Subsequently he had much to do with the building of the Steamer Bunker Hill, and after its completion he made a few trips with the vessel.
Ile then turned his attention to sailing, and in 1840, at the age of twenty-one, he was made master of the schooner Maria; and he sailed continually for several years, commanding the Chief Justice Marshall, Herald, Meriden and
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many others. Next he took charge of the vessel department for Crawford & Price, sailing during the summer seasons and during the intervening winters superintending the con- strnetion of vessels.
In the meantime he had managed to save considerable of his income, which he gradually invested in vessels, his first venture being the purchase of the Chief Justice Marshall. After- ward he had interests in the Grace Murray, Midnight, David Morris, Crawford, C. J. Magill, General Scott and many other well- known vessels.
In 1868 he leased a large tract of land at the head of the old river bed and constructed a dry dock, embarking at the same time in ship- building. He built and had full charge of some of the stanchest crafts on the lakes, some of which are still in service. Ile also owned the wrecking steamer Magnet, which at that time was the largest and most completely equipped wrecker afloat on fresh water. A few years later he retired, and has since lived a quiet life.
In 1844 he married Maria Antoinette Jones, daughter of Augustus Jones of Lorain (then Black River), Ohio, one of the first shipbuilders on these lakes. He has four children, namely: Nettie, wife of Gilbert II. Frederick, pastor of the Covenant Baptist Church of Chicago, Illi- nois; Rnth, who married R. G. Adams, of the firm of Koplin & Adams, of Akron, this State: she has two children, -- May and Francis; Carrie, wife of M. S. Coggshall, of the firm of Ifiles & Coggshall, of this city, and has one child, Saba; and Frank J., who resides in this city and is interested in several successful enterprises. He has been a member of the Chamber of Commerce and Board of Trade for several years, and is also high in the secret work of several of the fraternal orders. Io married Miss Nellio M. Truscott, daughter of Samuel Truscott, Esq., of Cleveland. In poli- ties he is a most ardent Republican, as was also his father. He and his wife are members of the First Baptist Church. His father is now aged
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