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at the age of sixty years, and his wife is still living, now residing on the old homestead, the Valmont farm. Her grandfather, John Wilson, was an early settler in the Blue-grass State, taking up the land that now constitutes a third of Mason and Lewis counties, having patents for it. A great-grandfather of Dr. Martin, Abram Clark, was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and on his mother's side his grandmother, Mrs. Baker, was a daughter of Matthias Brandenburg, who had the good for- tune to be exiled from Germany as a political exile from Prussia. Ile came to America, first settling in Maryland and afterward in Kentucky. A son of his founded the town of Brandenburg, Kentucky. Dr. G. W. Martin had six children, namely: Ella, who is now the wife of Dr. R. Il. Pepper and resides at Huntington, West Virginia; T. C., the subject of this sketch; James Wilson, at present in charge of the old homestead farm at Valmont, Kentucky, where his mother lives: he married Miss Mary Charles; Mary Chamberlain; Lacon Jolly and Jonnette Brandenburg.
Our subject, Dr. T. C. Martin, was educated at C'enter College, Kentneky, and in medicine graduated at the Cleveland Homeopathie Medi- eal College in 1886. Immediately upon grad- uation he was appointed resident surgeon of the Huron Street Hospital College, for one year; next he attended for a year a post-graduate course at the " Post-Graduate Medical Hospital and School" in New York city; the ensuing two years he was, by appointment from Gov- ernor Foraker, surgeon for the Ohio Peniten- tiary; then attended Guy's Hospital, London, England, one of the most noted in the world, and also attended hospitals at Paris; in the years 1889-'90 he was assistant physi- cian at the Woman's Hospital, on Toho Square, in London; and during the following winter returned to Cleveland. Here he was then appointed a lecturer on surgery in the Cleve- land Homeopathic Medical College.
Since his last location here he has been the inventor of several surgical instruments, and
has given his attention almost exclusively to surgery. Occasionally be contributes an article to the medical press. lle is secretary of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine, and is a mem- ber of several other medical associations, as well as of other scientific societies.
Dr. Martin has availed himself of the ad- vantages of many of the most noted medieal and hospital institutions of the world, and has had a large and varied experience in surgery. Hle therefore has a bright future before him.
OTTLIEB MERKLE, an old settler and prominent farmer of Brooklyn township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, resides at Lin- dale. ft is appropriate that some per- sonal mention be made of him in this work, which is descriptive of the representativo men of the county.
Mr. Merkle was born in Woodenburg, Ger- many, November 17, 1836, son of George and Katharine ( Maier) Merkle, both natives of. Ger- many. George Merkle emigrated to America in 1858, first loeating at Cleveland and after- ward in Independence township in the same county. He was a farmer by occupation. He died May 3, 1862, and his wife survived him until 1881. They were the parents of thirteen children, eight of whom reached maturity, the subject of our sketch being the tenth born and the only one of the family now living.
When Mr. Merkle came to Cuyahoga county, Ohio, he was sixteen years old. He attended school some in the old country, and after coming here went to school two years in Cleveland. Then heclerked in a general merchandise store in Cleveland for six years. After his marriage he settled on the farm on which he now resides and where he has since carried on general farm- ing. This place comprises eighty-nine and a half acres.
Mr. Merkle was married in 1859 to Susan Stehling, who was born on the farm on which they now live, her people being among the carly
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settlers of the county. Mr. and Mrs. Merkle have had eleven children, all of whom are liv- ing except one, namely: Fred C., George (de- ceased), Lewis, Mary, William, Sophia, Louisa, Gustaph, Edward, Jacob and Frankie.
Politically, Mr. Merkle is a Republican, and has held various local offices. Ife has been a member of the School Board for about twenty- four years, served as Township Trustee one term, and for six years was Assessor. He is a member of the Evangelical Church, in which he has served as Trustee and in which he is now Treasurer.
S A. HART, Superintendent of Delivery of Cleveland Mails, was born in Newton Falls, Ohio, January 5, 1851.
I. A. Ilart, the father of Superintendent Hart, was born in Connecticut in 1826, and came to Ohio with the family in 1837, settling near Warren. Ile became a tailor, and in 1854 eame to Cleveland and established himself in business, dying here in 1883. He married a daughter of Wm. Roberts, a pioneer of Trumbull county, a farmer and an extensive owner of eanal stock. Eleven children resulted from this marriage, viz .: Elizabeth, wife of Dr. J. A. Symes, of Cleve- land; S. A .; Rev. G. L., of same city; Edward, assistant foreman of the Savage Printing Com- pany; Nellie, wife of A. Wannamaker; Grace, wife of John Rawson; and Cora, wife of Eugene Cook, all of this eity. Four others are deceased.
The subject of this notice secured only a seant education from the city sehools, all his practical training coming from the printing office with which he became connected soon after the war. January 4, 1863, Mr. Hart enlisted in the army and was mustered in as musician in the Second Brigade, Second Division of the Fourth Army Corps, his father being a member of the same band. This command was under General Ho- gan. Mr. Ilart reached the scene of action just after the Stone River light, and participat- ed at Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, and the
release of Burnside at Knoxville. Four months after his enlistment Mr. Hart was made Chief Orderly on General Hogan's staff, and so served till discharged just before the capture of At- lauta. On his return to Cleveland Mr. Hart was apprenticed to learn the printing business under Ed. Cowles, of the Leader, and remained three years. He located then with Mr. Fair- banks, of the Herald, and concluded his services with this paper fourteen years later as foreman of the office. IIe next associated himself with R. H. Salter and formed the Legal and Commer- cial Publishing Company (1885). This busi- ness relation existed until 1891, when he as- sumed the duties of his office in the Govern- ment service.
In 1871 Mr. Hart married, in Cleveland, Ester, a daughter of Theophilus Jones. Mr. Jones was born in Wales, eame to Cleveland in 1854, and was a rolling-mill man. His chil- dren were: Ester, William S., James W. and Theophilus.
Mr. and Mrs. Hart are the parents of Salen A., Elsie May, Mildred and George. The first named married in June, 1893, Mary Gray, and is a clerk in the gas office.
W M. A. MADISON, director of ac. eonnts of the city of Cleveland, and the veteran official of the City Hall, was born in Cleveland, February 5, 1845. His nat- ural father was Mr. Turner, born in Windsor county, Vermont, who emigrated to Cuyahoga county, and followed mercantile pursuits for many years, dying here at eighty years of age.
Wm. A. Madison's mother died at his birth. Their family physician was waiting on another patient at the same time, who lost her infant and was anxious to adopt without formality an- other child to assnage the family grief and fill the empty eradle. At a conference between the two oflieiating families, Mr. Turner not being able to care for his infant and motherless child ns he would desiro, decided to allow Mrs. Mad-
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ison to take him with the understanding that . she should raise him to maturity as her own sen. IIe fell heir to the new family name be- cause he heard no other and knew no other. Mr. Madison received a liberal English education from the publie schools of Cleveland. In 1864 he offered his services to his country, joining Company B, One Hundred and Fiftieth Ohio National Guards. Prior to this date he had been attached to a regiment of Ohio troops, but was ordered discharged because of his tender years. In the fall of 1864 Mr. Madison went sonth for the purpose of joining the Union army. Ile found it in Tennessee and met General Ilazen at Murfreesborongh and was made chief elerk in the department of subsistence. He was so connected with the army till Jannary, 1866, when he was relieved at Nashville and returned again to Cleveland.
On entering civil life again, Mr. Madison be- came an employee of the Lake Shore Railroad Company, and remained in the freight depart- ment seven years, retiring to accept a clerkship in the water-works. In this capacity he was found at his post through succeeding adminis- trations to 1890, when he was requested to ac- cept the position of Secretary of the department of Public Works, which he did, and there re- mained till April, 1893. On the succession of Mr. Blee to the mayoralty, he offered Mr. Mad- ison the directorship of accounts, not out of a political necessity but for the single reason that he knew the duties of the department and was amply equipped for their performance. Mr. Madison is not identified with any political party, and because he served so long with the Republi- cans and has now been honored with a position in the mayor's cabinet, he is good-naturedly re .. ferred to as " The Gresham of the cabinet."
September 27, 1867, Mr. Madison married in Cleveland one of his schoolmates, Miss Marian Augusta Brewster, a direct descendant of Elder Brewster. Some of them settled in New York, in which State Mrs. Madison was born. Mr. and Mrs. Madison have the following children: Fannie Laura, the wife of E. L. Fishor, Vice
President of the Fisher Lunber Company, of Cleveland; Charles Brewster, who died July 18, 1893, and was buried on his twenty-third birth- day; Eva Marian, who died in 1883, aged seven years; and Win. A. Madison, Jr., now aged six- teen years.
Mr. Madison is a 32d-degree Mason, and is Treasurer of the Holyrood Commandery, Knights Templar, No. 32.
F RED M. GIESSEN, soliciting agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad, was born in Atwater, Ohio, November 17, 1858. Ilis . father, Fred Giessen, born in Bavaria, Germany, left his European home and came to Cleveland in 1854. Ile was an employee of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad for abont three years, when work became scarce and he drifted out to Portage county, and spent two or three years on a farm. On his return to Cleveland, soon after our subjeet's birth, he was employed by Win. Taylor & Sons as a teamster and remained with them till his death, June 30, 1893, being then sixty-two years old. Our sub- jeet's mother was Appolonia Hoffman, born in Bavaria and yet living. Her children are: Fred M .; Kate; F. A., salesman; Charles II., civil engineer; Daniel E., salesman, with W. HI. Luetkemeyer & Sons; Win. G., chief of the chemical laboratory of the West Minnesota Blast Furnace Company of West Duluth, Min- nesota; and Emma M.
Fred M. Geissen was educated according to the custom of German parents, first in German schools and afterward a brief period in English public schools. At thirteen years of age he be- gan work for Lampson, Sossions & Co., in their nut and bolt works. Ile remained with this company about two years when he made a change in location, going with II. A. Stephens & Sons, proprietors of the Forest City Spice Mills. Three years later his career as a rail- road man began as a laborer. Hle soon demon- strated to his company that he was worth more
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to them in other capacities, and as opportunities for promotion came he was ready for them and never found wanting. Four years ago he was given his present position, that of soliciting agent, a position requiring peculiar fitness and adaptability.
Mr. Giessen has been quite considerably in- terested in politics since he was twenty years of age. Ile allied himself with the Republican party and has been a faithful advocate of its principles since. In 1892 he was made the Re- publiean candidate for the City Council, and al- though the district (the tenth) was Democratie by 700, he was elected by a majority of fifty- three votes. In the Council he is chairman of the committee on city property, a member of the committee on department examinations and of public works. Ile is attentive to his duties and is making a useful member
June 18, 1890, Mr. Giessen married Anna E. Veith, from Meadville, Pa. Mr. Veith left Bavaria about the time that Fred Geissen did, located in Meadville and became a wholesale grocer and provision merchant. One child is the result of this union, Norman Daniel, four- teen months old.
Fraternally Mr. Giessen is a Knight of Pyth- ias and a member of the National Union.
H F. TEETERS, a passenger conductor of the Valley Railroad, was born near Ilolmesville, Holmes county, Ohio, April 22, 1861, a son of James W. Teeters, who was employed by the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad for twenty-five years. IIe married Amanda Bell, and they had only one child. The wife and mother died in 1887, at the age of forty-seven years.
II. F., the subject of this sketch, received a common-school education at his native place. After reaching a sufficient age he secured the position of brakeman on the Cleveland, Akron & Columbus Railroad, between Hudson and Co. lumbmus, and in the following year was promoted
to conductor of the baggage and express train, remaining in that position four years. Mr. Teeters was next employed by the Pittsburg & Western Railroad, spent three years with the Pittsburg & Lake Erie Road, and in 1888 be- came an employee of the Valley Railroad. Dur- ing the first three years he was employed as a freight conductor, and for the past two years has been in the passenger service.
Mr. Teeters was married in Millersburg, Ohio, in August, 1885, to Minnie, a daughter of Robert Forbes. lle was born in Holmes county, this State, in 1832, and is now proprie- tor of a meat market in Millersburg. He mar- ried Miss Angeles Cobb, born in 1848, and they have had six children. Mr. and Mrs. Teeters have one child, John D. F., born April 18, 1886. In his social relations Mr. Teeters is Assistant Chief of the O. R. C.
R T. REV. W. A. LEONARD, D. D., Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Dio- cese of Ohio, whose see city is Cleveland, was born in Southport, Fairfield county, Connecticut, on July 15, 1848. Hle acquired his education in Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, St. Stephen's College, Annandale, New York, and Berkley Divinity School, Mid- dletown, Connecticut, supplemented by study and travel in Europe. Bishop Williams or- dained him a Deacon at Middletown, Connecti- eut, on May 31, 1871, and on July 21, of the following year, ordained him a priest at Stam- ferd, Connecticut. In April, 1873, he married Miss Sarah L. Sullivan, in Brooklyn, New York.
In 1872, he became rector of the Church of the Redeemer in Brooklyn, and remained there nine years. In 1879, he received the degree of bachelor of divinity from St. Stephen's College. In 1880, he was elected by the General Con- vention of the Episcopal Church, missionary bishop of Washington, then a Territory, but de- clined the offer. llis rectorship at Brooklyn continued until 1881, when he became rector at
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St. John's Church at Washington, D. C. The free library of Brooklyn is one of the many flourishing monuments to his untiring efforts. The degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon him in 1885, by Washington and Lee University, Virginia. In July, 1889, he was elected by the convention held at Trinity Church, Toledo, to succeed Bishop Bedell, and was consecrated Bishop of Ohio, at St. Thomas' Church, New York city, the following October. The development of this diocese under his man- agement has been remarkable, and yet it has been a steady, healthy growth, increasing from sixty-four clergymen in 1890 to one hundred in 1891, and from twelve missionary stations to forty-two. Over one thousand persons are con- firmed by him every year. He is beloved for his open, attractive manner, high Christian character, and indefatigable energy. None ean listen to his brilliant oratory and choice vocabu- lary without being eharmed.
D AVID HIORIGAN, a veteran engineer of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Company, was initi- ated into railroad service on the Illinois Central Railroad in 1853, being stationed at Dunleith, Illinois. For seven years he remained with that company and drew pay as a fireman. In 1860 he returned to the Forest City which he had left on beginning his western trip. Not finding employment just to his liking, he went into the eopper regions of the North, and worked in the mines at Superior until the spring of 1861, then returning again to Cleveland. He turned his attention again to railroading, seeuring a freight brakeman's situation on the Cleveland, Cinein- nati & Chicago. In twenty months he began firing, and in 1865 was promoted to the position of engineer, since which time he has presided most ereditably and steadily at the throttle, failing to respond with his signature to only two pay rolls in thirty-two years.
Mr. Ilorigan was born in county Limerick, Ireland, March 9, 1835. In 1817 his father,
David Horigan, brought his family to the new world, and established them in Cleveland and vicinity. Their first location was on a farm near Dover, where David, Jr, obtained his first lessons in industry. David Ilorigan, Sr., was born with the present century and died in this county, in 1865. Ile married Bridget Connors, and their children are: John, deceased; Peter, a resident of Marshalltown, Iowa; James, in Grand Rapids, Michigan; Catherine, wife of James Dempsey, of Berea, Ohio; and our subjeet.
Young David received a rudimentary English education from the distriet schools, and at nine- teen deserted the parental roof without consent of his father, and sought his fortune in the West, where his first railroading began.
Mr. Horigan met Miss Julia MeCarty in Cleveland and they became husband and wife November 29, 1864. Her father was Patrick MeCarty of county Tipperary, Ireland. Mrs. IIorigan had one child, George, who is now twenty-nine years of age, and she died in 1892, aged fifty years.
Mr. Horigan is one of the original supporters of the Big Four Insurance Company, and be- came a beneficiary on its organization.
G EORGE A. BENNETT, who has carried on a blacksmith business in Mayfield, Cuya- hoga county, Ohio, for more than a quar- ter of a century, is well known here, and as one of the worthy citizens of the place should have some personal mention in this work. brief sketch of his life is herewith presented.
George A. Bennett was born in Mayfield township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, April 1, 1847. And before speaking further of him, we turn for a glimpse of his parentage. Jacob Bennett, his father, was one of the early settlers of this county. It is supposed that he was a native of New York, and while that is not cor- tain, it is known that his father, Abrain Ben-
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nett, was of Dutch descent. Jacob Bennett was a blacksmith by trade, and for many years his brawny arm wielded the hammer in Mayfield. lle died here March 30, 1861. He took a deep interest in local affairs, and had served as School Director and Constable. The mother of our subject was by maiden name Mary I. Trom- ball. She was born in New York, and was eleven years old when she came with her parents to Cuyahoga county, Ohio, she being the young- est in a family of five children. Iler father was a native of Connecticut, and was by occupation a farmer.
The subject of our sketch is one of a family of five, three daughters and two sons, he being the older of the sons. Hle was reared on the farm on which he now lives, and his education was limited to that of the common schools. Ile was early trained to the trade which his father followed. Indeed, as soon as he was old enough to reach the anvil he began black- smithing. ITis father's blacksmith shop was the first one in the town, and after his father's death he succeeded him in business. For a number of years he also manufactured wagons and buggies, until the larger manufactories took that line of work from him. Besides running the shop, he is also engaged to some extent in farming, owning and operating forty acres of land.
Mr. Bennett was married November 20, 1867, to Barbara A. Berg, who was born in Bavaria, Germany, October 19, 1815, and who came with her parents to this country when she was four years old. Their passage across the ocean was made in a sail vessel in which there were 1,300 passengers, their destination being reach- ed after a voyage of thirteen weeks. She was reared in Euclid township, this county. The names of Mr. and Mrs. Bennett's children are as follows: Carrio E., wife of Frank Leslie, of Euclid township; Alford A., who married llat- tie J. Thorp, resides in this township; Berton O., who married Eva R. Lentz, is also a resi- dent of this township; Jacob C., at home; and Ida M., also at home.
Mr. Bennett is a staneh Republican. Ile has served as Treasurer of Mayfield township fif- teen years, and as Constable eight years. Fra- ternally, he is both a Mason and a Knight of Pythias, having his membership in these or- ganizations at Chagrin Falls.
L. MERRICK, a Lake Shore & Michigan Southern passenger condnetor, was born on
Monroe street, in Cleveland, January 8, 1840, passed his school days here, going through the West high school course as early as 1854; went into the service of Captain S. L. Warner, master of a sailing vessel. He sailed on all the great lakes, and was two years on salt water, along the eastern shores of the Atlantic ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, trading out of Galves- ton, Texas, with South and Central American ports. The rupture between the North and the South made a Northern man's life hazardous in Southern cities, and in order to feel more secure and to be among his friends, Mr. Merrick came back to Cleveland and entered the Federal army as a private in Company C, Fifty-Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. His company saw service in north and middle Tennessee, and was in the scrimmage incident to the capture of Fort Don- elson, was at Shiloh and at the siege of Knox- ville, where he was discharged from service, because of sickness.
Mr. Merrick began his railroad career in 1860, on the Dayton & Michigan, now Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad, and remained there with some intermission until 1868, leav- ing the company as a passenger conductor. In 1868 he engaged in the oil business as a men- ber of the firm of Merrick Bros., refiners and manufacturers. This arrangement lasted four years. He then re-entered the railroad service, this time with his present company as freight conductor: since 1883 he has been in passenger service.
Mr. Merrick is a son of A. W. Merrick, a builder, who came to Cleveland in 1834, from
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Fort Carrington, Franklin county, New York. Ilis birth occurred near Plattsburg, Vermont, and he was a volunteer soldier in the great battle of Lake Champlain. He married Agnes Erwin and died in January, 1865, aged sixty- five years. llis wife was born in county Armagh, Ireland, and came to this country at fourteen years of age. She died in 1888, at the age of eighty- eight years. Her children were six in number, of whom three are now living, namely: Mrs. E. J. Clayton, of Brooklyn, Ohio; Miss Frances E. Merrick and J. L.
Our subject was married in Fremont, In- diana, February 17, 1867, to Miss C. A. Beach. Mr. and Mrs. Merrick's children are: Ellsworth M., now in Montana; Ada, a graduate of the Cleveland high school; E. W., a high school graduate and employed by the Long Distance Telephone Company; F. E., Edith and L. E.
ENRY SCHUSTER, a citizen of Rock- port llamlet, was born in Hanover, Ger- many, April 4, 1847. When a lad of six years he came with his parents, IIenry, Sr., and Leonora (Stoekhouse) Schuster, to America, who settled in Ohio City, now the " West Side" of Cleveland. Here the husband and father died in 1861; the mother is still living.
Of a family of five children Henry was the second. Ile was reared to manhood on the West Side. In 1877 he entered the employ of Bous- field & Poole and began to work in their pail factory. Later he went to Bay City, Michigan, and was engaged in the same employment for seven years, when he returned to Cuyahoga county and purchased the farm of seventeen acros where he now resides, and on which he has erected good buildings. Ho devotes his time and attention to general farming and to gardon- ing.
Mr. Schuster was married in Cleveland, Ohio, to Miss Kate Giest, who died in Bay City, Mich- igan. She was the mother of four children, .
Kate, wife of John Loeblin; Earnest, George, Nora and Mand. Mr. Schuster was again mar- ried in Rockport Hamlet, April 8, 1886, to Miss Louisa Weber, a native of Cleveland, and they have one child, -- Charles.
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