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Mr. Ranney was married September 19, 1853, to Miss Helen A. Burgess, of Ravenna, Ohio, an orphan grand-daughter of the late Hon. William Coolman of that place. Six daughters and a son were born to this union, three dangh- ters only surviving.
W ILLIAM PHILLIPS, retired, was born in Crawford county, Pennsylvania, De- cember 17, 1837, a son of James and Almira (Crawford) Phillips, natives of Connec- tient. James Phillips was born in 1804, and in 1835 removed to Ohio to make his home with his wife's parents, Lutber and Elizabeth Craw- ford. Ile bought a tract of 125 acres, on which his son William now resides; thirty eight aeres are within the city limits of Cleveland. Here Mr. Phillips lived until his death, which oc- curred April 10, 1891. He became a conspien- ous figure in the history of this locality, and was an important factor in the development of Cuyahoga county's resources. He was bound ont as a child of four years, and had few advan- tages in his youth. As a pioneer of Ohio he is deserving of the honor and reverence due those men and women who bravely eleared the path for the oncoming generations. His wife died February 17, 1889, at the venerable age of eighty-seven years. For many years he was trustee of the township, but was not a poli- tician. There were four children in the family: William, the subject of this sketch; Mary, the wife of O. D. Jordan; Sarah and Henry L. The mother was twice married, and had one daughter by her first union, Almira, widow of Adolphus J. Hosley.
Mr. Phillips was edueated in the district school, and was reared to the occupation of farmer. He enlisted September 10, 1862, in
Company D, One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, his regiment did guard daty on Johnston's Island the greater part of the time, and he was honorably dis- charged June 8, 1865. When the war had closed he returned to his farm and resumed the pursuits he has since followed. He has been very successful, and for many years was regard- ed as one of the leading market-gardners in the county.
Hle was married October 20, 1859, to Miss Lydia A. Barber, a daughter of Abner and Lydia Barber, both of whom are deceased. Mrs. Phillips is one of a family of five children: Elizabeth, wife of Wright Bramley, deceased; Minerva, wife of Carlton Fuller, is not living; Asa and Martin V., who was killed in a railway accident at the age of twenty-one years. Mr. and Mrs. Phillips are the parents of a family of nine children: Ella, now Mrs. Carlisle, whose history is given elsewhere in this volume; James W .; Emma; Charles R., who married Alice Middleton; Gertrude; Bert, who died at the age of two and a half years; Minerva; Frank, who died at the age of twelve months; and Ralph.
Mr. Phillips is an honored member of the G. A. R., is a man of most excellent traits, and his long and useful careor in this community entitle him to the confidence reposed in him by all classes of citizens
F RANK A. BROBST, manager of the Hollander Ilotel, Cleveland, Ohio, has been connected with this establishment since 1890, and has more than proven his fitness for the position. The hotel accommodates 1,000 guests, and is conducted upon both the European and American plans. The service throughout is excellent.
Mr. Brobst was born in Norwalk, Ohio, where he was reared and educated. When a young man he went to Fremont, Ohio, taking a posi- tion in the Ball House, which he filled satisfae-
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torily for a year. At the end of twelve months he went to Chicago, and during the ten years following was connected with the management of the Pahner House of that city. llis ability was speedily recognized, and he was promoted to por itions of responsibility in rapid succession. During the last three years of his residence in Chicago ho was a member of the company man- aging the Palmer House. Although a young man, thirty-five years of age, he has developed superior business qualifications, and is con- sidered one of the most successful hotel mana- gers in the State. His experience as assistant manager of the Palmer Honse has been invalu- able him, and has doubtless been of material aid to him in bringing the Hollander to the front. Our worthy manager is one of the stockholders of the Arcade Savings Bank, and of the C. & B. Transit Company; he also owns a considerable amount of realty in Chicago. Ile is a lover of fine horses, and the sporting world presents many attractions to him; his chief gratification in this line is found in a good trotter. Mr. Brobst has attained his successes through his own efforts, and is justly entitled to the confidence and esteem which he commands in business circles.
Ile was married in Chicago in 1886, to Miss Dizatell.
FRIEDRICHI AUL, florist at Glenville, was born February 20, 1857, in Waitz- enbach, Bavaria, took an academic course of education at Schweinfurt, in his native country, learned the trade of florist, served two years in the regular army, and October 23, 1881, arrived in Cleveland. During his first two years here he was employed by Mrs. Eadie, a florist: next, in company with his brother, Casper, in 1883, he opened business in his line on St. Clair street, on a rented place, and in September, 1892, he started out for himself, on St. Clair street and Gordon Park. He purchased his present property, two acres, on Doan street,
Glenville, where he now has a fine establish - ment. Hle erected a good frame house, costing $12,000. The eminent success which he hns attained is attributable to his diligent and close attention to the business he has so thoroughly learned, for he started without means.
In his political sympathies he is a Republi- can, and in religion a Presbyterian Lutheran.
September 17, 1883, is the date of his mar- riage to Miss Hermine Burck, who had just ar- rived from the old country, according to her marriage engagement. Their children are Ru- dolph, Henry and Otto, aged respectively eight, four and two years.
His father, a farmer of the old country, died in April, 1883, and his mother in December following- They have seven children, three of whom are in this country. The names of all are Johannes, Casper, Anne, Frederick, Henry, Katherine and John. The last mentioned lives in Cleveland.
F RANKLIN M. ROOT, a representative farmer of Middleburg township, was born March 4, 1839, in Brunswick, Medina county, Ohio. Ilis father was the late Charles Root, a native of Pittsfield, Massachusetts. The Root family were among the early settlers of Brunswick, Medina county. Charles Root re- moved to Cleveland, where he kept the Pearl Street House for seven years in what was form- erly known as Ohio City, and is now the West Side of Cleveland. IIe died in 1850. IIe was formerly employed in the mercantile business in Brunswick. The maiden name of his wife was Ruth A. Martin, and she survives her hus- band at an advanced age. They had eight sons, of whom Franklin M. was the third. Whon he was about two years old his parents removed to Parma, Cuyahoga county, remained one year and then removed to Ohio City (or West Cleve- land). In 1850 he returned with his widowed mother and brothers to Brunswick, and remained for several years, when he came to Middleburg
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township, where he has since been a resident. Agriculture has been his chief business, his present farm, a fine one, comprising nearly sixty acres.
Mr. Root married, in Middleburg township, June 22, 1865, Miss Joanna Fowles, daughter of Lewis A. and Hannah (Fish) Fowles. He was born in Middleburg township, and she in Connecticut. They are okl and respected resi- dents of this county. They had two sons and three daughters, of whom Mrs. Root was the eldest. She was born in Middleburg township, March 23, 1847, where she was reared.
Mr. and Mrs. Root have four sons: Charles L., who married Miss Ida Gray; Samuel L .; Rolland F., who married Ella M. Brainard; and Alden F., who married Miss Belle C. Goss. Mr. Root was Township Trustee for six years. He is now Postmaster at Berea, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, under the administration of President Cleveland.
C HRISTOPHER R. MAILE, proprietor of the Lakewood Briek and Tile Works, at Lakewood hamlet, was born in Cleve- land, Ohio, January 27, 1862. Ilis parents were William R. and Alice (Rose) Maile, natives of St. Ives, England. They had five children, namely: Christopher R .; Nellie, the wife of Sidney Goss; Hattie, wife of Urban Hurd; Lillie, wife of J. C. Cannon; and Warren, who was accidentally drowned by falling into a pond when four years and five months old.
When our subject was but a year old his parents removed to Rockport township, making their home in what is now known as Lakewood hamlet, and here young Christopher grew to manhood. He received a common-school edu- cation and remained .with his father at home until his marriage. Ile was married in Cleve- land, Ohio, March 1, 1884, to Miss Mary A. Kidd, a native of Cuyahoga county, Ohio. They settled in Lakewood hamlet, where they
have since resided. They have had three chil- dren: Willie, who died when abont seven years of age; Alice and Lulu.
In the spring of 1885, Mr. Maile, in com- pany with his father, purchased the Tile and Brick Works, which they operated together for two years. The son then purchased his father's interest, and has since conducted the business alone. Ile carries on quite an extensive busi- ness.
Mr. Maile has served as Trustee for several years. He is the member of the Central Re- publican Committee for Rockport township, and has taken an active part in political mat- ters as well as local affairs.
LOIIN W. WISE was born near Louisville,
Stark county, Ohio, September 14, 1859. Ilis boyhood days were spent on the farm, and his education obtained from the village schools and at Mount Union College. Constant confinement in a schoolroom jeopardizing his health, he was forced to give up his studies and seek more active employment. He decided that railroading should be his business. He secured a place with the Cleveland, Canton & Southern Railroad Company in 1882 as workman on a gravel train, expecting that he would be pro- moted to fireman on first vacaney, and the change was made in just four days. In 1883 he came to the Cleveland & Pittsburgh Com- pany as yard brakeman at Newburg. In three years he was made yard conductor, serving as such till August, 1873, when he was promoted to night yardmaster.
Mr. Wise is a cou of Henry C. Wise, like- wise a native of Stark county, Ohio, born in 1828 and died in 1875. He devoted his active business life to the farm and the building of mills, and officially was for many years a Justice of the Peace.
Our subject's mother was Elizabeth Snyder, now living in Louisville, at seventy-six years of age. ller father was Michacl Suyder, a farmer
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and one of the first settlers in Stark county. Ile came to Ohio from Alexandria, Maryland, in 1832, and was an Ohio soldier in the Mexi- can war. His death occurred in 1872. The Wise family came originally from Massachu- setts, and were led into Ohio by Charles Wise, who married Margaret Charles, who bore him five children, one of whom was Henry C. Wise. The latter's children were: Samuel, deceased; Amanda, deceased; Matilda, married David Harner, of Canton, Ohio; Elizabeth, wife of L. Bauman; John W., and Elvira, unmarried.
John W. Wise married, June 7, 1893, in Cleveland, Nellie Lalley, a daughter of Thomas Lalley. Mr. Wise is indebted for his success to a good stock of energy and perseverance and . an evident interest in the business of his em- ployers.
P ATRICK FITZPATRICK, of Linsdale, Ohio, was born in Cuyahoga county, Ohio, December 24, 1848. His father, Charles Fitzpatrick, was then a resident of the Forest City only temporarily, while engaged in constructing a portion of the Cleveland & Pitts- burg Railroad under contract. He was not without a contract for a portion of some one of our eastern trunk lines from the time he became a fixture as an American business man until his death near Toledo, Ohio, of cholera, in 1853. Ile came from Ireland to Ohio about 1847, bringing a wife-Rosa, nee Morgan. Five chil- dren were born to the parents, but Patrick is the only surviving son.
After the death of his parents, so suddenly, and at almost the same time, our subject was taken charge of by a farmer named Doty and kept until an uncle came on and took possession of the young orphan. He was brought to Cleveland and scenred a seant parochial school training; alternating the duties of student with some kind of manual labor necessary to secure subsistence. At sixteen Mr. Fitzpatrick went to New York city and enlisted in the Sixth New
York Cavalry, going to Staten Island and thence to Harper's Ferry, where the regiment was as- signed to the First Division of the Second Brigade under General Deven, and saw service in the second Shenandoah valley campaign; was in the battle of Five Forks and many other less noted engagements, and after Lee's surrender came back to Roanoke river, North Carolina, to cut off Johnston. Their mission completed, the regiment returned to Alexandria, Virginia, and participated in the grand review at Washington, District of Columbia. The Sixth was consoli- dated with the Fifteenth New York and sent to Louisville, Kentucky, to do provost duty; re- mained during the summer and in November turned over all government property and were sent back to Elmira, New York, to be mustered ont.
After an unsuccessful attempt to get conge- nial employment in New York city, our subject seenred a job at getting out timber near Ran- dolph, New York, and was so engaged one year, going then in October, 1866, to Boston, where he gratified a desire to renew military service by enlisting in the Seventh United States In- fantry. Ultimately he was sent to St. Augus- tine, Florida, where he was assigned to Company B, Seventh United States Infantry. He was stationed at Fernandina until the spring of 1867, when, the Indians becoming hostile in the Rocky mountain country, an order took the regiment to Fort Steele, Wyoming, and some time later it was transferred to Fort Shaw, Montana, where in 1869 Mr. Fitzpatrick was discharged by ex- piration of term of service.
Ile returned to Cleveland in 1870, and the next year went to the Toledo division of the Lake Shore Railroad , Company as yard brake- man. After six months' service he came to the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Company in the same capacity, and in fourteen months was given a pony. In due sea- son he was made night yard-master, serving in the Cleveland yards until 1889, when he was promoted to the position of day man at Lindale. Only one in the twenty two years of his service
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has Mr. Fitzpatrick been absent from duty at any length, and that time for a period of six months, when temporarily engaged in a mer- chandising venture.
Mr. Fitzpatrick married in Cleveland, Maria Campbell, of Canadian birth. Their children are: Rosa, Priseilla, Mary, Effie and Nettic.
G FOLONEL A. T. VAN TASSEL is one of the leading business men of the city of Cleveland. He was born at Mayville, Chantanqua county, New York, March 11, 1833. When he was six years old his parents removed to Erie, Pennsylvania. Ile is a son of Abram and Zenitia (Truekum) VanTassel, both being natives of New York State. His father was a soldier in the war of 1812. Ile was a stone- mason by trade and in Erie followed the busi- ness of a contractor, and as a contractor operated npon the Erie & Pittsburg canal.
The subject of this personal sketch served an apprenticeship of four years at the tin and coppersmith's trade and when he had reached his majority he left Pennsylvania and came to Cleveland, in which city he landed in 1852, where he worked for seven years at his trade. Ile then embarked in business for himself. When he began work in the city of Cleveland his assets were $5, but from his earnings he saved his money and accumulated $125, which became his invested capital. When he embarked in business for himself he opened the shop on Detroit street, just opposite his present location, and since that day he has been one of the most active business men of the city. In 1865 he purchased a stock of hardware, at the same time purchasing the lot on which stands his present place of business. In 1867 he erected his business house and here he does a general tin and copper business. . His work consists in marine work, plumbing, ete. Having fitted up a number of vessels for lake service, he has made marino work a specialty; however, ho carries a full line of shelf and heavy hardware.
His place of business is 250 Detroit street. IIe employs a number of workmen and his business is of no little consequence.
Aside from business he has been actively en- gaged in public affairs. In politics he has al- ways been Democratic. In 1862 he was elected a member of the City Council from the old Ninth ward and since that time he has served six terms, or twelve years, in that capacity. He has been a member of the city board of improve- ments and he is author of the law that created the board of fire commissioners, and he became a member of the first board of these commis- sioners. Ile was appointed by Mayor Babcock to the board of workhouse directors. To the several conventions of his party he has been a delegate for some years past. He is a very en- thusiastic and influential worker in the ranks of his party.
Hle was married at the age of twenty years, marrying, in this city, Miss Mary Rudge, a na- tive of Ilartford, Connectient. Ile is promin- ently connected with several fraternal societies, among which are the Independent Order of Odd Fellow, the Knights of Pythias and other orders.
C HARLES W. FOOTE, a man of marked attainments and one occupying a position of no little prominence in the business circles of the city of Cleveland, and the subject of this sketch, may consistently be accorded at- tention in connection with a work which has to do with the representative citizens of Cuyahoga county.
He was born in Tripoli, Syria, in 1853, the only child of Rev. Horace Foote, who was then a Christian missionary in that far distant land, having been an honored member of the clerical profession for nearly half a century. The maid- en name of our subject's mother was Rosanna Whittlesey. She was a native of Connecticut, and her husband of New York. The former died in 1854, at the age of thirty-three years,
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and the latter, who was born in 1816, died August 12, 1887. Colonel Charles Whittlesey, a brother of Mrs. Foote, was a notable man and one who attained to honorable distinction in many ways.
Our subject, who is a namesake of his uncle, is a graduate of the Western Reserve College at Hudson, having been a member of the elass of 1874. Hle supplemented his literary education by taking a post-graduate scientific course at Cornell University, receiving from that institu- tion the degree of Master of Arts, as well as that of Doctor of Philosophy. Mr. Foote was ad- mitted to practice at the bar in 1878, and de- voted himself to the work of this profession at Akron, Ohio, until 1881, when he accepted a position as Professor of Science at Buchtel College, Akron. Subsequently he became in- terested in electrical work, and invented and perfected a long-distance telephone, npon which, however, he was not able to secure a patent. At that time he was residing in Youngstown, Ohio.
In 1887 he came to Cleveland as an agent representing the Sprague Electric Railway and Motor Company, whose system is now in nse on the East Cleveland and Broadway & New- burg lines. He remained connected with the corporation noted until the time when its busi- ness was purchased by the Edison Company. Ile then became agent for the Thomson-Houston Company, with which he remained until 1892, when he resigned to accept the preferment as general manager of the Nicholson Electric Iloist Company, a concern whose interests have been advanced to a marked degree as a result of his able efforts and capable direction. Since 1889 he has also been identified with the Cleveland Construction Company, whose prov- ince of operations is in the construction and equipment of electric street railways, and who have built roads under about forty separate contracts.
He is vice-president of the Electric Club, of Cleveland, and a member of the American In- stitute of Electrical Engineers, of New York city. Ile is also a member of the Civil Engi-
neers' Club, of Cleveland. A man of marked intellectuality and thorough discipline, he has . put his comprehensive knowledge into practical use and has early gained for himself recognition in the path along which moves the hurrying column of utilitarian advancement.
Mr. Foote was united in marriage July 30, 1879, to Miss Harriet, a daughter of Professor II. B. Hosford, of the Western Reserve Col- lege, and to them have been born three chil- dren: Fannie R., who was born in 1880; Charles R., in 1883; and Ruth HI., in 1889.
W ALTER JACOBI is the Cleveland general agent for the Home Life In- surance Company of New York, and . in this position he has charge of northern Ohio. Ile has had charge of this field for a little over two years. He has been with this company since May of 1891, and through his judicious management he has worked up a good business in this field. Before becoming identified with this company he was in the employ of the Ger- mania Life, of New York, with which company he was associated for seven years.
Ile was born in Berlin, Germany, Jnue 13, 1852. He was given a classical education in his native land and served one year in the regular army. In 1875 ho came to America and spent a short time in New York city, and then, coming west, located in Cleveland, in 1876. Upon coming to Cleveland he first accepted a position as book-keeper, and later he secured a position in the city schools, in which he tanght until January, 1884, at which time he became engaged in the insurance business, to which he has since given his entire time and attention. Ile has been one of the most active and success- ful men in his line. Notwithstanding that he has given a very great deal of his time, thought and study to his business he has never lost in- terest in the cause of education, having served a period of five or more years on the board of examiners for the city schools.
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Fraternally Mr. Jacobi is a member of the A. F. & A. M., Concordia Lodge, No. 345, and Webb Chapter, No. 14.
Ile is connected with several of the German societies of the city, and in polities he is a stanch Republican.
Mr. Jacobi was married in this eity in 1878.
N ILLIAM II. VAN TINE, Jr., one of the most active of the real-estate men in Cleveland, was born in this city in 1856, a son of William II. Van Tine, concern- ing whom specific subject-matter appears else- where in this volume. Hle received his educa- tion in the public schools and at the early age of ten years began to realize somewhat the more serious demands of life. He thereupon began carrying papers, morning and evening, devoting the middle of each day to study. When a youth of sixteen years he engaged in the real-estate and insurance business, soon dropping the latter to devote all of his attention to realty transact- ions.
In 1880 he commenced giving most of his time to the allotment of lands in the city and has up to date completed and improved thirty- three streets in the best locations in the resi- dence portions of Cleveland, and covering many millions in valne. During the past five years he has added to his enterprises the building and completion of modern homes, conducting to-day the largest enterprise of its kind in Cleveland if not in the State of Ohio and being acknow- ledged by all competitors to be the most active and successful operation in the market.
IIe has his architectural department, where all plans and details are made for houses of every description built to suit the purchaser and sold on easy payments, and comprising the choicest lines of work built and offered for sale. From the drawing room his work goes to his mills and shops, where every detail of the house is constructed excepting only the plumbing and furnace work. All the different details of the
work are completed in his own shops, where the different departments are found under the charge of the most skilful mechanies, including decorators of every kind in wall papers, fresco and water-color effects, etc., electrical work, mantel work, etc.
Mr. Van Tine employs the year round about 100 mechanics in all branches, and completes ready for occupancy on an average of fifty houses per year. His work is purchased most of the time ahead of the completion of the houses and during the dull times has evidently made no difference in his push and energy in building where others have dared not attempt the venture. Every detail of the work from the start to comple- tion is under his personal supervision, and his abilities for fine work and effective interiors, as well as architectural designing has deservingly given him the title of " Designer and Builder of Modern Homes."
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