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J HIE SCHMEIIL-STEARNS PRINTING COMPANY, with its main place of busi- ness at 1661 Pearl street, with a branch office in the thriving town of Berea,- from which place Mr. Stearns hails,-is the most important publishing house on the West Side. W. F. C. Schumehl, the senior member of the firm, located at 1661 Pearl street nearly five years ago, and since that time has built up an excellent printing business. About the same time D. C. Stearns built up a very good busi- ness in Berea and published a paper known as the Berea Grit. In the spring of 1893 the two concerns were consolidated and the printing machinery of Berea removed to Pearl street, to the office of the then Mail and News. The two
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newspapers were consolidated and given the name of the County News, with separate full- page headings for Cleveland, Brooklyn and Be- rea. This was probably due to the fact that the new paper had the largest circulation of any west of the river in these towns, and also in the country adjacent, and was therefore entitled to the name of County News. Within the short space of time that has elapsed since the consolidation the circulation of the News has rapidly grown, and this gives evidence that the people are pleased with the paper.
Aside from the publishing of the News and several other periodicals, the News oflice is equipped for all classes of commercial printing. The company has the advantages of large re- sourees in the line of type, and their machinery is of the latest improved style. The immense eirculation of the News should invite advertisers to its columns, for the paper is purely a family one, giving news and not sensations.
F RANCIS SOUTHACK HOYT, D. D., a Presiding Elder of the Sandusky (Ohio) District, and formerly Presiding Elder of the Cleveland District, is a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church of learning, promi- nence and marked ability. lle was born at Lyndon, Vermont, November 5, 1822. He re- ceived his early edneation in the various towns of Vermont and New Hampshire, in which his father had his home in the capacity of pastor or Presiding Elder; he also attended the seminary at Newbury, Vermont, which was afterward removed to Montpelier. In 1840, at the age of eighteen, he entered the Wesleyan University at Middletown, Connecticut, from which he was graduated at the age of twenty-two years. After his graduation he was engaged in teaching for six years at different places in the east.
In 1850 he was sent to Oregon by the mis- sionary society of the Methodist Episcopal Church to take charge of the Oregon Institute at Salem, which was established by the mis- sionary society with a view of developing it in-
to a college. Ilere he remained eleven years, and during his stay the institute was chartered as a college and became one of the foremost educational institutions of the Pacific coast; it is now known as Willamette University.
Mr. Iløyt was sent in 1860 by the Oregon Annual Conference as a delegate to the General Conference held at Buffalo, New York; and in the summer of the same year he was elected professor in the department of Natural Science in the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware. Hle was transferred to the chair of Biblical The- ology at his own request six years later, and held the position until 1872. He then became editor of the Western Christian Advocate at Cincinnati, and was connected with this journal until 1884. Since that year he has been Pre- siding Elder of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and for six years has been located at Cleveland as the Presiding Elder of the Cleveland district, North Ohio Conference. In 1890 he was ap- pointed the Presiding Elder of the Sandusky district, his present position. This district in- eludes twenty-seven charges, each of which he visits every three months, preaching and con- ducting other services from one to three times at each point.
Mr. Hoyt was married December 25, 1848, to Miss Phebe Martha Dyar, of Farmington, Maine. Of this nnion six children have been born, all of whom are living: Frances, Charles A., Edgar F., William W., Francis C. and George B.
The degree of Doctor of Divinity was first conferred upon Mr. Hoyt by the Baldwin Uni- versity; and two years later, in 1873, by the Ohio Wesleyan University. Since 1885 he has been President of the Board of Trustees of the Baldwin University at Berea, Ohio.
A J. WEBB, freight, station and express agent for the Cleveland, Canton & South- ern Railroad Company at Bedford, has held this responsible position since 1892, giving excellent satisfaction to the officials and
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patrons of the road. IIe has had an experience of thirteen years in the railroad business, and six years of that time has been in the employ the C. C. & S. Railway Company. Ile was born at Coshocton, Coshocton county, Ohio, June 20, 1859, a son of Henry D. and Elizabeth (llin- ton) Webb; the father was born in the city of Indianapolis, Indiana, and the mother was a na- tive of Guernsey county, Ohio. Both are de- ceased, and our subject was left an orphan at an early age. He received a fair education, and at the age of sixteen years seenred a position in the Steel Works at Coshocton. This occupa- tion not being entirely to his liking he learned telegraphy, and for eleven years was a success- ful operator.
Mr. Webb was united in marriage June 15, 1852, to Laura E. Shepler at Coshocton, Ohio. Mrs. Webb's parents are A. J. and Naney (Gray) Shepler, who belong to old families in Coshocton county. The paternal grandfather was one of the earliest settlers in that locality. Mr. and Mrs. Webb have one child, a son named larry B.
In politics Mr. Webb supports the measures of the Democratic party. lle is a member of the Masonic order, belonging to Summit Lodge No. 239, A. F. & A. M., and to Summit Chap- ter No. 74, R. A. M .; he has belonged to the fraternity since 1891. He is a man of striet integrity, capable and prompt in the discharge of his duties, and worthy of the many warm friends he has in this community.
N EHEMIAU MARKS, of Warrensville, Ohio, is probably as well known as any man in the township, and few if any are held in higer esteem.
Mr. Marks was born in Newburg, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, in the year 1833, son of Nehe- miah Marks, Sr., and grandson of Abraham Marks, natives of Connectient and members of a prominent old family of that State. Grand- mother Marks was before her marriage Miss
Content Mervin. The senior Nehemiah Marks was born in 1798, and was a young man when be came out to the Western Reserve to make a home and grow up with the country. After his arrival here he returned to Connectient on foot, making the journey, a distance of 600 miles, in thirteen days. On his return with an ox team and a horse it took him thirty-three days to make the journey. Ilere he bought a hundred aeres of land, and devoted his energies to its improvement, and on it he spent the rest of his life. Ilis wife, Clarissa, was a daughter of William Palmiter, a soldier of the Revolution- ary war. Grandfather Marks also participated in the struggle for independence. Clarissa Marks was born, reared and educated in Ver- mont, and was for some time engaged in teach- ing there. She drove a horse and wagon from the Green Mountain State to Cuyahoga county, to pay her passage hither, and after her arrival here taught school in Newburg. Both she and her husband lived to a ripe old age, he being eighty-two at the time of death and she eighty- three. They had a family of six children, viz .: Louisa, who married Jacob Flick and is de- ecased; Lafayette, a resident of Newburg; Car- oline, who married A. J. Palmer, of Tecumseh, Michigan, and is deceased; Marilla Falk, of Newburg; Rosetta, wife of A. I'. Holliday, of Clinton, Michigan; and Nehemiah, Jr. This aged couple was respected and esteemed by all who knew them; their lives were adorned by Christian graces, and they reared their family to ocenpy honored and nseful positions in life.
The subject of the sketeh was reared on his father's farm, but for the last twenty-five years has lived on Miles avenue, at Sorrento Park, three miles east of Newburg. He was mar- ried February 24, 1867, to Miss Maria Wells, a daughter of Curtis and Harriet (Russell) Wells. They have three children, namely: Rosetta, wife of J. S. Wherrit, of Great Falls, Montana; Carlotta was being educated at Berea Univer- sity, and would have graduated, but studied too hard and died of typhoid fever May 6, 1885, aged 17 years; Hattie Bell, is a musie teacher;
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and Vivian is attending college in Cleveland. Most of the family are members of the Disci- ple Church.
Personally, Mr. Marks is a man of fine phys- ique, being six feet and four inches in height. Of genial nature, frank and jovial, he makes friends wherever he goes. A man of the strict- est integrity, a friend of education and religion, he is one of the leading men of the community, and his influence is always directed for good. Politically, he is a Republican. For five years he has served as a Justice of the Peace, and has served several terms as a member of the Board of Education. Mr. Marks has several ancient relies, but the most conspienons one is an old French fusee, a relie of the French and Indian war that also did service in the Revolutionary war. The initials of his grandfather, Abrahamn Marks, are ent in the stock. Many a wild tur- key and deer has been killed by this ohl flint- loek fusce. Mr. Marks has killed seven turkeys at three shots in one week with it. Another relic that Mr. Marks has in his possession is a letter from old John Brown, written to his father in December, 1845. -
G EORGE W. MARTIN, a veteran em- ployee of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad Company, and for twenty-seven years a passenger engineer, was born near Goshen, Orange county, New York, August 31, 1835. He was brought up on a farm and consequently had all the advan- tages that free, open-air exercise gives one's physical and mental make-up. He left the plod- ding farm life, the scenes of his boyish rambles and the fireside of his parents, at about twenty, and at Buffalo, New York, began his railroad career as a locomotive fireman on the C. B. & C. R. R. He was made an engineer in 1862 and since 1866 has covered the Cleveland and Erie Division as his run. Mr. Martin has wit- nessed a wonderful development of a mighty railroad system since he first stepped into an
engineer's cab. In place of the double track of steel rails, on a magnificent road, superbly equipped with modern rolling stock, capable of spinning off at will a mile a minute, there was, thirty-eight years ago, a single track with strap rails laid upon the timbers on a sand and clay foundation. Toy rolling stock was used to do the business this company and the time was scarcely considered a factor in a long journey. A trip would begun by a passenger, and if it ever ended he considered himself in luck.
Of the men who managed the company's af- fairs when Mr. Martin came to the road not one is now alive. Not even the directors or stock- holders are on the stage of action, and very few of the employees are yet on the company's pay- rolls.
Then the Vanderbilts first came into posses- sion of the Lake Shore Road, and Cornelins the first was its president, Mr. Martin used to pull his favorite ear over the road on his tours of inspection. He performed like service for William II., his son, and after his demise for his sons, the present owners of the road.
President Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas have ridden behind his engine, likewise Presi- dents Garfield and Cleveland.
Mr. Martin's father was J. Martin, born in the same county, of New York. Ile lived an uneventful farm life and died in 1873, aged six- ty-five years. Ilis wife was Martha Crator, of New Jersey birth, who died in 1878, aged sixty- six. ller children were J. R., deceased; G. W .; Mrs. Martha Hitchcock and Julia, deceased.
Our subject enlisted in Company E, First Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Cleveland Grays, in 1861, and went into camp at Wheatland, Penn- sylvania, camping there two weeks, and two in Philadelphia, where they were equipped and or- dered to Washington, D. C. They went into Virginia withont much delay and rebuilt the Alexandrin & Leesburgh Railroad. On an ex- pedition in the interior the forces met the enemy and were somewhat worsted, withdraw- ing to Fairfax C. Il., and soon after were engaged in the first battle of Bull Run Mr.
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Martin's three months' enlistment having ex- pired he returned to Cleveland and was mus- tered out of service.
In 1863 Mr. Martin married in Erie, Penn- sylvania, Matilda Daugherty, who is the mother of two children: Jennie, wife of W. D. Briggs of Erie, Pennsylvania; and Harry, a elerk in the Lake Shore general offices, whose wife was a Miss Clark.
F RANK R. CONNELL, passenger con- dnetor on the Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad and for more than twenty-seven years a faithful employee of the company, was born in Ashland county, Ohio, September 15, 1848. He had not more than reached that age when a boy becomes most interesting as a stu- deut when he left off his boyish frivolities and became a volunteer soldier to defend the Stars and Stripes and preserve the unity of the States. Ile enlisted at Salineville, Ohio, in September, 1863, in Company B, Twelfth Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, under Colonel Bentley. They were ordered to Cleveland for camp duty and later to Camp Chase for the purpose of guarding prisoners. Another order took the company to Dennison, Ohio, where arms and horses were furnished and the command then took the field, going into Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee, meeting the enemy first at Mount Sterling, Ken- tueky, and then at a point in Virginia, where Mr. Connell was wounded and taken prisoner, October 2, 1864. lle lay in Emory and Henry hospital and in a Richmond hospital by trans- fer until he was well enough to be initiated into Libby Prison, remaining in that historic Rebel death-trap until March, 1865, when with others he was exchanged at Annapolis, Mary- land. Mr. Connell made an effort to find and join his regiment, but was not able to find it until within a few weeks of the close of the war. He was mustered out of service in 1865, at Columbus, Ohio, returned home, and March 7, 1867, entered the employ of the Cleveland & Pittsburg Company as a freight breakman. In
September, 1868, he received a promotion to freight conductor, and in 1887 became a pas- senger conductor.
Mr. Connell is a son of Dr. Aaron Connell, born in the State of Maryland. He was educated in Ohio and in his early life was a teacher. Ile studied medicine, graduating at a university, and practiced in Ashland county and vicinity. Dur- ing the civil war he was on duty in the hospital at Cairo, Illinois, and in Cleveland. ITis death occurred in 1877, at the age of seventy-two years. ITis first wife was Miss David- son, who bore five children, viz., Clint, James, David, Benjamin and John. His second wife was Sarah A., daughter of Samuel McClelland, a Pennsylvania farmer, who was an early set- tler in Colombiana County, Ohio. The chil- dren of this union were Samnel, killed in a battle in the State of Mississippi; George; Maria, wife of Dr. Lindsay, of Salineville, Ohio; Frank R .; and Annie, who married J. C. Meln- toshi, of Monroeville, Ohio.
Frank R. Connell married, in Bayard, Ohio, October, 1869, Lucinda H. Emmons, a native of Virginia. Two children are born to Mr. and Mrs. Connell, -- Ada F., boru January 23, 1890; and Albert, born Angust 1, 1892.
OHIN F. FRITZ, a most faithful and re- liable engineer of the Lake Shore & Mich- igan Sonthern Railroad Company, pos- sesses as such a record unsurpassed or seldom equaled for careful, painstaking service. He began railroading in 1865, and for three years was fireman. Since 1868 he has manipulated the throttle of numerous engines, both freight and passenger, being engaged in the passenger service since 1873. For a few months during 1865 he was in the military service of the Fed- eral Government, being a member of Company A, One Hundred and Ninety-eighth Ohio Vol- unteer Infantry. He was mustered into the army at Cleveland, taken to Camp Chase at Columbus, and thence with his company to the field.
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Mr. Fritz was born in Wurtemburg, Ger- inny, in April, 1845. His father, Michael Fritz, left his fatherland in 1854, and sought free and unrestricted liberty in the United States. Ile located in Cuyahoga county, and gaye his exclusive attention to agricultural pursuits. Hle is now living retired, aged seventy-seven years. Ilis children were: Joseph, an engineer; Lne, a Lake Shore passenger conductor; George, a railroad man; Hermon; Bart, a Lake Shore freight conductor; and the subject of this sketch.
Mr. John F. Fritz was married in Norwalk, Ohio, April 6, 1875, to Miss Barbara Measdey, and they have had two daughters, -Bertie May and Edna, -- promising young ladies of school age. Mr. Fritz is a member of the B. of 1 .. E.
A J. MICHAEL occupies a prominent position among the well-known lawyers and citizens of Cleveland. He is a native of Ohio, and was born on the 12th day of October, 1849, in Ross county, one of the counties forming the " Virginia Military District " of the Buckeye State. Ilis father's family came to this part of the State from Baltimore, Maryland, while his mother's family came from Leesburg, Virginia, in abont 1820. Both of his parents were born in this State. On the father's side the family line reaches back to the Jefferson family, the grandmother of our subject being a niece of President Thomas Jefferson; on the mother's sido the line runs back to the family of Governor Mc- Dowell of Virginia. Mr. Michael was reared on the farm, and secured his early education in the country district schools and in the public schools at Chillicothe, passing from the latter to the Ohio University. Being ambitions of securing a good education in as short a time and at as small an expense as possible, and be- ing of a studious and energetic nature, he averaged while at the university fifteen and one- half hours of study a day, and, during his entire
senior year carried eight regular studies. Hle maintained, throughont his entire course in the university, a high rank in his classes. This close application to his studies enabled him to finish a six-years course in three years and two terms, and to graduate with honors. While in his Sophomore year his own class in Latin re- cited to him for nearly an entire term, during the absence of the professor who occupied that chair; and at another time, during his course of study at the university, he had charge of and heard the recitations of the class next below his in solid geometry. Mr. Michael finished his education in Harvard College at Cambridge, Mass. Being compelled to educate himself by his own efforts, he found at the close of his university life an indebtedness of $650 against him, without any means whatever to draw upon save his education. Anxious to liquidate his indebtedness ho accepted the position of Superintendent of the Monroeville (Ohio) public schools, and for five years discharged the duties of that position with entire satis- faction, establishing a reputation for himself which extended all over the State. During the above time he was an active member of the Northeastern Teachers' Association of Ohio and one of its excentive committeemen. Ile was also a member of the Ohio State Teachers' Association, of the Department of Superintend- ents, and of the National Teachers' and Na- tional Superintendents' Associations. Ile stnd- ied most thoroughly the public-school systems of this and other States, and received letters from leading public-school superintendents, as well as from college presidents and professors, stating that they were personally acquainted with his work and his fitness for the same, and . that they considered him one of the most prom- ising young men in the school work of the State.
Having educated himself for the profession of the law Mr. Michael had taken a broad field of reading along the line of subjects kindred to his chosen profession, and when in a posi- tion to take up his legal studies found
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himself well equipped for the same, and his progress was rapid. llis preceptor in the study of law was the HIon. C. E. Pen- newell, of the Cleveland bar, for whose eminent ability as a lawyer and jurist he has the highest admiration. During Mr. Michael's first year in practice he was able to and did receive fees enough to live upon, but since then his practice has continued to increase from year to year un- til it is second to that of no young lawyer in the city, and he finds his profession both a In- crative and pleasant one. He is thoroughly in love with the legal profession, to which he is peculiarly fitted, and his progress in it has been all that he and his friends could desire for the time he has been in active practice. Ile is the the owner of one of the best law libraries in Cleve- land, and also owns what is considered one of the best private libraries in the State. ITis hab- its of study which were acquired during his student life in the university have been re- tained, and his work is seblom laid aside nutil ten p. m., and frequently not until a later hour.
For several years Mr. Michael has been quite prominent in municipal affairs, and has filled a number of honorable and important official po- sitions, in which his services have been of great benefit to the city. lle has for several years been President of the Board of Examiners of public school teachers of Cleveland. He has served a term of two years in the City Council, one year of which he was President of that body. He served as a member of the City Park and Boulevard Commission during the first year of its organization, and the present members of the commission bear evidence to his valnable service on that important body during the most trying days of its history, when it was beset on all sides by pitfalls and snares of every description, and when its policy was shaped and its present work made possible. He is a prominent and active member of the Cleve- land Chamber of Commerce and Chairman of its Committee on Municipal Matters, and a mem- ber of the General Fintnee Committee having in cleuge the raising of money and preparing
of plans for the new Chamber of Commerce building. Mr. Michael is a member of the Tippecanoe Club, the strongest Republican political elub in Ohio.
As a lawyer Mr. Michael occupies a promi- nent place at the Cleveland har, and is consid- ered one of the city's strongest and most prom- ising attorneys. Ile is recognized as one of the foremost citizens of the Forest City, being progressive and at all times ready and willing to lend his influence and assistance to all move- ments in the interest of good government and to the promotion of the city and her best interests. Ile is broad-minded, energetic and enterprising in all matters, and is usually to be found upon the right side of all public questions and move- ments. Socially he is a most agreeable gentle- man. Warm-hearted and sympathetic by na- ture, kind and affable to all, easy of approach, he is deservedly popular and has a wide circle of friends and acquaintances, all of whom esteem him as a man of ability, strength and sterling character.
OHIN FREEMAN, secretary of the Taylor Chair Company, of Bedford, Ohio, has been connected with the business for C twenty years. He was born at Poughkeepsie, New York, October 31, 1859. Ilis parents were Williamn and May E. (Wheeler) Freeman. The father was a native of England. They are still living.
John was a boy of nine years when he came to Bedford. Here he received a limited ednea- tion, at thirteen beginning to work in the chair factory of the Taylor Chair Company. His first work was sand-papering the chairs at 50 cents per day. By doing his work well and faithfully he seenred a position as office boy in the establishment and later as shipping elerk. At twenty-one he went on the road as traveling salesman for the firm. His territory extended From the Atlantic coast southwest to St. Louis, including seventeen States. In the spring of
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1887 he left the road and accepted his present position of secretary of the Taylor Chair Com- pany. As secretary and book-keeper of the company he does his duty in an able manner. Mr. Freeman is a self-made man and to his own exertions is due his present position of trust and honor. He was married in June, 1887, at Chagrin Falls, Ohio, to Flora Stevenson, daugh- ter of J. M. Stevenson. Mr. and Mrs. Freeman have one child, a daughter, -Helen Flora.
Mr. Freeman is a Republican, an active and zealous worker in his party. lle has served two terms as treasurer of the school board of Bedford. lle is a member of the Masonic Order, Bedford Lodge, No. 370, and Summit Chapter. Mr. Freeman has the frank, genial, jovial ways which are so serviceable in business.
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