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hospital, taking a furlough or joining his regi ment. He chose the last and found his com- pany before Vicksburg at Millikon's Bend. From the day after his arrival to the surren- der of the city tho Forty-second Regiment was under fire daily.
On leaving Vicksburg, Mr. Phinney went to Juekson with his regiment, drove off the enemy and tore up the railroad. The regiment was in eamp by orders for a number of weeks and while there Mr. Phinney was Deputy Provost Marshal under Marshal Benham. He was next ordered to report to General Lawler's headquarters in Morganza Bend, Louisiana, and was appointed the general's chief elerk. He performed his duties ereditably and in 1864, not liking such inactivity, made application for his discharge, then three months over-due. He was ordered to Columbus Virginia of Chicago and mustered out and returned home the first time since the night of his sudden departure three years and three months before. On tak- ing up civil affairs again Mr. Phinney entered Berea College and prosecuted his duties two years.
On the death of his father he assumed his business and conducted it successfully eighteen years, then retiring.
In a public capacity Mr. Phinney has done a fair share of service. In 1875 he was chosen Treasurer of Rockport township, serving six years. Centennial year he was appointed Post- master of Rockport and performed the duties of the office till 1887. In 1881 he was elected a Commissioner of Cuyahoga county and re- elected in 1884, serving as president of the board the last two years, his terin expiring in 1887, which year he removed his family to Cleveland.
January 1, 1888, Mr. Phinney engaged in building iron bridges, his work extending through the States of Maryland, New York, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio. His appointment as a member of the Board of Equalization and Assignment in May, 1892, severed his connec- tion with the bridge industry and made him
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once more a public official. Ile holds an inter- est in two corporate companies of Cleveland. lle is a Royal Arch Mason, a member of the Army and Navy Post, G. A. R., and of the National Union.
Mr. Phinney married, in Rockport, Ava A., daughter of John Barnum. Three children blessed the union: Arthur Barnum and Alice May, twins, eighteen years of age, and Belle June, eleven years of age.
F RED R. BRIGGS, general passenger agent of the Cleveland, Canton & Sonthern Rail- road, is one of the younger railroad men who are coming rapidly to the front as the result of faithful and painstaking service, and a desire to render to his company the full measure of service which his exceptional ability makes pos- sible.
Ile started out in life withont extraordinary equipments, except his natural endowments of good sense and a grim determination to sneceed. lle left the public schools of this city at sixteen and for nearly two years was variously em- ployed; lastly and just before entering railroad work he became an employee of the Cleveland City Forge, rather in response to a desire of his mother that he should learn a trade, since her brothers were all iron men and prosperous.
Five weeks sufficed to convince young Fred that handling iron bars was not his forte nor to his liking, and he decided to try railroading, going to the Valley Railroad as a brakeman. His service was so satisfactory that in two years the management placed him in charge of a passen- ger train, he being then only twenty years of age.
In September, 1882, Mr. Briggs left the Val- ley road and accepted a similar position with the Connotton Valley Railroad, now the Cleve- land, Canton & Southern Railroad, duplieating his record with the Valley Railroad as an efli- cient servant. February 15, 1892, the manage-
ment rewarded Mr. Briggs with the position of assistant general passenger agent, promoting him to his present office May 12, 1892.
The passenger service of the Cleveland, Can- ton & Southern is in better condition than at any time during its history as a result of Mr. Briggs' thorough, judicious advertising. He is conversant with the needs of his road and meets them at every point. Having been in the ranks in the operating department of the road he sympathizes most heartily with those under him and is an exceedingly popular official.
Mr. Briggs was born in Allegheny, Penn- sylvania, June 22, 1862. He is a son of R. D .. Briggs, a native of Ohio, born in 1837. When a boy of five years he came to Cleveland with his father, Erastus Briggs, who was for many years proprietor of the Franklyn House on the West Side. Ile began railroading when a young man, for the Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad, as a brakeman. He became later a passenger conductor on the Fort Wayne road, and in the spring of 1866 left off railroading entirely and engaged in the livery business in Cleveland. Hle prospered in this business and in 1873
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erected a new barn to accommodate his growing trade. But at this juncture the panie came on and so did the epizootie, stagnating business and creating havoc among his stock. Being somewhat redneed by these reverses he retired from the business, abont 1880, and again gave his attention to railroading. He ran a train for two years for the Valley and was then made train-master and served one year. He came to the Cleveland, Canton & Southern in 1883 and served till 1886, retiring as master of trans- portation. lle is now general agent of the Hartford Steam Boiler Insurance Company of Cleveland.
Erastus Briggs was born in Massachusetts in 1807, and came to Ohio in 1820, and followed occasional farming as well as hotel-keeping.
He married Sallie Hunt, and they both died here, the former in 1884, the latter in 1883. Eight children were born to them, five of whom are living. The mother of Fred R. Briggs was Mary E. Kaighen, whose father, Will. iam J. Kaighen, came to America from the Isle of Man in 1821. He was a ship car- penter, and died in 1886, at the age of eighty- five years. R. D. Briggs' children are, --- Fred R., Kittie F., Bessie C., and Ralph E., Fred R. Briggs married, October 6, 1886, in Cleveland, Carrie A., a daughter of John Lowrie, a West Side baker and a pioneer from England. To Mr. and Mrs. Briggs were born Ruth and Nadine.
Mr. Briggs is a member of the General Pass- enger Agents' Association, but the press of bus- iness renders his time too limited to affiliate as yet.
F FRANCIS JOSEPHI WING, attorney at law, was born at Bloomfield, Trumbull county, Ohio, September 14, 1850.
Mr. Wing is a son of Joseph Knowles Wing, the youngest child of Bani and Lucy (Clary) Wing, who had nine children. Bani Wing was a son of John Wing, whose father was John Wing, a son of Ananias, the oldest son of John
Wing, the second son of John Wing and his wife Deborah Batchelder, who with their four sons, John, David, Daniel, Stephen and Mat- thew arrived at Boston from England in the ship William Francis, on the 5th day of June, 1632, and first settled in Sangus, New Lynn, Massachusetts, but later emigrated to the region known as the Peninsula of Cape Cod.
Bani Wing, the grandfather of our subjeet, was pensioned as a Revolutionary soldier, and the pension was continued to his widow.
The father of our subject was born at Wil- mington, Vermont, July 27, 1810. In the spring of 1831 he came to the Western Reserve of Ohio, and located at Bloomfield, where he now resides. In October, 1812, he married Mary, a daughter of Ephraim and Mary (Hunt- ington) Brown.
At the outbreak of the Civil war President Lincoln appointed Mr. Wing as assistant quar- termaster, with the rank of Captain. Afterwards he was snecessively commissioned Major and Lieutenant-Colonel by brevet.
Ilis wife died at her home, December 15, 1887. She was born at Westmoreland, New Hampshire, May 28, 1812, and at the time her parents removed to Bloomfield, Ohio, she was in her fourteenth year. There were born unto Joseph K. and Mary (Brown) Wing the fol- lowing children: Mary Huntington, Elizabeth Brown, Pancoast, George Clary, Francis Joseph, Julia King (deceased), and Annie Margaret.
Francis J. Wing, the subject of this sketch, first attended the public schools at Bloomfield, and from a private tutor went to Phillips Acad- emy at Andover, Massachusetts, and then was under a private tutor at Cambridge, Massachu- setts; then entered Harvard College, which he left during his junior year.
Next he studied law with Caleb Blodgett for one year at Boston, Massachusetts. Later he studied under Judge Buckingham, of Newark, Ohio, then under Edward O. Fitch, of Ashta- bula, Ohio.
Mr. Wing was admitted to the bar in Jann- ary, 1874, and then came to Cleveland, and for 1
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the first two years practiced alone. lle then became a member of the law firm of Coon & Wing, which continned till 1880. IIe then served for one year as assistant United States Attorney. Thereafter his brother, George C. Wing and he practiced law together till 1892, when Edwin L. Thurston, his present partner, became his professional associate.
September 25, 1878, Mr. Wing married Miss Mary Brackett Remington, a daughter of Ste- phen G. Remington, Assistant Auditor of the Lake Shore Railroad. Mr. and Mrs. Wing have three children, namely: Virginia, Maurice and Stephanie.
Mr. Wing has been very successful in the practice of law and has been retained in many important eases of litigation. lle has always been prominent as a Republican in politics, and shares the esteem and confidence of the bar and the public.
A SA DUNIIAM, retired farmer of Bed- ford, Ohio, is one of the best known eiti- zens in that locality. and is a representa- tive of one of the prominent pioneer fami- lies of Cuyahoga county. He was born at Independence, near Bedford, Ohio, on July 14, 1819, and was the fifth son and sixth of ten children born to John and Elizabeth (Hunger- ford) Dunham, both of whom were natives of Herkimer county, New York. John Dunham was the son of an early settler of New York. Ile was reared on the farm, and after his mar- riage removed to Ohio in 1817, and settled in Independence township, Cuyahoga county. Lo- cating upon an unimproved tract of land near where a brother-in-law named King had previ- ously settled, he cleared np eighty acres north- west from Bedford, and moved his family upon the same, and this farm is now owned by our subject. Dunham street, on which this land is situated, was so named in honor of the old gen- tleman. He assisted to organize Bedford town- ship, and held various publie positions of trust
and responsibility. His death occurred in 1847, at the age of sixty-three years. Ilis widow sur- vived him and died in the eighty-third year of her age. She was in early life a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, but later was a Disciple. The children of John Dunham were as follows: Ambrose, who died at the age of seventy-three years; Chester, of Steuben county, Indiana, died at the age of eighty years; Alonzo, of Steuben county, Indiana, now in his eightieth year; Laura, the widow of Turner Hubbell, of Bedford, now in her seventy-eighth year; John, of Bedford, now in his seventy-seventh year; Asa, our subject; Phebe, the widow of Mr. Thompson, now in her seventy-second year; Jehiel, of Strongsville, now in his sixty-seventh year; Lorenzo, of Steuben county, Indiana, now in his sixty-fourth year, and Eliza, wife of William Wheeler, now in her sixty-second year.
Asa Dunham was reared on the farm, and his education was obtained at a subscription school held in the primitive log schoolhouse of the early days, working on the farm during the sminmer and attending school during the winter months. He resided with his parents until he reached his majority, and then started ont in life without means, but blessed with good health, energy and determination to make his own way through life without calling upon his parents for assistance. When he left home he had but few clothes and his wardrobe did not inelude necessary covering his feet. Mr. Dun- ham was married, in 1850, to Miss Lucinda Ransom, who was a native of Warrensville, Ohio, and the daughter of Oliver and Rachel (Hollister) Ransom, both of whom came to Ohio from Connectient, and were pioneers of Warrens- ville. Two children were born to Mr. Dunham and his wife: Lud and Lloyd, both of whom are prominent farmers on Dunham street. Mrs. Dunham died June, 1887, at the age of sixty- seven years.
Mr. Dunham served for twenty years as trustee of the township, and has held various local offices of trust. He is a member of Bed- ford Lodge, No. 375, A. F. and A. M. Politie-
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ally he is a Republican, but was originally an old line Whig. Mr. Dunham is one of the most prominent farmers and citizens of his township. Ilis life has been an active and busy one, during which he has aceumulated large property. But, best of all, he has built up a reputation for honesty and fair dealing which will outlive money or property, and has so lived that he has always commanded the respect and esteem of his neighbors and all of know him. He is a self-made man in all that term implies. Beginning life with only a limited education and with no means at all, he has sue- ceeded in climbing the ladder rung by rung un- til now, in his deelining days, he is surrounded by friends and relatives, and enjoys the well earned fruits of a long and honorable life.
J E. PENDER, was born in Cleveland, De- cember 27, 1847. His Father, M. Pender, was a mason by trade and become a resi- deut of Cleveland in 1845. He was direct from Ireland, where he was born in 1927. He was a member of the Hibernian Guards of this city, an organization of a semi-military character. Ilis wife was Mary Stines, whom he married in Ireland, and to them were born four children: M., yardmaster for the stock yards at Chicago, Illinois, Jacob E .; William, yard-conductor on the Cleveland & Pittsburg Road; and Elizabeth, wife of George Measer, of Cleveland. J. E. Pender received liberal training from the Broth- ers' school of this city, cutting short his career as pupil to begin his railroad career. He was given the place of brakeman by the Cleveland & Pitts- burg Railroad Company, and was the youngest employee on the road in that capacity. In less than four years he was made a yard-condnetor and in six years more earned and secured the position of yardmaster, having been in the posi- tion now just twenty years. During this whole period he has never met with an accident result- ing in the loss of a joint. Mr. Pender married, in Cleveland, Kate E. Clark, a daughter of
Barney Clark, of Irish birth. They are the parents of three childern: Mary, wife of James MeCarty; J. E. Jr .; and Viola, who died Sep- tember 25, 1890, at the age of seventeen. Mrs. Pender died August 26, 1893, at forty-eight years of age.
Mr. Pender is a member of the Order of Railroad Conductors, Cleveland & Pittsburg Company's Relief, and is t. D. S. of the Order of Railroad Conductors. He is a consistent member of the late Father Sidley's congrega- tion.
J AMES KIRKLAND, deceased, was born in Scotland, August 22, 1847, a son of Alexander and Margaret (Langhlands) Kirkland. In 1854 James sailed with his family, the father having previously crossed the ocean on the City of Glasgow to New York, but im- mediately resumed the journey to Ohio, where he was reared a farmer boy in Royalton town- ship, Cuyahoga county. Being a very energetic and hard-working young man, he began to ae- cumulate property early in life, and at his mar- riage, in May, 1884, had a comfortable home provided. His wife was Emma Naaf, born in Brooklyn Village, Cuyahoga county, April 18, 1855, a daughter of John W. and Barbara ( Bitt- ner) Naaf.
After marriage, Mr. Kirkland resided on the old homestead in Royalton township until moving to the farm where he met his tragie death. He had bought an excellent place in the northern part of Royalton township, erected a beautiful residence, fine barns, and moved to that farm in December, 1892. An old brick house which had formerly stood near the new residence had been partially torn away, and, to add to the appearance of his beautiful home, Mr. Kirkland concluded to complete the task of removing the old structure. While thus engaged, July 3, 1893, the shaky old walls fell, he being caught in the crash, and death resulted almost instantly. ITis only child, Margaret B., who was born October 21, 1880, stood within a few
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feet of where her father met his death. Mr. Kirkland was buried in the Royalton Ceme- tery. Ile was a hard-working, industrious farmer, and was a self-made man in every particular. Ilis untimely death cast a gloom over the entire community, and was an abrupt ending of what would have been a successful career. Since his death, his wife has managed the farm in a manner suggestive of mneh busi- ness sagacity. Mr. Kirkland was a Republican in his political views, although not a politician, and was an attendant at the Methodist Church.
ALVIN MANNING, one of the highly respected farmers of Royalton township, Cuyahoga county, was born near Portage, Sminmit county, Ohio, May 14, 1829, a son of John Manning, who was born and reared in Pennsylvania. When a young man he was united in marriage with Sophia Coggewell. In 1809 this young couple crossed the Alleghany mountains for the then far-distant west and after a long and tedious journey in a wagon lo- cated in an almost unbroken forest in Summit county, Ohio. Their family then consisted of the following children: Joel, John, William, Gerard, Alfred, Calvin, Erastus, Sally, Lucinda, Lorena and Matilda. Only four of the children are still living: Matilda, Erastus, Calvin and William. Mr. and Mrs. Manning died in Sum- mit county, after sharing the innumerable hard- ships necessary to pioneer life.
Calvin Manning, the subject of this sketch, attended school during only a few months in the winter seasons. When a young man he went to Akron, Ohio, to learn the trade of moulder in one of the old shops of that city. He began business for himself at Wadsworth, this State, but soon afterward sickness in the family obliged him to abandon all ideas of working on his own account, and he returned to the employ of others. Mr. Manning then fol- lowed his trade in Cleveland for a number of
years. In 1881 he came to Royalton township, Cuyahoga county, and purchased a farm near Bennett's Corners.
In Summit county, Ohio, when a young man, our subject was united in marriage with Nancy A. Delong, a native of Copley, that county, and a daughter of P. L. Delong. To this union has been born one child, Jennie, who is still at home. They have also reared an adopted child, Fred Parker. For many years Mrs. Manning had been a great sufferer, and had been pronounced inenrable by prominent mnedi- eal men. By the influences of a faith eure or Spiritualistic she has entirely recovered, and is now a comparatively robust lady. In political matters, Mr. Manning east his first presidential vote for a Democratic candidate, but has since joined the Republican ranks, of which he is now a staunch supporter. Ile has amassed a com- fortable competence, and has succeeded in re- taining the respect and esteem of the entire neighborhood.
W S. JAMES, M. D., has an office at No. 1519} Lorain street, Cleveland (West Side). He is one of the young prac- titioners of the city, being born October 16, 1858, at Warren, Ohio. His parents, Seely and Catharine James, were long time residents of Warren, and the father, who is of Welsh de- scent, resides there at present; and the mother, who is of German lineage, died in 1885.
At Nelson Academy Dr. James acquired a preliminary education, which was supplemented by a course at the Western Reserve Seminary, and he also took a course at Oberlin College; meanwhile he was also engaged in teaching school. Ile attended the Wooster Medical Col- lege, graduated at the Columbus Medical Col- lege, and is also an alumnus of the Starling Medical College. Ile has had considerable hospital practice, and when he entered upon the practice of his profession in this city he was equipped for his work. He is a member of the
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Cuyahoga County, Cleveland and Ohio Medical Societies, and fraternally is a member of the I. O. F., and of other fraternal and beneficiary associations.
Dr. James is a Republican in politics, and he' is a religious man, being a member of the Gorgon Aveune Methodist Episcopal Church. December 16, 1882, he wedded Miss Sarah Thomson, of Middlefield, Geauga county, Ohio.
H IRAM BRADLEY, of Middleburg town- ship, was born Jannary 11, 1821, in Perry, Lake county, Ohio, where he passed the days of his boyhood until eleven years of age, when his father, Thomas Bradley, removed to Cuyahoga county, settling in Middleburg township; he died in Lenawee county, Michigan.
Mr. Iliram Bradley has continued to reside in Middleburg township to the present time. He was married in Ohusted township, this county, December 14, 1842, to Miss Abigail Gage, who was born in Vermont, March 28, 1825, a daughter of George Gage, who was an old settler of that township, and died in 1867. After his marriage Mr. Bradley settled in Olm- sted, where he lived a short time, and then located in Middleburg township. He has had seven children, as follows: Henry G., Wilbur, Alice, Joel (deceased), Amy A., Arthur (de- ceased) and Iliram B.
OIIN GRAY, of Middleburg township, was born in Euclid, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, April 21, 1822. Ilis father, Will- iam Gray, eame to this county from Virginia when a young man. He was married in Euclid, to Miss Clarissa Porter, who was born in New Hampshire, and was a young girl when she came with her parents to this locality. Mr. Gray's parents, after their marriage, settled in Euclid and lived there until about 1831, when
they removed to Rockport township and resided there several years, and then located in Middle- burg township, where Mr. Gray operated a saw- mill till the most valuable timber was nearly exhausted. Selling out, he moved to Berea, where he passed the remainder of his days. His wife had died in Rockport township. They had nine children who grew up to years of ma- turity: two died when young.
Mr. John Gray was nine years old when he came with his father and family to Rockport township, and when thirteen years of age he began work on the Ohio canal, where he con- tinned ten years. Ile was married in Middle- burg township, April 4, 1847, to Sophronia Greenongh, who was born in Vermont, Novem- ber 13, 1827. Her father, Daniel Greenough, was also a native of that State, and her mother, whose name before marriage was Wealthy Kell- ogg, was born in Vermont, and the parents come to Cleveland in 1831, and lived there two years. Mr. Greenough was a painter by trade, residing at different places, and died in Elyria, Ohio. Ilis wife died in Huntington, this State. Of a family of three children Mrs. Gray was the eldest.
After his marriage Mr. Gray settled in Mid- dleburg township, on the farm where he still continues to reside. Of his thirteen children eight grew up, namely: Albert, Helen, Lovina, Mabel, John M., Emma, Merritt and Arthur.
R EV. HIRAM COLLINS HAYDN, D. D., LL. D., pastor of the First Presby- terian Church, of Cleveland, Ohio, is one of the oldest, if not the oldest, resi- dent minister now filling a pulpit in this eity, though but a little past sixty years of age.
The first representative of the Haydn family in America was a resident of Windsor, Con- neetient. The Doctor's parents, David Ells- worth and Lucinda (Cooley) Haydn, were natives of New York, the father being a farmer and a natural mechanic. He died at the age of
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seventy five, and his wife some years later, at about the same age. Both were Christian people and by their many sterling qualities endeared themselves to all who knew them. They had six children, two of whom died . in early life. Those living are: Caroline, wife of George W. Haskell, Washington city: Hector C., resident of Connecticut; Lucy II., wife of Richard Bishop, of Leslie, Michigan; and the subject of this sketch. The family name was originally spelled Hayden, but for special reasons the "e" was dropped when Hiram C. was a boy.
Hiram C. Haydn was educated at Pompey Academy, and at Amherst College, where he graduated in 1856; and also at Union Semi- nary, New York, where he graduated with the class of 1859. His ministerial work has been at the following places: Montville, Connecticut; Meriden, Connecticut, where he served in the First Congregational Church; Painesville, Ohio, in the Congregational Church; and Cleveland, from 1872 until 1880. In 1880 he was appointed Secretary of the American Board of Foreign Missions at New York city, and served in that capacity until 1884, when he was recalled to the pulpit he had formerly occupied in Cleve- land and which he has since filled most accept- ably. During this time he was President of the Western Reserve University three years, and while serving in that capacity he founded the College for Women, which has proved emin- ently successful. He is still Vice President of the University and a Professor in the College for Women.
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