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In his whole twenty-nine years of service for this company he has not lost a day except when absent on leave to visit the World's Fair. During this present summer it has fallen to his lot to run the fastest train ever put on the Lake Shore Road, namely, the " Exposition Flyer," a mention of which train is sufficient to recall at. once its character.
Mr. Foote is a son of John Foote, Sr., who died in 1854. He married Miss Decker, who bore him only one child and died in 1845.
Mr. Foote was married in Cleveland, in 1865, to Anna Orr, a lady of German parentage. Their children are: Charles, chief clerk of Master Mechanic, Lake Shore shops; Anna, now Mrs. Long; Cora, a school teacher, and a graduate of the city high school and the normal; Edward George, in the Lake Shore office; and Raymond and Mabel, twins,
F RANK M. COATES, M. D., was born in Richfield, Summit county, Ohio, July 26, 1848. When he was about five years old his parents removed to Brecksville, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, where he was reared on his father's farm. He attended the common schools and high school at Brecksville and also Oberlin College, afterward becoming principal of the high school at Brecksville for one year. Ile then took up the study of medicine with Dr. Knowlton, of Brecksville, for one year, then entered the office of Dr. W. J. Scott, of Cleve- land, where he studied abont two years and at- tended lectures. Ile was a charter member of the old Wooster Medical College of Cleveland. He practiced medicine one year at Brecksville and in June, 1872, eame to Berea, where he has since been in constant practice. For two years he held the chair in the Department of Phar- macy in Baldwin University. He enjoys a good practice in his profession.
Dr. Coates was married at Northfield, Sum- mit county, Ohio, May 28, 1872, to Miss Annie M. E. Chaffee, who was born in Summit coun-
ty, Ohio, and who was for some time a student in Baldwin University, being well known in society circles. They have one son. Frank M.
Dr. Coates has been for many years a mem- ber of the Board of Health of Berea. He has taken an active part in local affairs and is a Re- publican in politics. He is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
C HARLES FERDINAND STEARNS, Trustee of Olmsted township, elected in the spring of 1893, was born in that township in August, 1846, a son of Elijah and Martha (Usher) Stearns, his father a native of Vermont and his mother of Massachusetts. His father came when a young man to Cuyahoga county, in 1828, settling in Olmsted township, and made it his home until his death, which occurred in June, 1891. Of their eleven chil- dren eight are still living, namely: Mary E., who married James Romps and died in 1865; Usher, who died in 1867, in Olmsted township; Asher, married and residing in the same town- ship; Orphelia and Orfila, twins, -- the former now the wife of George Stearns in Ashtabula county, and the latter the subject of another sketch in this volume; Elijah, Jr., married and a resident of that township; Cassius, married and also a resident of the same township; Charles F., our subject, is the next in order of birth; William, who died in infancy; Myron, who is married and resides in Ridgeville township; and Louis, who enlisted in Company I, in an Iowa regiment, in 1861, and was killed at Vicksburg in 1863 and buried on a Sonthern battle-field.
Mr. Stearns, whose name commences this memoir, has been engaged in farming all his life, in Olmsted township. He now owns a fine farm of seventy-five acres, which he bought in 1886 and located upon in 1891. Ilis system of cultivation is scientific and remunerative. As a Republican he takes a zealous interest in the political questions of the day.
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March 21, 1879, is the date of his marriage to Miss Elizabeth Bromley, a native of Olmsted township and an adopted daughter of Wright Bromley, who came from England in an early day to this township and died in 1879. Mrs. Stearns died about 1885, leaving one child, Mary by name.
S AMUEL J. CLARK, deceased, was one of the highly esteemed citizens of Bedford township, and it is due him and his pos- terity that his name be recorded among the honored pioneers of Cuyahoga county. A native of the Empire State, he was born in St. Lawrence county, September 4, 1823, a son of Linnens and Holdah (Bunnell) Clark, natives of New Hampshire. The family is descended from English ancestry. In 1830 they emigrated to this county, when Samuel J .. was a boy of seven years. Here he grew to maturity amid the wild surroundings of a frontier farm, gaining his education in the primitive log schoolhouse where the foundation was laid for many noble careers. He was himself a teacher for many years, but finally retired to the old homestead where he devoted his energies to linsbandry. Ile died May 17, 1887, aged sixty-four years.
Ile was married September 17, 1857, at Orange, Ohio, to Harriet A. Boynton, a daugh- ter of Amos and Alpha (Ballou) Boynton, na- tives of New York and New Hampshire re- spectively. Mr. and Mrs. Boynton were mar- ried at Newburgh, Ohio, and to them were born seven children: Henry B .; Harriet A .; Phobe M., widow of John H. Clapp, who was a promi- nent citizen of Warrensville, Ohio; Dr. Silas A., of Cleveland; Cordelia M .; Arnold, deceased, and Bently, who died at the age of fourteen months. These children enjoyed superior edu- eational advantages, being students at Hiram College. Mr. and Mrs. Clark had a family of tive children: W. B., born March 29, 1859, was a member of the class of 1881 at Iliram College; he is now the principal of the grammar depart.
ment of the Bedford schools; he was married July 14, 1886, at Ravenna, Ohio, to Ilattie E. Marryman, daughter of Henry and Eliza (Bruce) Marryman; she was born in Randolph, Ohio; they are the parents of four children: Paul, M. Blanche, Mabel Anna and Logan Ballon; Harriet A. Clark was born January 31, 1863; she is the assistant superintendent of the Bed- ford High School; Cora M., born November 28, 1865, is a graduate of Hiram College, finishing with the class of 1888; she is now a teacher in her Alma Mater; Linneus B. was born April 23, 1868; Bertha A. was born October 4, 1872; she is now a student at Hiram College, having finished the high-school course at Cleveland. The family occupy a pleasant home on the farm of seventy acres, situated near the village of Bedford. They are all progressive in their ideas, and are laboring earnestly in the cause of education, religion and temperance reform.
A DAM FURNISS, a successful farmer of Cuyahoga county, was born in Royalton township, this county, September 17, 1846. His father, William Furniss, was born in Manchester, England, July 17, 1800, was employed as a tallow-chandler in his native country, and when a young man came to the United States. December 31, 1829, in Utica, Oneida county, New York, he was united in marriage with Elzina Russell, who was born in Madison county, that State, October 14, 1808, and was then employed in a factory. After lo- eating in the United States, Mr. Furniss began agricultural pursuits. In 1833 he came to Royalton township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, where he purchased a small farm in the dense woods, and immediately began elearing his place. On account of over-work he lost his eye-sight, and was blind for forty years, but his remarkable conception enabled him to go any- where in the town, and he could distinguish his children by their walk! On coming to Royal- ton township the family of Mr. and Mrs. Fur- niss consisted of two children: Nathaniel, now
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a farmer of this community; and Jane, deceased, was the wife of William Brown. Eight chil- dren were born to them in this county, namely: Martha, the wife of Ezekiel Edgerton, of Brook- lyn village; William, a grocer by occupation, died at Titusville, Pennsylvania, in 1559; John, a prominent stock-buyer, carpenter and post- master of Nashville, Michigan; Charles, also a resident of that city; Adam, our subject; Ezra, deceased at the age of twenty-six years; and Edwin, who died in infancy. Mrs. Furniss died March 11, 1874, and her husband survived until Jamary 27, 1885. Both were members of the Disciple Church. In political matters, Mr. Furniss was a staunch Republican.
Adam Furniss, the subject of this sketch, re- ceived only limited educational advantages. At the age of fifteen years he was employed as a farm laborer by William Reed, of Hinckley township, Medina county, for which he received small wages. August 21, 1862, he enlisted at" Cleveland for services in the late war, entering Company A, One Hundred and Third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, was immediately sent to Cincinnati to intercept Bragg in his northward march, took part in the engagements at Knox- ville, Bull's Gap, Resaca, was with Sherman through the Atlanta campaign, took part in the battle of Spring Hill, sent to North Carolina, was discharged at Raleigh, June 12, 1865, and was present at the Grand Review in Washing- ton, District of Columbia. Mr. Furniss was taken prisoner at Eastport, Georgia, August 23, 1864, while engaged in foraging with a com- pany of seven men. Three of the company were killed, three taken prisoners, and one wounded. Mr. Furniss was confined in Ander- sonville prison until September 28, 1864. After returning from the army he was employed as a butcher by William Reed, of Hinckley town- ship, Medina county, several years. After his marriage he lived with his father three years, and in 1877 came to his larm of 100 acres in Royalton township, where he is engaged in general farming. He was formerly employed . in buying and selling cattle.
July 5, 1874, Mr. Furniss was united in inar- riage with Mary Granger, who was born in Royalton township, December 11, 1846, a daughter of Aaron and Eliza (Darrall) Granger. Our subject and wife have three children: William A., Jessie E. and James B. In polit- ical matters, Mr. Furniss has been a life-long Republican, his first presidential vote having been cast for General Grant. Ile holds the position of Township Trustee. In his social relations, he has been for many years a member of Hampton Post, No. 499, G. A. R .; of Royal- ton Center. Mrs. Furniss is a member of the Free-will Baptist Church.
S 1. WILKINSON, Notary Public, is one of the well-known citizens of Chagrin Falls, having been a resident of the place since 1841. He was born in Geauga county, Ohio, November 27, 1831, a son of Lysander and Permelia (Johnson) Wilkinson. Both father and mother are deceased, the former at the age of seventy-eight years, and the latter at the age of seventy-two. Young Wilkinson was a mere lad when he came to live at Chagrin Falls; here he received his education, and began his career in the commercial world, his first employment being in the woolen mills, where he remained three years. Later he secured a position as clerk in a dry-goods store, and afterward was traveling salesman for the E. G. Norris Patent Medicine Company; his territory embraced Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan, where he sue- ceeded in establishing a large and profitable business. Resigning this position ho embarked in the book, stationery and wall-paper trade, but Inter disposed of his stock. At one time he was engaged in the job-printing business, but sold out to the Exponent office.
Mr. Wilkinson is an ardent supporter of Republican principles, and in 1858 was elected by that body as Justice of the Peace; he was re-elected to the office, serving two terms with marked ability. After this he was made Notary
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Public, and for many years he has been Post- master of Chagrin Falls. He was a member of the Town Council for ten years, and it was dur- ing this time that the cemetery grounds were laid out. lle belongs to Golden Gate Lodge, No. 245, A. F. & A. M., and of Chagrin Falls Chapter, R. A. M .; he is Secretary of both the lodge and chapter.
At the age of twenty-eight years our worthy subject was united in marriage with Miss N. P. Earl, who is now deceased. His second mar- riage was to Mrs. Laura Lander Bullock.
D R. CORWIN G. WARDEN, a promi- nent physician of Berea, Ohio, dates his birth in Columbia, Lorain county, Ohio, October 24, 1857.
Ile is a con of S. T. and Amanda M. (Wood) Warden. His father was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, removed from there to Palmyra, New York, and in 1826, when only six years old, came with his parents to Ohio, their settle- ment being made in Liverpool, Medina county. That section of country was then all a wilder- ness, and the Wardens settled down to the work of clearing'and developing a farm. They eu- dured all the hardships and privations of pioneer life, and were ranked with the prominent and well-to-do families of their vicinity. The Doc- tor's father took an active part in church work and also in political affairs. He was first a Whig and afterward a Republican.
Dr. Warden was reared to farm life, was edu- cated in the district schools and at Oberlin Col- lege, and for several terms was engaged in teach- ing. Ilis medical education was secured in the Wcoster Medical University, where he graduated with the class of 1878. Immediately after his graduation he went west and began his profes- sional career at Leadville, Colorado, where he remained until 1880. That year he returned to Ohio, and has since been engaged in the prac- tice of medicino at Berea. Here he has met with eminent success, to-day holding rank with
the leading physicians of the county. Like his father, the Doctor's political views are in har- mony with the principles of the Republican party. lle received the appointment of Post- master of Berea under the Harrison administra- tion, and in that capacity rendered efficient service.
Mr. Wardon was married, September 4, 1879, to Elizabeth B. McClure, daughter of II. A. and Martha (Williams) MeClure, natives of Pennsylvania, whose ancestors were among the earliest settlers of Cleveland. The Doctor's maternal ancestors were represented in the ranks during the Revolutionary war, and his mother's l'ather was a soldier in the war of 1812. Such is a brief sketch of one of the well-known phy- sicians of Cuyahoga county.
G ROVE G. CANNON, the subject of this sketch, was the only child of Alonzo S. and Delia Rebecca (Hawkins) Cannon. He was born May 8, 1855, in Warrens- ville, Cuyahoga county, Ohio. Mr. Alonzo S. Cannon, the father of Grove G., was born in Aurora, Portage connty, Ohio, June 19, 1829. llis father, Victor M. Cannon, was born in Massachusetts in 1784, and died in 1857. Vie- tor M. Cannon was married to Miss Caroline Baldwin in 1828. Mrs. Victor M. Cannon was a daughter of Samuel S. Baldwin, and was born in Newburg, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, in 1808. She is living with her son, Artemas, in Streets- boro, Portage county, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Victor M. Cannon had a family of seven chil- dren: Alonzo S., Hannah, Austin V., Willson B., Artemas M., Cornelia and Allen P', -five of whom are living, Austin and Allen being dead. Mrs. Alonzo S. Cannon is a daughter of Jesse G. and Sally C. (Hubbell) Hawkins, and was born in Otsego county, New York, December 6, 1827. They had a family of eight children, three sons and five daughters: Mary, Lucy R., Delia R., Lewis R., Sarah L., Crayton L., and Lillie and Lyun (twins); six are living.
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Jesse Hawkins and family came to Ohio in 1834, making the journey in little less than two weeks' time, and they settled in Streetsboro, on a farm on which Lyun now resides. Mr. Alonzo S. Cannon bonght the farm on which he now lives, located at the center of Warrens- ville, opposite the high-school building, in 1853. Ile married in 1854, and immediately moved to the farm. Mr. Cannon has been largely en- gaged in buying and selling stock, as well as managing the farm on which he lives, and an- other in Orange, which he subsequently pur- chased. Ile has always been an upright, honor- able dealer, an active, industrious, energetic man, and commands the respect of the entire community in which he lives. The best evi- dence of this is the fact that, although a Demo- crat, living in a township with a large Republi- ean majority, he has been repeatedly elected to offices of both honor and profit.
Grove G. Cannon spent the first fifteen or sixteen years of his life in attending school, in assisting his father in his business of buying and selling stoek and in labor upon the farm. As a boy he was quick to discern the right thing to do, prompt and energetie in doing it, and happy if it had his own approbation when done. In the autumn of 1871 he went before the Board of County School Examiners, ob- tained a certificate authorizing him to teach, then engaged the school in the Murfett distriet in Orange, and bravely entered npon his win- ter's work of managing and teaching young men and women, many of whom were older, and, as they thought, wiser than the boy teacher. After a few days of experience they compre- hended that they had both a teacher and a mas- ter. Although highly snceessful as a school- master, he did not like the business, and his first term ended his career as a schoolteacher.
During the summer of 1872 he worked on his father's farm, and in the fall of that year went to Cleveland and entered the service of Babcock, Hurd & Company, wholesale grocers on Water street. The first year of his conce- tion with the firm was spent mainly in the
warehouse as porter and general utility man. About this time the firm thought they had dis- covered signs of superior business ability in young Cannon, and accordingly promoted him to the position of traveling salesman. It is said of him, by one who knew him well, that by his tireless energy and industry ho made a reputation as a salesman, of which any man, young or old, might well be pronl. Thus he went on in the even tenor of his way until 1879, when, on the 30th day of September, hie was married to Miss May Tarbell, danghter of Leverett and Mary Il. Tarbell, of Bedford, by the Rev. A. T. Copeland, then pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Bedford. Mrs. May T. Cannon was born in Bedford, October 15, 1858. At the age of eight years she began attending school in Bedford, and continued her education in the public schools until 1875, when she began teaching. In 1876 she at- tended school in Willoughby. In 1877 she taught in Bedford. In the fall of 1878 she entered the Ohio Wesleyan University at Dela- ware, Ohio, took two years' work in one, and graduated at that institution in June, 1879. She is an active and exemplary member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and is deeply in- terested in the work of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and other kindred organiza- tions.
Mr. Cannon continued his business for the firm as traveling salesman until the end of 1886, when he was given the control of his firin's local business in the city of Cleveland, which he retained until his death, January 5, 1888, which was caused by inflammation of the middle ear, produced by a severe cold pre- viously contracted, together with violent exer- tion three days previous to his death,-a ease almost exactly parallel to that which caused the death of Roscoe Conkling.
Immediately after their marriage they went to Wellington, Lorain county, where they boarded until the fall of 1880, when they re- turned to Bedford, where they remained with her parents until April, 1881. They then re-
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moved to Marion, Ohio, where they commenced housekeeping. Here were born to them Tom T., August 8, 1881, and Herbert Grove, April 10, 1883. In the fall of 1883 they removed to Bedford, where he had a house nearly com- pleted, adjoining her parents' residence, and into it they moved in December. The young- est son, Dana Alonzo, was born here, May 26, 1885.
Grove G. Cannon was initiated in Bedford Lodge, No. 375, F. & A. M., February 21, 1851; passed to the degree of F. C. March 7, 1881, and raised to the sublime degree of M. M. March 21, the same year. He became a men- ber of Summit Chapter, No. 74, on dimit from Marion Chapter, No. 62, R. A. M. Hle subse- quently became a member of Holyrood Com- mandery, No. 32, K. T.
Mr. Cannon was a member of the village conneil during the excitement consequent upon the attempt to pass an ordinance to prohibit the sale of intoxicants in the village of Bed- ford. He was first and foremost in the fight for the passage of the ordinance, and he won, as ho usually did. He was prominently identified with all those who sought to advance the best interests of all the people. In politics he re- membered the teachings of his father, and from principle rather than policy he adhered to the Democratie faith. Grove G. Cannon was a forceful, self-reliant, honorable and industrions man, a kind husband and father, a patriotic, law-abiding citizen, and his death at the early age of thirty-three years was an almost irrepar- able loss to his employers and to the community in which he lived.
C E. TILLINGHAST, of Cleveland, Ohio, has during his more than twenty years of connection with the insurance business met with eminent success, has had marked dis- tinetions shown him by his co-workers, and is to-day one of the most prominent managers in the ranks of life insurance.
Mr. Tillinghast is a native of Windham coun- ty, Conncetient, born November 24, 1840. In 1871 he engaged in life insurance as general agent of the Phoenix Mutual at Providence, Rhode Island, and in 1876 he was appointed manager of the New York Life for Kansas, Nebraska, Texas, and Colorado, and removed to Leavenworth, Kansas. In 1881 the Equitable Life seenred him as manager for the southern portion of Ohio and he then located in Colum- bus, where he remained until the spring of 1886. At that time he was promoted to the position of manager for the whole State, with the exception of Ilamilton county. During the following six years his unerring judgment as a manager, together with his untiring energy and striet fidelity to the best interests of the company, met with unparalleled success in the territory named.
At this writing C. E. Tillinghast & Son are managers of the Central Department of the Manhattan Life Insurance Company, this de- partment embracing Ohio (except Cincinnati district), western Pennsylvania and the whole of Indiana, having been actively opened in Oc- tober, 1892. To give an idea of the volume of business now being produced, it is only neces- sary to say that a single month's record now amounts to more than the former annual col- lections from the Cleveland office.
Mr. Tillinghast's executive ability has been fitly recognized by the National Association annually since its organization. At the first convention, in Boston, he was elected a member of its executive committee. At the second, in Detroit, he was made chairman of this commit- tee, and at the last annual convention, in New York, be was elected to the presidency, and his administration has been a highly satisfactory one, as will, we believe, be demonstrated at the forthcoming annual convention, in Cleveland. At home he has been equally honored, for he has filled every office within the gift of the Cleveland Association, and was unanimously endorsed by that body for the presidency of the National Association.
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As a producer of business, the facts given above show Mr. Tillinghast to be no less suc- cessful and prominent, and the Manhattan Life is certainly to be congratulated upon enlisting his services. Associated with him are his sons, Elbert R. and Edward M. Tillinghast. They give promise of becoming as shining lights in life insurance later on as is their father to-day. They are both graduates of Yale College and amply endowed with the qualifications necessary to become snecessful in the business which they have elected to make a life profession.
While no figures of accurate nature can be given at this time, it is safe to announce already that the business of the Manhattan Life in its Central Department in 1893 will be several times as much as has ever been received from the same district in a single year. It may not be superfluous to add that C. E. Tillinghast & Son are offering such contracts and territory to first-class reliable men as cannot fail to win them, and it will pay such to investigate for themselves.
R EV. ROBERT MOFFETT, a minister of the Disciple Church, and a resident of Cleveland, Ohio, dates his birth in Rolling Prairie, La Porte county, In- diana, November 9, 1835.
Ilis parents, Garner and Mary J. B. (Davis) Moffett, were natives of Washington county, Virginia. Ilis father was born in 1807, was a farmer and preacher, and while a resident of Illinois served as a member of the Constitu- tional Convention of that State. His mother was born September 14, 1814, and is still liv- ing, her home being in Illinois near the Mis- sissippi river. Her family of five children are all residents of Illinois, except the subject of this sketch. lle received his education at Bethany College, Brooke county, West Vir- ginia, where he graduated in 1859. Previous to his graduation he had taught school for several years, having begun teaching in Illi-
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