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active manufacturing management, and in 1886, after carefully looking the field over, decided to turn his attention to the manufacture of electric-light earbons, as this product was now used in every part of the globe in connection with are lighting. Early in the history of the Brush Electric Company, he spent much time in their carbon department, and now returned to it with renewed zest, and became associated with W. W. Masters in the manufacture of carbons at what is now the Willson Avenne factory of the National Carbon Company. Mr. Masters, through failing health, was anxions to retire, and Mr. Lawrence with his associates, Messrs. Myron T. Herrick, James Parmlee and Webb C. Hayes, became the owners of the entire business, under the name of the National Carbon Company. After four years of very successful business, it was found necessary to largely in- crease the capacity, and in 1891 the company purchased 115 acres adjoining the Lake Shore Railroad Company's right of way in the hamlet of Lakewood, just west of what is now the city limits of Cleveland. On this tract of land has since been erected the largest carbon factory in the world, with an estimated capacity of 20,000,000 carbons per month.
Mr. Lawrence has not only been a manu- facturer in the sense of an organizer and manager, but he has also shown great inventive capacity and a genius for constructing machinery adapted to factory use. The present factory just completed displays in a marked degree the improvements and inventions that have been made by him in this industry in the past few years. The processes of manufacture have been radically changed, and the improvement very marked when the factories of five years ago are taken into consideration.
Mr. Lawrence is still the embodiment of in- domitable energy, perseverance and ability, and, in addition to the task of constructing the present large factory, as well as supplying carbons from the old factories, he has within the last year taken upon himself the presidency and management of his old company, the Brush
Electric Company, of this eity, as well as that of the Sperry Electric Railway Company, which in a marked degree shows the latest improve- ments in electrical equipment for street-car purposes.
Mr. Lawrence was married in 1863 to Harriet E. Collister, of Cleveland, daughter of William Collister, and has seven daughters. He spends much of his time at his summer homo at Dover Bay Park, where several of his associates in business have erected cottages.
D R. C. A. ARCHIER, physician and sur- geon, No. 261 Pearl street, Cleveland, Ohio, dates his birth in Carlisle, Canada, September 18, 1857. He is a son of William and Clara (Foster) Archer, both natives of Can- ada. When the Doctor was a child his father died, aged thirty-five years. llis venerable mother is still living, having passed her three- score years and ten, and for one of that age be- ing well preserved, both mentally and physi- eally. They had a family of seven children, C. A. being the sixth born and one of the five who are still living. Three of his sisters reside in Cleveland, viz .: Martha; Clara, wife of A. D. Coe; Emina, wife of Attorney O. L. Osborn. The mother lives in Cleveland.
The subject of our sketeh received his early education in the public schools of Cleveland. For two years he was a student in the Western Reserve Medical College of this city, and after- ward he spent one year at St. Louis, Missouri, in the American Medical College. He graduated at the latter place in 1890. Upon completing his medical course, Dr. Archer entered upon the practice of his profession in Cleveland, making a specialty of the diseases peenliar to women and children, and up to the present time he has met with marked success. Ile is a frequent contributor to the American Medical Journal of St. Louis.
Dr. Archer was married in 1879 to Miss Sarah Ward, a native of Geanga county, Ohio,
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and a daughter of Marcus L. Ward. They have no children of their own, but have one adopted daughter, Lillie Nina. Mrs, Archer is a mem- ber of the Disciple Church.
The Doctor is prominently identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of which he is Past Grand. Ile was the first one who ever gave the unwritten work in Chagrin Falls, Lodge, No. 200. Republican in politics, he takes an active interest in the same and is iden- tilied with the best elements of his party. On several occasions he has served as a member of the Republican Central Committee.
M B. STURTEVANT, one of the most effi- cient and capable engineers in the State, is a native of Ohio, born in Erie county, June 17, 1853. Ilis parents, S. C. and Louisa (Humphrey) Sturtevant, were natives of Maine and Ohio respectively: the father was chief engineer for the Northern Transportation Company for nineteen years, and later brought out the Winstow, a passenger steamer which he ran on the lakes one year. After that he owned a small interest in the II. B. Tuttle, on which young Sturtevant had his first experience as an engineer. This was his last work; his health was impaired, and two years after leaving the water, in August, 1848, he passed from this life to the unsounded ocean of futurity. Hle was a man of admirable traits, and was one of the most popular engineers that ever traveled the lakes. There were two children in the family, the subject of this biographical sketch, and a brother two years younger, who died at the age of thirteen years.
Mr. Sturtevant acquired a practical education in the common schools of Cleveland, and was also a student of Oberlin College, Ohio. His taste and inclinations were for mechanics and not literature, so he went to Chicago and there served an apprenticeship in a machine-shop. This ended he returned home, and for four years sailed on the II. B. Tuttle, having entire charge of the vessel the last year. This was the
beginning of a career upon the lakes which extended over a period of fifteen years. He was second engineer on the steamer Peerless for two years; this was one of the finest vessels on the lakes in those days, and there were many other elegantly equipped boats with which he was connected. He was employed as a locomo- tive engineer on the Lake Shore road four years, and for nine years was one of Bradley's engin- eers, serving as chief six years of that time, During the construction of the Society for Sav- ings building he came to Cleveland to repre- sent the owners with no expectation of remaining after the completion of the building. However, sufficient inducement was offered, and for the last eight years he has filled the position of chief engineer; he has most comfortable quarters, the room being above ground and fitted up with all modern conveniences. The building is one of the finest in the State, ten stories high, and contains three hundred and sixty-six rooms.
Mr. Sturtevant was married in 1877, on Thanksgiving day, to Miss Russella Hubble, a daughter of O. C. Hubble, of Cleveland: three children were born of this union, Chandler, deceased, Fred and Bessie.
Mrs. Sturtevant is a member of the Disciples' Church. Our worthy subjeet is a very popular member of the M. E. B. A., No. 2 (Marine Engineers' Benefit Association), and has filled all the offices of the organization; for three years he has been Treasurer, to which office he was elected without opposition. Politically he is an ardent adherent of the Republican party. Ile is enterprising and progressive, and like his honored father commands the respect of all with whom he mingles.
AMES HI. MELCHIER, of Cleveland, was born in Hanover, Germany, September 27, 1827, a son of Ilarmon Melcher. James II. attended the village school of Rabbler, his native town, eight years, was confirmed there, and in 1845 came with his father's family to America. They located on the farm purchased
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from a Mr. Stafford, in what is now South Euclid, Ohio. The father had sold his farm in Germany to a neighbor, Holtzgrave, for $3,300. In 1868 our subject returned ou a visit to his native country, and at that time another neigh- bor wanted the farm, for which he was willing to pay 89,000. By the laws of that country at that time, Mr. Melcher could have redeemed the farm by returning Mr. Holtzgrave the $3,300, and was importuned by others to do so, but his reply was: " Mr. Holtzgrave paid a little more for the farm at that time than others were will- ing to give, and he shall never be disturbed in his right of possession by any unforeseen tech- nieality by myself or any of my father's family." Thus the matter was forever dropped.
After coming to America, Mr. Melcher re- mained at home during the winter, and then secured work from Dr. Everett, of Cleveland, for four dollars a month. After remaining with that gentleman two years, he was employed by Edwin Clark two and a half years, having been engaged as a hostler in both positions. . During that time Mr. Melcher also learned the cabinet-maker's trade, and for the following ten years worked in the carpenter shop of Seburn & Hempy. He next embarked in the grocery business on Prospect street opposite where he now lives, and continued in that occupation until 1888. In that year he was elected a member of the Erie Street Cemetery, the duties of which required his entire attention, and he sold his in- terest in the grocery business to his partner, E. H. Klaustermeyer, but still holds one-half in- terest in the building.
In 1851, Mr. Melcher was united in marriage with Miss Mary Hempy, a daughter of Jolin F. Ilempy, who came from Hanover, Germany, to this city at the same time as our subject's family, when Mrs. Melcher was thirteen years of age. To this union have been born six children, viz .: Harmon, deceased at the age of two and a half years; J. G. Henry, who studied law, was admitted to the bar, and is now book- keeper for J. W. Rainey, engaged in the coke business in Pennsylvania; Mary Elizabeth at
home; Joseph A., who spent twelve years in the Bank of Commerce, of Cleveland, is now cashier of the Lorain Street Savings Bank; Charles A., a graduate of the Cleveland high school, is employed in the Union National Bank, on Superior street. Mr. and Mrs. Mel- cher are members of the Lutheran Church, in which the former has served as Trustee for thirty-four years. In political matters, he is a staunch Republican. His character has ever been above reproach in all qualities of honor- able manhood, has ever been a man of the strietest integrity, a neighbor of the kindest impulses, and a friend of humanity.
J M. HENDERSON, a member of the law firm of Ilenderson, Kline & Tolles, No. 520 Cuyahoga Building, Cleveland, Ohio, has been identified with the legal practice in this city for thirty years. As a prominent and influential lawyer and as one of the lead- ing citizens of Cleveland, it is eminently fitting that some personal mention be made of him in this work, the aim of which is to portray the representative men and women of the county.
J. M. IIenderson was born in Richland connty, Ohio, April 14, 1840, son of Dr. J. P. and Anna (Moreland) Henderson, natives of western l'ennsylvania and descendents of Scotch- Irish ancestors. For nearly sixty years Dr. Henderson practiced his profession in Newville, Richland county, Ohio. IIe was a man of many sterling traits of character and was hon- ored and respected by all who knew him. Not only as a physician and surgeon did he gain pre-eminence: he served in the Ohio Legisla- ture several terms and was a member of the Constitutional Convention which framed the present constitution of the State. He was en- terprising and public-spirited and gave his influence unreservedly in educational and religi- ous matters and whatever was in his opinion intended for the best interests of the commu-
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nity. He died July 1, 1890, after an active and useful life, aged eighty-seven years. His wife died some years before, at the age of fifty-three years. Both were members of the United Pres- byterian Church.
The subject of our sketch is the only survivor of the family, the other children born to his parents having died in early life. Ile spent three years in Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, and subsequently, in 1862, graduated at Miami University, Oxford, this State. He began the study of law at Manshield, Ohio, under the in- structions of Judge Dirlam, afterward attended a law school in Cleveland, where he graduated, and in 1864 began the practice of his profession here. And, as above stated, he has spent thirty years in the practice of law in this city. Ilis scholarly attainments and his special fitness for his chosen profession soon brought him into prominence and seeured for him a standing among the leading members of the bar. This high position he has ever since maintained.
Mr. Henderson was married June 20, 1872, to Miss Anna R. Cary, daughter of Freeman Cary, of College llill, Ohio. They have a family of seven children, viz .: William C., Grace M., Anna, Rebecca, Jannet, Florence and Ruth. Their son is a member of the Freshman elass at Gambier. Mrs. Henderson is a lady of rare culture and refinement. She is a graduate of College Ilill Female Seminary, and for several years previous to her marriage was a popular and successful teacher.
Politically, Mr. Henderson is a Republican.
F FREDERICK BULLINGER was born March 16, 1836, in the kingdom of Wurtemburg, Germany, where he was reared and lived until 1863, when he emigrated to America. Ile lived in New York abont three months and then enlisted in Company K, Twenty-fourth New York Cavalry, serving one year. After leaving the United States Army he went to Mexico and enlisted in the Mexican
Army, where he served about six months. He then went to Idaho and engaged in buffalo hunting for several months, after which he eame to Rock Island, Illinois, remained there six months, and then came to Cleveland, Ohio, and was employed in a meat market for a short time. He then moved to Berea, about 1875, since which time he has been engaged in con- tracting and building.
Mr. Bullinger was married in Cleveland, Ohio, to Rosanna Stiger, a native of Germany.
Ile is the owner of much property in the city of Berea and stands well in his chosen occupa- tion.
H C. APPLEGARTII, D. D., pastor of the Euclid Avenne Baptist Church, Cleve- land, Ohio, is one of the most prominent ministers in the city.
Ile was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1853, and was educated in the Baltimore City College, Johns Hopkins University and Crozer Theo- logieal Seminary, completing a course of study in all these institutions. Ile received the de- gree of D. D. from Denison University.
Dr. Applegarth's first ministerial work was at Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. He came to his present charge early in 1893, coming here from the Fourth Avenue Church of Pittsburg, where he had served three years. Previous to that he was for nearly eight years located in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The Euclid Avenue Baptist Church is one of the oldest churches in the city as well as one of the strongest. The number of its members is about 800, with a constitueney of nearly 2,000, while in its two Sunday-schools are about 900. Both the church and Sabbath-school are enjoying an era of great prosperity.
Dr. Applegarth was married in 1878 to Miss Mary P. Tyson, daughter of Hon. Edward Ty- son, of Chester, Pennsylvania, and an ex-Senator of that State. They have one child, Margaret Tyson Applegarth.
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Aside from his regular church work, the Doctor devotes considerable time to other re- ligious and educational interests, being promi- nently connected with various institutions. Ile is a trustee of the Crozer Theological Seminary and of the Denison University; a life director of the Baptist National Missionary Society of llome and Foreign Missions; president of the Ministers' (Baptist) Conference of Cleveland; and trustee of the State Society for Missions.
R F. SMITHI, President of the Cleveland and Pittsburg Railroad Company, was born in Windham, Connecticut, June 20, 1830. Ilis father, Edwin Smith, a mer- chant, brought his family to Cleveland in 1840. Here he resided until 1870, when he returned to Connectient. Ile died in July, 1873, aged seventy-three years. Pursuing his genealogy still further, we find that Nathaniel Smith, grandfather of our subject, was a soldier in the Colonial army, and among the battles partiei- pated in by him was the one at White Plains, New York. He was born in Windham, Con- neetient, and died there in 1823, aged sixty- three years. ITis wife was Submit Hunting- ton, who bore him eleven children. Edwin Smith married Amanda Frink. Five children resulted from the union, one of whom besides our subject was a railroad man. It was Edwin Smith, Jr., who was for some years with the Cleveland & Pittsburg Company, but lastly with the Southern Pacific Company, and died in East Oakland, California, in 1892.
R. F. Smith is the sole living member of his father's family. He was educated liberally in public and private institutions and at fifteen years of age began life as a clerk in a hardware store conducted by George W. Penny & Com- pany, at Newark, Ohio. He assisted his father for two years after this, and in 1851 engaged with Raymond North & Company as book- keeper and cashier, and continued with this tirin in this city four years. Then his railroad
career began: it was in 1855, and his first posi- tion was in the capacity of paymaster for the company. He filled this until 1865, when he was promoted to be auditor for the company. Four years from that date he was elected vice- president of the company, continuing to act as auditor until 1871. That year he assumed the duties of vice-president to the exclusion of any other work, and when upon the leasing of the road to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company the office of vice-president was abolished Mr. Smith became assistant general manager under the new company. Ile was previous to this a director of the company for a period of one year, and again became a director in 1886, continuing un- til the present time. In 1887 he was made general agent of the lessee company. In 1889 he was made superintendent of the relief depart- ment of the lessee company, which position he still holds. In February, 1891, President Me- Cullough died, and Mr. Smith was elected as his successor in that office in May of the same year.
On September 30, 1856, Mr. Smith was mar- ried, in Colehester, Conneetient, to Rebecca W., a danghter of General John T. Peters. Four children were born by this union, viz .: Clifford C., a mechanical engineer; Augustus F., chief clerk of the Pennsylvania relief department; Carrie Belle, student in Painesville (Ohio) Seminary; and the other, the first born, died in infancy.
Mr. Smith has been a member of the First Presbyterian Church of this city since 1851, and was for six years superintendent of the Sabbath-school, and has been an Elder in the same since.
D ERMOTT O. SWEET, a worthy eitizen of Rocky River Hamlet, is a son of John and Catharine (Parks) Sweet, and was born in Rockport township, near Rocky River Hamlet, May 23, 1840. Mr. Sweet has always resided in that township. April 2, 1862, in Dover township, Cuyahoga county, he married
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Miss Gertrude Coe, a daughter of the late Edwin W. and Harriet (Peck) Coe,-her father
tative of Connecticut and her mother of Cuyahoga county. They died in Dover town- thip, where they settled after marriage. Mrs. Sweet was born December 31, 1842. Mr. and Mrs. Sweet are the parents of four children: George R., Ilattie B., John and Frank D.
Mr. Sweet has held the office of Township Assessor, and also other local offices.
A R. RUMSEY, general shipping master of the Lake Carriers' Association, is a most familiar figure in Cleveland, where he has resided nearly twenty years.
From his boyhood he was strong and active and possessed a liking and adaptation for ath- letics, a subject in which he is still greatly interested. He believes as much in man's phys- ical as in his mental culture and spent many years in that branch of instruction, his first school, twenty years ago being at the corner of Seneca and Superior streets. ITis tutors in this art were Professor Bigelow of Boston and Pro- fessor Gainsley of Buffalo. Boxing and wrest- ling were his favorite sports and these he tanght all over the United States and Canada. Ile is the oldest boxer now in commission. Mr. Rumsey was once a great dumb-bell lifter, his heaviest bell 175 pounds, and in a contest with Pennell in 1883 was beaten, Pennell's bell weigh- ing 2013 pounds.
Mr. Rumsey was born on a farm in this State in [847, and is a son of R. T. Rumsey, night inspector of customs in Cleveland. He sailed the lakes many years and retired from tho water at an advanced age.
A. R. Rumsey left home at fourteen and be- came a sailor. Ile rose by merited promotion, being mate of nearly all prominent crafts leav- ing this port and finally bore a captain's com- mission.
Upon deserting the lakes Mr. Rumsey served five years in the police department of this city
rendering that efficient service which prompted the vessel owners to present to him a handsome gold watch and chain; and Miles & Company presented him with a fine solid gold badge, inscribed " Special Police," all in recognition of faithful official service.
Mr. Rumsey's mother was Rebecca Phelps, who bore six children, as follows: A. R .; Law- son, at Lawrence, Kansas; Alice, wife of Lewis Todd; Carleton; Ida, who married Ralph Wil- cos; and Ella. wife of Rev. Hamilton, a Presby terian minister of this State.
A. R. Rumsey was married in Sharon, Peun- sylvania, to Miss Mollie Messersmith, a daugh- ter of Jacob Messersmith, a hotel man. They have no children.
C OIN E. DE OTT, a popular condnetor on the Erie railway, was born in Prescott, Ontario, September 4, 1859, a son of Captain C. N. De Ott, now engaged in trim- ming ore vessels at Ashland, Wisconsin, The latter was for many years a lake captain, one of the oldest yet living. Ile was born in Ontario, Canada, a son of Francis F. De Ott, who is still living, now aged eighty-three years. ITis oc- cupation was that of carriage-maker. Ile is of French descent, his ancestors coming to the New World several generations ago. Captain C. N. De Ott was born in 1828, and his chil- dren were: C. N., Jr .; John E. and Mrs. Albert Raymond.
John E. De Ott, our subject, secured his edu- cation at the Kentucky Street school in Cleve- land, and it was limited to that. When very young he went aboard his father's eraft and for six years sailed on the lakes, the last year of which time he was mate of the vessel named William Grimsby: he was then the youngest mate on the lakes. On leaving the water in 1878 he began as a brakeman on the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Railroad, then on the Atlantic & Great Western road with Con- ductor J. H. Archer; and after four years' ser-
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vice he was promoted conduetor, in which capae- ity he has proved himself most capable and effi- cient, and is indeed a favorite of his employers and co-employees.
He was married, in Cleveland, September 28, 1887, to Miss Mamie, a daughter of Gerhard Smith, deceased.
Mr. and Mrs. De Ott have one child, Norma Marie, born April 24, 1893.
Mr. De Ott is a member of the O. R. C., a Master Mason, being a member of Biglow Lodge, and also of the ladies' auxiliary branch termed the Order of the Eastern Star.
P J. COONEY, the efficient secretary of the Director of Public Works, was born in Cleveland in 1855. The days of his youth were spent within the walls of public and private schools. When he had at- tained a certain advancement his brother, John Cooney, placed him in an educational institu- tion of Dayton, Ohio, where he spent two years. On leaving this school he entered Notre Dame University at South Bend, Indiana, and pur- sued his studies until it was decided that a more suitable place for a year's study just at this stage of his preparations, would be in a Enro- pean institution. In accordance with these plans he sailed for Ireland and entered St. Pat- rick's College in county Cavan. He returned to the United States in 1877 and re-entered Notre Dame University, graduating there in 1878 from a classical course.
For many years Mr. Cooney filled responsible positions with leading firms in this city. lle was bookkeeper for the McGillin Dry Goods Company for three years; served in the same capacity for the Excelsior Clothing Company for three years; served in the same capacity for the Excelsior Clothing Company an equal pe- riod, and flattering offers have been tendered him from leading business houses to accept ro- sponsible places, but it was not convenient for him to do so.
In polities Mr. Cooney is very strongly Democratic. From his first ballot the cause of his party has been one of much moment to him. lle has been twice a candidate for Justice of the Peace and twiec a candidate for Representa- tive to the Legislature, but was unsuccessful because the Republican strength could not be overcome. He made a successful race for al- derman and served one term, under the old regime.
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