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In 1893 Mr. Cooney was appointed by Direc- tor Farley to his present office.
Jolin Cooney was born in Ireland in county Cavan. Ile left there about fifty years ago, coming to Cleveland, and for the greater part has been a retail liquor dealer here. He mar- ried in Cleveland Jane Clark, born also in Ire- land. Their children are: P. J .; Rosa; Jennie; J. E., in railway mail service; Bessie and Kittie, One other is deceased. Mrs. Cooney died Jan- mary 11, 1886.
The family all make their home under the paternal roof, all being in Cleveland and all unmarried.
K ILIAN EGERT, a leading barrel manu- facturer of Cleveland, and a well known German citizen, was born in what is now Nassan, Prussia, September 9, 1834, and at eighteen years of age joined the army for three years, according to the custom of the coun- try. He then came to the United States, stop- ping in Canton, Ohio, where he learned the cooper's trade; and in 1861 he came to Cleve- land, where in 1864 he established a small factory on Longwood avenue, employing a few men. His business grew with the development of the country, and in 1877 he began manufact- uring staves at Ridgeway, this State, turning out 50,000 a year, the most of which he con- sumes in his own factory, to meet the increasing demand in his trade. In 1878 he erected a large factory on Wilson avenne, near the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Railway depot, with a capacity for 500 barrels per day, and employ-
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ing, when there is a full foree, fifty men. The Scoville, Sherman & Company's oil works con- sume the prodnet of Mr. Egert's factory.
Mr. Egert has been prominent and active in connection with the Saengerfast, being seven years its vice-president and four years its treas- urer. Ile is a thoroughgoing American, giving a conspicuous stimulns to an important industry.
Ilis father, a farmer, died in 1848, at the age of thirty-four years. Three of his tive children are living, namely : Kilian (our subject); Conrad; and Lizzie, married. In September, 1863, Mr. Egert married Frederica Baner, of Cleveland, but born in Wortemburg, Germany. The chil- dren by this marriage are: Lizzie, now Mrs. Fred Dietz; Minnie, who married Louis Seher- del, of this city; Flora; Herman, deceased; William, Henry and Edith.
H OWARD II. BURGESS, City Clerk of Cleveland, is one of the prominent young men of the city and one of the leading Republicans of Cuyahoga county.
Ile was born in Huron county, Ohio, on Sep- tember 10, 1859, and is the son of Rev. Oliver Burgess, a retired Methodist minister of Cleve. land. Rev. Burgess was born in Frederick county, Maryland, in 1817, and is the son of William Pitt Burgess, who removed to Mount Vernon, Ohio, when his son was a boy, and there engaged in merchandising. Rev. Burgess began his ministerial labors at a very early age, delivering his first sermon on April 15, 1835, near Norwalk, Ohio, while a student at Norwalk Seminary. During his long career in the pul- pit he was stationed at many places throughout northern Ohio, and going West eontinned his ministry for a few years in Michigan and Iowa. In the history of his first work he appears as an itinerant minister, and is pointed to as one of the early ministers of the Methodist Church in Ohio. He has been and is a frequent con- tributor to religions journals, and his articles have always been well received and highly prized.
Ile was married near Norwalk, Ohio, to Caro- line M. Cogswell, who was at the time a student of Norwalk Seminary. Five sons and six daughters have been born to this union, all of whom, with ono exception, are still living. Rev. Burgess removed with his family to Cleveland in 1870, where he has since resided and is one of the honored citizens of the Forest City.
Mr. Howard HI. Burgess came with his par- ents to Cleveland in 1870. IIe was educated in the Cleveland public schools, in Brooks' Mili -. tary Academy, and at Baldwin University, at Berea, Ohio. In 1880 he began his newspaper career in the office of the Cleveland Herald. Beginning as " copy holder," he was soon occu- pying a position on the local staff, and event- ually was promoted to a position as political writer. He was detailed to represent his paper on a portion of Blaine's tour in 1884, and is credited with some fine newspaper work on this occasion, as well as during his newspaper career. Upon the consolidation of the Herald and Plain Dealer in 1885, Mr. Burgess took charge of the Sunday Voiee. The same year he was appointed Assistant City Clerk of Cleveland, in which capacity he served until 1887. In 1889 he was elected by the City Council to the position of Clerk of the city, and an endorsement of his administration has come at the end of each term by a re-election, in 1891 and 1893. He is the only Republican at the head of a department in the city goverment of Cleveland at the present time, which faet speaks volumes for his ability and popularity.
Mr. Burgess is a stalwart Republican, and although young in years he has been very active in his party's service, and is one of the leaders in the city of Cleveland and Cuyahoga conuty, and is well and favorably known among the leaders of the party throughout the Buckeye State. In 1888 he was closely identified with the lon. T. E. Burton in the management of that gentleman's successful Congressional can . VASS. Ile was secretary and treasurer of the committee in the campaign which resulted in
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the election of the lon. William G. Rose as Mayor of Cleveland in 1891; was Secretary of the Union League and was Secretary of the Garfield Club, at that time one of the strongest Republiean organizations in the city. He is at the present time Treasurer of the Tippecanoe Club, one of the largest and strongest Republi- can organizations in the State of Ohio. He was for several years Treasurer of the Press Club of Cleveland and Seeretary of the Edgewood Park Association of the Thousand Islands in the St. Lawrence river. Ile is a member of the Cleve- land Chamber of Commerce, and is one of that body's committees on Ways and Means and Entertainment. Ile is also a member of the Masonic and Knights of Pythias fraternities. Is a director in the Cleveland Tanning Com- pany, is president of the Cleveland Desk Com- pany, and is in other ways identified with the industries of Cleveland.
Mr. Burgess was married, in 1885, to Miss Alice Hill, daughter of Colonel II. E. Ilill, of the well-known firm of II. E. Hill & Company, of Cleveland. One child, a daughter-Helen -- has been born to Mr. and Mrs. Burgess.
I AMES B. MCCONNELL, M. D., Strongs- ville, was born July 27, 1838, in Ottawa, Canada, where he passed his boyhood days up to the age of twelve years. He then made his home in New York State for four years, where he attended the Oneida Institute, at Cazenovia, a portion of two years; and he also attended the Port Edward (New York) Insti- tute about a year and a half.
Entering the office of Dr. Hiram Hoyt, he read medieine about a year, and finally gradn- ated at the National Medical College at Wash- ington, District of Columbia, in 1860. ITe opened practice in Cleveland, where he practiced until December, 1876, when he removed to a point abont a mile south of Strongsville, and here has a good patronage.
In Waverly, Massachusetts, in 1869, he mar- ried Miss Mary F. Turner, who died in Cleve
land in 1872; and he was again married, in Waverly, to Miss Harriet Turner, and by this marriage there were five children: James T., Ruth IL., Agnes, Edith and Leila, which last mentioned died when three years old. The mother of these children died in Strongsville, August 10, 1891, and the Doctor, in February, 1893, married for his present wife Mrs. Clara M. Sanderson, the widow of Burton Sanderson, who died in Strongsville.
C. LORD, the young and popular yard master of the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Company, began rail- roading in Cleveland with the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Company. Four years of faithful service concluded his career with the Erie, and he was placed on the pay-roll of the Nickel Plate and given the position of weigh- master. One year later he was given the po- sition of yard clerk, next - clerk, and some months later was given a clerkship in Superintendent Kimball's office, remaining until 1890, when he was promoted to be chief clerk for Division Engineer Vaughn, which position he filled most acceptably, and was promoted to be general yard master October 9, 1893.
Mr. Lord was born in New Jersey, November 1, 1864. Four years later the family came West and located in Cleveland, the father, L. D. Lord, securing a clerkship in the New York, Pennsyl- vania & Ohio yard office, where he may still be found, having completed an uninterrupted ser- vice of twenty-five years. Ile married Miss Esther H. Clark, born in Northampton, Massa- chusetts. Their children are: Minnie, wife of E. E. Styles, of Cleveland, and Harry C.
II. C. Lord left the grammar school of this city at fifteen years of age, and began his rail- road work at once.
Angust 18, 1886, Mr. Lord married, in Cleve- land, Anna J., a daughter of Jacob Decker, deceased. One child resulted from this union, Howard Morgan, born April 1, 1890.
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Reward is sure to come to him who strives to excel and condnets the business of his employers with the same interest that he would manifest in his own private affairs.
C HARLESHAROLD HUBBELL was born October 16, 1836, in Warrensville, Cuya- hoga county, Ohio, the son of Jedidiah Hubbell aud Sally (Parshall) Hubbell, the oldest of five children, two sons and three daughters, his grandparents being the early pioneers of this then new country, "The Western Reserve." At the age of five years his parents moved to Chagrin Falls, Cuyahoga county, where the most of the time he has since lived; received his ed- ueation at Chagrin Falls and Hiram Eclectie Institute; was married to Miss Mariam E. Russell, Angust 24, 1862.
When Abraham Lincoln made his call for "300,000 more" he was one of the first to re- spond, leaving his young wife, and enlisting in Company D, One Hundred and Third Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Captain J. T. Philpot's company and Colonel Jack Casement's regiment. Ile was in several engagments and with his company until after the siege of Knox- ville, Tennessee, when by an order issued Feb. rnary 3, 1864, by Major General Foster, com- manding the Department of the Ohio, he was ordered to report to Captain John A. Dixon, Assistant Quartermaster of the department, as clerk, in which capacity he remained until No- vember, when by a special order from the depart- ment he took the quartermaster's records to Louisville, Kentucky, and reported to Lien- tenant-Colonel Il. C. Ransom, Adjutant- Gen- eral, and assigned to duty as chief elerk in the quartermaster's department at General John M. Palmer's headquarters, where he remained until April, 1866.
The business of that department being completed and returning to his home, Mr. Hubbell remained until March, 1873, when he joined a colony from Geneva, Ohio, and with
his family went to Pawnee county, Kansas, then the extreme out-post of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, and helped construct the first buildings of the new town, called Garfield, in honor of our loved and lamented President and teacher. Here his third son was born, the first white male child of the new town. After one year's stay, on account of the grasshopper scourge, he returned to his old home in Ohio, where he has since lived and has filled several positions of trust: was Secretary of the County Fair for several years, City Clerk, etc. Mr. Hub- bell is a member of N. L. Norris Post, No. 40, Grand Army of the Republic, and is a member of the official board of the Christian Church. In February, 1891, he received a commission as Postmaster at Chagrin Falls, in which capacity he served his term with credit to himself. In polities he is a Republican.
Five sons have been born to Mr. and Mrs. C. 11. Hubbell, viz .: Charles J., of Ravenna, Ohio, marrie l and has one daughter Susie, and one son, Ilarold; Melvin J., married and has a daughter, Mildred; Walter II., attending college at Hiram; and Leon S. and Frank N., at home attending school.
Mr. Hubbell's brother and sisters and marriage connections are: Alice L., married George M. King; James E., married, and died March 7, 1876, leaving a widow and two sons, Herman and Willie; Julia R., married Samuel A. Worley; Frankie E., who married William E. Rogers and has a daughter, Gracie by name.
1 OHIN HURST, an old resident of Middle. burg township, but now of Cleveland, was born in Leicestershire, England, July 28, 1822, and was five years of age when his father, William Hurst, and family emigrated to America. After a short residence in New York city they settled in Royalton township, Cuya- hoga county, where they, the parents, spent the remainder of their days.
Mr. John Hurst, our subject, grew to man- hood in Royalton, and there married Miss
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Paulina Avery, a native of Utica, New York. After they lived in Royalton a year Mr. Hurst eame, in 1846, to Middleburg, where he has since resided, until the spring of 1893, when he moved to Cleveland, and he is now enjoying a retired life. He cleared the farm upon which ho spent the most of his life and made upon it many valuable improvements. His children are Ransome D., Ada E. and Eliza A.
A NDREW M. WHITAKER, the subject of this sketch, was born in the same house in which his father was born, in MitHin township, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, May 6, 1823.
James Whitaker, the paternal grandfather of Andrew M. Whitaker, was born in the Colony of Maryland in the year 1723, and died in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, in 1788. The Colony of Maryland was founded by Lord Baltimore in 1634. James Whitaker married Catherine Par Tee, who was born in the Colony of Maryland in 1729. She descended from the French Huguenots, and died in Pennsylvania in 1813. Near 1767 they emigrated from Maryland to Washington county, now Allegheny county, in western' Pennsylvania, and settled in what is now Mifflin township on the Monon- gahela river, eight miles above Fort Pitt, then called Fort Duquesne, and almost exactly across the Monongahela river from what is his- torically known as "Braddock's Field." They took possession of their plantation, about 800 acres, just twelve years after Braddock's defeat, and were the first white settlers in Mifflin township. On the farm on which they first located, they reared a family of five children: Aaron, Isaac, Charlotte, Elizabeth and
Abraham.
Abraham Whitaker, the father of Andrew M. Whitaker, was born in 1780, and in 1809 married Mary MeClure, who was born in 1786. Mary MeClure Whitaker, the mother of Andrew M. Whitaker, was a woman of more than
ordinary ability. She was a devout Christian woman, and in many ways patterned after Susanna Wesley in the care of her household and in her relations to the church. Abrahamn Whitaker was a man of sterling qualities and much above the average man of his day in both education and general intelligence. He was appointed Justice of the Peace by Governor Snyder of Pennsylvania, and afterward elected and re-elected by the people for a period of twenty-five years; and judging from the large number of marriages solemnized by him, a list of which the writer has seen, his house must have been a veritable Gretna Green. Abraham and Mary Whitaker had seven children who lived to maturity, viz .: Margarett, James, Charles, Alfred, Catharine, Andrew and Lewis, only two of whom, Andrew and Lewis, are living. Abraham Whitaker answered the last summons April 6, 1832, in Mittlin, Pennsylva- nia, and the mother, Mary Whitaker, August 8, 1862, in Bedford, Ohio.
Andrew MeClure, the maternal grandfather of Andrew M. Whitaker, was born in Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, in 1756, married Mar- garet Barnett and removed to western Penn- sylvania in the spring of 1785. They had a family of nine children, six sons and threo daughters. Andrew MeClure died in 1799.
Andrew M. Whitaker spent the earlier years of his life on his father's farm, in attending school, in teaching in the public schools and as a clerk in the village store. He moved to Ohio with his mother and her family in the spring of 1847, remained about one year and then went to his old home in Pennsylvania and entered a store in his old capacity as elerk. ITere in 1849 he met and married Mary Jane Smith, daughter of Joseph and Phoebe Smith, of West Brownsville, Pennsylvania. West Brownsville on the Monongahela river is noted as being the birthplace of James G. Blaine. The Blaine and Smith families were neighbors for many years. Mary Jane attended school with the Blaine children. The Smith family consisted of nine children, four sons and five
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daughters. Mary Jane Whitaker was born in West Brownsville, Pennsylvania, in 1831. She is noted as a woman of remarkable energy and is a prodigious worker. Andrew M. Whitaker and his wife soon after their mar- riage, or in 1850, moved to Ohio and located in Bedford, which has always been their home. They were the parents of six children, two of whom died in infancy. Mary Emnina, the eldest, was born in May, 1850. She is married to II. O. Courtney, a contractor and builder. They have one child, Allen, and live in Bedford.
Alfred Whitaker, the second child, was born near Hillsboro, in Highland county, Ohio, August 3, 1851, where his mother's parents re- sided, they having moved from West Browns- ville, Pennsylvania, to Ohio. The Smith family eamo to their new home with their household goods and cattle by the way of the Monongahela and Ohio rivers in what was known in those days as a flat-boat. Alfred re- ceived his education in the Bedford village school with the exception of a short period spent at Mt. Union College. Early in life he formed habits of industry, which with energy and push have been his best eapital. During the war he was the village newsboy of Bedford, at the same time, while attending school, being janitor of the school building. Ile worked at different times for farmers in Bedford township. Afterward he worked in the Bedford rolling mill and later entered the village store and postoffice kept by Lillie & Marble, as clerk, receiving $250 for the year's work and paying $100 to his parents for the year's board. In the spring of 1871 he went to Cleveland and was employed by Smith, Dodd & Company, shoe dealers, for two years. Ile then accepted a position for one year as travel- ing salesman for the American Lubrieating Oil Company, at that time managed by Judge E. J. Blandin. In the autumn of 1875, Mr. Whita- ker went to Philadelphia and remained a little over one year. During the six months of the Centennial Exposition of 1876, held in that city, he was connected with this great national
celebration and was present every day, Sundays excepted, during the six months the exposition was held. In January, 1877, he returned to Cleveland, and the following fall organized the Brooks Oil Company, of which he is the pro- prietor ; and it may be said of him, in this con- nection, that he is one of the very few men who have built up and successfully carried on an oil business outside of and in competition with that commercial monstrosity, the Standard Oil Company. IIe has traveled in the interest of his company over nearly every State in the Union, having visited the Pacific coast twice and Europe once. Mr. Whitaker is an on- compromising Democrat, and has been one of the conservative and safe leaders of his party, in both local and State polities, for several years. Ile has declined a nomination, by his party, for Congress on two occasions, and ac- eepted a nomination for County Treasurer in 1885, and in the same year declined, on account of his business demanding his attention, to ae- cept the appointment of Collector of Internal Revenue under President Cleveland. Mr. Whitaker has never married, and when free from business lives quietly on his farm, " Pine Ilill," near Bedford. He is an active member of the Methodist Church at Bedford, is Trustee, a member of the board of Stewards and Sunday- school superintendent.
Charles Bennett Whitaker, second son of Andrew M. Whitaker, was born in Bedford, Ohio, July 6, 1855. Ile married Alice Parke. They have three children, Charlotte Hazel, Florence Nightingale and Ilelen Parke. Charles Bennett's occupation is that of foreman in one of Bedford's largest chair factories. IIe is an active and prominent Knight of Pythias.
Margaret Maud was born January 8, 1864, edneated in the Bedford high school, and for a time worked in the office of the Brooks Oil Company, of Cleveland. She is mumarried and cares for the home of her father and mother.
Andrew M. Whitaker has been engaged for about fifteen years in assisting his son Alfred in the conduct of his extensive oil business.
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HIo was originally a Democrat, but being an ardent temperance man has embraced Prohibi- tion principles. He is a lover of good books and is a great reader. He keeps himself well informed on all the leading questions of the times. Ile is a member of the Methodist Church and is a constant attendant on the services of the sanctuary. During his long residence in Bedford he has been elected to the office of Justice of the Peace, member of the Board of Education and Corporation Clerk. He is an honorable man, a good citizen and is highly respected by the community in which he has lived forty-two years.
W ILLIAM SHIURMER, a prominent farmer of Strongsville township, was born in Wiltshire, England, December 15, 1825, and emigrated to America in the spring of 1555, landing at New York. HIe lived in Cleveland and vicinity until 1873, being employed a large portion of the time by J. II. Hussey in the copperas smelting works, and afterward engaged in farming in Newburg township. In 1873 he settled upon a farm near Strongsville, where he now lives, prospering in his occupation of farming, and also in the added occupation of cheese-making, which he has fol- lowed for the last fifteen years. llis farm buildings and improvements are plentiful in number and models in arrangement. Ilis farm comprises 167 acres.
lle was married in Wiltshire, England, Jan- nary 20, 1817, to Miss Ann Townsend, who was born in that shire February 12, 1527. By this marriage there have been seven children, namely : Richard C., who married Ella Cain and is now a farmer in Warrensville township; Charles II., who married Belle Ridelsperger and is engaged in the off business in Pennsylvania; John II., who resides in Strongsville township; Jane, who died in infancy; Mary Elizabeth; Susan; and William C., who is also employed in the oil business in Pennsylvania. John H. has held
the office of Township Treasurer for four years, and has been a member of the Republican cen- tral committee for three terms-six years. IIe is a leading and representative citizen, active and public-spirited in public and benevolent move- ments.
F E. DELLENBAUGII, one of Cleveland's well-known attorneys, was born in North Georgetown, Columbiana county, Ohio, October 2, 1855, but since infancy has been a resident of Cleveland, his parents removing to this city when he was one year of age. Ile was educated in the district schools of East Cleveland, in the Cleveland Academy, the East Iligh School and the Western Reserve College. IIe read law in the office of his uncle, Charles D. Everett, and subsequently in the of- fice of E. Coppe Mitchell, dean of the law faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, in which insti- tution he was also a student in the law depart- ment. In 1878 he had the honorary degree of Bachelor of Laws conferred upon him by the Union Law College of Cleveland, and was ad- mitted to the bar in March, 1878. The Cen- tennial Commission appointed him inspector of the finance department of the Centennial .Exhi- bition in 1876, which position he filled from May 1st to September 29th.
For two years after Mr. Dellenbaugh's ad- mission to the bar he practiced alone, and then formed a partnership with Albert II. Weed, which was dissolved two and a half years later. Ile then became associated with Capt. M. B. Gary and Charles D. Everett, under the firm name of Gary, Everett & Dellenbangh, which was in existence about two years, and was then changed to Everett & Dellenbaugh. Two years afterward, Mr. Albert II. Weed, his original partner, entered the firm, forming the present one of Everett, Dellenbaugh & Weed.
Mr. Dellenbaugh is a lawyer of indefatigable energy, and his ability is of an order which places him conspicuously in the front among
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the legal lights of the Cleveland bar. Ile has devoted himself faithfully, conscientiously and zealously to his profession, and has never songht politieal honors. Though his practice is general, he makes a specialty of commercial and corporation law.
H ON. ROBERT BLEE, Mayor of the city of Cleveland, was born in Cuyahoga county, Ohio, January 31, 1839. Ilis father, Ilugh Blee, was born in London- derry, Ireland, came to New York city when a boy, and when a young man he camo to Cuyahoga county, settling on a farm. In this county he married Mary B. Porter, who, though American born, was of Irish origin also. She bore her husband eight children, of whom the subject of this sketch is one. To farming Ilngh Blee devoted the greater portion of his life, but during his later years he resided in Cleveland, where he died in 1886, aged seventy- six years.
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