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When able to give more time to the profession than at present, Judge Burke was engaged in a large number of the most important eases in northern Ohio, not confining himself to any one branch of practice, but trying, in the different connties of the Reserve and elsewhere, any and all cases of consequenee in which he was re- tained. Space will permit only a glance at some of the most important of these: The immense eases growing out of the Atlantic & Great West- ern Railway troubles, where he represented the Erie Railway; the great Utah silver mine eases of the "Nez Perces" and "Old Telegraph" Min- ing Companies, which he won; the Oberlin- Wellington slave rescue case; the case involving the consolidation of the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis Railway with the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton; that involy
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ing the constitutionality of the Scott liquor law ; that of Kimberly vs. Arms, in which a large sum of money was at stake; the series of intri- cate cases connected with the foreclosure of mortgages upon the Indianapolis & St. Louis Railroad; the great Hocking Valley Railroad arbitration case; and a large number of equal or less importance that cannot be even mentioned here. Railroad litigation soon led Judge Burke into railroad ownership, and he is now reeog- nized as one of the largest and ablost of the rail- way owners and capitalists in the West. For many years he was general counsel of the Cleve- land, Columbus, Cincinnati, & Indianapolis Railroad Company, a member of its board of directors, chairman of its financial and executive committees, vice-president and president; general counsel of the Cleveland & Mahoning Valley and president of the same; vice-president and president of the Indianapolis & St. Louis. He was also a director for years in the Cincinnati & Springfield, the Dayton & Michigan, the Cin- cinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, the Cincinnati, Ilamilton & Indianapolis, the New York, Chi- cago & St. Louis and the Central Ontario Rail- way Companies. It was Judge Burke who con- ceived and carried into effect the consolidation of various weak lines into the Columbus, Hock- ing Valley & Toledo Railway system. He took an active part in its management; hokling the position of vice-president and president, and in all the movements of that corporation he was the financial genius and the mainspring of en- ergy. It was Judge Burke who conducted for William II. Vanderbilt the negotiations which resulted in the purchase of the New York, Chi- cago & St. Louis Railway. Judge Burke is now engaged in a number of great enterprises the direction of which is entirely in his hands. He is, and for many years has been, the president of the Toledo & Ohio Central, the Cleveland & Mahoning Valley, the Kanawha & Michigan and the Central Ontario Railway Companies. Hle is a large owner in and the president of the Canadian Copper Company, a concern which owns probably the largest mines of nickel in the
world, and has furnished all the nickel thus far used in the construction of nickel-steel armor for the United States Government. He is also president of the Anglo- American Iron Company, of the Republic Coal Company and several other iron-mining and coal companies. While his name does not appear he is the most important partner in the large iron-ore firm of Corrigan, McKinney & Company, and with them controls iron mines and furnaces to the value of several millions of dollars.
Judge Burke's intimate acquaintances who know the profoundness and correctness of his views on all great national and economic ques- tions, regret that his far-reaching business inter- ests have deprived the nation of his services in the arena of public affairs. They believe that if he had devoted himself to a political career his name would have held a place beside our greatest statesmen. Engrossing business occu - pations have not, however, prevented him from cultivating by study, reading and travel the broad faculties of mind and heart that nature endowed him with. While he is yet a leading practitioner of the Western bar, he is also the animating and controlling spirit of the Cleve- land School of Art, and is as ready to speak, whon called upon by his fellow citizens, upon art, ed- neation, questions of finance, or matters of State, as he is to argue a question of law, which is his main occupation and thought as it was his first love. He is still in the complete enjoyment of physical and mental vigor, and bids fair to pro- long his active and useful career for many years to come.
Judge Burke was married April 26, 1849, to Miss Parthenia Poppleton, a daughter of Rev. Samuel Poppleton, of Richland county, Ohio. She died April 7, 1878. He was again married June 22, 1882, to Mrs. Ella M. Southworth, of Clinton, New York. He has been very happy in his married relations, and being very domes- tie in his habits has found his chief pleasure in the family circle. In his youth he found in his first wife the good seuse, prudence and kindness, judgment and womanly grace, so useful to the
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struggling young lawyer. Her death was to him an overwhelming sorrow. In his maturer years he has found in his second wife all those quali- ties of head and heart so essential to a happy home life. She possesses in an eminent degree the sweetness, amiability, discretion and judg- ment which such a man most values. She has not only made her home a model, but has done inch to cultivate all that is best in art and in social life. In the family and in social life Judge Burke is among the most amiable of men. Whatever battles he may have to fight outside he is always kind, considerate and indulgent in his family and in the social cirele.
D R. E. P. BANNING, physician and surgeon, Stone building, Cleveland, was born in Titusville, Pennsylvania, Janu- ary 1, 1885. ITis father, Dr. Edmond P. Ban- ning, was a native of Canfield, Trumbull County, Ohio, and, being very young when his parents died, was brought up and edueated by his mother's brother, Archibald Tanner, the father- in-law of Gleni W. Scofield, late Judge of the Court of Claims and Register of the United States Treasury under Grant's administration, and Congressman from 1856 till he accepted the position in the Treasury Department. Dr. Banning (father of our subject) graduated at the medical college at Fairfield, New York, and entered upon the practice of his profession in the oil town, Titusville, Pennsylvania, then a hamlet of only five houses, with no roads ex- cepting trails and bridle paths. He was accord- ingly a pioneer in his profession there, and the oldest physician in the vicinity.
In 1827 he became impressed with the fact that there was a class of chronic diseases that invariably resisted the action of medicine for their relief; and by special investigation he dis- covered that the reason for the failure of medi- eine in such cases was the fact that they were displacements of internal organs, and needed only mechanical treatment. Ho worked his way
to Pittsburg. on a lumber raft, and presented to the Allegheny Medical Society his views, to- gether with some rude appliances that a horse- shoer had made under his direction for the cor- rection of the displacements. He thus became the discoverer of mechanical pathology, the founder of mechanical therapeuties. His inven- tions constitute to the present day the founda- tion of all appliances for the support of the spine. Ile is known and quoted as "the father of mechanical therapeutics" throughout the eivilized world. It has been estimated that no discoverer in the series of inventions has so ben- efited humanity. To him is due the discontin. nance of the burning and blistering for spinal diseases formerly so greatly in vogue in this country ; and so firmly did he construct and eon- scientiously perfect his mechanical devices that two years after his death they were exhibited at the great World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893, and secured the only award among 134 competing exhibitors; and this is the only instance in the whole exposition where a sole award was given. Dr. Banning, born in 1800, died Jannary, 1891, full of years and full of honors, esteemed as one of earth's greatest benefactors.
After leaving Pittsburg in 1827 he moved to New York, in 1854 to Cleveland, Ohio, and in 1859 returned to New York city, where he re- sided until his death. Four of his ten children are living, namely: Emily, wife of Tompkins Mann, a celebrated composer and musician of New York city; Dr. E. P., our subject; Dr. A. T. Banning, the Health Officer of Westchester county, New York, and a very prominent oper- ating surgeon; and Carrie, wife of Dr. C. G. Clark of Centerville, Crawford county, Penn- sylvania.
Dr. E. P. Banning, whose name introduces this memoir, received his professional training at the Evansville (Indiana) Medical College. On the commencement of the war he left Cleve- land and enlisted at New York in the United States Marine Corps serving until 1871, during which period he was promoted as Lientenant in
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the same service, --- the only instance on record where an enlisted marine received a commission in this, the oldest, corps of the service. His ap- pointment was personally urged by Admirals Farragut, Porter, Dahlgren and Dupont, under which officers ho had served, the two latter per- sonally stating to President Lincoln that it was a "fit recognition for gallant and meritorious service at Tampa Bay, Cedar Keys, New Berne, Charleston, Vicksburg and Fort Philip." In 1871 he resigned from the service and entered upon the practice of medicine with his father in New York city.
Ile was first married at the Pensacola Navy Yard, Florida, in 1866, to Miss Florida Morrill. She died in New Orleans in June, 1869. He was again married in 1879 to Miss Carina Car- penter, a daughter of Dr. Calvin Carpenter of Geneva, New York, a niece of Stephen II. Car- penter, professor of rhetoric and literature in the Wisconsin State University. Of Dr. Ban- ning's four children, three are living, namely: Carina Carpenter, aged twelve; Florida Jenette, aged ten; and Dahlgren, aged five. Mrs. Ban- ning is a graduate of the scientific department of the Wisconsin State University, also of the Cleveland University of Medicine and Surgery, formerly the Homeopathic Hospital College, at which her husband is special lecturer on "Dis- eases of the Spine." The Doctor's residence is at Willoughby, Ohio, where Mrs. Banning is engaged in the general practice of medicine and surgery, the Doetor confining himself to bis specialty and visiting his office in Cleveland daily.
OIIN SWEET, of Rocky River Hamlet, was born August 24, 1807, in Brookfield, Madison county, New York, where his father, Samuel G., died. In the same county our subjeet married Catharine Parks, also a na- tive of that county, born May 30, 1812. They emigrated to Cuyahoga county in 1838, settling in Rockport township, making the journey with
a horse and wagon; and at this place Mr. Sweet has ever since resided, engaged in agricultural pursuits. ITis wife died February 21, 1873. They had only one child, Dermott O., whose sketch appears elsewhore.
J OSEPH ISAACS, general cashier of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Company, having in charge the financial records and being responsible for the funds of the entire northeastern end of this system of roads, came into this city nearly fif- teen years ago, as a clerk of this company. He had been transferred from St. Louis, Missouri, where his railroad career was inaugurated six years before. His first work was for the In- dianapolis & St. Louis Railroad Company, as general utility man, receiving promotions as his experience would warrant, becoming a clerk and city collector for the company before his transfer to Cleveland. In 1883 Mr. Isaacs was made general cashier and station accountant, and has completed one decade of faithful ser- vice in this capacity.
Mr. Isaaes was born in St. Louis, Missouri, Jannary 1, 1856. He received his school training at the public city schools, and entered Yale College in 1871, expecting to complete a university course, but was deterred by the sud- den and unexpected death of his mother and only parent after one year's work. His pros- peets for a collegiate course being thus blasted, he turned his attention to business, seenring employment for a brief period on the Journal of Agriculture, a paper owned and issued by ex-Governor Marmaduke of Missouri. He be- came next a " Knight of the Grip," representing the Excelsior Varnish Company of New York city, covering western territory and devoting six months time to the business. Railroading then attracted his attention and he accepted em- ployment ,in the service of the Indianapolis & St. Louis Company, as before mentioned.
Mr. Isanes' father, John Isaacs, settled in St. Louis in 1847, and was from Edinburg, Seot-
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land. Ile was a dealer in steneils and art goods, and died in 1867, at forty-eight years of age. He married Miss Clara Louis, at New York city, a daughter of Ralph Louis, a manufacturer of furs, of Hamburg, Germany. Five children were born in this family: D. J., a varnish mann- facturer of New York city; B. K., agent of Langfield Brothers & Company, dealers in leather goods at New York city; L. J., repre- senting a hosiery house of New York city; Joseph; and a daughter, Mrs. Isaac Wilbraham, of Chicago, Illinois.
January 16, 1876, Mr. Isaacs married in St. Louis, Missouri, Miss Fena, a daughter of A. Marens, a merchant of Litchfield, Illinois, but formerly of Columbus, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Isaacs are the parents of John D., aged seven- teen, employed by the Cleveland Rolling Mill Company; Etlie, in the first year in high school; Clara, who died in 1880, aged two months; and Birdie, aged nine.
ALERIUS C. STONE, of Berea, Ohio, was born in Hinesburg, Chittenden county, Vermont, March 2, 1820, son of Joshua and Betsey (Blackman) Stone, who emi- grated to Cuyahoga county about 1832, settling in Strongsville, where they continued to reside until their death. They had three children.
Our subject, the youngest of the family, was thirteen years old when his parents settled here, and he here grew to manhood as a farmer's son ; and he followed agricultural pursuits until 1883, since which time he has made his home in Berea, living a retired life. He was married in Strongsville township, January 25, 1855, to Miss Huldah C. Haynes, a native of this town- ship, born January 20, 1836, the youngest of the seven children of Abiel and IFuldah (Car- penter) Haynes, both her parents being natives of the Green Mountain State. Her father eame to Cuyahoga county with his father, Abijah Haynes, when he was about thirty years of age. Mrs. Stone's mother died in February, 1836, and her father in Berea, in 1891.
Mr. and Mrs. Stone have had six children, of whom two died in childhood. The names of the living are Clara E., Frederick V., Sarah J., and Bertha B.
R UFUS P. RANNEY .- The late Judge Rufus P. Ranney not only stood at the head of the Cleveland bar but was also recognized as one of the ablest lawyers and most profound judges in the State of Ohio. Ile was born at Blandford, Massachusetts, on October 13, 1813, and in 1821 came with his family to Ohio, they making their home at Freedom, Portage county, a place at that time in the heart of the wilderness. As Judge Ran- ney grew in years he grew in ambition and de- termined upon securing an education, a pur- pose in which he succeeded only by intense ap- plication upon his own part. After a course at Nelson Academy he entered Western Reserve College, but before graduation he proceeded to Jefferson, Ashtabula county, where he entered upon the study of law in the office of Giddings & Wade. His progress was so rapid that at the elose of the first year he bore the requisite examination and was admitted to the bar. Mr. Giddings having been elected to Congress, Judge Ranney became the partner of Mr. Wade, the firin being Wade & Ranney, as strong a legal combination as was ever seen in the West. In 1845 Judge Ranney withdrew and opened a law office in Warren, Ohio, where he imme- diately took a place in the front rank of the bar of Trumbull county.
The Democrats of that district placed him in nomination for Congress, in 1846, and also in 1848, but as his party was largely in the minor- ity he failed of election. In 1850 he was elected by a great majority as a member of the convention called for a revision of the State constitution, in which capacity he served with distinguished ability. He was at about this time chosen by the Legislature as a Judge of of the State Supreme Court, and when the old
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constitution expired and the new one came into force, in 1851, he was elected by the people to the same position, which he held until 1857, when he resigned and again took up the prac- tice of his profession in Cleveland. In 1837 he was appointed United States Attorney for Northern Ohio, but held the position only two months when he resigned. The people, how- ever, would not consent to his permanent retire- ment from public life, and he was again, in 1862, elected to the Supreme Beneh. Hle ac- cepted with reluetance, but again resigned in 1864, and returned to his practice in Cleveland. The record he made while upon the Supreme Bench, a portion of which time he served as Chief Justice, proved him to be one of the great lawyers of the country. In 1859 Judge Ranney was the Democratie nominee for Gov- ernor of Ohio, but was defeated by William Dennison.
In 1871 the Western Reserve College con- ferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.
Judge Ranney died in December, 1891. During his life he held many positions of honor of various character, outside of his legal labors; but the chief aims of his life were in connection with his profession, which he followed with an industry and ability that made him one of the great advocates known in the history of Amer- ican jurisprudence.
M E. GOULD, a passenger engineer on the Valley Railroad, was born in Ash- land county, Ohio, March 16, 1844. lle secured a district-school education, and at the age of seventeen years began his rail- road career. In 1859 he became a fireman for the C. C. & C. Railroad, running from Cleveland with engineer John Buell until 1865; was then an engineer on the Eric Division of the L. S. & M. S. Road, and in 1875, desiring to travel through the West, went to Omaha, Nebraska. While there Mr. Gould secured the position of
engineer to the U. P. Railroad, and during his eight months' service worked on three divisions of the road. While on a visit to his friends in Ohio, he was offered the pioneer engine on the Valley Railroad, then being built, and has since remained with that company. Mr. Gould is efficient, steady and faithful to his trust, and is highly esteemed by his employers.
August 3, 1868, in this eity, he was united in marriage with Lottie, a daughter of Michael Bauder. They had one child, Alta May, who died at the age of seventeen years. In his social relations, Mr. Gould is a member of the Adjust- ment Committee of the B. of L. E.
R ICHARD BACON, one of the well- known and representative attorneys of Cleveland, and a member of the law firm of Hobart & Bacon, was born at Simsbury, Hartford county, Connecticut, on March 2, 1854. ITis father was Charles Bacon, who was also a native of Simsbury, Connecticut. The Bacon family came from England in 1645 and located first in Massachusetts, thence re- moving to Connectient, where the family con- tinued to reside for generations and became prominent in local public affairs. Richard Bacon, the grandfather of our subject, was quite prominent during the anti-slavery days. The mother of Mr. Bacon was Ann Putnam, who was born at Brooklyn, Connecticut. Her father was William Putnam, who owned the farm adjoining the one owned by General Moses Cleaveland, for whom this city was named. William was the son of Daniel, who was the son of General Israel Putnam, of Revolutionary war fame.
About 1850 Charles Bacon eame to Cleve- land, and for a few years was engaged in the shipping business. Ile returned to his boy- hood home in Simsbury, and there died in 1867. Ilis widow survives him, and resides at her old home at Brooklyn.
The early life of Mr. Bacon was spent in Connecticut. His first schooling was in the
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public schools of Hartford. In the fall of 1869 he entered Cornell University at Ithaca, New York, being at that time but fifteen years of age. He was graduated at Cornell in 1873. Ile next read law with the Honorable Rufus P. Spalding, of this city, and in 1876 was ad- mitted to the bar. He at once entered upon a general practice and has met with more than ordinary success, practicing in all the courts, including the United States Supreme Court.
The partnership with M. M. Hobart was formod in 1888. This firm is considered as one of the strong ones of the city. They give especial attention to corporation law, though engaged in general practice.
Mr. Bacon is one of the most prominent Odd Fellows in the State. He is a member of Tyrian Lodge, No. 740, I. O. O. F., and in 1886-'87 he served as Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Ohio, being the youngest man ever to hold that position.
Mr. Bacon was married in 1875 to Florence Coman, daughter of Colonel Lucian D. Coman, of New York city. Mr. and Mrs. Bacon have a son, Richard Bacon, Jr.
OHIN BARTHELMAN, a representative agrienlturist of the county, was born in Parma township, July 8, 1847, a son of John C. and Johanna (Grell) Barthelman, the former having been born January 27, 1811, the latter January 17, 1822, both of German birth. Subsequent to their marriage, they first settled in Parma, later removing to Rockport township, where Mr. Barthelman died Decem- ber 16, 1877, and his wife survives. They had six children, four of whom are living, viz .: John, Katie, Frederick and Mary. William and George are deceased. The parents were highly re- spected and possessed qualities which made them a favorite with a large eirele of friends and acquaintances.
The subject of this sketch passed the early years of his life upon the farm, being five years
old when his parents settled in Roekport town- ship. His education was limited to the com- mon schools, which he attended principally during the winter months. To the business of farming he has devoted his entire life and not withont reward, for he owns seventy-five acres of good land, well improved, which by his in- telligent cultivation yields abundant harvests
Ilis marriage to Miss Lizzie, daughter of Charles and Mary Haase, in Cuyahoga county, occurred May 6, 1886. They have one child, namely, -- Emma Mary, born July 25, 1885.
Mrs. Barthelman was born in Middleburg township, Cuyahoga county, March 17, 1864, and her father died in this county, January 25, 1888.
Mr. and Mrs. Barthelman are acceptable members of the Lutheran Church, and their lives are consistent with their profession.
E SHRIVER REESE .- One of the best- known and most popular insurance men of Cleveland is Mr. E. Shriver Recse, manager of the Middle Department of the American Employers' Liability Insurance Com- pany.
Mr. Reese was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on September 7, 1858, and is the son of William Smith Reese, who was a director of the Balti- more & Ohio Railroad Company during the war period, and was also Naval Officer of the Port of Baltimore, and subsequently Collector of Customs of the same port.
E. S. Reese graduated from the University of Maryland with honors, and became a mem- ber of the Baltimore bar in 1879, before he had attained his majority.
IIe practiced law in Baltimore until 1890, with snecess, at which time, after an illness of many months, and finding that during his sick- ness his practice had been divided among other attorneys, he undertook writing employers' liability insurance as a means of bridging over until he could get his practice together again.
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After two months' experience in that line he recognized the larger opportunities afforded by the business, and he decided to make it his permanent occupation for the future. He was given the Baltimore ageney for the company he now represents, and such was his success that in less than sixteen months he was pro- moted five times, and then given the position of manager of the Company's Middle Depart- ment, with headquarters in Cleveland.
Since coming to Cleveland Mr. Reese has succeeded in building up a fine business for his company, and has established for himself a reputation both in business and social circles enjoyed by but few men in his or any other line on so short a residence.
Mr. Reese was married on June 2, 1892, to Miss Edith Engenia Crawford, danghter of James B. Crawford, Esq., president of the Third National Bank of Baltimore.
D OCTOR CHARLOTTE ELIZABETHI MURRAY, practicing at No. 526 Pros- peet street, was born at Niagara Falls, Niagara county, New York, in 1855, danghter of Andrew and Charlotte (Moody) Murray, natives of Canada, the father of Scotch and the mother of Irish extraction. Mrs. Charlotte M. Murray was born on the river Credit in 1833, having been the first white child born in that locality. Mr. and Mrs. Murray now reside at Niagara Falls, New York, Mr. Murray being now at the advanced age of seventy-seven years. His father also lived to an extreme old age, and with his brother, our subject's great unele, were pioneers in the Hudson's Bay Fur Com- pany, and for ten years they braved the hard- ships and dangers of pioneer life in a country where their subsistence depended entirely on the products of fishing and hunting. The great-uncle served the Crown during the Revo- Intionary war.
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