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Dr. Murray received her education at Ningara Falls, and read medicine under Dr. K. Parsons,
of Cleveland, graduating in the class of 1890, after three years study a post-graduate course at the Homeopathie Hospital College of Cleve- land, Ohio, now the University of Medicine and Surgery. In 1889 Dr. Murray served as assistant in the Woman's Dispensary and was physician in charge of that institution in 1890. She conducted a general medical elinie in the Good Samaritan, and in the Woman's Dis- pensary in 1892 was physician to the "Open Door" on Erie street during the last year of its existence, and was appointed physician to the new establishment of that name recently opened on Ontario street; she is also a member of the medical staff at the Maternity Ilome on Iluron street, and is a member of the Round Table Club, composed of representative physicians of both sexes in the Homeopathie school.
Dr. Murray is well read in her studies, is progressive and enterprising, a lady of pleasing address, and shows that refinement and culture which are born only of close kinship with books and the best they contain.
In religious matters she is an Episcopalian, and is much interested in rescuo and charitable work.
R OBERT McLAUCHLAN is a native of Buchlyvie, Stirlingshire, Scotland. Ilis father, William MeLauchlan, was an earnest worker and public advocate of the temperance cause at its commencement there, and later of Galt, Ontario, where he died in the ninetieth year of his age, greatly beloved and widely respected.
The subject of our sketch was for eleven years connected with coal and iron-ore indus- tries at Airdrie, Lanarkshire, Scotland, as man- ager of the important works of William Fernie Buist & Company. In July, 1851, he married Margaret, daughter of Mr. John McEwan, merchant, Buchlyvie, and widow of Dr. Daniel Kennedy. Three years later, on account of her failing health, and by medical advice, they came to America and settled in Cleveland,
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where he has been connected with various en- terprises. On the death of David Morris, in 1862, he took charge of that estate as exeentor, and for many years successfully managed the extensive mining interests of the testator. In 1870 he purchased a home at Flat Rock, Hen- derson county, North Carolina, where he and his wife spent their winters, and where she died, in March, 1886.
In October, 1892, Mr. MeLauchlan was united in marriage to Miss Mary D. Campbell, daughter of Mr. Peter Campbell, of Youngs- town, Ohio, whose life has been principally de- voted toeducational pursuits, having held promi- ment positions in Cleveland, Portsmouth and Youngstown, Ohio, where for ten years she was preceptress of the Rayen School. Happily she cherishes the same blessed hope of her husband, and together they strive for and in defense of the " faith once delivered to the saints."
Mr. McLanehlan's religious belief is so differ- ent from that commonly accepted, and so liable to be misunderstood, that he desires very briefly to say that notwithstanding the early religious training of himself and wife, they were led to believe that " the wages of sin is death," not everlasting torment, and that " the gift of God is eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord;" that instead of men being immortal by nature, as taught by pagan philosophers, Christ has commanded his followers to SEEK for immortality. The whole Bible teaching, by direct testimony as well as by analogy and figure, agrees with this. The account of the ereation of man, and the penalty attached to the law of Eden proves it, and the object of the expulsion, after the transgression, seals it, as stated in these words: "Now, lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat and live forever, therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Elen."- Gen. ifi, 22.
If man had been immortal by nature, as claimed by popular theology, how absurd to put him under a law having a death penalty at- tached to it, and equally useless to exelnde him
from the tree of life, lest by eating of it he should become immortal. The teaching of Christ and his apostles is in entire harmony with this. Paul says, " Christ brought life and immortality to light through the gospel." This sets aside the claim of Socrates and Plato. Their theory, now so commonly accepted, is the myth of science. " Life in Christ " is the truth of the gospel and the fact of Scripture; hence we can understand Paul's masterly reasoning in 1st Corinthians, xvth chapter, where he makes a future life contingent on a resurrection from the dead, and to which he says he is striving to attain .-- Phil. ili, 11.
This opposition to the teaching of the re- ligious world naturally isolated Mr. MeLaunch- lan and his wife from the various religious com- munities, and the result was that weekly meet- ings were held in their own house till enough of like faith had been gathered to form a little church, which was organized in 1863. From time to time additions were made to their num- bers, and now they are known as the " Church of the Blessed Hope," meeting in their com- modious building on Woodland avenne, oppo- site Longwood, of which Mr. Maurice Joblin is the evangelist, who has been abundantly blessed in winning souls to Christ. There are many churches of like precious faith seattered through- out the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Australia, India and other Asiatie countries. Their distinguishing characteristic is a return to the neglected truths of the word of God, which have been buried for ages beneath the rubbish of human tradition That word teaches life immortal only in and through Christ; the lit- eral destruction of all who reject eternal life on the conditions proposed, -- faith and obedience; and the final extinction of all sin, suffering and death from the world, which, purified and re- newed, will become the everlasting home of the saints, instead of heaven above the clouds, which is nowhere promised in the Book of God. In this way the character of God is vindicated, the harmony of his word maintained, and his purpose in creation and redemption unfolded.
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According to divine testimony, "God is love;" "God is light;" and in him is no darkness at all,"-"a just God and a Savior." Popular theology professes to believe these features in the Divine character, but practically it denies them by teaching that sinners live eternally, and are doomed to endless woe.
As a tribute of gratitude for deliverance from sectarian bondage, and especially from the depressing influence of Calvinism, Mr. Mc- Lauchlan desires to put this brief statement on record, hoping that thereby many may be in- duced to investigate the foundation of their faith, to see whether it stands in the wisdom of men, or the power of God,-the good news of the kingdom of God ere long to be established on the earth according to divine promise .-- Dan. vii, 27; Luke i, 32, 33; Rev. v, 9, 10.
G IDEON PEASE, a citizen of Rocky River hamlet, Ohio, was born in Rockport town- ship, this county, November 7, 1837, a son of Solomon and Mary E. (Rodgers) Pease, who were early settlers of Rockport town- ship, emigrating from Chautauqua county, New York, about 1826 or 1827. They died in Roek- port township, --- the father November 14, 1846, and the mother August 24, 1888. They had five children, of whom Gideon was the third. He came to Cuyahoga county with his parents when abont nine years old, and has since con- tinued to reside in Rockport township or Rocky River hamlet, with the exception of three years, when he lived in Erie county, Ohio. He was married in Castalia, Erie county, Ohio, March 20, 1860, to Miss Mary J. Giddings, who was born in Rockport township, September 27, 1841, and is a daughter of the late Calvin and Mary (Bennett) Giddings, who were former residents of Rockport township, but who in the spring of 1859 removed to Erie county, Ohio. Mr. Gid. dings died in Virginia, while there on business, May 4, 1875, and Mrs. Giddings in Rockport township, December 24, 1890.
Mr. and Mrs. Gideon Pease have had eight children, of whom five are living, namely: Jen- nie, Lillie, Mabel, Edna and Calvin. Two chil- dren died in infancy, and another, Mary E., when thirteen years old.
Mr. Pease filled the office of Township Trustee for some ten years.
F FREDERICK HAUSSERMAN, deceased, was for many years one of the respected citizens of Parma township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio. A brief record of his life is as follows:
Frederick Hansserman was born in Wurtem- burg, Germany, November 5, 1823, and in his native land he remained until 1846. That year he emigrated to America. Upon his arrival in this country he located in Cleveland, where for some three years he was engaged in the butcher- ing business, and for over a year he ran a meat market there. After this he returned to Enrope, remained abont eight months, and upon coming back to Ohio settled in Cuyahoga county, ou a farm in Parma township. Here he was engaged in agricultural pursuits the rest of his life, in connection with which he also carried on a butchering business for a number of years.
Mr. Ilausserman was married in Parma township, May 29, 1850, to Miss Angeline Snell, who was born in Medina county, New York, April 8, 1827, daughter of John J. and Naney (Thumb) Snell. Her parents came to Cuyahoga county and settled in Parma town- ship in 1831, and here spent the rest of their lives and died. Mr. and Mrs. Hausserman be- came the parents of eight children, namely: F. A. Eliza, wife of D. M. Johnson, is deceased; Helen L., wife of K. K. Hodgman, resides in Parma township; Sarah L .: Dora M., wife of M. Il. Bailey, Parma township; Frederick J. M., married Rinda Fuller, and lives in Brook- lyn, this county; William G .; Sherman G .; Angie E., wife of J. L. Stadler, Brooklyn, Ohio.
After an active and useful life, during which he gained the respect and esteem of all who
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knew him, Mr. Hausserman passed to his re- ward, his death occurring June 28, 1891. Ile was an active member of the German Evangeli- cal Church, and exemplified in his life the teachings of the Christian religion.
J W. TAYLOR, a retired banker of Cleve- land, was born in this city, June 2, 1824, a son of Elisha and Ann (Dunlap) Taylor. The father was a native of Otsego, New York, and was married in that vicinity. He came to Cleveland in 1816, where he was engaged as a general merchant until 1826, and for the follow- ing seven years resided on a farm in Cherry valley, New York. Hle next removed to New York. Mr. Taylor was an ardent temperance worker, and did great good in that line, having organized temperance societies and edited the Temperance Recorder, then the only strictly temperance paper in the State. He returned to Cleveland in 1843, where he followed mer- chandising four years, and then, in partnership with J. M. Hoyt, embarked in the real-estate business. They purchased ont-land tracts, which they converted into lots to snit the purchaser. Mr. Taylor remained in this city until his death, in April, 1861, at the age of seventy-five years. Ile was a charter member and officer in the Presbyterian Church, and was a member of the building committee of the Euclid Avenue Pres- byterian Church. Mrs. Taylor died in this city in 1824, at about thirty years of age. She was also a life-long member of the Presbyterian Church.
J. W. Taylor, the youngest and only survivor of nine children, five of whom died in early life, graduated at Union College in 1843. Ile afterward clerked in his father's store for seven years, was then employed as bookkeeper in what is now the National City Bank, next removed to the southern part of the State, and for the following fifteen years was engaged in different positions in the bank. During the late war he spent four years in Louisville. Returning to
Cleveland in 1866, Mr. Taylor was engaged in the settlement of his father's estate, completing the same in 1893.
In 1847 he was united in marriage with Miss Anna Sexton, and they had one child, Anna, now the wife of George W. Lutton, of Florida. The wife and mother died in October, 1849, at the age of twenty-two years. Mr. Taylor was again married, in 1871, to Belle, a daughter of William Cresling, an attorney of Springfield, Ohio. One child has been added to this union, Edith, attending college at Northampton, Mas- sachusetts. Mr. Taylor is a member of the First Baptist Church. In political matters he is a staneh Republican. Is a thorough scholar, a true gentleman, and enjoys the abiding con- fidence and respect of his acquaintances for his manly character and unimpeachable integrity.
F W. TRUMPER, general agent for the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, of Boston, Massachusetts, has been a resident of the city of Cleveland since 1891. In August, 1892, he associated himself with the company he now represents in eastern Ohio. A man of energy and good business ability, he has extended the operations of his corporation and greatly advanced its interests.
Mr. Trumper is a native of Canada, born at Belleville, April 4, 1844, a son of Richard and Jane (Howe) Trumper. He was reared in the Dominion and received his carlier education there. Later he pursued his studies in Roches- ter, New York, and in 1863 embarked in busi- ness. For eighteen years he gave his attention to the nursery trade, abandoning this enterprise to go into the oil regions of Pennsylvania. There he remained less than two years, going to Philadelphia to enter the employ of the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company. Ile was with this corporation twelve years, filling the position of general agent. At the end of this period he took charge of the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company's business in Ohio, to which he has given the most faithful attention.
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He was married in 1869, to Miss Laura M. Mackey, and they have had three children: Fred J., Richard T. and Grace. The family are exemplary members of the Enelid Avenue Congregational Church, and Mr. Trumper be- longs to the 1. O. O. F.
W ALSTENE D. PUDNEY was born at Sherburne, Chenango county, New York, February 22, 1846, and from the time he was ten years of age until he was sixteen he worked as a farm-hand summers and boarded at home in the winter, attending the common district school.
In the fall of 1861 he offered his services as a recruit in the Sixty-first New York Infantry, but was rejected on account of his age, and was told by the recruiting officer to go home and grow two or three years. He did not wait, however, that long before he began preparation so as to be of service when his age would per- mit. He at once began with several others to study the manual of arms, and to drill under the instruction of one of the returned officers of the three-months service. In February, 1863, he enlisted in the Fifth New York Heavy Artillery, and served continuously until August 1, 1565, when he was discharged as First Ser- geant of Battery HI, same regiment, participat- ing in the many battles of the Army of the Potomac until the summer of 1864. The second battalion of the regiment was detached and sent with General P. If. Sheridan into the Shenandoah Valley, participating in every battle of that year where such brilliant successes made Little " Phil." so famous.
After receiving his discharge he returned home, where he remained until March, 1866, when he went to Fort Dodge, lowa, and worked at farming, until the Dubuque and Sioux City Railway was extended, when he be- came a sub-contractor for the building of five miles of that road; at the end of a year his con- tract was completed and accepted, but he found that the contractors were hopelessly insolvent,
and he sold off what personal property he had and mortgaged his land for every dollar he could, and paid his help. When this was done he had $12 in his pocket and two Ohio notes of $320, each turned over as a part of the assets of the contractors above named. He then started for Ohio to see about the value of the two notes, and upon arrival at Columbus, Ohio, found that the maker of the notes was dead and his estate worse than insolvent! He also found that if he expected to reside there he would have to find work, as his available cash was less than a dollar, and that in Uncle Sam's " shin-plasters."
Upon consultation with a policeman ho learned that they were building a big sewer near State street and wanted help, at which place he obtained employment, where he worked several weeks. One day when it was too wet to work, he entered the gallery where the House of Representatives was in session and listened to the speeches of the members on the bill then pending which changed in Ohio the rate of interest from ten per cent. to eight per cent. per annum, little thinking that in twenty years he would sit as a member of that same body for two terms. One day, hearing an elderly man say he wanted to hire help on his farm, he hired out to a very large land owner near Plain City, Madison county, Ohio.
In the winter of 1803 he began the study of law, reading Blackstone whenever he could and going to the county seat occasionally to recite and receive instructions. He con- tinned this another year, when he hired ont to work only one-half of each week, the re- mainder of the time being spent in necessary study preparatory to entering the office of some attorney when opportunities were much better. In the spring of 1871 he entered the office of Hon. J. L. Cameron, of Marysville, Ohio, and was admitted to the bar a little over a year later. While in Marysville he served two terms as City Solicitor.
Hle resigned during the summer of 1877, and came to Cleveland and formed a partner- ship with Judge .1. M. Jackson, where he has
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since resided and been engaged in the practice of his profession. Ile has been also in the oc- casional employ of the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Company in the legal de- partment, assisting in buying right of way and. settlement of claims, and for the last few years has been in the employ of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company in their legal department.
Ile was nominated and elected as a member of the Sixty-ninth General Assembly of Ohio in the fall of 1889; renominated and re-elected to the Seventieth General Assembly at the election in the fall of 1891, serving two full terms, during which time he missed no days of any session, and but very few hours of any, and was the champion of the " Australian ballot law " and " good country roads," and was the author of the present most excellent law for building roads in this county by contract instead of the old way of putting money in a mud-hole by taxation and calling it "working the roads."
He has been connected with the following law firms: Jackson & Podney, Jackson, Pnd- ney & Athey and Pudney & Thieme, and at present is in the law department of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company.
S T. LE BARON, who has been a resi- dent of Cleveland since 1871, is a New Englander by birth, Montpelier, Ver- mont, being the place where he first saw the light of day: the date, January, 1835. ITis father, Apolis Le Baron, descended from Dr. Le Baron, a physician of the French army, who emigrated to America in the seventeenth cen- tury. Onr worthy subject spent his boyhood and youth among the hills of the Green Monn- tain State, and at the age of twenty-one years set out for the western frontier. IIe was accom- panied by his brother, William Le Baron, their mission being to erect the Atwater block in this city. In 1857 he entered the employ of the Pittsburg & Fort Wayne Railway Com- pany, and for eleven years had charge of a pas-
senger train on this road out of Chicago. He returned to Cleveland in 1871, and embarked in the real-estate business, to which he has since devoted his time and attention. He has been a most active dealer, making several additions to the city and transacting a large brokerage business.
Independent in polities, he casts his suffrage for men rather than promised measures. Hle has been a member of the Masonic fraternity since 1862.
Hle was nnited in marriage, in this city, in 1863, to Miss Jennie MeVean, a native of Cleveland. Mrs. Le Baron died in May, 1892, aged fifty years. They had one child, Harold S., who is associated with his father in business. The family residence is at 309 Crawford Road .. In religions matters Mr. Le Baron is not pro- nouneed, but has a preference for the expression of faith taught by the Unitarian society.
S U. TARBELL, deceased, for many years a prominent member of the medical pro- fession in Cuyahoga county, is entitled to the space that has been accorded him in this history. He was born in Colchester, New London county, Connecticut, April 17, 1817, a son of Abner and Lucy P. (Jones) Tarbell, and the eldest of three children. The other chil- dren bore the names of Leverett and Lneynthia. In an early day the family removed from the Nutmeg State to Ohio, making the journey with wagon and horses. Thirty-four days and nights were consumed in coming to Ohio, but all the hardships and privations of pioneer life were borne with that courage characteristic of the first settlers in an untried country. The father survived to the age of seventy -eight years; the mother died in 1836. The maternal grand- father, Asa Jones, was a soldier in the Revolu- tionary war and fonght in that conflict seven years.
Young Tarbell passed an uneventful youth on his father's farm, attending the short terms of school during the winter. When he began
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the study of medicine it was under the diree- tion of Dr. Delamater, of Cleveland. IIe acquired a thorough knowledge of the science, and after he engaged in practico at Bedford won a large patronage. Ilis death occurred at the age of sixty-two years, ending a useful career.
Dr. Tarbell was united in marriage January 20, 1855, to Lney A. Gray. Mrs. Tarbell was born at Ravenna, Ohio, in 1824, the daughter of Silas Gray, a native of the State of Connecti- eut. In his youth Mr. Gray was bound out, and, although he was deprived of the loving care of parents, received a superior education. Ile was married at Rensselaerville, New York, to Sally Watson, a daughter of Benjamin Wat- son, and they afterward taught school for some time at Albany. In 1813, they emigrated to the West, settling at Ravenna, Ohio, when that spot was marked by a few log honses. They first settled on the Dr. De Wolf farm, and later removed to the village of Bedford, where Mr. Gray became the host of the " Checkered Tav- ern," one of the best hotels between Cleveland and Pittsburg. They reared a family of twelve children, seven sons and five daughters. The mother died at the age of seventy years; the father survived to the age of seventy-five. lle was a member of the Masonic order, belonging to the blue lodge and chapter.
Mrs. Tarbell is a woman of good business ability, and takes a deep interest in all matters pertaining to the welfare of the village. Of a generous, sympathetic nature, she is ever ready to respond to the ery of the needy, and has a host of friends in all the walks of life.
S ANFORD GRAY, a successful farmer of Middleburg township, was born in Euclid, this county, June 2, 1831, and reared in Roekport and Middleburg townships, which have always been his home. For thirteen years he was engaged in running a sawmill, but other- wise he has followed agricultural pursuits and dealt in livo stock, being one of the successful men of Cuyahoga county.
He was married in Middleburg township, November 14, 1851, to Miss Sarisa Alexander, a native of Rockport township, and a daughter of Thomas Alexander, deceased. Mr. Gray has held many of the local offices of his township, and is a highly respected citizen.
R OBERT HODGMAN, deceased .- The father of our subject was the lato Amos Hodgman, Sr., who came from the State of Maine with his family of wife and seven children, in the autumn of 1821, settling in Parma township, where he died in 1828. Robert Hodgman was born in Lincoln county, Maine, May 20, 1810, and was eleven years old when he came with his father and family to Cuyahoga county. He was reared to manhood in Parma township, agriculture being his chief business, although for several years he owned and operated a sawmill on his farm. He was a quiet and unassuming man, respected by all for his honor and uprightness.
Ele was married in Parma township, Septem- ber 16, 1847, to Miss Julia A. Beels, who was born in Royalton township, Cuyahoga county, May 10, 1823, daughter of Abner Beels, de- ceased, a native of Herkimer county, New York, who came with his family to this county as early as 1821, settling in Royalton township, but in 1825 moved to Parma township, where he residod most of the time till his death. Ile, as well as his wife, died in Mason, Cass county, Michigan, at the residence of their daughter, Mrs. Harriet E. Stevens.
Robert Hodgman had six children, of whom two died in infancy. The living are: Roderick N., a resident of Parma township; Alice C., wife of B. O. Strond, of the same township; Kendrick K., who married Helen L. Hauseman and resides in Parma township; and Clarence C., who married Miss Emmet E. Humphries and lives in Parma township. Mrs. Hodgman has been a member of the Presbyterian Church ever since she was sixteen years of age.
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