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1836
BRADBURN
Manufacturer, wholesale grocer, and distiller were successively the occupations of Charles Bradburn who came to Cleveland in 1836. He was born in Attlebury, Mass., in 1808, and was the son of a Massachusetts cotton manufacturer. He was a pioneer in the wholesale grocery busi- ness of the city, and built the first warehouse for that purpose only, at the foot of St. Clair street.
He took great interest in local educational matters. He served many terms as a member of the Board of Education. In the establishment of a High School he took prominent part, and fought long and hard the op- position its promoters encountered. His portrait in oil hangs in the Central High School building on Willson Ave.
His fine library, the collection of a lifetime, was destroyed in a fire which burned a fashionable boarding house in which, after his wife's death, Mr. Bradburn was located.
Mrs. Bradburn was a Miss Eliza Stone, of Lowell, Mass. She was a very estimable woman, whose influence with her family was strong. Her husband and sons adored her, and her death proved a calamity which involved each of them in the same manner and degree. The Bradburns lived on Miami street, then on Woodland ave., corner of Brownell street, in a double brick house, the other half of which was occupied by Willard Burnham. The Bradburns afterward resided in a cream-colored, vine- covered cottage on Euclid ave. adjoining the Ursuline Convent. Judge Griswald, later, built a substantial brick house on the site, and this, in turn, gave way for the Colonial Arcade buildings.
Mr. and Mrs. Bradburn had two sons, Charles and George Bradburn. The former married a fine woman and died leaving a little daughter, Ida Bradburn.
Charles Bradburn, Sr., died within a few days after his son's death, and George soon followed his father.
The family all repose in a vault in Erie stret cemetery.
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LELAND
Aaron and Submit Arnold Leland came to Newburgh from Vermont. Aaron had four brothers who were all in the hotel business, and his own sons eventually became noted as hotel owners and landlords all over the country, especially in New York and Chicago.
Mr. and Mrs. Leland were both large people, in mind and body. They were very generous and hospitable. Mrs. Leland had the best business head of the two. She was a splendid manager of affairs. Mr. Leland was a jolly, good-natured man, and both were fine dancers, and fond of that pleasure. Their sons Horace, George, Jerome, and Charles, married New York or Chicago ladies. Warren married Isabella Cobb, daughter of Ahira Cobb of Cleveland. She lost her life years afterward in a hotel fire. Clarissa married Col. Noble Wiggins. They lived in Springfield, Ill., where Col. Wiggins kept a large hotel for many years.
1836
BAUDER
Charles L. Bauder was an early furniture dealer of the city. He came here from Utica, N. Y., about 1836, and after a sojourn of a few years in this place he returned to Utica, but repenting of what may have seemed to him a retrograde, he once more made his home in Cleveland, where he remained until his death in 1876.
His parents were Ludwick and Catherine-Klock-Bauder, of St. John- ville, N. Y. His mother was a daughter of General Klock from whom Fort Klock derives its name.
Mr. Bauder's furniture store was on Water street and the family lived there until their return to Utica. Their second home was 31 Pros- pect street corner of Hickox, where Mr. Bauder bought a lot and erected a dwelling.
Mr. Bauder was 24 years old and his wife but 21 years when they came to Cleveland. She was Miss Hannah Northrop Eddy before her marriage to Mr. Bauder. She died in 1873. There were two brothers of Mr. Bauder residing in Cleveland in the '40s. The family burial lot was in Erie street cemetery.
The children of Charles and Hannah Bauder:
Emily Josephine Bauder, b. 1830; Olive J. Bauder, b. 1846; m. W. H. m. A. E. Hoon. She died in Kokoma, Ind. Polhamus, now an honored veteran of the civil war.
Lucy A. Bauder, b. 1834; m. Charles M. Eldred of Elyria, O.
Eva. F. Bauder, m. Samuel Hunkin.
Viola M. Bauder, b. 1841; m. Albert
N. H. Piper. She died 1882.
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BALDWIN
Oliver Perry Baldwin became a resident of Cleveland in 1836. He pacticed law and edited a paper for two years, then removed to Virginia. He was widely known in the south as an editor and a senator. He was the son of Capt. Daniel Baldwin who lost a leg at the battle of the Brandy- wine.
O. P. Baldwin married Eliza Shefney of Virginia. He died in 1878.
While living in Cleveland he was noted as an eloquent speaker, and was a favorite orator on public occasions.
1836
TUCKER
The arrival of Rev. Levi Tucker in Cleveland followed immediately upon the completion and dedication of the First Baptist church, corner of Seneca and Champlain streets.
This society had its beginning three years before, when, one February day, a membership of about 16 people held one of its obligatory cere- monies, baptism by immersion, at the foot of Water street. It must have taken heroic faith that bitter winter day to walk into the icy waters of Lake Erie, be immersed in it, and then walk or ride home in a cold wind with garments clinging and dripping. But it was no unusual sight in those years of self-sacrificing Christianity.
The first minister, Elder Tucker, was born in Broome, N. Y., on the national birthday, July 4th, and was 32 years old when he took charge of the Baptist church. He was the fifth child of Charles and Charity Stevens Tucker. When he was twelve years of age, the death of Mrs. Charity Tucker left a large family of young children motherless. But the father, with unusual sense and ability, managed to keep his home and his children within it. Levi received his education in Hamilton college, and was ordained a Baptist minister.
In June, 1829, he married Jeanette Griswald Lee, daughter of Rev. Jason and Jeanette Griswald Lee of Butternuts, N. Y.
Mrs. Tucker had a most unusual genealogy. She was descended from Mathew Griswald and his wife, Ann Wolcott, and belonged to what might be called "a ministerial family." She was the wife of a Baptist clergyman, her father was a Congregational minister of Lyme, N. Y., her grandfather was Rev. Jason Lee, Sr .; and the Rev. Joseph Lee, and Rev. George Griswald were her great-grandfathers. Her only son be- came the rector of a Protestant Episcopal church.
Mrs. Tucker was a delicate woman, but she entered into her husband's work with enthusiasm, and assisted in his pastoral duties to the limit of her strength. The personnel of the Baptist membership was particu- larly favorable and satisfactory for a pastor's wife who was frail and beginning a new life far from her mother and girlhood friends. For the little religious body was like a family of affectionate sons and daughters. Any sorrow that befell one member was shared by all, and there were many instances of mutual interest, affection, and practical help and sym- pathy. "The stranger within their gates" was always noticed and wel-
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comed. The women of the church, like those of all other denominations, worked early and late for its financial and spiritual welfare. Most of them were young, many were brides of a recent date, and all were bound by ties of religious fervor and personal friendship that strengthened with the years, and lasted until death.
Any social function of the First Baptist church during the last dec- ade of the past century was made interesting by the group of white- haired women present, addressing each other by given names and mak- ing mirthful or mysterious allusions to the events of bygone days.
And the younger set, being initiated into the detail of church activi- ties, listened enviously, recognizing that nothing happening in the pros- perous present would ever seem so interesting or worth while as those "twice-told tales" of the early struggles of the church society.
Elder Tucker remained in Cleveland nine years, long enough to be- come much endeared to his little flock. He has been described as a most lovable man, and his departure for the east was sorrowfully regretted.
Evidently, he had almost prophetic faith in the future of the city, and great confidence in what steam would accomplish for the world, accord- ing to an incident related of him.
A number of friends, irrespective of denominational preferences, were dining at the home of Erastus Gaylord, and in the course of conversation, Rev. Levi Tucker remarked that there were those present who would live to see Cleveland a great and populous city. Furthermore, he went on to predict that a railroad would reach, some day, from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
This when Cleveland numbered but 6000 people, and railroads were being talked of merely, the first one to enter the city yet 12 years in the future.
The company smiled at his assertion or frowned at it, according to temperament, but all thought it presumptuous. Possibly, some lively young matron whispered to her neighbor beside her, "He must think some of us are going to be „Methuselahs," and doubtless others thought, "It takes a minister with no knowledge of practical affairs to predict such ridiculous and impossible things."
Elder Tucker became quite a traveler. He visited the Holy Land, and wrote letters from it that were widely published. He died in Cincinnatus, N. Y., in his 49th year.
Mrs. Tucker was two years younger than her husband. She passed away in Boston, Mass., at the age of 45.
Levi and Jeannette Lee Tucker had three children, two of whom are yet living.
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Elisha Woodridge Tucker. Died Rev. Joseph L. Tucker. B. 1842. young, and buried in Erie st. cem- Rector of Christ's Church, Mobile, Alabama.
etery.
Mary Jeannette Tucker. Married
Henry Dwight Peck. Resides in Virginia.
Mrs. Edward Lansing Harris, well-known in the social and patriotic circles of our city, is a grandniece of Rev. Levi Tucker, her grand- mother having been his sister.
1836
TERRY
Dr. Charles Augustus Terry of Hartford, Conn., had but recently re- ceived his medical diploma when he came with his bride to Cleveland and began a practice of his profession that lasted through life.
He was the youngest of the five sons and two daughters of Col. Na- athaniel Terry of Hartford, who was a member of Congress, and a de- scendant of the Terry who emigrated from England with William Pyn- chon, and became one of the earliest settlers of Springfield, Mass.
Dr. Terry's mother was Catherine Wadsworth, daughter of Jeremiah Wadsworth, commissary general in the revolutionary war.
She built an elegant mansion on Prospect street, Hartford, where the Terry family resided many years, and where Dr. Terry was born. This house and the adjacent one erected by her brother, Daniel Wadsworth, are among the finest specimens of New England architecture in the late 18th century.
Col. Terry's five sons, Edward, Henry, Alfred, Charles, and Adrian Terry, were all unusually handsome, spirited young men, and because of this and their high social standing, they were early dubbed "the Hart- ford Princes." One of these sons was the father of Rose Terry Cooke, the poet, and writer of short stories. Another was the father of General Alfred Terry, distinguished officer of the civil war. A third brother, Alfred, married the daughter of Gen. Hezekiah Howe, sister of Mrs. Moses Kelly, a pioneer of Cleveland.
The Terry family possessed musical and artistic ability to a marked degree.
Dr. and Mrs. Terry made their first residence in town at 109 Supe- rior street. A few years later they were living at 43 St. Clair street, which was on the north side of it, near Water street. Dr. Terry after- ward built a three-storied brick house on the same street, between Bond and Wood streets. It had a high basement, and this the doctor used as an office. In this home the family lived long years, and here Dr. and Mrs. Terry died only one year apart.
Mrs. Terry was Julia Woodbridge, daughter of Ward Woodbridge, a merchant of Hartford, Conn. She was of a well-known Massachusetts
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and Connecticut family, many of whom were noted clergymen. At the time of their marriage, Dr. and Mrs. Terry were considered the hand- somest couple in that part of the state. Mrs. Terry had many warm friends in Cleveland. She was a fine woman, intelligent, cultured, and refined. She was an invalid several years before her death, which oc- curred in 1871, and her husband followed her a year later at the age of 61. They rest in Erie st. cemetery.
Their children consisted of three daughters:
Ellen Frances Terry, b. 1837. Mar- Julia Woodbridge Terry. Married
ried Prof. Charles F. Johnson of Col. Henry Closson, U. S. A.
Trinity College, Hartford, Conn. Eliza Hudson Terry. Died young.
Ellen F. Terry was prominently connected with the Northern Ohio Sanitary Commission all through the years of the civil war.
1836
WETMORE
The junior member of the firm of Younglove & Wetmore, book-sell- ers, book-binders, and stationers, 40 Superior street, in 1836, was Edward Perkins Wetmore. He was the son of Dea. Oliver and Esther Arnold Wetmore, and direct descendant of Elder Brewster.
He was an honorable young man, liberal in his dealings, and greatly esteemed by his friends and business associates. His generosity and kindness of heart is said to have been unbounded.
He married, in 1851, Mrs. Frances Norton Dockstader, widow of Butler Dockstader, of Cleveland. She was the daughter of Elisha Nor- ton, first postmaster of Cleveland, and Margaret Clark, his wife. Her grandfather, David Clark, came to Cleveland with his family in 1800.
Mr. Wetmore left Cleveland in the '50s, and settled in Cheviot, Ham- ilton Co., O. He died in Cincinnati, where he had previously removed, and been engaged in business.
1836
WHITE
Philip White, a painter and glazier, came to town in 1836 from Dur- ham, Green Co., N. Y. He was 42 years old and had a family of at least four sons. They lived at 126 Ontario street.
Mr. White lived but seven years after his arrival here. He died in 1843, and was buried in Erie st. cemetery. His son Albert White was a soldier of the Mexican war, and died in 1847 at Pueblo, Mexico.
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STEWART
Lampert White, born 1818, was a citizen of Cleveland for 50 years, but none of his nephews or nieces seem able to tell of his immediate fam- ily. He died in 1868, and was placed beside his father and brother in Erie st. cemetery. He was a painter, and in 1856 was a constable and liv- ing at 116 Perry street.
John S. White, b. 1825, came with his parents to Cleveland at the age of eleven, and when old enough was associated with his father in the painting business. In later life he was in a drug-store with the Gay- lords, and afterward dealt in oil.
He was a drummer in the Cleveland Grays, a member of the old volunteer fire department, and at the breaking out of the civil war en- listed in the 103rd Reg. O. V. I. He was a warm-hearted, generous man, quiet and methodical.
In 1845 he married Margaret Wolverton, dau. of Henry Wolverton. of Michigan.
The children of Henry S. and Margaret White:
B. F. White, m. Minnie Adams.
Mary White, m. L. H. Root.
Fanny White, m. W. H. Silverthorn.
1836
STEWART
Royal Stewart was one of the early Cleveland lawyers, but the year he came here has not been learned, but probably between 1836 and 1840. He married Miss Sarah Sabin, daughter of William H. and Sallie Forman Sabin of Onondaga, N. Y. Her mother was a niece of Judge Forman of Syracuse, N. Y.
Miss Sabin studied Latin and the higher mathematics, and after- ward entered the celebrated Willard Seminary in Troy, N. Y. While there she was the room-mate of the future Mrs. Wm. H. Seward, then Frances A. Miller, whose husband was one of President Lincoln's cabi- net.
Miss Sabin married Royal Stewart in 1832, and soon after finishing her course at the seminary. She died in this city in 1849. Her hus- band probably returned east and died there. His name appears in the 1845 City Directory, but not in that of 1856.
The children of Royal and Sarah Stewart:
William S. Stewart.
Ellen E. Stewart, m. Dickinson ; resided in Brooklyn, N. Y. 573
1836
RICHMOND
For many years, beginning with that of 1835, and remaining long after its owner had removed from this city to Chicago, a warehouse stood on River street bearing a large sign, upon which was painted in bold let- ters that could be easily read by every vessel entering the harbor :
"T. RICHMOND."
It stood for the Hon. Thomas Richmond, who once did a flourishing mercantile and shipping business in Cleveland and Richmond, the lake- port of Painesville, which he founded in 1831.
He built many vessels, and was one of the pioneers, if not the one who established the iron ore trade with Lake Superior mining districts. One of his epoch-making enterprises was the building of the "Dean Rich- mond," loading her with grain and sending her, via Welland Canal, to Liverpool, England.
Mr. Richmond was the son of Nathaniel and Abigail Wood Richmond of Taunton, Mass., and Banard, Vt., and was about 45 years of age when he settled in Cleveland. He was in the war of 1812, serving as valet to a captain, being considered too young for enlistment as a soldier, but bound to be at the front in the conflict. He went to Syracuse while yet a lad, and while that place was bearing the primitive name, "Salt Paint," and engaged in its sole occupation, the manufacture and sale of salt.
In 1822, he married Olive Yale, daughter of Charles Yale of Salina, N. Y., who was a charming young woman 22 years of age. The first ten years of their married life were spent in Syracuse; there was a so- journ in Painesville and Cleveland for 15 years more, then the family removed to Chicago, Ill., in which city Thomas Richmond became a lead- ing citizen, one of its most famous founders. He built the "Richmond House," long known as a Chicago hotel. He was also in the Ohio legisla- ture, and represented his district in the Illinois senate as well. He died, at the extreme age of 97, in Woodstock, Vt.
Two of his sons married into old and prominent Cleveland families. The Cleveland residence of Thomas Richmond was 132 Superior street.
The children of Thomas and Olive Yale Richmond:
William T. Richmond, b. 1822; m. Catherine Sargeant, daughter of Joseph and Laura Brooks Sar- geant of Cleveland.
Charles Yale Richmond, m. Caro- line Gibson of Buffalo.
Allen Richmond, b. 1825; m. Helen O. Crittenden, dau. of N. C. and Maria Crittenden of Cleveland. They moved to Chicago in 1858. Helen O. Richmond outlived him, and died in Cleveland.
Holland M. Richmond, b. 1828; m. in late life Elisabeth Shessber of Milwaukee, Wis.
Joseph Richmond, b. 1830; m. Ma- ria Sawtell. Lived in Chicago.
Olive Yale Richmond, m. George G. Smith. He was born in New York. They lived at Suspension Bridge.
At least three sons of this family, Charles, Allen, and Holland Rich- mond, left no posterity.
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SOUTHWORTH
There were four men by the name of Southworth living in Cleveland before 1840. Two of them were brothers, the sons of John and Lucy Barker Southworth of East Haddam, Conn. Their widowed mother fol- lowed her sons west, and died here, and was buried in Woodland ceme- tery. Harrison Grey Otis Southworth, the older brother, born 1815, was a printer. He died of consumption in 1839, unmarried.
William Palmer Southworth, born 1819, came to Cleveland in 1836. He learned the carpenter's trade, at which he worked for many years, and became a builder and contractor on a small scale. Some time in the late '60s, he opened a small retail grocery-store on the n. w. corner of Ontario and Champlain streets, and established a business policy that was new to the trade, and one it was freely predicted would surely fail.
Every sale was on a cash basis. An article had to be paid for then and there. No accounts were entered, because no books were kept. The wealthiest customer in his purchase amounting to $50 or more was granted no more favor in respect of payment than the poor one whose purchase was less than a dollar.
Some of the former, accustomed to the convenience of monthly bills, argued with him and pleaded in vain.
"Pay down or go elsewhere," was his only reply. Mr. Southworth pos- sessed great executive ability. He was a strict disciplinarian in the con- duct of his business. There was no waste nor leakage. His methods ena- bled him to sell on the smallest margin of profit. His first store-room soon became too small, and he removed to a larger one across the street.
"Southworths" became a household word, and yet remains the leading retail grocery of the city.
Mr. Southworth had no use for a lazy or indifferent clerk, but was most appreciative of one who was ambitious and loyal to his employer. A young clerk attracted Mr. Southworth's attention by his faithfulness and industry, which led to positions of trust and finally admittance to the firm.
Mrs. W. P. Southworth was Miss Louise Stark, 24 years of age at the time of her marriage in 1855. She was the daughter of Jeremiah and Lucy Champion Stark. Her life was full of activities, and she was al- ways reaching out for the truth in spirit and in doctrine. A most use- ful woman, who longed to see the world better, and especially easier for woman-kind. She was kind-hearted and sympathetic, ready to help in any good cause.
The family lived for many years on Euclid ave., where it is inter- sected by Huron Road. When business crowded that locality they re- moved to Prospect street above Sterling ave.
The children of William Palmer and Lucy Stark Southworth :
William Southworth.
Mary Louise Southworth.
Frances Southworth, m. Frederick Goff.
Otis Stark Southworth, m. Georgi- ana Lee, daughter of James M. Lee.
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LOOMIS
The name appears in Cleveland as early as 1812, when Eleazer Loom- is, 24 years of age, died and was buried in the Ontario st. cemetery. He was a son of Eleazer and Julia Coleman Loomis of Connecticut.
There has not been a time since when some member of the Loomis family has not been represented in Cleveland as a permanent resident of the city.
Gilbert and Anson Loomis, sons of Devester and Beeda Clark Loomis, of Sangerfield, N. Y., were engaged in a wholesale and retail grocery business at 14 Dock street in 1836. They boarded at the Cleveland House on the Public Square, now the Forest City House.
When they came to Cleveland, has not been established.
Gilbert Loomis was born in 1810, and died in 1841. He married in 1838, Eliza Ann Moore. Their children were:
Jennie Augusta Loomis, b. 1839; m. Harriet Loomis, b. 1841; died with- Henry Lewis. in a month of her father's death.
Anson Loomis was born in 1812. He was married and had been liv- ing in Missouri previous to his residence in Cleveland. His wife's maiden name was Charlotte Brown. She died in 1856, and Anson Loomis in 1863. They left no children. The Loomis families had a lot in the Erie st. cemetery.
Laura Loomis, a sister of Anson and Gilbert Loomis, married George Mix of Waterville, N. Y. She removed to Cleveland, and died here in 1881.
1836 SARGEANT
Samuel Sargent, son of Joseph and Lucretia Williams Sargeant of Mansfield, Conn., was a younger brother of Joseph Sargeant the pioneer merchant of Cleveland. He lived in this city twice, moving away and returning again. His business while in this locality has not been ascer- tained.
Several members of the immediate family removed to Round Prairie, Minn., and a number of the grandchildren still reside in that town.
Samuel Sargeant married in 1836, Mary Parmalee, daughter of Hor- ace Parmalee. She was then 21 years old, and she died 75 years of age. Samuel was born in 1803, and died 1891.
The children of Samuel and Mary Parmalee Sargeant:
John Henry Sargeant, m. Sophia Dimon.
Joseph Sargeant, b. 1843; m. Lucy M. Woods.
Fanny Eliott Sargeant, m. Francis C. Chase.
Samuel Sherman Sargeant, m. Susie McCarohan.
Walter Sargeant, m. Sarah E. Hersh.
Grace Sargeant, m. Charles W. Woodruff.
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STOCKLY
John Galt Stockly was born in Philadelphia, Pa., 1799. He was a son of Captain Ayres Stockly of Accomac, Virginia, and Mary Galt, his wife, of Philadelphia.
He early showed an inclination to follow his father's love of the sea, by running away and enlisting in the navy. His mother, who was a widow, had no difficulty in securing his release, as he was a minor.
In order to hold him and prepare him for a life at sea, should he still with later to follow it, she apprenticed him to Capt. Ogleby, owner of a ship-yard in Philadelphia, to whom he served his time faithfully, and so successfully, that with a partner he started a ship-yard of his own, known as "Berriman & Stockly," on Front st.
Again he was seized with a desire for the sea, and, selling his inter- est in the business, he took voyage to the West Indies, later to England, and other countries.
About 1830, he was sent by our government as custom officer on a line of small steamers plying between Buffalo and Chippewa, and used as a means of communication between this country and Canada. On one of these trips, he met a young French girl, Mlle. Duchatel, and soon be- came very much interested in her. He also met some American capital- ists who were planning to invest in mills on the Welland canal, and was secured by them as superintendent of their interests.
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