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Memorial Record of the County of Cuyahoga and
Cleveland, Ohio

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Publ. Chicago:
The Lewis Publishing Company
1894
 

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  CHARLES W. DAVIS, a young and progressive man of business enterprise, was born in the city of Cleveland, June 30, 1867, a son of Dr. E. F. Davis, mentioned further on.
     Mr. Davis is engaged in the real-estate and insurance business (office at 462 Pearl street), in which he has given evience of ability and has been successful.  He has had a systematic business education, having graduated at the Spencerian Business College, after having attended the high-school of the city of Cleveland.  He is a gentleman of easy manner, is a pleasant converser, and, although a young man, evinces extraordinary business tact.  He is a director of the Ohio Savings Building and Loan Association.  Politically he is a Republican, and takes a decided interest in teh issues of the day.
     In 1891 he married Miss Pauline R. Fetterman, of Cleveland, and both himself and wife are members of the Disciple Church, in which field they take an active and efficient part.  Their residence is at 1328 Detroit street.
     D. E. F. Davis, father of the preceding and a prominent physician of Cleveland, was born at Poland, Ohio, in 1829, a descendant of an early family in the settlement of this country.  His ancestors were of Welsh origin, and among them there were several who were participants in the Revolutionary war as Colonial soldiers.
     Dr. Davis graduated at the Eclectic Medical Institute at Cincinnati, Ohio, and has been in the active practice of medicine for forty years.  Twenty-three years ago he came to Cleveland, and has since been prominent in the medical profession at this place.  He is an old practitioner, thoroughly well up in his profession, never having much love for politics, though a zealous Republican.
     Besides being prominent in his profession he sustains important business relations, being president of the Ohio Savings Building and Loan Association, and connected with other business enterprises.  In these relations also he shows that he is a man of shrewd judgment.  Fraternally, he is a member of the Order of Odd Fellows.  His residence is at 1330 Detroit street.

Source: Memorial Record of the County of Cuyahoga and City of Cleveland, Ohio - Publ. Chicago - The Lewis Publishing Company - 1894 - Page 574
  F. W. DAVIS, physician and surgeon at No. 387 Pearl Street, Cleveland, was born in Merrimac county, New Hampshire, July 14, 1853, a son of William S. and Maria E. (Widmer) Davis.  The father was born in Boston, Sept. 25, 1825, moved with his parents to New Jersey when young, and followed the sea for thirteen years.  During the late war he enlisted in Company C, Thirteenth New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, and after three years of service was prostrated by a sun-stroke, from which he never fully recovered.  After returning to his command, he was transferred to the navy, where he served until the expiration of his term of enlistment.  Dr. Davis was at first a carriage manufacturer by occupation, and was senior member of the firm of Davis & Son.  He was one of the founders of the Brothers Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, and was a member of the I. O. O. F. and of the E. E. Sturtevant Post, G. A. R.  His death occurred in February, 1890.  Mrs. Davis, a native of Switzerland, resides in Conrad, New Hampshire, aged sixty-six years.  They were the parents of six children, all still living.
     F. W. Davis, the only one of the above family in the West, came to this city in 1872.  He secured the position of clerk in the office of Superintendent of the Lake Shore Railroad, and while there also read medicine with Dr. G. O. Spence and W. H. Kitchen.  In 1882 he graduated in the medical department of the Western Reserve University, and immediately began the practice of his profession, on Pearl street, Cleveland, and is well and favorably known as one of the prominent young physicians of the city.  He is genial, pleasant and courteous, and in every way worthy and esteemed citizen, as well as a practitioner of skill and ability.
     In 1876 the Doctor was united in marriage with Miss Hannah M. Hubble, a daughter of Oliver C. and Harriet Hubble, both now deceased.  The father was born in Newburg, Ohio, in 1818, was a farmer in early life, and afterward became a teacher of Penmanship and art.  After residing in Chagrin Falls and Strongsville, he came to Cleveland in 1862, locating on the West Side, where he died May 2, 1890.  Mrs. Hubble was born in England, came with her parents in a wagon from Philadelphia to Ohio at the age of sixteen years, was married in Chagrin FAlls, and her death occurred in 1888, when she was aged sixty-six years.  Mr. and Mrs. Hubble were the oldest members of the Franklin Avenue Christian Church.  Our subject and wife have one child, Howard H.  Mrs. Davis is now a member of the Disciple Church.

Source: Memorial Record of the County of Cuyahoga and City of Cleveland, Ohio - Publ. Chicago - The Lewis Publishing Company - 1894 - Page 125
  JAMES F. J. DAVIS, Sergeant at Arms of the City Council, Cleveland, Ohio, was born in Orleans county, New York, Aug. 6, 1839, son of Paul H. and Caroline (Leland) Davis, the former of native of Vermont and the latter of New York.  Paul H. Davis was seven years old when he went with his parents, Joseph and Dolly Davis, to Orleans county.  That was in 1820, and there he has since remained, all these years being spent on the same farm where he now lives retired.  Joseph Davis bought his article for this land in the old Holland purchase.  The great-grandfather of our subject, Sergeant Paul Davis, served five years, nine months and eighteen days in the war of the Revolution.  His discharge, dated June 8, 1783, is now in the possession of Mr. Davis.  It bears the signature of George Washington.  At the early age of three years Mr. Davis was deprived of a mother's loving care, her death having occurred when she was twenty-five.
     Upon reaching young manhood, Mr. Davis turned his face westward and in Michigan spent the winter of 1857-'58 in teaching school.  Following that experience he entered the employ of a Government contractor in the Territory of Nebraska, with whom he remained about a year.  Then he was in railroad employ for some months, next went to Memphis and from there to Wisconsin.  The winter of 1860 he spent in the pineries of Wisconsin, and was there when the war broke out.  He enlisted in May, 1861, for three years, and as a member of Company G, Sixth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, went to the front, his regiment becoming a part of the Army of the Potomac.  He served until February, 1863.  At the battle of Antietam he was seriously wounded, and form the time of that battle until his discharge he was in hospital.  Previous to the engagement at Antietam he was in several other battles, in all of which he acted the part of a true and patriotic soldier.
     After his recovery Mr. Davis located in Cleveland, Ohio, and since March, 1863, he has been a resident of this city.  For eleven years he was in the employ of the Adams Express Company.  Then he looked after the city trade for the Marion & Morgan Paraffine Company for eleven years.  Since April, 1892, he has served in his present official position in the City Council.
     Mr. Davis was married in June, 1861, to Miss Annie Benbow, daughter of Edward and Elizabeth Benbow, natives of England but residents of Beloit, Wisconsin.  Mr. and Mrs. Davis
have had five children, namely: Frank Annie, wife of Dr. K. B. Waite, of Cleveland, Ohio; Elizabeth C., who died at the age of twenty-four years; James H., who died at the age of twenty-two; Herbert, who married Emma Cushman and resided in Cleveland; and Burt, a student in the Cleveland high school.
     In Knight of Pythias circles Mr. Davis is well known.  He has passed through all the chairs in the lodge and Endowment Rank, and has represented his lodge in the Grand Lodge three terms.  He is also a member of Memorial Post, No. 141, G. A. R., Cleveland, his name being on the list of charter members, and in this organization he has also held official position.

Source: Memorial Record of the County of Cuyahoga and City of Cleveland, Ohio - Publ. Chicago - The Lewis Publishing Company - 1894 - Page 639
  HIRAM DAY, one of the oldest living settlers of Cuyahoga county, Ohio, is the second son and fourth-born of a family of eight children.  His parents were Benjamin and Nancy (Andrews) Day.  The father was a native of New Jersey, but removed from that State to Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1811.  in 1812, on the day of the battle of Put-in-Bay, September 10, he arrived in Cleveland, Ohio, and was greeted with the roar of the cannon not far distant.  He and other settlers there had everything in readiness to "beat a hasty retreat" in case the Americans lost the day.  William Hale and A. Crosby were among the number who were there on that eventful day.  He purchased 333 acres of land, all of which was heavily timbered, and undertook the arduous task of reducing it to a state of cultivation.  The bear, wolf and deer roved through the forest at will, and many Indians dwelt in the neighborhood.  Here in these wild surroundings their children were reared and educated, with the exception of Phoebe, deceased, who remained in Pennsylvania with her grandmother; she married James Hannah; Robert grew to manhood upon his father's farm, but chose the profession of medicine as his vocation; he became one of the prominent physicians of this State, and died at an advanced age; Hiram is the subject of this notice; Lavinia, deceased, was the wife of Abner Crosby; Catherine, deceased, was the wife of Hiram Mellrath; Margaret, deceased, Delilah, who married S. McFarlin, of Cleveland; and Florus, who died at the age of seven or eight years.  The father died at the venerable age of ninety-four years, the mother having passed away some years earlier.
     Hiram Day was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, Sept. 10, 1809, and was an infant of two years when his parents removed to Ohio.  He assisted his father in the labors of the farm, and acquired his education in the primitive log schoolhouse of the frontier.  He remained under the parental roof until he had attained his majority, and during the seventeen years that followed he devoted his energies to placing the homestead under cultivation and clearing it of debt.
     He was married Nov. 10, 1837, to Mrs. Catherine Bishop, who was born in East Cleveland.  Two children were born of this union; George W., who died at the age of two years, and Joseph A., whose history is given elsewhere in this volume.  Mrs. Day died within six years after her marriage.  Mr. Day was married a second time, this union being with Deborah Albee, of East Cleveland.  They are the parents of two children: Martha Adelaide, deceased, and Mercy, wife of Olney Crozier, who resides upon the homestead.  Mrs. Day departed this life in August, 1882.  After his first marriage Mr. Day settled upon 100 acres of land in the heart of the forest, and a second time performed the heavy labor necessary to render the land productive.  In early days he gained a wide reputation as a chopper, and was equally famed for the number of rails he had split.  He is now eighty five years of age and retains his mental and physical vigor to a remarkable degree.  By unremitting toil he accumulated a competence which has made his old age one of peace and comfort.  For more than half a century he has been a consistent member of the Presbyterian Church.  In the time of the Whig party he gave his support to that organization, but when its usefulness had passed into history he gave equal allegiance to the Republican party.

Source: Memorial Record of the County of Cuyahoga and City of Cleveland, Ohio - Publ. Chicago - The Lewis Publishing Company - 1894 - Page 437
  CHARLES H. DUNBAR, a retired farmer of Brecksville township, was born Mar. 31, 1817, in Brimfield, Hampden county, Massachusetts.  His father, Captain John Dunbar, was born in Worcester, that State, and married Miss Lucy B. Bliss, a native of Hampden county, and had the following children:  Charles H. (our subject), Thersa, Lucretia, Rebecca, John, Lucy, William, and Thomas.  In the fall of 1831 Captain Dunbar came to Brecksville township, this county, in a one-horse wagon and bought a tract of eighty acres in the western part of the township, at $3 an acre.  He also purchased seven fine horses, which he took back to the east, driving them by riding horseback, and sold them in Boston for a high price.
     May 21, 1832, his parents and their eight children hired a four-horse team and a two-horse team and started West, laying in a supply of goods at Albany and coming by way of the and coming by way of the canal to Buffalo and the steamer Henry Clay to Cleveland, arriving in Cuyahoga county June 4.  They found that the house and improvements on their place had been removed during then owner's absence in the East, and they temporarily occupied a log house at some distance from their work.  After their arrival here the following children were born:  George, Frank and Homer.  Thersa died unmarried, at the age of twenty-two years; Lucretia is now the widow of Francis Adams, of Chicago, Illinois; Rebecca is the widow of William Wheeler, of Chicago; John is a retired hotel man of Beloit, Wisconsin, Lucy is now Mrs. Burr Van Noate, of Brecksville township; William is a fruitraiser in California; Thomas is a farmer at Gallatin, Montana; George is a resident of South Cleveland; Frank, of Gallatin, Montana; and Homer is a retired hotel-keeper of St. Joseph, Missouri.  Their father died at the age of eighty-four years, and his wife at eighty-nine years of age, and they are buried in Center Cemetery.  During his later years Captain Dunbar lived a retired life in Beloit, Wisconsin, but died at Brecksville Center.  He was a successful man of business, having obtained the possession of 200 acres of good land.  In politics he was a decided Whig and Republican, and anti0-slavery.  He never sought political office, but he held offices in the Congregational Church, of which Mrs. Dunbar was also a member.
     Mr. Charles H. Dunbar, whose name introduces this sketch, was sixteen years of age when he came to Ohio; and, being the eldest of the children, in frontier life, had had fewer advantages of school education.  He took his sisters in a two horse wagon to Oberlin, to attend school there.  He remained upon the farm, working industriously in clearing, etc., until he was twenty-one years of age.
     Sept. 17, 1839, he married Miss Harriet W. Storrs, who was born July 17, 1820, in Westport, Essex county, New York, a daughter of  Elijah and Julia (Holcomb) Storrs, who came to Ohio in 1834, locating in Summit county.  She attended school at Hudson, Ohio, and afterward taught school, at one time for a dollar a week, when a calico dress cost $3.  After marriage Mr. Dunbar located first on rented land in Brecksville township, and then purchased fifty-six acres of land, going in debt for it. He followed agriculture there for sixteen years, and then moved upon his present farm, which in area was an addition to the tract of over 200 acres he already had.  Since his location here he has been engaged in buying live stock, wool, etc., traveling throughout the Western States and Canada.  He and Mrs. Dunbar spent the winter of 1882-'83 in Florida.  He is now practically retired from business, which is in charge of his son Charles F.  They have rented property in Cleveland and have interests elsewhere.  Mr. Dunbar has been a successful man in life, and his efficient wife has done her share towards his success.  He is a man of strong constitution, determined disposition and of business-like habits, capable of filling many responsible positions.  He was originally a Whig, and is now a Republican.  Both he and his wife are members of the Congregational Church, of which he was formerly Trustee, and Deacon for a number of years, but resigned on account of failure in the faculty of hearing.  He is a great friend of the common-school system.  His only child Charles F., born May 30, 1841, is living with him.

Source: Memorial Record of the County of Cuyahoga and City of Cleveland, Ohio - Publ. Chicago - The Lewis Publishing Company - 1894 - Page 439
  LLOYD A. DUNHAM, one of the rising young farmers of Bedford township, was born in the old Dunham homestead Mar. 1, 1861, a son of Asa and Lucina (Ransom) Dunham.  The father is one of the well-known and highly respected citizens of Bedford; the mother is now living.  There were six children in the family.  Lloyd A. passed a quiet and uneventful youth on the farm.  He attended the public schools at Hiram, and later took a course in the Spencerian Business College at Cleveland.  Following this came several years of active business experience, first as shipping clerk in a general store, as hotel clerk, as proprietor of a grocery business in Cleveland, and as commercial traveler.  He was in the employ of C. H. McCormick, of Chicago, and for two years was with the McCormick Company.  His wide experience and native ability enabled him to command a most profitable class of custom.
     In 1885 he retired from the commercial world, taking up his residence on his farm; the land is in an advanced state of cultivation and all the buildings are of the most substantial style.
     Mr. Dunham was married in Cleveland, Feb. 22, 1884, to Susie D. Murray, who was born in Washington, District of Columbia, a daughter of Douglass and Mary (Ringwalt) Murray; the father is deceased, but the mother survives, a resident of Cleveland.  Mr. and Mrs. Dunham are the parents of two children: Lucinia M. and Lloyd C.  Mr. Dunham  adheres to the principles of the Republican party, but is in active sympathy with the Farmers' Alliance.  He is a man of much more than ordinary intelligence, frank of manner and genial in disposition, withal one of the most popular men of the township.
Source: Memorial Record of the County of Cuyahoga and City of Cleveland, Ohio - Publ. Chicago - The Lewis Publishing Company - 1894 - Page 426

 

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