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Memorial Record of the County of Cuyahoga and
Cleveland, Ohio
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The Lewis Publishing Company
1894
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FREDERICK P. FARRAND,
Captain of Hook & Ladder Company No 5, of Cleveland, was born in
Burlington, Vermont, Mar. 11, 1833, a son of William and
Eliza Sarah (Alford) Farrand, natives also of that State.
The father, born in 1809, was a son of Jared Farrandd.
While in Vermont William was engaged in preparing
timber for market. He came to Ohio in 1833, after which he
was employed for a short time in making boats, and then became
owner of a line of packets between Cleveland and Portsmouth.
He lost his boats, however, by the foreclosing of a mortgage,
which he made to serve a friend. He then came to this
city, and from that time until 1860 found employment in the ship
yards. Mr. Farrand next assumed the care of
his aged father until the latter's death. He then
purchased and moved to a farm in Fulton county, where he
remained until his death, at the age of sixty-one years.
Politically, he was first a Whig, and afterward became an ardent
Republican. During the Mexican war he raised a company of
soldiers, under the authority of Governor Reuben Wood,
of Ohio, was appointed its Captain, but before mustered into
service the war closed. The mother of our subject died at
the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Moses G. Watterson,
on Case avenue, Cleveland, at the age of eighty-six years.
She was a devout member of the Second Baptist Church.
Mr. and Mrs. Farrand had five children, viz.: William,
deceased in infancy; Frederick P., our subject;
Freeman P., of Cleveland; Helen, wife of Moses
Watterson; and George, deceased at the age of five
years. Three of the sons took part in the late war.
The mother and sister were also very patriotic, nothing having
been left undone by them that could add to the comfort,
efficiency and worth of the brothers while in the service.
After completing his education, Frederick P. Farrand,
the subject of this sketch, was employed as brakeman on the same
train with Mayor Blee, having held that position
until the opening of the late war. At Lincoln's
call for 75,000 men, he enlisted in the service, and after the
expiration of his term re-enlisted for three years, or during
the war, in Company A, Seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
His first battle was Winchester, under Shields, where he was
disabled, taken to Winchester, and was ordered to the hospital
to take charge of the wounded soldiers of his company. The
hospital was located in a hotel, but a few months afterward was
moved to the Female Seminary. Being ordered to evacuate
Winchester, the wounded were take in cattle cars to Frederick
City, Maryland. Mr. Farrand was next ordered
to report at Columbus, Ohio, was examined and discharged, after
which he returned home. He was subsequently ordered to the
defense of Washington, during which time be served as Sergeant
of Company F, One Hundred and Fiftieth Regiment Ohio National
Guards. Mr. Farrand has served in the
Cleveland Fire Department since thirteen years of age, with the
exception of about seven years, and is now the oldest fireman in
the volunteer and pay departments in the city of Cleveland.
In 1864 our subject was united in marriage with Miss
Caroline M. Dill, a daughter of Edward Dill, of
Baltimore. They have had six children, namely: Edward
W., who has been employed as book-keeper for the Dime
Savings Bank since its organization; Daisy E., wife of
William T. Tegethoff, of Brooklyn, New York; F. Albert,
agent for the Cleveland Supply Company; George D., an
employe of the Standard Oil Company, and two deceased in
infancy. Edward W., the eldest child, married
Miss Howe, and they have one child. In political
matters, our subject is an ardent Republican. He is in
every way a most worthy citizen, giving good attention to the
best interests of those whom he serves.
Source: Memorial Record of the County of Cuyahoga and City of
Cleveland, Ohio - Publ. Chicago - The Lewis Publishing Company - 1894
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JARED FARRAND,
a soldier of the Revolution. - Among the early settlers of
Cuyahoga county were the Farrands. Jared Farrand,
the senior member of the family came to this country in 1832,
locating in Dover township, where he purchased land and engaged
in agricultural pursuits. He wa born at Norwich,
Connecticut, in the year 1756. While he was a boy his
father, Thomas Farrand, moved with his family to Vermont,
and settled in Bennington county. Here he elder Farrand
commenced to hew out for himself and family a home in the
wilderness, and here young Jared grew up. In these
early days the woods were alive with wild came, and the boy
never lost an opportunity for a hunt, and thus became, in the
language of the times, a crack shot with the rifle. He
bore the distinction of being one of the number that were
required to pay double price for a shot at the turkeys, at
shooting matches, and then was only allowed to aim at the head
of the bird. It is said that he could drive a nail with a
bullet at a hundred paces, three times out of five. It was
these wonderfully accurate marksmen that finally became a terror
to the officers of the British army during the Revolution.
Just as he was emerging into manhood the war for
Independence burst on the country. The people went wild
with excitement. Such turbulent spirits as Colonel
Ethan Allen and Seth Warner did their full share in
arousing the people of that section to take up arms in
resistance to the tyrannical spirit manifested by Great Britain
toward the colonies in America. A scheme was soon set on
foot for the capture of Ticonderoga and Crown Point.
Ethan Allen rallied around him a band of as brave and
fearless men as ever followed a gallant leader to victory. Young
Farrand caught the war fever, ran away from home, joined
Colonel Allen's expedition, and thus received his
first lesson in war at the capture of Ticonderoga. Soon
after this he joined an independent company of militia, called
the Rangers. Later on he was employed by General St.
Clair, as scout. Early in the spring of 1777 he and a
companion by the name of Myron Panghurn, dressed
in the garb of backwoods hunters, and with a birch-bark canoe,
skirted the shores of Lake Champlain to its lower end, and as
far down the Richelieu river as St. Johns, taking note of the
preparations going at that place, and picking up all the
information possible in regard to the threatened invasion of the
colonies by a British army from Canada, which was to ascend the
Richelieu river to Lake Champlain. From information that
had been received from various sources, the people of that
section were convinced that an invading army would soon be in
their midst. Vigorous preparations were soon set on foot,
for collecting arms and ammunition and enlisting men for
defense.
It was at this time that Mr. Farrand
enlisted in Captain Joseph Safford's
company, the "Green Mountain Boys,'' which became a part of the
first regiment of regulars raised in Vermont for the Continental
Array. This regiment remained in service until the close
of the war. He was with Stark at the battle of Bennington,
also took part in the engagement at Bemis's Heights, and was
severely wounded at the battle of Saratoga. After
recovering from this wound he rejoined his regiment, and was
promoted to be First Sergeant of his company.
During these eventful years of the Revolution he had
many thrilling experiences. Especially was this so while
he was acting as scout. Some of these incidents may not
prove uninteresting in this connection. It is related that
on one occasion, early in the summer of 1777, while west of Lake
George watching the movements of Burgoyne's army in that
direction, he suddenly found himself surrounded by a band of
Mohawk Indians, and was made prisoner. Watching his
opportunity, he contrived to make his escape at night. His
absence being discovered, he was hotly pursued by the savages,
but from his knowledge of woodcraft he managed to elude his
pursuers for two days, finally reaching the shore of Lake George
almost worn out with fatigue and famished from hunger.
Fortune favored him. Concealed in the bushes near the
lake, he discovered a canoe containing a spear and paddle.
He lost no time in setting it afloat, and his new-found treasure
was soon cleaving the waters of the beautiful lake, but not a
minute too soon, as his pursuers were almost immediately on the
shore, only to see their prisoner beyond their reach. He
crossed the lake in safety, and reached Fort Castleton without
further molestation.
At another time he was sent to learn something, if
possible, of the movements and designs of the force under
Colonel St. Leger and Joseph Brant, chief of the
Mohawks, who were known to have a large force of Tories and
Indians under their command. Night coming on, he put up at
a tavern near the Hudson river. He had just seen that his
horse was stabled and fed, and had ordered supper, when it
seems, as chance would have it, a British officer and a Tory who
was acting as guide rode up to the same tavern to stop for the
night. As they were passing by the dining-room on their
way to the stables, the Tory saw Sergeant Farrand
eating his supper, and, as they had been well acquainted before
the war, recognized him at once. The Tory made haste to
inform the officer that the man inside eating his supper was a
noted scout from Gates' army. Highly related, the
British office immediately began to concoct some plan to effect
his capture. In this it seems they were successful.
Early next morning they set out with their prisoner toward their
destination. Sergeant Farrand took his capture in a
very philosophical manner: appeared to be perfectly unconcerned
about its results. We may well infer, however that his
mind was not idle in weighing every circumstance that might
afford an opportunity for his escape. Such an opportunity
must have presented itself, for a few days later he came riding
into camp on his own horse, his holsters bristling with horse
pistols and leading two other horses. When asked where he
got his horses he merely remarked that a certain British officer
and a Tory of his acquaintance had given him so much trouble
that he had concluded to take their horses to get even with
them!
There are many more interesting adventures connected
with his long and eventful life, which, if well written up,
would make a first-class romance, but we have not time to
recount them here.
After the war for independence had been brought to a
successful close. Sergeant Farrand returned
to his old home in Vermont. In 1783 he married Miss
Hannah Evans, of Bennington, and they settled in
Chittenden county, Vermont. Here he engaged in the
manufacture of lumber with an old-fashioned sawmill run by water
power, and in the cutting of the largest and tallest pine trees
for shipmasts. These were made into rafts and floated by
way of Lake Champlain and the Richelieu river to St. Johns,
where they were sold for masts and spars of vessels.
A few years previous to the war of 1812, he moved with
his family to a place called Dunham's Flats in Canada.
Here he purchased some very fertile land in the valley of the
Sorel river, and commenced farming. He was just getting
comfortably fixed and doing well when the second war with Great
Britain came on. Canada demanded an oath of allegiance
from all her citizens. Mr. Farrand, not
being willing to take this, returned to Vermont, leaving his
property in Canada, which was confiscated. He was now
compelled to make a new start in life, and in addition had a
large family of children to support. In this dilemma he
set up in the business of shoemaking. He had learned this
trade when a young man, and it now stood him well in hand for a
support for himself and family. He finally opened a store
at Essex, Vermont, where he lived until 1832, when he joined a
party of settlers going to Ohio. He had raised a family of
fourteen children,—eight boys and six girls. At this time
they were nearly all married and gone for themselves. When
he came to Ohio he was accompanied by two of his sons,
William and Jared, Jr., and his youngest daughter,
Polly.
At this time he was nearly seventy-five years old, but
well preserved and vigorous. He was a man of mark among
men; stood six feet two inches in his stockings, was powerfully
built, and possessed a fine physique and noble presence.
He was a good type of the class of men that made American
liberty possible. He possessed great muscular strength and
endurance, and had a strong will and indomitable perseverance.
When a centenarian, he went out and constructed a section of
rail fence, and did many other things equally remarkable for a
man of that age. On his one hundredth birthday his
neighbors gave him a surprise party. It was participated
in, and highly enjoyed, by the old settlers round about the
country, while the young folks had as lively a break-down as had
been seen in these parts for many a day, the grand old man
causing much merriment by himself leading in the dance.
Mr. Farrand's first wife, Hannah,
died in Middleburg, Cuyahoga county, Nov. 5, 1844, aged
seventy-six years. He married again in 1846, a Mrs.
Emma Gallup, of Rockport township, this county.
At the time of his second marriage he was ninety years old, and
his bride sixty-five. Even at this time of life he seemed
quite well preserved, and she was the brightest and spriest
little woman of her age in all the country. The old
gentleman caused considerable merriment at his wedding,
especially among the young people of the place, by remarking to
the minister that he thanked God that he had got such a young
wife! They lived very happily together for thirteen years,
when she died Aug. 14, 1859, aged seventy-eight years.
Mr. Farrand made Cuyahoga county his home until his
death, which occurred June 28, 1862, his age being 105 years and
seven months!
He had always been a man who took a keen interest in
public affairs. In politics he was a straight out and out
Andrew Jackson Democrat. He had voted at every
presidential election from Washington to Abraham
Lincoln. He claimed that the South had committed a
grievous wrong in firing on the flag at Fort Sumter, and thought
they should be punished for it.
In religion he was a Methodist, of which church he had
been a member for more than half a century. He was a man
strictly temperate in all things, very regular in his habits,
never seemed to be in a hurry or excited, always ready with a
good story, and no one liked a good joke better than he.
Possessing this even disposition, he lived on enjoying his
pension, and often "fighting his battles over again" for his
great-grandchildren. His mind appeared to be clear until a
short time before his death, and he seemed to enjoy himself to
the end of his long and eventful life.
CAPTAIN
JARED FARRAND, JR., one of the sons of
Jared Farrand, the old Revolutionary soldier, that came to
Cuyahoga county in 1832, was born in Chittenden county, Vermont,
in 1804. He was reared to farming ^nd the lumber business.
In 1827 he married Miss Sarah Randall, of Colchester,
Vermont, and they soon after settled in Burlington, same State.
It was about this time that he and his brother bought a lumber
vessel, and were engaged for several years in carrying freight
between the ports on Lake Champlain and Whitehall. In 1832
he came with a party of emigrants to Ohio. These settlers
stopped first in Buffalo, and then at Ashtabula, but finally
decided to come to Cleveland. Soon after arriving here, he
bought land in Dover township, this county. Here he lived
until 1841, when he sold his farm in Dover to Dr. Jason
Bradley, and bought again in Middleburg township, this
county.
The writer of this article, Addison J. Farrand,
after an absence of more than forty years, took occasion in the
summer of 1893 to visit the old place in Dover where he was
born, and reports as follows: "I found a daughter of Dr.
Bradley (who is now a Mrs. Van Gelder), living on a
part of the old homestead. She had in her possession the
old deed showing the conveyance of my father's farm to her
father, which bore date of 1841. She was then only a
school girl, but is now seventy years old. She said she
remembered Jared Farrand, the old soldier, very
well, as he was at that time living next door to her people.
She told me that soon after my parents moved to Middleburg my
father and mother came to Dover after her to go and teach their
district school. It was settled that she should go and
they were to set out on the journey as soon as a horse could be
procured that she could ride. They had to go on horseback,
as there was only a path cut through the woods a part of the
way, which was a distance of about eight miles. She
remembered being much frightened before the end of the journey
was reached, as it began to grow dark and there was such a wild,
deep shadowy forest all around her; she began to feel lonely,
and was startled by every slight noise she heard, as the woods
at that time were full of wild animals. She boarded with
my parents and told me more about those early times than I had
ever known."
Mr. Farrand followed the occupation here
that he had learned at home in Vermont,—that of farming in
summer, and cutting the timber off his land in winter for
lumber. He made Middleburg his home until his death, which
occurred in 1853. Being in Buffalo, New York, on business,
he was taken suddenly sick with cholera, and died there.
His wife, Sariah, had preceded him four years, she having
died in 1849. She was a very exemplary pious woman,
zealous in all good Christian work. She had belonged to
the Baptist Church for many years, and her whole life testified
to the sincerity of her convictions and the reality of her
faith. Mr. Farrand had always been an active
citizen in all public affairs. In politics he was a Whig.
He took quite an active part in the log-cabin and hand-cider
campaign of 1840, which resulted in the election of William
Henry Harrison to the presidency. During the
agitation of the question in regard to war with Mexico, he
raised a company of militia, and was commissioned Captain, but
never entered on active service in the war. He had always
been a man of strict integrity, a good neighbor, a warm, ardent
and faithful friend, and highly respected by all who knew him.
Jared Farrand, Jr., reared a family of six
children, as follows: Hannah, who married George O.
Bliss, of Euclid township, this county, now deceased;
Harriet, wife of A. G. Hopkinson, a prominent
business man of Cleveland, Ohio; Addison J., real-estate
dealer, LaFayette, deceased; Mary, wife of William
Buchholz, a merchant of Cleveland, Ohio; and George
A., now a retired Baptist minister and living on a farm
in Rockport township, this county.
The descendants of Jared Farrand, the
only Revolutionary soldier, are now living in almost every State
in the Union, and followed various occupations and professions.
ADDISON J. FARRAND,
oldest son of Jared Farrand, Jr., was born
in Dover township, Cuyahoga county, in 1840. His parents
soon afterward moved to a farm in Middleburg township, where he
grew up. His mother died when he was nine years old, and
his father four years later. He then went to live with
Luther Moses, one of the old shipbuilders of
Cleveland, where he remained five years, attending school most
of the time. At the age of eighteen he became a teacher in
the public schools. After teaching several terms he
changed his occupation to that of clerking, and later to
bookkeeping, which he followed until May 26, 1862, when he
enlisted in Company D, Eighty-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer
Infantry. The duty assigned to this regiment was to guard
the country between Harper's Ferry and Cumberland, and to
disperse or capture the various marauding bands of guerrillas
that were engaged in taking wagon trains of supplies, arms and
other munitions of war from Maryland to the rebel army, by way
of the Shenandoah valley. Company D, to which he belonged,
spent much of the summer of 1862 in Virginia in this service.
The Eighty-fourth was mustered out at Camp Delaware, Ohio, Sept.
20, 1862. May 5, 1864, Mr. Farrand enlisted
again, this time in Company G, One Hundred and Fiftieth
Regiment, Ohio National Guard Volunteers. They were
stationed in the fortifications around the national capital.
They took part in the battle of Fort Stevens with the forces
under General Early, when he made his attack on the
defences of Washington, July 11 and 12, 1864. Mr.
Farrand was mustered out of service at Cleveland, Ohio,
Aug. 23, 1864.
After his army service he was engaged in life and fire
insurance for five years. He then entered the
mercantile business, opening a store at Akron, Ohio, millinery,
notions and fancy goods being his specialty. At another
time he had a store in Fremont, Ohio, and still later he opened
a store in Cleveland, where he remained until 1888, when he sold
out his store and retired from mercantile life. He
has since interested himself in mining and real estate. In
religion he is a Congregationalist, both he and his wife
belonging to that church. He is a member of Memorial Post,
No. 141, G. A. R., also a member of Halcyon Lodge, No. 498, F. &
A. M., and a charter member of the Western Reserve Society, Sons
of the American Revolution, and also belongs to several
patriotic orders.
On Jan. 8, 1866, he married Miss Amelia C. Rausch
of Akron, Ohio, and they have but one child living,—Walter
Cleveland Farrand.
GEORGE A. FARRAND,
youngest son of Jared Farrand, Jr., was born in
Middleburg, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, Nov. 10, 1846, and received
his education in the Cleveland schools, and at Oberlin. In
the early part of 1864 he enlisted in the quartermaster's
department at Nashville, Tennessee, to serve six months.
When discharged he again enlisted, Sept. 17, 1864, this time in
Captain Theodore Price's Company G, Fourth Regiment New
York Heavy Artillery. They were sent immediately to the
front and assigned to the first division of the Second Array
Corps. He was with General Grant's army in all the
fighting around Petersburg and Richmond, and at Appomattox Court
House when General Lee surrendered. Was
mustered out of service at Albany, New York, in July, 1865.
In January, 1866, he received a commission as
missionary, under the auspices of the American Missionary
Society, and was ordered to report to Major Buckley,
at Montgomery, Alabama. From there he was sent as
Superintendent of the freed men's schools, with headquarters at
Gainesville, Alabama, where he labored nearly a year. July
4, 1867, at a mass meeting of about 5,000 people, held at the
county seat of Sumter county, Alabama, he delivered the first
Republican speech made in the State of Alabama after the close
of the Civil war, and revolvers were drawn on him three times
during his talk of something more than an hour.
He then became an active organizer of the Union League
in the Southern States. While in the midst of this work he
received a commission from General O. O. Howard as agent
in the Freedmen's Bureau. Soon afterward, being attacked
by fever, he was obliged to come North to regain his health.
In 1869 he was ordained pastor of the regular Baptist Church at
North Hampton, Ohio. He followed his chosen profession for
a number of year with commendable results, until failing health
compelled him to change his occupation, at least for a time.
He is now turning his attention to fruit and grape culture on a
farm in Rockport township, in this county.
Source: Memorial Record of the County of Cuyahoga and City of
Cleveland, Ohio - Publ. Chicago - The Lewis Pubhshing Company - 1894
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J. A.
FITZWATER, a representative citizen of Brecksville
township, is a native of the same township, born July 12, 1838.
For his ancestry see the sketch of Ira Fitzwater in this work.
He was educated in the schools of his time and remained upon the
farm until after his father's death. February 22, 1860, he
married Miss Hannah C. Pratt, who was born in Crawford
county, Pennsylvania, in 1840, a daughter of Jacob and
Hannah (Eldridge) Pratt, who came to the
village of Independence and kept hotel there. After marriage
Mr. Fitzwater resided upon the old farm until 1873,
when he and father and mother, his family and his brother
Wilham emigrated to White county, Tennessee, locating on
land which they had purchased there. During their
residence in that State of two years Mr. Fitzwater
traveled over the distance between that point and Brecksville
three times with team, being respectively twenty-three,
twenty-six and twenty-four days on the journey. Their locality
in Tennessee was an abandoned section and required a great
amount of work to prepare it for cultivation.
Mr. Fitzwater returned to his native Brecksville
until 1891, when, for the sake of his wife's health he removed
to the center, purchasing property where he now resides,
enjoying a partially retired life. He owns 185 acres of
excellent land, the greater part of which he has accumulated by
his own hard work and economical management. His life
therefore has been a successful one. Having some practical
knowledge of carpentering, he occasionally does a little of his
own work. In his views of national questions he is in sympathy
with the Republican party. Was a member of Company B, One
Hundred and Ninety-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. During the
latter part of his career on the farm he was also engaged in the
dairy business to some extent.
His children are: Myron E., a farmer of this
township; Lewie E., at home; and Lilly J., who
died at the age of eight years.
Source: Memorial Record of the County of Cuyahoga and City of
Cleveland, Ohio - Publ. Chicago - The Lewis Publishing Company - 1894
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DR. A. FLETCHER,
a veterinary surgeon with an office at 118 Perry street,
Cleveland, Ohio, has been located in this city since 1889.
He is a native of Portage county, Ohio, having been born in the
town of Ravenna on May 20, 1853. He is a son of John
and Elizabeth (Lowrie) Fletcher, both of whom are
descendants of Scotch ancestry. In Ravenna Dr. Fletcher
was brought up and there he attended school. When a lad of
only fifteen years he began life for himself in the railroad
business, this being due probably to the fact that his father
was a railroad man, having been such all of his life, and
naturally the son had a desire to follow the pursuit of his
father. He rose rapidly in railroad work, and soon became
assistant road master, being assistant of his father, remaining
such for twelve years, in the employ of the Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne
& Chicago Railroad, after which he commenced farming, upon one
of his father's places, and for three years he was a farmer.
He then decided to prepare himself for the profession of
veterinary
surgery, a profession to which he inclined from early childhood.
He attended the American Veterinary College at New York city and
graduated in the spring of 1888, and immediately thereafter he
entered upon the practice of his profession at his old home at
Ravenna, where he remained one year. In the spring of 1889
he came to Cleveland, and formed a partnership with Dr.
Yonkerman. In October of 1890 he bought out the
interest of his partner and since that date has practiced alone.
In October of the same year he became interested in stock
inspection for the State Board, in the northern portion of Ohio,
and in June of 1891 he was appointed State Inspector of Live
Stock, which position he still holds. He is thorough and
proficient in his profession and has already achieved wonderful
success in its practice.
He was married at Alliance, Ohio, July 10, 1872, to
Miss Lessetta L. Lamborn, daughter of Dr. L. Lamborn.
They have one child, Jennie L. Dr. Fletcher
and wife are members of the Presbyterian Church and are among
the respected families of the city.
Source: Memorial Record of the County of Cuyahoga and City of
Cleveland, Ohio - Publ. Chicago - The Lewis Publishing Company - 1894
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HENRY FROEHLICH,
Postmaster and proprietor of a general store at South Brooklyn,
Cuyahoga county, Ohio, was born in Independence township, this
county, Mar. 10, 1848.
Jacob Froehlich, his father, a native of Alsace,
France, emigrated to this country in 1837 and located in
Cuyahoga county, Ohio, he being eighteen years old at that time
and without any means save what he earned with his own hands.
Here he was variously employed, among other things working on
the Ohio canal. For his work on this canal he received his
pay in "wildcat money," and thus lost the most of his wages
However, he was enabled to save some of his earnings, and as
soon as he was able returned to France and brought his parents
back with him. He was married in Cuyahoga county to
Sophia Dentzar, a native of Bavaria, Germany, who had come
to this country with her parents when she was seventeen years
old. They were married by Esquire Lockwood, one of
the very first settlers in the county and a man who is still
living. After their marriage they located in Independence
township, where they reared their family and spent the rest of
their lives. She died at the age of sixty-eight years, and
he was seventy-one at the time of his death. They were the
parents of four children, three sons and one daughter, all of
whom are still living, Henry being the oldest.
When the war came on Henry Froehlich was a boy
in his 'teens, but before its close and when not yet fifteen
years old he enlisted as a musician in Company E, One Hundred
and Seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Afterward, however,
he became a private, being the youngest soldier in the company,
and continued in the service two years and ten months, until the
war closed. Although he was in numerous battles and often
in the thickest of the fight he never received a scratch.
A braver and truer soldier than young Froehlich never
faced the enemy's fire. He was honorably discharged at
Charleston, South Carolina, after which he returned to his home
in Independence township, this county.
In 1867 Mr. Froehlich went to Independence,
Missouri, where he had a class in music, and was also the leader
of a band. He remained in Missouri two years. It was
during that time that General Grant first ran for the
presidency, and throughout the campaign Mr. Froehlich and
his band played in various cities in Missouri had given him a
taste for excitement and adventure, and in 1868, in company with
a number of others, all well equipped with teams and provisions,
he started for the Indian Territory. They visited Fort
Gibson, Fort Smith and Baxter Springs, and on this trip had no
little trouble with the Indians, the trouble arising through
white outlaws and squatters. Their return was attended
with many narrow escapes.
Upon his return to his home in Ohio in 1869, Mr.
Froehlich, feeling the need of a better education, began
attending school. The following year we find him in
Cleveland working at the tinner's trade. In 1871 he
engaged in the hardware business in South Brooklyn, in
partnership with his brothers. Subsequently their business
was consolidated with that of C. Huhn. In 1880
Mr. Froehlich disposed of his interest in this
establishment, and, in company with M. Hoehn, engaged in
the wholesale implement business on Michigan street in
Cleveland. They did a successful business until July of
the following year, when Mr. Hoehn was accidentally
drowned, and after his death our subject continued business
alone, removing it in 1882 from Cleveland to South Brooklyn.
In 1889 he took in as a partner Mr. Thomas Whittlesey.
This partnership, however, was terminated a short time after by
Mr. Whittlesey's death, Mr. Froehlich buying the
widow's interest and a short time afterward selling the
establishment to Huhn & Koch. Then from 1889 until
1893 he was engaged in farming at the old homestead, and in 1893
he again engaged in the implement business, taking back the
stock he had sold to Huhn & Koch. In the meantime
he was appointed Postmaster of South Brooklyn, under Cleveland's
first administration, and has since served as Postmaster in
connection with his other business.
For two years Mr. Froehlich has been a member of
the Board of Education of South Brooklyn, serving as president
of the board, and was elected a member of the Council of the
village in the spring election. Fraternally, he is a
member of the I. O. O. F., K. of P., and Foresters.
Mr. Froehlich was married in 1877 to Eliza
Huhn, a native of South Brooklyn, and they have five
children, three sons and two daughters, namely: Alma, Carl,
George, Edwin and Elsa. Carl died Feb.
15, 1894, at the age of fourteen years.
Source: Memorial Record of the County of Cuyahoga and City of
Cleveland, Ohio - Publ. Chicago - The Lewis Publishing Company - 1894
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