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Biographies
Source:
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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E. D. Battles
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E. D. BATTLES
Source: Memorial Record of the County of Cuyahoga and City of
Cleveland, Ohio - Publ. Chicago - The Lewis Publishing Company - 1894
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CHARLES BAYER,
who is engaged in general farming in Brooklyn township, Cuyahoga
county, Ohio, dates his birth in Darmstadt, Germany, June 19,
1839.
John Bayer, his father, also a native of
Germany, was born in 1808, and in 1849 emigrated to this
country, coming direct to Cuyahoga county, Ohio, and first
settling in Parma township. In that township he remained
until 1867, when he removed to the farm on which his son
Charles now lives. His wife, whose maiden name was
Margaret Steller, came with him to this country, and her
death occurred Oct. 25, 1868, the year after his removal to this
farm. His death occurred July 13, 1880. They had
four children, Charles being the only surviving member of
the family.
Charles Bayer was ten years old
when he came with his parents to Cuyahoga county. He had
attended school in the old country for four years, and after
they came here he went to the Parma township schools for some
time. After his father's death he came into possession of
the old homestead, which comprises seventy acres of choice land.
His whole life has been devoted to general farming and stock
raising, and in this occupation he has been very successful.
In 1881 he erected a fine brick house, at a cost of $4,000, it
being supplied with all the modern improvements and
conveniences.
Mr. Bayer was married May 12, 1867, to Anna
Reimer, a native of Germany. She was born July 21,
1847, and came to this country when she was seventeen years old.
They have six children, four daughters and two sons: Anna L.,
Metta K., Emma M., William O., Edward H. and Alma W.
They lost five children in infancy.
Mr. Bayer is a member of the Evangelical Church.
Source: Memorial Record of the County of Cuyahoga and City of
Cleveland, Ohio - Publ. Chicago - The Lewis Publishing Company - 1894
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William H. Beavis
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JAMES BELL,
a farmer of Orange township, Cuyahoga county, was born in
Becket, Massachusetts, Feb. 21, 1821, a son of John C. and
Anna (Stewart) Bell, natives also of that State. In
1825 the family emigrated to Geauga county, Ohio, but in 1839
the father sold his farm there and came to Chagrin Falls, where
he died in May, 1842. His wife survived until early in
1870.
James Bell, one of the youngest of his
parents' eight children, four sons and four daughters,
came with the family to Chagrin Falls at the age of eighteen
years. After his marriage he resided for a short time in
Orange township, was then engaged in blacksmithing and farming
at Troy, Geauga county, and in 1855 located on his present farm
of 100 acres in Orange township.
Jan. 6, 1842, in Portage county, this State, Mr.
Bell was united in marriage with Miss Matilda H.
Curtis, who was born in Euclid township, this county, July
31, 1823, a daughter of Richard and Clarissa (Dille) Curtis,
natives respectively of Hartford, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania.
The parents died in this State, the father in Portage county,
and the mother in Lake county. They had seven children,
five sons and two daughters, of whom Mrs. Bell was
one of the younger members. Our subject and wife have also
had seven children, namely: Franklin W., who married
Evelyn Gaylord, and is engaged in business in Cleveland;
Rosetta A., wife of H. I. Monningstar, also of that
city; Milton A., of Cleveland, married Hattie
Foster; Ellen M., wife of Sanford Eddy;
James R., a dentist of Cleveland, married Amelia
Andrews; Havilah M., of Chagrin Falls, married
Mary Rodgers; and George C., married Molly
Haag, and is engaged in business in Cleveland. Mr.
Bell has been an active worker in the Republican party
since its organization, and both he and his wife are members of
the Free-will Baptist Church.
Source: Memorial Record of the County of Cuyahoga and City of
Cleveland, Ohio - Publ. Chicago - The Lewis Publishing Company - 1894
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FRANK P. BELLE,
one of the oldest market gardeners of Cuyahoga county, was born
in Bavaria, Germany, near the river Rhein, Dec. 14, 1836.
Peter and Barbara Belle, his parents emigrated to the
United States in 1846, arriving in the city of Cleveland on the
8th of August of that year; they were accompanied by four
sons and one daughter. Mr. Bell purchased a
tract of land in Independence township, consisting of fifty-six
acres which he placed under excellent cultivation. He had
crossed the sea to a strange country and a strange people hoping
to make life an easier thing to himself and children, and in
this ambition he was wholly successful. He and his wife
are members of the Roman Catholic Church. His father was a
Roman Catholic while his mother was a Protestant; they had three
sons and three daughters; the sons embraced the religion of
their father, the daughters that of the mother, all living in
peace and harmony. Each accorded the privilege he asked,
the right of choice in his faith. Peter Belle died
in 1879 at the age of seventy-seven years; his wife died in
1857, aged fifty-two years. They were the parents of five
children: Adam, who died soon after coming to America,
Frank P., Peter, deceased, John, and
Elizabeth, wife of Paulus Keck.
Mr. Belle came to East Cleveland township in
1861, and for thirty-three years has been engaged in
market-gardening, raising all fruits that grow in this latitude
and many varieties of vegetables. He has served four terms
as a member of the village council, devoted to the highest
interests of the citizens and good government. Possessing
many admirable qualities of both head and heart, he has won the
highest regard of his fellow-townsmen.
He was married the 26th day of May, 1863, to Miss
Sophia Murman They have had born to them three
daughters and three sons: John and Frank P., Jr.
deceased; Elizabeth, wife of J. N. Wagner, is the
mother of four children, - Frank, Matthias, Joseph and
Irene; Rosa, John F., and Anna. The family are
devout members of the Roman Catholic Church.
Jonas Murman emigrated to America in 1859.
He is the father of six-children: Margaret, a Sister of
Charity; Mrs. Belle; August; Rosa, wife of
Frank Andrus; Michael; and Josephine, wife of
Louis Tinger of Cleveland.
Source: Memorial Record of the County of Cuyahoga and City of
Cleveland, Ohio - Publ. Chicago - The Lewis Publishing Company - 1894
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BURROUGHS FRANK BOWER,
vice-president, treasurer and general manager of the World
Publishing Company (Cleveland World), was born in Ann Arbor,
Michigan, Oct. 31, 1855, and is consequently in his thirty-ninth
year. He comes of German and American stock. His
father, Henry Bower, was born in Pennsylvania, brought up
on a farm, taught school, and moved to Michigan in the '30s,
where he engaged in the business of buying and selling pine
land, manufacturing lumber, and carrying on a general mercantile
business until his death in 1870. His mother, whose maiden
name was Margaret G. Chase, was of Geneva, New York, a
daughter of Captain Chase, who distinguished himself in
the war of 1812.
Mr. Bower was the youngest of four children, and
was intended for the bar, which profession his elder brother had
embraced, but the sudden death of his father when young Bower
was fourteen years old required a change in plans.
Some time prior to the death of Mr. Bower's
father, his eldest son, Henry E. H. Bower, brother of the
subject of this sketch, published a weekly newspaper at Ann
Arbor called the Democrat. It was in this office that
young Bower obtained his initiation into the newspaper
business. After his father's death, the Democrat being
sold, young Bower took up civil engineering, but this not
being to his taste he abandoned it and went West.
In December, 1874, he returned to Ann Arbor and became
the local editor of the Courier. At the time he accepted
this position he had not yet turned his nineteenth year.
During 1875 and 1876 he also attended lectures at the University
of Michigan, and in 1876 entered the law department of the
university and also studied law in the office of Prosecuting
Attorney Robert E. Frazer, now Judge Frazer, of
Detroit. Mr. Bower supported himself while in
college by corresponding for a number of newspapers and
conducting a humorous department in Ballou's Monthly, a Boston
publication. He was accorded the degree of LL. B. in
March, 1878, and soon thereafter was admitted to the bar in the
Washtenaw circuit court. He was chosen by the Greek-letter
secret society of the law department as its representative on
the Palladium board for 1878, and was also elected, after a
spirited contest, toast-master of his class.
After graduating he arranged to practice law in Kansas
City, but fate again overruled him. Soon after graduating
he was sent for by the Detroit Evening News to fill temporarily
an absent reporter's place. About this time the country
was indignant on hearing of the discovery, in the dissecting
room of the medical college at Ann Arbor, of the body of the son
of General Nevins, of Ohio. Bower was
assigned to this case by the News. His inside knowledge of
the medical department, obtained while a student at the
university, was all brought into use in this series of articles,
which immediately gave him a local reputation as a newspaper
reporter. Later he obtained and wrote up for the News in
an exhaustive manner the facts concerning the mysterious
disappearance of Martha Whitla, a young woman whose dead
body was found in the River Rouge, sewed up in a sack. In
these articles a citizen of Detroit considered himself accused
of the murder of this girl, and he brought suit for $50,000
damages against the Evening News. After an exciting trial,
extending over many weeks, the jury returned a verdict in favor
of the News. This vindicated Mr. Bower's statement
of the facts, and as the plaintiff left the court room, a
discomfited suitor, he was arrested on the charge of wilful
murder. Two murder trials followed, the jury disagreeing
on the first trial and acquitting on the second trial.
In 1878 Mr. Bower revived the Ann Arbor
Democrat, turned the management over to his brother, Henry E.
H. Bower, and continued his newspaper work in Detroit.
In July of the same year he and Henry A. Griffin, the
well-known Cleveland journalist and Secretary of the Ohio State
Board of Commerce, started the Detroit Daily Mail. Capital
was lacking to make it a success, and the paper suspended in a
few weeks. In 1884 Mr. Bower became the managing
editor of the Detroit Post and Tribune. When that paper
was sold two years later he transferred his services to the
Detroit Journal, and soon became its managing editor, remaining
with it until the reorganization of the World Publishing Company
of this city in July, 1890, when he was invited to accept its
management. He assumed his new duties on July 7th of that
year. The World was only a small four-page daily of
insignificant circulation; but capital was interested, Mr. F.
B. Squire becoming president of the company. Mr.
Bower is one of the large stockholders. The World has
grown in less than four years under his management to be the
paper it is to-day. In 1891 Mr. Bower wedded
Mrs. Agnes Sinclair Riggs, of Detroit,
widow of Major John H. Riggs, and since his
marriage has resided at 909 Prospect street. He is one of
the hardest working men in Cleveland, devoting his entire time
to the management of the World.
Source: Memorial Record of the County of Cuyahoga and City of
Cleveland, Ohio - Publ. Chicago - The Lewis Publishing Company - 1894
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LUKE BRENNAN,
the oldest active resident contractor in the city of Cleveland
and a gentleman who has paved more miles of streets, built more
rods of sewer and cleaned a greater number of streets than any
other man, came to Cleveland in 1853. He brought with him
enough capital for buying a team and set to work supplying
himself with material to be used in completing his contracts for
both pavement and sewer, which he secured. He did the work
on many of the largest contracts let and many of the streets he
has paved twice, including Superior and Broadway. For many
years he was given the contract for all street cleaning and
street improvement of the entire city.
Mr. Brennan came from Brooklyn,
Connecticut, where he located on coming to the United States in
1849. He was without capital except an industrious nature
and an active, muscular body. He hired himself out as a
farm hand, and being economical saved up sufficient in five
years to start himself in business in Cleveland, and his
progress in the city has been most satisfactory. He is
unusually fortunate in the figuring on contracts, and of
building, receiving them in many instances at a figure which has
enabled him to sublet and still reap a handsome margin.
Mr. Brennan is probably as widely known
as any man in the city, from the nature of his business.
He is most easily approached and an interesting gentleman, when
he has leisure time. Two incidents in his life of special
interest we will mention here, one demonstrating the luck of
some men, and the other demonstrating Mr. Brennan's
sympathy with injured humanity. Some years ago a cannon
target practice was given in Cleveland, presided over by the
light artillery, when a prize of $150 was offered for the one
hitting the "bull's eye" at a three-fourths mile range. Mr.
Brennan happened along, paid for a shot, made mental
calculation as to his sight, fired, and although unused to
fire-arms, his ball struck the target and won the money.
In 1890, while taking a journey, Mr. Brennan
overheard a detective planning with an accomplice to secure
the conviction of a prisoner named Welch, accused of
murder at Fremont, Ohio. It transpired finally that
through manufactured testimony, Welch was convicted and
sentenced to be hanged, for all which the detective was to
receive $3,000. As the day of execution came nearer, Mr.
Brennan became more and more convinced that an innocent
man, though a bad citizen, was about to suffer death, and he
determined to prevent it by repeating to Governor
Foster the conversation with his female companion in the
train. He went to Columbus, was introduced to the
Governor, told him his secret and Mr. Welch's
sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.
Mr. Brennan has visited Ireland twice
since he left it in 1849, the last time taking with him his wife
and daughter, dining with the Lord Mayor of Dublin, who married
a cousin, a Miss Brennan.
Mr. Brennan was a son of Ennis Brennan,
who came to Cleveland in 1862, and died here in 1872, aged
sixty-five. His wife was Ellen Gavican, who died in
1884, aged eighty-four years. They were from county
Roscommon, Ireland, where Mr. Brennan, our
subject, was born, in October, 1830.
In April, 1852, Mr. Brennan married
Catherine Barlow, from his own county in Ireland.
Their children are: Frank, deceased; Hubert,
deceased; Anna, wife of Charles M. Le Blond, of
Cleveland; John F., who married Miss Lillian
Ohlemacher, of Sandusky, Ohio; Teresa, wife of
Charles P. O'Reilly, of Cleveland; and Georgie,
Joseph, Mary Ellen and Luke died in
infancy.
Mr. Brennan is an active member of the Knights
of St. John, and was a delegate to the Catholic convention in
Baltimore in 1890.
Source: Memorial Record of the County of Cuyahoga and City of
Cleveland, Ohio - Publ. Chicago - The Lewis Publishing Company - 1894
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Fred R.
Briggs
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Stephen
Buhrer
pg. 579 |
HON. STEPHEN BUHRER
Source: Memorial Record of the County of Cuyahoga and City of
Cleveland, Ohio - Publ. Chicago - The Lewis Publishing Company - 1894
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Hon .A. M. Burns
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HON. A. M. BURNS Source: Memorial Record of the County of Cuyahoga and City of
Cleveland, Ohio - Publ. Chicago - The Lewis Publishing Company - 1894
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