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Biographies
Source:
Memorial Record of the County of Cuyahoga and
Cleveland, Ohio
ILLUSTRATED
Publ. Chicago:
The Lewis Publishing Company
1894
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J. A. Garfield |
JAMES ABRAM GARFIELD Source: Memorial Record of the County of Cuyahoga and City of
Cleveland, Ohio - Publ. Chicago - The Lewis Publishing Company - 1894
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G. A. Garretson
pg. 147 |
GEORGE ARMSTRONG GARRETSON 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 Gates
pg. 208 |
CHARLES GATES
Source: Memorial Record of the County of Cuyahoga and City of
Cleveland, Ohio - Publ. Chicago - The Lewis Publishing Company - 1894
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Reuben Gates
pg. 499 |
REUBEN GATES
Source: Memorial Record of the County of Cuyahoga and City of
Cleveland, Ohio - Publ. Chicago - The Lewis Publishing Company - 1894
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DAVID S. GILMORE,
Postmaster of Wilson's Mills, Ohio, is a veteran of the Civil
war and is a man of well known and highly respected in the
community in which he lives. Of Mr. Gilmore's life
we make record as follows:
David S. Gilmore was born in
Chester township, Geauga county, Ohio, July 19, 1839. The
Gilmores are of Scotch descent. Ashbel Gilmore,
the grandfather of David S., was born in Massachusetts,
and was one of the earliest settlers of Chester township.
His son, Silas Gilmore, the father of our subject, was
born in Chester township. A sister of Silas was the
first white child born in Geauga county. The mother of
David S. Gilmore was before her marriage Miss Lois
Nichols. She was a native of Vermont and of English
descent. About the time she was grown she came with her
parents to Ohio, and in Chester township, Geauga county, she met
and married Silas Gilmore. After their marriage
they settled on the farm, in that township, on which they still
reside. They are the parents of seven children, three sons
and four daughters, David S. being the oldest child.
He was reared on his father's farm, and attended the district
school and also for a time was a student at Chester. Soon
after the war he came to Cuyahoga county and entered into a
partnership with General Willson, his father-in-law.
They carried on the milling business together for one year.
Subsequently Mr. Gilmore was in partnership for some time
with Myron Willson. Ever since he came here he has
occupied a prominent place among his fellow citizens, filling
various positions of trust and importance. He has served
as Township Trustee, was for many years a School Director, and
for the past twenty years has been Postmaster. He owns 100
acres of land in this vicinity.
When the Civil war came on Mr. Gilmore was among
the first to join the Union ranks. He enlisted July 10,
1861, in the Seventh Regiment Brass Band, and as a musician
performed faithful service until May 9, 1862, when he was
discharged on account of disability. The following year he
re-enlisted, this time in the Third Brigade, Third Division and
Twenty-third Army Corps; but on account of some mistake in
the papers that were made out he was discharged. Again he
enlisted, this time under General Jack Casment, in the
same corps, in which he served until the close of the war.
His whole service until the close of the war. His whole
service was as a musician. He was discharged at
Greensborough, North Carolina, was mustered out at the same
place, and from there returned home. He is now a member of
San Allen Post, G. A. R., of Kirtland, Ohio.
Mr. Gilmore was married Jan. 29, 1867, to
Mary C. Willson, daughter of General F. and Eliza
(Henderson) Willson. She was born and reared at
Wilson's Mills. They have two sons: George S.,
a conductor on the Cleveland street car line; and Charles W.,
at home.
Source: Memorial Record of the County of Cuyahoga and City of
Cleveland, Ohio - Publ. Chicago - The Lewis Publishing Company - 1894
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Wm. F.
Golling
pg. 603 |
W. F GOLLING, M. D.
Source: Memorial Record of the County of Cuyahoga and City of
Cleveland, Ohio - Publ. Chicago - The Lewis Publishing Company - 1894
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A. M. Gordon
pg. 253 |
ALEXANDER M. GORDON 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 O. GORDON,
one of hate most enterprising and progressive citizens of
Bedford, was born in the town which is still his home Mar. 9,
1851. His parents were James and Elizabeth Gordon,
natives of Scotland; they emigrated to the United States, and
passed their last days at Bedford. William O. is
the fifth of a family of four sons and two daughters. He
received his education in the common schools of his birth-place,
and at the age of ten years began his career in the commercial
word. Having inherited many admirable traits from his
Scotch ancestors he gave early evidence of the reliability and
steadfastness that have marked all the years of his life.
He was first employed by the old Wheelock Chair Company and
there gained a thorough knowledge of all the details of this
business. In 1873 Mr. Gordon went to Anderson,
Indiana, where he was employed in a chair factory owned by
Wheelock & Company. Later he entered the employ of the
Taylor Chair Company and for thirteen years was associated with
this corporation. The connection was severed in 1890, when
the Bedford Chair Company was organized with our worthy subject
as superintendent. A wiser choice could not have been
made, as he is a skilled mechanic as well as a man of wide
commercial experience.
Mr. Gordon was married June 16, 1872, to Miss
Hattie Robinson, who was born at Newburgh, Ohio, a daughter
of Cornelius Robinson, and granddaughter of James
Robinson, one of the well-known pioneers of her native
place. Mrs. Gordon's mother was a Miss Caruthers,
a native of Ireland. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon are the
parents of a family of six children: Ellen, wife of
Lester Kingore, is the mother of one son Kenneth; Kit B.,
William A., Sada, Frank, and Bert, who died at the
age of ten months. The mother and two older daughters are
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The family
occupy an attractive residence on Brown's Lane, where they
surrounded with all the comforts of this advanced civilization.
Politically Mr. Gordon supports the principles
of the Prohibition party; he has been for many years an ardent
worker in the ranks of temperance reformers, and was a member of
the Sons of Temperance and the Temple of Honor. He belongs
to Bedford Lodge, No. 375, A. F. & A. M. As a member of
the City Council he was a faithful guardian of the best
interests of Bedford and did much to promote her welfare.
Source: Memorial Record of the County of Cuyahoga and City of
Cleveland, Ohio - Publ. Chicago - The Lewis Publishing Company - 1894
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THOMAS C. GOSS,
a member of the popular insurance firm of O. M. Stafford,
Goss & Company, Cleveland, Ohio, is one of the rising young
business men of the city, who is becoming widely and favorably
known. He was born at Edinburg, Portage county, Ohio, Apr.
22, 1862. His early education was received in the village
school, and his business training in the Spencerian Business
College of Cleveland, which he entered after a two years' course
at Union College, Alliance, Ohio.
In May, 1881, lie began his career in the commercial
world as assistant bookkeeper for the Hull Vapor Stove Company,
with which he remained until August of the same year, he then
accepted a proposition from Thomas H. Greer, one of the
leading insurance men of the city, and entered his employ.
In June, 1885, he became connected with the Mercantile Insurance
Company as bookkeeper and cashier, tilling the position most
efficiently until Mar. 15, 1887. At that time he resigned
and went to Omaha, Nebraska, where he engaged in the real-estate
business with his brother, Hon. Charles A. Goss, under
the firm name of Goss Brothers. This
vocation did not prove congenial to him, and, receiving a
proposition from Mr. Stafford to return to
Cleveland and become associated with him in the insurance
business, he accepted the offer and July 27th of the same year
entered upon his duties as manager of the insurance department
of the Broadway Savings & Loan Company. Jan. 1, 1891, the
banking business and insurance business were separated.
Mr. Goss entered into partnership with O. M.
Stafford, and the firm of O. M. Stafford, Goss
& Company came into existence. Under the excellent
management of Mr. Goss the interests of the firm
have been widely extended, and he has aided materially in
bringing the company forward from a position of comparative
obscurity to one of prominence in local insurance circles.
The ancestors of Thomas C. Goss emigrated to
Massachusetts about 1820. Daniel Goss, the
paternal grandfather, was born in London, England, while his
wife was a native of Edinburg, Scotland. Upon their
arrival in Massachusetts they settled at Fall River. There
they had a son, Alfred E. Goss, father of Thomas C.
In 1838 Daniel Goss, who was a typical
freedom-loving Englishman, came farther West, and stopped for a
time in Cincinnati, Ohio. After casting about for a place
of permanent location, he settled in Portage county, Ohio, where
he passed the remainder of his life.
Alfred R. Goss married Martha Carr,
a daughter of the Rev. Thomas Carr, a Scotchman by
descent and a circuit preacher of the Methodist Church. There
were four children born of this union: Thomas C.;
Charles A., a prominent attorney of Omaha, who has served as
a member of the Nebraska Legislature, and who married Miss
Carrie Shimp, a daughter of Samuel Shimp,
of Alliance, Ohio; Margaret F., who is the wife of H.
L. Day, of Omaha, Nebraska; and Hattie, a student in
Lake Erie Seminary, Painesville, Ohio.
Thomas C. Goss was united in marriage, in
Cleveland, Ohio, Oct. 8, 1889, to Anna M., daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Calvin, of this city. Their only child is
Leonard K., aged three years. Mr. Goss
is a member of Forest City Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of Webb
Chapter, R. A. M., and of Oriental Commandry, K. T.
Source: Memorial Record of the County of Cuyahoga and City of
Cleveland, Ohio - Publ. Chicago - The Lewis Publishing Company - 1894
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Harvey D. Goulder
pg. 216 |
HARVEY D. GOULDER Source: Memorial Record of the County of Cuyahoga and City of
Cleveland, Ohio - Publ. Chicago - The Lewis Publishing Company - 1894
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H. E. GRESHAM, a
representative young business man of Cleveland, since 1888 has
been manager of the interests of Mr. J. H. Wade, in the
absence of that gentleman.
He is a native of Sheffield, England, born in December,
1865, a son of Samuel S. and Emily (Hooton) Gresham, who
are now residents of Cleveland, locating here in 1890, after
spending two years in Canada. Mr. Gresham was
reared in his native country and educated in the commercial
schools at Sheffield. Learning the cutlery trade, in the
works of Wheatley Brothers, he was made, within four
years after he was employed there and before he was twenty-one
years of age, manager of the pocket-knife department of the
institution. Also, prior to his majority, he was Sergeant
of the First Battalion of the York and Lancaster Regiment, in
which he served three years, being promoted each year. His
motto is to excel in all that he undertakes.
In 1886 he came to America, locating first in
Philadelphia, where he spent some seven months, entering the
insurance business while there; then, after making a short
sojourn at West Point, he came to Toledo, where he followed the
insurance business a few months, and next went to Chicago, and
was engaged by John Hunter for a short time in
contracting, and finally came to this city and associated
himself with Mr. Wade as his private secretary, which
relation he now holds.
Mr. Gresham is a gentleman of good, sound
business ability, faithful and reliable. He is a member of
the Lake View Lodge, I. O. O. F., and vice president of the
Keating Wheel Club.
Aug. 4, 1890, at St. John's Church, by Rev. F. M.
Hall, he was married to Miss Alice Linley, daughter
of Councillor Percy Linley, of Sheffield, England.
Mr. and Mrs. Gresham are the parents of one child, named
Harry. They are members of St. Mark's Church,
Protestant Episcopal, of this city, and in his political views
Mr. Gresham is a Republican.
Source: Memorial Record of the County of Cuyahoga and City of
Cleveland, Ohio - Publ. Chicago - The Lewis Publishing Company - 1894
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