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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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ROBERT FINDLEY PAINE
was born in Connecticut, May 10, 1810 His
ancestry can be traced back to Robert Treat Paine, a
signer of the Declaration of Independence. When he was two
years of age, his parents moved into New York State, and very
soon came West, settling in Portage county, Ohio.
Young Paine educated himself, as it were, his
parents being too poor to send him even to the district school.
While clerk at a crossroads store he read law and was admitted
to practice. In 1848 he was elected to the State
Legislature, being compelled to go to Columbus on horseback,
there being then no railroads. In the Legislature he
secured the passage to the first law giving woman rights in
property.
At the expiration of his term in the Legislature, he
resumed the practice of law, in Cleveland, and during the war
was United States District Attorney for the Northern Ohio
District. Later he was elected to the Common Pleas Bench
of Cuyahoga county, on which he served with distinction,
retiring in 1874.
Judge Paine died Sept. 23, 1888, leaving three
children, all of whom are now living.
Robert F. Paine, Jr., was born in Cleveland,
Mar. 8, 1856, being the eldest son of Judge R. F. Paine.
Robert Jr., received a common-school education. In
1879 he squeezed his way into journalism, securing a position as
reporter on the Penny Press, a paper just started in Cleveland
by the Scripps brothers, of Detroit, Michigan. At
twenty-five years of age young Paine was the editor in
chief of a daily newspaper that was already on a prosperous
basis, and this position he is still holding, the title of the
paper, however, having been changed to The Cleveland Press.
Source: Memorial Record of the County of Cuyahoga and City of
Cleveland, Ohio - Publ. Chicago - The Lewis Publishing Company - 1894
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S. T. PAINE,
one of the proprietors of the Forest City Hotel,
Cleveland, has been a resident of this city since 1873, all the
while identified with the hotel business.
He was born in Nelson township, Portage county, this
State, in May, 1848, a son of William B. and Maria (Talbot)
Paine, New England people engaged in agricultural pursuits.
He completed his school days at an academy, learned the
carpenters' trade, adn followed it some time. In 1871-'73
he was clerk two years for the Etna House at Ravenna, this
State, when he came to Cleveland. Here he began as clerk
in the Forest City House, which he now owns. Continuing as
clerk here until 1890, he, in company with William J. Akers,
purchased the business of the concern. With the long
experience he has had, he knows how to conduct such an
institution, and is accordingly doing well, attracting as good a
class of customers as other hotel in the city.
Mr. Paine was one of the fourteen men in 1880
who went to Chicago and organized the Hotel Men's Mutual Benefit
Association, from which time to the present he has been one of
the officers, being now vice-president. In 1890 he became
a member of the National Hotelkeepers' Association, of which he
is now vice-president He is also a member of the Cleveland
Hotelkeepers' Association.
He was initiated into Freemasonry in 1881, in Iris
Lodge, and he is now a member of Cleveland Chapter, Holy
Rood Commandery, Lake Erie Consistory and Aleoran Temple, taking
the thirty-second degree of the Scottish rite in 1882; and he
also belongs to the Masonic Club. In his political
principles he is a Republican, and he is a member of the Chamber
of Commerce.
In 1884, in this city, he married Miss Ettie
Durhamer, and they make their home at the hotel.
Religiously, they attend Unity church. Mr. Paine is
one of Cleveland's most progressive and enterprising citizens.
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 PARKER, M. D.
- We are now permitted to direct attention to one of the most
widely known and popular residents of Berea, a man held in
thehighest estimation for his marked professional ability as
well as for his his character and bearing as an
individual. Dr. Parker was born in Brunswick,
Medina county, Ohio, Apr. 8, 1824. His father was the late
Henry Parker a native of Wallingford, Connecticut, where
he was born June 4, 1792, and where he lived until 1815, when he
emigrated to Ohio and settled in Brunswick, Medina county.
On the 16th of March, 1816, he was married to Miss Malinda
Harvey, and they are said to have been the first white
couple to wed in the town of Brunswick. Henry Parker,
Sr., died about the year 1826, when the subject of this
review was about two years of age. The mother was
afterward married to Abraham Conyne, of Strongsville,
Cuyahoga county, a miller by trade and occupation. The
family removed to Strongsville in 1830.
Dr. Parker's early life was passed chiefly in
assisting his stepfather in his mill and he received a somewhat
limited common-school education. He continued to live in
Strongsville until 1844, when he left home and went to La Porte,
Indiana, where he followed the occupation of a painter about one
year and then returned to Cuyahoga county, finding employment at
minimum wages in a woolen mill at Berea. The young man was
ambitions and aspiring and had formulated plans for the
directing of his future life upon a broader plane of thought and
action. Accordingly in 1846 he began the study of medicine, and
in 1854 graduated at the American Medical College, at
Cincinnati, Ohio. He then located in Berea, Mar. 10, 1849,
where he has since enjoyed an extensive and representative
practice not only in the city but in a wide extent of country
adjacent. Since 1871 he has been a member of the Ohio
State Medical Association and has held the honorable preferment
as president of that organization, and in 1872 became a member
of the National Eclectic Association.
Nov 23, 1874, Dr. Parker was united in marriage
to Miss Elizabeth Sherwood, of Royalton, Cuyahoga county,
Ohio, who were among the early settlers of that town.
Dr. and Mrs. Parker became the parents of four children, one
of whom died in infancy. Henry e. was born Nov. 20,
1851, and is now a physician in practice at Lorain, Lorain
county, Ohio; he was married at Montville, Medina county, Ohio,
Mar. 15, 1878, to Miss Cora McConnell. James M.
was also a physician and was engaged in practice at Vanlue,
Hancock county, Ohio, where he died on Jan. 21 1883, soon after
locating there; he was born in Berea Oct. 13, 1853, and was
married at Attica, Seneca county, Ohio, Sept. 2, 1880, to
Miss Hittie Gilmer, who, with one child scurvies him.
Charles W., the youngest son was born Aug. 22, 1860, and
was married, in Chicago, Illinois, Dec. 15, 1885 to Miss
Fannie Frayer.
Dr. Parker was one of the originators of the
Berea Savings & Loan Association. He has never been a
seeker after public or official preferments, although he has
been elected to fill various township and village offices, the
duties of which he has discharged to the satisfaction of all.
In 1862 he was appointed by Dr. J. S. Newbury of
Cleveland (who was general manager of the Western Sanitary
Commission) to perform the duties of Camp and Hospital
Inspector, receiving his commission form the Secretary of War,
Edwin M. Stanton, and Surgeon General Hammond. He
served in this capacity two and one-half years, until Sherman's
campaign to Atlanta, to the satisfaction of the Government and
the soldiers as well. HE was located during the service in
West Virginia, with the Army of the Cumberland and the
Fourteenth Army Corps, under General Sherman.
The Doctor stands forth pre-eminently as a type of
the self-made man, has achieved distinctive success and honor in
his life work and is one who is mot clearly entitled to
representation in this volume, which has to do with the leading
citizens of that portion of the State of Ohio in which he has so
long lived and labored.
Source: Memorial Record of the County
of Cuyahoga and City of Cleveland, Ohio - Publ. Chicago - The Lewis Publishing Company - 1894
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EDWARD C. PARMALEE
- One of the most familiar figures on the streets of Cleveland
is Edward C. Parmelee, general agent of the Humane
Society. He was born in Claremont, New Hampshire, Sept.
28, 1826. Claremont was also the native home of his
mother, whose father, - Rice, being a farmer and an
emigrant from Connecticut, in search of more advantages location
wandered into the vicinity of this little New Hampshire hamlet
and met and married his wife! The young widow married some
time afterward a Mr. Atkins bearing him eight children.
Seven of these were sons, each of whom was remarkable for his
size, being more than six feet tall, and muscular accordingly.
One of the daughters married Ware Tappan, whose son, Mason W.
Tappan, was New Hampshire's Attorney General, and was a
member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives for several
years.
Recurring to the Parmelees, in tracing up their
lineage we discover them to have been once and originally an
order of the German nobility. As early as about the middle
of the fifteenth century a German baron was attacked with a
religious fervor which drove him drove him to such enthusiastic
demonstrations as to make if imperative that he take up his
residence in England. He spent the remainder of his life
there, in the town of Guilford, and was the first
Parmelee in England. It is certain that a descendant
of this Parmeleee emigrated to America during
Colonial days and settled in Connecticut, naming the town New
Guilford. Here our subject's grandfather, Dan Parmelee,
was born, from here he entered the Colonial army and fought her
battles till independence was established, and here he died.
His son William is the character mentioned herein as
having left Connecticut and married the Claremont maiden.
In 1828 William Parmalee was induced to come West with
his family, locating for a brief period in Cleveland, going
later to Summit county, and resided in Twinsburg till his death,
which occurred in 1833.
In this village the subject of this notice was educated
under Rev. Samuel Bissell, a Yale graduate, vet living,
in charge of the Twinsburg Institute. At eighteen years of
age Mr. Parmelee returned to his native State,
learned carriage trimming, and was employed at it till his
return to Summit county in 1850. He soon embarked in
merchandising at Solon, and was for many years one of the
foremost merchants of the village. In 1879 Mr.
Parmelee disposed of his mercantile business at Solon, came
to Cleveland and engaged in the real-estate business. In
1881, upon the resignation of Samuel Job,
Superintendent of the Bethel Associated Charities, Mr.
Parmelee was found to be the most suitable man for the
place, and was accordingly appointed. He proved a most
efficient and popular official and for six years controlled the
distinies of the institution. On the death of D. L.
Wightman, agent of the Humane Society, Mr.
Parmelee was at once made his successor, as the only
available man amply qualified for such peculiar and important
work. He has instituted some needed reforms as to the
conduct and keeping of the records of the institution under ills
charge,—the identity and history of every charge until its final
disposition by the institution. While a citizen of Summit
county Mr. Parmelee served the public as their
magistrate for a time, and while at Solon was its Postmaster
during the war. He was appointed by the court a member of
the relief commission of Cuyahoga county, resigning Aug. 1,
1892. The other children of William Parmelee
are:
Lucia, Mary, Fannie, Joel, Samuel,
Sarah, Daniel, Harriet and Emily, a
twin of our subject. Emily married Judge Belding of
Denver, Colorado, in whose name the town site of Omaha,
Nebraska, was purchased, and who was subsequently Mayor of the
city. He went to Denver early and was Mayor of that city,
a member of the Legislature of the State and introduced and had
adopted the Ohio code.
In 1854 Mr. Parmalee married, in Cuyahoga
county, Mary, a daughter of Squire Hathaway, a
prominent farmer who settled here in 1816. The children of
this union are: Emily C., Assistant Superintendent of the
Cleveland Associated Charities; and Carroll Hathaway, now
a prominent attorney and citizen of Buffalo, Wyoming. He
graduated at Grand River Institute, with the degree of Bachelor
of Science, at Hiram College with the degree of A. B., took a B.
L. course at Ann Arbor, and received the honorary degree of M.
A. from Hiram College in recognition of his superior
attainments. He is now Register of the United States Land
Office at Buffalo, Wyoming, and was the candidate of the
Republican party for Supreme Judge of his State in 1892.
He ranks high as an attorney and a scholar, and is one of the
rising stars of the new country.
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. H. PARR,
manager of the Ohio Oil & Grease Company, was born in Cleveland,
May 16, 1870, a son of Thomas W. and Caroline (Hattersley)
Parr, natives of England and Cleveland, respectively.
The father came to this city in 1865, when he engaged in
contracting and building, and later succeeded his father-in-law,
Henry Hattersley, in the gunsmith store. He
is now engaged in the coal business on South Woodland avenue,
Cleveland. The family residence is located at 35 Platt
street. Mr. and Mrs. Parr had four children,
namely: H. H., our subject;
William J., secretary of the Cleveland
Window Glass Company, married Miss Ella Chapin, of this
city; Katherine and Caroline, attending the city
high school.
H. H. Parr received his education in the public
school of this city, and also in the Spencerian Business
College. After leaving school he was employed as clerk for
the Manufacturers' Oil Company for seven years, and then, in
1892,
assumed control of the Ohio Oil & Grease Company. The oil
is manufactured in Cleveland, and is shipped to all parts of the
United States. The company send out 250 sample cases, and
employment is also given to many in handling and shipping.
Mr. Parr was married in August, 1893, to
Miss Georgia Hunt, a daughter of the late
William Hunt, of northeast Maryland. He was
a prominent manufacturer, and also had a large business in
Philadelphia. Mrs. Hunt is
still living, an honored resident of Cleveland. She is a
member of the First Baptist Church. Mr. Parr
is a member of the East Madison Avenue Congregational Church,
and his wife of the 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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P. A. PATTERSON,
chief engineer of the motive power of the Cleveland Electric
Railway Company and a master at his trade, was born in
Copenhagen, Denmark, May 11, 1850, and from the age of thirteen
years was a student, apt and intelligent, laying the foundation
for a liberal education. His father, who died in 1858, was
a merchant, but only in moderate financial circumstances; and
had his wife not been of force more than ordinary his two orphan
children might have been thrown upon the world ignorant and
penniless
At the age of thirteen years Mr. Patterson went
as a sailor before the mast in the Danish and English merchant
trade, and after a time he went aboard a fruiter plying between
Italian ports and St. Petersburg; next he shipped on a bark from
Nova Scotia to Archangel, and then reshipped to Buenos Ayres,
South America, where he happened to be present during the war
between Buenos Ayres and Uruguay. On his return voyage he
stopped at the port of Bahia, Bazil. While homeward bound
he encountered a severe storm in which fore, mizzen and top
masts were lost, the supply of provisions was exhausted and the
crew were compelled to subsist on raw sugar for seven days, with
which the vessel was loaded; but the gale was finally weathered,
and the trip to Falmouth, England, completed in seventy-two
days.
Next Mr. Patterson shipped from Liverpool to
Alexandria, Egypt, stopping at Gibraltar, Malta, and other
important ports. His first trip to the United States
occurred in 1872, when he went ashore at New York and joined the
marching procession of Grant's supporters when the general was a
candidate for his second term. That fall he boarded a
coffee clipper for Rio Janeiro and returned to New Orleans with
a cargo of coffee. Then for four years and seven months he
was in the employ of the Cunard line, making eleven voyages
annually between America and Europe, - a total of 100 trips
across the Atlantic. Next he was Captain of a gravel
schooner in Boston harbor, and then he left salt water and was
engaged in the lake trade, on many vessels and in various
capacities from cook to mate.
Then he left navigation altogether,
in 1875, and entered the employ of Rhoades & Company, of
Ashtabula, as stationary engineer, when only six trains were
running out of those docks daily, with ore. Eight years
afterward he removed to Cleveland and was engineer for
Hitchcock & Company at their ore docks and remained five
years. Next he was temporarily with G. C. Julier,
the leading baker, before joining the Cleveland Electric Company
in 1888. Here he has charge of a number of men, and is
responsible for the care of much valuable property. He is
very efficient and reliable.
His father, Paul Patterson, left only two
children, the other than our subject being Caroline, the
wife of Jans Jansen of Copenhagen. In March,
1889, Mr. Patterson married, in Cleveland, Mina
Collins, an American lady born in New Jersey. He is a
director of a benefit association, for employees, and was made a
Mason in England twenty years ago. In 1882, after an
absence of sixteen years, he visited his old home, and his
mother again in 1887, thus renewing his acquaintance with old
ocean as well as the scenes of his childhood.
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. HENRY B. PAYNE,
an eminent citizen, lawyer and statesman, was born in Hamilton,
Madison county, New York, Nov. 30, 1810. His father,
Elisha Payne, was a native of Connecticut, and left
Lebanon in that State in 1795, settling in Hamilton, where he
was instrumental in founding the Hamilton Theological Seminary,
being a man of pure personal character and public spirit.
The Payne family is of English origin, but the
mother of Henry B. Payne came of the noted Douglas stock.
Mr. Payne graduated at Hamilton College
at the age of twenty-two, distinguished for mathematical and
classical attainments. He immediately began the study of
law in the office of John C. Spencer, an eminent lawyer
of Canandaigua, afterward Secretary of War in President
Tyler's Cabinet. Stephen A. Douglas was at the
same time a student in the office of a rival law firm, and then
and there Payne and Douglas began a personal and
political friendship of a life-time. In 1833 westward was
the course of empire for young men of education and high spirit,
even as it is now, and the two young lawyers emigrated to
Cleveland, Ohio, then a thriving village of about 3,000 people.
Douglas had preceded Payne some months, and
when the latter arrived he found the future senator of Illinois
sick nigh unto death. His first mission was to nurse his
friend back to health or close his eyes in death. For
three weeks he never left the bedside of Douglas.
When the latter recovered he announced his intention of going
further west. Mr. Payne, while regretting
the separation, aided him financially to make the journey, and
three years later was gratified to hear of Douglas as
Prosecuting Attorney of Sangamon county, Illinois.
Mr. Payne, sagaciously prophesying the bright
future of the then handsome village, adopted Cleveland for his
permanent abode, and after a student year in the office of
Sherlock J. Andrews, then the foremost advocate of northern
Ohio, he was admitted to the bar. The following year he
formed a partnership with the late Judge Hiram V. Willson.
The legal firm of Payne & Willson starting under
favorable auspices, in a few years they found their office doing
the leading business in the State.
The professional life of Mr. Payne was
comparatively short, embracing only some twelve years, as he was
compelled, in 1846, in the midst of an overwhelming business, to
retire from practice by reason of physical debility arising
principally from hemorrhage of the lungs, the result of crushing
mental and physical labor. After the lapse of fifty years
but few of his contemporaries remain who knew him at the bar.
If, however, the legends which have come down the decades from
the lips of eminent veterans of the profession may be relied on
as history, they bear testimony to his legal accomplishments and
great forensic abilty, even from his first appearance.
His characteristics were quickness of perception, a seeming
intuitive knowledge of the principles involved, a wonderful
comprehension of testimony, and as an advocate he possessed rare
and peculiar gifts. He did not, however, trust alone to
his inherent powers. Being an alert and industrious
student he thoroughly prepared every case, and then doubly armed
he was a formidable opponent.
In 1836, upon the organization of the government of the
city of Cleveland under a municipal charter, he was appointed
the first of that long list of legal advisers designated City
Attorney or Solicitor. The same year he married Miss
Mary Perry, the accomplished and only daughter of
Nathan Perry, a worthy merchant of the pioneer
days of northern Ohio. In commemoration of the happy event
and life-long domestic companionship, he recently, after the
lapse of nearly sixty years, erected on Superior street the
monumental and beautiful structure appropriately christened
"Perry-Payne."
After his retirement from the bar and the restoration
of his health, he was not inactive; he not only devoted himself
to his extensive private affairs, hut such was the public
confidence ill his financial abilities and personal integrity
that his services were almost constantly demanded, either in the
Council to aid in restoring or sustaining municipal credit, or
in the reconstruction of its various departments, — always a
gratuitous service.
Mr. Payne was an early and leading spirit
in railroad enterprises in Ohio. In 1849 he, with John W.
Allen, Richard Hilliard and John M. Woolsey,
inaugurated measures for the construction of the Cleveland &
Columbus Railroad, and mainly to Henry B. Payne,
Richard Hilliard, and Alfred Kelley the
success of the great enterprise was due. The road was
completed in 1851 and Mr. Payne was elected its
president, which office he resigned in 1854. He became a
director in 1855 of the Cleveland, Painesville & Ashtabula
(afterward Lake Shore) Railroad. These and other
enterprises and industries with which his name has been
associated as subscriber and promoter, have largely contributed
to advance the little village of his adoption in 1833, to a city
of 300,000 in 1893. In 1855 he served as a member of the
first board of Water Works Commissioners, under whose auspices
that great and indispensable system was planned and executed in
behalf of the city.
In 1862 he became president of the Board of Sinking
Fund Commissioners, which position he has ever since held.
The city takes pride in the management of its sinking fund,
which in the hands of able and honest commissioners, in thirty
years, has augmented from about $360,000 to $3,000,000. with a
nominal annual expense of only a few hundred dollars for
clerical service,—an unprecedented example of the management of
a public financial trust.
In 1848 he was a Presidential Elector on the Cass
ticket. In 1851 he was elected State Senator, serving two
years with such ability as to win universal recognition in the
State as a parliamentary leader and statesman. The first
appreciation of the public talents of Mr. Payne,
and the devotion of his party in that Legislature to him, is
recorded in the twenty-six ballotings for United States Senator,
in which his party remained true to him in every ballot, while
their opponents, the Whigs, matched him alternately with many of
their ablest men, Ewing, Corwin, Andrews,
and several others, the balance of power being held by some few
Free Soil members, the ultimate result being the election of
Benjamin F. Wade by one majority.
The stirring event in the State in 1857 was the
nomination of Mr. Payne by the Democratic party
for Governor. The conclusion of his brilliant and
captivating speech accepting the nomination was alike gallant,
inspiriting and characteristic, when he said, " In the battle in
which we are engaged I ask no Democrat to go where I am not
first found bearing the standard which you have placed in my
hands." He made a canvass so remarkable for its spirit,
aggressiveness and brilliancy that although his party had but
recently been in a minority of 80,000, he came within a few
hundred votes of defeating Governor Chase for his
second term. The official count alone determined the
result.
He was a delegate to the Democratic national convention
held at Cincinnati in 1856, which nominated Buchanan for
president; and delegate at large to the convention at Charleston
in 1860, and reported from the committee the minority
resolutions, which were adopted by the convention. He was
selected by Senator Douglas to reply to the attacks of
Yancey and Toombs in that convention. The
speech made by Mr. Payne in the Charleston
convention was remarkable for its perspicuity, brilliancy and
power,—condemning incipient secession and littering prophetic
warnings to the South if they persisted in going out of the
Union. The speech made him a national reputation, winning
for him the gratitude of the Northern delegates and commanding
the respect of the Southern members.
In 1872 the Democratic State convention, held at
Cleveland, selected him as a delegate at large to the convention
which nominated Horace Greeley. He was made
chairman of the Ohio delegation, and on his return entered with
his accustomed zeal and spirit into the campaign.
In 1874 he accepted the Democratic nomination in the
Cleveland District for Congress, and in a district which has
always given a large Republican majority he was elected by
nearly 2,500 majority. It was at a time when there was
expressed, justly or unjustly, much public indignation touching
financial scandals in Congressional and official service, and in
his speech accepting the nomination he was moved to say: "If
elected, and my life is spared to serve out the terra, I promise
to come back with hand and heart as undefiled and clean as when
I left you;" and he kept the faith. He at once took high
rank in Congress and was appointed on the committee on Banking
and Currency. This was his appropriate field of labor, and
his propositions, explanations and arguments in committee
commanded the profoundest consideration. The financial
bill known as the "Payne Compromise" was doubtless the
master work of his Congressional life. The Resumption Act
had recently passed, and all the Western Democrats had been
elected with the understanding that it should be repealed.
The Eastern Democrats were in favor of cast-iron resumption. The
bitterest feeling sprang up between the two factions, and a
split upon the currency question seemed imminent. Payne
had always been faithful to his convictions as a Democrat, but
"soft" money was not a portion of his creed. The extreme "hards"
wanted to abolish paper currency: the extreme "softs" wanted to
wipe out the banks. There were some forty propositions
pending. Payne then presented his plan. He
proposed to retain both the banks and their currency and the
greenbacks, but was in favor of the Government making the paper
money as good as gold. He proposed that the banks and the
Government should bear the burdens of resumption by returning
twenty percent, of the paper each had in circulation, thus
reducing the volume of the paper, and paving the way for a
natural resumption. His plan met with decided opposition
from both factious, but he calmly reasoned with his opponents
until he made many converts among thinking men, both statesmen
and bankers. The Payne plan was adopted by a
Democratic caucus, after nearly three months of discussion, and
reported to the House by Mr. Payne.
Senator Bayard gracefully yielded to Mr.
Payne's views, saying to him, "I have made a careful
examination of your proposition and find there is no sacrifice
of principle in it. It is an adjustment of some financial
principles to a strained condition of affairs." Mr.
Seligman, the eminent New York banker, said, "The
principles of Payne's compromise if enacted into law
would prove a solution of our complicated system, and give us a
safer currency than England. It made no war on banks, but
it recognized them as a safe medium for handling the currency,
and increasing and decreasing the volume of currency, according
to the needs of trade, and removed it from the domain of
politicians, too many of whom knew but little about the
financial affairs of the country."
He was chairman of the House Conference Committee on
the Electoral vote, a strong advocate of the Electoral
Commission bill, and a member of the Commission himself.
His record through all that exciting period is creditable to him
in the highest degree, both as a representative Democrat and a
statesman.
From the disruption of the Charleston convention Mr.
Payne was conscious that an attempt would be made to
separate the States, and it was in his first public utterance
thereafter, and before the first act of secession, that he
replied to the hostile sentiments expressed by a Southern
gentleman. declaring that "the Union had a mortgage upon every
dollar that he owned for its preservation." In the gloomy
days of 1862 he united with other citizens in a guarantee to the
county treasurer against loss by advancing $50,000 for military
necessities, trusting to a future legislature to sanction such
advances. During the reverses of the Union army early in
the war, when the President called for 500,000 volunteers,
Governor Tod appealed to him for his influence in
aiding to meet that call. He reported with alacrity,
stumping the State, encouraging enlistments, raising funds, and
preaching the salvation of the Union.
Mr. Payne's name was presented as a
candidate for the Presidency before the national Democratic
convention held in Cincinnati in 1880. Ohio had instructed
her delegates to vote for Thurman, which they felt
obligated to do unless released by him. Although Mr.
Payne did not receive a single vote from his own State,
he, nevertheless, was the third highest in the list on the first
ballot, which stood: Hancock 171; Bayard 153;
Payne 81, the remainder of 738 being widely scattered.
At this juncture, if Mr. Payne could have received
the Ohio vote, to which, as her leading candidate, he seemed
fairly entitled, he could have been nominated, but the
delegation being unable to get released from their instructions,
Mr. Payne promptly requested the withdrawal of his
own name.
In 1885 Mr. Payne was elected United
States Senator for the term of six years, ending in 1892, being
the first Democrat ever elected from the northern half of the
State. It was an unsought and gratuitous gift of the
Legislature, and of the party with which he had been for a
lifetime recognized as one of its most brilliant leaders—and a
graceful climax of an honorable life.
Mr. Payne's family relations have been fortunate
and happy. His wife, a few years his junior, is still by
his side. They have had five children, but sadly three
times the family circle has been broken, first in the death of
the youngest, and then of the eldest son; and lastly in the
death of Mrs. W. C. Whitney, of New
York. The survivors are Colonel Oliver H. Payne, of
New York, and Mrs. Bingham, of Cleveland.
Source: Memorial Record of the County of Cuyahoga and City of
Cleveland, Ohio - Publ. Chicago - The Lewis Publishing Company - 1894
- Page 37 |
Rev. Geo. W. Pepper
pg. 515 |
REV. GEORGE W. PEPPER
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 L. PHILLIPS,
dealer in real estate, corner of Doan and Superior streets,
Cleveland, Ohio, is one of the well-known, responsible and
worthy citizens of his locality.
Mr. Phillips was born on the premises on which
he now resides, Dec. 13, 1844, son of James and Almira
(Crawford) Phillips, natives of Connecticut. His
parents came from the East to Ohio about 1838 and settled on a
farm in Warrensville, from whence, about 1840, they removed to
the vicinity of Cleveland. Here the father purchased 125
acres of land, half of which is now within the corporate limits
of the city, the rest being still in the possession of the
family. On this farm the senior Mr. Phillips spent
the the residue of his life and died. He was a man
of more than ordinary business qualifications, was well known,
and filled several local offices, such as Township Trustee and
School Director. His life was a life of noble impulse and
progressive spirit, and well did he do his part toward opening
up the frontier and preparing the way for a higher civilization
which the present generation enjoys. He and his worthy
companion left to their descendants what is far better than
riches - the heritage of a good name. Henry L. is
the youngest of their family, the others being Mrs. Hosley,
William, Mrs. Jordan and Sarah.
The boyhood days of Henry L. Phillips were
spent on his father's farm and in attendance at the public
schools of Cleveland. He continued farming until 1891,
when he engaged in the real-estate business, which he has since
successfully conducted.
Mr. Phillips was married Dec. 25, 1873, to
Miss Frances Morgan, daughter of Calvin Morgan of New
York.
When the Civil war came on, our subject was in his
teens. Feb. 25, 1864, he enlisted in Battery D, First Ohio
Light Artillery, and was in the Army of the Ohio, which was
consolidated with the Army of the Tennessee. He
participated in the Atlantic campaign, and remained with his
command until the close of the war, being then in North
Carolina. He returned to Cleveland and was mustered out
July 15, 1865. He stood the service well. Although
he was under fire much of the time during the Atlanta campaign,
he never received a wound. He is a member of Forest City
Post, G. A. R., in which he has served in official capacities.
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 PHILLIPS,
retired, was born in Crawford county, Pennsylvania, Dec. 17,
1837, a son of James and Almira (Crawford) Phillips,
natives of Connecticut. James Phillips was born in
1804, and in 1838 removed to Ohio to make his home with his
wife's parents, Luther and Elizabeth Crawford. He
bought a tract of 125 acres, on which his son William now
resides; thirty-eight acres are within the city limits of
Cleveland. Here Mr. Phillips lived until his death,
which occurred Apr. 10, 1891. He became a conspicuous
figure in the history of this locality, and was an important
factor in the development of Cuyahoga county's resources.
He was bound out as a child of four years, and had few
advantages in his youth. As a pioneer of Ohio he is
deserving of the honor and reverence due those men and women who
bravely cleared the path for the oncoming generations. His
wife died Feb. 17, 1889, at the venerable age of eighty-seven
years. For many years he was trustee of the township, but
was not a politician. There were four children in the
family: William, the subject of this sketch;
Mary, the wife of O. D. Jordan; Sarah and
Henry L. The mother was twice married, and had one
daughter by her first union, Almira, widow of Adolphus
J. Hosley.
Mr. Phillips was educated in the district school
and was reared to the occupation of farmer. He enlisted
Sept. 10, 1862, in Company D, One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Ohio
Volunteer Infantry, his regiment did guard duty on Johnston's
island the greater part of the time, and he was honorably
discharged June 8, 1865. When the war had closed he
returned to his farm and resumed the pursuits he has since
followed. He has been very successful, and for many years
was regarded as one of the leading market-gardners in the
county.
He was married Oct. 20, 1958, to Miss Lydia A.
Barber, a daughter of Abner and Lydia Barber, both of
whom are deceased. Mrs. Phillips is one of a family
of five children: Elizabeth, wife of Wright
Bramley, deceased; Minerva, wife of Carlton
Fuller, is not living; Asa and Martin V., who
was killed in a railway accident at the age of twenty-one years.
Mr. and Mrs. Phillips are the parents of a family of nine
children: Ella, now Mrs. Carlisle whose history is
given elsewhere in this volume; James W.; Emma;
Charles R. who married Alice Middleton; Gertrude; Bert,
who died at the age of two and a half years; Minerva; Frank,
who died at the age of twelve months; and Ralph.
Mr. Phillips is an honored member of the G. A. R.,
is a man of most excellent traits, and his long and useful
career in this community entitle him to the confidence reposed
in him by all classes of citizens.
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 S. PINCOMBE
was born in Cleveland, Ohio, May 6, 1855. His parents were
William and Sarah (Wooldridge) Pincombe, and were both
natives of Devonshire, England, where they were married.
In the spring of 1853 they emigrated to the United States,
settling in Cleveland, where the father was engaged in
brick-making. In 1861 he purchased a farm in Middleburg
township, where he has since resided. Mrs. Sarah
Pincombe is a sister of
Thomas
Wooldridge, of whom personal mention is made elsewhere
in this volume. She was born April 5, 1817.
William Pincombe was born Feb. 26, 1830.
William S. Pincombe is the only child of his
parents. He was reared in Cuyahoga county, where he had
always resided. He was married in Berea, Ohio, Jan. 31,
1876, to Miss Mary Ann Gordon, a daughter of the late
John Gordon, who died in Berea, Ohio, Mar. 27, 1880.
Her mother was Elizabeth (Bailey) Gordon,
who survives her husband. Mr. and Mrs. Pincombe aid
he parents of four children: William J., Silas
H., Arthur H. and Ella May. Mr.
Pincombe has been engaged chiefly in farming. He
cultivates his father's farm of over 100 acres. He has
held some of the offices of the township and for many years has
been one of the school directors. He is a member of the
Masonic fraternity.
Source: Memorial Record of the County of Cuyahoga and City of
Cleveland, Ohio - Publ. Chicago - The Lewis Publishing Company - 1894
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ORESTES
C. PINNEY, one of the most prominent attorneys of the
Forest City, is also one of the most prominent citizens of
northern Ohio. To pursue a chronological order in giving
our brief sketch of him, we will first state that his father was
a native of New England, born in West Farmington, Connecticut,
in 1805. In 1834, with his wife and two children, he
emigrated to Ohio, coming with an ox team. In 1840 he
located on 100 acres of land in Hart's Grove, Ashtabula county,
which place was at the time a dense forest excepting that one
acre had been partially cleared; and this point was his home
until his death, when he was seventy-four years of age.
His father, the grandfather of Orestes, was a
Captain in the Revolutionary war, whose brother was a Lieutenant
in the same contest.
Mr. Orestes C. Pinney, the youngest of his
parents' nine children, was born Apr. 27, 1851, reared on the
farm and attended the Geneva (Ohio) Normal School. Leaving
the farm in Hart's Grove in the autumn of 1867, he was employed
a few days in the erection of a mill-dam at Windsor Mills in
Ashtabula county, and spent the remainder of that fall digging
potatoes in Harpersfield and Madison, and earned besides his
board $47.90. The ensuing winter he taught the Wheeler
Creek public school in Geneva, four months, earning besides his
board $100. From this start he continued his education,
taking up the study of the higher branches, without a teacher,
and also studying law, till he was admitted to practice at the
bar, in September, 1873. He immediately opened an office
at Geneva, where he practiced his chosen profession until
February, 1890, when he accepted an offer to become the First
Deputy in the United States Customs office at Cleveland, which
position he held for a year and ten months, resigning to resume
the practice of law in this city. Soon he entered the law
office of Harvey D. Goulder, where he remained fifteen
months, and then opened an office independently in the
Perry-Payne building, where he is now practicing his profession,
with success.
In 1876 he was united in marriage with Miss Grace P.
Cowdery, of Perry county, Ohio, and they have three sons,
their pride and their joy.
Source: Memorial Record of the County of Cuyahoga and City of
Cleveland, Ohio - Publ. Chicago - The Lewis Publishing Company - 1894
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Pope, I. W.
pg. 531 |
WASHINGTON IRVING POPE Source: Memorial Record of the County of Cuyahoga and City of
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