Cleveland, Past and Present; Its Representative Men, Comprising Biographical Sketches of Pioneer Settlers and Prominent Citizens, With a History of the City and Historical Sketches of Its Commerce, Manufactures, Ship Building, Railroads, Telegraphy, Schools, Churches, Etc., by Maurice Joblin

Published: Cleveland, Ohio, Fairbanks, Benedict & Co., printers, 1869

CONTENTS:

PREFACE

Part 1
   HISTORY OF CLEVELAND
   TRADE AND COMMERCE
      Levi Johnson
      Noble H. Merwin
      John Blair
      Philo Scovill
      Melancthon Barnett
      Joel Scranton
      Orlando Cutter
      Peter Martin Weddell

Part 2
      Dudley Baldwin
      Norman C. Baldwin
      Leverett Alcott
      Richard Winslow
      Richard Hilliard
      S. H. Sheldon
      Charles Hickox
      Alexander Sackettt
      George Mygatt
      Martin B. Scott
      J. P. Robison
      Truman P. Handy
      Charles Bradburn
      Samuel Raymond
      Richard T. Lyon
      H. M. Chapin
      Moses White
      David H. Beardsley
      Thomas Augustus Walton

Part 3
      George Worthingto
      N. E. Crittenden
      William A. Otis
      E. P. Morgan
      Robert Hanna
      S. F. Lester
      Alva Bradley
      Wellington P. Cooke
      Hiram Garretson
      John Barr
      J. B. Cobb
      A. G. Colwell
      William Bingham
      William J. Gordon
      Henry Wick
      William Edwards
      Amos Townsend
      David A. Dangler

Part 4
      T. S. Beckwith
      Elias Sims
      Joseph Perkins
      Hinman B. Hurlbut
      Elbert Irving Baldwin
      Grove N. Abbey
      B. W. Jenness
      John Fletcher Warner
      A. V. Cannon
      H. F. Brayton
      O. A. Childs
      James McDermott
      J. A. Redington
      Samuel Sage Coe
      John Long Severance
      Daniel Sanford
      Charles W. Coe
      S. M. Strong

Part 5
   SHIP BUILDING
      Seth W. Johnson
      Thomas Quayle
      Elihu M. Peck
      John Martin
   THE BENCH AND BAR
      Alfred Kelley
      Leonard Case
      Reuben Wood
      John W. Willey
      Sherlock J. Andrews
      John W. Allen
      Hiram V. Willson
      Samuel Starkweather
      Moses Kelly

Part 6
      Thomas Bolton
      James M. Hoyt
      Franklin T. Backus
      Jesse P. Bishop
      Henry H. Dodge
      James M. Coffinberry
      James Mason
      Daniel R. Tilden
      Charles W. Palmer
      William Collins
      Rufus Percival Ranney
      Charles Taylor Sherman
      Rufus P. Spalding
      W. S. C. Otis
      Franklin J. Dickman
      James M. Jones

Part 7
   EDUCATIONAL
      Harvey Rice
      Andrew Freese
      Anson Smyth
      R. F. Humiston

Part 8
   RAILROADING
      Jacob Perkins
      William Case
      Amasa Stone, Jr
      Stillman Witt
      James Farmer
      George B. Ely
      Worthy S. Streator

Part 9
   THE COAL INTEREST
      William Philpot
      Lemuel Crawford
      D. P. Rhodes
      David Morris
      W. I. Price
      D. W. Cross
   RELIGIOUS
      Samuel C. Aiken
      Seymour W. Adams
      J. A. Thome
      William H. Goodrich
      Isaac Errett
      Benjamin Rouse

Part 10
   MEDICAL
      David Long
      John Delamater
      Jared Potter Kirtland
      Theodatus Garlick
      J. L. Cassels
      J. S. Newberry
      D. H. Beckwith
      Thomas T. Seelye

Part 11
   MANUFACTURING
      William B. Castle
      Charles Jarvis Woolson
      William Hart
      John Bousfield
      J. G. Hussey
      A. B. Stone
      Henry Chisholm
      R. P. Myers
      M. C. Younglove
      John D. Rockefeller
      Peter Thatcher
      Levi Haldeman
      G. Westlake
      Stephen Buhrer
      M. B. Clark
      Jacob Lowman
      W. G. Wilson
      Albert C. McNairy
      J. H. Morley

Part 12
   TELEGRAPHY
      Jeptha H. Wade
      Anson Stager
   CITY IMPROVEMENTS
      Henry S. Stevens
      Theodore R. Scowden
      John H. Sargent
   MILITARY
      Colonel Charles Whittlesey
      General James Barnett
      Colonel Wm. H. Hayward
      Colonel Wm. R. Creighton
      Lieutenant Colonel Orrin J. Crane
   OTHER MILITARY MEN OF CLEVELAND
   JOURNALISM
      A. W. Fairbanks
      J. W. Gray
      George A. Benedict
      J. H. A. Bone
      William W. Armstrong
      Frederick W. Green

PREFACE

In many ways the story of the survey and first settlement of Cleveland has been made familiar to the public. It has been told at pioneer gatherings, reproduced in newspapers and periodicals, enlarged upon in directory prefaces and condensed for works of topographical reference. Within a short time Col. Charles Whittlesey has gathered up, collected, and arranged the abundant materials for the Early History of Cleveland in a handsome volume bearing that title.

But Col. Whittlesy's volume closes with the war of 1812, when Cleveland was still a pioneer settlement with but a few families. The history of the growth of that settlement to a village, its development into a commercial port, and then into a large and flourishing city, with a busy population of a hundred thousand persons, remained mostly unwritten, and no part of it existing in permanent form. The whole period is covered by the active lives of men yet with us who have grown up with the place, and with whose history that of the city is inseparably connected. It occurred to the projector of this work that a history of Cleveland could be written in the individual histories of its representative men, that such a volume would not only be a reliable account of the growth of the city in its general features and in the development of its several branches of industry, but would possess the additional advantage of the interest attaching to personal narrative. This idea has been faithfully worked out in the following pages, not without much labor and difficulty in the collection and arrangement of the materials. Besides the personal narratives, an introductory sketch to each of the departments of business into which the biographical sketches are grouped gives a brief account of the rise and present position of that particular industry; these, taken together, forming a full and accurate business and professional history of the city. An introductory sketch of the general history of Cleveland gives completeness to the whole, whilst the numerous illustrations and portraits add greatly to the interest and value of the work.

Numerous as are the sketches, it is not, of course, claimed that all are represented in the volume who deserve a place in it. This would be impossible in a work of ordinary dimensions, even were it convenient, or even possible, to obtain the necessary materials. The aim has been to sketch sufficient of the representative men in each leading business and professional department to give a fair idea of the nature and extent of that department. It is not a complete biographical dictionary of Cleveland, but a volume of biographical selections, made, as the lawyers say, "without prejudice."