Cleveland Past and Present

Cleveland Past and Present

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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., Profusely Illustrated with Photographic Views and
Portraits
1869
Photographically Illustrated by E. Decker

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."

History of Cleveland.

For the records of the first sixteen or seventeen years of the history of
Cleveland, what may be styled its pioneer history, the local historian
will hereafter be indebted to the work of Col. Whittlesey, where every
known and reliable fact connected with that period of Cleveland's
history is carefully preserved.
The city was originally comprised in lands purchased by the
"Connecticut Land Company," and formed a portion of what is termed
the Western Reserve. This company