History of Cleveland, (Cuyahoga County) Ohio United States of America

Sidney G. Brock, statistician, was born at Cleveland, Ohio, April 10, 1837. He received his elementary education in the public schools of Cleveland, and was graduated at Allegheny college in 1859, receiving the degree of Ph.D. in 1889. He was admitted to the bar in Cleveland in 1861, and in October of that year he entered the Union service in the 67th Ohio volunteers. He was successively promoted to be captain and major, and remained in the service until the close of the civil war, taking part in twenty-one engagements, and being twice wounded. In 1865 he returned to the practice of the law, making his home at Macon, Mo., where he became editor and proprietor of the Macon Republican. He was mayor of the city of Macon for three terms, in 1884 was presidential elector on the Republican ticket, and in 1888 a candidate for representative in Congress. From 1889-'93, he was chief of the bureau of statistics in the U.S. treasury department. As a contributor to the journals of America and England on economic questions, his writings received favorable consideration. While statistician of the treasury department he issued a number of valuable reports, including: "Commerce of the United States with the Countries of North and South America," "History of the Commerce of the United Stafes with the Hawaiian Islands," "The Internal Commerce of the Pacific Slope," "The Commerce of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River and its tributaries," "The Immigration movement to the United States from 1792 to 1892," "History of Wool and Woolen Manufacture in the United States." He also edited the current reports of the bureau of statistics, such as "Commerce and Navigation,"" Statistical Abstract," "Internal Commerce."

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Albert Blakeslee White, governor of West Virginia, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, Sept. 22, 1856; sen of Emerson Elbridge and Mary Ann (Sabin) White. He attended the Columbus, Ohio, public schools and was graduated from Marietta college, Ohio, A.B., 1878, A.M., 1881. He was associated with the Daily Journal, in Lafayette, Ind., as reporter, 1878, and as managing editor, 1879-81. He was married, Oct. 2, 1879, to Agnes, daughter of William S. and Catharine (Clark) Ward of Marietta, Ohio. In 1881, Mr. White purchased the State Journal, Parkersburg, W.Va., converting it into a Republican daily newspaper in 1883, and editing the same until July, 1899. He was president of the National Editorial association, 1887-88; collector of internal revenue, district of West Virginia, 1889-93 and 1897-1901, and in March of the latter year was inaugurated governor of West Virginia for the term expiring March 4, 1905.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Henry Wood Elliott, artist and author, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, Nov. 13, 1841; son of Reuben Franklin and Sophia A. (Hopkins) Elliott; and a direct descendant in the ninth generation from John Eliot, the apostle to the Indians. His father (born in 1817, died in 1878) was the author of "American Fruit-Growers' Guide" (1854-76); "Popular Deciduous and Evergreen Trees" (1868); "Hand-Book for Fruit Growers" (1876) and "Practical Landscape Gardening" (1877). Henry was educated in the private and public schools of Cleveland; was private secretary to Prof. Joseph Henry, secretary of the Smithsonian institution, 1862-78; artist to the U.S. geological survey, 1869-71; and special commissioner under special act of congress to investigate the seal industry of Alaska, 1872-74, and again in 1890. He was married at St. Paul's Island, Alaska, July 22, 1872, to Alexandria Melovidov, daughter of the Russian agent in charge of Seal Islands, 1820-68. He is the author of Monograph of the Seal Islands of Alaska (1881); Our Arctic Province (1886); besides papers on seal and bird fife, and scientific articles for current periodicals, together with many treatises on the growing of small fruits and the planting of vineyards.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Lydia Hoyt Farmer, author, was born in Cleveland, Ohio; daughter of James M. and Mary Ella (Beebe) Hoyt, and granddaughter of Alexander M. Beebe, LL.D., a celebrated New York lawyer. She was married to Elihu Jerome Farmer in 1864; their son, James Eugene (Yale, 1891), became an educator and author; another son, Ernest M., a musical composer and violinist, and their daughter, Ethel F., an author and musician. Mrs. Farmer's books include: A Story Book of Science (1886); The Prince of the Flaming Star (operetta, 1889); Boy's Book of Famons Rulers (1886); Girl's Book of Famous Queens (1887); The Life of La Fayette (1888); A Short History of the French Revolution (1889); A Knight of Faith (1889); A Moral Inheritance (1890); What America Owes to Women (World's Fair Book, edited by Mrs. Farmer, 1893); Aunt Belindy's Points of View (1894); The Doom of the Holy City: Christ and Caesar (1895); The Nero of the Nineteenth Century(1897).

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Cleveland, (Cuyahoga County) Ohio

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