Cleveland, past and present; its representative men: . L. f: ^i^_ :>^ i/hDif- .. i) -.^VNv ITS REPRESENTATIVE MEN. Uil SETH W. JOHNSON. The name of Seth W. Johnson has for more than thirty years beenclosely and prominently identified witli the sliip building interests ofCleveland. He saw the business in its infancy, was largely accessoryto its growth into the important proportions it at last assumed, andthough no longer engaged in the business, his withdrawal from it isso recent that the mention of his name suggests, to those familiarwith the affairs of the city for a number of years, the i

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Cleveland, past and present; its representative men: . L. f: ^i^_ :>^ i/hDif- .. i) -.^VNv ITS REPRESENTATIVE MEN. Uil SETH W. JOHNSON. The name of Seth W. Johnson has for more than thirty years beenclosely and prominently identified witli the sliip building interests ofCleveland. He saw the business in its infancy, was largely accessoryto its growth into the important proportions it at last assumed, andthough no longer engaged in the business, his withdrawal from it isso recent that the mention of his name suggests, to those familiarwith the affairs of the city for a number of years, the incessanttapping of the shipwrights hammers and visions of skeleton shipsgradually assuming the form and substance in which they are tocarry the commerce of the great West to market. Mr. Johnson was a native of Middle Haddara, Middlesex county,Connecticut, his mother, who died October IT, ISfiS, being formerlyMiss Mary Whitmore, born at Middletown, Middlesex county. Conn.,in ITSO, and his father, Henry Johnson, born in 1776, and died July6,1SG9. Seth

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