A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Elroy McKendree Avery . tted to partiuMship;the enlarged finn entered the wholesale trade and soon had a l)usinessof a million dollars a year. The firm of George Worthington andCompany is still one of the strong business institutions of the Barnctt became the second president of the company, a major-general in the civil war, president of the First National Bank andof the Associated Charities, and wa,s officially connected with manysimilar philanthropic organizations. He was often called ClevelandsGrand Old Man. In
A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Elroy McKendree Avery . tted to partiuMship;the enlarged finn entered the wholesale trade and soon had a l)usinessof a million dollars a year. The firm of George Worthington andCompany is still one of the strong business institutions of the Barnctt became the second president of the company, a major-general in the civil war, president of the First National Bank andof the Associated Charities, and wa,s officially connected with manysimilar philanthropic organizations. He was often called ClevelandsGrand Old Man. In 1903, in presenting a certificate designating 1829] THE FIRST IIAJRDWARE STORE 139 liiiii as ail lioiiorary life member of the Childrens Fresh Air Camp,Dr. Elroy M. Avery, the president of the camp, said: It is a matterof eonfrratnlation that it goes to one who, in all the varied walks ofa long and honorable life, has played eveiy part well—in war and inpeace, in business and philanthropy; to one who has shown his friendshow to grow old beautifully; to one who, by common consent, is ad-. George Wortiiington mitted to be what I now formally pioclaim you to be. The FirstCitizen of Cleveland. Various Improvements and Happenings George Hoadley, Seth A. Abbey, Norman C. Baldwin, and RichardWinslow came in 1830, and Milo H. Hiekox in 1831. IMr. Hoadleyhad been a tutor at Yale College, a newspaper writer, and had servedas mayor of New Haven, Connecticut. From 1832 to 1846, he was ajustice of the peace. One of our city historians calls him one of themarked men of his day and another says that, as a justice of thepeace, he remains our model. He decided over twenty thousand cases,few were appealed, and none were reversed. lie was mayor of Cleve-land from 1846 to 1848. In 1849, the family moved to Cincinnati, wherehis son, born at New Haven in 1825 and graduated at Western ReserveCollege in 1844, Iwgan the practice of law. This son was elected gov-ernor of Ohio in 1883. ^\r. Abbey beca
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