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institution he graduated in the summer of I872; during this
session he was appointed Demonstrator of Anatomy, and
was elected Professor of Anatomy in the Hahnemann Institute, Detroit, which positions he filled during the coming
session. Thereafter he commenced the practice of his profession at Wyandotte, Michigan, remaining there about one
year, and succeeded in securing an extensive practice, devoting himself chiefly to the surgical branch of the science.
While there he wrote a series of letters, which were published in the Wyandotte EnrtepTrise, entitled, "Guide for
Emergencies, or Surgery for the People." In the spring of
I873 he returned to Sandusky, Ohio, where he is at present
in the active practice of his profession. He is an able physician and useful citizen. He was married in 1870 to Belle
Leiter, daughter of A. Leiter, of Bellevue, Ohio; she died
September I17th, 187I.
in. He w as elected President and c onduct ed its aff,iiis with
grea t success. From I85o to I86o he ser ved as Treasurer
of the Cleveland, Columbus & C incinnati Railroad Co-l
pany, an d ma naged it s finances with great s agacity. He is
still a Director of the comp any, although he resigned the
treasurership in I 860. He f irst demonstr ated the practicabil -
ity of establishing a pr o fitable commerce direct with Europe
from the lake ports. In I858 he des p at che d thre e of a flee t
of ten merchant vessels, la den with lumbe r and staves, from
Cleveland to English por ts, and from that tim e th e fore ign
trade with the lakes has been kept up. Very fe w to ok a
deeper interest ini e d ucational and philanthropic causes, or
labored more e arnestl y for thei r advanc ement and success,
than Mr. tHandy; but he never hel d or sought positions of
polit ical prominence. He served a s a me mber of the Board
of Education with Charl es Bradburn, and was on e of that
gentleman's ablest coadjutors in reorganizing and improving
the school system of Cleveland. They succeeded in placing
it on a basis of lasting prosperity. In the Sunday-school for
more than forty years he was a constant, active worker. For
seventeen years he was President of the Industrial Home
and Children's Aid Society, of which he had e ver been one
of the most liberal supporters. H e is a me mber o f the Pwesbyterian Church; has al1ways been sincere and earnest in
his life-long connection with it, yet free from the cant of
many religious societies. He has ever been broad and liberal in his views. He is dearly beloved by children, with
whom he is very generous, and is now as young in heart as
the little ones he loves so much. He is justly entitled to
the name of philanthropist, on account of his substantial,
effective lab~ors for the relief of the poor and helpless andl in
rescuing the vicious and ignorant. lie has made three extended visits in Europe for the purpose of investigating the
financial, religious and educational systems of the Old
World, and Cleveland has been largely benefited by the
valuable knowledge he gained on those occasions., In
March, I832, he was married to Harriet N. Hale, of Geneva, New York, by whom he had one daughter, who wras
married to John S. Newberry, of Detroit.
tANDY, TRUMAN P., Financier and Banker, was
wborn in Paris, On e ida county, New York, January
17th, I807. He received a good academnical
education, and made pr eparat ions for entering
college, but at the age of eighteen, after having
been employed in stores in Utica and New Hartford, he accepted the clerkship in the Bank of Geneva, Ontario county,,in that State. Five years later he resigned and
removed to Buffalo, to assist in t he organization of the Bank
of Buffalo, in which he held the p osition of teller for one
year. It I I832 he r emoved to Clevel and, having been invited there for the purpose of resuscitating the Commercial
Bank of Lake Erie, established in i8I6, lout which bad
yfailed and its charter be en pur chased by Hon. George Bancroft of Massachusetts, the historian. H e accep ted the post
of cashier, organized the bank, and it prospered until 184?,,
when its charter expired and a renewal was refused by the
Legislature. Ill the financial crisis of 1837 it had been comnpelled t o accept real estate in settlement of the estate of its
involved c ustom ers, and thus became one of the larges t landowners in the city. At the close of the bank Mr. Handy
was appointed trustee to divide this property among the
stockholders, which he accomplished in 1845. In I843 he
h ad a well-established p rivate banking house under the firmname of T. P. Handy & Co. In I845 he organized the
Commerc ial Branch Bank, under the act of Legi slature of
th at year, authoriz ing the est abl ishment of the State Bank of
Ohio. He was Cashier and acting manager. The success
was so great that the stockholders realized an average of
twenty per cent. on their investments for a period of twenty
years, when its charter terminated in I865. In I86I he accepted the Presidency of the Merchants' Branch of the State
Bank of Ohio, which had been crippled by the failure of the
-Ohio Life and Trust Company. Under his skilful management it rapidly recovered lost ground. In I865 the bank
reorganized as a national bank, under the provisions of the
United States national banking laws, with a capital of one
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CVEY, ALFRED HENRY, Lawyer and Author,
was born, April 28th, 1843, in Fayette county,
Ohio. He is descended from an old and well-to do family; is of Scotch descent on his father'
side, and of English on the maternal; his grand father, James McVey, removed to Ohio about the
beginning of the present century. He received his elementai-y education in the common schools of the State, where
be remained until be bad attained his seventeenth year,
when he entered the Southwestern Normal School, at
Lebanon, Ohio, where be was.prepared for college. While
but a youth be -was noted for his. studious habits, and bel'ore