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Elmer Ellesworth Teare
b.18 Dec 1861 Warrensville, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio, United States
d.26 Jan 1925 Cleveland Heights, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio, United States
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m. 1887
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His death certificate states that he was a lumber executive for Northern Ohio Lumber Co. The following contributed by Dr. Anthory Troha: A History of Cleveland and Its Environs-The Heart of New Connecticut, Volume III: Biography, by Elroy McKendree Avery, published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago (1918). The biography is located on Pages 187-188: “Elmer E. Teare. One of the large and successful firms engaged in the lumber business at Cleveland is the partnership of Potter, Teare & Company, whose plant is at 1918 Carter Road. Mr. Teare of this firm has been steadily identified with the lumber business at Cleveland nearly forty years. During all that time his associations have been practically with one firm. The yard which he entered on Carter Street in the capacity of an office boy was owned by Potter, Birdsall & Company, of which the present firm is the successor. Mr. Teare was born in Warrensville, Ohio, December 18, 1861. His father, John C. Teare, was born on the Isle of Man in 1809, and came to the United States when a young man. He married at Cleveland, where for several years he followed the trade of carpenter and builder, afterwards moved to a farm at Warrensville and was busied with the quiet interests of his farm and rural life until his death in 1872. He was a republican voter and generous supporter of the work of his church, the Methodist. He married Catherine Shimmin, who was born on the Isle of Man in 1820 and died at Cleveland in 1913. Her children were: John C., a farmer at Warrensville ; William II., who for a number of years was associated with his brother Elmer in the lumber business and died at Cleveland at the age of sixty-one; Robert T., a railroad engineer living at Collinwood, Ohio, who died at the age of fifty-five ; George W., who died at Warrensville aged twenty-one ; Eliza J., wife of Thomas R. Teare, a retired manufacturer of Cleveland ; Allen S., who died at Warrensville at the age of fourteen ; and Elmer E. Elmer E. Teare acquired his early education in the public schools of Warrensville and Bedford, Ohio, graduating from the high school of the latter town in 1879. It was soon afterward that he came to Cleveland and entered the service of Potter, Birdsall & Company at their lumber yard on Carter Street. His first work was as office boy. He rapidly absorbed the complicated technique of the lumber trade terminology and of all other details of the business and in 1892 became a member of the newly organized firm of Potter, Teare & Company. He and F. P. Potter are now the active men in the business. Mr. Teare is a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, the Mayfield Country Club, Shaker Lakes Club, Cleveland Athletic Club, Hermit Club, and Automobile Club. He votes as a republican and is a trustee of the Methodist Church. He and his family reside at 1884 Roxbury Road in East Cleveland, where he built his home in 1906. He married at Cleveland in 1887 Miss Mary Louise Jackson, daughter of Samuel B. and Sarah (Jackson) Jackson. Her parents are both now deceased. Her father was a railroad man and for a number of years was paymaster for the Big Four. Mr. and Mrs. Teare have three children: Halsey Jackson, who is a graduate of Culver Military Academy and is in business with his father; Catherine Louise, a graduate of the Hathaway-Brown School of Cleveland, finishing her education at Dana Hall at Wellesley, Massachusetts, and is now the wife of Ralph G. Browne, who is in the oil business at Cleveland; and George William, member of the senior class of the Cleveland University School.” References
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