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History of the Great Lakes
Illustrated, In Two Volumes, Vol. II
Chicago, J. H. Beers & Co., 1899

        [121-122]

              WILLIAM WARD, senior member of the firm of WARD & JACKSON,
           the leading shipsmiths and iron forgers of Cleveland, Ohio,
           has been quite successful in his business, and has the
           distinction of having ironed the major part of the new vessels
           built in Cleveland at the various shipyards when wooden ship-
           building was carried on so extensively at that port. He has won
           the way to his present comfortable condition by unremitting
           industry and thrift.
              MR. WARD was born in Toronto. Ont., January 19, 1842. and is
           a son of CHRISTOPHER and MARIA (DAY) WARD, his father being
           a native of Norwich, England, whose ancestors had for many
           generations been farmers. At the time of the father's birth
           the family was nearly extinct, and when a child he went to live
           with his grandfather, the only surviving member of their
           immediate family. In 1830 he crossed the Atlantic, and located
           on Prince Edward Island, but soon afterward removed to Toronto,
           Canada, where he made his home until January 24, 1868, going
           thence to the Georgian Bay region, where he bought a farm near
           Owen sound.
              At an early age WILLIAM WARD, the subject of this sketch,
           removed with his parents to Trafalgar, Ont., where he received a
           fair common-school education, and on leaving that place resided
           for a short time in Brampton, in the same Province. Later he
           lived in Streetsville, Ont., where he learned the blacksmith's
           trade, and on coming to the United States, in 1862, he located
           in Cleveland, where he soon obtained employment in the agri-
           cultural shop owned by YOUNGLOVE, MASSEY & CO. Subsequently he
           worked in the Mahoning railroad shops, and in the marine works
           of Blish & Gerlack, and spent one year in Youngstown, Ohio,
           after which he returned to Cleveland. For a time he was also in
           the employ of the Cleveland & Pittsburg shops in Wellsville, as
           foreman, and the Lake Shore shops and the Cleveland, Columbus &
           Cincinnati shops in Cleveland. On leaving that position he
           established his present shipsmith and machine forging business,
           being in partnership with JOHN BLATT for a year. That partner-
           ship being dissolved, he has since been connected in business
           with E. J. JACKSON under the firm name of WARD & JACKSON, who
           enjoy an excellent trade, which is certainly well deserved, for
           both are expert and skillful workmen. They have recently removed
           their works to more commodious quarters on the same street, a
           few doors from the old shop. Socially, MR. WARD is an active
           and ardent Mason, holding veteran's certificate of Bigelow
           Lodge, F. & A. M., and fills the office of trustee; a veteran of
           Thatcher Chapter, of which he is also a trustee, and a veteran
           of Holyrood Commandery. He is also a Noble of the Mystic Shrine.
           He holds a certificate as a life member of the Ohio Masonic
           Home, of which he is also a trustee.
              On February 15, 1870, MR. WARD was united in marriage with
           Miss CATHERINE ANABLE, of Cornwall, Ontario, and to them have
           been born four children: ADELBERT V., now in the employ of the
           Mcintosh Huntington Company, and who married Miss HATTIE,
           daughter of ENOS JENKINS, engineer of the Penobscot; ELIZABETH,
           wife of FRANCIS P. MARTIN, of Cleveland; WILLIAM E., a civil
           engineer now in the employ of the city of Cleveland, and who,
           like his father, is an ardent Mason; and CATHERINE E., who
           became the wife of DR. ROBERT C. DROEGE, a practicing physician
           of Cleveland, Ohio. The family homestead is pleasantly situated
           on Whitman street, Cleveland.

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