This portrait likely made from a post 1850 photograph shows Richard Lord, the youngest son of Samuel Phillips Lord, the original proprietor of nearly all of the land in Brooklyn Township. Richard Lord moved to Brooklyn Township in 1826, joining Josiah Barber as an agent for the Lord family land interests there. He had many business interests in Brooklyn Township and Ohio City, including a real estate partnership formed with Barber in 1831 and an ownership interest in the Cuyahoga Steam Furnace Company, the first manufacturing plant in the Cleveland area, formed in 1834. He also formed a partnership with fellow Ohio City Councilman William Burton, which operated a refueling station on an island in Lake Michigan for ships traveling across the Great Lakes to and from Chicago. Lord also served as a Councilman, President of Council and sixth mayor of Ohio City.Download Original File
