The Solomon Railroad company spread throughout Ohio, Michigan, and into eastern Illinois under Uri's empathetic eye.  And while his rails continued a westward expansion, he found a modest home in the Shaker Heights area of Cleveland.  He did his best to live simply, directly. But his railroads went everywhere, and such was his fame that, when his children would later introduce themselves to a hotel clerk or professor, they would be asked whether they were from the "Cleveland Solomons".