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A HISTORY

OF

CUYAHOGA COUNTY

AND THE

CITY OF CLEVELAND

BY

WILLIAM R. COATES

Assisted by a Board of Advisory Editors

HISTORICAL AND
BIOGRAPHICAL

ILLUSTRATED

VOLUME III

PUBLISHERS

THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY

CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1924

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Copyright, 1924

BY

The American Historical Society, Inc.

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CUYAHOGA COUNTY

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CITY OF CLEVELAND

Washington S. Tyler. An extensive manufacturing industry, one of
the contributors to Cleveland's greatness in that field, stands as a monu-
ment to the genius and enterprise of the late Washington S. Tyler, who for
nearly half a century was a liberal minded and highly efficient business
man, citizen and worker for the public welfare.

He was born in Ohio City, now known as the West Side of Cleveland,
April 10, 1835. His parents both represented pioneer families of the
Western Reserve. His father, Royal W. Tyler, was born in Connecticut,
and in the early part of the last century came to Cleveland and settled in
what was then known as Ohio City. He acquired extensive property inter-
ests in Ohio, but spent his last years in Connecticut.

When Washington S. Tyler was a small boy his parents returned to
Connecticut, and he was educated in that state, in the public schools and at
Bacon Academy at Colchester. For three years he gained some valuable
training as an employe of a dry goods store in Hartford, Connecticut.
Then, returning to Cleveland, he became an employe of E. I. Baldwin &
Company, pioneer dry goods merchants, and eventually his industry and
good judgment won him a partnership in that firm. He withdrew in 1872
to found the manufacturing establishment which is now half a century old
and is still known as the W. S. Tyler Company. This company was one
of the pioneers in making use of steel wire for the manufacture of a wide
range of specialties and standard products, and the company is one of the
largest in that field in the United States. Like many other large and
successful businesses it had a modest start. The first plant was in an old
two-story frame building. The business of today has a group of brick and
steel buildings on eight acres of ground, and every few years sees additions
made to the plant equipment, due to increasing demand for its services and
output. It includes one of the finest office buildings ov/ned by any industry
in the city. In early years the company had only a local reputation, but
long before the death of Mr. Tyler its manufactured goods were sent all
over this country and entered into the export trade.

Mr. Tyler founded his business only a short time before the great

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financial panic of 1873. He kept the plant going in that and subsequent
crises, and from a solid fouridation he kept his business growing to meet
future needs. One important source of his success was his relations with
his employes. He gave them his personal loyalty and demanded in turn
their allegiance, and of his original group of employes most of them
remained to advanced years, and when he died several of his original force
of workmen were still on the payroll. All the executive officers of the
company came up from the ranks. The business is still in his family, the
principal owner being his daughter, Mrs. E. C. T. Miller.

Mr. Tyler was also interested in other financial organizations, being a
director in the National Commercial Bank, and in various manufacturing
concerns. He was a trustee of the Children's Aid Society and of the Lake-
side Hospital, and was a member of the Governing Boards of Western
Reserve University, Adelbert College, Hiram House and the Old Stone
Church. As noted elsewhere, many of his philanthropies are continued by
his daughter, Mrs. Miller. Mr. Tyler was a member of the Union, the
Clifton, the Roadside, the Country and the Mayfield clubs and the Chagrin
Falls Hunt Club.

His daily life was a consistent exemplification of his deep seated
Christianity. He gave unstintedly and from impulses deep within his
character and never for the sake of public praise. He was a plain, un-
assuming gentleman, shunning publicity, and seeking the reward of his
own conscience. After an active and useful career of more than four
score years he passed away May 17, 1917.

In 1869 Mr. Tyler married Miss Marion A. Clark, who survives him.
She was born in Cleveland, daughter of James F. and Eliza Ann (Murphy)
"Clark. Her father was born at Cooperstown, New York, and her mother
in Connecticut. James F. Clark was an early business man of Cleveland,
at first a hardware merchant, and later for many years a banker. Mr. Tyler
was survived by one daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth C. T. Miller, mention of
whom is given in the following sketch.

Elizabeth Clark Tyler Miller. The name of Elizabeth Clark
Tyler Miller is a well known one in Cleveland and throughout Cuyahoga
County, for it has been associated with some of the most constructive work
in behalf of charitable and civic organizations of this locality, as well as
with the activities of women in the political life of Ohio.

Mrs. Miller was born at Boston, Massachusetts, daughter of Washing-
ton S. and Marion (Clark) Tyler. The record of her father's successful
career is published in the preceding sketch. Mrs. Miller spent her girlhood
days in Cleveland. After two years as a student at Dobb's Ferry, New
York, she spent a year traveling abroad, studying and visiting the different
points of interest in the various European countries. Her interest in philan-
thropic and charitable work began in 1888, at which time she became a
member of the King's Daughters Circle, which organization was devoted
to the welfare of the children of the city, especially those at Lakewood
Hospital. This organization later became the Sunbeam Circle, of which
she was at one time treasurer, and took for its object the welfare of the
crippled children of Cleveland. Later its scope was broadened to include
•all cripples, who are taught vocational occupations, and given instruction

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calculated to raise their moral standards and increase their usefulness. A
school was established on East Fifty-fifth Street, and busses were operated
in carrying the wards to and from school. Lunche.5 were furnished the
wards without charge. This very admirable work was later taken over by
the City Board of Education, and was subsequently merged with and be-
came a unit of the Association for the Crippled and Disabled. This associa-
tion maintains the Sunbeam Shop, where are sold all of the articles made
by the wards. Mrs. Miller is still a trustee of this shop. She is also a
trustee of the Babies Dispensary and Hospital, and has been since its
organization, and she is a very important factor in various other benevolent
enterprises, for she is a woman of deep sympathies and broad understand-
ing, and feels it her duty, as well as a pleasure, to use her wealth and abili-
ties to mitigate the suffering of those less fortunate than she.

However, Mrs. Miller's activities have not, by any manner of means,
been confined to charitable work. She is chairman of the Cleveland, and a
director of the Northern Ohio, communities on devastated France, and in
recognition of her efficient services in these connections the American
Committee awarded her a silver medal of honor with the ribbon. She is
also a potent factor in republican party afifairs, and was the founder and
president of the Harding Woman's Club in 1920, and was the first woman
to serve on the Republican Executive Committee of Cuyahoga County.
Ever since women began taking part in political afifairs in Ohio she has been
a leader, and her influence has long been recognized as a strong and uplift-
ing one. Mrs. Miller was the first woman to be made a member of the
Tippecanoe Club, and was further honored by election as a director in
1922, and as treasurer in 1923. Her business interests are large and
varied, and among other responsibilities of this nature are those connected
with the directorship in the W. S. Tyler Company.

An index of the unusual scope of her interests is found in the varied
memberships she has in organizations, including the following : The Royal
Economic Society, the American Economic Society, the American Associa-
tion for the Advancement of Science, the Genetic Association ; is a life
Fellow of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds in England, and a
member of the American Audubon Society, the Meriden Bird Club, founder
and president of the Cleveland Bird Lovers' Association, and the Cleveland
Bird Club. She has been active in providing food stations for birds in the
city. She is a member of the Bibliophile Society of Boston, the Brothers
of the Book of Chicago, the Colony, MacDowell, Woman's City Clubs of
New York, the Country, May field and Clifton clubs of Cleveland, the
Japan Society, and the Century Theatre Club of New York, the Cleveland
Writers' Club, Fellow of the Cleveland Museum of Arts, member of the
Maison Francaise, the Circle Francaise. She is a life member of the
American Rose Society, of the Western Reserve Club, a republican organi-
zation, and is a member of the Pioneer Memorial Association and the
Gamut Club of New York. She is a trustee of the Babies' Dispensary and
Hospital, and during the World war was associated with the Red Cross and
other organizations for the purpose of performing war service.

Mrs. Miller was married in 1901, and she has two sons. Otto Miller,
Junior, and W. S. Tyler Miller, both of whom are students of Harvard
University. In her life and work Mrs. Miller has proven beyond any

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question the fact that women are just as well qualified as men for positions
of trust and responsibility, and her wonderful success and the good she
has accomplished are proving a stimulus to others of her sex to use their
talents for the good of their communities and humanity in general.

Col. Jeremiah J. Si^llivan was a member of a group of financiers
who aided in establishing Cleveland as one of America's great banking
centers. The Central National Bank Savings & Trust Company, repre-
senting two institutions which he founded, stands as a living monument to
his perseverance, clearsightedness and business leadership. The late
Colonel Sullivan was not only an able executive and skillful organizer, but
had the personality that gained him strong and lasting friendships, and made
his associates trust him implicitly. Before coming to Cleveland he had
been proprietor of a country store, but subsequent years brought him into
a position of prominence among the nation's bankers.

Colonel Sullivan's parents, Jeremiah J. and Mary (Moylan) Sullivan,
came from Ireland in 1843, settling on a farm near Canal Fulton, Stark
County, Ohio, where, on November 16, 1844, their son was born.

Colonel Sullivan attended village schools in Canal Fulton, and the
first experience to take him out of his rural environment came during the
Civil war, when he enlisted as a private in the Third Ohio Field Artillery.
He was then in his seventeenth year, and was one of the youngest volun-
teer soldiers of Ohio. He served three years, and participated in the de-
cisive campaigns of Vicksburg, Atlanta and Nashville, being with General
Grant at Vicksburg and General Sherman at Atlanta. He was mustered
out as a sergeant in Cleveland, July 31, 1865.

When he was twenty-one years of age this young veteran became
partner in a general store at Nashville, in Holmes County, Ohio. Two
years later he became sole proprietor, and continued the business alone
until March, 1878, when he sold out and moved to Millersburg, in the same
county. There he carried on a general hardware business until President
Cleveland, in 1887, appointed him national bank examiner for Ohio.
Through experience in that oftice he gained a thorough and technical
knowledge of banking. He took up his residence in Cleveland in 1889,
and early the following year (1890) started to organize the Central Na-
tional Bank of Cleveland. Organization of the bank was completed in
May, 1890, and he served the bank successfully for ten years as cashier
and vice president, and in April, 1900. became its president.

In 1905 Colonel Sullivan also organized the Superior Savings and Trust
Company, and for a number of years was president of this as well as the
Central National Bank. On Tanuary 1, 1921. the two banks were merged
under the new title. Central National Bank Savings and Trust Company.
His son, C. E. Sullivan, who for several years had been president of the
-Superior Savings & Trust Company, became president of the consolidated
bank, while Colonel Sullivan accepted the office of chairman of the board
of directors.

Colonel Sullivan's o])inions on money and finance were widely quoted,
and, being of a cheerful and optimistic disposition, his advice was sought
continually.

Cleveland is indebted to Colonel Sullivan for many distinctive services.
He was one of the few prominent American bankers who regarded with

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favor the financial legislation of 1913, known as the Federal Reserve Act,
and his enthusiasm and perseverance contributed largely in bringing the
Fourth Federal Reserve Bank to Cleveland.

He served as president of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce in
1905, was president of the National Board of Trade in 1905-06, and in
1899 was chosen the first president of the Cleveland Association of Credit
Men. It was his idea around which other bankers of Cleveland rallied
in organizing the Bankers Club of Cleveland, of which he was the first
president. He also served as president of the Ohio Bankers Association.
For a number of years he was treasurer of the Merchants Marine League,
and was interested in Great Lakes steamship companies. He was also
treasurer of the Mutual Building and Investment Company, and for a
number of vears he was president of the First National Bank of Canton,
Ohio.

Colonel Sullivan was prominent in Ohio democratic politics before
coming to Cleveland. In 1879 he was elected a member of the State
Senate, representing Wayne, Holmes, Knox and Morrow counties, and
in 1885 he was given a unanimous nomination and was again elected to
the State Senate. Among the acts of legislation he initiated was one re-
sulting in the founding of the Soldiers' Home at Sandusky, Ohio, an in-
stitution for Civil war veterans. He was still a member of the Senate
when he was appointed national bank examiner by President Cleveland.
In 1893 he was elected colonel of the Fifth Ohio Regiment, Ohio National
Guard. Colonel Sullivan was a member of the Union, Mayfield, Country,
Colonial and Roadside clubs of Cleveland, and was a member of the Ohio
Society of New York.

Colonel Sullivan married Miss Selina J- Brown at Shreve, Wayne
County, Ohio. September 25, 1873. Mrs. Sullivan survives him. Their
only son, C. E. Sullivan, president of the Central National Bank Savings
& Trust Company, resides at Gates Mill, a suburb of Cleveland. Their
two daughters, Miss Selma Sullivan and Mrs. H. F. Seymour, also live
in Cleveland.

Colonel Sullivan died of his only illness, influenza, at his home at
7218 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, February 2, 1922. He was buried in
Lakeview Cemetery.

Capt. Richard J. Fanning. Veteran of three wars. Civil, Spanish-
American and the Philippine Insurrection, possessed of the fighting blood
of his race, Capt. Richard J. Fanning at the age of four score lives
quietly retired at his home in Cleveland. Most of his life has been spent
in Ohio, and for many years he was a resident of Columbus, though he
grew up in Cleveland and enlisted from this city for his service in the
Civil war.

All the records show that the Fanning family has always been of
the Irish race. The full genealogy of the family is traced from "Brooks
History of the Fannings." As nationals of other countries the Fannings
have participated in many of the wars against Great Britain. There
have been Fannings in America since early days in the Revolution and
all subsequent wars. One spelling of the name is Fannin, and one of
the martyrs of the Texas Revolution in 1835-36 was a Captain Fannin.
An island in the Pacific bears the name and also one of our w'arships.

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The Fanning house in Waterford, Ireland, was the gift of a French
Colonel Fanning, who left his fortune to the city of his ancestors to
build and maintain a home for respectable old people in their declining
years. Captain Fanning's grandparents, William Fanning and his wife,
Fanny (Poer or Powers), lived there for many years before their
deaths. Captain Fanning's parents were natives of Ireland. His mother
was educated in the parochial schools of Waterford, her people being of
the Wexford family of D'Arcy.

Captain Fanning's father received a college education. Being identified
with the "young Ireland party" of that period, he was proscribed and
in 1848 fled from Ireland to Liverpool, England, and subsequently with
his wife and three children came to America, reaching Cleveland August
15, 1851. Subsequently he engaged in the meat business on Lorain Street,
on the West Side, and continued active until his death in 1879. There
were seven children : Richard John, William Francis, Catherine, James
Ambrose, Ellen Mary, Michael Angelo and Francis Joseph. William
and Ellen Mary are deceased. Richard J., James A. and Francis Joseph
reside in Cleveland, and Michael and his family live in New York City.

Richard J. Fanning was born July 31, 1844, and was in his sixth year
when the family settled in Cleveland in August, 1851, where he attended
St. Patrick's school and promptly after passing his sixteenth year, in 1861,
he volunteered, enlisting in the old Payne Building on Superior Street,
near old W^ater Street, in Battery C of the 5th U. S. Artillery, October
5, 1861. He joined the battery at Camp Greble, Harrisburg, Pennsyl-
vania, which was soon assigned to the Army of the Potomac. He par-
ticipated in the seven days' battles in front of Richmond, from Mechan-
icsville in front of Richmond to Malvern Hill on the James River, his
left eye being injured at the battle of Gaines Mill on the second day
of the fighting. He was at Centerville, Gainesville and Second Bull
Run, at South Mountain and Antietam, Maryland, where he was slightly
wounded but did not leave his battery. At Fredericksburg, Virginia,
December 13, 1862, he was severely wounded in the left forearm, but
during the rest of his service, which was arduous, he escaped injury.
In June, 1864, he was honorably discharged on account of his disabilities,
returning home a wounded veteran before he was twenty.

In 1866 Captain Fanning entered the Cleveland and Mahoning Rail-
road service under Maj. Dwight Palmer, continuing under James M.
Ferris and Joshua M. Booth, agents in turn of the Atlantic and Great
Western railways, and was a railroad man until called to public service.
In 1874 he was appointed by Arnold Green, clerk of the Supreme Court,
as his deputy. The acceptance of this office caused him to move to
Columbus. In 1877 he was elected clerk of the Supreme Court and
again in 1880 was renominated by the state convention held in the old
Academy of Music on Bank Street, but later met defeat with the rest
of the democratic ticket. Then followed a period of service with the
Pennsylvania Railroad at Columbus until 1886, when he was appointed
chief clerk to the railroad commissioner of Ohio by Governor Joseph
B. Foraker. In 1888 he resumed his railroad service, and about that time
was elected a member of the Columbus City Council, but did not complete
his term. In the fall of the same year the Republican party nominated

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him for the office of probate judge of Franklin County, but he declined
the honor.

In 1890 Captain Fanning was elected at the annual convention of
the Regular Army and Navy Union at Detroit, Alichigan, as adjutant-
general of the order composed of regulars and ex-regulars of the United
States Army and of the Navy, active and retired; an order which still
flourishes with garrisons in many parts of the United States, having a
garrison or two in Cleveland. This position Captain Fanning held until
May 1, 1898, when through the friendship of President McKinley he
was commissioned captain and assistant quartermaster in the army for
service in the Spanish- American war. In August, 1899, President
McKinley again commissioned him a captain in the Forty-first Infantry,
United States Volunteers, and he was ordered to report to the regiment
at Camp Meade, Pennsylvania, where he was assigned to duty in Company
A of that regiment. Afterwards the regiment left for the Philippines,
reaching Manila the latter part of December, 1899. After a few months
in the field Captain Fanning was transferred to the position of quarter-
master commissary and ordnance officer at Base Hospital, Dagupan,
Northern Luzon.

This was a post of arduous duties, involving the feeding and clothing
of some 500 sick soldiers, building an addition to the hospital, building
of barracks for the Hospital Corps, construction of an ice house and
morgue. A recommendation from his superior officers stated that Captain
Fanning in these duties was painstaking and efficient, performmg them
with entire satisfaction to all concerned.

In 1901 Hon. William H. Taft, then governor-general of the Islands,
while visiting Dagupan ofifered Captain Fanning the position of treasurer
of the Province of Tarlac, a post he filled from the latter part of March
until August, when Governor Taft promoted him to the Province of
Sorsogon, a much larger one in Southern Luzon. While there for
a time he was acting governor while the native governor was with
other governors of the provinces touring the United States.

Finally, after almost five years of service in the Philippines, becoming
homesick and weary. Captain Fanning resigned in November, 1904, and
returned home. This service was an experience of which he has been
exceedingly proud. After a brief stay at his home in Columbus he
moved to Cleveland in 1905, where he now Hves.

Captain Fanning served as second and first lieutenant and captain
of Battery H of the First Ohio Light Artillery, National Guard, from
1887 to January 8, 1892, resigning December 2, 1891. He was an
honorary member of the Cleveland Cadets from 1890 to 1891. From 1878
to 1894 he was a member of McCoy Post, Grand Army of the Republic,
Columbus, and was a member of Encampment 78, Union Veteran
Legion, from 1894 to 1898, serving as its commander for two years
and was appointed A. D. C. and A. A. G. on the stafif of the national
commander in 1894. In Cleveland he is a member of the Army and
Navy Post No. 187, Grand Army of the Republic, life member of the
Army and Navy Union, member of Post No. 84, Veterans of Foreign
Wars, and the Officers Army and Navy Club.

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In November, 1877, about the time he was elected clerk of the Ohio
Supreme Court, he married Miss Celia Maria Miller, of Columbus, a
member of one of the notable families of Ohio. Her father, Thomas
W. Miller, held many important positions in public affairs, being sheriff,
postmaster, supervisor of Ohio canals, owner of the Ohio Statesman, the
leading democratic newspaper of Columbus, and owner of the street car
lines of the city. He donated the land for the Ohio State Fair Grounds,
now known as Frankhn Park. He was a power in democratic politics
during his lifetime and an influential citizen.

The Millers were related to James G. Blaine, the Shermans and
Ewings, the first wife of Thomas W. Miller being a cousin of
Mr. Blaine. The marriage of Captain Fanning and wife was blessed
with two talented children, Mary Miller Fanning and Cecil Raymond
Fanning. The daughter graduated from a select school for girls, and
has been engaged in kindergarten work for a number of years at Columbus.

Cecil Fanning, born in 1883, is called the poet singer of Ohio. He
has given song recitals in every state in the Union and from end to
end of Canada. He made five European tours, and made his debut
in grand opera on May 23, 1924, creating the baritone role in the new
American opera, libretto by Cecil Fanning and music by Francesco
B. De Leone of Akron. Cecil Fanning's book of poems, entitled "The
Flower Strewn Threshold," was published by Constable and Company,
London, England, and Button, New York. His poem, "Spring in Sicily,"
received the prize at the biennial meeting of the National Federation of
Music Clubs in 1923. Besides having written lyrics for most of the
best song writers of the day, Mr. Fanning has written the librettos for
the cantata. Sir Oluf," by Harriet Ware, and "The Foolish Virgins,"
music by Marshall Kernochan, and the libretto for the Indian Grand
Opera, "Alglala," all published by G. Schirmer, Inc., New York. Cecil
Fanning resides in Columbus, Ohio.

Daniel R. Taylor. In the development and growth of many of Cleve-
land's most important business enterprises a leading part for many years
has been borne by Daniel R. Taylor, president of the Manufacturers Realty
Company, and one of the solid, substantial men of this city, whose close
association with real estate interests covers more than a half century.

Daniel R. Taylor was born at Twinsburg, Summit County, Ohio,
March 28, 1838, coming of Revolutionary stock and of old pioneer Western
Reserve ancestry. His parents were Royal and Sarah A. (Richardson)
Taylor, his grandfather was Samuel Taylor, and his great-grandfather,
also Samuel Taylor, spent his entire life in Massachusetts, where his direct
ancestors, the Taylors from Suffolk, England, had settled in the early
Colonial days. Four of his sons were soldiers in the American Revolution
and also took part in many of the early Indian campaigns.

The Taylor family was founded in Ohio by Samuel Taylor, the grand-
father, a native of Massachusetts, who came to the Western Reserve with
his wife and eight children and in 1807 established a home at Aurora, in
Portage County, where his death occurred shortly after the close of the
War of 1812. Of this long overland journey it is related in the family
records that Samuel Taylor rode across the Ohio line in probably the first

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carriage or old-time chaise that ever entered the state, but the discovery
was soon made that this Massachusetts vehicle had not been constructed
strong enough to contend with the difficulties of the roadless, trackless
frontier country encountered, and upon finally reaching Youngstown the
symbol of luxury was traded for a cow, a transaction spoken of facetiously
by Daniel R. Taylor as "probably the best trade the Taylor family ever
made." The travelers finally reached Aurora, their destination, but at that
time there were absolutely no public roads through Warren County.

Royal Taylor was born at Middlefield, Massachusetts, and accompanied
his parents when they removed to Ohio, of which state he became a man
of worth and prominence. At the time of his death he was a resident of
Ravenna, Ohio, and among the tributes paid to his memory the following
is worthy of preservation as family history. "Royal Taylor was a vigorous
man, physically and mentally. With the active men of his generation he
did much toward developing the Western Reserve in every way. He took
an active part in organizing the free soil and republican parties, and in
aiding Governors Tod and Brough in caring for veterans of the Civil war.
In early days he was of great assistance to his widowed mother, in the
meantime taking advantage of every opportunity, limited at the time, to
obtain an education, even acquiring a more or less familiar acquaintance
with Latin and other higher branches of study, including a fair knowledge
of law. As a young man he passed two years as a teacher in Kentucky,
where he became a friend of the Marshall and other representative families,
and there married his first wife. All of their five children are deceased.
After his return to Ohio, Royal Taylor became associated with his brother
and another man in the business of transporting cheese to points down the
Ohio River by means of flatboats and other primitive means, thus virtually
opening the first transport trade to the South from Northern Ohio. After
the financial depression of 1837 he was appointed assignee for several
merchants who failed in business, and because of his success in handling
these afTairs he continued in this line of work for several years."

Royal Taylor was married, second, in 1837 to Miss Sarah A. Richardson,
whose parents had come to Ohio from Barkhamstead, Connecticut, in 1824
and settled at Twinsburg, her father in all probability having been a soldier
in the Revolutionary war. Of the seven children of this marriage Daniel R.
was the first born. He has one brother, seven years his junior, William G.
Taylor, who is engaged in the real estate business at Cleveland, a lawyer
by profession, but never active at the bar.

Daniel Richardson Taylor attended school in boyhood at Chagrin Falls
and Bissell Academy at Twinsburg, and early made himself very useful in
his father's office, his fine, legible penmanship being utilized in copying
deeds, contracts, mortgages and other important legal documents, at the
same time giving him a little business experience. In 1856, when the Cleve-
land & Mahoning Railroad was opened, Mr. Taylor was appointed station
agent at Solon, Ohio, and later served at Aurora in the same capacity,
continuing with the railroad for about four years, when he returned to his
father's office and took charge of the latter's real estate interests in Ohio.
Indiana and Illinois, these business matters being of unusual importance at
that time on account of the impending war.

In 1862 Mr. Taylor enlisted for military service, entering the Eighty-

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fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, of which he was made quartermaster, and »

served as such during the term of his regiment's enhstment, after which he
became mihtary agent at Louisville, Kentucky, and then at Nashville, Ten-
nessee. Of this important period of his life Mr. Taylor has written:
"Here I did the best work of my life, and I remained until we got virtually
all of the Union soldiers out of the South."

For about eighteen months after the close of the Civil war Mr. Taylor
was associated with his father, who at that time was commissioner of
soldiers' claims at Columbus, Ohio, but in November, 1867, he came to
Cleveland, and this city has been his home ever since, his business activities
having been largely and notably along the line of real estate dealing. In
pleasurably looking back over a long and active business life Mr. Taylor
has had the following to say: "In the early days my business was of a
general commission order, in the opening and selling of allotments ; later I
became concerned in owning and handling railroad frontage for manu-
facturing purposes, with several kinds of railroad fronts in Cleveland, and
my business has since continued along that line to a considerable extent. I
was purchasing agent for the Pennsylvania Railroad for many years, in the
acquiring of real estate in Cleveland and vicinity. Though I have now
measurably retired from the vigorous activities that formerly engaged my
attention, I still have my own business and am interested in certain other
concerns that place no little demand upon my time." Mr. Taylor might
have added that in the opinion of his fellow citizens few men of his years
are so clear-visioned, encouraging and optimistic in attitude in relation to
the beautiful city he has helped to build, and few so unselfishly ready tO'
still lend a helping hand wherever the city's present or future welfare is
concerned.

In 1892 Mr. Taylor was largely instrumental in organizing the Cleve-
land Real Estate Board, which has become a flourishing and important
body. He is president of the Manufacturers Realty Company and of the
Harbor View Company, owners of a large amount of valuable real estate,
and has been a director and executive officer of a number of local concerns,
including the Adams-Bagnell Electric Company. For a half century he
has been a member of the Old Stone Church. He is one of the original
members of the Union Club and has belonged to others. He has never
accepted a political office, but has always been active in the republican party.

Jesse Byron Fay is senior member of the firm of Fay, Oberlin &
Fay, representative patent attorneys in the City of Cleveland, and he
has prestige as one of the veteran members of the bar of the Ohio
metroixilis, where he has been engaged in the practice of his profession
nearly forty years.

Mr. Fay was born at Sandusky, Ohio, September 8, 1860, and is d.
son of the late Byron and Eliza Ada (Williams) Fay, whose marriage
was solemnized in the year 1859. Byron Fay was born at Plattsburg,
New York, February 6, 1828, and his wife was born at Carbondale. Penn-
sylvania, June 28, 1834, a daughter of Jesse and Eliza Maria (Johnson)
Williams. * Byron Fay gained his early education in the schools of his
native place, and at the age of sixteen years he went to Canandaigua,
New York, where he took a position in the drug store of one of his

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uncles. He learned the business thoroughly, and eventually he came to
Ohio and established himself in the drug business in the City of San-
dusky. In 1867 he disposed of his busniess at that place and removed
to Cleveland, v^here he engaged in the manufacture of inks and mucilage
and developed a substantial and prosperous industrial and commercial
enterprise. Both he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives in
Cleveland, and both vi^ere devout members of the Euclid Avenue Congre-
gational Church, in which he served as a deacon.

Jesse B. P'ay was about six years old at the time of the family removal
to Cleveland, and here he received his early education in the public schools,
including the high school. He was thereafter a student in Hamilton Col-
lege, in the State of New York, and in preparation for his chosen pro-
fession he entered the law department of the great University of Michigan.
He was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1884, and in that year entered the
general practice of law in Cleveland. Two years later he began to con-
centrate his activities in the domain of patent law, and for many years
he has given exclusive attention to this special department of practice,
in which he has won authoritative position both at home and abroad. His
first professional partnership was with Thomas B. Hall, and after the
dissolving of the firm of Hall & Fay he was engaged in individual prac-
tice for a number of years. In 1912 he became senior member of the
law firm of Fay & Oberlin, and later his two sons, Horace Byron and
Thomas Hayes Fay, were admitted to the firm, the title of which has
since been Fay, Oberlin & Fay. This firm controls a large and important
law business in its special field of practice, and its standing is of the high-
est. Mr. Fay is a director of the Cleveland Trust Company and has other
financial interests of important order. His hobby, a most worthy and
engaging one, is summed up in his fine farm and summer home on the
shore of Lake Erie, twenty miles east of Cleveland, and on this ideal place
he passes the summer months, vitalizing his physical forces and fortifying
himself anew in generous optimistic concern of life and human destiny.
He is a merqber of the Cleveland Patent Law Association, of which he
was president in 1918-1919, and he is a member also of the Patent Law-
Association of Washington. D. C, the American Bar Association, the
Ohio State Bar Association and the Cleveland Bar Association. He is
affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, including Oriental Commandery of
Knights Templar, and he holds membership in the Union and Willowwick
clubs of Cleveland.

On the 26th of August, 1886, was solemnized the marriage of
Mr. Fay and Miss Mary A. Ford, who was born and reared in Cleveland
and who is a daughter of the late Horace and Sarah Amelia (Dawes)
Ford, who came to this city from Massachusetts and who here passed
the remainder of their lives, they having been for many years residents
of Cleveland. Mr. and Mrs. Fay have three children. Horace Byron,
who was born May 26. 1888, received the degree of Bachelor of Arts from
Adelbert College of Western Reserve University, and thereafter took a
special course in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Both he
and his brother are now members of the patent-law firm of Fay. Oberlin
it Fay. as previously noted in this context. He married Miss Florence
Keating, and they have three children : Horace Byron, Jr., Robert Jesse,

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and Mary Margaret. Thomas Hayes Fay, the second son, was born
August 27, 1890, was graduated from the historic Virginia MiHtary Insti-
tute, with the degree of Bachelor of Science, and thereafter completed a
special post-graduate course in the University of Wisconsin. He married
Miss Ervilla Williver, and they have a daughter, Ervilla Williver Fay.
Elizabeth, the only daughter of the subject of this review, is a graduate
of the Woman's College of Western Reserve University, and is now the
wife of James B. Miskell, of Cleveland.

William Granville Lee. As president of the Brotherhood of Rail-
way Trainmen William Granville Lee is one of the outstanding figures
in the railroad world. For over twenty years he has been a resident of
Cleveland, and this community has learned to esteem him not only for
his high official position but for his local citizenship. Perhaps no better
statement of the pride felt by Cleveland people in their distinguished
fellow citizen and also of his official standing in railway labor circles could
be found than that expressed in an editorial in the Cleveland News in
June, 1922. This editorial read as follows : "Many speeches and reso-
lutions could not have furnished such convincing testimony to the good
sense and rightmindedness of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen as
the action of that big organization gave when it reelected President W. G.
Lee, on the first ballot, in its annual convention at Toronto, Canada. In
such matters actions si^eak much louder than words, and in Cleveland,
particularly, where President Lee has lived long enough to be widely
known, his character and his personality go far toward guaranteeing
reasonableness, conservatism and careful though untiring progress in the
affairs of the very large brotherhood at the head of which he has served
for thirteen years.

"Organizations of all kinds are naturally and properly judged, in large
part, by the officers they choose and the way they reward or punish the
work their officers do for them. In this instance the election of President
Lee for another term is proof enough that the Railway Trainmen are
facing the light and going in the right direction. His defeat would have
been an ill omen for his own organization and for the railroad brother-
hoods as a group."

William Granville Lee has almost continuously for forty-five years
been identified with railroads as a brakeman, switchman or conductor, or
as an official of one of the most powerful unions. He was born at
LaPrairie, Illinois, November 29, 1859, son of James W. and Sylvesta
Jane (Tracy) Lee. His grandfather, William Lee, was a native of Vir-
ginia, and of the same original stock that produced some of the most
famous characters not only in Virginia, but national history, including
Gen. R. E. Lee. William Lee was a pioneer settler in Southern Indiana.
James W. Lee. father of William G. Lee, was born in Jefl:'ersonville,
Indiana, in 1835, and became a carpenter and contractor. From Jefi"er-
sonville he moved to I^Prairie. Illinois, and subsequently to Lawrence.
Kansas. He and his wife lived there for many years, but from 1912
spent their declining years at Cleveland. James W. Lee died in 1919. and
his widow, now in her eighty-sixth year, strong and resourceful for her
age, resides at Cleveland. She was born at Coshocton, Ohio. Her father.

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David Tracy, a native of Maryland, as a boy drove a horse on the tow-
path of the old Potomac Canal, and later settled at Coshocton, (Jhio.

William G. Lee had a public school education in Illinois, and was
twenty years of age when he began his eventful experience as a railroad
worker. In 1879 he became a brakeman with the Santa Fe Railway, his
first run being out of Emporia, Kansas. He was next transferred to the
Mountain Division of the Santa Fe, with headquarters at Raton, New
Mexico, and in the latter part of 1880 was promoted to freight conductor.
He remained in that position, with a run between La Junta, Colorado, and
Las Vegas, New Mexico, until June, 1883. This service as a brakeman
and conductor on the Mountain Railway was performed under trying
conditions such as only comj>aratively few active railway men can recall
as a matter of personal experience. At that time railroading everywhere
was a service of unusual hazards, but in the mountain district particularly
it was comparatively new and experimental. No trains were equipped
with air brakes or automatic couplers or other safety devices. ^Moreover,
the country was filled with a lawless, irresponsible set of men who had
no respect for railway property or railway employes. Railroad workers
were also compelled to spend part of their time in inhospitable railway
terminals of that day. The towns were new, the majority of the residents
living in tents, and the principal business was gambling and running
saloons. Mr. Lee had his experience in a territory where the cowboy
was supreme and ruled things in his own particular, not to say picturesque,
way. One of the requirements for train service in those days was that
one member of each train crew should have some knowledge of telegraphy.
Mr. Lee fortunately had learned the Morse alphabet, and was regarded
as something of an operator. This knowledge served its good purpose
in securing for him early promotion. During the few months he was
employed on the Raton Mountains between Trinidad and Raton he
unloaded the first consignment of steel used in the bridges that were con-
structed to replace the old wooden structures spanning the streams in that
region.

The only important interruption to his continuous service with rail-
roads came in the latter part of 1883, when he resigned to become deputy
recorder of deeds of Ford County, Kansas. He held that office about
three and one-half years. He then resumed his work as a railroad man.
beginning again as brakeman and switchman, with the Wabash Railway,
after a few months transferred as a brakeman to the Missouri Pacific
at Kansas City, and left that company in 1901 to become a brakeman with
the Union Pacific Railway at Kansas City, where promotion was more
rapid. Five months later he was promoted to conductor, and was a con-
ductor on the Union Pacific, running out of Kansas City, until he became
first vice president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen.

He had become a member of the Brotherhood early in 1889. and
immediately became prominent in its afifairs. He served as local and gen-
eral committeeman and legislative representative, and was a member of
the committee that put into efifect the first working agreement for con-
ductors, brakemen and yardmen with the Missouri Pacific Railway. On
August 1, 1895, Mr. Lee assumed the duties of first vice president of the
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, and held that office for fourteen years.

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On January 1, 1909, he was elected president, or chief, of the Brother-
hood and has rounded out fifteen years of active service in that capacity.
When he assumed the office of president the Brotherhood had a member-
ship of 100,684, and all funds constituted $1,500,000. On January 1,
1924, the membership had grow^n to 180,000, with total funds of over
$8,250,000.

In 1906 the first collective movement was inaugurated in behalf of
train and yard employes in the western territory. For the greater part
of the time this work was under the personal direction of Mr. Lee as
first vice president of the Brotherhood. The result was increased wages
to the men in that section, and much was done toward securing uniformity
of wages and service conditions. Mr. Lee in 1904 had personal direction
of the first general wage movement in the New York Harbor District, as
a result of which substantial increased wages were secured, also improved
working rules, for all the men represented by him in that territory,
including uniform rates for yard service. Mr. Lee was also in charge of
the Pittsburgh yard wage movement in 1906, afifecting all the lines enter-
ing that city, as a result of which better service conditions and increased
wages were secured for yard men in that territory.

Since assuming the office of president of the Brotherhood Mr. Lee
has been a principal in all the negotiation of wage increases in the Eastern,
Western and Southern territories, and widespread improvement resulted
in service and other conditions affecting the members of the Brotherhood.
As the editorial above quoted indicates, no small measure of this hand-
some prosperity and situation is due to Mr. Lee, the grand chief and pres-
ident. Mr. Lee has earned the confidence of the railway trainmen, and
likewise that of the general public through his conservative yet fearless
attitude. During the great strike of 1922 he held his organization strictly
to their contract agreement and secured increased respect for the Brother-
hood as well as for himself personally as its leader.

Upon the removal of the headquarters of the Brotherhood of Railway
Trainmen to Cleveland in 1899, Mr. Lee as first vice president established
his permanent home in this city. His residence is in Lakewood. In 1912
he brought his parents to Cleveland. For seventeen years he has gen-
erously cared for them in their Kansas home, and made their last years
most pleasant. While a worker and official of the Union, a generous part
of his pay check was mailed direct from the secretary-treasurer of the
Brotherhood each pay day to his parents. Whatever success in life he
has achieved Mr. Lee credits to the early teachings of his mother.

Mr. Lee was one of the charter members of the Lake-Shore Trust
Company of Cleveland, and one of its original board of directors. He is
a Knight Templar and Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, and is a repub-
lican in politics. On October 15, 1901, he married Miss Mary R. Rice,
daughter of the late John Rice, of Chicago.

Andrew Squire recently rounded out a full half century in the practice
of law at Cleveland. In the field of business and corporation law his suc-
cess has been unqualified. Since 1890 he has been senior member of the
firm Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, one of the oldest continuous law partner-
ships in Cleveland.

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The golden anniversary of his admission to the Cleveland bar was not
allowed to pass unnoticed, and on December 3, 1923, he was the guest of
honor at a banquet attended by members of the Cleveland Bar Association
and also by many leaders in Cleveland's political, social and industrial life.
The embossed testimonial given him by the association at that time reads
as follows: "Upon the completion of fifty years of continuous and active
practice of his profession, as a member of the bar of Cuyahago County,
the Cleveland Bar Association .presents to Mr. Andrew Squire this sincere
testimonial of appreciation of those services and that character and that
conduct with which he has generously honored the profession which honors
him.

"May his steadfast adherence to those principles which here made him
leading lawyer and leading citizen — beloved by his fellowmen — be an in-
spiration to all who would achieve real success."

In the course of the evening many other tributes were paid the veteran
attorney, and one that expressed what all his old associates felt was a letter
from Chief Justice Taf t who wrote : "I have known and loved Mr. Squire
for many, many years, longer, perhaps, than he and I are willing to admit.
His sense of justice, his sweetness, his serenity, his great abilities, his sense
of public duty, his personal charm and his love for his fellowmen are such
that I do not wonder that his associates at the bar wish to give this testimony
to their high appreciation of his eminent professional and personal qualities
as one of the great leaders of the bar of Ohio and Cleveland.

"I am very sure that this evidence of the affection of the fellow mem-
bers of his profession will delight his heart, and the more so because of
his modesty and the gratified surprise he will feel at your expressions of
deep respect and warm affection. It is a source of keen regret that I can-
not be with you to take part in this most deserved tribute to half a century
of useful professional of community and patriotic service."

Mr. Squire was born at Mantua, Portage County, Ohio, October 21,
1850, son of Dr. Andrew Jackson and Martha (Wilmot) Squire. He is
of New England ancestry. Andrew Jackson Squire was born in Ohio in
1815, and practiced medicine for many years in Portage County.

As a youth Andrew Squire purposed to follow the same profession as
his father, and for a time he studied medicine until he became convinced
that his talents primarily prepared him for the law. He attended the
Western Reserve Eclectic Institute at Hiram, and after a period of profes-
sional study in Cleveland, he entered Hiram College, where he was gradu-
ated Bachelor of Arts in 1872. From Hiram College he went immediately
to Cleveland, carrying with him letters from James A. Garfield, then
congressman, and Burke A. Hinsdale, president of the college. He did
the duties of clerk and janitor in the law office of Andrew J. Marvin and
Darius Cad well, at the same time studying law, and in December, 1873,
was admitted to the bar. After Mr. Cadwell went on the bench he became
associated in partnership with Andrew J. Marvin. He had several other
eminent Cleveland attorneys as associates. He and Judge William B.
Sanders and James H. Dempsey established the firm of Squire, Sanders
& Dempsey on January 1, 1890. The successful practice of the law has
brought him all the achievements and honors craved by a worthy ambition,
and he has been only a laymen in politics. Nevertheless he has been a

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creative, progressive force in the life of Cleveland. His sound advice and
his power of harmonizing and bringing together masterful personalities
and large interests have been an important factor in the 'business advance-
ment of his city. He has made for peace not for strife, for progress, not
for obstruction. His work has been constructive, not destructive.

Mr. Squire is a director of the Union Trust Company, the Cleveland
Stone Company, of the Cleveland & Pittsburgh Railroad of which he is
president, and has had numerous other business interests.

During the World war he served as a member of the Mayor's Advisory
War Committee. He was a delegate to the Republican National Conven-
tion at St. Louis in 1896. He is a trustee of Hiram College and Western
Reserve University and a director of the Case Library. He has attained
the supreme honorary thirty-third degree in Scottish Rite Masonry. In
1909 he was president of the Country Club of Cleveland, and is a member
of the Union and the University clubs of that city, and the University
Club of New York. On June 24, 1896, Mr. Squire married Mrs. Eleanor
Seymour Sea, daughter of Beldon Seymour of Cleveland. Mrs. Squire
was regent of the Daughters of the American Revolution at the time of
the Spanish-American war and was active in the war relief measures offi-
cially sponsored by the Daughters of the American Revolution.

John Louis Mihelich, a Cleveland attorney, with offices in the Engi-
neers Building, came to Cleveland when a youth of sixteen, and since then,
relying upon his own efforts, has mastered the American language and
American customs, a learned profession, served his adopted country in
the World war, and is one of the ablest representatives of the foreign born
in this city.

He was born in Austria, April 13, 1891. The following year, while
he was left behind in Austria, his parents. Gasper and Jedert (Gornik)
Mihelich, immigrated to the United States, settling in Minnesota. Five
years later they went back to Austria, but again returned to this country
and to Minnesota, where the father died two years later. Following his
death the widowed mother and other children returned to the old country,
where she is still living.

John Louis Mihelich did not accompany his parents on their immigra-
tion to America either time. He, therefore, spent the first sixteen years
of his life in Austria, where he was educated in the common schools. In
1907, when he came to this country, alone, he made his way direct to
Cleveland, where two of his uncles and an aunt were living. He imme-
diately found work for his support and contrived opportunities to advance
his education. For three years he attended public night school, and spent
four years in Central Institute, a private high school. Having mastered
a thorough high school education, he entered the Cleveland Law School
of Bald win- Wallace University, and pursued his studies there until grad-
uating with the Bachelor of Laws degree in 1917. He was admitted to
the Ohio bar the same year, but did not engage in practice until after
the war.

On going into the army he was sent to Camp Gordon and assigned to
the Nineteenth Infantry. With this regiment he went overseas, first to
Belgium and then into France. With the rank of sergeant he was assigned
to duty in the United States Army field postoffice at Aignon, France, until

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after the armistice. He then returned to the United States, and was mus-
tered out at Mitchel Aviation Field, Long Island, New York, in April,
1919.

Immediately on his return to Cleveland Mr. Mihelich engaged in gen-
eral practice as a lawyer, and has practiced alone, building up a successful
clientage. He is also attorney for the International Building & Loan
Company, one of the city's successful institutions. He is proprietor of
J. L. Mihelich & Company, handling steamship tickets and foreign ex-
change, with offices at East Sixty-third Street and St. Clair Avenue.

He is a member of the Cleveland Bar Association, the American
Legion and the Catholic Church. He married Miss Anna G. Swingle,
daughter of the late Charles Swingle, of Cleveland.

Judge Oscar Clifford Bell, judge of the Municipal Court of Cleve-
land, has been well known in this city both as teacher, attorney and public
official. Judge Bell is a man of scholastic attainments, and has had an
extended experience among men and affairs.

He was born at Biggsville, Henderson County, Illinois, March 15,
1880, son of William and Sarah Martha (Jamison) Bell. His grand-
father, Andrew Bell, was a native of Scotland, and settled at North
Argyle in New York State. William Bell was born Januarj^ 1, 1841, and
when he was six years of age his widowed mother took him and her other
children to Biggsville, Henderson County, Illinois. George Bell, brother
of William Bell, served at one time as sheriff of Henderson County, and
it devolved upon him in his official capacity to officiate at the only hang-
ing in that county. William Bell was educated in public schools in Illi-
nois, and at the age of fifteen began teaching. For a score of years
teaching was his regular vocation. He also served as a member of the
school board of Henderson County for a number of years and is secretary
of the Fair Association for seventeen years. The annual fair at Biggs-
ville is one of the most noted fairs in the State of Illinois. After he gave
up school work he was a general merchant at Biggsville, later a merchant
at Swan Creek. Illinois, then entered the United States railway mail
service, and finally, in order to give his children better educational advan-
tages, he removed to Monmouth. Illinois. For twenty-six years he was
a mail clerk, with a run on the Chicago. Burlington & Quincy Railway,
and resigned from the service in 1906, on account of ill health, his death
occurring a few months later. His wife. Sarah Martha Jamison, was
born in Henderson County. Illinois, in 1844. Her father, Calvin Jamison,
was a Kentuckian by birth, was a pioneer in Henderson County. Illinois,
and became well known as a fanner, bank director and active leader in
the communitv of Biggsville. Mrs. William Bell died in 1916.

Oscar Clifford Bell was reared at Biggsville. attending grammar and
high schools. He graduated from high school in 1900. and then entered
the University of Illinois, where he completed his law course and received
the Bachelor of Laws degree in 1903. Instead of engaging in the prac-
tice of law he was for three years principal of the Belmont. Illinois. High
School, and subsequently a member of the facultv and athletic coach at
Monmouth College. Illinois. From 1907 to 1911 he held similar ]xisi-
tions at the Kirksville. Missouri, Normal School.

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Judge Bell became a resident of Cleveland in 1911, and for a time
was a teacher and coach of athletics at the East Technical High School.
He began the practice of law in 1914, associated with Judge J. M. Shal-
lenberger. In 1916 he became instructor in civics and business law at
West Technical High School, and was also athletic coach there. On
resigning this work he became chief examiner of the Cleveland City Civil
Service Commission, and subsequently Mayor Fitzgerald appointed him
chief police prosecutor of the Municipal Court. Later Director of Law
Lamb, during the Kohler administration, appointed him assistant director
of law. This office he resigned in September, 1923, to enter the race for
Municipal Court judge, and in November was elected for a term of two
years, beginning January 1, 1924.

Judge Bell is a member of the Cleveland Bar Association, the Big
Ten Club, the City Club and the Fraternal Order of Eagles. On Sep-
tember 17, 1921, he married Mabel Holland. She was born at Sandusky,
Ohio, daughter of John W. Holland. She is a graduate of the Woman's
College of Western Reserve University, and she and Judge Bell became
acquainted while she was teaching in the West Technical High School.

Cornelius Maloney has been an active member of the Cleveland bar
for over twenty years. Nearly all his life has been spent in Ohio, and
in the paternal line his ancestors for several generations back bore the
christian name of Cornelius. Mr. Maloney has his offices in the William-
son Building.

He was born at Elmira, New York, October 3, 1878, son of Cornelius
and Elizabeth (Glynn) Maloney. The Maloney family came to America
about 1811. One of the ancestors of the Cleveland attorney was Cor-
nelius Maloney of County Clare, Ireland, who married Eleanor Cecil,
a niece of the Earl of Kildare. Their son, Cornelius, married Martha
Fitzgerald, of County Clare. A son of this couple was Cornelius
Maloney of County Clare, who married Inez Welsh. They were the
grandparents of the Cleveland lawyer, and were early settlers in New
York State. Cornelius Maloney, son of Cornelius and Inez (Walsh)
Maloney, was born at Oswego, New York, and took up the business of
railroading. He married Elizabeth Glynn, who was born in Glasgow,
Scotland, daughter of James Glynn. She came to this country when a
young lady with relatives. Cornelius Maloney, the railroad man, moved
to Ohio in 1879, locating at Kent in Portage County, as headquarters for
his work in the maintenance-of-way departm.ent of the Cleveland & Pitts-
burgh Railway, now part of the Pennsylvania System. He died at Akron
in 1896, and his wife, in 1899. They were parents of three sons, Thomas,
Charles and Cornelius. Charles died at West Point Militarv Academy
in 1889.

Their son Cornelius Maloney was about a year old when his parents
came to Ohio. He attended high school at Kent, Ohio, spent four years
in Buchtel College, now Akron University, and for three years was a
student of law in Western Reserve University at Cleveland. He was
admitted to the Ohio bar in Tune, 1901, and immediately engaged in
private practice at Cleveland. Mr. Maloney has been active in republican
politics. He served as chairman of the campaign committee of the League

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of Republican Clubs of Cuyahoga County in 1912-1915. In 1913-1915
he was a member of the Cuyahoga County Republican Executive Com-
mittee. During the World war Mr. Maloney was a member of the legal
advisory board in the Twentieth Ward. He is a member of the National
Rifle Association, and from 1892 to 1897 was a member of the Eighth
Ohio Regiment, known as McKinley's Own, of the Ohio National Guard.
He is a member of Gilmore Council, Knights of Columbus. He and his
family are communicants of St. Agnes Catholic Church.

April 22, 1901, Mr. Maloney married Miss Grace Evelyn True,
daughter of Alfred and Sadie (Adams) True. Her mother was a
descendant of the Massachusetts family of Adams which gave two presi-
dents to the United States. Her ancestors on both sides served, under
General Washington in the Revolutionary war. Mrs. Maloney was born
at Canton, Ohio. She is the mother of five children : Cornelius, Jr.,
Eleanor, Lawrence, Isabell and Thomas.

Judge Louis H. Winch, former judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals,
has been a prominent figure at the Cleveland bar for nearly forty years.
He is a native of Cleveland, and his father was a pioneer business man of
the city.

Judge Winch was born June 17, 1862. The Winch family in Colonial
times came from Kent, England, to America. His grandfather, Benjamin
Winch, was born in 1766. The old family seat was at Salem, Massa-
chusetts. Some of the early records of that town refer to the Winch
family. Benjamin Winch learned surveying. On leaving Salem, Massa-
chusetts, he moved to New York State and settled in what later became
Oswego County. He surveyed the original township lines of that county.

Thomas Winch, father of Judge Winch, was born at Richland, Oswego
County, New York, in 1806. In 1836, as a young man of thirty, he arrived
at Cleveland, and became a factor in the pioneer transportation business
centering at the lake port. He was a forwarding merchant both on the
lake and canal, which had been opened only a few years before. He owned
several boats. Still later he engaged in the coal trade, and finally became
an oil refiner. He died at Cleveland in 1886.

In 1842 Thomas Winch married Sarah Hall Allen. She was born at
Ellenburg, Jefiferson County, New York, daughter of William Allen, who
was a prosperous farmer, and at one time a member of the New York
General Assembly. Her brother, William F. Allen, was the first president
of the Cleveland Board of Trade. It was during a visit in Cleveland, at
the home of her brother, that she first met Thomas Winch. Mrs. Winch
died at Cleveland in December, 1914, when in her ninetieth year.

The old Winch homestead in Cleveland, where Judge Winch was born,
was situated at the corner of East Third Street and Hamilton Avenue,
in almost the exact center of the present City Mall or "Court of Honor."
From his early memories and associations Judge Winch can reconstruct
much of the older Cleveland business district. Judge Winch as a boy
attended public schools, and then entered Western Reserve University. In
1884 he graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree and with scholarship
honors that gave him membership in the Phi Beta Kappa. He also studied
law at Cleveland, and was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1886, and the same

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year received his Master's degree. In the early years of his practice he
gave evidence of sound learning and great industry and resourcefulness in
handling the interests entrusted to him.

He had achieved the reputation of a sound and able lawyer long before
he became a candidate for the bench. In 1902 he was elected judge of the
Circuit Court for the Eighth Judicial Circuit, including the counties of
Cuyahoga, Lorain, Medinaand Summit. In 1908 he was reelected to the
Circuit Bench, and in 1911 was chosen chief justice of the Circuit Courts
of Ohio. Under the new Ohio constitution adopted in 1912 the Circuit
Court became the Court of Appeals, and Judge Winch continued his duties
with that branch of the judiciary until 1915.

The Republican State Convention of 1912 nominated Judge Winch as a
candidate for judge of the Supreme Court. In a year marked by the defeat
of Taft and nearly all other republican candidates, Judge Winch likewise
failed of election. When he retired from the bench three years later he
resumed private practice and since 1915 has been a member of the well
known Cleveland law firm of Payer, Winch, Minshall & Karch, with offices
in the Discount Building. In 1898, in collaboration with M. S. Hinman,
many years journal clerk of the Common Pleas Court of Cuyahoga County,
Judge Winch published a book on "Journal Entries," which has been a
standard authority on that subject ever since. He has also prepared a
manuscript history of all the sections of the General Code of Ohio, which
has not been published, and is the author of special essays on Workmen's
Compensation, Torrens System of Land Registration, Negligence Law in
Ohio, etc.

Judge Winch is a member of the Cleveland and Ohio State Bar asso-
ciations, is a member of the Cuyahoga Early Settlers Association, is one
of the veteran members of Tyrian Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted
Masons, and the Cleveland Scottish Rite Consistory, and belongs to the
Congregational Church.

Felix T. Matia has become well known at the Cleveland bar and as
an official of the city and county, and is also an ex-service man of the
World war.

He was born in Cleveland, son of Thomas and Frances (Otto) Matia.
His parents were born in German Poland, now included in the republic
of Poland. Thomas Matia came to the United States in 1880, locating
in Cleveland the same year, and was an employe of the old Cleveland
Rolling Mills, part of the American Steel & Wire Company. He was in
the employ of the city, and then engaged in the dry goods and men's fur-
nishing goods business on his own account on Sowinski Avenue in Cleve-
land. He was a pioneer of the old Polish colony at Newburg, and was
a man of such character as to win the respect of many leaders in public
affairs, including Hon. Theodore Burton. He was forty-two years old
when he died in 1907. The widowed mother, now aged fifty-six, is the
daughter of Joseph Otto, who was born near Danzig, East Prussia, and
was one of the pioneer Polish citizens of Cleveland.

Felix T. Matia acquired his education in the public schools of Cleve-
land, including the East High School, and graduated from the Cleveland
Law School of Baldwin-Wallace University in 1914. In the same year

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he was admitted to the bar, and in a comparatively brief time gained recog-
nition for his soHd talents and attainments in his profession.

From January, 1913, to December 31, 1916, Mr. Matia served as pro-
bation officer in the Municipal Court of Cleveland. He was assistant
prosecuting attorney for Cuyahoga County from January 1, 1917, to
January 1, 1921, resigning after four years' service to engage in private
practice.

While assistant prosecuting attorney he was granted a leave of absence
to enlist for the World war. On November 1, 1917, he joined the colors
as a member of the Officers' Training School at Camp Sherman, Ohio,
and received a commission as second lieutenant. He was sent to Camp
Gordon, Georgia, was commissioned a first lieutenant January 4, 1918,
and put in the Ninth Replacement Regiment. Later he was transferred
to the Intelligence Department on duty at Camp Gordon and vicinity, and
was under orders for overseas duty when the armistice was signed. Jan-
uary 1, 1919, he was mustered out and honorably discharged at Camp
Custer, Michigan. Immediately on his return he resumed his duties as
assistant prosecuting attorney.

Mr. Matia is a member of the Polish National Alliance, the Polish
Alliance of America, the Polish Falcons, the Cleveland Society of the
Z. N. P., the Knights of Columbus and St. Casimer's Catholic Church.
In his profession he is a member of the Cleveland Bar Association and
the Sigma Kappa Phi fraternity. Mr. Matia married, August 27, 1920,
Miss Mary Olszeski, daughter of Casimer and Frances Olszeski, of Dil-
lonvale, JefTerson County, Ohio.

A. Burns Smythe. Only those who possess the rare faculty of an
organizing and executive mind can make a record of achievements and
acquire such substantial connections with business, civic and social bodies
as make up the record of the career of A. Burns Smythe of Cleveland.
His life has been one of interesting diversity as well as the practical
achievement that is familiarly associated with long and persistent effort.

Mr. Smythe was born in Nevada, Ohio, August 4, 1874, son of Mar-
cus M. and Mary Comfort (Burns) Smythe. His mother came from
Scotland. His grandfather, William Smythe, came from Ulster County.
Ireland, in 1832, first lived in Washington County, Pennsylvania, then in
Jefferson County, Ohio, and late in life moved to Holton, Kansas, where
he died. He was a wool manufacturer and a farmer. Marcus M. Smythe
was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and was a boy when the
family moved to Jefferson County, Ohio. He is now eighty-five years of
age, spending his summers in Cleveland and his winters in Florida.

A. Burns Smythe was the youngest in a family of four children, and
grew up at Nevada, Ohio, where he attended the public schools. He con-
tinued his education in Oberlin Academy and Oberlin College, and his
prowess there in athletics caused him to pursue for a time professional
baseball as a vocation. His early business experience included work as
salesman for the Clifton Park Land and Improvement Company of Cleve-
land, for some years having had the ambition to get into the real estate
business for himself. In 1903 he opened his own office, but after four
and a half years was induced to organize the real estate department of

24 CUYAHOGA COUNTY AND

the Cleveland Trust Company. He was the head of the department as
general manager until August 4, 1914, and the decade smce tlien has cov-
ered the period of his most important achievements in the real estate and
business tield.

On leaving the Cleveland Trust Company he organized the A. B.
Smythe Company, which occupies a suite of offices in the Erie Building
at the corner of East Ninth btreet and Prospect Avenue. Ihe company
has an office force of approximately hfty people, and maintains branches
throughout the city. The business has grown until it now handles millions
of dollars' worth of business annually.

As an organizer and executive Mr. Smythe's name has been associated
with many enterprises. He is president of the Shore Acres Land Com-
pany, which built the beautiful sub-division of Shore Acres on the East
Side on the lake front. He organized, planned and built the Euclid-
Forty-sixth Street Market and buildings surrounding, owned by the
Glengariff Realty Company, of which he is president. He built the Smythe
Building on Euclid Avenue, each of the First National Bank Building.
He is president of the Carnegie-Euclid Company, which bought and
developed the old Bolton property, containing all the property from Euclid
to Carnegie Avenue, between East Sixty-ninth and East Seventy-first
streets. Mr. Smythe organized the North Olmstead Improvement Com-
pany, of which he is president, and also the Metropolitan Development
Company, owning large holdings on Superior Avenue, and the S. K.
and W. Investment Company, owning the old American Ship Building
Company property on the Superior viaduct. He is president of the
Smythe Investment Company, which owns over 100 acres around West-
wood Golf Club.

Mr. Smythe is a director of the Union Mortgage Company, of the
Superior Bond & Mortgage Company, of which he is also vice president,
and is a director in the Lake Erie Trust Company. He is president of
the Cleveland Real Estate Board, is a member of the Chamber of Com-
merce of Cleveland and of the United States, is a trustee of the University
School and one of the founders of the Cleveland Institute of Music. He
was one of the founders and builders of the Lakewood Congregational
Church, of which he is a trustee. For several years he has been president
of the Oberlin Alumni Association of Oberlin College. Mr. Smythe is
a member of the Union Club, Hermit Club, Country Club and the Cas-
talia Trout Club.

He married, November 13, 1902, Miss Catherine Irene Loomis, daugh-
ter of Charles E. and Ida E. Loomis, of Oil City, Pennsylvania. She died
May 2, 1919. Subsequently Mr. Smythe married Mrs. Elizabeth Cady
Jenks, widow of Dr. Nathan Jenks, who was a prominent surgeon at
Detroit, Michigan. Mrs. Smythe was educated in a private school at
Detroit and at Mrs. Ely's finishing school in New York Citv. By her
first marriage she has a daughter, Sally Jenks, now a freshman in the
Hathaway-Brown School at Cleveland.

By his first marriage Mr. Smythe was the father of two sons, Charles
Loomis Smythe and Marcus Loomis Smythe, young men of interesting
attainments and of remarkable promise, and of whose records any father
might be proud. Charles Loomis Smythe. born October 23, 1903, gradu-

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ated from the University School of Cleveland in 1922. He was president
of his senior class, president of the Cadmean Debating Society, cap-
tain of the track team, was picked as all-scholastic half-back for the City
of Cleveland all-scholastic football team, and while in the University
School broke two records, one in the high jump and the other in the
quarter mile. He entered Williams College in the fall of 1922, was pres-
ident of the freshman class, and became a member of the football and
track team, the freshman orchestra, and the Delta Kappa Epsilon fra-
ternity.

Marcus Loomis Smythe, who was born March 12, 1905, had what is
perhaps a unique distinction for a younger brother in winning the same
honors in athletics and scholarship as Charles Loomis Smythe. He was
president of his class during the last three years at University School, a
star in football, basketball and baseball, and was captain of the undefeated
1922 football team of the University School, being selected by all the
newspapers of the city as captain and quarterback on the all-scholastic
football team. The names of these two brothers were engraved on the
University School wall on a bronze tablet known as the Cadmean trophy
for being the students who had the best influence and standing in their
respective classes during the four years attending University School.

Edward Creighton McKay has significantly demonstrated in his
achievement as a progressive man of affairs and civic loyalty, it having
been a matter of special satisfaction to him that he has been able to con-
tribute through his activities to the general advancement of his home city
of Cleveland, where he is prominently concerned with real estate opera-
tions and has other business interests and alliances of important order.

Mr. McKay was born in Cleveland, November 19, 1876, and is a son
of Col. George Alexander McKay and Margaret Adam (Creech) McKay,
the latter a daughter of James and Mary (Rome) Creech. The lineage
on the maternal side is traced back to the Earl of Douglass, in Scotland,
and on the paternal side to Baron Rea. Sir Poulkney Markham, admiral
of the British fleet that took Napoleon to his exile on the Island of
St. Helena, was a first cousin of Mrs. Mary (Rome) Creech, maternal
grandmother of the subject of this review. In Mr. McKay's father's
family there were produced six lieutenants general in the Napwleonic wars.

Col. George Alexander McKay was a gallant soldier of the Union in
the Civil war, was in the very thick of the fray in numerous major bat-
tles, was nine times wounded, each wound having been attended with the
shattering of bones, and in dispatches and other official mediums he was
repeatedly mentioned for conspicuous bravery and meritorious services.
He was captain of his company in the Seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry,
and in later years his continued interest in military affairs was signalized
in his effective service as colonel of the Fifteenth Infantry Regiment of
the Ohio National Guard, besides which he was an honored and influ-
ential member of the Grand Army of the Republic and Loyal Legion.

In the public schools of Cleveland Edward C. McKay continued his
studies until his graduation from the Central High School, as a member
of the class of 1895. His loyal stewardship in connection with civic and
business interests in his native city has since been shown in his service as

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chief clerk of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, as assistant trust
ofticer of the American Trust Company, as auditor for the Carnegie
Steel Company and Steel Corporation, as secretary and treasurer of the
Ohio Rubber Company, and as president of the Republic Belting Com-
pany. As a prominent representative of the real estate business he has
been treasurer and chairman of the board of trustees of the Cleveland
Real Estate Board, and has served as a member of the appraisal com-
mittee of this organization for the past three years. He vi^as actively
concerned in the buying and leasing of millions of dollars' worth of prop-
erty for the new Union Depot that is being erected in the Ohio metropolis
by the Cleveland Union Terminals Company. As a representative of
the local real estate board he was general chairman of its convention
committee that had charge of the 1923 convention of the National Asso-
ciation of Real Estate Boards held in Cleveland. Mr. McKay has served
also as a member of the taxation committee of the Cleveland Real Estate
Board, also on similar committees of the Ohio Association of Real Estate
Boards and the National Association of Real Estate Boards. He holds
veteran membership in the Cleveland Catling Gun Battery and the Ohio
Naval Reserve, and also served as clerk of the military committee of the
Cleveland Chamber of Commerce during the Spanish-American war. He
has previously held membership in five of the leading clubs in Cleveland,
including the Union Club, but he has now severed his active affiliation
with each of these.

The political allegiance of Mr. McKay is given to the republican party,
and in this connection it may be noted that he has given a statement of
his views in one important matter, that is, he expresses himself as being
"in favor of entering the League of Nations, on our own terms, by means
of a resolution of interpretations that might be considered a second declara-
tion of independence and intentions." He and his wife hold membership
in the Presbyterian Church, their affiliation being with the Church of the
Covenant in their home city.

On the 20th of June, 1895, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Mc-
Kay and Miss Louise Patten, daughter of George D. and Louisa Patten,
of Plainfield, Union County, New Jersey. Mr. George D. Patten served
as cashier in the historic banking house of Jay Cook at Washington.
D. C, during the progress of the Civil war. Mrs. McKay is .eligible for
membership in the society of the Daughters of the American Revolution,
and her brother has similar eligibility in connection with everv one of the
leading Colonial societies of the nation, inclucfing those of military order.
Mr. and Mrs. McKay have two daughters, Margaret and Louise.

Paul Howland was born at JeflFerson. Ohio. December 5, 1865, and
was the oldest of a familv of four boys: W. S. Howland. now deceased;
Dr. A. P. Howland. of Cleveland; and Col. Charles R. Howland. of the
Regular Army. His father was the late Judge W. P. Howland, of
JeflFerson. Ohio, and his mother was Esther Elizabeth (Leonard) Howland.

Mr. Howland is named after his grandfather, Paul Howland. who came
to the Western Reserve in 1821 from Massachusetts and settled at Pierpont,
in Ashtabula County. The families on both sides are of New England
ancestry. The Howlands are descendants of the Pilgrim Howlands of
Plvmouth.

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Mr. Howland graduated from the Jefferson High School in 1883; from
Oberlin College in 1887, with a degree of Bachelor of Arts ; and in 1890
from Harvard Law School, with a degree of Bachelor of Laws, and was
awarded the Master of Arts degree by Oberlin College in 1894. He was
admitted to the bar of Ohio by the Supreme Court of the state in 1890, and
at once engaged in the active practice of the law, forming a partnership
with H. E. Starkey at Jefferson. In 1894 he formed a partnership with the
late Judge H. B. Chapman and opened an office in Cleveland, where he has
since been engaged in the active practice of the law.

From 1896 to 1900 he was a member of the State Board of Bar
Examiners, by appointment of the Supreme Court.

In 1898 he volunteered for the Spanish- American war, and was com-
missioned a second lieutenant and squadron adjutant of the First Ohio
Volunteer Cavalry. While the regiment was being broken in at Chicka-
mauga Park, Mr. Howland was designated by the Supreme Court of the
State of Ohio to hold an examination for admission to the bar of those
soldiers who were prepared to take the examination before being called
into the service.

In 1906 Mr. Howland was elected to Congress from the Twentieth
Congressional District, and was reelected for three consecutive terms.

During his service in Congress he served four years on the judiciary
committee of the House of Representatives, and was one of the managers
on the part of the House in the prosecution of the articles of impeachment
before the bar of the Senate of Judge Archbold, who was found guilty and
removed from office. On his retirement from Congress he became actively
identified with the American Bar Association, and served on its various
committees continuously up to the present time, and was on the executive
committee from 1918 to 1921. He has also taken a very active part in local
and state bar associations, believing that it is the duty of the lawyer to utilize
every agency to advance the interests of his chosen profession.

In 1916 Mr. Howland was elected a delegate to the republican national
convention, pledged to the support of the candidacy of Senator Theodore E.
Burton for the presidency. He was a member of the committe on resolu-
tions, and a member of the subcommittee which was selected from the
general committee, which drafted the platform.

In 1920 he was again elected a delegate from his congressional district
to the republican national convention, and did everything in his power to
advance the candidacy of the late President Warren G. Harding, and in
the caucus of the Ohio delegation offered the resolution that the delegation
give its support to Harding until released by him. which resolution was
adopted and had great influence in bringing about the final nomination of
President Harding. Mr. Howland was placed by the Ohio delegation on
the committee on rules and order of business, and on the organization of
this committee was unanimously elected chairman, and presented the report
of the committee to the convention. It was at this convention that he
presented the resolution granting to the national committee the power to fix
the delegate representation in future conventions on some just and equitable
basis. This power was granted with the hope and expectation that the
national committee would cut down substantially the representation of the
Southern states in republican conventions.

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In 1924 Mr. Howland was again elected a delegate from his con-
gressional district to the republican national convention, pledged to the
support of President Coolidge. He was selected as Ohio's member of the
committee on rules and order of business, and was again elected chairman
of that committee and presented its report to the convention. This report
carried with it a revision of the rules governing representation in national
conventions worked out by the national committee under the authority
granted it in 1920, and also gave to the ladies the right of equal representa-
tion on the national committee from each state.

Mr. Howland has been active in all civic matters tending to promote
the welfare of the city. He was a director for four years in the Cleveland
Chamber of Industry and was president of that organization for one year.
He was a director of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce for three con-
secutive years, and is chairman of the board of trustees of the First Con-
gregational Church of Cleveland.

He is a thirty-second degree Mason, past potentate of Al Koran Temple
of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and a member of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows.

Mr. Howland married, on the 18th day of January, 1905, Miss Jessie
F. Pruden, of Burghill, Trumbull County, Ohio.

During Mr. Howland's college days he was active in athletic sports, and
a member of the Oberlin College baseball team during all of the four years
he was at Oberlin, and a member of the Harvard Varsity during the three
years, 1888, 1889 and 1890, he was in attendance at the Harvard Law
School. While at Harvard he was a member of the Hasty Pudding Club
and the University Club.

In Cleveland he has a membership in the Nisi Prius Club and the
Union Club, and is at present (1924) president of the New England
Society. Mr. Howland resides at 1448 West Sixty-fifth Street, Cleve-
land, Ohio.

Charles H. Tucker. Now practically retired, though still retain-
ing business offices in the Union Trust Building, Charles H. Tucker is an
interesting veteran of Cleveland's transportation circles. For many years
he acted as general agent for the leading steamship companies on the
Great Lakes.

Mr. Tucker was born at North Collins, Erie County, New York,
December 11, 1839. His great-grandfather came from England, settled
in New York, and he and his descendants were devout Quakers. Abram
Tucker, grandfather of Charles H. Tucker, was born near Glens Falls,
New York, and in 1810 moved to the western part of the state, traveling
with teams and wagons through the wilderness, establishing a home in
what is now North Collins, Erie County, not far from the City of Buf-
falo. The spot was then on the very western frontier, and the Indians
and wild game still contested the advance of the white man in that region.
Abram Tucker bought land, made a farm and remained there until his
death at the age of eighty-eight. His old homestead is still owned by his
descendants. His wife lived to the age of ninety-three.

George W. Tucker, father of Charles H. Tucker, was born at North
Collins in 1810, soon after the family settled there, and had the distinction

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of being the first white child born on the Iroquois Reservation in Erie
County. His sister Amy married Howland Kirby, and she spent her
entire hfe of ninety-nine years at North CoUins. When she was eighty-
six years of age she joined the Eastern Star. She was one of the early
advocates of woman suffrage and was a coworker with Susan B. Anthony.
George W. Tucker assisted in the work of the farm during his early youth,
acquired a public school education, and for a time was in the mercantile
business at North Collins and also postmaster there. About 1843 he
moved to Gowanda, taking up the cabinetmaker's trade, but a year later
located at Buffalo and was for some years a salesman for a wholesale
grocery house. In March, 1852, he brought his wife and three children
to Cleveland, entering the service of the Childs & Bishop Organ Company
as bookkeeper. At that time Erie Street was the city limits, and dwelling
houses occupied the sites of many of the present large office and mercantile
buildings. The family lived on Eagle Street. George W. Tucker died
May 6, 1859, at the age of forty-nine. In politics he was affiliated with
the whig party as long as it existed, and remained a devout Quaker. His
wife was Susan Bartow, who was born at Tarrytown, New York, in 1812,
of French Huguenot ancestry, and daughter of Punderson and Hannah
Parlow Bartow. She died at Cleveland in 1884, at the age of seventy-
two. She reared three children : Seth, a farmer who died in Iowa ; Hep-
siba, who died at Cleveland at the age of forty-one, wife of Stanley A.
Jewett, a talented musician and for many years connected with the Childs
& Bishop Organ Company of Cleveland ; and Charles Herbert.

Charles Herbert Tucker was about thirteen years old when the family
came to Cleveland. He attended public schools in Bufifalo and this city,
and while in school carried the old Cleveland Herald and Cleveland Plain
Dealer. Following a course in business college he went to work, in 1855,
at the age of sixteen, as clerk in the banking house of Pierce & Nelson, a
year later became teller for A. M. Perry & Company, and subsequently
became associated with the wholesale flour business conducted by A. M.
Perry & Company. He was bookkeeper for this firm until the death of
Mr. Perry in 1863, and was called upon to settle up the business of the
firm. Mr. Tucker served a 100-dav enlistment during the Civil war, join-
ing the One Hundred and Fiftieth Ohio Infantry in 1864. He was a
guard at Washington. On returning to Cleveland he became bookkeeper
with the firm of Robert Hanna & Company for two vears, and then acted
as secretary of Hanna. Baslington & Companv. who were in bu=:iness
under the name Globe Oil Refining Companv. Two years later this busi-
ness was consolidated with the Standard Oil Companv, and Mr. Tucker's
next connection was as general manager of the Cleveland Boiler Plate
Manufacturing Company.

Since 1876 his experience and business interests have been almost
entirelv concentrated in the field of lake transportation. For tw<=ntv-four
years he was general agent of the Union Steamboat Comn-'nv. For l°=;<5er
periods of time he acted as p-^neral ap^ent for the Northern Ste'^mship
Company, the Lake Superior Transit Comoany. the Lackawanna lire of
steamers, the Western Transportation Comnanv. tbf^ Commerr-i'^l Line
and the Og'densburg Transit Comnan^^ From 1*^00 unt'l 1Q13 Mr.
Tucker was president and manager of King's Engineering Company and

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the American Wire Spring Company. In 1913 he became general agent
for the Merchants Mutual Line and the Canada Steamship Line, and is
still nominally identihed with the lake transix)rtation interests as a general
agent.

Mr. Tucker is a thirty-third degree, supreme honorary, Scottish Rite
Mason, and his affiliations at Cleveland are with Tyrian Lodge, Cleveland
Royal Arch Chapter, Oriental Commandery, Lake Erie Consistory and
Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine.

He married in 1868 Miss Lucy A. Wightman, daughter of David L.
Wightman, for many years prominent in Cuyahoga County as sheriff
and as the chief organizer and at the time of his death agent for the Cleve-
land Humane Society. Mr. and Mrs. Tucker reared a family of six chil-
dren: Stanley, Salome, Bartow C, Lucia, Douglas and Ralph. Stanley,
who finished his education in the Case School of Applied Science, mar-
ried Gertrude Chandler. The daughter Salome is a graduate of the
Hathaway-Brown School at Cleveland. Bartow C, a graduate of high
school, married Gertrude Keifaber, and his two children are Martha and
Constance. Lucia, who graduated from the Fort Edwards Collegiate
Institute of Fort Edwards, New York, married Charles Harbaugh, and
became the mother of two children, Donald and Virginia, Virginia Har-
baugh being the wife of Orgain McCullough, and her two children, Orgain
and Lucia McCullough, are the great-grandchildren of Mr. Tucker.
Douglas Tucker married Mary McDonald, and they have two children,
Robert and Ruth. Ralph Tucker, who finished his education in Western
Reserve University, married Margaret Snider, and they have a family of
six children : Eloise, Marjorie, Charles, Theodore, Stanley and Betty.

George F. Thomas, M. D. A buoyant, glowing, optimistic nature
was that of this honored and influential physician and scientist, who trans-
lated his well ordered enthusiasm into constructive service and who became
a widely recognized authority on the use of the X-ray. Doctor Thomas
achieved prestige in the general work of his profession, but his major
reputation was along the line of electrical therapeutic application and
investigation. He was a leader in research in this important field, and had
his life been spared it is certain that his distinction as a physician, surgeon
and scientist would have continued of cumulative growth. Doctor Thomas
virtually sacrificed his life in the service and work to which he had dedi-
cated himself, and was but forty-two years of age at the time when heart
disease brought a summary end to his career, his death having occurred
while he was in his office, on the 29th of May, 1924, and Cleveland having
thus been called upon to mourn the loss of one of its able and honored
citizens and representative physicians. He was instructor in X-ray work
in the Medical School of Western Reserve University, at the time of his
death, and in this connection a local newspaper of current issue gave the
following estimate: "Medical journals recognized him as an authority on
X-ray, and printed many of his papers. It is thought that overexertion
in the preparation of a treatise on which he was working may have con-
tributed to his heart attack."

Dr. George Franklin Thomas was born at Akron. Ohio. April 12,
1882, and was a son of Richard and Catherine (PhiUips) Thomas. In

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the public schools of his native city he continued his studies until his
graduation from the high school, and thereafter he came to Cleveland and
entered Adelbert College. In this institution he was graduated in 1903,
with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and he forthwith was matriculated
in the Medical School of Western Reserve University, in which he com-
pleted the prescribed curriculum and was graduated as a member of the
class of 1906. His reception of the degree of Doctor of Medicine was
followed by two years of effective service as an interne in the Charity
Hospital of Cleveland. His intention had been to specialize in the surgical
department of his profession, but in connection with his service as a
house physician at the Charity Hospital he became deeply interested in
X-ray work, which was then in the inceptive period of its development.
After his two years at this hospital Doctor Thomas engaged in the general
practice of his profession, but he soon found it expedient to turn his
attention to X-ray research exclusively. He was soon given charge of
X-ray work in both the Charity Hospital and the City Hospital. His
intensive study and research, the importance of his experimentation, and
his enthusiasm in his chosen sphere of service soon gained to him
definite leadership in connection with X-ray in the United States, and as
an authority along this line he made many and valuable contributions to
leading medical and scientific publications, while he was called upon to
deliver addresses before the most important of the nation's medical asso-
ciations, as well as those of purely scientific research, the while his ably
prepared papers on X-ray work were read before many other organiza-
tions of similar order. In the Medical School of Western Reserve Uni-
versity Doctor Thomas gave a splendid service as an instructor in X-ray
and radio activity, and in the autumn of 1922 he took a course in
therai>eutics at Frankfort, Germany, besides availing himself of the
advantages of leading hospital clinics in the City of Berlin, where he
specialized in the study of cancer and its treatment by radio application.
He demonstrated in the United States this new treatment, and his work
was attended with distinctive success. Upon his return to Cleveland
Doctor Thomas took possession of a large residence at 2930 Prospect
Street, where he established not only his office but also one of the most
completely equipped and most modern X-ray laboratories in the United
States. He was preparing to carry forward in a vigorous way the appli-
cation of the X-ray in the treatment of varied types of diseases, and his
untimely death undoubtedly brought to a close a service that was destined
to be of great value to the scientific world and to suffering humanity.

At the time of his death Doctor Thomas was president of the
Pasteur Club. He was an active and valued member of the American
Medical Association, the American Roentgen Ray Society, the Ohio State
Medical Society and the Cleveland Academy of Medicine. In the winter
of 1923-4 he organized and became the first president of the Cleveland
Radiological Society. ^

Doctor Thomas was loyally arrayed in the ranks of the republican
Iparty, but had no desire for political activity or preferment. In 1923
he was raised to the degree of Master Mason in Cleveland Heights Lodge
No. 633, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and thereafter he extended
his affiliation to the local chapter of Royal Arch Masons and the com-

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mandery of Knights Templars. He was a member of the Delta Tau
Delta and Phi Rho Sigma college fraternities, and, with a circle of friends
that was coincident with that of his acquaintances, he was a popular
member of the University Club, the Union Club, the Shaker Heights
Country Club and the Canterbury Country Club.

On the 3d of October, 1908, was solemnized the marriage of
Doctor Thomas and Miss Marcia Bruckshaw, daughter of John Henry
and Bella (Atkinson) Bruckshaw. The noble characteristics of
Doctor Thomas found their most perfect exemplification in connection
with the ideal relations of the home circle, and in her bereavement his
widow finds her greatest measure of compensation and reconciliation
through the gracious memories of their association and through the
presence of their three children, Georgia, Marcia and George F., Jr.

Henry Stoddard Sherman gained distinct precedence as one of the
able and representative members of the Cleveland bar, and in his character
and achievement conferred added distinction to a family name that has
been one of prominence and eminence in connection with Ohio and
national history, as may be understood when it is stated that the subject
of this memoir, whose death occurred February 24, 1893, was a nephew
of the late Gen. William T. Sherman, under whom he was in service as a
gallant young soldier of the Union in the Civil war.

Henry S. Sherman was born at Mansfield, judicial center of Richland
County, Ohio, April 29, 1844, and his death occurred about two months
prior to the seventy-ninth anniversary of his birth. He was a son of the
late Judge Charles T. and Eliza (Williams) Sherman, both members of
distinguished Ohio pioneer families. Judge Charles T. Sherman con-
tinued in the practice of law at Mansfield until 1866, when he received
appointment to the bench of the United States District Court of the
Northern Ohio district and removed to the City of Cleveland. In this
high judicial office he continued his able and distinguished administration
until 1873, and thereafter he lived virtually retired until the time of his
death.

After having duly profited by the advantages of the public schools of
his native city Henry S. Sherman in 1861 was matriculated in Kenyon
College, at Gambler, Ohio, but his youthful lovalty and patriotism were
not to be denied expression, for after having been a student in Kenyon
about a year he withdrew therefrom to enter service as a soldier in the
Civil war. He enlisted as a private in Comoanv A, One Hundred and
Twentieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in which he refused appointment
to official position. By actunl service merit he won his successive promo-
tions throup^h the grades of sergeant, sergeant maior and second lieu-
tenant, which last named office was conferred upon him in Tune. 1863. in
recognition of gallant condi^ct on the field of battle. In Mnrch. 1864. he
was m^de first lieutennnt of Company I of his original reP'iment. an''1 in
the following month was promoted to adiutant thereof. In Tulv, 1863.
he receiA'ed annnintmpnt as a member of the staff of his di<;tineui<^hed
unclp. Gen. William T. Shermnn. and in thi'; connection he continued his
servi-^e until he sufl^ered an att'>ck of tvphoid fever and wis sent home on
invalid leave. By reason of his youth and his impnired health his uncle.

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General Sherman, insisted that he resign from the army, and this course
he felt constrained to follow. He then entered historic old Dartmouth
College, and in this institution he was graduated as a member of the
class of 1866 and with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Upon his return
to Mansfield he there began the study of law, which discipline he later
continued under the preceptorship of George Willey in the Ctiy of Cleve-
land, where he was admitted to the bar in the year 1868. He forthwith
engaged in the practice of his profession, and later he was assistant under
George Willey, district attorney of Cuyahoga County, an office of which
he continued the incumbent nearly ten years. He then resigned to give his
undivided attention to his private law business. His first professional
partnership was represented in his membership in the firm of Willey,
Terrell & Sherman. In September, 1877, he formed a law partnership
with James H. Hoyt, and the firm later became known as Willey, Sherman
& Hoyt. This alliance continued until the senior partner. Judge Willey,
passed from the stage of life's mortal endeavors, and thereafter the former
title of Sherman & Hoyt was maintained until 1889, when, upon the
admission of A. C. Dustin to the firm, the title became Sherman, Hoyt &
Dustin. Of this strong and influential law firm Mr. Sherman continued
to be a member until his death. He marked the passing years with large
and worthy achievement in his profession and as a loyal and progressive
citizen. Jury trials were somewhat distasteful to him, and thus he favored
professional service that involved his appearance in courts of last resort.
It was before higher courts that he won his greatest triumphs, and his
briefs were models of clarity, directness and precision, as they represented
the result of thorough research and careful preparation. Mr. Sherman
was known for his broad and accurate knowledge of law and precedent,
and thus his mature judgment made him specially able as a counselor. He
was really one of the great lawyers of the Ohio bar, a bar that has claimed
many distinguished members, and honor shall ever attend his memory
both as a leader in his profession and as a man who represented the best
in the scheme of human ideals and service. Mr. Sherman was en route
to Europe, in connection with afifairs of business, when an attack of sea-
sickness so affected the action of his weak heart that he died on shipboard,
his remains having been brought back to Cleveland for interment.

Mr. Sherman was kindly and tolerant in judgment, as a man who had
clear appreciation of the wellsprings of human thought and action, and his
natural optimism and spontaneous humor made him the ever delightful
companion, comrade and friend. He took specially deep interest in educa-
tional affairs, and was a leader in effecting the establishing of the Univer-
sity School in Cleveland. His liberality made him non-offensive in his
political attitude, and he was a staunch advocate of the basic principles
for which the republican party has always stood sponsor. He w^as an
honored member of the Union Club in his home city, was also a member
of the Country Club, and was affiliated with the Delta Kappa Epsilon
college fraternity. He was a zealous communicant of the Protestant Epis-
copal Church, as a member of the parish of Saint Paul's Church, of which
his widow continues an earnest communicant.

On the 2d of June, 1875. was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Sherman
and Miss Harriet A. Benedict, daughter of the late George A. and Sarah

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(Rathbone) Benedict, of Cleveland, her father having been a pioneer
nevi^spaper man in this city, where he vi^as long the editor of the Cleveland
Herald. Of the three children of Mr. and Mrs. Sherman two survive the
honored father: Sarah is the wife of Edward P. Carter, and they reside
at Baltimore, Maryland, their one child being Edward P., Jr.; Henry S.,
who still maintains his residence in Cleveland, married Miss Edith
McBride, and they have four children: Henry S., Jr., John, Elizabeth
and Harriet; George B.. youngest of the three children, died at the age
of seventeen years.

Harry Franklin Payer. One of the law firms whose successful
status is recognized throughout Ohio, is Payer, Winch, Minshall & Karch
of Cleveland. As the head of this firm, the professional standing of
Harry Franklin Payer needs no further evidence. He is best known as
a public speaker and trial lawyer, and it is said that his record of favorable
verdicts is among the highest in the United States.

He is a scholar, a bibliophile, a linguist and an orator, possessed of a
remarkable range of interests and tastes ; and when he appears as a public
speaker outside of the courtroom he has more than the experience and
learning of an able lawyer to give authority to his opinions.

For several years he has been chairman of the Committee on Judiciary
and Legal Reform and Legislation of the Cleveland Bar Association.
Legal reform has been the theme of many of his writings and speeches,
and he is well known as the sponsor and formulator of salutary measures
that have been enacted into law. Recently he was one of three lawyers
in the State of Ohio appointed by the Governor as a member of the Judicial
Council, and charged with the duty of studying the judicial machinery of
the state and recommending necessary reforms.

He is the president of the Adelbert Alumni Association of Western
Reserve University, a member of Phi Beta Kappa honor scholarship fra-
ternity, the American Bar Association, Ohio State Bar Association, the
Chamber of Commerce, Cleveland Athletic Club, Acacia Golf Club and
numerous fraternal organizations.

His mother, Mary Cross, was born in Cleveland and is still living.
Her father established one of the first cooperage establishments in Cleve-
land. His father, Frank Payer, was born in Bohemia, having come to
Cleveland at the age of twenty-seven, and died there in 1895, after attain-
ing prominence in Bohemian fraternal and business circles. Two of
Harry F. Payer's sisters, Mamie and Catherine, are teachers in the public
schools of Cleveland, and his sister Mamie is also principal of the Amer-
icanization School (International Institute) of the Young Women's Chris-
tion Association.

Harry Franklin Payer was born in Cleveland, July 3, 1875, was gradu-
ated from Central High School in 1893; from Adelbert College of Western
Reserve University with great honor in 1897 (A. B. magna cum laude) ;
from Cleveland Law School, Bachelor of Laws, with honors in 1899.
From 1901-1907 he was in public office as assistant city solicitor to Newton
D. Baker (afterwards secretary of war) in the administration of Tom L.
Johnson, mayor of Cleveland. He appeared in litigation resulting from
Mayor Johnson's famous three-cent fare ordinances. At high school and

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college he had earned distinction and medals as an orator and debater. He
participated in political campaigns even before graduation, and at the age
of twenty-six was chosen secretary of the Democratic State Committee of
Ohio.

In biographies Harry F. Payer is marked as probably the outstanding
figure among American-born Czechoslovaks in this country. Thomas G.
Masaryk, president of Czechoslovakia, has been entertained at his home.
Jan Masaryk, formerly Charge d'Affaires at Washington, the distinguished
president's great son, is one of Mr. Payer's most intimate friends. Mr.
Payer is president of the Czechoslovak Chamber of Commerce and presi-
dent of the Czechoslovak Club of America. In 1920 he was chosen to
deliver a Fourth of July oration to an immense gathering in the City of
Prague, and did so both in the English and Bohemian languages. He was
one of the largest individual contributors to the movement to free Czecho-
slovakia during the war, and in 1921 served as chairman of the Hoover
Relief Committee in the Cleveland District.

Mr. Payer has one of the finest libraries in Cleveland, a lover of fine
books and rare editions. His collection of art objects has been gathered
from all quarters of the globe. He has traveled widely in this country
and abroad and has learned many languages. Indefatigably he prescribes
for himself a drastic course of study and reading. Long ago he mastered
the difficult art of living on twenty hours a day; and in spite of his ex-
tensive legal practice and large participation in reform and philanthropic
movements and other constructive activities, he still finds time for his
books, his horseback riding and other outdoor sports.

His lecture on "The Psychology of a Lawsuit" was printed in the
American Law Review for March- April, 1922 ; and one gets a view of
what he is himself from what he seems to admire in others. He has
character, learning, imagination, the habit of intensive preparation for
trial, courage and a knowledge of human nature, and these account for
his phenomenal success as a lawyer. He has handled a variety of cases,
such as come to few individual lawyers. Much of his service has been
given without compensation and numerous stories are told of his unadver-
tised benefactions. His own early struggles for an education have made
him the loyal friend of the indigent student. A man of deep and intense
sympathy and convictions, his passionate desire to secure justice for the
oppressed and unfortunate, has frequently brought forth inspired efforts
that no mere hope of financial reward could produce.

Charles E. Jenkins established his home in the City of Cleveland
shortly after the close of the Civil war, and here he passed the remainder
of his noble and useful life, which was marked by naught of ostentation
but which rendered a fullness of genuine ser\'ice and exemplified the
finest of ideals in all human contacts. Mr. Jenkins long held precedence
as one of the leading contractors and builders in the Ohio metropolis,
and thus contributed in large measure to the material as well as civic
advancement of the community, the while he had secure place in popular
confidence and respect. He was sixty years of age at the time of his
death, August 27, 1909. and in Cleveland his widow has maintained her
home since her childhood days.

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Mr. Jenkins was born at Woodstock, Province of Ontario, Canada,
on the I8th of July, 1848, and is a son of Alexander and Martha Jane
Jenkins, both of whom were born in Scotland, they having been young
folk when they came to America and the remainder of their lives having
been passed in Canada. Mr. Jenkins profited by the advantages of the
common schools of his native province and there, as a youth, he learned
the carpenter's trade, at which he became a skilled workman. He came
to the United States at the time when the Civil war was in progress, and
found requisition for service in connection with the building of hospitals
in various sections of the Union. Within a short time after the close of
the war he engaged in the work of his trade in Cleveland, and soon he
became associated with the ship-building business, in partnership with
William Alorris. Thereafter he was for a time retained by the firm of
Greece & Wiley in the capacity of superintendent of construction, and
eventually he directed his energies to independent operations as a con-
tractor and builder. His business was initiated on a modest scale, but
his ability, his fidelity to terms of contract, and his energetic moving for-
ward of all construction work with which he identified himself caused his
business to expand rapidly in scope and importance, with the result that
he became one of the leaders in his special field of enterprise in Cleveland.
He erected many of the early-day business buildings of the larger and
better order, including the Drum Building on Seneca Street, opposite
the courthouse of Cuyahoga County, the Croxton Building and many
others. He was the contractor in the erection of the old Case Avenue
High School building, and also the buildings of the salt works at the foot
of Wilson Avenue, a thoroughfare now designated as One Hundred and
•Pifth Street.

Mr. Jenkins always took loyal interest in everything pertaining to the
welfare and progress of his home city, but as his supreme interests were
centered in his home and his business he had no inclination toward public
office. He was, however, a staunch supporter of the cause of the repub-
lican party. He and his wife became charter members of the old Presby-
terian Church, whose building was erected and presented to the church
organization by the late Nelson P. Eels. Mr. Jenkins expressed his deep
religious faith in the daily walks of his life, and was ever zealous and
liberal in the support of church work, the same attitude having continu-
ously characterized his wife, who since his death has done well her part in
connection with the activities and service of the church and parish with
which she has been long identified.

On the 15th of May, 1869, was solemnized the marriage of
Mr. Jenkins and Miss Mary Josephine Kenney, daughter of the late
James and Margaret (Morrell) Kenney, she having been born in the
State of New Jersey and having been a child of three years at the time
when the family home was established in Cleveland. Mrs. Jenkins has
been a resident of Cleveland somewhat more than seventy years, and has
witnessed its advancement from a small lakeport city to the status of the
fair metropolis of the Buckeye State. Her reminiscences concerning the
early days are graphic and interesting, and in this connection it may be
noted that she takes pleasure in reverting to the fact that she rode on the
jfirst street car placed in operation in the city, this first street car line, with

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small cars drawn by horses, having extended from the Public Square
out Woodland Avenue to J:^ifty-tittli btreet, where was established and
developed a small park in which refreshments were served and other
simple means of entertainment provided. Ihe original home of the
Kenney family in Cleveland was at the corner of Lake and Bond streets.
Mr. Kenney died from injuries received when he fell from a building on
which he was working in the City of Toledo, and his daughter, Mary J.
(Mrs. Jenkins), was about seven years old at the time. The widowed
mother kept her family together and passed the remainder of her life in
Cleveland, where she was loved by all who came within the compass of
her gentle and gracious influence.

Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins became the parents of five children, all of whom
survive the father and all of whom have conferred honor on the family
name. Dr. Alfred A., eldest of the children, is a representative physician
and surgeon of Cleveland. He married Miss Annie B. Hitchcock, and
they have five children: Ruth, Alfred A., Jr., Vincent P., Elizabeth and
Robert. Charles O., the second son, who is general manager of the
Jenkins Steamship Company of Cleveland, married Miss Elizabeth
Thompson, and they have three children: Stuart, Patricia and Charles
O., Jr. Dr. Henry E., Hke his eldest brother, is one of the successful
practicing physicians and surgeons in his native city, the maiden name of
his wife having been Clara Powell. William B., who is engaged in the
paint business in Cleveland, married Miss Helen Harrington of Boston,
Massachusetts, and their two children are Mary E. and Nancy H. Flor-
ence May Lillian, only daughter and youngest of the children, is the wife
of Eugene F. Bush, and they maintain their residence in Cleveland, their
two children being Marion and Virginia Trowbridge.

Mrs. Charles E. Jenkins is sustained and comforted by the devotion of
her children and their families and by the continued loyalty of a host of
friends who are tried and true.

Francis Joseph Wing. Many unusual qualities of mind and heart
and service of exceptional value distinguished the career of the late
Francis Joseph Wing, who for more than forty years was a member of
the Cleveland bar. Six years were spent on the bench, at first as judge
of the Court of Common Pleas and then as federal district judge.

He was endowed with the qualities inherent in a family that had been
American for seven generations, he himself representing the eighth
generation of descent from John Wing, who brought his wife, Deborah
(Batchelder) Wing, and four sons from England to Boston, arriving
June 5, 1632. Bani Wing, grandfather of the late Judge Wing, enlisted,
at the age of seventeen, in 1779, and was in active service in several cam-
paigns in the closing years of the Revolution, being one of the patriot
soldiers present at the execution of Major Andre. His son and voungest
child, Joseph Knowles Wing, was the pioneer of the family in Ohio.

Joseph Knowles Wing was born at Wilmington, Vermont, July 27,
1810. and at the age of twenty-one. in 1831, came to the Western Reserve
of Ohio for the purpose of opening a store, and he established himself
in business at North Bloomfield in Trumbull County, and that proved his
permanent home. He lived there until his death, January 1, 1898, at the

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age of eighty-eight. Before coming West he had served three years on the
staff of Gen. De Witt CHnton in New York. When the Civil war broke
out he was commissioned assistant quartermaster, with the rank of captain,
and served until the close of the war, doing duty as a soldier in the battle
line at the battle of Covent, when he was promoted to major, was com-
missioned lieutenant colonel by brevet and during the Atlanta campaign
was made chief quartermaster of the Sixteenth Army Corps and was
recommended for promotion to the brevet rank of brigadier general.

Colonel Wing was one of the last surviving real "Sons of the Revolu-
tion," and in 1896 he was made a life member of the Ohio Society Sons
of the Revolution. In 1897 he was elected a member of the first class
of the Military Order of the Loyal Legions. He was twice elected and
served as a member of the Ohio Legislature. Colonel Wing in 1842
married Miss Mary Brown, a daughter of Ephraim Brown, one of the
prominent pioneers of the Western Reserve. She was born in New
Hampshire, May 28, 1812, and died December 15, 1887. They were the
parents of seven children, the two sons being George Clary and Francis
Joseph Wing, both of whom became lawyers, and for a number of years
were associated in practice in Cleveland.

Francis Joseph Wing was born at . North Bloomfield, Trumbull
County, September 14, 1850, and spent his youth in that village, which had
been laid out by his father and grandfather. He was educated in public
and private schools, and Phillips Academy at Andover, and attended
Harvard University from 1868 to 1871. He studied law a year in Boston
under Caleb Blodgett, continued his studies in Ohio and in 1874 was
admitted to the bar. He immediately engaged in practice at Cleveland.
He had several law partners, and for many years his ability was employed
in a large and important volume of general practice. In the law he found
full satisfaction for his ambitions, and the only offices he held were those
for which only a lawyer is eligible. During 1880 and 1881 he served as
assistant district attorney for the Northern District of Ohio. Under
appointment from Governor Bushnell he was judge of the Court of
Common Pleas for Cuyahoga County from 1899 to 1901, and Presi-
dent McKinley a short time before his assassination apix)inted him United
States district judge in the Northern District of Ohio, and he was on the
bench from 1901 to 1905, when he resigned.

On September 25, 1878, Judge Wing married Mary Bracket Reming-
ton, whose father, Stephen G. Remington, was for some years active with
the Lake Shore Railway Company. Judge Wing passed away February
1, 1918, and was survived by three daughters, all of whom were born in
Cleveland, where they attended Miss Mittleberger's School for voung
ladies, finishing their educations in Eastern schools. The youngest daugh-
ter. Stephanie Remington, attended a school at Rosemond, Pennsylvania,
and became the wife of William M. Kennedy and they reside on the old
Wing homestead. Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy have two children, Stephanie
and William. The oldest daughter. Miss Virginia Remington Wing,
attended Ogontz Seminary, during the World war was with the Civilian
Relief Committee of the Red Cross, and is now executive secretary of
the Anti-Tuberculosis League. She is also educational secretary of the
Cuyahoga County Health Association.

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Miss Marie Remington Wing, the second daughter, finished her educa-
tion in Bryn Mawr College, and has been distinguished as an exceptional
worker in the social service field. In 1915 she took charge of the West
Side Branch of the Young Women's Christian Association in New York
City and brought that up to a notable organization of more than 3,000
active members. In the fall of 1917 she was director of all the branches
of the Young Women's Christian Associations in New York City, but on
January 1, 1918, returned to Cleveland to become general secretary of the
Young Women's Christian Association. She is now executive secretary
of the Consumer's League of Ohio, and has offices in the Electric Building,
and is also a member of the present Cleveland City Council.

William Howard Boyd has by his ability and his excellent profes-
sional stewardship gained high rank at the bar of his native state, and his
reputation as a lawyer and publicist has transcended mere local limitations.
He has been established in the practice of his profession in the City of
Cleveland for thirty-three years.

Mr. Boyd was born in Londonderry Township, Guernsey County,
Ohio, on the 11th of August, 1864, and is a son of George W. and Mary
A. (Campbell) Boyd. Mr. Boyd passed the period of his childhood and
early youth on the homestead farm of his parents in Guernsey County,
and in the meanwhile he profited by the advantages of the district schools.
His public school education was so effectively advanced that he proved
his eligibility for pedagogic service and gave four years to successful work
as a teacher, principally in the schools of his native county. Thereafter
he read law under effective private preceptorship. and in June, 1887, he
was admitted to the bar. The year 1890 recorded his establishing a law
office in Cleveland, where he proved his technical powers in his profession
and built up a substantial law business. He continued in individual prac-
tice until 1908, when he became a member of the representative law firm
of Westenhaver, Boyd, Rudolph & Brooks. In 1913 the firm name became
Westenhaver, Boyd & Brooks. A subsequent change, in 1917, gave to the
firm the title of Boyd & Brooks, and since October of that year the firm,
one of the strongest in the Ohio metropolis, has been Boyd, Cannon, Brooks
& Wickham.

While still a resident of Guernsey County Mr. Boyd served as clerk
of the Village and Township of Flushing, and in the period of 1897-1899
he was assistant director of law for the City of Cleveland. In 1905 he
was made the republican nominee for mayor of Cleveland, and the debates
in which he participated, in the ensuing campaign, with his democratic
opponent, the late Tom L. Johnson, has established an historical record
in connection with such municipal campaigns, the Johnson-Boyd debates
having gained wide celebrity. Mr. Boyd was a Roosevelt delegate to the
Republican State Convention of Ohio in 1912, and was selected as one of
the "Ohio Big Four" to represent the Buckeye State as Roosevelt dele-
gates to the Republican National Convention of that year in Chicago. In
the primary elections of 1920 he was specially active in promoting the can-
didacy of Gen. Leonard Wood for the presidency of the United States,
and was a delegate at large to the Republican National Convention of that
year.

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Mr. Boyd holds active membership in the Cleveland, the Ohio State
and the American Bar associations, and is a member of the Cleveland
Chamber of Commerce and the Cleveland Athletic Club. He has, as may
be inferred from preceding statements, been a leader in the councils and
campaign activities of the republican party in Ohio. He is affiliated with
the Masonic fraternity, the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks, and is a member of the Euclid Avenue Meth-
odist Episcopal Church.

September 7, 1892, recorded the marriage of Mr. Boyd and Miss Anna
Maud Judkins, of Flushing, Guernsey County, and she passed to the life
eternal on the 23d of September, 1908. Mr. and Mrs. Boyd became the
parents of two daughters, Mildred A. and Mary G., both of whom sur-
vived the mother, but the death of Mildred A. occurred about three years
later, on the 22d of January, 1911.

Hon. Martin L. Sweeney, judge of the Municipal Court of Cleve-
land, was born in this city, and was elected a member of the Legislature
before he was admitted to the bar. He has been a prominent and influen-
tial leader in civic affairs and politics, and is a very capable attorney and
judge.

He was born in Cleveland, April 15, 1885, son of Dominick and Anna
(Cleary) Sweeney. His grandfather, John Sweeney, was born in County
Roscommon, Ireland, and settled in Cleveland during the '50s, his wife
and children joining him in 1859. Dominick Sweeney was born in County
Roscommon in 1848, and was about eleven years of age when he came to
Cleveland. He was active in local politics as superintendent of catch
basins taxations under the administration of Mayor Blee. He died
November 4, 1897. His wife, Anna Cleary, was born in County Sligo,
Ireland, and was a young woman when she came to America. They were
married in Cleveland.

Martin L. Sweeney was twelve years of age when his father died, and
he then left the parochial schools, going to work to help support his
mother. Later he continued his education in private schools, and was a
salesman for several years. Along with his business career he combined
an active interest in participation in local politics, and in 1912 was elected
on the democratic ticket a member of the House of Representatives in the
Eightieth Ohio General Assembly. In that assembly he served as a mem-
ber of the House Committee on benevolent and penal institutions and the
committee on temperance. He was elected a member to represent Cuya-
hoga County to assist in the preparation of the "Model License" bill. He
was also active in behalf of much labor legislation of that assembly.

Having in the meantime begun the study of law, Mr. Sweeney was
formally enrolled as a student of law in Baldwin-Wallace University at
Cleveland, and was graduated Bachelor of Laws in 1914. He had nine
years of active and successful experience as a practicing attornev at the
Cleveland bar before he was elected to the Municipal Court on November
6, 1923. He entered upon his duties on January 1, 1924. His term of
service on the municipal bench is for six years.

Judge Sweeney is a member of the Cleveland Bar Association, the
Catholic Order of Foresters, the Ancient Order of Hibernians, the

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Knights of Columbus, and is past president of Cleveland Aerie No. 35,
Fraternal Order of Eagles. He is also a member of the Sigma Kappa
college fraternity.

Judge Sweeney married, August 2, 1921, Miss Marie Carlin, who was
born in Cleveland, daughter ot Martin and Bridget (Graham) Carlin
They have two children: Martin L., Jr., and a daughter, Anna Marie.

John Newton Weld was engaged in the practice of law in the City
of Cleveland during a period of more than thirty years, was known for
his comprehensive and exact knowledge of the science of jurisprudence,
and he put this knowledge effectively into use in connection with his
important and representative law business, the scope of which marked him
as one of the influential members of the bar of the Ohio metropolis. A
gentle, kindly and generouS' spirit had John N. Weld, and his abiding human
sympathy and tolerance, as combined with his gracious personality, gained
to him the respect and loyal affection of those who came within the sphere
of his influence. Thus he was deeply mourned in his home community
when he answered the one inexorable summons, his death having occurred
February 7, 1923.

John Newton Weld was born at Richfield, Summit County, Ohio, May
15, 1863, and was a son of William and Rebecca (Newton) Weld. After
completing his studies in the public schools he attended a collegiate pre-
paratory school at Hudson, and in 1882 he entered Adelbert College, now
an integral part of Western Reserve University, in Cleveland, an institu-
tion in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1886 and
from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In consonance
with his well formulated plans for a future career he forthwith began the
study of law, under the preceptorship of the representative Cleveland
law firm of Baylor & Hall. He was admitted to the bar in June, 1888, and
soon afterward formed a law partnership with the late State Senator
Clark. Later he was associated in practice with Major Burns, and after
the latter's retirement from the firm he formed a partnership alliance
with Judge Whelan, with whom he continued to be thus associated until
1903, when he became junior member of the law firm of Judson & Weld.
This partnership continued until the death of Mr. Weld, but during the
last fifteen years of his life Mr. Weld gave the major part of his time
and attention to the management of the large estate of his uncle, the late
John Newton, of Toledo. In his profession Mr. Weld proved a resource-
ful trial lawyer, but he was best known for his exceptional abilitv as a
counsellor and for the fine judicial discrimination that enabled him to
determine with authority the points of equity and justice in every cause
to which he directed his professional service. Though a staunch advocate
of the principles of the republican party, and admirably .fortified in his
opinions concerning economic and governmental policies, Mr. Weld had
neither the nature nor the ambition that prompt to political activity or the
seeking of public ofiice. He considered his profession worthy of his un-
divided allegiance, and by his character and achievement he lent distinction
and dignity to the vocation of his choice. His devotion to home and
friends was flawless, and he was loved and admired for his intrinsic
nobility of character.

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On the 5th of May, 1923, the Cleveland Bar Association held a special
service in memory of Mr. Weld, v^^ho had been one of its honored and
popular members for many years, and from the eulogy delivered on this
occasion by his former law partner, Calvin A. Judson, are taken the fol-
lowing quotations :

"Mr. Weld will be remembered by the older members of the Cleveland
bar as an able and upright lawyer, a sincere and loyal friend, a man of
sterling worth. He was, however, a poor partisan. To him there were
two sides to every question. Possessing the judicial mind, he would have
made an excellent judge. The stamp of candor, honesty and fairness was
on all his dealings. Snap judgments and ex parte hearings he abhorred.
Tender, considerate and kind in all human contacts, the nickname of
'Gentle John' was fairly earned. His one shortcoming was, perhaps, his
modesty. Yet, we are told that Tn times of peace there is nothing so
becomes a man as modesty.' A simple shaft of Parian marble should mark
his grave, bearing the inscription : 'Jo^^^ Newton Weld, Gentleman.' "

On the 23d of May, 1906, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Weld
and Miss Louise Cole, of Geneva, Ashtabula County, she being a daughter
of Lyman M. and Angeline (Rouse) Cole, and a representative of, a
family that was founded in New England in the early Colonial period of
our national history, members of this family having come from England
to America on the historic ship Mayflower, and ancestors of Mrs. Weld
having been patriot soldiers in the War of the Revolution, so that she is
eligible for and affiliated with the Society of the Daughters of the Amer-
ican Revolution. Mrs. Weld maintains her home at 1780 East Eighty-
ninth Street, Cleveland, and is active and popular in social, cultural and
church circles in her home city.

Hon. Joseph John Rowe is a native son of Cleveland, has spent
thirty years in the business program, being president of two successful
companies, is a resident of Lakewood, and is in his second term of service
as a member of the Ohio State Senate.

His parents were William J. and Mary (Symons) Rowe, natives of
England, where they were married. Coming to the United States, they
located at Cleveland during the early '70s. William J. Rowe took up rail-
foading, and for many years, until he retired on pension, was with the
Lake Shore and the New York Central Railway. After retiring he spent
a number of winters in California, and died at Los Angeles in 1921, at
the age of seventy-three. His wife died in 1913.

Joseph John Rowe was born at Cleveland October 3, 1873, and his
education was acquired in the city grammar and high schools. Leaving
school he took up business, and for several years he proved his faithfulness
in the discharge of minor duties as a preparation for an independent
career. Later he organized the J. J. Rowe Company, wholesale dealers in
coal and builders' materials. This firm has its ofifices in the Hanna
Building.

Mr. Rowe's home has been in Lakewood for a quarter of a century.
Throughout that time he has been prominent in the afifairs of the com-
munity. Before Lakewood became a citv he served three years as presi-
dent of the Village Board of Trustees. He was the first mayor of Lake-

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wood under the city charter, and after serving a full term was reelected
without opposition. He was elected on the republican ticket a member of
the State Senate in 1920, and reelected in 1922. He has been one of the
most influential members of the Cuyahoga County delegation in the Senate.
At the regular Eighty-fourth Session of the General Assembly in 1921 he
was chairman of the important senate committee on public works, as well
as a member of other committees. In the Eighty-fifth Assembly of 1923
he was chairman of the committee on roads and highways. At both ses-
sions he took a prominent part in all legislation pertaining to taxation, and
introduced several important bills that were enacted in the laws.

Mr. Rowe is a member of Newburg Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted
Masons, and is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner.

JoHi<J Beach Coffinberry. The Coffinberry family, of which John
Beach Coffinberry of Cleveland and Lakewood is an honored member, has
been in Ohio for almost a century and has given to the state several of her
most distinguished jurists, business and professional men. The family is
of Holland Dutch extraction and its founders in America settled long
before the Revolutionary war, in Berkley County, Virginia.

George L. Coffinberry, the pioneer of the family in Ohio, was born near
Martinsburg, Virginia, February 10, 1760, son of a Baptist minister, but
not imbued with such peaceful principles that they interfered with his
serving as a brave soldier under General Greene, in the Revolutionary war.
He married Elizabeth Little, who was of French-German descent, and in
1794 removed to Wheeling, now in West Virginia, and in 1796 came to
Ross County, Ohio. Later he went to Lancaster, Ohio, where he bought
the Olive Branch, which was the first newspaper published in Fairfield
County. In the spring of 1809 he removed to the village of Mansfield,
where he erected and conducted the first hotel, but he resided in one of the
blockhouses that were erected on the village site during the War of 1812-
13 when the Indians menaced the place. Both he and wife lived into old
age, her death occurring in her ninetieth year, and when he died on August
13, 1851, he was almost ninety-two years old.

Andrew Coffinberry, son of George L. and Elizabeth (Little) Coffin-
berry, was born at Martinsburg, Virginia, August 20, 1789, and died at
Findlay, Ohio, May 11, 1856. He learned the printer's trade in his father's
newspaper office at Lancaster, Ohio, and later published a paper of his own
at St. Clairsville. after which he went to Philadelphia, where he worked as
a printer for a time and then shipped as ordinary seaman and served two
years in the Federal navy under Commanders Brainbridge and Hull, on the
old frigate Constitution. He returned then to his parents' home at ^lans-
field and read law from 1811-1812 and was admitted to the bar in 1813 and
became distinguished in his profession. According to the custom of the
time, he traveled on horseback over the circuit, its era extending from
Mansfield to Lake Erie and on the west to the Indiana state line. His son
James M. adopted his profession and became a celebrated judge at Cleve-
land.

Abraham Coffinberry, youngest son of Andrew Coffinberry. was born
at Mansfield, Ohio, in 1812. He followed farm pursuits until 1849. when
he crossed the plains to California in company with others, but reached no

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farther than Sacramento, where he was taken ill and soon died. In those
days it took a long time for news of any kind to be transported, and many
weary months went by before his family learned that he would never return.
The maiden name of his wife was Eliza Beach, who was born near Mans-
field, Ohio, and died at Springfield, Ohio. Her father, the maternal grand-
father of John Beach Coffinberry of Cleveland, was Jonathan Beach, who
came to Ohio from Scotland and settled early in Richland County. To
Abraham and Eliza (Beach) Coffinberry eight children were born. The
youngest of these, John Beach Coffinberry, was born at Spring Mills, a
few ^iiiles distant from Mansfield, Ohio, on April 7, 1847. He attended
the common schools, and leaving the farm at an early age went to Mans-
field. From there the family moved to Bellefontaine, Ohio. At the age
of eighteen he came to Cleveland. He then went East for three years,,
engaged with a sewing machine company in Pennsylvania and New York.
In 1870 he came back to Cleveland, where he read law in an attorney's
office and attended law school. He then went to Tennessee and met with
much business success in that state. He remained there for two years,,
at the end of that period being admitted to the Tennessee bar. He was
a member of the Cleveland City Council in 1882, ran for Congress in
1896 on the democratic ticket for the Fourteenth District.

Mr. Coffinberry returned then to Cleveland, but shortly afterward visited
Texas and during his stay there was much impressed with the vast possi-
bilities of that state, and the need of modern transportation facilities for'
the development of her business centers. His interest along this line con-
tinued and at a later date he returned to Texas and, representing eastern
capital, he built the line of interurban railway from Dallas to Fort Worth.

For a number of years Mr. Coffinberry was a prominent citizen of
Lorain, Ohio, serving as mayor of that city and identifying himself with its
most important enterprises. He was one of the builders and was president
of the Lorain & Elyria Interurban Electric Railway, and was instrumental
in having the Johnson steel works removed from Pennsylvania to Lorain.
He was serving as mayor at the time a military company was recruited here
for the Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and helped raise the necessary
funds for the same and entered its ranks as a private. When the war with
Spain came on the company was called out. On account of his age he was
advised to resign, but this recommendation was entirely distasteful to him,
his reply being that he had belonged to the regiment in time of peace and
as a good soldier could not resign in time of war. Therefore he accom-
panied the organization to Florida, where he was transferred to the com-
manding general's headquarters to be given the rank of captain. When it
became evident that his regiment would never be needed in Cuba, he
accepted a furlough and returned home, where he later was discharged.
He had, however, set an example of patriotism and devotion to duty
that is not forgotten and may well be emulated.

Mr. Coffinberry was married in Ohio to Miss Bertha Shotter, who was
born in Connecticut, her parents being natives of the Dominion of Canada.
They have two sons: John, who attended Harvard University and the
Iowa State Agricultural College, then went to South America and spent
two years there in the cattle business; and Arthur S.. who is a student.

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taking special courses in the Case School of Applied Sciences at
Cleveland.

After establishing his home at Lakewood, Ohio, Mr. Coffinberry was
elected mayor, later served on the board of education and in other capacities
of civic importance. He was one of the organizers of the Colonial Savings
& Trust Company of Lakewood and is vice president of the same, and also
was one of the organizers of the Lakewood State Bank and was a member
of its board of directors when that bank was taken over by the Guardian
Savings & Trust, and a director for another year. He still is active in the
business world, extensively interested in real estate in Ohio and Michigan,
and since 1918 has been treasurer of the R. C. Products Trust Company of
Cleveland. He is a man of modest pretension who, nevertheless has great
reason to be proud of his life's achievements. Mr. Coffinberry was a
member of the war board during the World war and served until the
war was over.

John Richard Caunter was a young man of twenty-one years when
he left his native England and came to the United States. He made
Cleveland his objective point, and in this city, by his own initiative,
resourcefulness and energy, he has developed a substantial and prosperous
business enterprise that is conducted under the title of the John R.
Caunter Company.

Mr. Caunter was born at Pondsworthy Mills, Devonshire, England,
May 22, 1872, and is a son of John and Elizabeth (Hanaford) Caunter,
who passed their entire lives in Devonshire, where the former died at the
age of eighty-two years and the latter at the age of seventy-five years.
John Caunter operated a farm, a saw mill and a wagon shop, and also was
the village undertaker — a substantial citizen who ever commanded unquali-
fied popular confidence and respect.

The schools of his native community aflforded John R. Caunter his
early education, and in the meanwhile, as a lad of nine years, he began
to assist in the work of the home farm, plowing and planting having there
been successfully negotiated by him when he was but thirteen years old.
Later he served his time at the carpenter's bench, and as a boy and youth
he frequently expressed a determination to come eventually to the United
States, a desire that was increased when elder brothers here established
their homes. He, the youngest in a family of sixteen children, mani-
fested his filial solicitude by remaining at the parental home until he
attained to his legal majority. He then, with money he had earned and saved,
defrayed the expenses of his voyage to the United States, and he made
Cleveland his destination, as four of his brothers were at the time residents
here. He arrived in Cleveland October 7, 1893, and here he worked at the
carpenter trade until the panic of that year brought a virtual cessation of
building activities. He then found a job driving a team, and in the spring
of 1895 he made his initial and modest venture in the sawdust and kindling
business. He paid $25 for a wagon, hired a horse for $3 a week, and with
this equipment he peddled sawdust and kindling about the city. Graduallv
his little enterprise increased in scope, and finally he established permanent
headquarters at 2315 East Thirty-eighth Street. Of the success that has
attended his vigorous and well directed efforts evidence is given in the

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statement that he now has a business that requires the operation of seven
automobile trucks and gives employment to several men. He now^ sup-
plies 90 per cent of the shavings and sawdust used in Cleveland for
commercial purposes, and his clientage includes many of the leading
manufacturing, industrial and commercial concerns of the city. He keeps
available at all times a large stock of pine, hardwood and cedar sawdust
and shavings, as well as kindling wood of all kinds, and his business is
now the largest of its kind in Northern Ohio.

Mr. Caunter is specially and vitally interested in the local and inter-
national afl^airs of the Kiwanis clubs, and he has the distinction of being
president (1923) of the Cleveland Kiwanis Club, which was the second
to be organized in the United States, and the service of which has been
of inestimable value in furthering the civic and material interests of the
Ohio metropolis. Prior to his election to the presidency of this fine organ-
ization he had served as a director and as vice president of the club.

In the Masonic fraternity Mr. Caunter affiliates with Bigelow Lodge,
Ancient Free and Accepted Masons ; Thatcher Chapter, Royal Arch
Masons ; Windermere Council, Royal and Select Masters ; Holy Grail Com-
mandery. Knights Templar; Lake Erie Consistory of the Valley of
Cleveland, besides being a Noble of Al Koran Temple of the Mystic
Shrine, and affiliated with Al Sirat Grotto, Veiled Prophets of the En-
chanted Real, in which he is chief justice at the time of this writing, in 1923.

Mr. Caunter wedded Miss Minnie Graber, who was born at Canal
Dover, Ohio, a daughter of Alfred and Mary Graber.

William Henry Becker. At the beginning of the third decade of
the twentieth century Cleveland was the metropolis of Ohio and had
attained rank among the great centers of America not only in population
but in all those activities that represent the flower and fruit of a noble city.
The source of Cleveland's importance in the early years of the nineteenth
century was its port and shipping. They attracted and provided the indis-
pensable condition for commerce and manufacture. Even the most self-
sufficient city has a work to do, a service to perform for the world, and no
small share of the goods and services of modern Cleveland go out through
its port and lake shipping interests.

A little more than a century after Cleveland had welcomed the appear-
ance of the first steamboat on Lake Erie, there passed away a man whose
energies, enterprise and vision for a third of a century had contributed to
the enrichment and growth of Cleveland not only in its transportation
facilities but in its all-round development.

This was William Henry Becker, whose death on January 31, 1921,
brought a sense of loss to diverse interests and men of prominence from
one end of the chain of Great Lakes to the other. He had come to success
through resources within his own strong mind and character. Born in
Oswego, New York, May 1, 1860, he came to know the fascination of the
lakes by going when a boy with his father on many voyages. His parents
were Capt. Daniel M. and Mary (Kelley) Becker, of Oswego. His father
was captain of many lake boats, and after moving to Cleveland sailed for
the Bradley fleet until his death.

William Henry Becker had the formal advantages of only the public

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schools, hut through a career of intense practical action he cultivated those
interests found in hooks. In his Lakewood home he accumulated an
ample library, his favorite authors being Scott and Dickens.

After school and a brief period of work for a grocery house he became
oflice boy to J. H. Outhwaite & Company. A member of this firm was
W. G. Pollock, and there began the acquaintance which ripened into ideal
friends and kept Mr. Becker and Mr. Pollock closely associated in business
and personal afifairs. While a clerk for this shipping firm Mr. Becker was
carefully bestowing his savings with a view to indej^endent operations,
becoming an owner in some of the small vessels at the \x)vt of Cleveland.
He and Capt. William S. Mack were associated in the operation of a fleet
of wooden vessels for some years.

Mr. Becker by his own example helped in the elimination of the old
wooden type of boat from the Great Lakes. His first steel steamship was
the Francis L. Robbins, which he launched at Cleveland January 19, 1905.
It was rapidly followed by others of the same class until he controlled a
large fleet, including a number of the 600-foot steam freighters, any one
of which could handle a larger cargo than all the boats on Lake Erie a
century ago.

Many of his shipping enterprises were handled by the firm of Pollock
and Becker, which grew out of his early associations with W. G. Pollock.
When this business was incorporated as the Pollock and Becker Company,
Mr. Becker became treasurer, an office he held until his death. This firm
were dock owners and operators and also lake representatives of the Jones
and Laughlin Steel Company of Pittsburgh.

Mr. Becker was president of the Valley Steamship Company ; manager
of the Interstate Steamship Company; treasurer from its organization until
his death of the Lake Carriers' Association ; and member of the advisory
committee of the Great Lakes Protective Association. In business he
exemplified great energy, clear vision and sound judgment, he inspired
confidence and proved a safe leader. His absolute honesty extended not
only to money matters but to every transaction, deed or word. His life
was worthy of the respect and admiration given it.

He possessed varied tastes, and his enjoyment of life came from many
points of contact with the world. Beside the fascination of his business,
his home and fireside, he loved the outdoors, and for some years owned
and maintained a large farm, spending much time in its supervision. He
was a member of several hunting and fishing clubs, the Cleveland Athletic,
Union, Westwood, Clifton and Roadside clubs. In Masonry his affiliations
included the Lodge, Chapter, Council, Knights Templar Commandery,
Scottish Rite Consistory and Mystic Shrine. Movements identified with
the public welfare had a constant avenue to his cooperation and generositv,
but in politics his interest did not extend beyond voting the republican ticket.

Mr. Becker married, October 31, 1882, Miss Mary Gibson, daughter
of William A. and Catherine (Burke) Gibson. Her father was a pioneer
oil operator, connected with the Standard Oil Company for years, but at
the time of his death was with the M. A. Hanna Company of Cleveland.
He was a native of Scotland and his wife of Ireland, having been brought
to America when children. Mrs. Becker's home is at 13431 Lake Avenue,
Lakewood. Three children were born to her marriage, the first, Joseph

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Outhwaite, dying in infancy. The daughter, Zuleike M., is the widow of
Robert D. Mansfield, who died at the age of thirty-three, having been chief
engineer of one of the Becker freight steamers. Mrs. Mansfield has one
child, William Becker Mansfield.

William Daniel Becker, the surviving son, was associated with the
shipping interests of his father for seven years, and is now president and
manager of the Becker Steamship Company. By his marriage to Mildred
A. Andrews he has two children, William D. II, and Shirley H. Becker.

Frederick C. W^itthuhn. In point of years of continuous expe-
rience Frederick C. Witthuhn is one of the oldest of Cleveland's florists.
He has been in that business on his own account for over thirty years.
Mr. Witthuhn has his retail establishment at 3600 West Twenty-fifth
Street at the corner of Dover, while his main greenhouses are located on
Schaaf Road.

His success has been due in part to the fact that he has devoted almost
a Hfetime to the growing and handling of flowers under glass. He was
born in Germany, in 1864, and learned the floral business in all its technical
details, beginning as a boy. He was an expert, accomplished in all branches
of the industry, when he came to the United States and to Cleveland in
1888. His first work in Cleveland was in the employ of Mr. Zi^chmann, a
pioneer florist, whose sons still continue the business. Later he was with
the late W^illiam Gordon, whose greenhouses were on land now included
in Gordon Park on the lake -front. In 1890 Mr. Witthuhn became manager
for Jacob Selzer, a florist in old South Brooklyn village, on the site of the
present Riverside Cemetery. After two years with Mr. Selzer, Mr.
Witthuhn determined to embark his modest capital and his wide experience
in a business of his own. He established his greenhouse at the corner of
what was then Pearl and Dover streets. His present retail establishment
occupies a corner just opposite to that location, and is across the street from
Riverside Cemetery. It was due to the gradual upbuilding and for the
purpose of securing larger and a better site that Mr. Witthuhn subsequently
established his main greenhouses on the Schaaf Road. For thirty years,
therefore, he has been in business as a florist in this part of the city.

Mr. Witthuhn is a member of the Cleveland Florists Association, Cleve-
land Florists Club, Society of American Florists, and is afiiliated with
Elsworth Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, Hillman Chapter, Royal
Arch Masons, Al Sirat Grotto, belongs to the Maccabees, the Royal League
and the German Beneficial Society.

Walter W. Witthuhn, son of Frederick C, was born at Glenville, a
suburb now included in Cleveland, on May 7, 1890. He was educated
in the Dennison Public School, and as a boy entered his father's establish-
ment and by a practical apprenticeship mastered every branch of the
floral business. He is now assistant manager of the Witthuhn Floral
Company. He is also one of the very popular young business men of the
South Side, and is active in the commercial, social and fraternal affairs
of this section of the city. Fraternally he is a member of Brooklyn Lodge,
Free and Accepted Masons, Hillman Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, Forest
City Commandery, Knights Templar, Cleveland Consistory of the Scottish
Rite, Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine, Al Sirat Grotto and the

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Eastern Star. He also belongs to the Riverside Lodge Knights of Pythias,
and is a member of the Cleveland Florists Club, the Society of American
Florists and the Lakewood Country Club.

C. Lee Graber, Ph. C, B. S., M. D., F. A. C. S. One of a group of
physicians and surgeons of "Greater Cleveland" district who have won
distinction alike for the community, the profession and themselves, is
Doctor Graber, who has been leader in the professional, civic and social
life of Lakewood for twenty years.

Doctor Graber is a native of Ohio, and is of the third generation in
the state of two early families, his parents. Christian and Mary Ann
(Bueche) Graber, having been born in Mount Eaton, Wayne County, the
. father on February 12, 1849, the mother on September 30, 1852. His
paternal grandfather, Frederick Graber, was a native of Canton Berne,
Switzerland, while his grandmother, Anna (Tschantz) Graber, was a
native of Wayne County, Ohio, the former born on May 6, 1825, the
latter on January 3, 1825. His maternal grandparents, Emanuel and
Emelie (Rudolf) Bueche, were natives of Canton Berne, Switzerland,
born on May 7, 1822, and January 20, 1813, respectively.

His father having been a farmer. Doctor Graber spent his youth on
the farm, and attended the local schools and the Navare, Ohio High School.
Passing the required examination and receiving a teacher's license, he
taught school from 1889 to 1894, and then gave up teaching to enter Ohio
Northern University, vi^here he was graduated in Pharmacy in 1895 and
Bachelor of Science in 1896, he having been president of the junior class
of '95.

Leaving Ohio Northern University, Doctor Graber entered the Uni-
versity of Cincinnati, where he was graduated Doctor of Medicine with
the class of 1898, being president of his class.

He entered the practice of medicine in Mount Eaton, Ohio in 1898,
and continued in that little city for six years and then, he having acquired
experience, skill and confidence in himself and the future, he decided to
seek a broader field of activity and in 1904, he came to Lakewood, which
at that time was by no means the thriving city of to-day, and of which
community he justly can claim the distinction of being a "pioneer physician."

In Lakewood Doctor Graber continued in general practice until the
passing years brought him such prestige in surgery that it became expedient
that he gradually gave up a considerable part of his general work and limi(-ed
his practice to that of general surgery ; and to-day he is recognized by the
public and profession as a surgeon, and as one of unusual skill with but
few superiors in Northern Ohio, which section is known as the home of
many noted surgeons.

Doctor Graber has by no means confined his energies alone to his pro-
fession, but on the other hand, he has given freely of his time and ex-
perience to the promotion of the welfare and progress of Lakewood along
the lines of health, community interest and business affairs, and it is gener-
ally conceded that the city is the gainer by his unselfish efforts in those
directions. For ten years he served as a member of the Lakewood Board
of Health. And in order that that city should have adequate hospital
facilities of its own, he founded, in 1907, Lakewood Hospital which, occupy-

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iiif,' its own handsome home, holds rank among other hospitals of the state,
and of which Doctor Graber is chief of stafif and head of the surgical
section.

Doctor Graber is the originator of the plan of a cooperation of physi-
cians and dentists (not in a corporation or partnership) whereby the public
could receive more prompt and satisfactory service and physicians and
dentists would be relieved in a great measure of burdensome routine ; and
in order that his ideas might bear fruit and confer a benefit upon both
patients and practitioners, he erected "The Medical Building," a modern
brick block for the purpose in hand, which handsome edifice adorns a
prominent corner on Detroit Avenue, and is now the professional quarters
of many of the leading members of the two professions of the city.

Doctor Graber is a member of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine,
Cleveland Clinical Club, Ohio State Medical Association, the American
Medical Association, the Roentgenological Society of North America, and
Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He is a member of Lake-
wood Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons ; Cunningham Chapter, Royal Arch
Masons ; Holy Grail Commandery, Knights Templar, and Al Koran Temple,
Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is a member of Lakewood and Cleveland
Chambers of Commerce, of Westwood Country Club, and a trustee of
Lakewood Methodist Episcopal Church.

In business afifairs, he was for ten years a member of the board of
directors of Lakewood State Bank and for eleven years a member of the
board of the Colonial Savings & Loan Bank, and helped organize both
institutions.

Doctor Graber is deeply interested in all phases of his profession —
chemistry, pathology and surgery — to which he has given the best years
of his life, and in which he has achieved ample success and has won a place
of honor. He is regarded by both the profession and the public as the
"true physician," one ready at all times to give of his best to both the
patient and the profession, never neglecting the former nor forgetting the
ethics of the latter ; and, above all, the friend, adviser and guide, and always
the courteous gentleman to all. His circle of friends is almost equal to
his circle of acquaintances.

Doctor Graber married Miss Belle Taylor, who was born in Michigan,
the daughter of James and Mary Taylor. Her family came over from
Scotland in early days, settling first in Canada, thence crossing into
Michigan.

Harry Sheldon Gildard, Doctor of Anatomical Science, has been
successfully established in his profession in Cleveland for several years.
He is a very thorough man, has had a wide range of experience, and is one
of the leaders of his profession.

He was born at Mantua, Ohio, March 6, 1876, son of Henry Beaumont
and Addie (Skifif) Gildard. His father was born at Leeds, Yorkshire,
England, February 15. 1838. A year later his parents came to the United
States and located at Bridgeport, Connecticut. Henry B. Gildard left home
at the age of eleven, and arrived in Ohio in 1855. In that year he began
a four years' apprenticeship at the wagon and carriage maker's trade at
Kinsman. Ohio, in Trumlnill County. As a journeyman he followed hi?

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trade in dififerent villages of that county, including Cortland. At Cortland,
August 31, 1862, he enlisted in Company B of the One Hundred and
Twenty-fifth Ohio Infantry, and served as a quartermaster's sergeant for
three years. He was honorably discharged and mustered out at Louisville,
Kentucky, September 9, 1865. In 1878 he located at Solon, Ohio, and
lived in that village until his death on July 4, 1920. December 25, 1860,
Henry G. Gildard married Rozelia A. Risley. She died at Cortland, Ohio,
October 3, 1870. On March 1, 1873, he married Addie M. Skiff, daughter
of Sabin Skiff, of Hiram, Ohio. She is still Hving and has two sons.
Doctor Gildard and Harlow E. The latter, a resident of Solon, is in the
employ of the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Company.

Harry Sheldon Gildard was educated in the public schools of Solon,
and after his early education followed commercial lines of work for some
years. In 1914 he entered the National College of Chiropractic at Chicago,
graduated February 14, 1916, and also did post-graduate work in eye,
nose and throat at Cleveland. He is also a graduate of the original College
of Chiropractic at Fort Wayne, Indiana, and the College of Anatomical
Science, Cleveland, Ohio. Doctor Gildard's offices are at 3744 West
Twenty-fifth Street. Fraternally he is affiliated with Dennison Lodge,
No. 640, Free and Accepted Masons; with Lakewood Lodge, No. 729,
Knights of Pythias ; with the Royal Arcanum, Sons of Veterans and with
the Lakewood Baptist Church.

Doctor Gildard married Carrie R. Brayton, of Jerome, Michigan,
daughter of Edward Brayton, and they have two daughters, Margaret
and Eleanore.

Francis S. Ingersoll, a leading merchant of Rocky River village, has
devoted forty years of his life to the mercantile business in Northern Ohio,
and is regarded as one of the men of high standing both in the business
and civic affairs of Cuyahoga County.

He was born at Brunswick, in Medina County, Ohio, May 27 , 1863, and
represents a pioneer family in the old Western Reserve. His ancestry
runs back many generations in New England history, he being a descendant
of Calvin Ingersoll, a New Englander, who came to the Western Reserve
in pioneer days and settled at Mentor, in Lake County. Calvin Ingersoll
had a family of eight sons and three daughters, all of whom reached
mature years. One of his sons, Philo Ingersoll, was born at Lee. Massa-
chusetts, was reared in Lake County, Ohio, and died at the early age of
thirty-three. He married Eunice Deming, who was born in Massachus-
etts, daughter of John Deming, whose ancestors came from England wath
the colony of John Winthrop, Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Philo Ingersoll at his death left four small sons.

One of them was Henry Deming Ingersoll, father of Francis S.. and
who was born at Kirtland, in Lake County, Ohio, in 1816. and was twelve
years of age when his widowed mother moved to Brunswick. Medina
County, where he spent the rest of his active life as a farmer. He died in
October, 1903, at the age of eighty-seven. . By his first marriage he had six
children, of whom William H. and Sydney are now living. His second
wife, and the mother of Francis S., was Georgiana Graham, who was
born at Brattleboro, Vermont, in 1828, daughter of Luke and Elizabeth

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(Saunders) Graham, her father a Scotchman and her mother a descendant
of Holland-Dutch. Luke Graham came West in the early '30s, settling
near Kalamazoo, Michigan, subsequently removing to Medina County,
Ohio, where he died. Georgiana Graham IngersoU died in 1891, at the
age of sixty-three. She was the mother of three children : Harry, who
died when seven years old ; PVancis S. ; and Mary, a resident of Brunswick,
Ohio.

Francis S. Ingersoll grew up in Medina County. He attended the dis-
trict schools and was graduated from the commercial department of Ohio
Northern University at Ada in his twenty-first year. For six years he
was a clerk in a general store at Hinckley, in Medina County. With this
experience and with a modest capital he formed a partnership with George
B. Aylard, and under the firm name of Aylard & Ingersoll conducted a gen-
eral merchandise business at Brunswick. In 1894 Mr. Ingersoll left Hinck-
ley and established himself at Madison, Ohio, where he was a hardware
merchant and also manufactured carriage and later automobile wheels. In
1908 he engaged in business at Rocky River, and now is the proprietor of a
large and prosperous establishment, handling general hardware, imple-
ments, tools, spraying machinery, seeds, fertilizer and other supplies.

Besides conducting a large store every business day in the year he has
always found time to assist in all civic movements, especially those designed
for the betterment of Lakewood and Rocky River. He is a republican in
politics, but has never sought public office. His son Charles M. was
elected a member of the Rocky River Village Council in 1923. Mr. Inger-
soll is a member of the Cleveland Yacht Club.

He married at Hinckley, Ohio, May 23, 1894, Miss Elizabeth McKie,
who was born in that village, the daughter of Alexander and Lucy Ann
(Waldo) McKie. The three children of Mr. and Mrs. Ingersoll are:
Charles M., associated with his father in business, who married Ethel
Sayres ; Georgia T. ; and Helen E., wife of Carroll E. Fitzgibbons.

W^iLLiAM Lewis Hobart, physician and surgeon, of Lakewood, was
born at Middleport, Meigs County, Ohio, on April 29, 1894, the son of
William J. and Julia E. (Wells) Hobart, both natives of Ohio, the father
born near Tupper's Plains, Meigs County, the mother in Wilkesville,
Vinton County.

Doctor Hobart is a lineal descendant of Peter Hobart, who came over
from Hingham, England, in the Mayflower and settled in Hingham,
Massachusetts, where he became distinguished in Colonial history as an
Episcopal minister and as a leader among the colonists. It is claimed that
this Peter Hobart was the direct forefather of all the Hobarts who are
now residents of the United States ; and it is a fact that this branch of the
family is the only one entitled by birth to the name Hobart, all others
having received the name from an act of the New York Legislature.

William J. Hobart was for many years a traveling salesman, but finally
engaged in merchandising on his own account at Middleport, continuing
for twenty years, and was thus engaged at the time of his death in January,
1919. His widow, now in her seventy-second year, is the daughter of the
late Lyman Wells.

Doctor Hobart was graduated from the Middleport High School in

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1913. He spent one year in the pre-Medical School of the Hahnemann
Medical College, Philadelphia, and followed that with the full four-years'
course at that instiution, graduating with the degree of Doctor of Medicine
in 1919. During his senior year he was resident physician at the Chil-
dren's Homeopathic Hospital, Philadelphia, and following his graduation
he served for one year as interne at the Pittsburgh General Homeopathic
Hospital.

In 1918, with twenty-five other students of the Hahnemann Medical
College, Doctor Hobart volunteered in the Naval Medical Corps of the
United States, was ordered to League Island Navy Yard, and there enlisted
as first-class hospital apprentice, and was stationed at the First Regiment
Army Barracks in Philadelphia. He was not called into active service, but
remained on duty at the barracks until the close of the war, when he was
honorably discharged and mustered out of the service. During his stay in
the barracks he continued his medical studies in Hahnemann Medical
College.

In 1920 Doctor Hobart entered the general practice of medicine and
surgery in Lakewood, with offices at the corner of Detroit and Bell avenues,
where he continues. He is a member of the stafif of Grace Hospital, and
a member of the American Institute of Homeopathy, the Northeastern
Ohio Medical Society and of Pi Epsilon Rho Fraternity.

Judge Charles L. Selzer, judge of the Municipal Court of Cleve-
land, has been a busy professional man in the city for over thirty-five
years. He entered politics even before he was admitted to the bar, and had
much to do with the afifairs of the Village of Brooklyn before it was incor-
porated into the city.

Judge Selzer was born in Cleveland, October 6, 1859, son of Jacob
D. and Elizabeth (Wirth) Selzer. Jacob D. Selzer, one of the early Ger-
man citizens of Cleveland, was born at Franzheim, Bavaria, May 4, 1836,
son of Jacob and Mary (Damien) Selzer. Jacob D. Selzer came to the
United States and to Cleveland in 1854. His older brother, Daniel, was
the first representative of the family in this city. Jacob D. Selzer clerked
in a store, became a traveling salesman, and followed that business for
about twenty years. In 1867 he bought property in Brooklyn village, and
in 1886 engaged in the greenhouse business. That was his principal busi-
ness activity for a long period of years. He was deputy state treasurer
in 1878-79, served as bookkeeper in the National House of Representatives
at Washington from 1893 to 1897, and for several years was cashier of the
United States internal revenue office at Cleveland. Jacob D. Selzer, who
died January 23, 1916, was a substantial citizen in every respect, successful
in business, a man of influence in public affairs, and was an intimate friend
of many prominent men, including August Thieme, founder of the news-
paper. The Waechter and Erie, now the Cleveland Waechter and Anzeiger,
and also of Governor Jacob Mueller and William J. Gordon.

Elizabeth Wirth, mother of Judge Selzer, was married to Jacob D.
Selzer in 1859. She died in 1865, leaving two sons. Charles L. and Rob-
ert E. Robert was drowned while serving on board the U. S. S. Corwin
in San Francisco Bay in April, 1882. The second wife of Jacob D. Selzer

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was Mary Louise Wirth, a sister of his first wife. She was the mother of
one son, George H., born in 1867.

judge Charles L. Selzer was reared in a good home, and encouraged
in habits of independence and thrift. He was educated in the graded and
in the West High schools, and following school became a drug clerk. A
few years later he entered the law office of the late John W. Heisley, read
law and also attended the Cleveland Law School, and as a means of earn-
ing a living at the same time he and H. M. Farnsworth founded the
Cuyahogan, a weekly newspaper published at Brooklyn village. June 3,
1886, Mr. Selzer was admitted to the bar, and subsequently was admitted
to practice in the District and the Circuit courts of the United States. His
law practice began in partnership with Echo M. Heisley, son of his
preceptor, under the firm name of Heisley and Selzer. The firm con-
tinued nearly twenty years, until the death of Mr. Heisley in 1904. From
1913 to 1918 Judge Selzer was senior member of the law firm Selzer &
Selzer, his junior partner being his son, Robert J., continuing until his
elevation to the bench.

The first public office held by Judge Selzer was that of clerk of Brook-
lyn village in 1882. He was elected in 1884 township clerk, reelected in
1888. was chosen mayor of the village in 1890 and again in 1892, and in
1901 the Cleveland City Council made him a member of the Board of
Equalization and Revision of Real Estate for Cleveland. In the same year
he was elected on the democratic ticket to the House of Representatives,
and in January, 1905, the city council elected him to the vacancy in the
council for the Sixth Ward. He was chosen by popular election in 1907.
When the Municipal Court of Cleveland was established, January 1, 1912,
Judge Selzer was made bailifT of the civil branch of the court, his duties
corresponding to those of sherifif in the Common Pleas Court. He was
bailifT six years, and on February 1, 1918, Governor Cox appointed him
a judge on the municipal bench. In November, 1919, he was elected for
an unexpired term of two years, and in 1921 was reelected for a full term
of six years as municipal judge.

Judge Selzer is a member of the Cleveland and Ohio Bar associations,
belongs to the chamber of commerce, is a past president of the Sycamore
Club, and a member of the Third Church of Christ, Scientist. He is past
master of Brooklyn Lodge No. 454, Free and Accepted Masons ; a mem-
ber of Webb Chapter No. 14, Royal Arch Masons ; Woodward Council
No. 118, Royal and Select Masters ; Oriental Commandery No. 12, Knights
Templar; Lake Erie Consistory of the Scottish Rite; Al Koran Temple
of the Mystic Shrine; Al Sirat Grotto No. 7, Mystic Order of Veiled
Prophets of the Enchanted Realm, and was president of the Past Masters'
Association for the Twenty-second District of Ohio during the year 1923,
and is president of the Charles H. Eichorn Association of 1920 Scottish
Rite. Fie is also a charter member and past chancellor commander of
Riverside Lodge No. 209, Knights of Pythias. He is president of the
South Brooklyn Building & Loan Company, a director of the Brooklyn
Coal & Coke Company, a director of Brooklyn Masonic Temple Company,
a director of the Citizens Society & Loan Association, and secretary of the
house committee of the Euclid Avenue Masonic Temple.

Soon after his admission to the bar Judge Selzer, on November 18,

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1886, married Miss Ida M. While, daughter of Joseph While, of Cleve-
land. She died July 18, 1921. There are two sons, Robert J., attorney,
and Frank C, engaged in the automobile business.

Carl Sen mitt, retired business man and one of the well known citizens
of the South Side, came to Cleveland nearly half a century ago, and has
in many ways been prominently identified with the civic affairs of the old
village of Brooklyn, now included in the City of Cleveland.

Mr. Schmitt was born in Ludwieshafen, on the River Rhine, Bavaria,
Germany, September 18, 1854, son of Andrew and Elizabeth Schmitt, also
Bavarians. His father at the time of his death in 1866 was postmaster of
Landau, and had been in the government service for many years. During
the German revolution of 1848 he remained loyal to the government, took
good care of the postoffice, and for his services was awarded a gold medal
by the King of Bavaria. Pensions were also granted to his widow and
six sons and two daughters.

In the fall of 1869, Mrs. Andrew Schmitt and her children came to
America. Before leaving she deposited with the Bavarian authorities her
husband's gold medal as a pledge for her return at some time to the old
home. This pledge secured a continuation of the pensions for her and her
children until the latter became of legal age and until her death. The
family came direct to Columbus, Ohio, where relatives w^ere living, but later
came to Cleveland.

Two days after the family reached Columbus Carl Schmitt, only fifteen,
made arrangements to work in a drug store. From that stage until his
retirement after a successful business career he was never without employ-
ment, and always in connection with the drug business. When, in the fall
of 1875, Mr. Schmitt came to Cleveland, it was for the purpose of taking
a position for which he had previously arranged. In the fall of 1876 he
took charge as clerk of a drug store in Brooklyn village. A year later he
made arrangements to purchase the business on credit. This store was
located at Forestdale and West Twenty-fifth streets. Subsequently he
bought ground at the corner of Garden and West Twenty-fifth, erecting
a store and flat building combined, and at that location developed a hand-
some business. Recently this property was sold to the Brooklyn Masonic
Temple Company, and upon that ground and some adjacent property the
Masons will erect a Masonic Temple which will be an ornament and great
improvement to the locality.

During both of President Cleveland's administrations Mr. Schmitt
served as postmaster of Brooklyn village. He was also a member and
for several years clerk and president and treasurer of the board of educa-
tion, and was superintendent of the infirmary in the hospital during the
last part of the term of Mayor Farley and the first part of Mayor Johnson's
term. After forty years of active and successful business Mr. Schmitt
retired, and now lives in comfort at his fine home at 3003 Archwood
Avenue, surrounded with all the evidences of material prosperity and
friendship and esteem. Mr. Schmitt was one of the organizers of the
Cleveland Pharmaceutical Association, and served one term as vice pres-
ident of the Ohio State Pharmaceutical Association.

His first wife was Ruby E. Lee, granddaughter of Judge William Lee,

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of Cleveland. She died leaving two daughters and one son: Gertrude,
who is the wife of Albert Winslow, of Cuyahoga County and the mother
of two children, Sallie Lee and David. Laura Elizabeth, the second daugh-
ter, is the wife of John R. Wilson, of Lakewood, and they have a son,
Richard John. Roland Lee, the only son, is a graduate in agriculture of
Ohio State University, is engaged in farming in Cuyahoga County, and is
married and has one daughter, Laura Lee. Mr. Schmitt's second wife,
Lena B. Loesch, daughter of Gottfried and Walbergel (Dufifner) Loesch.
Her people were pioneers of Newburg, now included in Cleveland. Gott-
fried Loesch was born in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, in 1820, came to the
United States in 1843 and after five years in New York City settled at
Newburg in 1848. He and his wife were married in 1853.

Lincoln Griffith Dickey, manager of Cleveland's Auditorium, has
been identified with publicity and public service work practically since he
left college in 1908, and is now regarded as one of the leading men in his
field of endeavor in the entire country. He is a native of Nebraska, and is
descended from a family long prominent in the ministry and in educational
work.

This branch of the Dickey family is of Scotch-Irish ancestry, descended
from William Dickey, who came to America from the North of Ireland and
settled on Prince Edward Island, at the mouth of the St. Lawrence River.
His son, the Rev. John Dickey, moved from that section of Canada to
South Carolina and his son. Rev. Ninian Steel Dickey, was the Indiana set-
tler, he having come North to that state, of which he was a pioneer minister
of the Presbyterian Church. He was a circuit rider over a large section
comprising Southern Indiana, Southern Illinois and Northern Kentucky.
He married Sarah Jane Davis.

Rev. Dr. Solomon C. Dickey, son of Rev. Ninian S. and Jane (Davis)
Dickey, was born in Columbus, Indiana, on June 24, 1858. He was gradu-
ated from Wabash College in 1881, and that college gave him the degree
of Doctor of Divinity in 1897. He was ordained in the Presbyterian
ministry in 1882, and served as pastor of the Presbyterian Church of
Auburn, Nebraska, later of several different churches in Indiana ; also
served for several years as superintendent of missions. In 1895 he and
his associate founded the Winona Assembly and Summer School at
Winona Lake, Indiana, to which great institution he devoted his time and
energies for a quarter of a century, serving as its director, secretary and
general manager up to the time of his death in 1920. He married, on June
1, 1882, Lizzie Augusta Reid, of Greenville, Illinois, the daughter of Col.
John D. Reid, a soldier of the Civil war. She died in 1921.

Lincoln G. Dickey was born in Auburn. Nebraska, on September 16,
1884, the son of Rev. Dr. Solomon C. and Lizzie A. (Reid) Dickey. He
was educated in the public and manual training high schools of Indian-
apolis, Indiana, and at Lake Forest College, Illinois, graduating Bachelor
of Arts in 1908. His first practical work in publicity matters was as
assistant manager and program director under his father at Winona Lake
Assembly, at which he continued for eight years. In the meantime, how-
ever, he took up Chautauqua work, and for five years he was general
superintendent of the Ridpath Chautauqua Bureau, resigning from the

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latter organization in 1914 to come to Cleveland as vice president of the
Coit-Alber Chautauqua Bureau. In 1917 he resrgned his position with the
Coit-AIber Bureau to become program director of United States and Allied
Governments War Expositions. Following that he served as secretary
and manager of the Cleveland Advertising Club, following which he was
for one year manager of the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra. In 1922 he
was appointed the first manager of the Cleveland Public Auditorium, the
largest and finest public auditorium in the United States, probably in the
world.

Mr. Dickey is a member of the Cleveland Advertising Club and of the
Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. He is a member of Lake City Lodge
No. yZ, Free and Accepted Masons, Warsaw Chapter No. 48, Royal Arch
Masons, Council No. 88, Warsaw Commandery No. 1, Knights Templar,
of Warsaw, Indiana, and of Al Koran Temple, Mystic Shrine, Al Sirat
Grotto of Cleveland and Tall Cedars of Lebanon.

Mr. Dickey married Miss Helen Mary Cutler, of Washington, D. C,
the daughter of Samuel M. and Ella (Dickerson) Cutler. Her maternal
grandfather, the Rev. Henry Dickerson, was a well known minister of
early days in Indiana, and her father was for many years connected with
the Danville Normal School of Indiana, and later for over a quarter of a
century was a pension examiner for the Government. Mrs. Dickey was
educated in high school in Louisville, Kentucky, and at Lake Forest Col-
lege, where she was graduated in 1908 as a classmate of her husband. Mr.
and Mrs. Dickey have two children, Lincoln Cutler, born May 26, 1910,
and Margaret Jane, born May 12, 1918.

Lew Charles Kintzler, M. D. One of the successful physicians and
surgeons of Cleveland is Dr. Charles C. Kintzler, who has been in the
practice of his profession, with offices at the corner of West Twenty-fifth
Street and Broad View Avenue, for the last fifteen years. He was born
in the West Side of this city, on October 10, 1883, the son of Florenz and
Minnie Kintzler. His parents were born in Germany, where they were
married, and came to the United States soon afterwards, locating in Cleve-
land. Later they bought a farm at Brecksville, this county, where they
spent the remainder of their lives.

Doctor Kintzler was reared on the farm at Brecksville, and attended the
village schools, graduating from high school in 1901. He then came into
the city and entered the employ of the Cleveland Provision Company, and
later was in the employ of the City Ice & Fuel Company. W^ith money
he earned with those companies he entered the medical department of Ohio
State University, where he took the full course and was graduated Doctor
of Medicine with the class of 1907. For the following two years he served
as interne at Cleveland City Hospital, and then entered practice at his
present location, where he has since continued.

In 1918 Doctor Kintzler volunteered and was commissioned first lieu-
tenant in the United States Army Medical Corps. He entered the Officers
Training School at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, Indiana, where
he was when the armistice was signed. After his honorable discharge and
muster out from the service he resumed practice.

Aside from his profession Doctor Kintzler is interested in the civic

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and social life of the community, and is always found ready to lend his
assistance to all movements that have for their object the welfare of the
city. He is a member of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine, the Ohio
State Medical Society and the American Medical Association, and belongs
to Brooklyn Lodge. Free and Accepted Masons, Glenn Lodge, Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, and Sleepy Hollow Country Club. In a business
way he is a member of the board of directors of the Pearl Street Savings
& Trust Company, one of the strong banking institutions of the city.

William Warren Dawson, who is engaged in the practice of law in
the Citv of Cleveland, with office in the Leader-News Building, is a native
son of Ohio and a representative of a family whose name has not only
been identified with the history of the Buckeye State since the pioneer days,
but with the annals of the nation since the Colonial era, the first members of
the Dawson family in this country having settled in Virginia long prior to
the War of the Revolution.

William Warren Dawson was born at Wooster, Wayne County, Ohio,
on the 2nd of March, 1892, and in Milton Township, that county, was born
his father, Rev. William Dawson, the year of whose nativity was 1851.
Archibald Dawson, father of Rev. William Dawson, likewise was born
in Wayne County, where his father settled in the early pioneer days. The
father of Archibald Dawson was born and reared in Virginia, moved thence
to Kentucky, and in 1812 came to the new state of Ohio and became one of
the first settlers in Wayne County, where he instituted the reclamation of
a productive farm in the midest of the forest wilds, he having continued his
residence in that county until his death, as did also his wife, whose maiden
name was Jemima Burres and who likewise was born in Virginia, both she
and her hubsand having died at venerable ages.

Archibald Dawson was reared under the conditions and influences that
marked the pioneer period in the history of Wayne County, and there he
continued his active association with farm industry until 1885, when he
moved to Missouri, purchased a farm property in the central part of the
state, and there remained until his death, as did also his wife, whose maiden
name was Harriet Chambers.

Reared on the home farm and afforded the advantages of the public
schools of his native county. Rev. William Dawson thereafter advanced his
education by attending Baldwin University, and in this institution he was
graduated. He was later ordained a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. He held various pastoral charges in Ohio, and continued his
earnest and consecrated work in the ministry until the close of his life, his
death having occurred in 1907. His widow, who now resides at Brecksville,
Cuyahoga County, was born at Mansfield, Ohio, and her maiden name was
Mary E. Nail. She is a daughter of Samuel Nail, who likewise was born in
Richland County and who was a son of Henry Nail and Catherine (Lewis)
Nail, l)oth natives of Pennsylvania, where the former was born in Wash-
ington County, he having been a patriot soldier in the War of the Revolu-
tion. Henry Nail became one of the pioneer settlers in Richland County,
Ohio, where he reclaimed a farm from the forest and where he and his
wife passed the remainder of their lives.

Samuel Nail was reared and educated in Richland County, there served

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an apprenticeship to the carpenter's trade, and he became a successful con-
tractor and builder, besides which, in his young manhood, he made a
record of effective service as a teacher in the Ohio schools, princij^ally
during the winter terms in the district schools. He long maintained his
residence in Madison Township, Richland County, and there his death
occurred, as did also that of his wife, whose maiden name was Jane Peters
and who was born in the State of New Jersey. Rev. William and Mary E.
(Nail) Dawson became the parents of four children who attained to years
of maturity and who survive the honored father, namely: Charles A..
Archibald N., Mabel A. and William W. Dr. Archibald N. Dawson, the
second son, was graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware,
and from the medical department of Western Reserve University, at Cleve-
land, he being now successfully established in the practice of his profession.

William Warren Dawson gained his early education in public schools of
the various places where his father held pastoral charges, and he thereafter
advanced his education by a thorough course in Ohio Wesleyan University,
in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1914, and from
which he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Thereafter he gave his
attention to the study of law until there came to him a higher duty, when
the nation became involved in the World war. In 1917 Mr. Dawson
enlisted in the United States Army, with Company F, Third Regiment of
the Ohio National Guard, he having later become a member of the One
Hundred and Sixty-sixth United States Infantry, with which command
he went to France in October, 1917. There he was assigned to detached
duty at general headquarters of the American Expeditionary Forces, and
there he continued in service until the armistice brought the war to a close.
He returned home in July, 1919, and shortly afterward received his hon-
orable discharge at Camp Dix, New Jersey, he having received promotion
to the rank of first lieutenant.

After the close of his service in the World war, Mr. Dawson continued
his studies in the law department of Western Reserve University until his
graduation as a member of the class of 1921, with the degree of Bachelor
of Laws. He was forthwith admitted to the bar of his native state, and
has since continued in the general practice of law in the City of Cleveland,
where he is making a record of specially successful professional achieve-
ment. Mr. Dawson is a member of the University Club, the Cleveland
Grays and the American Legion, and is affiliated with college fraternities.

Hon. John Corydon Hutchins. One of the best known and most
highly honored members of the Cleveland bar is Judge John C. Hutchins,
who has been in the practice of law for fifty-eight years, fifty-six of those
years in Cleveland.

Judge Hutchins is a native of Ohio and is of the third generation of his
family in the state. His grandfather, Samuel Hutchins. a native of Con-
necticut, came to the Western Reserve in 1798. before Ohio was admitted
as a state, and was then known as the Northwest Territory. He assisted
in the survey of Vienna Township, Trumbull County, receiving for his
services in that capacity a deed for 100 acres of land, and established his
home on this land, near what is now known as "Payne's Corners" in that
township. In January, 1803, Samuel Hutchins married Freelove Flower.

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who was born in Connecticut, and their marriage was the first one
solemnized by a white couple in Trumbull County.

Hon. John Hutchins, son of Samuel and Freelove (Flower) Hutchins,
and father of the Judge, was born on his father's farm in Trumbull County,
in 1812. When he was a young man he studied law in the offtce of
Governor David Tod at Warren, and after his admission to the bar became
a member of the law firm of Tod, Hofifman & Hutchins. He was one of
the distinguished lawyers and public men of Ohio during his time, serving
for five years as clerk of courts of Trumbull County, as a member of the
Ohio General Assembly for several terms, and in 1858 he was elected a
member of Congress and reelected in 1860, he being a member of that
body at the beginning of the Civil war. From 1868 until his death in 1891
he resided in Cleveland. He married Rhoda M. Andrews, the daughter
of Hun and Phoebe (Woodford) Andrews, natives of Connecticut and
pioneers of the Western Reserve. She died in 1890. To them were bom
three sons and a daughter: Horace A., who was a pioneer oil refiner and
identified with the Standard Oil Company; Mrs. Mary (Hutchins)
Couzzens, a widow at Cleveland, aged eighty-one years ; Albert E., of New
York City, aged seventy-seven years ; and John C.

Judge John C. Hutchins was born in Warren, Ohio, on May 8, 1840.
He attended the common and high schools of Warren and Oberlin Col-
lege, and was graduated from Albany (New York) Law School in 1866.

In the summer of 1861 he volunteered and enlisted as a private in the
Second Regiment, Ohio Cavalry, and served in the Civil war two and a half
years, rising from the ranks to the grades of second and first lieutenant,
later serving for a time in the pay department of the army in the City of
Washington. Owing to an accident, he resigned his commission in the
army in 1863, returned to his home in Warren and studied law in his
father's office, graduated from Albany Law School and in 1866 was
admitted to the bars of both New York and Ohio in the same year and
entered the practice of law in Youngstown in association with Gen. T. W.
Sanderson. Coming to Cleveland in 1868, he became a partner with his
father under the firm name of Hutchins & Hutchins, and later was a part-
ner with J. E. Ingersoll, O. J. Campbell and Thomas L. Johnson (the
latter still being in practice).

In 1877 Judge Hutchins was elected prosecuting attorney of Cuyahoga
County, serving one term; in 1880 he was the defeated candidate for
Congress on the democratic ticket; he was elected judge of Municipal
Court in 1885, and reelected in 1887; in 1887 he was defeated as the candi-
date of his party for judge of Common Pleas Court, but in 1892 he was
elected to the bench of that court and served for three years, resigning in
1895 to accept appointment from President Cleveland as postmaster of
Cleveland. Leaving the postmastership at the expiration of his term in
the fall of 1899, Judge Hutchins returned to the private practice of law
and has since continued.

Judge Hutchins served as. a member of the Cleveland School Board in
1872, and as a member of the Cleveland Public Library Board for thirteen
years, of which board he was president for nine years. For the last three
years he has been serving as president of the Cuyahoga County Soldiers'
and Sailors' Monument Commission, in which he takes an active interest.

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He is a member of the Cleveland Bar Association, of which organization
he was one of the founders ; he is a member of the Military Order of the
Loyal Legion and served as junior vice commander of the Ohio Com-
mandery of the order in 1897; he is a member of the Euclid Club and a
member of the Chamber of Commerce.

In early manhood Judge Hutchins was a member of the republican
party, but left that party in 1872 to support Horace Greeley for the presi-
dency. He continued to affiliate with the democratic party until in 1896.
His views on the money question caused him to support Mr. McKinley for
the presidency, and since that campaign he has been and is a "free lance"
politically, with decidedly independent views.

Few men of Cleveland, or of Ohio, of the present day have played, or
been given the opportunity to play, a better or more notable part in the
history of the community than has Judge Hutchins, for during his long
career he has rendered faithful and unselfish service to his city, county,
state and nation, serving so ably that his career reflects credit alike to both
the community and the man himself. His well rounded life as a soldier,
attorney, jurist, political official and citizen has won for Judge Hutchins
the respect and esteem of the public and the love and veneration of his
intimates.

At Ravenna, Ohio, in 1861, Judge Hutchins was united in marriage
with Jennie M., the daughter of James M. Campbell, of Cuba, New York.
Mrs. Hutchins died in 1904, leaving the following children : Helen Eugenia,
who was married to Dr. T. B. Salisbury, of New York City; Jane Camp-
bell Hutchins, unmarried, who resides with her father ; Horace C, residing
in Buffalo, New York; J. Frank, residing in California; and Carleton C,
residing in Cleveland.

Horace C. Hutchins married Elizabeth Sellers, of Chicago, and they
have a daughter, Rosanne, who married William A. Morgan, Jr., of
Buffalo, New York, and they have a son, John S. Hutchins, now (1924) a
student at Yale University.

Joseph Louis Bistricky has spent his life since early childhood in
Cleveland, was educated in its public schools, and on his own merit and
energies has made for himself a favorable place in the city's business life.
He is secretary-treasurer of the Hughes Provision Company.

Mr. Bistricky was born in Prague, Austria, on October 9, 1890, son of
James and Lillian Bistricky, who were also born in that ancient city. James
Bistricky was a government forester in Austria. In 1893 he came to
America, leaving his wife and their only child, Joseph L. Locating in
Cleveland, he found work, and in 1895 his wife and son joined him. In
Cleveland he followed the trade of stationary engineer in the service of the
Cleveland City Railway for upwards of twenty years. His death occurred
August 15, 1923, when he was fifty-nine years of age. He is survived by
his widow, now in her fifty-third year, and four daughters and three sons.
Of the children Joseph L. alone was born abroad, the other children being
natives of Cleveland. The family are members of the Woodlawn Presby-
terian Church.

Joseph L. Bistricky attended the Outhwaite Avenue Public School in
Cleveland, graduated frorn the Central High School in 1908, and his first

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employment after leaving high school was as clerk in the main offices of the
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway (New York Central Line).
Subsequently he spent three years in the Collinwood offices of the road,
leaving there to enter the Nela Park general offices of the National Lamp
Works of the General Electric Company. He spent five years with that
Cleveland industry, and in the meantime had pursued a course in account-
ing at the Young' Men's Christian Association. On leaving the National
Lamp Works he entered the office of Ernest & Ernest, one of the most
prominent firms of public accountants in the Middle West. One of the
early assignments of Mr. Bistricky was to make an audit for the Hughes
Provision Company. Upon the satisfactory completion of that work the
company invited him to continue with them as secretary-treasurer. He has
been one of the executives of this business since 1917.

For a number of years he has been active in the Cleveland Chamber of
of Industry, and in 1922 was elected a member of its board of directors for
a term of two years. He is president of the bowling team of the Chamber
of Industry. He also belongs to Windermere Lodge No. 627 of the
Masonic Order. Mr. Bistricky married, June 30, 1915, Miss Stella
Mack, a native of Cleveland.

George Henry Jackman, a resident of Cleveland for over a quarter
of a century, and president of the Electric Printing Company, has had a
wide and varied experience in a number of states as a farmer, rancher,
railroad employe and in other lines.

Mr. Jackman was born at Rockford, Illinois, July 4, 1872, son of John
Mowery and Sarah Elizabeth (Vogelsong) Jackman. His father was born
on a farm in Carroll County, Ohio, in 1838, continued to live in that
section of Ohio, engaged in farming, until 1870, when he moved to
Illinois and in 1876 went to Iowa and took up a farm homestead in
Guthrie County. He continued to be identified with the agricultural enter-
prise of that section until his death in 1894. His wife, Sarah Elizabeth
(Vogelsong) Jackman, was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, in 1843.
daughter of Rev. George Vogelsong, of Hanoverton, Ohio. She was
educated in Mount Union College, Ohio, spent six years as a teacher, and
is now past eighty years of age.

George Henry Jackman attended public schools in Iowa, being four
years of age when his parents moved to that state. His schooling was
ended when he was fifteen years of age, and soon afterwards he became
an employe of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway Com-
pany at De Sota, Missouri. He learned the blacksmith trade, working in
railroad blacksmith shops for three and one-half years. Two years follow-
ing that were put in at his trade at St. Charles, Missouri, and he was a black-
smith at East Madison, Illinois, until 1893. In that year he went out to
Deadwood, South Dakota, and had a varied experience in railroad and
ranching work for several years, and for two years was a farmer in Iowa.

Mr. Jackman on January 1, 1897, entered the employ of the Street
Railway Company at Cleveland, under the late M. A. Hanna. He was a
motorman on the Woodland Avenue division for six years. He then
became associated with William Lintern, of the Nichols-Lintern Com-
pany, in establishing a street railway publication known as the Street

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Railway News. Since then he has been continuously identified with
printing and publication work. He organized the Street Railway
Employees' Printing Company, a cooperative enterprise, and in 1912
incorporated the business as the Electric Printing Company. This is now
one of the leading commercial printing shops of Cleveland and does an
extensive business for a number of firms and individuals.

Mr. Jackman for a number of years has been active in local republican
politics. He was a member of the Cleveland City Council in 1910-1911,
being one of the faithful and constructive men in the city government of
that period. He is a member of the Tippecanoe Club of Cleveland, the
Lincoln Republican Club of Lakewood, the Lakewood Chamber of Com-
merce, the Lakewood Congregational Church and the Knights of Pythias.

He married, April 26, 1899, Miss Catherine Hoerz, of Cleveland,
daughter of David Hoerz. They have one son, Melvin E., born in 1900,
educated in the Cleveland Grammar schools, the Lakewood High School
and Ohio State University. He is now associated with his father in the
printing business. Melvin Jackman married, in 1923, Irene Patrick, of
Columbus, Ohio.

Henry Waibel. The Henry Waibel Company, at 5304 Clark Avenue,
is one of the prosperous business establishments on the South Side. It is a
general hardware and sheet metal store and shop, a concern that has been
the result of many years of progressive industry on the part of the president
of the company, Mr. Henry Waibel.

Mr. Waibel was born in Cleveland on November 12, 1869, the son of
Henry and Catherine (Plattner) Waibel. His parents were born and
married in Switzerland, and arrived in the United States and settled in
Cleveland a few years before their son Henry was born. They brought
with them one daughter, Elizabeth. The three sons, Henry, August and
John, were all born in Cleveland. Henry Waibel, Sr., learned the sheet
metal and tinsmith trade in the old country, and followed it in Cleveland
until he retired a number of years before his death. He passed away in
1905, aged sixty-three, and his wife, in 1907, aged sixty-seven.

Henry Waibel attended the Clark Avenue and Walton Avenue Public
schools. While a school boy he carried a route for a German daily news-
paper, walking from the South Side to Saint Clair Avenue on the East
Side to get his papers every morning. In addition he also carried two
baskets of pretzels from Clark Avenue to old Brierly Park, walking the
trip both ways and getting paid ten cents for each trip. This was work that
later proved a good training in business, particularly in forming good and
regular habits.

On leaving school Mr. Waibel went to work in Louis Hundermark's
tin and sheet metal shop on Clark Avenue. He spent about seven years
with that employer, and when he was twenty years of age he engaged in
business on his own account, establishing a small shop in a barn. He pro-
cured his supplies from the East Side, transporting them in a hand cart
which he pushed over the river. Some of his early work was of an
itinerant nature, mending the tin ware of farmers in the country districts.

Mr. Waibel in 1893 opened a small stock of hardware and a shop for
sheet metal work. In the subsequent thirty years his business has steadily

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grown and expanded. At first his shop was in part of the present store
building, the other half, separated by a partition, being used for a grocery
store. He now occupies all this building, 60 by 1 10 feet, with store in front
and shop in the rear. He carries a stock of general hardware, and does an
extensive business in sheet metal work of all kinds. On February 1, 1924,
the Henry Waibel Company was incorporated, and he became its president.

Mr. Waibel since 1916 has been an active worker in the Cleveland
Chamber of Industry. In 1917 he was elected to its board of directors, and
on January 1, 1924, began another term of two years as a director. He is
affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Maccabees
and Woodmen of the World.

He married, in 1894, Barbara Brabenec, a native of Cleveland, while her
father, Matthias Brabenec, came from Bohemia. Mrs. Waibel died
February 17, 1923, when forty-eight years of age, her death being a heavy
loss to her family and her many friends. Mr. Waibel has three sons.
Raymond, a farmer near Berea, Ohio, married Mamie Behal, and they
have three daughters, Marie, Cecilia and Barbara. The two younger sons,
Elmer and George, are both associated with the Henry Wiabel Company.

Emil Robechek represents one of the early pioneer Bohemian families
of Cleveland. He has been actively identified with the commercial history
of the South End of the city for many years, and he is also well known in
public affairs.

He was born April 12, 1876, in the old Fourteenth, now the Thirteenth,
Ward of the city. His father, the late Joseph Robechek, was born in
Bohemia in 1840, and married there Catherine Doerfler, who was born in
1842. A few years after the close of the Civil war they came to the
United States, locating in Cleveland. Joseph Robechek was a wholesale
grocery salesman until 1882, when he established a retail grocery store at
4614 Broadway, then known as the South End, where, in later years, asso-
ciated with his sons, Emil and August, he continued in business until his
death in 1897. He became well known over a large section of the city, and
was especially influential and prominent among the Bohemian population.
At the time of his death his reputation was tersely expressed in the opinion
of his business associates and friends as "a good and reliable man." His
widow survived him until 1907. They had a family of one daughter,
Agnes, now deceased, and five sons, all living, Leo, August, Louis, Charles
and Emil, all of them residents of Cleveland with the exception of Leo, who
resides in Chicago.

Emil Robechek attended the graded schools, and for three years was a
student in Central High. On leaving school he went to work for the old
cigar and wholesale tobacco firm of Feder Brothers, but upon the death of
his father he and his brother August took over the retail grocery business,
and continued it until 1922, when they closed it out. Thus passed out of
existence one of the oldest grocery stores of the South End, a business
that had been in existence for forty years.

When in 1921 Frederick P. Walther, by appointment of Governor Davis,
became common pleas judge of Cuyahoga County, Judge Walther, influ-
enced largely by Governor Davis, appointed Mr. Robechek bailiff of his
court. Mr. Robechek filled this office until January 1, 1924, when he

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resigned to take up his duties as a member of the Cleveland City Council,
to which he was elected on the republican ticket to represent the Second
District oli November 6, 1923, at the first election held under the new city
charter. He is chairman of the council committee on printing and a mem-
ber of the committees on building trade, streets and taxes and assessments.
Mr. Robechek for a number of years has been active in city politics. He
is a member of the Tippecanoe Club, the Thirteenth Ward Republican
Club and the Western Reserve Republican Club. He is affiliated with
Elsworth Lodge No. 505, Free and Accepted Masons, Thatcher Chapter,
Royal Arch Masons, Al Sirat Grotto and the Tall Cedars of Lebanon.
Mr. Robechek married Miss Bertha Srp. She was born in Cleveland,
daughter of Joseph Srp. They have one son, John Robechek, born
February 23, 1914.

Jacob Witzel Vanderwerf. Intrinsic integrity of purpose dominated
the activities of the late Jacob W. Vanderwerf in all the relations of
his busy and useful life, and that life touched many phases of worthy
service in connection with civic and business affairs in the City of
Cleveland, where he maintained his home from his boyhood until the
time of his death, January 16, 1918. He was a man who stood four
square to every wind that blows, and he made his life count for good
in every sentiment and motive and action. To him is eminently due an
enduring tribute in this publication.

Mr. Vanderwerf was born in the City of BufTalo, New York, July
8, 1857, and thus was sixty years of age at the time of his death. His
parents, Jacob and Mary M. (Witzel) Vanderwerf, were born in Hol-
land, but both were children at the time of the immigration of the respec-
tive families to the United States, the old-time sailing vessels having
necessarily served as the medium of transportation across the Atlantic
Ocean. The parents were thus reared and educated in the United States,
and in the old Empire State, where their marriage was solemnized, they
continued to maintain their home until 1865, when they established their
residence in Cleveland. Their son Jacob, Jr., of this memoir, was the
eldest of their eight children and was a lad of eight years at the time
of the removal to Cleveland, where he was reared to manhood and re-
ceived the advantages of the public schools of the period and where
the parents passed the remainder of their lives. Here the father was
for a time engaged in business as a contractor and builder, but he met
with an accident that permanently impaired his vision, so that during
a period of about twenty years prior to his death he was able to give
but minor attention to business afifairs, his death having occurred April
15, 1901, and his wife having preceded him to eternal rest in April, 1898.

While still a boy Jacob Vanderwerf, Jr., immediate subject of this
review, began to assist his father in the latter's operations as a con-
tractor and builder, and in this connection he gajned the experience that
well fortified him when, at the age of eighteen years, he initiated independ-
ent business in building construction. He established himself in a sm.all
shop on Spring Street, and his first contract was in connection with
the remodeling of the Cushing Block, on Euclid Avenue, just to the
east of the old-time business place of William Taylor. Absolute fidelity

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to the terms of contract characterized the activities of Mr. Vanderwerf
throughout the entire course of his distinctly successful career as a
builder, and it was popular recognition of his ability and integrity that
gained to him from the start a representative support. For a term of
vears he was retained by the May Company as its superintendent of
construction, and through this connection as well as in an independent
way he was concerned in many large and important construction con-
tracts during the passing years. Thus he had much to do with the build-
ing of stations and power houses for the Cleveland, Painesville «& Eastern
Railway, and he erected also the Lake Shore Electric Railway power
house at Avon and built the Electric Building, one of the large buildings
of Cleveland at that time.

Mr. Vanderwerf was one of the organizers of the Nungesser Carbon
& Battery Company, one of the first concerns of the kind in Cleveland,
which initiated operations on a small scale and rapidly grew to a con-
cern of broad scope and importance, so that a profitable transfer, as
touching the interests of its stockholders, was made when the plant and
business were sold to the National Carbon Company.

A service of great and enduring public value was then rendered
by Mr. Vanderwerf as one of the three members of the Board of Arbitra-
tion selected by the City of Cleveland and the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company to determine land values for both property owners and the
railroad corporation when the latter initiated and carried forward the
work of elevating its tracks over the various grade crossings in Cleve-
land. Mr. Vanderwerf was chairman of this board, and had much to
do with making its service so careful and equitable that all court litigation
was avoided in the prosecution of this important public improvement,
his service in this connection having covered a period of several years.

Few citizens of Ohio have proved more earnest students of the
history and teachings of the Masonic fraternity than j\Ir. Vanderwerf,
and in the Scottish Rite of this time-honored fraternity he attained to
the ultimate thirty-third degree. On the 12th of October, 1883, he became
an entered apprentice in Iris Lodge No. 229, Ancient Free and Accepted
Masons, and in the same he was raised to Master Mason on the 3d of
the following November. He served as master of this lodge in 1888,
after having passed other official chairs. He became a Royal Arch Mason
February 21, 1884, and on the 13th of January of the following year
he was initiated a member of a Local Council of Royal and Select Masters,
his reception of his fir.st chivalric honors having occurred in September,
1884, when he became a member of Oriental Commandery of Itnights
Templar, of which he later served as commander. It is a matter of record
that he was the first member to succeed in bringing this Commandery
before the public in military manoeuvers, he having become its expert drill
master and having done much to make it one of the best-drilled Com-
manderies in the entire United States, the Commandery having won honors
in many competitive exhibitions of military drills. In the Scottish Rite
Mr. Vanderwerf initiated his connection in 1885, in Eliadah Lodge of
Perfection, and in Lake Erie Consistory he thereafter won advancement
to the thirty-second degree, he having been the treasurer of this Consistory
for many years prior to his death. In 1910 he received the ultimate honor,

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when he was made sovereign grand insi^ector of the Supreme Council of
the Scottish Rite, in which he thus received the thirty-third degree. He
was an active member also of Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine and
Al Sirat Grotto of the Veiled Prophets. As an active and valued member
of the Cleveland Grays, the crack military organization of the Ohio Metrop-
olis, he served as its drill-master and brought it up to a high standard of
tactical proficiency. In this connection he had the satisfaction of giving
the first drill lesson to Hon. Myron T. Herrick, former governor of Ohio.

Mr. Vanderwerf was a stalwart republican but had no ambition for
public office. He was known for his civic progressiveness and liberality,
and his circle of friends was limited only by that of his acquaintances.
He was an active member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, the
Cleveland Real Estate Association, the local Architects Club, and the
Cleveland Yacht Club, of which last he was a life member.

April 23, 1888. recorded the marriage of Mr. Vanderwerf and Miss
Anna Louise Hubbell, daughter of Augustus Byron Hubbell and Har-
riet S. (Robinson) Hubbell, both residents of Cleveland at the time of
their death and for many years prior thereto. Augustus Hubbell was
born at Warrensville, Cuyahoga County, and established his home in
Cleveland in 1866, within a short time after completing his service as a
gallant young soldier of the Union in the Civil war, he having been a
first lieutenant of Company H, Forty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry,
the regiment of General Garfield. Since the death of her husband
Mrs. Vanderwerf has continued her residence in Cleveland. Howard,
the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Vanderwerf, completed in the Case
School of Applied Science a course in electrical engineering and was
graduated as a member of the class of 1916, with the degree of Bachelor
of Science. In connection with the nation's participation in the World
war Howard Vanderwerf entered service in the United States Navy in
June, 1918. and later received promotion to the rank of ensign, he having
been in the naval transport service until the armistice brought the war
to a close.

Neil Archibald Munro, M. D., one of the representative physicians
and surgeons engaged in active general practice in the City of Cleveland,
was born at Saint Thomas, Province of Ontario, Canada, on the 15th of
September. 1885, and is a representative of one of the old and honored
families of that section of Canada. He is a son of the late Archibald
and Jane (Bassett) Munro. the former was born on the old Monro home-
stead farm where his father. Donald Munro, settled upon coming from
Scotland. This farm is situated about seven miles distant from the City of
Saint Thomas. The Doctor's mother was born on a farm two miles distant
from Saint Thomas, and was a daughter of John Bassett, who settled there
upon his immigration to America from Devonshire. England, wdiere he
was born and reared. Archibald Munro was eighty-two years of age at
the time of his death, in February, 1923, and his widow died in the follow-
ing month, at the age of seventy-three years.

The earlier educational discipline of Doctor Munro was acquired in the
public schools and in Saint Thomas Collegiate Institute. In 1902 he
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in this institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1906.
After receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine he further fortified him-
self by valuable clinical experience gained in tv^o years of service as interne
in the Saginaw, Michigan, General Hospital. In 1908 he moved to the
State of North Dakota, and established himself in the general practice of
his profession at Bowman. There he continued his practice for seven years,
building up a substantial country practice. His desire for a metropolitan
field of professional endeavor led him in 1915 to establish his residence in
Cleveland, and in this city he has built up an excellent general practice
that gives him precedence as being one of the leading physicians and sur-
geons in the Nottingham district of the Ohio metropoHs. The Doctor is a
member of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State Medical
Society and the American Medical Association. He and his wife hold
membership in the Unitarian Church, and he is affiliated with the Masonic
fraternity, Nottingham Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, Bowman Lodge,
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks, Dickinson, North Dakota. Doctor Monro is also a member
of the City Club and the Nottingham Club.

In his native province in Canada was solemnized the marriage ,of
Doctor Munro and Miss Hazel Gooding, who was born on the Gooding
homestead in Ontario, Canada, and who is a daughter of David and
Jennie (Mills) Gooding. Mrs. Munro was graduated from the domestic
science department of the Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph, this
institution being directly affiliated with the University of Toronto.
Doctor and Mrs. Munro have two daughters, Jane Gooding and Mary
Frances.

Alfred D. Bolton, A. B., M. D. Among the well known physicians
and surgeons of Cleveland is Dr. A. D. Bolton, who has won success and
prestige in his profession as one of its leaders in the Collinwood district
of the city.

Doctor Bolton is a native of Canada, born in the City of Toronto on
November 15, 1879, of Scotch-Presbyterian and Pennsylvania-Quaker
ancestry. His paternal grandfather, a native of England, settled on land
that has since become a part of the City of Toronto, while his maternal
grandfather, Alfred D. Davis, was a native of Pennsylvania, and was a
Quaker, he having gone to Toronto, Canada, in early days.

The parents of Doctor Bolton, Angus and Nancy A. (Davis) Bolton,
were born in Toronto, the father in 1842, the mother in 1843, and both are
living. Angus Bolton was a farmer near Toronto for a number of years,
and then moved to near Moosejaw, Saskatchewan, in Western Canada,
where he became the owner of 3,500 acres of wheat land, which he
operated with the assistance of his four sons and a son-in-law.

Doctor Bolton was graduated from the Toronto, Canada, High School
and later entered McGill University, from which he was graduated with
the Bachelor of Arts degree. In 1901 he came to Cleveland, and for nine
years was in the employ of the city as engineer at the City Water Works.
In 1910 he resigned his position with the city and entered the medical
department of Ohio State University, where he was graduated Doctor of
-Medicine with the class of 1913. Leaving medical college, he served one

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year as interne in the Cleveland City Hospital, and then entered the
general practice of medicine and surgery, with offices at 15603 Waterloo
Road, where he has since continued, now specializing in surgery.

Doctor Bolton married Miss Edith J. McCardle, the daughter of
Andrew McCardle, of Michigan, and they have a daughter and two sons:
Rhea, Kenneth and Edgar.

Hugh Joseph Savage, M. D., was born on Sterling Avenue, Cleve-
land, July 4, 1891, son of James A. and Agnes V. (O'Reilly) Savage. His
grandfather, Hugh Savage, was of English parentage and an early settler
at Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio. James A. Savage was born at Chilli-
cothe, in 1867, became a merchant there, and subsequently took up rail-
roading as a locomotive engineer. For thirty-five years he has been in
the service of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company.
with his home in Cleveland. He is an influential citizen of his ward, and
in 1923 became a candidate for the City Council. The mother of
Doctor Savage, Agnes V. O'Reilly, was born at Elyria, Lorain County,
Ohio, in 1870, daughter of Mathew O'Reilly, who came from Ireland.

Dr. Hugh J. Savage attended Saint John and Saint Aloysius parochial
schools, continued his education in Saint Ignatius College, Cleveland, and
Saint Vincent College at Philadelphia, and took his medical course in Ohio
State University, where he was graduated Doctor of Medicine in 1917.
For one year he was a student interne in the Ohio State University Hos-
pital, and began private practice at Corning, Ohio, but soon afterward, on
March 17, 1918, was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Medical Corps,
and was sent for training at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, where he was
attached to Evacuation Hospital No. 36. With this unit he sailed for
France, landing at Brest in September, 1918, and from Brest was trans-
ferred to Rennes, where the unit opened and took charge of a hospital.
Following the armistice. Doctor Savage was sent with his command to
take over the Base Hospital at Nantes, France, and he continued on duty
there until August, 1919, when he sailed for home and received his honor-
able discharge at Camp Sherman, Ohio. While overseas he was recom-
mended for promotion to captain, but did not receive the commission.

He resumed his general practice at Corning, Ohio, but in May, 1923.
returned to Cleveland, and has established a successful general practice.
He is a specialist in X-ray work. In February, 1924, he was appointed
district health physician for the City of Cleveland, and so continues.
Doctor Savage is a member of the Academy of Medicine of Perry County,
Ohio, and a member of the Ohio State and American Medical associations.
He belongs to the Tau Nu Kappa medical fraternity, and is affiliated with
the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Knights of Columbus, the
Improved Order of Red Men, the Eagles and Owls.

Doctor Savage married Miss Martha Flowers, daughter of John
Flowers, of Moxahala, Ohio. They have two daughters, Marjorie Agnes,
born May 31, 1920, and Mary Jane, born March ll, 1924.

Paul Fred Hasse, A. B., M. D. Reared and educated in Cleveland,
Doctor Hasse received his medical degree at Western Reserve University,
and for a dozen years has been successfully engaged in a general practice
as a physician and surgeon. His offices are at 3663 Fulton Road.

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Doctor Hasse was born in Germany, February 17, 1884, and was six
years of age when his parents, Albert and Hulda (Burtslof) Hasse, came
to this country in 1890. In the same year they located at Brooklyn Village,
now included in Cleveland. Albert Hasse was a harness maker, a trade
he had thoroughly learned in Germany, and in 1891 he opened his shop
at 3552 West Twenty-fifth Street, then Pearl Street, and continued in
business at that location until his death on January 28, 1924, aged seventy-
four years. His widow survives, now in her sixty-fifth year.

Doctor Hasse's first school attendance in Cleveland was in the Denison
School. He graduated from the Lincoln High School in 1902, and soon
afterward entered Western Reserve University, taking the classical course
and graduating Bachelor of Arts in 1907. That was followed by the study
of medicine in Western Reserve University Medical School, where he was
graduated Doctor of Medicine in 1910. With the exception of a year of
special duty and further training as an interne in the United States
Marine Hospital at Cleveland, Doctor Hasse has since been engaged in
private practice. His first location was at the corner of Fulton Road
and Dennison Avenue, and from there he moved to his present office.

August 30, 1911, Doctor Hasse married Dora Hard, a native of
Preston, Minnesota. Her parents were George W. and Eva Josephine
(Kuntz) Hard; her father a native of Pennsylvania and her mother of
Kansas, both of whom are deceased. Mrs. Hasse was liberally educated
and studied music at Oberlin College. She is interested and active in
civic and educational work, and is now a member of the Brooklyn Heights
Board of Education and president of the Heights Parents-Teachers Asso-
ciation. She recently was a delegate to the Parents-Teachers National
Convention held in St. Paul, Minnesota, and while there had the pleasure
of visiting the scenes of her early life. She is also a member of the Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution, she having descended from Revolutionary
ancestors. Doctor and Mrs. Hasse have two children : Helen, born Decem-
ber 17, 1913, and Gordon Wilbur, born January 27, 1916.

During the World war Doctor Hasse was examining physician for
the Cuyahoga County Draft Board. Fraternally he is affiliated with Ell-
brook Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons ; Forest City Commandery,
Knights Templar, and Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is
a member of the Advisory Board of the Pearl Street Savings & Trust
Company. He and his family are members of the Pearl Road Memorial
Methodist Episcopal Church.

Dr. Maurice Lixsev Allen, physician and surgeon, was born at
Gabon, Crawford County. Ohio, on the 6th of Januarv, 1889, and is a son
of Charles A. and Clara Elizabeth (Miller) Allen. Charles A. Allen was
born at Paris. Illinois, in the year 1851, a son of Benjamin Allen, a native
of Kentucky, who settled on a small farm near Paris, Illinois, as a pioneer
of that section of the state, where he passed the remainder of his life.
Charles A. Allen has long been connected with railway service and is now
assistant to the president of the Erie Railroad. Cleveland. Mrs. Allen was
born at Alton. Illinois, and is a daughter of the late John Miller.

Doctor Allen graduated from Gabon High School in 1908, and from
Starling Medical College, Doctor of Medicine, in 1913. He entered service

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as an interne in Huron Road Hospital, Cleveland. In his two years' con-
nection with this hospital he gained valuable clinical exjxjrience, and ujxjn
severing his alliance with the institution, in 1915, he engaged in the
general practice of his profession in the "Five Points" district of CoUin-
wood, where he has found an excellent field for successful service and
where he now controls a large general practice. In this section his first
ofifice was at 962 East One Hundred and Fifty-second Street, and his
present well apix)inted offices are at the corner of that street and Saint Clair
Avenue, at No. 15201 Saint Clair Avenue. The Doctor is a member of
the Cleveland Academy of Medicine, the Cleveland Medical Library Asso-
ciation, the Ohio State Medical Society, and the American Medical Asso-
ciation.

Doctor Allen subordinated all personal interests to enter patriotic
service when the nation became involved in the World war. In June, 1917,
he enlisted in the Medical Officers Reserve Corps of the United States
Army, and on the 17th of the following month he received his commission
as first lieutenant. In September of the same year he was called to the
City of Washington, D. C, and on the 1st of October, 1917, he sailed for
England, where he was assigned to duty at the Brook War Hospital, Wool-
wich. January 6, 1918, he embarked for France, and there he was assigned
to service in the P'ifty-fifth West Lancashire Field Hospital. Later he was
attached to the Two Hundred and Seventy-sixth West Lancashire Brigade
of the British Royal Field Artillery, with which unit he continued in
service until he sailed for the home port. On the 19th of February, 1919.
he was commissioned captain, and on the 15th of the following month
he embarked for the return voyage to the United States. At Camp Dix,
New Jersey, he received his honorable discharge April 1, 1919, and he then
returned home and resumed the interrupted practice of his profession.
The Doctor received the British Military Cross, in recognition of gallantry
during the German attack on the British fronts at Le Preol, France. April
9, 1918. Doctor Allen is affiliated with the American Legion and with the
Veterans of Foreign Wars.

On the 21st of June, 1916, was solemnized the marriage of Doctor Allen
and Miss Carroll Macdonald, daughter of Hugh and Hanna (Hilker)
Macdonald, of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, and they have a daughter. Miriam,
born July 13, 1920, and a son, John Macdonald, born December 28, 1923.

Frank Burdett Garrett is numbered among the representative citi-
zens and lawyers of the CoUinwood district of the City of Cleveland,
where he has been established in the successful practice of law for more
than thirty years.

Frank B. Garrett was born at Brunswick, ]\Iedina County, Ohio, April
14, 1856, and is a son of Jesse R. and Cordelia (Miller) Garrett, both
natives of the State of New York, where the former was born at Pom|:)ey
Hill, near the City of Syracuse, Onondago County, a son of John and
Mary Garrett. Cordelia (Miller) Garrett was born in Monroe County,
New York, a daughter of Hiram B. Miller. She was three years old
when the family came from the old Empire State to Ohio, her father
having purchased land in Hinckley Township, Medina County, where as a
pioneer he reclaimed and developed a productive farm. The original

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domicile of the Miller family was a log house of the primitive pioneer
type, and a number of years passed ere this gave place to a more preten-
tious dwelling. In the period leading up to and culminating in the Civil
war Hiram B. Miller was an ardent anti-slavery man, and he was specially
active in furthering the operations of the historic "underground railroad,"
through the medium of which many slaves were assisted to freedom when
they lied from the South and made their way into Canada. Mrs. Cordelia
(Miller) Garrett was one of the venerable pioneer women of Medina at
the time of her death, she having passed away at the age of over ninety-one
years. Jesse R. Garrett' was a young man when he came to Ohio and
established his residence at Brunswick, Medina County, where he passed
the remainder of his long and useful life and where he gave twenty-four
years of service in the office of justice of the peace. He was long numbered
among the representative citizens of Medina County, and was a man
whose life was guided and governed by the highest principles, expressed in
loyal personal stewardship.

The influences and discipline of the old home farm compassed the child-
hood and early youth of Frank B. Garrett, and his ambition was far from
satisfied with the mere training of the district schools, with the result that
he profited by the advantages of a normal school at Medina. Though he
obtained a teacher's certificate, he did not enter into active pedagogic service,
but remained on the farm until he had attained to the age of twenty-three
years, when, in consonance with well formulated plans born of his still un-
fulfilled ambition, he began reading law under the preceptorship of a
leading lawyer in the City of Medina. He applied himself with character-
istic diligence, made rapid progress in the assimilation of the involved
science of jurisprudence, and in November, 1881, he gained admission to
the Ohio bar upon examination before the Supreme Court of the state.
Thereafter he continued to be engaged in the practice of his profession
at Medina until 1889, when he found a broader field by coming to Cleve-
land. Here he established his residence in the Village of Collinwood,
which is now part of the City of Cleveland, where he maintained his law
office for some time. He later established an office in the City of Cleve-
land. In 1901, when the shops of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern
Railroad were established at Collinwood, Mr. Garrett removed his office to
Collinwood to do constructive service in connection with opening allot-
ments and the real estate business in the Collinwood district. In 1906 he
gave up the real estate business, and since then he has given all of his time
to the office practice of law. He now controls a substantial and important
law business of general order, and maintains his offices in the Gunn Build-
ing, 788 East One Hundred and Fifty-second Street.

Mr. Garrett became influential in civic affairs in the Village of Collin-
wood long before its annexation by the City of Cleveland. He served as
clerk of the village Board of Health and was a member and clerk of the
village Board of Education, and was otherwise prominent in the public
affairs of the village. He is a republican, and has served as a member of
the Republican County Committee of Cuyahoga County. He is an active
memlicr of the Cleveland Bar Association, and he and his wife are members
of the Church of Christ in their home district of Collinwood, he being an
elder in this church. Mr. Garrett married Miss Ida M. Moore, who was

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born at Peekskill, New York, a daughter of Thomas and Maria
(McGillivra) Moore, representatives of old and honored famiUes of the
Empire State.

George Frederick Greve is one of the representative younger mem-
bers of the Cleveland bar and a prominent citizen of the CoUinwood district,
where he was born on June 10, 1891, the son of Frederick A. and Victoria
(Cabot) Greve.

Frederick A. Greve was born in Cleveland, in the year 1866, and here
his death occurred in 1910. His father, Adam Frederick Greve, was born
and reared in Alsace-Lorraine, France, and was a young man when he came
to the United States and established his residence in Illinois. There he
enlisted for service in the war with Mexico, and when the Civil war was
precipitated on the nation he again gave evidence of his splendid loyalty
to the land of his adoption, for he enlisted in defense of the Union. He
became a member of an Illinois regiment of volunteer infantry, and
Hon. Richard Yates, the war governor of Illinois, conferred upon him a
captain's commission. He took part in many engagements marking the
progress of the great conflict between the states of the North and the South,
and made an admirable record as an officer. Shortly after the close of the
Civil war he came from Illinois to Cuyahoga County, established his home
in the Village of CoUinwood, and for forty years thereafter continued in
the employ of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad Company,
now a part of the New York Central Lines. His widow, Sophia, still
resides in Cleveland, in her seventy-eighth year. She was born in Germany,
was a young woman when she came to the United States, and her marriage
was solemnized in Illinois. Frederick A. Greve also was for many years
in the service of the New York Central Railroad. His widow continues her
residence in Cleveland.

George F. Greve was graduated from the CoUinwood High School as
a member of the class of 1911, and he completed the course in the Cleve-
land Law School, in which he was graduated in 1916 and from which he
received the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He was admitted to the Ohio
bar on the 2nd of January, 1917, and entered the practice of his profession
by establishing the offices, which he has since continued to occupy, at 793
East One Hundred and Fifty-second Street.

Mr. Greve is a member of the democratic party, and on its ticket he
was elected in 1918 to the Ohio General Assembly. He served during the
Eighty-third General Session as a member of the committees on codes,
courts and procedure, corporations and civil service.

In the World war period Mr. Greve served as a member of the advisory
war committee for the mayor of Cleveland, and was one of the four-minute
speakers in behalf of the various patriotic movements, including the cam-
paigns in support of the war loans, Red Cross work, etc.

August 26, 1919, recorded the marriage of Mr. Greve and Miss Adelaide
D. Small, who was born and reared in Cleveland, and who is a daughter
of Peter and Sophia (Durr) Small. Mr. and Mrs. Greve have one son,
George Frederick, Jr.

Rexford Dudley Way, Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, has achieved
successful prominence in that profession and for a number of years has

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been identified with the leading veterinary hospital in Cleveland. He was.
born at Northfield, Summit County, Ohio, June 13, 1888. His grand-
father, Charles W. Way, was a native of Somersetshire, England, where,
on July 6, 1837, he married Harriet Tribbs. They became the parents of
ten children. In 1858 the family came to the United States and first
located at Canton, Ohio. The following year the family removed to
Northfield, Summit County, Ohio, where Charles W. purchased and
operated for a number of years the old Brandywine flour and feed mills
and where he died January 14, 1894. His wife died in Akron, Ohio. He
was proficient in many vocations, including the trades of miller, baker,
brewer, weaver and dyer.

John Way, son of Charles W. and father of Doctor Way, was born
at \V'illabbington, near Bristol, Somersetshire, England, August 24, 1850,
and was seven years of age when the family came to the United States.
He learned milling under his father, and subsequently he and a brother
took over the old Brandywine mills and operated them for a number of
years. Later they bought a large farm and engaged in farming at North-
field. Successful in business, John Way was also deeply interested in
matters of general concern in the Northfield community. He filled a
number of township offices, and gave his earnest support to all movements
for the general advancement of the locality. He served as township trustee
and was a member of the Board of Education. He was one of the three
men who secured the additions and improvement to Northfield Cemetery.
He was instrumental in establishing the Northfield High School and also in
securing the construction of the line of the Akron, Bedford & Cleveland
Interurban Railway through Northfield. He died at his home in North-
field, February 21, 1901. His wife was Lida Barnhart, born at Boston,
Ohio, daughter of Henry Barnhart, who came to Ohio from Pennsylvania.
Mrs. John Way is still living. She was the mother of four children :
Charles W., who died in 1905 ; Jessie W., wife of John Snyder, a resident
of Liberty, Indiana; Raymond B., of the Brooklyn Ice Company at Cleve-
land ; and Rexf ord D.

Rexford D. W'ay grew up at Northfield. was educated in the district
schools and graduated from the Northfield High School in 1905. He then
entered Ohio State University, attending the Veterinary College, and was
graduated with the degree Doctor of Veterinary Medicine in 1908. From
August 10, 1908, to May 5, 1911. Doctor Way was in the United States
Bureau of Animal Industry, in the Department of Agriculture. At the
latter date he resigned to engage in private practice at Cleveland, associated
with Dr. Arthur S. Cooley, one of the most prominent veterinarians in
the country. Doctor Cooley retired from practice a year or so ago, and
since then Doctor Way has alone carried on the extensive business of the
firm. Together they established a veterinary hospital, one of the best
equipped institutions of its kind in Northern Ohio. It has probably a
larger clientele among the wealthy families than any other similar institu-
tion. It occupies a large and commodious building on a lot 80 by 125 feet,
and has accommodations for a large number of domestic animals at one
time.

Doctor Way is a member of the Ohio State Veterinary Association, the
American Veterinary Association, the Ohio State Alumni Association, the
Knights of Malta and the Big Ten Club.

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He married, in 1909, Miss Nellie Barnes, a native of Fort Wayne,
Indiana, and daughter of C. E. and Florence Barnes. Mrs. Way's mother
died in December, 1921. Her father is a resident of Columbus, Ohio.
Doctor and Mrs. Way have two children : Ruth Lida, born August 21, 1910,
and Robert D., born November 29, 1913.

Zenas King. The true measure of life is not in years, but in achieve-
ment, but both in years and in large and w^orthy accomplishment as one of
world's constructive workers the late Zenas King was enabled to make his
service one of large and cumulative importance. His talent in mechanical
invention was supplemented by a splendid initiative and executive ability,
and the concrete results were represented by the upbuilding of a great
industrial enterprise at Cleveland and the winning of precedence as one of
the leading bridge-builders of the world, the King structural-iron products
for the building of bridges standing forth as worthy of pioneer honors in
this field as well as representing one of the foremost industries of the kind
in the United States. At the time of his death, October 28, 1892, Mr. King
was president of the King Iron Bridge & Manufacturing Company, and he
served consecutively as president of the Lake Shore Bank of Cleveland
from the time of its organization until his death, he having been the
founder of this institution. Mr. King was one of the pioneers also in the
building of iron bridges, and his achievement in the industrial world is one
that can not fail to be of cumulative value. He identified himself also with
other industrial and business enterprise of importance, and was an out-
standing figure in both the business and civic affairs of the Ohio metropolis
for many years, the while his fine attributes of character marked him as the
recipient of unqualified popular confidence and respect.

A scion of a family that was founded in New England in the Colonial
period of our national history, Zenas King reverted to the Green Mountain
State as the place of his nativity, his birth having occurred in Kingston,
Vermont, on the 1st of May, 1818, so that he was seventy-four years of
age at the time of his death, in 1892. He was a lad of five years when his
parents moved to St. Lawrence County, New York, in the year 1823, and
there he was reared to the sturdy discipline of the home farm, the while
his mental ken was widened by the earnest application he gave to study in
the common schools of the locality and period. He early gave evidence of
mechanical ability, and while his nature was not one of undue self-assertive-
ness, he had the well balanced powers that make for assimilation and
absorption and for a placing of true valuation upon men and material
agencies. Thus his ambition w^as quickened to gain a wider sphere of action
than that represented in the basic farm industry. At the age of twenty-one
years Mr. King came to Ohio and established his residence in the growing
village of Milan, Erie County, and was a merchant and real estate dealer.
There he also became a successful contractor and builder, and with this
line of enterprise he continued his alliance until 1860. In 1848 he formed
a partnership with C. H. Buck and engaged in the general merchandise
business at Milan. Eight years later his impaired health led him to retire
from the firm, and later he gave two years of effective service as a traveling
representative of the Cincinnati firm of Scott & Hedges, leading dealers in
agricultural implements. He then became associated with the Moslev

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Bridge Company of Cleveland, and thus initiated his alliance with the line
of industry along which he was destined to achieve maximum success and
precedence. With characteristic concentration and enthusiasm Mr. King
in this connection devoted much of time and thought to the improving of
bridge construction, with special interest in devising a means of improving
the common type of iron bridges. His research and experimentation were
must thorough, and after many experiments and tests, changes and substi-
tutions, he perfected plans for an iron bridge. He obtained patents on his
invention in the year 1860, and to place his new type of bridge in practical
service he organized his firm and erected and equipped what was for that
time a large manufacturing plant, the same having been established at the
corner of St. Clair and Wason Streets in the City of Cleveland. Here was
instituted the manufacture of materials for iron bridges, besides which the
enterprise was amplified to include the manufacture of steam boilers. In
1863 the partnership was dissolved, his partner assuming control of the
boiler-making department of the business, while Mr. King took over the
bridge-building industry, in which he concentrated his activities. In the
introduction of the new type of bridge he had, as a matter of course, to
encounter popular prejudice and skepticism and to overcome many other
formidable obstacles. He knew the value of the product and system which
he had to offer, and with characteristic determination and courage he per-
sisted in his promotive efforts until he gained for his iron bridges a tech-
nical and popular approval that had reflex in the splendid development of
his business. The King bridge measured up to every test, and by the year
1886 Mr. King had erected iron bridges of an aggregate of more than 150
miles if placed end to end. In 1871, as a matter of commercial expediency
and to meet the requirements of the constantly expanding business,
Mr. King effected the organization of the King Iron Bridge & Manufactur-
ing Company, and in which he enlisted the cooperation of a number of lead-
ing Cleveland capitalists and others of prominence in industrial affairs.
Under this regime the business of the company was extended to vast volume,
and the King bridges came into requisition throughout all sections of the
Union. In structural iron and steel work Mr. King was a leader and did
much to advance standards of service in these important lines. Among the
important structures erected by the King Iron Bridge & Manufacturing
Company may be mentioned the Central, Walworth Run and Kingsbury
viaduct in the City of St. Louis, Missouri, the South Omaha bridge in
Nel)raska, the New Viaduct at Cleveland and several bridges across the
Mississippi River. The following consistent statement is worthy of preser-
vation in this review : "In the administration of the large and important
interests of his company Mr. King displayed the attributes and powers of
the man of large affairs, the true captain of industry, and thus brought
contradistinction to the popular estimate that usually ascribes to the man
of inventive genius a lack of initiative and executive ability. Throughout
his active career Mr. King continued the guiding spirit in the wide operations
of the great industrial corporation of which he had been the founder, besides
which he acquired other industrial and commercial interests of important
order." It may be noted further that Mr. King held for some time the
office of president of the old St. Clair & Collamar Railroad. He was ever
the man of thought and action, and his name and fame have become a part

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of the history of Cleveland and the nation, as touching industrial and civic
enterprise and progress.

Mr. King was essentially a loyal, liberal and public-spirited citizen, but
had no ambition for the honors of political or other public office. He
contributed earnestly to the support of charitable and philanthropic agencies
in his home city, w^as a republican in political adherency, and he and his
wife were devoted communicants of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
Mr. King gave many years of loyal and effective service as a member of
the vestry of the Cleveland parish of St. Paul's Church, and was eventually
honored with the office of senior warden of this church, his career, in all of
its relations, having exemplified the surety of his Christian faith and the
consistency of his service as a true churchman.

Mr. King, as previously stated, continued to serve as president of the
King Iron Bridge & Manufacturing Company until his death. In this
office he was succeeded by his son James, and upon the illness of the latter
the presidency was assumed by the one surviving son, Harry W., who is
still the chief executive of this old and important industrial corporation.

In the year 1842 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. King and
Miss Maranda C. Wheelock, of Ogdensburg, New York, and she passed
to the life eternal March 1, 1891. The ancestry of the Wheelock family
in England traces back to 1285, and the family in America was here
founded in the early Colonial era. Among the distinguished representa-
tives of this family was the founder of historic old Dartmouth College.
Of the seven children of Mr. and Mrs. King only two are now living:
Mary, who is the widow of Dr. Homer W. Osborn, an honored citizen to
whom a tribute is given in an individual memoir in the following sketch,
and Harry W., who is president of the King Iron Bridge & Manufacturing
Company. Harry W. King married Miss Marjorie Gundry, of Mineral
Point, Wisconsin, she being a sister of John M. Gundry, an executive of
the Cleveland Trust Company.

Homer W. Osborn, M. D. In the great arena in which are staged all
activities, the one outstanding element of individual greatness is that of
service. He who serves wisely and well has distinct patent to the title of
royalty, and those in the least familiar with the life and labors of the late
Dr. Homer W. Osborn, of Cleveland, can not fail to appreciate how fully
he lived up to this high standard of human service. His professional
stewardship was one of signal fidelity, and his deep and abiding human
sympathy transcended mere emotion to become an actuating force for
helpfulness. He loved his work and knew that it was good and true. To
have this realization denoted his consecration to service, and in his pro-
fessional ministrations, in his unvarying kindliness and sympathy, in his
loyalty as a citizen, in his fine appreciation of the true values in sentiment
and action, he had little thought for self, but much thought for others and
their happiness. Such was the man who achieved greatly in his chosen
calling, and such the man whose memory is revered by all who came within
the province of his influence.

Doctor Osborn was born at Ashtabula, Ohio. February 27, 1843. and
was seventy-six years of age when he was called from the stage of life's
mortal endeavors, his death having occurred at his home in the City of

78 CUYAHOGA COUNTY AND

Cleveland November 20, 1919. The Doctor was a scion of one of the
old and honored families of the Buckeye State, and gained his earlier edu-
cation in the schools of his native place. He was a lad of fourteen years
when he accompanied his parents on their removal to Darlington, Wis-
consin, where he continued his studies in the common schools. Later he
was for a time a student in a private school at Kingsville, Ohio. He was
an ambitious youth of seventeen years at the inception of the Civil war,
and was formulating definite plans for his future career. At this stage in
his career, however, he promptly subordinated all personal interests to the
call of patriotism and enlisted as a private in the Third Wisconsin Volunteer
Infantry, which became a part of the famous "Iron Brigade," the record
of which constitutes a splendid chapter in the history of the great conflict
between the states of the North and the South. That Doctor Osborn con-
tinued in active service with this command until the close of the war, save
for the interval during which he was incapacitated by wounds, offers the
most effective voucher for the valor and fidelity of his service in defense
of the nation's integrity. In the battle of Antietam he was severely
wounded, but as soon as he had sufficiently recuperated as to permit this
action he rejoined his regiment, with which he took part in the great battle
of Gettysburg, where the Third Wisconsin Regiment of Infantry bore the
main part in breaking the historic charge of the Confederate forces under
General Pickett. Later Doctor Osborn was with his regiment in Sherman's
great Atlanta campaign, and at the battle of Resaca he was again badly
wounded. He fell between the battle lines of the contending forces, but
managed to drag his weary and painful way to the cabin of a friendly
negro, who there sheltered him until he was found by his comrades and
given proper attention. He received his honorable discharge after victory
had crowned the arms of the Union, and in later years he signalized his
continued interest in his old comrades by membership in the Army of the
Republic.

After the close of the war Doctor Osborn returned to Darlington, Wis-
consin, and soon afterward he became a member of an engineering corps
which engaged in surveying work in Kansas and Nebraska. After com-
pleting his service in this connection he again returned to Darlington,
where he began the study of medicine under the preceptorship of a local
physician. In 1869 he came to Cleveland, Ohio, and entered the Cleve-
land Homeopathic Medical College, and while pursuing his studies in this
institution he availed himself also of the preceptorship here kindly ofifered
in the office of Dr. D. H. Beck with, who was at that time one of the
representative physicians and surgeons of the city. In due course he
received from the Homeopathic College his degree of Doctor of Medicine,
and in establishing himself in practice at Cleveland he opened an office on
Erie Street, or the present East Ninth Street, where he became associated
in practice with Dr. William Saunders. After his marriage, in 1872, he
maintained his office in his home, at the corner of Huron Road and Pros-
I>ect Street. On this site was eventually erected the modern structure
which bears his name and is known as the Osborn Building. It was in this
building that the Doctor had his well equipped offices at the time of his
death. He gained a large and representative practice that fully attested
his professional ability and personal popularity, and gained specially high

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reputation as a diagnostician, in which connection his interposition was
much in demand on the part of his professional confreres. Doctor Osborn
was identified with leading professional organizations, including the Amer-
ican Institute of Homeopathy, was a republican in political allegiance, and
at the time of his death he was president of the Cleveland Philosophical
Society, in the affairs of which he had long been influential.

On the 6th of February, 1872, was solemnized the marriage of Doctor
Osborn and Miss Mary King, daughter of the late Zenas King, a distin-
guished Cleveland citizen to whom a memoir is dedicated in the preceding
sketch. Since the death of her husband Mrs. Osborn has continued
her residence in Cleveland, and her beautiful home, at 2597 Guilford Road,
is a center of gracious hospitality and of much social activity of representa-
tive character. The Doctor is survived also by one daughter, Eleanor,
who is the wife of Samuel H. Moore, of Cleveland. Mr. and Mrs. Moore
became the parents of three children, of whom the second, Homer Osborn,
died in October, 1923, at the age of fifteen years. Jane, elder of the two
surviving children, remains at the parental home, and Edward also con-
tinues to reside in Cleveland.

Farrell Thomas Gallagher, A. B., M. D., is one of the able and
representative physicians and surgeons of the younger generation of his
native county, and is established in successful general practice at Lakewood,
with office headquarters at 16409 Detroit Avenue.

Doctor Gallagher was born in the family home on the West Side of
Cleveland, January 9, 1895, he being a representative of an old and well
known Cleveland family. His grandfather, Farrell Gallagher, was born
and reared in Ireland and became one of the early settlers on Seneca Street,
in the Lighthouse Hill district of Cleveland. He was actively identified with
the interests of this section of Cleveland for many years, and was one of
the venerable and honored citizens of the Ohio metropolis at the time of his
death. He married Mary Gallagher, who, though of the same name, was
of no relationship.

Thomas M. Gallagher, father of the doctor, was born in the old family
homestead on Lighthouse Hill, in 1856, and he has maintained his home in
Cleveland, where he has been associated with the United States mail
service for the past thirty-seven years. He married Miss Anna Feighan,
who was born in Ireland, a daughter of William Feighan, and both are
members of the Catholic Church.

Doctor Gallagher completed the curriculum of the public schools and in
1915 was graduated from Saint Ignatius College at Cleveland with the
degree of Bachelor of Arts. He then entered the medical department of
Western Reserve University, and in this institution he was graduated as a
member of the class of 1919. After receiving his degree of Doctor of
Medicine he further fortified himself by his service as an interne in Lake-
side Hospital in 1919-20, and in Charity Hospital, 1920. He has since been
established in the independent and general practice of his profession at
Lakewood, and his personal popularity has combined with his professional
ability to gain him a substantial and representative practice. He is doing
effective work in the educational department of his profession, being
demonstrator in anatomv at his alma mater, the Medical School of Western

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Reserve University. He is a member of the Cleveland Academy of Medi-
cine, the Ohio State Medical Society, and the American Medical Association.
The Doctor is a communicant of the Catholic Church, and has received the
Alhambra degree in Gilmore Council of the Knights of Columbus, besides
which he is affiliated with the Alpha Omega Alpha college fraternity.

Doctor Gallagher married Miss Martha G. Burns, who was born and
reared in Cleveland, where her father, Joseph H. Burns, is a successful
and well known business man.

Russell Boyd Crawford, M. D., one of the representative physicians
and surgeons of the younger generation in Cuyahoga County, established in
successful practice in the City of Lakewood, was born at Coshocton, Ohio,
February 7, 1891, and is a son of Samuel L. and Carvetta (Boyd) Craw-
ford, both natives of Coshocton County. James Bothwell Crawford, grand-
father of the doctor, was a native of Ireland, and was numbered among
the early settlers in Coshocton County, where he became a successful
farmer, and where he passed the remainder of his life. Robert Boyd,
maternal grandfather of Doctor Crawford, was of Irish lineage and a
descendant of Albert Boyd, who came to the United States and became a
pioneer of Coshocton County, he having been the founder of the Boyd
family which has been in Ohio for seven successive generations. The
parents of Doctor Crawford are still residents of Coshocton County.

Doctor Crawford was graduated from the Coshocton High School as a
member of the class of 1910, and, after teaching school one year, he was
for two years a student in Wooster University. Thereafter he wa5 for a
time a student in the medical department of Ohio State University, and com-
pleted his professional course in the medical department of Northwestern
University in Chicago, where he was graduated as a member of the class of
1917, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. While in Chicago he further
fortified himself through the clinical experience gained while he was
serving as an interne in the People's Hospital. In the year of his gradua-
tion Doctor Crawford entered into the practice of his profession at
Jeromesville, Ashland County, Ohio, but in the following year he found a
wider sphere of service in connection with American participation in the
World war. He was commissioned a lieutenant in the Medical Corps of
the United States Army, and was stationed at Chickamauga Park, Georgia,
at the time when the signing of the armistice brought the war to a close,
and continued in service until he received his honorable discharge and was
mustered out, January 14, 1919. On the first of the following month he
opened an office at Lakewood. He is a member of the staff of Lakewood
Hospital, and is a member of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine, the
Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. In the
Masonic fraternity the Doctor is affiliated with Clifton Lodge, Free and
Accepted Masons, and Cunningham Chapter, Royal Arch Masons.

Doctor Crawford wedded Miss Clela May Gordon, daughter of David
O. Gordon, of Ashland, Ohio, and the two children of this union are
Robert Gordon and Mary Irene, aged, respectively, eight and three years.

Thomas Burdine Armstrong has been a resident of Lakewood since
1902, and has witnessed and aided in the development of this community

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from a village to a modern city of more than 50,000 population. He is now
one of the prominent real estate and insurance operators in the Cleveland
metropolitan district and is valued as a loyal and progressive citizen.

In a modest log house on a farm in Ralls County, Missouri, Thomas B.
Armstrong u'as born August 27 , 1862, a son of the late Julius L. and
Lucy M. (Shults) Armstrong. Lewis Armstrong, grandfather of the
subject of this sketch, vi^as born and reared in the City of Edinburgh, Scot-
land, and upon coming to the United States he established his residence in
the State of New York. At the time the discovery of gold in California
was drawing a horde of argonauts to that state Lewis Armstrong, accom-
panied by his sons, Julius L. and Wallace, started for California, but upon
arriving in Ralls County, Missouri, they decided to forego their further
westward journey and to establish their home there. When the Civil war
was precipitated Lewis Armstrong and his elder son, Wallace, enlisted in
the Fourth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, in which the father was made color-
bearer, and with this command the two continued in the active service of
the Union until the close of the war. Lewis Armstrong was a good work-
man at the trade of miller and also that of shoemaker, and after the war he
came to Ohio and settled at what is now the attractive little City of
Willoughby, Lake County, where he built and operated a grist mill on
the Chagrin River, a short distance from the village. He passed the
remainder of his life in that place, and was specially active and appreciative
as a member of the Grand Army of the Republic.

Julius L. Armstrong came with his family to Willoughby, Ohio, and
after a few years devoted to farm enterprise in that section of Lake County
he engaged in contracting and building, with which he there continued his
active association during the remainder of his life. He had volunteered
for service in the Civil war, but was rejected by reason of physical disa-
bility. Later he succeeded in enrolling himself in the Union ranks, but he
was soon discharged, for the same reason that had prompted his original
rejection for military service. His wife was born in Missouri, a daughter
of Alexander Shults, who was born in Germany and who became a pioneer
settler and a most popular citizen of Missouri, he having been but a boy,
however, at the time of the family immigration to the United States. The
sailing vessel on which the family took passage was lost at sea, but he was
rescued, his parents losing their lives in the disaster. Upon arriving in
port in the United States the orphan boy was taken in charge by kindly
strangers, whom he accompanied to Missouri, in which state he passed the
remainder of his life. Mrs. Julius L. Armstrong, like her husband, p:issed
the closing years of her life at Willoughby, Ohio, where she died in the
year 1909.

Thomas B. Armstrong was a lad of eight years when he came with his
parents from Missouri to Willoughby, Ohio, where he was reared to adult
age and recdved the advantages of the public schools. Soon after leaving
school he began working for his father, and later he became a member of
the firm of J. L. Armstrong & Sons, contractors and builders, at Willoughby.
At that place he subsequently learned the trade of patternmaker in the
establishment, of J. W. Penfield & Son Company, in which he finally \vas
made foreman of the pattern department. In 1888 he took the position of
foreman of the pattern department of the Hill Clutch W^orks in Cleveland,

82 CUYAHOGA COUNTY AND

and a year later he assumed a similar position with the American Ship
Building Company. Six years later he took charge of the pattern depart-
ment of the Winton Automohile Company, and there in 1912 he produced
the patterns for the first six-cylinder Winton car, he having continued his
alliance with this Cleveland automohile concern five years. In 1902, as pre-
viously stated in this article, he established his residence at Lakewood, and
here he has been engaged in the real estate and insurance business since
1917. In connection with the splendid growth of Lakewood he has handled
more pieces of local realty and brought to the city a greater number of
desirable citizens than has any other one man here operating in the real
estate business. He gave four years of loyal and effective service as a
member of the City Council, and he was chairman of the parks and proper-
ties committee, which established all of the present public parks and play-
grounds of Lakewood. Many other public improvements of most important
order were made during his period of service in the City Council. Mr.
Armstrong has large real estate interests in Florida, owning fine property
at Melbourn, that state, and where he has built homes for himself and
daughters, maintaining homes both in Florida and Lakewood.

Mr. Armstrong is a member of the Lakewood Chamber of Commerce,
is actively identified with the Lakewood Republican Club, and is a member
of the Cleveland Automobile Club. He is a member of Clifton Lodge No.
664, Free and Accepted Masons; Thatcher Chapter No. 101, Royal Arch
Masons ; Lakewood Council No. 125, Royal and Select Masters ; Al Koran
Temple of the Mystic Shrine ; Lake Erie Consistory of the Scottish Rite,
thirty-second degree, and Holy Grail Commandery No. 70, Knights
Templar, Lakewood.

Mr. Armstrong wedded Miss Etta L.- Pease, daughter of Joseph Pease,
of Chardon, Ohio. Of this union there are two children. Melva E. is the
wife of William Smith, of Cleveland, and they have one son, Donald A.
Mildred J. is the wife of Ralph J. Whiting, of New Haven, Connecticut.
They reside in Lakewood.

Charles Wallace Emmons, M. D., one of the leading physicians of
Lakewood, was born at New Alexander, Columbiana County, on April 13.
1883, and is the son of Harrison and Mary (Lower) Emmons, both of
whom were natives of that section of the state. The father, Harrison, was
born October 3, 1840, and was the son of Enos Emmons, a native of
Virginia, who was the first member of this branch of the Emmons family
to come to Ohio. When the Civil war broke out in 1861, Harrison Emmons
enlisted in the First Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served
until September, 1864, when he was honorably discharged and mustered
out, and immediately returned to his home in Columbiana County. Soon
after the close of the war he went to Iowa, where he secured a half section
of land, and for eight years was there engaged in farming and stock raising,
at the end of which time he sold out and returned to Columbiana County,
and engaged in merchandising at New Alexander, continuing in business
for about thirty years. During that period he also served as postmaster of
the village and as treasurer of the township.

He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. His wife, Mary,
the daughter of Michael Lower, one of the early pioneers of Columbiana

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County, was born May 31, 1846. To their marriage the following children
have been born : William Sherman, who is an attorney of Alliance, Ohio ;
Catherine, who married Professor Crist, of Mount Union College, and
following his death she married James E. Scott and they reside in Cleve-
land; Albert P.. who is a real estate dealer of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania;
Delmer O., who is in the mercantile business at Minerva, Ohio ; Ida, who
became the wife of William Culbertson and they live at AUiance ; Harry H.,
who is a practicing attorney at Canton, Ohio; Dr. Charles W., subject;
James B., a merchant of Cleveland ; and Mary, who married Corwin Ray,
of Baird, Ohio.

Doctor Emmons was reared in New Alexander, acquired his early
education in the public schools, taught school for one year, and then attended
Mt. Union College for three years. He was graduated from the Cleve-
land College of Physicians and Surgeons, with the degree of Doctor of
Medicine, class of 1906. That college is now the medical department of
Western Reserve University. During 1906-7 he served as interne at the
Cleveland City Hospital, and then engaged in the general practice of his
profession at Rogers, Ohio. After several years he changed his location to
Fairport Harbor, on Lake Erie, in Lake County, and in 1920 came to
Lakewood, where he has since continued in the general practice of his
profession. He maintains his offices at the corner of Brown Road and
Madison Avenue, where he completed in 1924 a beautiful brick residential
an-d commercial apartment, one of the best in that section of Lakewood.
He there also established a first class pharmacy, which is in charge of
his nephew, a graduate pharmacist.

Doctor Emmons is a member of the Ohio State and the American
Medical associations. While practicing at Fairport he was secretary-
treasurer of the Lake County Medical Society. He is a member of Temple
Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Painsville ; Lakewood Lodge, Inde-
pendent Order of Odd Fellows, and of the Knights of the Maccabees.
He is vice president and a director of the Medicraft Company, manufac-
turers of fine soap and toilet articles, with a nation-wide market and a
high reputation.

In 1906 the Doctor married Jennie L. Heastand, who was born in
Columbiana County, Ohio, the daughter of Frank L. and Ella Heastand.
The Doctor and wife have a daughter, Carolyn Roce, eleven years of age.

Ernest P. Wilmot. Through a period of nearly half a century
Ernest P. Wilmot has practiced law at Chagrin Falls in Cuyahoga County,
and has not only won an enviable place in his profession, but is held in
high esteem for the fine quality of public service he has rendered in that
community.

He was born at Mantua, in Portage County, Ohio. March 11. 1851,
son of Amzi and Minerva (Dudley) Wilmot. His father was born at
Mantua, in Portage County, in 1823. and died there in April, 1899, having
spent all his active years in farming. He took an active part in political
matters as a republican, and for many years was a director of the Portage
County Infirmary.

Ernest P. Wilmot is the oldest of five children, four of whom are living.
He attended the district schools, a select school at ^fantua. and was also

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a student in Hiram Institute. After completing his education he worked
on the home farm, and began the study of law in 1872 with H. C. Ranney
and E. P. Hatfield, then of Ravenna, later of Cleveland. Subsequently
Mr. Wilmot continued his law studies with George F. Robinson, of
Ravenna, who served continuously on the common pleas bench longer
than any other judge in Ohio. Mr. Wilmot was admitted to the bar at
Warren in April, 1876, and in the course of his long career and general
practice at Chagrin Falls, has represented nearly all the important cases
originated in this section of the county.

Mr. Wilmot has also served as justice of the peace and mayor. In
1902 he was head of the city government when the first pavement was laid
in Chagrin Falls. He prepared the local legislation for the sewers in 1906
and for all of the pavements except two. Mr. Wilmot has been a mem-
ber of Golden Gate Lodge No. 245, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons,
since 1884, and has served as worshipful master and since 1905 as secre-
tary of the lodge. Since 1885 he has been a Royal Arch Mason and served
as high priest in 1891. On January 31, 1884, he married Miss Emma J.
Waterman, who died June 19. 1919. The only child of their marriage
was Virgil Wilmot, who died May 26, 1923. The son left surviving him
his widow, Ethel M. Wilmot, and a son, David L. Wilmot, and a son,
John P., was born in August, following his death.

George Wallace Orr, a resident of Cleveland and active in local
business afiFairs for over a quarter of a century, has for the last twenty-five
years been superintendent and manager of the Rose Building, one of the
largest of the down town business blocks.

Mr. Orr is a native of Ohio, born at Youngstown, January 16, 1869.
In the paternal line he is of Scotch ancestry. The first of this branch of the
family to come to America was John Orr, who settled in Westmoreland
County, Pennsylvania. His son, Charles Orr, was born in Westmoreland
County. John D. Orr, son of Charles, and father of George W., was born
at Mount Jackson, Pennsylvania, September 22, 1842. Moving to Ohio
in 1862, he located at Youngstown, and for many years did a successful
business as a carpenter contractor in that city. During the Harrison
administration he was appointed to a position in the Government revenue
department, and was connected with that branch of the federal service for
five years. He died at Youngstown in 1915. John D. Orr married Rebecca
Armstrong, of English ancestry. She was born at Youngstown in 1843,
and died in that city in 1905. Her father was Hugh Wallace Armstrong,
a native of Mercer County, Pennsylvania.

George Wallace Orr was reared at Youngstown, attended the public
schools of that city, and also had training in a commercial business college
and then in the Specia,l Business College. After several years in the retail
grocery business he moved from Youngstown to Cleveland in 1896, and
his work here had been almost entirely in connection with the management
of some of the large properties in the down town area. For a time he
was connected with the American Trust Building. Since 1918 he has
been superintendent and manager of the Rose Building. He is also a
director in the Dover Savings & Loan Company and has various financial
interests.

THE CITY OF CLEVELAND 85

Mr. Orr is affiliated with Bigelow Lodge No. 243, Free and Accepted
Masons, Keystone Chapter No. 217, Royal Arch Masons, Oriental Com-
mandery No. 12, Knights Templar, Lake Erie Consistory of the Scottish
Rite, Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine and the Masonic Club. He
is also a member of the Chamber of Commerce and the Pilgrim Congrega-
tional Church.

August 28, 1890, Mr. Orr married Helen N. Hull, of Youngstown,
but a native of Pittsburgh. Her father was Prof. W. N. Hull, of Cedar
Falls, Iowa.

Arthur Henry Seibig. Among the well known bankers of Cleveland
who have won success and prestige in the financial history of the city is
Arthur H. Seibig, president of the United Banking & Trust Company,
with which important banking house he has been connected, as boy and
man, for over thirty-three years, rising from messenger boy, in 1891, to
president in 1919.

Mr. Seibig is a native-born son of Cleveland, and on his mother's side
is descended from the old Hoffman family, pioneers of the West Side, of
which family four generations have had part in the afTairs of that section
of the city. He is the son of the late Jacob J. and Mary (Pastner) Seibig,
the father a native of Germany, the mother of Cleveland, as was her father
also.

Arthur H. Seibig was born January 29, 1877, and received his educa-
tion in the public schools of the city. In 1891 he left school to enter the
employ of what was then the West Side Banking Company, and from that
time to the present he has given his undivided services to that institution,
and the history of its growth and development from what was originally
the West Side Banking Company into the United Banking & Trust Com-
pany of today is the story of the growth and development of its president.

Mr. Seibig is a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, the
Cleveland Chamber of Industry, the Bankers, Union, Athletic, Clifton and
Westwood clubs, and of the Masonic Order (including the York and
Scottish Rite degrees).

On April 15, 1902, Mr. Seibig was united in marriage with Miss Bertha
Beckenbach, who was born in Cleveland, the daughter of William and
Bertha Beckenbach,

Charles Kroehle. The late Charles Kroehle was one of the well
known and highly esteemed citizens of the South Side of Cleveland, where
he made his home for over thirty years and where, retired from active
business and surrounded by his family and many warm friends, he passed
his peaceful declining years.

This branch of the Kroehle family is of German stock, and three gen-
erations ago was living in a Rhenish province which was acquired from
Germany by France during the time of the first Napoleon, and the father
of Charles, because of his stalwart size and military training and bearing,
became one of Napoleon's grenadiers and personal body guard, and as
such accompanied the Emperor on the ill-fated invasion of Russia, and
died from exposure during the Moscow campaign. The father of Charles
was a hotel keeper.

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Charles Kroehle was born in Germany, in 1826. He was a baker by
trade. He came to the United States in 1852. Immediately attracted by
the wonderful stories coming from the gold fields of the far West, Mr.
Kroehle went out to the Pacific Coast and spent fifteen years in the min-
ing districts of California and at Virginia City, Nevada. In 1867 he
returned East from the coast and came to Cleveland, locating in Brooklyn
Village (now a part of the city), where he spent the remainder of his
life, dying there in 1897.

In 1868 Mr. Kroehle was united in marriage with Mary A. Schneider,
who was brought from Germany to the United States and to Cleveland
when she was six months old. Her father, the late Jacob Schneider, was
a pioneer piano manufacturer of Cleveland, with his factory standing on
the site of the old courthouse on the Public Square. Mrs. Kroehle has
spent practically her entire life in Cleveland and, as girl and woman, has
been privileged to witness the wonderful growth and radical changes in
the city during her time. She survives her husband, and is at this writing
eighty- four years of age.

To the marriage of Charles and Mary A. (Schneider) Kroehle the fol-
lowing children were born: Oscar, Wendell, Ida (the widow of Harvev

D. Guiley). Otto, Albert E. and Paul E.

Paul Ernst Kroehle. Among the native-born men of Cleveland
who have won success as business men and prestige as citizens is Paul

E. Kroehle, of The Paul E. Kroehle Company, one of the large food
brokerage concerns of the country.

Mr. Kroehle was born in Brooklyn Village (now a part of the City of
Cleveland) on December 5, 1878, the son of Charles and Mary A.
(Schneider) Kroehle, of whom extended mention is made in the pre-
ceding sketch. He was educated in the grammar and high schools
of the city and at Adelbert College of Western Reserve University, and
upon leaving college he entered the food brokerage business on his own
account.

Beginning business in a small way with limited capital, Mr. Kroehle
has built up and developed one of the leading and representative food
brokerage houses of the country, and of which he has ever since been the
executive head and guiding genius.

Aside from his business interests Mr. Kroehle takes active interest in
the civic affairs of the community, and has always been found ready to
back any and all movements whose object is the welfare and advancement
of the city and her institutions.

Mr. Kroehle is a member of the National Food Brokerage Association,
and served as its president in 1921. He is also a member of the Cleveland
Chamber of Commerce, the Cleveland Athletic Club, the Old Colony
Club, the Willowick Country Club, and of the following Masonic bodies :
Halcyon Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, Holyrood Commandery,
Knights Templar, Lake Erie Consistory, thirty-second degree, Scottish
Rite, Al Koran Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and Al Sirat Grotto.

On August 29, 1906, Mr. Kroehle was united in marriage with Miss
Jessie A. MacFarlane, who was born near the City of Quebec, Canada,
the daughter of the late John MacFarlane, who was a prominent railroad

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man of Pittsburgh, well known in Cleveland. To Mr. and Mrs. Kroehle
a daughter, Mary Ellen, was born in 1908.

Oscar Kroehle, son of Charles and Mary A. (Schneider) Kroehle,
and president of the Protex Signal Company, was born in Brooklyn
Village (now the City of Cleveland) on September 21, 1869. He was
educated in the grammar and high schools, and began his business life as a
salesman, for five years having been head salesman for a Cleveland furni-
ture company. In 1896 he engaged in the baking business, and a few
years later he founded the Star Baking Company. He has the distinction
of having originated and put into practice the idea of having bread leave
the bake shop already wrapped, an idea that has since been used by all
large bakeries. In 1901 he retired from the bakery business to engage in
that of real estate and the building of homes, and he had much to do with
the development of the South Side of Cleveland and of Lakewood. In
1920 he perfected and had patented his invention of an automobile signal,
the first efficient stop-signal ever put on the market, and known as the
"Protex." For the manufacture and marketing of his device he organized
the Protex company, with a plant at 1960 West Forty-fifth Street, which
supplies a market reaching every part of the world where the automobile
is in general use.

Mr. Kroehle is a member of the Lakewood Chamber of Commerce,
the Cleveland Chamber of Industry, the Cleveland Real Estate Board, and
the Clifton and City clubs.

In 1891 Mr. Kroehle married Ella A. Prouty, daughter of Charles A.
Prouty, and to them the following children have been born : Ralph, Amy
and Vernon. The Kroehle home is at 14921 Lake Avenue, Lakewood.

John Zipp. A native son of Cleveland who has raised himself by indus-
try, integrity and strict fidelity in all his relationships to a position of
prominence and success in the commercial portions of the city is John
Zipp, manufacturer, for many years head of the Zipp Manufacturing
Company.

The Zipp family home at the time of his birth, on December 13, 1857,
stood on Webster, then known as Columbus Street, in Cleveland. He was
a small boy while the great events of the Civil war were taking place, and
he was attending the public schools before the war was over. Most of his
early education was acquired in the old Brownell School Building. It was
inclination as well as necessity that turned him early into lines of com-
mercial endeavor. He clerked in a grocery store, also did bookkeeping,
and for seven years was employed by the Water Street firm John H.
Cause and Company, that period of his life bringing him some capital,
but chiefly experience, acquaintance and credit as a basis for his inde-
pendent start.

Mr. Zipp on September 1, 1885, founded and began the manufacture of
baking powder, flavoring extracts, crushed fruit and syrups, a business
that under his energetic and wise guidance has had a remarkable growth
and development into one of the largest concerns in Ohio. In 1896 the
Zipp Manufacturing Company was incorporated with a capital of $100,000,
the products being now confined largely to the manufacture of flavoring

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extracts, crushed fruits and fruit syrup. Mr. Zipp is still president and
active head of the business. Practically his entire business experience has
been within a radius of a few blocks from the location of his company.
In that community he was born and has lived a busy and honorable life.

Mr. Zipp is a republican in politics, is a member of the Cleveland
Chamber of Commerce, the VVillowick Country Club, the Tippecanoe
Club, the Cleveland Athletic Club, the Early Settlers' Association, and in
all these organizations his name is spoken with respect and admiration
for his splendid qualities of character.

In 1881 he married Miss Catherine Emig, a native of Mansfield, Ohio.
There are two children. Helen is the wife of Frank L. Fisher, secretary-
treasurer of the Zipp Manufacturing Company. The son, John III, is a
student in Baldwin-Wallace College at Berea, Ohio.

The father of the Cleveland manufacturer and business man whose
career has been briefly sketched was John Zipp, Sr., one of the earliest
of the German immigrants to settle in Cleveland. He was born in Ger-
many, in 1823, acquired a fair education and learned the trade of stone
mason in his native land, and in 1843, at the age of twenty, came to
America, locating in Cleveland. A man of industry and ambition, he
readily found employment at his trade, and in time began taking contracts
for masonry construction. At first he was foreman for one of the early
contractors of the city, Mr. Warner, who handled a great deal of building
work in Northern Ohio. As foreman he assisted in constructing a num-
ber of conspicuous buildings, including the old stone church still standing
on the square, and the old postoffice of Cleveland. Many others he helped
construct have long since been torn down and made way for modern
structures. His own work as a contractor was characterized by the best
skill of the building trades of that day. At the time of his death he held
the contract for stone work on the old Case Block.

John Zipp, Sr., also was in business as a coal, stone and wood merchant,
having his yards at the foot of East Ninth Street on the canal. Any con-
tract that he undertook he carried out with scrupulous fidelity, no matter
how many difficulties were involved. He had come to America with the
express purpose of building a home and founding a family in this new
world, and he brought with him and exemplified not only the sturdy vir-
tues of the fatherland, but also a fine degree of morality and civic pride
and public spirit. He was a consistent member of and held various posi-
tions in the German Reformed Church, and always voted the democratic
ticket.

John Zipp, Sr., married not long after coming to America, Miss
Catherine Kreckel, who was born in Germany in 1823, the same year as her
husband, and also came to this country in 1843. Her father soon after
his arrival built a house still standing at the lower end of Scoville Street,
near Ninth, then known as Parkman Street. This home was then on the
outskirts of the city, and some members of the Kreckel family objected
to living there since it was "out in the country."

John Zipp, Sr., died in January, 1864. He had been in America only
twenty years, but had succeeded well in his ambition to achieve a fair
degree of material wealth. His widow survived him until May, 1890.

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Benjamin Franklin Blaser. One of the leading real estate men
of Cleveland is Benjamin F. Blaser, of the Blaser Realty Company, whose
efforts have contributed greatly to the development of the Brooklyn sec-
tion of the city, to which they have given most of their time for the last
twenty years.

Mr. Blaser was born on a farm in Wyandot County, Ohio, on July 11,
1878, the son of Godfrey and Rosina (Kuenzli) Blaser, his father a
native of Switzerland, his mother of Holmes County, Ohio. The grand-
parents on the paternal side came from Switzerland and settled in Holmes
County when Godfrey was a boy of about ten years. After he was mar-
ried he located in Wyandot County and followed farming the remainder
of his long life, dying there in 1917, at the age of eighty-five years. While
carrying on his farm work he served as a minister of the Evangelical
Church for many years. His first wife, Rosina, died in 1885, when her
son Benjamin F. wa^ a boy of seven years. His second wife, Sarah
Enfield, who was born in Holmes County, Ohio, survived him several
years.

Benjamin F. Blaser was reared on the home farm, and received his
preliminary education in the district schools and the high school at Nevada,
the neighboring village. Later he taught for a time in the district schools.
He then entered Ohio Northern University, where he was graduated with
the degree of Bachelor of Arts with the class of 1902, and with the degree
of Bachelor of Laws with the class of 1904. He was admitted to the Ohio
bar, and for a time he was in the practice of law at Barberton, Summit
County, and then located in Cleveland and continued in practice for two
years. In 1906, associated with his brother Jonathan W., he organized
the Dennison Realty Company, and began the development of the Dennison-
Brooklyn sub-division, and in 1914 they incorporated as the Blaser Realty
Company and located their offices in Brooklyn. Since that time they have
continued their sub-division enterprise, with six different allotments. The
company is now giving special attention to the handling of business prop-
erties and the building of residences on the South Side, and controls 400
acres of valuable land, situated from four to fourteen miles distant from
the Public Square.

Mr. Blaser is a member of the board of directors of the Broadview
Savings & Loan Company and secretary-treasurer of the Altoona-Pearl
Company. He is a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Industry, the
Cleveland Real Estate Board, and a member of the Official Board of the
Pearl Road Methodist Episcopal Church.

In 1913 Mr. Blaser was united in marriage with Miss Emily E. Suroski,
who was born in Warsaw, Poland, and came to America with her parents
when she was six years of age. To Mr. and Mrs. Blaser was born a
daughter, Dorothy, who died at the age of six years.

Arthur Edwin Hoffman. One of the progressive business men and
citizens of the South End of Cleveland is Arthur E. Hoffman, secretary-
treasurer of the A. E. Hoffman Company, real estate operators and build-
ers, which company has been an important factor in the development of the
Brooklyn section of the city.

Mr. Hoffman is of the third generation of his familv in Cuvahoga

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County, the family having been settled here nearly three-quarters of a
century ago by his grandfather, Jacob HofTman, a native of Germany.
Soon after his marriage in the old country Jacob Hoffman came to the
United States. Coming direct to Cleveland, he settled in Parma Township
and vi^as engaged in farming his ov^n land for many years, and on his farm
he and his wife, Catherine, passed the remainder of their lives.

Andrew E. HofTman, son of Jacob and Catherine Hoffman, and father
of Arthur E., was born on the family homestead in Parma Township in
1852. When he was a lad of about fifteen years he came into the city and
served an apprenticeship at the carpenter's trade, worked at his trade as a
journeyman for a number of years, and then engaged in contracting and
building on his own account, and has since continued. He is still active
in business as president of the A. E. Hoffman Company. Mr. Hoffman
married Lena Killer, who was born in Cleveland in 1855.

Arthur E. Hoffman was born in the family home on Walton Avenue.
Cleveland, on December 18, 1885. He attended the Sackett Public School
and completed the course at the Spencerian Business College. He entered
the employ of the Home Savings & Banking Company, where he continued
for two years, then spent two years with the Forest City Savings & Trust
Company, and then became an employe in the Pearl Street Savings & Trust
Company, with which institution he is now identified as a member of its
board of directors.

In 1909 Mr. Hoffman became associated with his father in the building
and contracting business, they organizing the A. E. Hoffman Company,
of which he became secretary and treasurer. In 1913 the business was
incorporated under the old name and offfcers, and has since continued as
one of the important business organizations of the city. He is also a
member of the board of directors of the Pearl Road Company, a corpora-
tion handling real estate.

Mr. Hoffman is a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Industry, and
takes an active part in the civic affairs of the community. He is a member
of Elbrook Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, Forest City Commandery,
Knights Templar, Lake Erie Consistory, Scottish Rite, thirty-second degree,
Al Koran Temple, Mystic Shrine, and Al Sirat Grotto.

Mr. Hoffman married Miss Anna Bush, who was born in Cleveland,
the daughter of the late Arthur and Anna Bush, and to their union two
sons have been born, Robert Arthur and Kenneth Andrew.

Samuel James Webster. One of the well known physicians of Cleve-
land is Dr. Samuel J. Webster, who has been in active practice in the
Brooklyn section of the city for over twenty-five years, and has gained
prestige both in his profession and as a worthwhile man and citizen. He
was born in Montville, Geauga County, Ohio, October 26, 1875, the son of
Dr. Henry H. and Martha (Jones) VVebster.

Dr. Henry H. Webster was born at Jamestown. New York, and was
descended from an old New England family, his father having gone to
New York State from Massachusetts. He was graduated from the
Eclectic Medical College of Cincinnati, Ohio, Doctor of Medicine, in 1873.
and entered practice in his home town, but later removed to North Jackson,
Mahoning County, Ohio, where he continued in general practice until the

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year 1904, when he came to Cleveland and took up his residence and offices
in Brooklyn. His death occurred at the family home in 1917. He was a
member of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine, of the Ohio State Medical
Society and of the American Medical Association, and held membership
in the orders of Masonry and Knights of Pythias. His wife was born in
Lordstown, Trumbull County, Ohio, the daughter of Samuel Jones, a
native of Ohio. She survives her husband.

Dr. Samuel J. Webster was reared at North Jackson, Ohio, and re-
ceived his preliminary education in the public schools. After a course of
study at Hiram College he entered Western Reserve University Medical
School, and was there graduated Doctor of Medicine with the class of
1896. During the year 1897 he served as interne at Cleveland City Hos-
pital, and the following year he served as. house physician at the Ohio
Hospital for Epileptics at Gallipolis, and then entered practice in associa-
tion with his father. In 1903 he went abroad and took post-graduate work
in the hospitals of Vienna, Austria, and on his return home he resumed
practice with his father. Since 1910 he has been visiting physician and
chief of the medical clinic of Cleveland City Hospital.

Doctor Webster is a member of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine
and a member of its board of trustees, and is a member of the Ohio State
Medical Society, the American Medical Association and the Pasteur Club.

George R. Madson. To those who knew the late George R. Madson,
of Cleveland, in either business or social connections, there remains a
memory of a singularly gracious personality and of a man who exemplified
the finer ideals of life. He was successful in business, but along this line,
as in all other relations of his generous and worthy life, a genuine steward-
ship of high order marked his course. He was in the very prime of his
strong and useful manhood at the time of his death, which occurred
December 11, 1923.

Mr. Madson was born at Black Earth, Wisconsin, on the 9th of
December, 1877, and thus his death occurred only two days after the forty-
sixth anniversary of his birth. His parents, Martin and Mary Madson,
still reside in the City of Chicago, where the family home was established
when the subject of this memoir was a child. The public schools of the
great western metropolis thus afforded George R. Madson his early edu-
cation, and his initial business experience was gained in the wholesale
jewelry establishment of his father. In 1911 he came to Cleveland as
district manager for the Columbia Phonograph Company, the business of
which he here developed to one of large and prosperous order. In touching
upon his later activities it is a privilege to ofifer the following extracts from
an appreciative estimate that appeared in the trade publication known as
the Cheney Resonator, in its edition of February, 1924 :

"With profound sorrow and genuine sense of loss we announce the
sudden death of Mr. George R. Madson, president of the Cheney Phono-
graph Sales Company of Cleveland, Ohio. It is difficult to speak, without
losing one's control, of what George Madson has meant to the Cheney
Talking Machine Company and to the men of that organization who have
worked with him. To begin with, he was one of the very first men to
take on the Cheney and to start out with the object of developing a territory

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for its sales. He was a pioneer Cheneyite, and went through all the diffi-
culties and all the troubles which pioneers always have to face. He
believed in the Cheney from the first, and made it his own. He worked
day and night, he overcame all obstacles, and when he was so suddenly
and grievously taken from us, he had his company's territory (Ohio,
Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia) in such shape it might be called
one of the most, if not the most, completely Cheneyized territories in the
country.

"George Madson was an optimist, a most cheery fellow worker, and a
man who never, so far as any of his associates can remember, complained,
whined or kicked. He was always cheerful, always ready to encourage,
and always genial, in no matter what circumstances. To have known him
is an inspiration. His loss is to us a heavy blow, heavier than we can at
this moment express. His memory will be to all of us a very lovely and a
blessed memory. * * * 'Hq labored well, and his work liveth after
him.'"

In the time-honored Masonic fraternity, of whose teachings and history
he was deeply appreciative, Mr. Madson received the thirty-second degree
of the Scottish Rite, besides being a Noble of the Mystic Shrine, his
maximum York Rite affiliation being with the Commandery of Knights
Templars at Cleveland Heights. He was greatly interested in music, and
did much to further the popular appreciation of the "divine art." He was
an active member of the Cleveland Music Club, and was influential also in
advancing the work and interests of the Ohio State Music Dealers' Asso-
ciation. He was a loyal patron also of the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra,
and held membership in the Cleveland Art Museum. He attended and
gave earnest support to the Trinity Cathedral of the Protestant Episcopal
Church in Cleveland, and of the cathedral parish his widow is a devoted
communicant.

On the 20th of February, 1904, was solemnized the marriage of
Mr. Madson and Miss Mabel Dunn, daughter of Adam E. and Ella Dunn,
she having been a resident of Evanston, Illinois, at the time of her mar-
riage and having there been graduated from the music conservatory of
Northwestern University. As a talented pianiste Mrs. Madson is fre-
quently called upon for public appearances, and she is one of the leading
piano teachers in Cleveland, as well as a popular figure in the representa-
tive social and cultural circles of the city. Mr. Madson is survived also
by four children, namely: George Ralph, Jr., Herbert D., and Mary and
Eleanor, who are twins. The elder son is (1924) a student in Northwest-
ern University, Evanston, Illinois.

Wilbur George Weiss, M. D. One of the successful younger mem-
bers of the medical profession of Cleveland is Dr. Wilbur G. Weiss, of
the Brooklyn section of the city, who is a native of the East Side.

Doctor Weiss was born in Cleveland on January 4, 1891, and is the
son of George A. and Mary (Gerhardt) Weiss, both natives of this city,
and both living. He was graduated from East High School in 1908,
following which he continued a student at that institution, taking the
German, Latin and scientific courses, in which he was graduated the fol-
lowing year. He then entered the medical department of Ohio State

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University, where he was graduated Doctor of Medicine with the class'
of 1916. Leaving medical college, Doctor Weiss served as interne in
Grace Hospital, Detroit, and then entered the general practice of medicine
and surgery, with offices on the corner of Pearl Road and Broadview
Avenue in South Brooklyn, where he has since continued, meeting with
success and establishing a representative practice.

Doctor Weiss is a member of the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical
Society, the Ohio State Homeopathic Medical Society and the American
Institute of Homeopathy, and also holds membership in the Pi Upsilon
Rho college fraternity.

In 1917 Doctor Weiss was united in marriage with Miss Dorothy
Kinsley, ^yho was born in Illinois, the daughter of the late N. Kinsley. To
their marriage a son has been born, Robert Kenneth, aged four years.

Doctor and Mrs. Weiss are members of the Pearl Road Methodist
Episcopal Church. The doctor is a member of Brooklyn Lodge 576,
Knights of Pythias, and a member of the Southwestern Civic and Business
Men's Association.

Wilbur Jay Sawyer, M. D., a prominent physician, engaged in prac-
tice on the West Side of Cleveland, has gained secure standing as one of the
able and representative members of his profession. He was born at Inde-
pendence, Cuyahoga County, on the 4th of November, 1887, and is a son
of Frank E. and Sylvia Arena (Skinner) Sawyer, representatives of old
and well known families of this county. Frank E. Sawyer was born at
Bedford, Cuyahoga County, and his wife was born in the old family home-
stead at Independence, this county. The paternal great-grandfather of
Doctor Sawyer was a native of England and became a resident of the
State of Maine, where was born his son David P., who was the pioneer
representative of the family in Cuyahoga County and who was the grand-
father of the subject of this sketch. The lineage of the Skinner family
likewise traces back to sterling English origin. The parents of Doctor
Sawyer are graduates from Oberlin College, and for many years the
father was engaged in welfare work for the City of Cleveland, he having
then retired to his farm near Independence, this county, where he and his
wife still maintain their home.

In the public schools of Cleveland Doctor Sawyer continued his studies
until his graduation from the Lincoln High School, and in 1913 he was
graduated Doctor of Medicine from the medical department of Ohio State
University. After graduation he gained valuable clinical experience by
serving as interne in the Cleveland City Hospital, and he then established
himself in the active general practice of his profession, with headquarters
at 2662 West Fourteenth Street, where he still maintains his office, with
a substantial practice of representative order. He is actively identified
with Lutheran Hospital. He is affiliated with the Ohio State Medical
Society and the American Medical Association. In the World war period
Doctor Sawyer volunteered and enlisted in the Medical Corps of the
United States Army, but he was not called into active service.

Doctor Sawyer wedded Miss Clementine Odell. who was born and
reared in Cleveland, a daughter of Lewis and Anna (INIcInerney) Odell.
The two children of this union are Dorothy Jayne and W^ilbur Jay, Jr.

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Peter John Kmieck, A. B., M. D. In the professional ranks of
Cleveland one who is making rapid strides in the profession of medicine
and surgery is Dr. Peter J. Kmieck, who possesses the equipment for
success in his chosen calling in a good education and careful training.

Doctor Kmieck was born at Freeland, Pennsylvania, June 2, 1893, and
is a son of John and Theckla (Sokolowski) Kmieck. His parents, natives
of Austria, of Polish ancestry, immigrated to the United States separately,,
prior to their marriage, which event was solemnized at Freeland, Pennsyl-
vania. The family resided in Pennsylvania until 1900, when they came
to Cleveland, and the father died- in this city sixteen years later. For a
number of years he was in charge of the docks of the American Steel &
Wire Company at Cleveland, and was a man of industry and integrity who
had the respect of his superiors and the friendship and esteem of those in
his employ. There were the following children in the family: Peter John,
of this review ; James, a graduate of the Young Men's Christian Associa-
tion School of Accountancy, and a Bachelor of Arts from John Carroll
University, Cleveland, 1924; Anthony, a student of Western Reserve
School of Dentistry; George, a novice at Florissant, Missouri; Francis, a
graduate of law from the John Marshall Law School, Cleveland, and
engaged in the practice of law in Cleveland ; and Marie, who resides with
their mother.

Peter John Kmieck was seven years of age when brought to Cleveland,
where he received his primary education in the public schools. He was
graduated from St. Ignatius High School in 1912, following which he en-
rolled as a student at St. Ignatius College, and was graduated therefrom in
1915, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Continuing his studies, he entered
the medical department of Western Reserve College, from which he was
graduated in 1919, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, and following
this became an interne at St. John's Hospital, Cleveland, for eight months,
and then served an interneship of one year at St. Vincent's Charity Hos-
pital. Doctor Kmieck took up the general practice of his profession on
the West Side late in 1920, where he has made gratifying progress, both
in his profession and in the confidence of the people of his community.
He is a member of the stafif of St. Vincent's Charity Hospital, caring for
the eye, ear, nose and throat cases, and gynecology. Doctor Kmieck
belongs to several professional organizations, and holds membership in
Gilmore Council, Knights of Columbus. He is a member of St. Augustine
parish of the Catholic Church.

Doctor Kmieck married Miss Effie A. Gorman, daughter of P. W.
Gorman, of Cleveland, and they have one son, Peter John, Jr., born
January 2, 1922. Doctor Kmieck's home and office are at 2616 West
Fourteenth Street.

Arthur E. Bower, owner and general manager of the Bower and Bower
Live Stock Commission Company, Cleveland Union Stock Yards, was born
on a farm in Coles County, Illinois, May 9, 1872. His ancestry have long
been residents of the United States.

His father, Oliver C. Bower, was born in Clark County, Indiana, July
25, 1846. At the age of sixteen he followed in the footsteps of his father,
Absolom, who was a dealer in live stock, with the exception that the father

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shipped his stock down the Mississippi to New Orleans, while the son found
his market in Louisville, Kentucky. Oliver C. Bower went a few years
to the college in Indiana which later became Butler College, situated in
Indianapolis. In December, 1869, he married Emily Jane Perisho, born
April 6, 1846, a daughter of Isaac and Rosanne (O'Hara) Perisho. Mrs.
Perisho's father was Gen. Michael O'Hara, an aide de camp to General
Washington at the surrender of Cornwallis, of which event there is a
famous picture in the Capitol Building at Washington. In 1871 O. C.
Bower joined his father-in-law in Coles County, Illinois. Here he became
the owner of a 400-acre farm, which is now in the possession of A. K.
Bower and son and is known as "Bowerhome." Mr. Bower never gave
up his stock business for farming. In 1891 he came on a visit to Cleveland,
where he found an inviting opening for developing his line of business and
in October of that year he organized the firm of Bower & Bower, which
has grown into the firm known in the Central Eastern States as the "Old
Reliable Bower & Bower." O. C. Bower remained in active service both
in business and his church, Franklin Circle Christian, Cleveland, and the
Bushton, Illinois, Christian, he being an elder in each church, until he died
in 1917. He was a member of the Woodmen of the World and of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

Arthur E. Bower, son of O. C. Bower, received his early education in
Coles County, Illinois, and the Central Indiana Normal College, Danville.
Indiana. After coming to Cleveland he took a course at the Spencerian
Business College. He became associated with his father's business early
in life and grew up with it. In 1893 he became the junior partner, and
soon took over, for the most part, the management of the firm. In 1898
he married Mary A. Herrick, born November 28, 1875, whose father was
one of Cleveland's foremost civil engineers, being one of the engineers who
built the old Superior Viaduct used so many years in Cleveland. Mr.
Herrick was a pioneer in his work. He was one of the engineers who laid
the Union Pacific Railroad through Kansas to Kit Carson, Colorado. He
surveyed the first wagon road across the Isthmus of Panama for a Cleve-
land syndicate. He died in 1903. Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Bower have three
children, Arthur Oliver, born October 2. 1900, graduated from Ohio State
University in 1922, and married Florence May O'Hair in 1924. He is now
the resident manager of "Bowerhome Farms;" Lou Emily, born November
24, 1903, was a graduate of Hiram College, Hiram, Ohio, in 1924; William
Millard, born June 16, 1905, is a member of the class of 1926 at Hiram
College.

Mr. Bower and his mother are extensive land owners. Beside their
Cleveland and Illinois property, they own a large ranch near Kit Carson
in Cheyenne County, Colorado. Mr. Bower is a member of the board of
directors of the Lorain Street Savings & Trust Comj>any; an active mem-
ber of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce and the Chamber of Industry;
and he is the chairman of the official board of the Franklin Circle Christian
Church, where he and his family have been members since coming to
Cleveland.

There are many romantic stories in the history of this man's family.
The Hostetlers, the family of his paternal grandmother, were captured by
the Indians and because of the training acquired during their captivity

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they became pioneers in the Middle West. The Perishos, the family of
his mother, were driven to the United States during the persecution of
the Hugenots in France, and from Albermarle Sound, North Carolina,
they migrated westward through Kentucky and Indiana to Illinois.
Through these experiences many stories have arisen which, woven together,
form the interesting history back of this prominent, philanthropic business
man of the West Side.

Matthew Frederick Bramley. The Hfe record of Matthew
Frederick Bramley reads like a romance, but it is founded on facts, and is
but the outcome of determined and persistent effort on the part of an
honest, hard-working young American, who, in spite of numerous obstacles,
steadily advanced until today he is one of the prominent citizens and sub-
stantial business men of Cleveland, with activities extending into numerous
channels of industry, and covering years of political and civic service. He
was born on a farm at Independence, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, January
4, 1868.

Matthew Frederick Bramley is a son of John P. and Mary Ann
(Newton) Bramley, natives of Nottingham, England, who were married
in this country. John P. Bramley was only twelve years of age when he
came to the United States and located in Cuyahoga County. Here he
became interested in farming, and he also operated a sawmill at Brecks-
ville, Cuyahoga County. Coming then to Cleveland, for the subsequent
thirty years he was an active member of the Cleveland police force, and
for ten years was on the police pension rolls, after his retirement from the
force. His death occurred at Cleveland.

In 1870, when only two years old, Matthew Frederick Bramley, or
Fred, as he is known to his intimates, had the misfortune to lose his mother,
and he and his two brothers were reared on the farm by their paternal
grandparents. When his father remarried the children were taken to
Cleveland, and were sent to school. When but a very small boy Frederick
Bramley began to make himself useful by carrying papers on a regular
route, and some of the older people remember the bright, cheerful little
fellow who was so faithful even then in discharging the obligations he
had incurred. Home conditions not being congenial, Frederick Bramley
and his brothers ran away, but at different times, and he went to the farm
of his uncle, and there he learned to be a farmer so thoroughly that he
subseouently leased his father's farm, and, although still young in years,
conducted it during the summer months, and during the winter ones cut
and hauled cordwood to the market.

However, he longed for the advantages of the city, and when he was
nineteen he left the farm and returned to Cleveland, and the first winter,
unfortunately, engaged in work so strenuous and exhausting from its
exposure as to impair his health to such an extent that he still feels the
effects. This work was hauling ice from the ponds to the breweries, and
in it he broke down utterly, and suffered from a long illness. When he
had partially recovered he commenced driving a team for paving con-
tractors, and in thnt connection gained a knowledge which was later to
prove of great benefit to him. Still l^ter he was teamster for th« late
Henry Everett, who was then erecting his fine residence at Case and Euclid

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Avenue, which palatial home is still the handsomest on Euclid Avenue,
and one of the landmarks of that section of Cleveland.

Recognizing the faithfulness of the young man, Henry Clafhn, presi-
dent of the Claflin Paving Company, made him foreman of teams. From
that employment he v^ent on the old Case farm as foreman for J. F.
Siegenthaler, who had leased this property at the intersection of Lorain and
Linwood avenue. Mr. Bramley remained on this farm for several years,
and during that period married his employer's daughter, and they lived in
a log house on the farrri. It was while on the farm that he and a number
of representative citizens of the neighborhood organized a band of "White
Caps," to drive from it some undesirables. Mr. Bramley was a lieutenant
of this efficient little band, who borrowed guns from the Berea militia, and
succeeded in carrying out their intention.

All of this time Mr. Bramley was struggling against the ill health which
had resulted from his serious illness, and so he left the farm and entered
the old Produce Bank of Cleveland at a salary of $7 per week. On this
meager amount he maintained his family, although they continued to live
in the old log house on the farm, for which he paid a monthly rental of
$8. While serving in the bank he came into contact with two of its officials,
who made Mr. Bramley the proposition that he solicit paving contracts for
them, they promising to furnish the money to finance them. Delighted at
the prospect of going into something which would enable him to get a real
start in the world, Mr. Bramley began soliciting and had but little difficulty
in acquiring three paving contracts. It was then that the man rose to the
opportunity, and, through almost superhuman elTort, succeeded in com-
pleting these contracts, and doing so to the satisfaction of his customers,
and with a reasonable profit to himself. This was the commencement of
his fortune, and from then on he has steadily advanced, and he is still
largely interested in the paving business, as president and treasurer of the
Cleveland-Trinidad Paving Company, which he organized thirty years ago.
and which is today the largest paving company in the world, with branches
at New York Citv, Columbus, Ohio. Detroit and Saginaw, Michigan.

In 1916 Mr. Bramley organized the Templar Motors Company, one of
the important automobile industries of Cleveland, of which he was presi-
dent and general manager, and this he developed into a very large concern.
During the World war the Templar plant supplied the United States
Government with large quantities of shells on contract. He is also presi-
dent and principal owner of the Luna Park Amusement Company, of
which he was the promoter and organizer. This is one of the largest and
most popular outdoor amusement parks at Cleveland or in the United
States.

Successful as he has been in business, Mr. Bramley has not confined
his activities to this, one field, but has been for years very prominent in
civic and political afifairs. In 1898 he was elected on the republican ticket
to the Lower House of the State Assembly, and in 1900 was elected to the
same body to succeed himself, and while thus serving was the author of
a number of very important bills, and supported many more of an admir-
able character which are now on the statute books. He served as a member
of the Cleveland City Hall Commission from 1898 to 1908. and as a
member of the Cuyahoga County Building Commission from 1895 to 1908.

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He is a former vice president of the Cleveland Chamber of Industry ; is a
member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, and the Cleveland Safety
Council, of w^hich for two years he vi^as president.

Very prominent in Masonry, he has been advanced in that order to the
thirty-second degree, and he also belongs to the Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks, the Knights of Pythias, the Cleveland Athletic Club, the
Cleveland Yacht Club and the West wood Country Club.

On July 23, 1891, Mr. Bramley married Miss Gertrude Siegenthaler,
of Cleveland, and they have two children: John Harold and Margaret
Elizabeth.

John Alois Zimmer. One of the well known business men of Cleve-
land is John A. Zimmer, treasurer of the United Banking & Trust Com-
pany. He is a native son of the South Side of the city, where he has spent
his life. He was born in the family home at what is now Clark Avenue
and West Forty-eighth Street, on September 8, 1890, the son of John and
Anna M. (Pfannes) Zimmer. His parents were born in Germany, the
father in 1856, the mother in 1860, both coming to this country when
young, and they were married in Cleveland.

John A. Zimmer was educated in St. Stephens Parochial School, where
he took the full course and also the commercial course, completing both
before he had reached his fifteenth birthday. Leaving school he became
a messenger for the Clark Avenue Savings Bank, where he continued for
two and a half years. He next became bookkeeper in the State Banking
& Trust Company, continuing with that bank for five years and raising to
the position of paying teller. He then spent one year as cashier of the
Aluminum Castings Company, and then, on January 8, 1913, he became
teller in the United Banking & Trust Company, with which he has since
continued. In January, 1918, he was made assistant secretary, and in
May, 1921, he was elected treasurer of the bank, and so continues. He is
also president of the Royal Mortgage Company, and secretary of the Lib-
erty Gauge & Instrument Company, both of which companies he helped to
organize.

Mr. Zimmer is a member and treasurer of the Cleveland Chamber of
Industry, and a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. He is
a member of Halcyon Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, Thatcher Chap-
ter, Royal Arch Masons, Holyrood Commandery, Knights Templar, Lake
Erie Consistory, Scottish Rite, and Al Koran Temple, Nobles of the
Mystic Shrine. He is also a member of the Cleveland Athletic Club and
the Dover Country Club.

Mr. Zimmer married Adelia E. Hemann, who was born in Cleveland,
the daughter of Henry C. and Catherine E. (Gettman) Hemann, and to
them one son has been born, Jack Henry, aged four years.

Frederick Ferdinand Quilliams, M. D., a well known physician
and surgeon of Cleveland, was born on the family farm on Quilliams Road,
in East Cleveland Township, Cuyahoga County. November 8, 1870, and
is the son of William Thomas and Nancy Jane (Moore) Quilliams. The
father, William T., was born in Painesville. Ohio, on August 13, 1838, the
son of Hugh and Elizabeth (Kelley) Quilliams. natives of the Isle of Man,

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where they were reared and united in marriage. Soon after marriage they
came to the United States, landing at New York. After spending a few
months in the City of New York they came westward to Ohio and located
temporarily in Painesville, but a little later removed to the town of War-
rensville, this county. Still later they again changed their location and
established themselves permanently on Quilliams Road (named for the
family), and remained on the farm the remainder of their lives.

William T. Quilliams, father of Doctor Quilliams, began in early man-
hood to learn the carpenter trade, and was serving his apprenticeship when
the Civil war came on, and he promptly enlisted in the Union Army and
served for three years as sergeant of Battery B, First Ohio Light Artillery.
He participated in various historic movements and campaigns, and was
lucky to escape both wounds and capture, but eleven years after the war
he was unfortunate enough to lose his right hand in an accident. At the
close of the war he was honorably discharged and promptly returned to his
home on Quilliams Road.

Soon afterwards he began work as a contracting carpenter, and continued
that occupation until he lost his hand in 1876. He then gave up the car-
penter trade and retired from active business, but a little later he accepted
the position of bailifif of the Common Pleas Court and some time afterward
the same position in the Court of Appeals, and served as such for many
years. He was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and of the
Masonic Order. His death occurred on July 19, 1917. His widow, Nancy
J., was born in Hiram, Portage County, Ohio, on February 16, 1842, the
daughter of Francis and Prudence (Dunlap) Moore, both natives of Ohio.
She is the granddaughter of the first white child born in Trumbull County,
Ohio. The Moore and the Dunlap famiHes came to Ohio from New
England.

Dr. Frederick F. Quilliams was educated in the common schools, grad-
uating from Shaw High School in May 1889. He then entered the Spen-
cerian Business College, took the full course, and graduated therefrom
the succeeding year. He was graduated from Cleveland Medical College
in 1897 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, and in the same year he
engaged in the practice of general medicine and surgery in his present
neighborhood, and has continued the same with success.

Doctor Quilliams is a member of the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical
■Society, of the American Institute of Homeopathy and of the Ohio State
Homeopathic Medical Society ; also a member of the Cleveland Chamber
of Commerce ; of Woodward Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and Mc-
Kinley Chapter, and of Cleveland City Lodge, Independent Order of Odd
Fellows. He chose for his life companion Miss Catherine D., who w'as
born in Cleveland, the daughter of the late George Speddy, who, for a
number of years, was a captain in the Cleveland Fire Department.

Doctor Quilliams' of^ces and residence are at 1618 East One Hundred
and Eighteenth Street.

Ira H. Baker. Taking the real measure of human life, not in length
of years, but in experience and accomplishment, the career of the late Ira
H. Baker was singularly rich and full. While death came to him at the

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age of forty-one, he had succeeded in proving his value in business and in
reahzing the ideals of a beautiful and strong manhood. His friendships
brought him in contact with many of the best known citizens of Cleveland,
both among his own and his older contemporaries.

He was born at Chagrin Falls, Ohio, May 26, 1881, and died May 4,
1922, only .child of Charles A. and Flora Melissa (Kelly) Baker. He was
a boy of bounding vitality, a natural athlete, popular among his schoolmates
and proficient in his serious work. The Cleveland Central High School
athletics already centered around him for several years. He pitched for
the baseball team and played quarterback and was captain of the football
team.

For three years after leaving high school he was employed by the
Brown Hoist Machinery Company. With this practical experience he
entered Case School of Applied Science to complete his technical education
as a mechanical engineer, graduating in 1906. At Case his athletic prowess
realized all the prophecies made of him in high school, and his individual
attainments contributed a great deal to the prestige of Case School in
athletic circles in those years. He was one of the stafif of pitchers and
captain of the baseball team, but it was his skill and leadership as quarter-
back on the football team that brought him the greatest measure of fame
and made the Case team one to be respected by all the colleges and univer-
sities of Ohio and the Middle West. He was captain of the eleven in his
senior year. After graduating he kept up his interest in athletics at Case,
his loyalty as an alumnus proving an inspiration to the coaches and man-
agers. As a young business man he took up golf, and was accounted one
of the best amateurs in the Cleveland district. He belonged to the
National Golf Association, and was elected president of the Cleveland
District Association in 1921, the year it was organized. In earlier years
he was also interested in boxing.

After graduating from Case in 1906, Mr. Baker went to the Dravo-
Doyle Company as manager, but subsequently he organized the mechanical
engineering firm of Baker, Dunbar & Company, which, since his death,
has continued under the same title. During the World war Mr. Baker
was one of the prominent contractors and construction engineers in the
Cleveland district. He was a captain of the American Protective League
during the World war.

He was a charter member of the Cleveland Athletic Club, was a mem-
ber and director of the Shaker Heights Country Club, and in college was
a Phi Delta Theta. He was a former president of the Case Alumni Asso-
ciation, was active in the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, and at all times
exemplified the qualities of the clean sportsman and high-minded citizen.

The late Mr. Baker married, November 28, 1912, Miss Inez O. Phillips,
who, like her husband, was an only child. Her parents, Charles Sawteel
and Emma Jane (Quirk) Phillips, represented old-time families at Cleve-
land. Her father, who became a horticulturist, was born in a log cabin
on Doan Street, on ground subsequently used for a race track. Mrs.
Baker, whose home is at 2851 South Park Boulevard, Shaker Heights, is
the mother of three children, Melissa, born in 1913, Jane, born in 1919, and
Ira H., Jr., born in 1921.

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Wallace Kirkwood Mock, M. D. In no other city has there been
more inteUigent recognition of the remarkable advances made in medical
science in the last quarter of a century than in Cleveland. The medical
profession is ably represented here, and one of its prominent and well
known members is Dr. Wallace Kirkwood Mock, who for over twenty
years has been identified with the Fairview Park Hospital at Cleveland.

Doctor Mock belongs to Ohio both by birth and parentage. He was
born on his father's farm in Berlin Township, Mahoning County, Ohio,
December 28, 1864, and is a son of David and Phebe (Westover) Mock.
The Mock ancestral line reaches back to Western Germany, from which
section came Doctor Mock's sturdy pioneering ancestors, who settled and
through their industry and thrift prospered in the State of Pennsylvania,
generations ago. There his grandfather, Frederick Mock, was born and
reared, and in young manhood came to Ohio and was the founder of the
family in Mahoning County.

David Mock, father of Doctor Mock, was born March 4, 1837, on the
farm adjoining the one he now owns and resides on in Berlin Township,
Mahoning County, and during all his active life was engaged in farm pur-
suits. He married Phebe Westover, who was born on a farm in Milton
Township, Mahoning County, April 10, 1842, and still survives. Her
father, Sherman Westover, was a native of Massachusetts and of English
descent.

Wallace Kirkwood Mock attended the district school and remained on
the home farm until sixteen years of age. then took a course in the North-
western Ohio Normal School at Canfield, Ohio, where he was prepared
for teaching. For several years he devoted himself to this profession,
mainly in Mahoning County, and then turned his attention to the study
of medical science, satisfying an ambition he had cherished from boyhood.
After completing a course of medical reading under the preceptorship of
Dr. F. W. Carson, of Berlin Center, Mahoning County, he in 1886 entered
tiie Eclectic Medical College ?t Cincinnati, from which institution he was
graduated with credit and with his degree in 1889.

Doctor Mock came to Cleveland in the above year and entered medical
practice, for one year maintaining his office on Pearl Street, opposite Jay
Street, changing then to Columbus Street and Lorain Avenue, where he
continued until 1906, when he moved to his present offices, on the corner
of West Twenty-eighth Street and Lorain Avenue. As a general practi-
tioner and faithful, able and conscientious' medical man Doctor Mock has
won the confidence and esteem of his fellow citizens in general, and since
1890 he has been continuously attached to the staff of some hospital. For
some time he was with the Women's and Children's Hospital, on Vega
Avenue, South Side, afterward joined the staff of the Deaconess Hospital
on West Eleventh Street, and in 1902 the Fairview Park Hospital, on
Franklin Boulevard, and is now one of the chief physicians of the staff
of this modern hospital. He is identified with numerous scientific organiza-
tions and is a member of the Ohio State Association and the American
Eclectic Medical Association.

Doctor Mock married Miss Delia Stacy, of Poland. Mahoning County,
Ohio. They reside at 6405 Franklin Avenue. Doctor Alock was
reared in the Lutheran Church. He is a thirty-second degree Mason and a

102 CUYAHOGx\ COUNTY AND

Shriller, being a member of Roosevelt Lodge No. 640, Ancient Free and
Accepted Masons; Thatcher Chapter; Forest City Council; Holyrood
Commandery, Knights Templar ; Lake Erie Consistory ; Al Koran Temple ;
Al Sirat Grotto and the Tall Cedars of Lebanon. He belongs also to
Amazon Lodge of Odd Fellows, to the Cleveland Chamber of Industry, the
Cleveland Yacht Club and the Lakewood Country Club.

George Lyman Ingersoll. For nearly seventy years the name Inger-
soll has been prominently identified with the Cleveland bar. Not alone in
the law, but in many business and civic interests the name has accumulated
distinctions.

The late George Lyman Ingersoll was a brother of Judge Jonathan
Edwards Ingersoll, whose sketch appears elsewhere, and for some time
they were associated together in practice at Cleveland, though George L.
Ingersoll seemed to find more satisfaction in business than in his profession.

He was born at Rochester, New York, February 12, 1830, son of Alvan
and Hannah (Lyman) Ingersoll. His father was born at Lee, Massa-
chusetts, and his mother was also a New Englander. Alvan Ingersoll was
a Presbyterian minister, and about 1828 he moved from Western Massa-
chusetts to Rochester, New York.

George Lyman Ingersoll had very little opportunity for educational
advantages as a boy, his father having never received salary sufficient to
warrant him in sending his children to college. When about fourteen years
old George L. Ingersoll came to Ohio to learn from his mother's brother
the business of making fanning mills. At that time fanning mills were
operated by hand.

George Lyman Ingersoll during his early years in Ohio contrived to
continue his education under adverse circumstances, and finally qualified
for the bar. For a time he published a newspaper at Hudson, this being one
of the pioneer efforts at journalism in the Western Reserve. About 1851
or 1852 he moved to Cleveland, and some years later became associated
with his brother in law practice. He gave up practice to become associated
with William Bingham and others in the old Cleveland Rolling Mill Com-
panv. When he resumed the law it was in individual practice, and he was
more or less identified with the profession until his death. He was pros-
perous but never wealthy, and his ambition was not so much for the
achievement of wealth as for diversified activtiy. From the close of the
Civil war until 1877, during unsettled business and financial conditions
over the country, many short lines of railroads experienced financial diffi-
culties. For several years Mr. Ingersoll bought, sold and traded in these
properties. He also invested in real estate, and spent considerable time in
managing his farms. His great energy was one of his distinguishing traits.
He was one of the most liberal supporters of the old Third Presbyterian
Church of Cleveland.

His first wife was Miss Kate Talcott, and she became the mother of
three children : George T., Edward Piatt and Mary Augusta, who married
Edward S. Parsons.

The second wife of George L. Ingersoll was Miss Cornelia Howard
Saunders. To this marriage were born : Howard, Helen G., Horton,
Albert C, Arnold, Alan and Ruth. The only members of the family now

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living at Cleveland are: Mrs. George L. Ingersoll and Albert C. and
Helen Gertrude.

Hon. George S. Addams is judge of the Insolvency and Juvenile courts
of Cuyahoga County, positions which he has held since December 1, 1905.
He vi^as born in Harrison County, Ohio, in 1869. His father was George
W. Addams and his mother, Caroline Stanton. His ancestors on both
sides were among the earliest settlers of the state. He was educated in
the public schools of Salem, Oberlin College and the Law School of the
University of Cincinnati, having been admitted to the bar in 1892, since
which time he has been engaged in active practice in the City of Cleveland.
In 1896 Judge Addams married Florence Farrand, a native of Cleveland,
and has two sons. Stanton and Carl Benjamin, the former of whom is now
a practicing lawyer of the Cleveland bar.

The Juvenile Court of Cuyahoga County is the second of its kind,
having been preceded by the Juvenile Court of Chicago, and Judge Addams
has occupied the office almost from the inception of the court. He has
either directed or participated in securing most of the present child legisla-
tion of Ohio. He initiated the legislation providing for the recodification
of the laws applying to children, and Ohio was the first state to have a
Children's Code. Much legislation in other states pertaining to children
has been patterned after these laws. Judge Addams has probably tried
more cases involving children than any other living man.

All the interests subsidiary to the Juvenile Court, such as the Detention
Home and Mothers' Pension Department, have been established during
Judge Addams' administration and are models of their kind. His influence
has been helpful to, and many of his suggestions followed by, philanthropic
agencies of Cleveland, with which he has always been most intimate.

The powers of both the Insolvency and Juvenile courts have been
enlarged by almost every legislature until the courts are now regarded as
among the most important institutions in the community. One of the
functions of the Insolvency Court is to try all of the cases where private
property is taken for public or semi-public purposes. There has scarcely
been a public improvement in Cuyahoga County in the last twenty years
some phase of which has not been determined in the Insolvency Court, the
recent ones being the appropriation of the land necessary for the city and
metropolitan park systems and the new Union Terminals Station on the
Public Square.

The Associated Investment Company, incorporated in September.
1913, comprises a number of Cleveland business men united for honest
service in the real estate field and development of the city. The success of
the company has been noteworthy, both in the performance of the ordinary
and the extraordinary things in real estate. The company has handled an
immense volume of business involving the ordinary real estate transactions
and dealing in mortgages and loans, has also carried out some extensive
development and building work, and also owns Cleveland real estate valued
at between one and two millions of dollars. The capitalization of the com-
pany was increased to $1,500,000 in July. 1919. The organizer of the
company was George R. McKay, its president and general manager, and

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other officers are : Thomas Ferry, chairman of the board of directors ;
Russell K. Pelton, vice president; C. J. Houle, vice president; Charles A.
Heil, treasurer; and M. C. Teasdale, secretary. The company is a complete
organization, and carries on its work through four distinct departments,
income and investment properties, allotments, brokerage and financial
division.

Shortly after his return from abroad as a member of the American
Expeditionary Forces, C. J. Houle joined the Associated Investment Com-
pany as one of its executive officers. Mr. Houle was born in Cleveland,
July 22, 1887, son of John and Rosa (Hemmerling) Houle. His mother
was born on Frankfort Street, at the Public Square, in Cleveland. His
father was a native of Niagara, Canada, came to Cleveland about 1868, and
during the rest of his life engaged in the cooperage business. He had
learned the trade in youth, and for many years he was a cooperage manu-
facturer, most of the time making barrels for the Standard Oil Company.
He retired from his business about two years before his death, which
occurred in April, 1920. He was very earnest, capable, and much admired
for his integrity and efficiency, and aside from business his time was
devoted to his home and family. He was an ardent democrat, but never
a seeker of public office. His family consisted of two daughters and
three sons.

C. J. Houle, youngest of the family, was educated in the Outhwaite
Grammar School and the Central High School at Cleveland. Before grad-
uating from high school he went to work, and also took a course in the
Spencerian Business College. His career began as office boy for the
National Malleable Castings Company at Cleveland, a business corporation
with which he remained for thirteen years. During nine years of that time
he was in the accounting department and four years in the sales and collec-
tion department.

Mr. Houle resigned to go into service as a World war soldier, enlisting
in December, 1917, with Battery D, Sixty-fourth Artillery, at New Orleans.
He was transferred to the Ordnance Department at Augusta, Georgia, in
May, 1918, and put in charge of 250 men. He left Newport News July
31, 1918, for France. He landed at Brest twelve days later, and his duties
were chiefly those involved in convoying ordnance equipment from the
Standard Gauge Railroad to the various divisions in the front lines. It
was a service exposed to enemy fire, and though for three months he was
in the heavy fighting in the Argonne he never received a scratch or a
wound nor had a day of sickness in all the nineteen months he was in the
army. After the armistice he was transferred to Leman's headquarters
of the Eighty-third Division and put in charge of equipping the boys
with ordnance to return home. He left Brest in April, 1919, on the bat-
tleship South Carolina, landing at Newport News, and received his hon-
orable discharge in May, 1919.

Following the war Mr. Houle for a brief time was a salesman selling
Heights property with the H. A. Stahl Company, dealers in residence and
commercial properties. In June, 1919, he resigned to join the Associated
Investment Company, with offices in the Guardian Building. Mr. Houle is
a Mason, a member of the Real Estate Board, the Gyro Club, the Acacia
Country Club, and the Woodland Avenue Presbyterian Church.

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William Rowland Quinby. In Cleveland's mercantile life no name
was better known than that of Mr. Quinby. His training was perfect for
the career of a merchant, having been gained in the great metropolis where
he began as an errand boy in a dry goods house, and rose step by step until
he was filling an important position. A term of service as traveling sales-
man followed, then his career as a merchant, operating under his own
name, began and continued with great success until his passing at the age
of seventy-five years. Cleveland, Ohio, was the scene of his business
successes, and there he was highly rated and esteemed.

The Quinby family is supposed to have come into England with the
Danish invasion, and the name originated at Quarmby or Quermby, near
Hotherfield, Yorkshire, the first person bearing the name of whom there is
record being Hugh de Quarmby, 1341. Branches of the family moved into
Farnham, Surrey, near London, and in the south transept of the old church
there is a tablet to Robert Quynby, one of the first bailiffs of Farnham, who
died in 1670. Tradition says that a Quinby settled at Stratford-on-Avon,
and was related through Judith Shakespeare to the great poet. This is
probably an error as the real name of Judith Shakespeare's husband was
Quinny, not Quinby.

The founder of the Quinby family in Westchester County, New York,
to which William Rowland Quinby belongs, was William Quinby, born in
England, who settled in Stratford, Connecticut, of which he was one of the
founders, and where his sons, John in 1654 and Thomas in 1660, are of
record.

John Quinby, son of William Quinby, became one of the principal pro-
prietors of New Castle, Westchester County, New York, and in 1662 was
appointed magistrate by Governor Petrus Stuyvesant. He married Deborah
Haight, and among their children was a son, Josiah, who married, in 1689,
Mary Mulleneux. From Josiah and Mary (Mulleneux) Quinby descent is
traced through their son Josiah ; his son William ; his son Thomas, and his
wife, Susan (Hunter) Quinby; their son, William Rowland Quinby, of the
eighth American generation, to whose memory this review is offered.

William Rowland Quinby, son of Thomas and Susan (Hunter) Quinby,
was born in Westchester County, New York, January 27, 1843, and died
at his residence, 14724 Terrace Road, East Cleveland, Ohio, October 27,
1918. He spent his boyhood on his father's farm, and attended the district
schools of his section and New York City. Re was quite young when, on
account of his father's failing health, the work of the farm fell upon him,
but the sale of the homestead soon followed, and he entered business life,
finding employment with the Calhoun Robbins Company, wholesale mer-
chants. New York City, a firm still in business on Broadway in that city He
began as an errand boy, but was promoted frequently, and before leaving
the store had gained a thorough knowledge of the business and was holding
an important position. Re was then sent on the road by the house as
traveling salesman, his territory the State of Ohio. In the spring of 1879,
he became Northern Ohio's agent for the Butterick Pattern Company,
making Cleveland his business headquarters. Two years later he opened
a ladies' furnishing store on Superior Street, Cleveland, but retained the
Butterick agency. From Superior Street he moved to Euclid Avenue, and
later to 500 Euclid Avenue, where he continued his business until his death.

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He gave his store his personal attention, never had a partner, and while he
was in business was its active head, sharing neither labor nor responsibility
with any one. In 1913 Mr. Rainey, who for many years had been manager
under Mr. Quinby, and S. C. Barbour took over the business and conducted
it under the name of the W. H. Quinby Company, Mr. Quinby being merely
a stockholder in the corporation, and five years prior to his death he retired
from active business, but retained his holdings in the W. H. Quinby
Company.

In 1913 Mr. Quinby built a winter home at Rockledge, Florida, and
alternated between the winter and summer homes until his death. He was
a republican in politics, but never sought nor held a public office, although
always being interested as a citizen. He was a member of the board of the
A. M. McGregor Home for elderly people, was on the board of the East
Cleveland Public Library, a member of the Second Presbyterian Church,
serving as elder, and in every way possible performing with the best of his
ability the duties and obligations of life.

Mr. Quinby married, in New York City, May 7, 1878, Janet Freeland,
daughter of John and Catherine Freeland. To Mr. and Mrs. Quinby a
daughter was born. May Cameron Quinby, who with her mother resides
at the Quinby homestead. East Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Quinby was very
fond of the home which he delighted in beautifying and adorning. He was
a man of gracious, charming personality, and during his long business life
won the respect and the confidence of a very wide circle of friends.

George H. Chandler was an Englishman by birth, and during the
forty years before his death his name was associated with some most
satisfying achievements in commercial life, and particularly with a scope
of service in the religious and moral activities of his home city. No' one
of the citizens of his generation is held in more kindly remembrance. He
was thoroughly good, and his character was beyond reproach.

He was born in Bristol, England, May 6, 1835, was reared and edu-
cated in his native country, and on reaching his twenty-second year,
crossed the ocean to America, and at Cleveland entered the service of his
uncle, Charles Chandler, a very prosperous commission merchant of that
day. He gave about fifteen years to the work of his uncle's estabhsh-
ment. and in 1870 started a business of his own, with which his name was
closely identified for a period of a quarter of a century. He and a partner
established the retail grocery business of Chandler and Rudd, and subse-
quently the Chandler and Rudd Grocery Company became one of the most
successful and prosperous establishments of the kind in the City of Cleve-
land. Mr. Chandler in 1894, after having given more than thirty-five
years to business, sold his interest and retired from the company. There
remained sixteen years of his life to enjoy the rewards of his business
prosperity and round out his long and faithful service to his church and
community. He died December 9, 1910. On December 31, 1869, he had
become a member of the Cleveland Baptist Church at Euclid and East
Eighteenth Street. His service to this church was one of unexampled
fidelity for more than forty years, until his death. He became one of its
most conspicuous members, served as deacon for many years, and sin-
cerely accepted the many opportunities to do good, not only within the

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church, but to the various causes it supported, and it was one of his
supreme pleasures to support every pastor who came to the church, and he
has also held numerous offices in the organization. It was said of him :
"We have never seen him when he was out of patience, and have never
heard him speak an unkind word about anyone." He made it a special
point to visit the sick and the aged, and administer to their wants if circum-
stances required and demanded. Anybody in need of a true friend found
one in him, one that could be depended upon at all times. He did not
confine his devotion to his own church, but human welfare was one of his
chief objects throughout his entire career. He was a deep student of the
Baptist ritual, and an able worker in behalf of the prosperity of the
Baptist Association. When the City Mission Society undertook the con-
struction of five or six mission churches he served as chairman of its build-
ing committee, and the eventual success of this ambitious undertaking was
largely due to his good business judgment and his persistent efforts as
chairman of the committee. The buildings that they erected stand as a
monument to his religious devotion and love for humanity. He served as
deacon, trustee, chairman of the P'ellowship Fund, president of the Board of
Trustees, chairman of the House Committee.

It was well said after his death that "There is no one among us who can
fill Mr. Chandler's place." At the time of his death he was an honorary
deacon for life. A paragraph of the resolutions passed by his fellow
members has an appropriate place : "Resolved, that the members of the
Euclid Avenue Baptist Church do hereby express the deep personal sorrow
felt by each and every member at parting with someone who has been so
true a friend, so wise a counsellor, so Christian a gentleman, and whose
faithful stewardship will meet the reward it so justly deserves."

George H. Chandler, on February 14, 1864, while on a trip to the old
country, married Miss Annie Newcombe. To their marriage the following
children were born : Frances, who became the bride of Charles W. Baker,
of New York; George Newcombe; Jessie, who became the wife of Samuel
Chandler, of New York ; Percival, who died in 1889 at the age of twenty
years ; and Dorothea, who lives in Cleveland.

George N. Chandler, son of the late George H. Chandler, has had a
career that has made him a prominent factor in the business life of Cleve-
land. He was born in that city, and has had a varied program of business
responsibilities and interests. He married in 1892 ]\Iiss Laura Gertrude
Rust, daughter of John F. Rust, of Cleveland. The children born to them
are Katherine, who became the wife of Kenneth B. \\^ick ; Marietta, who
married Williard F. Walker ; and John Rust.

Union Oil Company of Cleveland. The Union Oil Company of
Cleveland, manufacturers and distributors of oils, greases and specialties,
has been one of the very successful commercial organizations of this city,
its history extending over a period of over forty years.

It was established in 1877 by W. H. Compton. The company was incor-
porated with an authorized capital of $30,000 on September 30, 1901, the
first officers being W. H. Compton, president and treasurer; A. Prior,
secretary, and Q. F. Compton and C. F. Spencer. The founder of the
business died at Cleveland Februarv 10, 1908. His share in the business

108 CUYAHOGA COUNTY AND

was inherited by his daughter, Mrs. B. C. Johnson, and she succeeded him
as president and with the aid of her husband, W. H. Johnson, vice presi-
dent, continued the business very successfully.

For many years the Union Oil Company has made a special effort to
secure the trade of manufacturing plants and both municipally and pri-
vately owned power plants, electric railways and similar industrial estab-
lishments. Its business in this line has covered a large part of the State of
Ohio, Southern Michigan and Western Pennsylvania. Owing to the
uniform quality of the manufactured product the company has had no
difficulty in holding its business once acquired, and the result has been an
impressive growth and development from a small beginning. Quite recently
Mr. Charles F. Siegrist bought the controlling interest in the Union Oil
Company. At a meeting of the stockholders of the Auto City Oil Company,
a Michigan corporation, the two companies were merged under the name
of the Union Oil Company. This gave the corporation in its present form
greatly increased facilities, including complete manufacturing plants in
both Cleveland and Detroit, with refinery connections in Pennsylvania and
the West. The company has access to the choicest crudes for the manu-
facture of its special brand.

Mr. Siegrist, president of the company, was born in Cleveland, Sep-
tember 15, 1870. He was educated in public and high schools, was
mechanical engineer, was with Rockefeller for sixteen years, was chief
engineer in the building of the Rockefeller Building. He has been a
mechanical engineer all his life, is president of the Siegrist Universal Valve
Company plant, located in Cleveland, is a member of the Masonic Order,
being a thirty-second degree Mason and Shriner, is vice president of the
High Moon Club, a member of the Cleveland Athletic Club, and in politics
is a republican. He married Miss Lucy C. Warnecke and they have two
children, Dorris, wife of Paul G. Lutz, and Maria, at home.

Edgar Grove Barnett came to Cleveland a dozen years ago, only
recently out of college, and in this brief period has become a real leader in
industry and affairs. Among other extensive interests Mr. Barnett is
secretary and general manager of the Geist Building Material Company.

Mr. Barnett was born at New Philadelphia in Tuscarawas County,
Ohio, June 2, 1886, son of Rev. Elton B. and Emma (Grove) Barnett.
His father, who was born at Whips Ledges in Summit County, Ohio, has
for a number of years been a member of the North East Ohio Methodist
Conference. He is still active in the ministry, being pastor of East Glen-
ville Methodist Episcopal Church of Cleveland. Emma Grove, his wife,
was born at Akron, where the. Grove family were pioneer settlers.

Edgar G. Barnett acquired his early education in the several towns
where his father was a minister. He graduated from the Lincoln High
School at Cleveland in 1904. Soon afterward he entered Ohio Wesleyan
University at Delaware, graduating Bachelor of Science with the class of
1908. Immediately after his university career Mr. Barnett became mechan-
ical draftsman for the Thew Steam Shovel Company at Lorain, and from
there in 1911 came to Cleveland and took an active part in the promotion
and organization of the Geist Building Material Company. He was elected
secretary when it was incorporated, and since 1919 has been both secretary

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and general manager. This is one of the large organizations handling
building materials in the Cleveland district. Mr. Barnett is a director in the
Independent Brick & Tile Company of Cleveland, in the Southwestern
Savings and Loan Company, in the Home Mortgage Company, and is
president of the Builders Supply Board of Cleveland. He has given much
influence and v^ork to the program of the Chamber of Industry, and for
several years has served as a director and in 1922 w^as elected vice president
of the chamber, which position he held for one year.

Mr. Barnett is a member of the Gyro Club, the City Club, Brooklyn
Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, Holy Grail Commandery, Lake Erie
Consistory, and Glen Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is a
member of the Brooklyn Memorial Methodist, Episcopal Church. Mr. Bar-
nett married Mary Stokes, daughter of Thomas Stokes, of Delaware,
Ohio. Their two sons are Elton and John Herbert.

Aretus Earl Biddinger, M. D. One of Cleveland's most accom-
plished surgeons is Dr. Aretus Earl Biddinger, whose work has been
attracting favorable attention for a number of years. He is head of the
surgical staff of Grace Hospital. He saw active duty nearly two years as
a member of the Naval Medical Corps during the World war.

Doctor Biddinger was born at Nankin, Ashland County, Ohio, July 12,
1881, and represents families that have been in this state since pioneer
days. His grandfather, David Biddinger, was an early farmer of Ashland
County. His maternal grandfather, Goliath Tedrow, was one of the most
successful men of his time in Harrison County, and at his death left a
large estate there. John Willard Biddinger, father of Doctor Biddinger,
was born in Ashland County, and followed the example of his father as a
farmer in that section. He died in May, 1919. He married Elizabeth
Tedrow, a native of Harrison County.

Doctor Biddinger grew up on the old homestead in Ashland County.
His early advantages were those of the country schools. Following that
he attended the Savannah Academy, was a teacher a year, and in 1905
graduated from the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College, later a
department of the Ohio State University. During 1904-05 he was an
interne in the Cleveland Maternity Hospital. He engaged in private prac-
tice in this city for a time, and then went to New York for further pro-
fessional experience as an interne in the Metropolitan Hospital. In 1908
he resumed his practice at Cleveland, and with passing years his work has
come to be confined almost entirely to surgery.

His distinguished military record should be given in some detail.
January 6. 1906, he enlisted in Company I of the Fifth Regiment, Ohio
National Guard. March 20, 1906. he was promoted to sergeant of Com-
pany I of the Fifth Regiment; November 26, 1907, was discharged to
permit him to accept a commission as second lieutenant; July 28, 1908. he
was assigned with that rank to Company I ; May 24, 1909, was transferred
to Second Battalion, Ohio Naval Militia, as an ensign and assistant sur-
geon; April 8, 1910, was commissioned lieutenant and assistant surgeon
and assigned to duty on the U. S. S. Dorothea; April 18, 1912. bv special
order No. 75, paragraph 8, adjutant-general's department, he was com-
missioned lieutenant and surgeon to rank from March 25, 1912.

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April 6, 1917, by the President's proclamation, he was called back to
duty, and with the Ohio Naval Division reported at the Philadelphia Navy
Yard and was assigned as senior medical officer to the Kron Prinz Wil-
helm, one of the German raiders interned by the government, a ship that
was fitted out as a cruiser transport at the Philadelphia Navy Yard and
renamed the U. S. S. Von Steuben. It took six months to refit the Von
Steuben. October 31, 1917, the vessel left for her first trip overseas,
carrying marines and Base Hospital No. 5. It joined the convoy in New
York Harbor, the other transports being the Agamemnon, the Mount
Vernon and America, under convoy by the U. S. S. cruiser North Caro-
lina and two destroyers. As senior medical officer on the Von Steuben,
Doctor Biddinger made nine round trips to France during the war and
one trip after the armistice. On the maiden trip, while about one thousand
miles off the French coast, the Von Steuben and the Agamemnon came
into collision, but without serious damage beyond injuring the rails and
small boats. On the return trip the Von Steuben put into Halifax for
coal, and was about thirteen miles out of the harbor when the tragic
explosion of munitions occurred in that harbor, one of the British disasters
of the war. The scene was witnessed by Doctor Biddinger. The American
Medical Corps on the vessels near the harbor were ordered ashore for relief
work. Leaving there, the Von Steuben ran into a 120-mile gale which
greatly retarded the completion of her voyage. Reaching Philadelphia, the
Von Steuben was ordered to take on a marine regiment and supplies for
Cuba, and while en route was ordered to proceed to Balboa for repairs.
She passed through the Panama Canal, being the largest ship up to that
time to negotiate that passage. After the repairs had been made the ship
returned to Philadelphia, and resumed transport duty. On the third
return trip, at 4:30 P. M., March 5, 1918, while off the Azores the Von
Steuben encountered a submarine, opening fire and swinging away. A
five-inch shell exploded on the American transport, killing a man on each
side of Doctor Biddinger and another on the upper deck over his head.
Twelve others were wounded. On October 28, 1919, Doctor Biddinger
was transferred to a receiving ship in New York Harbor, and was released
from active duty May 2, 1920. He still holds the rank of lieutenant-com-
mander in the Naval Reserves. At his release he was recommended for the
distinguished service medal, but received instead a citation from the secre-
tary of the navy for meritorious service. This was awarded November 11.
1920, and he was later commissioned lieutenant-commander to date from
September 1. 1918.

Doctor Biddinger has been head of the surgical staff of Grace Hospital
since the close of his war service. In July, 1923, he was appointed visiting
surgeon to the Huron Road Hospital. He is a member of the State and
National Homeopathic associations. He was a member of the War
Transport Service Society, and is affiliated with Euclid Lodge, Ancient
Free and Accepted Masons ; Cleveland Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ;
Forest City Commandery, Knights Templar; Lake Erie Consistory of the
Scottish Rite, Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine, and belongs to the
Masonic societies of the Grotto and the Tall Cedars of Lebanon. He is a
member of the Lions Club and the Koran Club.

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Edward Thomas Hurley, M. D. Among her many reasons for civic
pride the City of Cleveland names her assemblage of eminent medical men,
some of whom have contributed in no small degree to the advancement of
medical science in modern days. A member of this able and honored profes-
sional body who is held in high esteem here and elsewhere is Dr. Edward
Thomas Hurley, physician and surgeon, and a veteran officer of the
World war.

Doctor Hurley was born at Oil City, Pennsylvania, January 29, 1881, a
son of Dennis and Mary (Hurley) Hurley, both of whom were born in
Ireland, the father a native of County Kerry, and the mother of County
Clare. They were married in Canada, both having been brought to the
Dominion by their parents when young. Later Dennis Hurley and his
family came to the United States, and in 1881 resided in Pennsylvania,
where he was employed in the oil fields. In 1882 he brought his family to
Conneaut, Ohio, where he was engaged in the hotel business for a number
of years. His death occurred there in 1899, at the age of fifty-six years.
The mother of Doctor Hurley still resides at Conneaut.

Edward Thomas Hurley was reared at Conneaut and was educated in
the public schools, being graduated from the high school in 1899. The loss
of his father in this year made a necessary change in his plans for the
future, and instead of preparing for college and a medical career he went
to work in the copper mines of Minnesota, where he continued for five
years. After leaving the mines he turned his attention into an entirely
different channel, accepting a position as traveling salesman for a Minne-
sota milling company, and for several years afterward traveled all through
Western territory selling flour.

During this interval Mr. Hurley had never given up his early ambition
to enter the medical profession, and now the time had come when he could
begin the study of medical science with confidence as to the result, and in
1912 he entered the medical department of Loyola University, at Chicago,
Illinois, from which he was graduated in 1916, with his degree of Doctor of
Medicine. For one year afterward Doctor Hurley was resident physician
in the Jersey City (New Jersey) Hospital, and for six months was resident
physician at the New York City Nursery and Children's Hospital. He
returned then to Conneaut, where he became surgeon for the New York &
Chicago (Nickel Plate) Railroad, with which corporation he has been
officially identified ever since.

When the urgent call came from the Government for medical help in
time of war Doctor Hurley was one of the first to respond. In 1918 he was
commissioned a first lieutenant in the Medical Corps, United States Army,
went first to the Officers' Training Camp at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, and
then was transferred to Camp Forest. Georgia, where he was detailed for
overseas duty, but the signing of the armistice with the enemy made
further military preparation unnecessary, and Doctor Hurley was soon
honorably discharged and mustered out of the service.. He returned to
his practice at Conneaut, where he remained until 1920. when he came to
Cleveland and opened his offices at 9722 Lorain Avenue. Doctor Hurley
is a general practitioner, and his high personal character and professional
skill have made him well known in the city, his professional standing being

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further indicated by his membership in the Ohio Medical Society and the
American Medical Association.

Doctor Hurley was united in marriage with Miss Grace A. Reilly. a
daughter of James Reilly, of Detroit, Michigan. Doctor Hurley was reared
in the Catholic Church and is a member of Saint Ignatius parish, Cleve-
land, and belongs to the loyal order of church and country — the Knights of
Columbus.

George Christian Lang is owner of one of the large furniture and
undertaking establishments on the West Side. He has been in business
there for a quarter of a century, and has made a notable success in every
way. He began business in Cleveland with a small capital, and has been
satisfied to develop his enterprise gradually and as time and opportunity
warranted.

Mr. Lang was born at Dunkirk, New York, September 27, 1870, son
of John A. and Theresa (Fischer) Lang. His parents were both born in
Germany, and were brought to the United States when about fourteen
years of age. His grandfather, John Lang, and the maternal grandfather,
Alois Fischer, settled with their families at Dunkirk, New York, the former
becoming a farmer and the latter a carpenter. John A. Lang also followed
the business of farming, and died at Dunkirk in 1884, survived by his
widow until 1910.

George C. Lang passed his boyhood on his father's farm, and supple-
mented the advantages of the country schools by attending school in Dun-
kirk. In 1891, at the age of twenty-one, he came to Cuyahoga County, and
for two years was a student in the Baldwin-Wallace College at Berea. After
finishing his education Mr. Lang spent two years in the stone and coal
business at Chicago Junction, Ohio, and for a similar length of time was
in the ice and coal business at his old home town at Dunkirk.

It was on April 13, 1897, that Mr. Lang engaged in business at Cleve-
land by opening a small furniture store and undertaking establishment on
Lorain Avenue, near Clark Avenue. The best proof of his business
ability was the steady growth made in both' branches by his enterprise.
By 1910 he was owner of a business that needed greatly enlarged quarters,
and in that year he bought property at the corner of Lorain Avenue and
West Ninety-fifth Street and erected a handsome business block, a brick
structure three stories and basement, with a frontage of 120 feet, and 125
feet in depth. This gave him floor space of 30,000 square feet, every foot
being utilized by his stock and business. In May, 1924, a new store, 90 by
100 feet, was erected at One Hundred and Twenty-second Street and
Lorain Avenue, the business having grown very rapidly. Mr. Lang is sole
owner of this prosperous establishment.

He is also connected with other business, civic and commercial organiza-
tions in his section of the city, being a member of the Advisory Board
of the United Bank, a director in the Depositors Savings & Loan Com-
pany, was a director in 1922 of the Chamber of Industry, is a member of the
Civic League and president of the Board of Trustees of the Bethany
Methodist Episcopal Church. He is affiliated with Guyer Lodge, Knights
of Pythias, and Idonia Lodge, Independent Order of Foresters.

In 1898, the year after Mr. Lang came to Cleveland, he married

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Miss Emma Stocker. Her father, Bartholomew Stocker, died in March,
1923, in his ninety-first year. He was born in Switzerland, and for a long
period of years was engaged in farming and dairying at his place on Settle-
ment Road, at what is now One Hundred and Thirtieth Street.

Francis Williard Dittrick, D. P., D. C, a prominent representative
of chiropractic in Cleveland, has a successful practice with offices at 9827
Lorain Avenue.

He was born on the West Side of Cleveland, May 7, 1890, son of
Roscoe and Ida (Rice) Dittrick. His father was born in Canada and his
mother, who is still living, is a native of Pennsylvania. Roscoe Dittrick
came to Cleveland when a young man, and for a number of years followed
a trade. He then engaged in business as a paving contractor, and for many
years was one of the substantial business men and public-spirited citizens
of the West Side. He died in November, 1915, at the age of seventy years.
He was a member of the Masonic fraternity.

Doctor Dittrick grew up on the West Side of Cleveland, attended public
schools there, and was graduated from the Metropolitan Business College.
After his business training he moved to Chicago, and for two years was a
student in the McFadden School of Physical Culture, from which he
received his Doctor of Physics degree, and followed that with the regular
course of the National School of Chiropractic in Chicago, where he gradu-
ated Doctor of Chiropractics in July, 1914.

Doctor Dittrick then returned to Cleveland, and in the same year took
up practice, with offices he now occupies on Lorain Avenue. He is the
leading chiropractor in his section of the city, and is a member of the
Cuyahoga County Chiropractic Association and the Ohio Chiropractic
Association. He is also a member of the West End Business Men's Asso-
ciation and belongs to the Episcopal Church.

Doctor Dittrick married Helen M. Fleming, a native of Pennsylvania,
and daughter of John and Mary Fleming, now residents of Cleveland.
They have one daughter, Frances Marie.

George August Tinnerman, president of the Lorain Street Savings
and Trust Company of Cleveland and founder and owner of the substan-
tial industrial enterprise conducted under the title of the Tinnerman
Stove and Range Company, has by his own ability and efiforts won secure
standing as one of the representative business men of Cleveland.

Mr. Tinnerman was born in Prussia, on the 10th of April. 1845. and is
a son of Henry F. and Sophia (Dryer) Tinnerman, both likewise natives
of Prussia, where the former was born in 1797 and the latter in 1820.
Henry F. Tinnerman, a wagonmaker by trade, was in his fiftieth year
when, accompanied by his wife and their son, George A., of this review,
he came to the United States, in 1847. He established his residence at
Ohio City, which is now an integral part of the West Side of the City of
Cleveland, and shortly after his arrival in Cuvahoga County he purchased
a farm not far distant from the present citv limits, he having piid in gold
the purchase price for this property. In 1850, however, he sold the farm
and resumed the work of his trade. He opened a blacksmith and w^gon-
making shop at what is now the corner of Lorain Street and Fulton Road,

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and this was undoubtedly the first estabhshment of its kind on what is now
the West Side of Cleveland. Mr. Tinnerman, a specially skillful mechanic,
did all kinds of general blacksmith work, including the shoeing of both
horses and oxen, and in his shop he also manufactured wagons of the most
substantial type, his wife having assisted him efTectively in the work of the
shop by varnishing the wagons after he had painted them. In 1858
Mr. Tinnerman retired again from the work of his trade, and he then
removed to another farm, which he then purchased, but two years later he
returned to Cleveland, where he continued to maintain his home until his
death, in 1880, his widow passing away in 1888, and both having been
devout commvmicants of the First Reformed Lutheran Church. They
became the parents of two sons, of whom the subject of this sketch is the
elder, the younger son, Henry, being deceased.

George A. Tinnerman was about two years of age at the time of the
family immigration to the United States, and in the schools of Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, he gained his early education. At the age of sixteen years
he entered upon an apprenticeship to the tinner's trade in Cleveland, and
after his three years' apprenticeship he followed his trade for a time as a
journeyman. He then opened a shop of his own, on the site of his father's
old blacksmith and wagon shop, and it is interesting to record that on this
site now stands the substantial modern building of the Lorain Street Sav-
ings and Trust Company, of which he is the president. In 1867, after
having taken a course in a local business college, Mr. Tinnerman engaged
in the hardware business, in a building on the site of his former shop, and
for more than half a century he here continued successfully established in
this line of enterprise as a practical tinsmith and as the owner of a well
equipped general hardware store. It is however, as the inventor and the
manufacturer of stoves and ranges that Mr. Tinnerman has gained his most
noteworthy financial and business success and prestige. He has developed
a large and prosperous manufacturing enterprise that is destined to stand
as an enduring monument to his ability and his progressiveness. While
handling stoves in his hardware store he conceived clear ideas for improv-
ing these essential household equipments, and eventually he perfected plans
for the production of ranges of wrought steel. He obtained patents on his
invention, and after making his first range he commissioned his wife to
bring to the store a batch of biscuit dough, which he placed in the heated
oven of the new range, with the statement to his wife that in seven
minutes the biscuits would be baked and ready to eat. This statement
proved true and established the value of his improved mechanism. Then,
in a modest way, he initiated the marketing of his ranges. He demon-
strated the range to a number of his friends, to each of whom he made
a proposition virtually as follows : "Give me $10 and your old stove and I
will set up one of my ranges in your kitchen." In most instances his oflFer
was accepted. The new ranges gave full satisfaction, and thus a basis was
established for a new manufacturing enterprise of important order. In
1885 Mr. Tinnerman was ready to initiate the manufacture of what are
now known as the Ohio Steel Stoves and Ranges. By a judicious svstem
of circularizing literature sent forth into various states the business of the
new concern rapidly expanded in scope, a properly equipped factory was
built, and for nearly forty years the products of the Tinnerman stove

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and range manufactory have been recognized as representing an important
factor in the industrial and commercial activities of Cleveland. While
Mr. Tinnerman still retains ownership of the business, its management is
novi^ vested entirely in the hands of his son, Albert H., who holds the posi-
tion of general manager.

Mr. Tinnerman was one of the organizers and incorporators of the
Lorain Street Savings and Trust Company, of which he has served con-
tinuously as a director and of which he is now the president, this being one
of the substantial, well ordered and important financial institutions of the
Ohio metropolis.

Mr. Tinnerman has done much of practical value in the course of his
long and active business career, and, in an entirely unostentatious way, has
shown also a fine sense of civic stewardship and has done well his part in
the furtherance of the civic and material advancement of Cleveland, espe-
cially in connection with the development of the West Side. He is honored
as a substantial and public-spirited citizen of sterling character and worthy
achievement. He and his wife are earnest communicants of the Lutheran
Church.

In 1868 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Tinnerman and Miss
Caroline Ruley, who was born and reared in Cleveland, and the children
of this union were four in number: Emma is the wife of William
Tarnutezer, and they have two sons and one daughter; Frank is deceased
and is survived by his widow and their two daughters ; Albert H., as before
noted, is general manager of the Tinnerman Stove and Range Company;
Lillian is the wife of Charles DeBolt, a representative lawyer engaged in
practice in the City of Bufifalo, New York, and they have three children.

William Edward Dwyer, M. D., is a Cleveland physician and surgeon
who early in his practice was called to the army and was on active duty for
about a year overseas. He then resumed his work, with the benefit of excep-
tional training and experience, and has a large practice in his part of the city.

Dr. William Edward Dwyer was born in Cleveland, at Fifty-fifth and
Broadway, January 26, 1889, son of W'illiam and Bridget (McGreevey)
Dwyer. His parents were born in Ireland, were brought to America when
children, were reared and married in Cleveland, and his father for many
years has been in the service of the Erie Railway Company. His mother
died February 6, 1918, at the age of fifty-eight.

Doctor Dwyer was educated in the public schools of his native city,
graduated Bachelor of Arts from Western Reserve University in 1911. and
took his medical degree from Western Reserve Medical School in 1914.
For about a year after graduating he was an interne at Saint Alexis
Hospital.

February 15, 1918, he was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Army
Medical Corps, and in March of the same year went overseas, landing at
Liverpool. He was assigned to duty with the British Army and detailed for
service in Edinburgh Hospital in Scotland. He remained in that historic
city for about eight months, and was then ordered to report for dutv with
the American Forces and was detailed to Base Hospital No. 8 at Savenav,
France. March 17, 1919, he sailed for home, was mustered out at Camp
Dix, New Jersey, April 26, 1919, and on July 19th of that year resumed

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his professional work in Cleveland. Since returning home he has occupied
his present offices at 10132 Lorain Avenue, corner of West Boulevard.

Doctor Dwyer is a member of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine, the
Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association, and
also belongs to the American Legion and the Knights of Columbus.
Doctor Dwyer married Miss Henrietta Hughes, daughter of Samuel and
Esther Hughes, of Cleveland. They have one son, William E., born in
1920.

Karl Holden Chandler, M. D., has been engaged in practice as a
physician and surgeon on the West Side since he graduated from medical
school, except for the period he was in the army service during the World
war. His offices are at 9854 Lorain Avenue.

A native of Cleveland, he was born on the West Side, January 21, 1891,
son of Leslie L. and Alice J. (Downing) Chandler. His parents were born
in Canada, were married there, and first came to Cleveland in 1890. Soon
after the birth of Doctor Chandler they returned to Canada, but again
settled, this time permanently, in Cleveland in 1897. The father died in
1912 and the mother in 1917.

Doctor Chandler has spent his life in Cleveland since has was six years
of age. He attended public schools, graduated from the West High
School in 1910, and soon afterward entered the Cleveland Pulte Medical
College, where he was graduated Doctor of Medicine in 1914. In further
training for the work of his profession he spent six months as an interne
in Glenville Hospital and one year in the same capacity in Huron Road
Hospital. Following that he opened an office and engaged in general
practice.

September 30, 1918, Doctor Chandler was commissioned first lieutenant
in the Medical Reserve Corps, and was soon called to active duty at the
hospital at Camp Sherman. At the time of the armistice he was awaiting
orders for his command to go overseas. December 24, 1918, he was mus-
tered out and honorably discharged, and at once resumed his professional
work in Cleveland.

Doctor Chandler married Caroline Bubel. She was born at West Park,
a Cleveland suburb, daughter of Christian and Anna Bubel. Their two
children are Karl H., Jr., born in 1916, and Betty Jane, born in 1920.

William J. Semple, director of finance for the City of Cleveland, is
one of the well known and popular citizens of the Ohio metropolis, and
had a successful career in business before he was called to public duties.

He was born in Cleveland, son of William Semple and grandson of
James Semple. James Semple, a native of Scotland, came to America when
a young man and for ten years lived in Canada, where he married a girl
who, like himself, was born in Scotland, and her parents were pioneers of
the Province of Ontario. James Semple from Canada moved to New York
State and finally spent his last years in Cleveland. William Semple, father
of the finance director, was born at Silver Creek, New York, acquired a
good education and was one of the first men to qualify for the profession
of electrical engineering. For some time he was in the service of the
Brush Electric Light Company, and was sent by this corporation to Cincin-

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nati to install the first electric light plant in that city. After completing
that work he returned to Cleveland, and was only forty-two years of age
when he died. His wife, Helen MacDonald Hart, was born in Scotland,
and died at the age of sixty-eight years. Her parents were Malcolm and
Elizabeth Hart. William Semple and wife reared three children: Ruth E.,
teacher in the public schools of Cleveland, William J. and George Hart.

William J. Semple first attended school in Cincinnati, and completed
his education in Cleveland. After leaving school he continued his studies,
and has been an interested student of political science and commercial afifairs
all his years. Soon after leaving school he was given employment in the
Cleveland offices of the Standard Oil Company as an office boy, was
advanced to a clerkship, and left that corporation in 1906 to become asso-
ciated with the Youghiogheny and Ohio Coal Company. He resigned in
1913 and for ten years was with the Cleveland and Western Coal Company,
resigning his work with that corporation in 1923 to become city finance
director.

Mr. Semple married, in October, 1916, Miss Mary Pendergast, a native
of Cleveland and daughter of Thomas Pendergast.

William Wischmeier. The late William Wischmeier was one of the
well known citizens and successful business men of Cleveland, and by his
death the South Side of the city lost a leader in all community afifairs, one
who was always ready to give freely of his time and means to all move-
ments having for their object the welfare of the community.

Mr. Wischmeier was born in Cleveland (then Brooklyn Village) on
June 16, 1866, the son of Frederick Wischmeier, a native of Germany,
who was one of the early merchant tailors of the South Side. He attended
the Lutheran parochial schools, and while yet a boy began an apprentice-
ship to learn the upholstering business, working for his brother-in-law,
Edward Blawse. After he had mastered that business he formed a part-
nership with John Linderman, another brother-in-law, and the firm of
Wischmeier & Linderman established a furniture store and upholstering
and undertaking business. Mr. Wischmeier bought his partner's interest
in the business March 5, 1895, and continued it under his own name until
1920. in which year he admitted his son, Elmer, as a partner, the firm then
becoming William Wischmeier & Son, as it continues at the present time,
with a business ranking among the leading and successful furniture, up-
holstering and undertaking houses of the city.

Mr. Wischmeier had other important interests. A number of years
ago he became a member of the board of directors of the Lincoln Savings
and Loan Company, and when that institution was absorbed by the Pearl
Street Savings and Banking Companv he continued as a director in that
bank. He was also president of the Hal-Fur Motor Truck Company.

Civic and church afifairs lay close to Mr. Wischmeier's heart, and he
gave much of his time to them, always willingly and always cheerfully.
He was treasurer of Lutheran Hospital, treasurer of Lutheran Cemetery
Association and a member of the board of trustees of Emanuel Lutheran
Church, and treasurer of the church for fifteen vears.

His splendid traits of character, his personalitv and the upright life he
led won the respect of all who came in contact with Mr. Wischmeier, while

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his circle of warm friends was very large, all of whom mourned his death
as a personal loss.

Mr. Wischmeier was united in marriage with Emma Bennhoff, who
was bom in Cleveland, the daughter of the late William Bennhofif, pioneer
blacksmith and wagonmaker of the West Side. To their marriage a
daughter and son were born: Clara L., who married Julius Gerlach, and
has a son, Julius, Jr., born July 16, 1920; and Elmer Wischmeier.

Julius Gerlach was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, April 2, 1889, son
of the late Alfred F. Gerlach, who for twenty years was a teacher in Saint
Matthews Lutheran Parochial School of Cleveland, who died in 1918, his
widow surviving. Julius Gerlach came to Cleveland with his parents, at-
tended Saint Matthews Parochial School, graduated from Western Reserve
University School of Pharmacy in 1911, and is now a member of the drug
company of Flandemeyer & Gerlach, corner of Trowbridge and West
Twenty-fifth streets, Cleveland.

William Wischmeier passed away on January 30, 1922, his wife having
preceded him to the grave on November 15, 1919.

Elmer Wischmeier was born on May 27, 1893. He was educated in
the Lutheran parochial schools and at business college. On leaving school
he entered his father's store, and soon developed into a good business man.
He took the prescribed course in embalming and received his certificate
from the state, and from that time on he was active in all the departments
of the business, to which he succeeded at the death of his father, and
which he is carrying on along the lines taught him by his father, under the
old firm name, and continuing the success begun by its founder.

The World war interrupted his business career for a time while he was
in the service of his country in France. On May 25, 1918, he entered the
United States Army, and was sent to Camp Gordon, Georgia, and was
assigned to the Infantry Replacement Troops. Thence he was ordered to
Camp Mills, and on July 10, 1918, he sailed for overseas duty with the
Sixteenth Replacement Regiment. The regiment landed in England, and
thence went to France, in which country Elmer was on duty until the
signing of the armistice, after which he returned to the United States and
was mustered out of the service and given his honorable discharge on
May 14, 1919, at Camp Sherman. Leaving the service, he at once returned
home and resumed his place in the store.

He is a member of Elsworth Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted
Masons ; Olive Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; Forest City Commandery,
Knights Templar ; Lake Erie Consistory, Scottish Rite, thirty-second
degree; Al Koran Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic
Shrine; Al Sirat Grotto and Cleveland Forest of Tall Cedars. He is a
member of the advisory board of the Pearl Street Savings and Trust
Company, a director in the Lincoln Savings and Loan Company, and a
director in the Hal-Fur Motor Truck Company.

George E. Asling. The Asling family is one that has for many years
been well known, in the Berea community of Cuyahoga County, both in a
business way and in connection with public affairs. George E. Asling
has given over thirty years of service to the County of Cuyahoga in the
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He was born at Berea, son of John E. Asling and a grandson of
Edward Asling. Edward Asling was born in Ontario, Canada, of English
ancestry, was a farmer, and spent his last years at Saint Field in Ontario.
John E. Asling was born at Saint Field, Ontario, in 1850, was educated
in public schools, and when thirteen years of age began an apprenticeship
at the blacksmith's trade. He had great natural talent as a mechanic,
and in a short time had become known as an expert horseshoer and worker
in iron. He was twenty years of age when he came to Ohio and located
at Berea, where he soon opened a blacksmith shop. The class of work
performed attracted the owners of fine horses, and he did a flourishing
business. He had an expert judgment on all the points of a horse, and
this talent led him into dealing in high class driving horses. He trained
many trotters and pacers, and in his dealings in draft horses imported
Clydesdales direct from Scotland. He was one of the best known horsemen
in Northern Ohio, and his death, in July, 1923, occurred while he was at
the race track. He was prominent in public affairs, serving as a member
of the Board of Education and City Council at Berea, as township
treasurer, as deputy sheriff, and as a member of the Board of County
Commissioners.

John E. Asling married Cora Lane, who is still living at Berea, where
she was born. Her father, Warren Lane, was a native of Connecticut and
an early settler in Cuyahoga County, being for many years engaged in the
mercantile business at Berea. John E. Asling and wife reared five chil-
dren: George E. ; Eva B.; Mayme, wife of Rev. George Schaibly, of
Kansas City, Missouri ; Dorothy, wife of A. W. Oatman, of Medina,
Ohio; and Leland S., who is secretary of the Ford McCaslin Company of
Cleveland.

George E. Asling was reared in Berea, finished the course of the
grammar and high schools there, and had some employment as an account-
ant with different firms. In 1893 he was appointed deputy auditor for
Cuyahoga County, and has ever since given quiet, efficient and thorough
service to that department of the county government.

He married, in 1902, Miss Louise Klink, a native of Berea and a daugh-
ter of John G. Klink. They have two daughters, named Ruth and Maxine.
Mr. Asling is affiliated with the Berea Lodge of Masons, Berea Chapter
of Royal Arch Masons, is a member of the Cleveland Real Estate Board,
the Cleveland City Club, the Citizens League and the Ohio Tax Association.

George Armstrong Newman. The Newman family has been in
Cleveland over eighty years. It is one of the old and honored names of
influence and prestige, both in the early days and later times. George Arm-
strong Newman, of the third generation of the family in Cleveland, is
identified with the county government, and in former years was active in
the real estate business.

He was born at the old home on Newman Avenue in Lakewood. His
father, James T. Newman, and his grandfather. Rev. John Newman, were
born in London, England. Rev. John Newman became a preacher of the
Swedenborgian Church, and in 1842 brought his family to America, making
the voyage in a sailing vessel. He was the second minister of the
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in Ohio City, as the locality west of the river was known, remaining in that
locahty until his death. He and his wife, Mary, reared three children :
James, Thomas and Ann.

James T. Newman was born in London, England, in 1831, and was
eleven years of age when brought to the United States. He grew up on
the West Side, made use of his limited opportunities to obtain a good edu-
cation, and as a youth showed commendable habits of industry. He fre-
quently rowed people across the river for a few cents fare. Most of the
land included in the modern City of Cleveland was when the Newman
family located there either forest or farm, and James T. Newman had as
one of his regular occupations the duty of chopping firewood used for fuel.
He served an apprenticeship at the printer's trade, and was associated with
the Edward Cowles newspaper, which finally merged with the Leader.
After retiring from the newspaper business he moved to Ithaca, New York,
and for nineteen years was a merchant selling musical goods there. He
then returned to Cleveland, where during his former residence he had
invested his means in a large tract of land designated by the modern streets
of Detroit at Newman and Franklin avenues. He plotted this land, built
sidewalks and laid out streets. Much of this has been sold and built upon,
and his children still own other parts of it. He was one of the progressive
men of his day, possessed good business ability, had implicit faith in Cleve-
land's future, and eventually achieved prosperous circumstances. He died
at the age of seventy-four years. James T. Newman married Elizabeth
Armstrong, who was born at Ogdensburg, New York, of pure Scotch
ancestry. Her father, Allan Armstrong, was born in Scotland, came to the
United States when a young man, and at Ogdensburg, Ne.w York, was
engaged in the civil engineering profession until his death. Edward Arm-
strong, brother of Elizabeth Armstrong, commanded a company of cavalry
in the Union Army, and died in the service. Mrs. Elizabeth Armstrong
Newman died in 1901, having reared three sons, Edward, James Thomas
and George A.

George Armstrong Newman lives in a home that is about a hundred
yards from his birthplace. He first attended the school now known as the
Garfield School, and continued his education in a private school known as
Devereaux Hall and in the Kentucky Public School and the West High
School. He finally completed his education with a course in Caton's
Business College. For several years he was associated with his brothers
in the management and sale of their father's real estate interests. Later he
entered the service of the People's Gas Company, in charge of the appliance
department, and continued in that position with the first company and its
successor, the East Ohio Gas Company, until 1921. After many years
of faithful and efficient service to this public utility he resigned and in 1921
was appointed purchasing agent for Cuyahoga County.

Mr. Newman married, in 1908, Mary M. Tryak, who was born in
Bremen, Germany, daughter of Frank nnd Anna (Younge) Tryak, her
father being of German and her mother of French ancestry. Mr. and
Mrs. Newman have two sons, George Armstrong and Robert Whittaker
Newman. Mr. Newman cast his first presidential vote for William
McKinley, and has been staunchly aligned with the republican party ever
since. He is affiliated with Halcyon Lodge No. 498 of the Masonic Order,

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Thatcher Chapter No. 101, Royal Arch Masons, Forest City Lodge No. 40
of the Knights Templar, of which he is past Commander and past captain
general, and is also a member of Lake Erie Consistory of the Scottish Rite
and Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine.

Harry Howard Ward, D. C, Ph. C, is an able and successful exponent
of the benignant science of chiropractics as applied to the alleviation of
human suftering, and in his chosen profession he has a substantial and
representative practice in his native City of Cleveland, his offices being in
suite number one of the Mery i\partments, 3616 West Twenty-fifth Street.

Doctor Ward was born in a house at 1552 East Forty-third Street, this
city, on the 26th of May, 1892, and it is interesting to record that his
mother, whose maiden name was Emma Schultz and who is a daughter of
the late John Schultz, an early settler of Cleveland, was born in the house
next door to that in which her son was born. The Schultz family has been
one of prominence in Cleveland and, of German lineage, has represented
the most loyal of American citizenship. George W. Ward, father of the
doctor, was born in the City of Nashville, Tennessee, in 1862, a son of
George Ward, who was a wealthy manufacturer in that city prior to
the Civil war, which brought financial reverses to him. George W. Ward
learned in his father's factory the trade of toolmaker, and this trade he con-
tinued to follow in the South until he came to Cleveland, about thirty years
ago. Here he has since maintained his residence, and here he held for
eight years the position of superintendent of the Glauber Brass Manufac-
turing Company. His wife has been a resident of Cleveland from the time
of her 'birth to the present. Of the three children Harry Howard and
Howard Harry were twins, the latter being deceased, and the youngest of
the children is Howard Chester.

Doctor Ward gained his early education in the public schools of Cleve-
land, including the East High School, and thereafter he took a course in
the pharmacal department of Western Reserve University. For four years
thereafter he followed pharmaceutical work in Cleveland, and he then
entered the Palmer School of Chiropractic at Davenport, Iowa, where he
completed the full three years' course and was graduated with the degrees of
Doctor of Chiropractics and Pharmaceutical Chemist. He has since been
successfully engaged in pi'actice in his native city, is a member of the
Universal Chiropractic Association, and of the Ohio State Alumni Chiro-
practic Association, of which latter he has served as president. He is also
a life member of the Trowel Club of the Palmer School of Chiropractic,
and served as president (1922) of the Alumni Presidents' Association of
that institution. The Doctor is affiliated with Ionic Lodge No. 474, Free
and Accepted Masons, with the Masonic Grotto of Shadu Kiam at Detroit,
Michigan, and with the Knights of Malta, Cleveland.

July ^8, 1918, recorded the marriage of Doctor Ward and Miss Elsie
Gottschalk, who likewise was born and reared in Cleveland and who is a
daughter of John and Augusta Gottschalk. They have one daughter,
Dorothy Louise.

Herman C. Baehr, former mayor of Cleveland, and the first citizen
of Cuyahoga County ever elected three consecutive terms to the ofl[ice of

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county recorder, has numerous substantial achievements in business and
public life to his credit.

Cleveland also holds in high esteem the memory of his father, the late
Jacob Baehr, and his mother, Mrs. Magdalena Baehr. Jacob Baehr was
born in Heidelberg, Germany, March 13, 1824, and he and his brother
Henry w^ere the only members of the family to come to America. Henry
settled at Cleveland, where for many years he conducted a bakery. Jacob
Baehr was left an orphan by death of his parents when he was six years
of age, and was reared among strangers. He secured a good education,
and served an apprenticeship at the trade of brewer. He secured a certifi-
cate as master brewer, malster and cooper. He became identified with the
revolution in the German states in 1848, and upon the failure of that
liberal movement, he, like thousands of others, expatriated himself and
came to America. He made the journey in a sailing vessel that was
seventy-four days on the ocean before it landed its passengers at New
York. He came at once to Cleveland, where a classmate, named John
Burkholder, was living, and it was upon Mr. Burkholder's advice that
Cleveland was destined to become a large city that Jacob Baehr was
attracted here. He arrived in Cleveland without money, but with a knowl-
edge of a good trade. His first employment was as a cooper making barrels
for the then thriving pork packing industry. In 1856 he moved out to
Keokuk, Iowa. That was the year the first railroad crossed the Mississippi
River, and still much of the State of Iowa was an unbroken wilderness.
At Keokuk Jacob Baehr formed a partnership with another brewer and
engaged in the brewery business until 1866, when he returned to Cleveland
and established a brewery on West Twenty-fifth Street. In connection he
operated a restaurant, and continued this business until his death on
February 18, 1873. Jacob Baehr was reared in the Mennonite Church,
and held to that faith until his death. He was deeply religious and would
not employ anyone not an attendant at some church, and refused to sell
the product of his brewery to one whom it was known drank too freely.
He would not permit lewd talk on his premises. However, he was not
bigoted, and as there was no Mennonite Church in Cleveland his family
attended Saint John's Episcopal Church and the Protestant Evangelical
Church, and his children were all confirmed by a minister of the latter
denomination.

Jacob Baehr married Magdalena Zipf, who was born in Friesenhein,
Baden, and came to America at the age of seventeen, accompanying her
sister Salome, who married Jacob Wieber. Mrs. Magdalena Baehr upon
the death of her husband took the active management of the business, and
conducted it with all the energy and wisdom that she had previously dis-
played in the management of her household. Mrs. Magdalena Baehr was
one of Qeveland's noted women. She gave liberally of her means to many
worthy causes. She was founder and president of the Altenheim Society,
being the head of that institution until her death. In founding this home
for aged couples she stipulated that man and wife should not be separated
and this was the first home for the aged that admitted married couples.
Mrs. Magdalena Baehr died March 30, 1909, at the age of seventv-four.
She was the mother of nine children, but only two are now living:
Katherine, widow of Jacob Killins, of Cleveland ; and Herman C.

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Herman C. Baehr was born in Keokuk, Iowa, March 16, 1866, and the
family soon afterward returned to Cleveland. He attended the public
schools of this city to the age of fourteen, and then went to work in his
father's brewery. In order to master the brewer's trade he went abroad
and attended Lehman's Scientific Academy at Worms, on the Rhine, where
he was graduated with the degree Doctor of Medicine. He was one of the
first if not the first in Cleveland to employ completely scientific principles
in the manufacture of beer. At the age of twenty-one he took charge of
the Baehr Brewing Company, and when it was consolidated with the
Cleveland-Sandusky Brewing Company he became secretary and treasurer
of that corporation, and continued an active official therein until 1903.

Mr. Baehr was a staunch friend and admirer of the late Mark Hanna,
and wielded much influence in behalf of that famous Ohio citizen during
his remarkable political career. It is said that his affiliation with Mark
Hanna was largely responsible for Mr. Baehr entering politics. In 1903
his friends insisted that he accept the republican nomination for county
recorder. He was elected and twice reelected, the last time by 28,000
majority. He also served as a member of the Cleveland Park Board.
In 1909 he was asked to become a candidate for mayor, but refused until
45,000 people signed and presented to him a petition demanding his candi-
dacy. He was elected and served as mayor from January 1, 1910, to
January 1, 1912.

Mr. Baehr was formerly president of the Forest City Savings and
Trust Company, and since its consolidation with the Cleveland Trust Com-
pany has been a director of the latter institution. A number of years ago
he was elected president of the West Side Chamber of Industry. He took
charge at a critical time in the fortunes of this organization, and revived it
and gave it a vigorous influence in the affairs of that section of Cleveland.
He was twice elected president and served about a year and a half. He is a
member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce and many civic organiza-
tions. He is affiliated with Bigelow Lodge No. 657, Free and Accepted
Masons; Thatcher Chapter No. 101, Royal Arch Masons; Forest City
Commandery No. 30, Knights Templar; Lake Erie Consistory of the
Scottish Rite, Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine, Al Sirat Grotto and
is past master of Lake Shore Lodge No. 6, Knights of Pythias.

Mr. Baehr married, April 21, 1898, Miss Rose Schulte, who was born at
Rochester, Pennsylvania, daughter of August and Lucy Schulte. Her
father for many years was a prominent provision merchant in Cincinnati
and was the inventor of "boneless ham."

Greenwood and Greenwood. The firm of Greenwood and Greenwood
has for a number of years been closely identified with the handling of busi-
ness property in Cleveland, primarily in the downtown section. The firm is
composed of two brothers, Ivan A. Greenwood and W^alter P. Greenwood.

Ivan A. Greenwood was born August 20, 1883. at Columbus, Ohio,
and is a son of John H. and Christine Anderson Greenwood, and is of
English and Scotch descent. His father, who was a mechanical engineer,
died in 1901.

Mr. Greenwood was but a child when he was taken by his parents to
Cleveland, where he obtained his early education in the public schools.

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After graduating from high school he entered Dartmouth College, from
which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts as a member
of the class of 1907. At that time he took up civil engineering, and subse-
quently was road engineer for Cuyahoga County and engineer in charge
of sewer construction for the City of Cleveland.

In 1912 he received his introduction to practical real estate matters
when he joined the Greenlund Kennerdell Company of Cleveland. A few
years later he became manager of the A. B. Smythe Company. On April 1,
1917, the present firm of Greenwood and Greenwood was organized. He is
a member of the University Club, the Canterbury Golf Club and the
Cleveland Real Estate Board.

Walter P. Greenwood was born in Columbus, Ohio, November 17, 1885.
When he was one year old his parents moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where he
received a public school education. After graduating from high school he
entered Dartmouth College, from which he was graduated with the degree
of Bachelor of Science as a member of the class of 1911.

Mr. Greenwood entered the real estate business a few months after he
graduated from college. He has been associated with the Greenlund Kenner-
dell Company, the A. B. Smythe Company and V. C. Taylor & Son. He is
a member of the Cleveland Athletic Club, University Club, Canterbury
Golf Club, Cleveland Chamber of Commerce and the Cleveland Real Estate
Board.

John Nelson Stockwell. In the death of Prof. John Nelson Stock-
well of Cleveland, May 18, 1920, America has lost one of her foremost
philosophers and the dean of her astronomers. Professor Stockwell was
the contemporary of Gould, Hall, Newcomb and Hill and outlived them
all by a considerable period of years. Fortunately his health enabled him
to be active to the very end ; so that as in the case of the elder Herschel,
some of his notable advances were made at a great age. Accordingly, his
devotion to science extends from 1850 to 1920, fully seventy years.

He was born at Northampton, Massachusetts, April 10, 1822, and in
the autumn of the following year his parents moved to Ohio and nearly
the whole of his life was spent in the region of Cleveland. His father,
grandfather and great-grandfather all bore the name William, first of that
name being born at Thompson, Connecticut, in 1744. The mother of
Doctor Stockwell was Clarissa Whittemore, whose brother, Amos Whitte-
more, was inventor of the machine for carding wool and cotton. At the
age of eight years, John Nelson Stockwell was taken to live with an elderly
aunt and uncle in Brecksville Township, near Cleveland. As the years
passed by he became so attached to his foster parents that he did not care
to leave them. He attended school at an early age but his interest in books
was slight until he reached the age of twelve.

The account of his introduction to science, written by Doctor Stockwell
himself, is thus quoted: "In the spring of 1849 I commenced the study of
algebra. The public schools provided no instruction in that science and I
had no means for pursuing it elsewhere. I was therefore obliged to get
along without assistance or abandon the study. The difficulties which I
first encountered, however, gradually disappeared and I was surprised at
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handled by means of algebra. I afterward made the discovery that no
teacher was necessary.

"1 have often been asked how I happened to take an interest in astronomy
and at what age that interest manifested itself. It is easy to answer both of
these questions now, although at one time it was a little difficult to answer
the latter with certainty. Two circumstances, however, which I well
remember, enable me to remember the date. My interest was awakened to
the subject of astronomy by a total eclipse of the moon which occurred
early in the evening, about the beginning of winter. 1 have already men-
tioned the fact that I lived with my uncle, and that he lived with his uncle,
who was nearly eighty years of age. We were all somewhat frightened at
the occurrence and the old gentleman asked me with some earnestness if I
thought that I would ever be able to foretell when such an event would
occur again. The idea of foretelling such an event was entirely new to me.
I had never heard of such a science as astronomy, and I could only reply
to the old gentleman by saying that I did not know but that I would try.
From that time on I was a careful student of all the old almanacs that I
could get possession of, and I picked up a good many items of interest in
astronomy.

"I found the study of algebra so interesting that I devoted every leisure
moment to its consideration and m the period of about eight months I had
solved nearly every problem in Day's Algebra, which was then used in the
principal colleges of this country. In the autumn of 1849 I procured a
little book on practical geometry. In fact, I became so absorbed in study
that the labors of the farm became rather irksome, and I sometimes suspect
that the growing crops sufifered detriment for the benefit of science. There
certainly seemed to be a degree of incompatibility between my natural
tastes and my occupation, and this incompatibility soon led to a modifica-
tion of the conditions that were so satisfactory at the age of fourteen.

"It was about that time that the wonderful discovery of Neptune took
the scientific world by surprise and the fame which rewarded the theoretical
discoverer of that planet served as a stimulus to continued exertion. In
1850, while attending the college commencement at Hudson, in July, I
found Olmstead's Astronomy with Mason's Supplement, which I pur-
chased and which I afterwards read with a great deal of interest. I also
obtained the writing of Dr. Thomas Dick, who was a very charming and
popular writer on scientific subjects. His works, called 'Celestial Scenery,'
'Sidereal Heavens' and 'The Practical Astronomer,' afiforded a vast amount
of general information on the subject of astronomy."

At the age of twenty, in the spring of 1852, he came into possession of
Laplace's great works, "Mecanique Celeste." In 1852 he composed and
prepared the material of a "Western Reserve Almanac" for the year of our
Lord, 1853. A little later he became acquainted with Dr. B. A. Gould of
Cambridge, Massachusetts, editor of a journal of astronomy. This
acquaintance delevoped into a friendship ended only by the death of
Doctor Gould. In August, 1854, Mr. Stock well went to Cambridge,
Massachusetts, to accept under Doctor Gould a situation as a computer in
the longitude department of the United States Coast Survey at a salarv of
$400. After eight months he returned to Brecksville and on December 6,

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1855, married Miss Sarah Healy, a foster daughter of his uncle and who
had Hved in the family during about ten years.

Soon after the breaking out of war in 1861 Mr. Stockwell again
accepted a position as computer under Doctor Gould at the United States
Naval Observatory at Washington, and continued in service there until
the end of 1867.

In the meantime he had made the acquaintance of Mr. Leonard Case of
Cleveland. To quote his own words: "My acquaintance with Mr. Case
was most fortunate and his friendship was cordial and continuous during
the remainder of his life. From him I received the material encouragement
which has enabled me to devote the greater part of my time during the
past twenty years to scientific pursuits. It was he who encouraged me to
undertake a complete discussion of the mathematical theory of the moon's
motion, the subject on which I was engaged at the time of his death, and
which I have continued at intervals since. But the continuity of my efforts
were then broken, and I have since been obliged to confine my attention to
some specific problem in relation to the subject rather than to a general
advance all along the line."

The result of Doctor Stockwell's laborious researches are found in a
long list of articles published in the Astronomical Journal and other
sicentific journals of this country and abroad. Some of the more notable
of his published works were: "Memoir of the Secular Variations of the
Sanitary Orbit in Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge," 1872; "Stocks
and Interests Tables," 1873 ; "Theory of the Moon's Motions," 1881 ;
"Eclipse Titles," 1901; "Sheet Tax Tables," 1903; "Theory of Sanitary
Perturbations and the Cosmogony of Laplace," 1904.

In general, philosophers are esteemed according to the sincerity with
which they persist in the search for truth. Newton and Laplace each gave
over sixty years to science and traversed and improved the theory of many
of the great phenomena of the world. Our venerable Doctor Stockwell
has followed worthily in their footsteps. For nearly seventy years he culti-
vated with vigor, originality and conscientious efifort the improvements of
Celestial Mechanics in its various branches, and his efforts were crowned
by numerous advances which add lustre to the age in which he lived.

If he had lived in former centuries, he would have been the associate
of New1:on and Laplace, who laid and finally established the foundation of
the theory of universal gravitation. If he had lived in the age of Archi-
medes, Apollonius and Hipparchus, he would have added lustre to the
Alexandrian School of Astronomy. At Cleveland, Ohio, he witnessed the
celebrated exj)eriments of Michelson and Morley on the stagnation of the
.^ther about our moving earth and himself cultivated and adorned nearly
every department of the science of the motions of the heavenly bodies.

Doctor Stockwell was preeminently a true philosopher, happy in his
researches and seeking no reward but the noblest of all rewards, the advance-
ment of truth.

Doctor and Mrs. Stockwell lived together more than sixtv years, a
companionship of wonderful devotion. Six children were born to them,
and those surviving Doctor Stockwell were Orison Lincoln of Greensburg,
Kansas; Edward A., of Cleveland; Netta Augusta, now Mrs. Walter S.
Sapp, of Cleveland ; and John Nelson, Jr., of Cleveland.

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John Henry Lowman, M. D. The patent of nobility that securely
rested its claims in the personality of the late Dr. John H. Lowman, of
Cleveland, was one of deep intrinsic worth of character, of transcendant
professional ability, of abiding human sympathy translated into active serv-
ice, and of effective work in advancing the standards of his profession,
both as a practitioner and educator. Within the scope of a memoir as
brief as this must needs be it is impossible to give manifold details concern-
ing the career of this distinguished Ohio citizen, nor is such indulgence
necessary. The fullest measure of lesson and incentive offered by the
story of his life and labors comes to the one who is able to "read between
the lines." He who serves is loyal, and in noble service to humanity
Doctor Lowman justified himself in the ultimate degree. He was a man
of broad intellectual ken, of high ideals, and of fine appreciation of all
that makes for true value in the scheme of human thought and action.

Dr. John Henry Lowman was born in Cleveland, Ohio, October 6,
1849, and his death occurred in New York City January 23, 1919. He
was a son of Jacob and Minerva (Peet) Lowman, and was a representative
of sterling pioneer families of the Ohio metropolis. The schools of his
native city afi^orded Doctor Lowman his earlier education, and he attended
school also at Meadville, Pennsylvania, prior to matriculating in Wesleyan
University at Middletown, Connecticut. In this institution he was graduated
as a member of the class of 1871, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts,
and in 1874 his alma mater conferred upon him the honorary degree of
Master of Arts. He also graduated from Columbia University, receiving
his Doctor of Medicine degree. In the autumn of 1871 he began the study
of medicine under the able preceptorship of Dr. G. C. Weber, who was at
that time one of the most distinguished physicians and surgeons in the
City of Cleveland. In 1873 he was graduated from the medical depart-
ment of Wooster University, and after thus receiving his degree of
Doctor of Medicine he further fortified himself through the valuable
clinical experience that he gained through his service as an interne in
the Charity and Maternity hospitals of Cleveland. In 1874 Doctor
Lowman assumed a position as house physician in the Charity Hospital
in New York City, this being now known as the City Hospital. He
soon became associated with Dr. Clinton Wagner, of the Metropolitan
Throat Hospital, and in this connection he gained authoritative knowl-
edge of diseases of the throat and chest. It was through his efforts
that a special ward was set aside in the Charity Hospital for the special
care of laryngeal cases. After his work in the New York Charity
Hospital was completed Doctor Lowman returned to Cleveland and estab-
lished himself in the practice of his profession. In 1876 he was appointed
professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the medical school of
Wooster University, and in this position he continued his effective service
until 1881, and he continued his educational service after this department
was consolidated with the Cleveland Medical College, which later became
the medical department of Western Reserve University. From 1881 to
1899 he was professor of materia medica, during the ensuing five years
he was professor of medicine, and he was then made professor of internal
medicine and clinical medicine and ethics, in which position he continued
his loyal and distinguished service until the close of his life. His work

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as an educator in this connection covered a period of forty-two years,
and his was large and benignant influence in the upbuilding of the splendid
medical school of Western Reserve University, and in a more generic
sense he made large contribution to the advancement of medical science.
It is worthy of note that in 1889 he obtained the funds necessary to provide
microscopes for the laboratory of the histological department of the
medical school.

As pertinent to another field in which Doctor Lowman rendered a
great service of enduring value, the following quotations are consistently
incorporated in this memoir :

"Notwithstanding the demands of a very large and important practice
Doctor Lowman succeeded in keeping thoroughly abreast of the times in
the medical world, and also succeeded in originating and developing
various socio-medical institutions and associations of far-reaching value.
In 1902 he visited the most prominent tuberculosis sanatoriums and insti-
tutions in France and Germany, and in 1905 he attended the Interna-
tional Congress on Tuberculosis held in Paris. Upon his return he con-
ceived and founded the Anti-Tuberculosis League of Cleveland, an asso-
ciation that later became responsible for the development of the Municipal
Department of Tuberculosis and also the Warrensville Sanatorium. * + *
The Anti-Tuberculosis League of Ohio counted him as one of its founders,
and he became its first president. In 1913 he was made president of
the National Society for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. * * *

"Ever unsparing of himself, the strain of unremitting devotion to his
professional and philanthropic work began to tell upon Doctor Lowman,
and for several years his health had been distinctly impaired, although
his activities were not permitted to lapse. His reputation as an authority
upon the subject of tuberculosis had become international, and when the
necessity arose for sending a commission to study the conditions of that
disease in Italy, Doctor Lowman was appointed its medical director.
Although physically unfit for the hardships and uncertainties of such
a task, he at once accepted, and as a major of the American Red Cross,
started with the other members of the commission to Europe. He
arrived in Rome at the height of the epidemic of influenza, and was
shortly afterward taken ill with that disease. Although not sufficiently
recovered, as events proved, he was urged bv his superior officers of the
Red Cross to return home as soon as possible. Relapsing on the voyage,
he reached New York City in a serious condition of illness, and two days
later, on January 23, 1919, he passed away."

At the time of the death of Doctor Lowman the United States secre-
tary of war wrote as following concerning the service which he had
rendered in the connection noted in the preceding paragraphs : "I write
to express my personal sympathy and my official gratitude for the unselfish
service which ccjst Doctor Lowman his life. Througliout my life in
Cleveland Doctor Lowman was one of the greatest influences for better
and wiser things in public afifairs, and when the world's great test came
he could not help sacrificing himself to minister to the stricken and
sufifering. Surely he died a soldier's death, after living in the best sense
of the word a soldier's life."

His native city and all that concerned it ever signified much in the

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thought and loyal interest of Doctor Lowman, and here his noble humani-
tarian spirit reached its apothesis. Of his manifold activities alonj^
benevolent and philanthropic lines we need not speak in detail. Here,
as in all other relations of life, he gave of his best, fully and heartily, and
vv^ith deep appreciation of personal stewardship. It is to be noted that
he was an inspiring force in the movement that resulted in the estab-
lishing of the Babies' Dispensary and Hospital in Cleveland, and he
was a member of its executive committee at the time of his death. He
was chairman of the staff of Lakeside Hospital, and was one of the
founders of the Cleveland Medical Library. At his suggestion was
organized the Cleveland Museum of Art, and from the beginning of
its history to the close of his life he was an honored and influential
member of the board of trustees.

From the Journal of the Outdoor Life for May, 1919, is taken the
following appreciative estimate : "Among medical leaders in the anti-
tuberculosis cause Dr. John H. Lowman was of unusual distinction, by
reason of his gifts of mind and heart. By reading and travel he was
well informed in all that pertained to medicine, and especially to tuber-
culosis. His intelligence was penetrating, and was aided by wide inter-
ests and syrnpathies. His desire for human welfare, and his under-
standing and culture, would have made him eminent in any field as a
teacher, publicist and organizer. Fortunate was it, indeed, that medicine
had the benefit of his life work, and tuberculosis workers the genius of
his leadership."

It is well that in this memoir be perpetuated the following excerpt
from a memorial written at the time of the death of Doctor Lowman :
"Doctor Lowman's life was characterized by unceasing industry, a strong
and dominating purpose to secure for himself and for his fellowmen
the things that were essentially worth having and worth fighting to obtain.
He had little patience for slothfulness of any kind, or for the kind of
individualism that keeps a man from sharing the best that is in him
and the best that he can do. His tastes were liberal, and that which was
beautiful in art, music and literature made for him the strongest appeal.
Even though he stood for every method and process which science has
won for the care and prevention of bodily disease, nevertheless human
life was always for him something which transcended its bodily tene-
ment and which fed itself at sources not always easily discernible. Never
at any time was a man, in his estimation, a mere manikin, but rather
a creature set in the midst of an infinitely varied medium of life. Thus
the joys, the sorrows, the hidden anxieties, the pinch and strain of money
worries, the disappointment of frustrated energy, with all their implica-
tions and their bearing upon physical health, came within the consider-
ation of his liberal and richly informed mind ; and therefore, as well as
because of his scientific attitude, he was a sound diagnostician."

Doctor Lowman was reared in and ever held to the faith of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, and this faith found benignant expression in
his daily Hfe. After his death a most impressive memorial service was
held in the Amasa Stone Memorial Chapel of Western Reserve Uni-
versity, and there tributes of love and honor were paid to the man who
had lived righteously and wrought nobly during the entire course of

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an active and useful life. It has consistently been stated that his was
a human life that offered convincing evidence of the divine.

There can be no wish to lift that gracious veil that guarded the
ideal home life of Doctor Lowman, but it may be said that every
relation of the home was gracious and idyllic. Mrs. Lowman, who sur-
vives him, shared with him in cultural and humanitarian interests and
service, and is one of the true gentlewomen whose mfluence in Cleveland
has been most gracious and benignant. In the year 1891 was solem-
nized the marriage of Doctor Lowman and Miss Isabel Wetmore. Doctor
Lowman is survived also by three sons, each of whom entered the
nation's service with utmost loyalty and promptitude when the United
States became involved in the World war. John W., the eldest son,
became flight commander of the American Aviation Detachment in Italy,
and he, like his brothers, still resides in his native City of Cleveland. He
married Miss Edith Marie Lehman, of Wooster, Ohio, and they have
a little daughter, Elizabeth. Henry, the second son. became an officer in
the American Aviation Corps, and Shepard was in service in the United
States Marine Training Camp at Paris, South Carolina. Shepard Low-
man married Miss Josephine (Frisbie) Cherry, of Bowhng Green, Ken-
tucky.

Mrs. Lowman takes lively interest in the history of Cleveland and
the State of Ohio, and in this connection it is interesting to record that
she has in her beautiful home a complete file of the city directories of
Cleveland, as well as books pertaining to the original Shaker settlement
in Cleveland.

Albert Henry Hawley has been a prominent fixture in railway labor
circles for a number of years. He came to Cleveland with the removal
to this city of the national headquarters of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen and Enginemen, of which he is general secretary-treasurer. His
individual exi:>erience in railroading covers a period of nearly forty years.

Mr. Hawley was born at Davenport, Iowa, May 13, 1866. His early
American ancestors were of Scotch-English stock. His grandfather, Sam-
uel Hawley, was a native of New York State, married Mary Satterlee, of
the same state, and he and two of his brothers going west, stopped in
Indiana for a time, but Samuel went on with his family to Iowa, and
engaged in farming near Davenport. He died when a comparatively
young man, leaving a widow and six small children. It was characteristic
of the frontier customs of that day that the neighbors, after the death of
the head of the family, helped his widow to care for the crops. They
appeared at the Hawley farm at six o'clock and worked until dark until
the grain was harvested. Mrs. Samuel Hawley died at an advanced age in
West Liberty, Iowa.

Her son, James F. Hawley, was born in Indiana, in 1839, and in 1874
went back to New York State, to Port Henry, where he followed his trade
as house painter and decorator until his death in December, 1885. He
married Ann E. Butterfield, a native of Swanton, Vermont, daughter of
Clark and Nancy Butterfield, and a member of an old and prominent fam-
ily. Mrs. James F. Hawley died at Crown Point, New York, in 1916, at
the age of seventy-two.

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Albert Henry Hawley was eight years of age when his parents went
back to New York. He finished his common school education at Port
Henry, and at the age of thirteen became an employe in a hotel at Ticon-
deroga. For six years he lived in that historic section of Northern New
York and worked in hotels and at other employment in Ticonderoga, Port
Henry and Whitehall.

Mr. Hawley began his railroading experience in 1885 in New York
City as an employe of the Manhattan Elevated Railway Company, which
at that time used steam as power for its engines. His first work was in
painting the structural work of the elevated roads. For one year he was
an engine wiper, for eight and one-half years a fireman, and for six and
one-half years an engineer.

Mr. Hawley in 1901 resigned his position with the Manhattan Elevated
Company to become an inspector in the service of the Interstate Commerce
Commission. He was with the commission from 1901 to 1909, his duties
requiring constant travel all that time. On January 1, 1909, he assumed
the duties of general secretary-treasurer of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen and Enginemen.

Since the national headquarters were removed to Cleveland his offices
have been in the Guardian Building. Since May 1, 1917, he has been a
resident and citizen of Lakewood.

Fifteen years ago, when Mr. Hawley took up his duties as an official of
the Brotherhood, its total membership was 65,000, with financial resources
of $500,000. The Brotherhood now has 118,000 members, with resources
of $12,000,000. Mr. Hawley is also a trustee of the Railroad Firemen's
Home at Highland Park, Illinois.

He is active in Masonry, being affiliated with Davenport Lodge No. Z7 ,
Free and Accepted Masons ; Davenport Chapter No. 16, Royal Arch Mason,
Knights Templar Commandery and Mohammed Temple of the jMystic
Shrine at Peoria, Illinois. He is also a member of the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows, and belongs to the Cleveland Athletic, Dover Bay Country
and Lakewood Country clubs, and the Creve Coeur Club at Peoria.

Mr. Hawley married in 1896 Carrie Wilson, a native of Davenport, Iowa,
daughter of William and James (Kerr) Wilson. She died in 1907. On
October 10. 1909, he married Miss Mary T. Scully, of Peoria. She was
born in Michigan, the daughter of Edward and Mary (Gleason) Scully. The
only child by the second marriage is Jean, born January 3, 1911, at Peoria,
Illinois.

Dennis Joseph Lyons is a native of Cleveland, was in railroad service
until disqualified by accidental injury for further active duty, and has since
taken up the law and gained an enviable position in the Cleveland bar.
His offices are in the Society for Savings Building.

Mr. Lyons was born in what is now the heart of the down town district
of Cleveland, on Hamilton Street. December 23, 1883. His father, Patrick
Lyons, was born in Ireland, in 1844. and came alone to the United States
and to Cleveland in 1861. For over forty years he was an employe of the
New York Central Railway Company. He died at Cleveland in February,
1920. His wife, Mary Lynch, was a native of Ireland, came to this country^
a few years after her husband, and they were married in St. Johns

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Cathedral at Cleveland. They were for many years active members of
that parish. She died in 1913.

Dennis Joseph Lyons was educated in the Catholic parochial schools,
and after leaving school entered the service of the New York Central Rail-
way Company. While on duty he lost his right arm in an accident, and
following that for three years was in the service department of the city,
then for two years in business for himself, and for one year was with
the Otis Steel Company. From 1918 to 1921 Mr. Lyons was employed
in the office of County Clerk Edward B. Haserodt. At the same time he was
diligently pursuing the study of law, and subsequently entered the Cleveland
Law School of Baldwin-Wallace University, and was graduated with the
Bachelor of Laws degree in June, 1921. Admitted to the Ohio bar July 2,
1921, Mr. Lyons at once engaged in general practice, and has secured a
large clientage and has made a mark among the younger members of the
profession.

In 1923 he was candidate for member of the City Council from the
Third District. In 1924 he received the nomination on the democratic
ticket for the Ohio State Senate. He belongs to the Cleveland Bar Asso-
ciation, the Fraternal Order of Eagles, and St. Columbkills Catholic Church.
Mr. Lyons married Miss Ella M. Longtin, a native of Cleveland and a
daughter of Moses Longtin, of Cleveland, who until a few years prior to his
death, in 1923, was proprietor of one of the oldest established horse-shoeing
businesses in the City of Cleveland.

Thomas J. Long has had an active membership at the Cleveland bar
for eight years, during which time he has achieved a commendable service
record as an attorney and is one of the prominent younger professional
men of the city.

He was born in Cleveland, January 16, 1893, son of John P. and Caro-
line E. (Bowen) Long. His father was born in Lancastershire, England,
in 1855. In 1861 his parents, Thomas and Margaret (Craddock) Long,
left that section of England and, coming to the United States, located in
Northern Michigan. Shortly after his arrival Thomas Long volunteered
his services to the cause of his adopted country in the Civil war, and was
serving with a Michigan regiment when he was killed in the Battle of
Antietam in the fall of 1862. His widow brought her family to Cleveland
from Michigan in 1875.

John P. Long for many years was a well known refrigerating engineer
in Cleveland, where he died in 1918. His widow, still a resident of Cleve-
land, was born at Oldham, England, daughter of Richard Bowen.

Thomas J. Long acquired a liberal education in Cleveland, attending
the grammar and high schools, Western Reserve University, and in 1916
graduated with the Bachelor of Laws degree from the Cleveland Law
School of Baldwin- Wallace University. He was admitted to the bar in
1916, and immediately engaged in general practice, which he has continued.
He is senior member of the firm of Long and Logan, with offices in the
Society for Savings Building.

For several years he has been active in democratic ]X)litics. He was a
democratic candidate for the Ohio General Assembly in 1918. He is also
known for his prominence in the Fraternal Order of Eagles. He was presi-

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dent in 1922-23-24 of the local aerie, and has served as chairman of the
entertainment committee and chairman of the Board of Widows and
Orphans Relief Committee. He is chairman of the executive committee
of the building committee in charge of building the magnificent new home
of the Eagles. He belongs to the college fraternities Pi Kappa Alpha and
Pi Kappa Phi, and to the Cleveland Bar Association and the Ohio State
Bar Association.

During the World war he was a member of the Legal Advisory Board
of Districts No. 1 and 10, and did much to promote the Liberty Bond and
Thrift Stamp sale.

Samuel A. Raymond. The life of the late Samuel A. Raymond
covered the psalmist's span of three score years and ten, but not in mere
duration did that life have its significance. A personality that was the
distinct expression of a strong and loyal nature and that represented the
best in ideals and traditions of culture and refinement made Mr. Raymond
the true gentleman that he was, and his was the spirit that finds its best
exemplification in tolerance and broad human sympathy and an intrinsic
desire to contribute to the happiness and well being of others. The measure
of Mr. Raymond's ability as an executive and man of afifairs was indicated
by his large and worthy achievement, and, all in all, he was an honored
and representative Cleveland citizen to whom a tribute is consistently due
in this publication.

A scion of Colonial New England ancestry, Samuel A. Raymond was
born at New Britain, Connecticut, August 27, 1845, and his death occurred
January 9, 1915, about seven months prior to the seventieth anniversary
of his birth. He was a son of Samuel and Mary (North) Raymond, both
of whom passed the closing years of their lives in Cleveland. In the year
1853 Samuel Raymond came with his family to Cleveland and here he
organized the Raymond-Lowe Company, which became a leading concern
in the wholesale dry goods trade throughout the territory tributary to
Cleveland as a distributing center.

Samuel A. Raymond, immediate subject of this memoir, was born in
Cleveland, Ohio, and was a lad of about eight years at the time of the family
removal to Cleveland, and after here completing the curriculum of the
public schools and also a collegiate preparatory course, he entered historic
old Yale University, where he made a characteristically admirable student
record and was graduated as a member of the class of 1870, his academic
degree being that of Bachelor of Arts. At Yale he became affiliated with
one of the leading Greek-letter fraternities and also a member of the famous
Wolf's Head Society of that institution.

After his graduation in Yale Mr. Raymond returned to Cleveland
and here he became associated with his brother, Henry N., in continuing
the wholesale dry goods business that had been founded by their father.
With this business he continued his active alliance until 1S78, and he then
turned his attention to the real estate business, as a coadjutor of the late
Amasa Stone. The operations of these two representative citizens had
much to do with the advancing of metropolitan progress and material up-
building in the Cleveland district, and after the death of Mr. Stone Mr. Ray-
mond was selected to assume active administration of the latter 's large

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estate. From that time forward until his death, the major part of his time
was given to the management of this important estate, and his able and
faithful service not only increased greatly in value, but also involved
judicious exploitation of its interests in such a way as to inure in large
measure to general civic and material progress in Cleveland. A man of
mature judgment and exceptional executive ability, Mr. Raymond left a
distinct influence in connection with business activities in his home city,
the while he so ordered his life in all its relations as to merit and receive
the unqualified confidence and res|3ect of his fellow men. His civic loyalty
was one of action as well as sentiment, and while he was a stalwart supporter
of the cause of the republican party, his personal predilictions and his large
business interests both militated against his manifesting any desire for
political activity or public office. He was an honored member of the Union,
the University, the Rowfant and the Hunt clubs of Cleveland, as was he
also of the Cleveland Country Club. For many years he was an active and
influential member of the Old Stone Church (Presbyterian), of Cleveland,
and of the same he served as deacon and elder. Of this church his widow
continues an earnest member.

The many fine elements in the character of Mr. Raymond found their
most gracious expression in the intimacies and generous hospitality of
his home, the relations of which were in every sense ideal. His devotion
to his home and family was one of his dominating characteristics, and yet
none was more appreciative of the amenities of social life, so that he
found pleasure in extending to his many friends the cordial hospitality
of his home, where he was ever assured of the gracious cooperation of his
wafe, the popular chatelaine of the home, in which Mrs. Raymond still
remains, at 3826 Euclid Avenue, the while she still maintains also the
attractive summer home of the family at Gloucester, Massachusetts.

On the 20th of January, 1875, was solemnized the marriage of Mr.
Raymond to Miss Emma Stone, daughter of the late Daniel and Hulda
(Gleason) Stone, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and a niece of the late
Amasa Stone, who was one of the most prominent and influential figures
in the furthering of the earlier growth and development of Cleveland.

In conclusion is entered the brief record concerning the children of
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond: Mary is the wife of E. M. Williams, of Cleve-
land, and their five children are Hilda, Madeline, Edward P. and Mary R.,
and Will, deceased. Hilda is the wife of F. E. Williamson and they
maintain their home with the New York Central Railroad ; Henry A., who
is prominently identified with business interests in Cleveland, married
Miss Margaret Garretson, and they have two children, Emma and Millicent ;
Julia and Samuel Edward remain with their mother at the old homestead ;
Jonathan married Miss Pauline Pollard, of Boston, Massachusetts, and
in that city they maintain their home, their children being three in number :
Jonathan, Jr., Pauline and Joan.

David Bennett Steuer, M. D. One of Cleveland's recognized spe-
cialists in the profession of medicine, Doctor Steuer has been equally a
leader in civic improvement, public health and sanitation, and some of
the city's most distinctive stei)s in modern progress were initiated by him.

He was born in Hungary, May 29, 1866, son of Julius and Gertrude

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Steuer. His mother died in her native land. In 1879, when Uavid B.
was thirteen years of age, he came with his father to the United States, and
located in Cleveland the same year. His early education had been acquired
in common schools and a gymnasium in Hungary. In Cleveland he con-
tinued his high school work and also attended Calvin College. After
leaving school he became clerk in a drug store, and from 1887 to 1896
was proprietor of a pharmacy on St. Clair Avenue.

In the meantime, in 1889, Doctor Steuer was graduated from the Cleve-
land School of Pharmacy. After that, while carrying on his drug business,
he read medicine, and in 1895 was graduated Doctor of Medicine from the
Medical department of Western Reserve University. From 1895 to 1900
Doctor Steuer engaged in the routine work of a general practice.

He resigned his business and professional connections altogether in
1900 to go abroad, and for three and one-half years he pursued the rigid
routine of post-graduate work in such great medical centers as Vienna,
Budapest, Berlin and London. When he returned to Cleveland he resumed
practice as a specialist in internal medicine, and his best work has been
accomplished in that special field. For fourteen years Doctor Steuer was
on the stafif of Mount Sinai Hospital. He is a member of the Cleveland
Academy of Medicine, and the Ohio State and American Medical asso-
ciations.

Outside of his profession his record is an impressive one. From 1895
to 1901 he represented the First District, comprising the First, Second,
Third and Fourth wards in the City Council, and during his last term was
president of the Council. His chief concern was with certain vital prob-
lems involving public health and municipal duty. He was instrumental
in securing pasteurized milk supply for the city ; is the father of the garbage
collection and disposal system of Cleveland ; and he was author of the
bill in the council creating a dumping station on the lake front for the
purpose of reclaiming a large tract of land there. He was instrumental
in securing the opening of Bank Street, and was the first to call serious
attention to the Lake Front Group Plan for public buildings. His name is
closely associated with the attachment of the City Children's Hospital, and
he turned the first spadeful of dirt in its construction. His influence while
in the City Council also tended to permit Cleveland to a bona fide civil
service for employes. Doctor Steuer is a former president of the Cleveland
Pharmaceutical Association, was at one time chairman of the Cleveland
School of Pharmacy, is a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce,
and is affiliated wtih the Masonic Order, and Knights of Pythias. He
married Miss Emma Kraus, daughter of Jacob Kraus. Her father is head
of J. K. Kraus & Sons, candy manufacturers of Cleveland. Doctor and
Mrs. Steuer have four children. Alfred L. graduated Bachelor of Arts
from Harvard University and Bachelor of Laws from Harvard Law School,
and is now a practicing attorney in Cleveland. Herbert S. is also a Bache-
lor of Arts graduate of Harvard, took his medical degree in Western
Reserve University, and is now pursuing post-graduate work in the Cleve-
land City Hospital. The third son, Wilber A., graduated Bachelor of
Arts from Harvard University and is now practicing law in Cleveland.
The youngest child and only daughter, Gladys, is a pupil in the Junior
High School of Cleveland.

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Archibald Nail Dawson, A. B., M. D. One of the successful physi-
cians and surgeons and prominent citizens of Lakewood is Dr. Archibald N.
Dawson, who has heen in the active practice of his profession in this com-
munity for the past fifteen years. He is a native son of Ohio, and represents
a family whose name has been identified with the history of this state since
pioneer days and with the nation since Colonial days, the family having set-
tled in Virginia prior to the War of the Revolution, and in Ohio in the
early part of the nineteenth century.

Rev. William Chambers Dawson, father of the doctor, was born in
Wayne County, Ohio, in 1851, the son of Archibald Dawson, who was born
in a log cabin near the present town of Mount Sterling, Ohio. Archi-
bald, Sr., was the son of Thomas Sterling Dawson, the Ohio pioneer of
the family. Thomas S. was born in Virginia, of Scotch-Irish ancestors
who settled in Virginia prior to the Revolutionary war, and from which
state a later generation settled in Kentucky. It is a tradition in the family
that it is descended from Virginia Dare, the first white child Ijorn in the
Virginia colony. Thomas S. Dawson, the Ohio pioneer, came into this
state soon after the close of the War of 1812.

Rev. William C. Dawson received his early education in the common
schools, and was graduated from Baldwin-Wallace University in 1878. He
was ordained a minister of the Northern Ohio Conference of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, and held pastorates at Pittsfield, Wellington, Woos-
ter and Elyria, Ohio. He married Mary E. Nail, who was born in Mans-
field, Ohio, the daughter of Samuel Nail, who was born in Richland
County, Ohio, the son of Henry and Catherine (Lewis) Nail, early settlers
of that county. Rev. William C. Dawson died in 1907, survived by his
widow, who resides at Brecksville, Cuyahoga County. To their marriage
the following children were born: Charles A., was graduated from Ohio
Wesleyan University, Bachelor of Arts, from Harvard University, Master
of Arts, and from Boston (Mass.) University, Doctor of Philosophy,
Doctor of Sacred Theology, and is engaged in literary work ; Archi-
bald, N., Doctor of Medicine; Mabel E., was graduated from Ohio Wes-
leyan University, Bachelor of Arts, and is engaged in teaching ; William W.,
graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University, Bachelor of Arts, and from the
law department of Western Reserve University, Bachelor of Laws,
and is an attorney of Cleveland.

Dr. A. N. Dawson was graduated from the Ashland (Ohio) High
School in 1899, from Ohio Wesleyan University, Bachelor of Arts in
1904, and from the medical department of Western Reserve University,
Doctor of Medicine, in 1908. During 1908-09 he served as interne at St.
Vincent Charity Hospital, and in 1910 he entered general practice in
Lakewood, specializing in obstetrics of late years.

Doctor Dawson is head of the obstetrical staff of Lakewood Hospital,
is a member of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine, a member of Ohio
State Medical Association and Fellow of the American Medical Association.
Lie is a member of Lakewood Chamber of Commerce, the Clifton Club,
Sleepy Hollow Country Club ; Ohio Chapter, Sons of the American Revolu-
tion ; and of the Church of the Ascension of Lakewood.

Doctor Dawson married Miss Jean Backus, who was born in Dedham,
Massachusetts, the daughter of Arthur Mann and Eliza Jennings (Burton)

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Backus. Mrs. Dawson is a graduate of Smith College. To the doctor
and wife three children have been born: William Burton, born August 19,
1913; Archibald Nail, Jr., born April 26, 1917; and Ehzabeth Jane, born
April 29, 1921.

Timothy Shea, who is recognized as one of the most prominent lal)or
leaders in the country through his office as assistant president of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, has had his official
home in Cleveland for the past seven years. His early hfe was spent at
an old country homestead in Connecticut of peculiar historical interest to
the City of Cleveland.

Mr. Shea was born in Windham County, Connecticut, August 4, 18C5,
son of John T. and Sarah (Sullivan) Shea, and grandson of Timothy and
Margaret Shea. His grandparents were born at Kenmane, County Kerry,
Ireland. His grandfather, Timothy, was a university graduate and became
a professor of languages in his Alma Mater. In 1848 he and his wife
brought their family to America, locating at Windham, Connecticut, where
he spent his last years. John T. Shea was born in County Kerry, Ireland,
in 1832, and was sixteen years of age when he came to the United States.
He grew to manhood on a farm in Windham County, finished his common
school education, and subsequently bought a farm of 160 acres in Windham
County. He was one of the progressive and substantial agriculturists of
Connecticut. In 1876 he bought an adjoining farm of 200 acres, known as
the "Cleveland Farm." This farm was the birthplace of Gen. Moses
Cleveland, the founder and father of the City of Cleveland. On this old
farm is still standing the house in which Moses Cleveland was born, but it
has not been used as a residence since John T. Shea purchased it in 1876.
It stands about a quarter of a mile from the Shea home. The members of
the Shea family still own this historic old property. The old Cleveland
house is a three-story frame, containing twelve rooms, and the rooms were
heated by fireplaces opening out on both the first and second floors from
an immense central chimney of solid masonry. They had this in Colonial
times, and it is said that the chimney was constructed first and the house
built around it. In 1899 a committee representing the City of Cleveland
visited the Shea farm with the view of purchasing the old house and trans-
ferring it to this city, to be reerected in honor of the founder of the city as
the central feature of the celebration of Cleveland's one hundredth anni-
versary. However, building engineers pronounced the plan impossible,
since the house would have to be taken apart and transported in sections.
Consequently it still stands on its original site, although rapidly disinte-
grating.

On this Connecticut homestead John T. Shea spent his active career,
and came to be regarded as one of the leading farmers of his day. owning
one of the most beautiful estates in Windham County. He died Alarch 18,
1898, when sixty-six years of age. His widow survived him until 1914,
passing away at the age of seventy-six.

Timothy Shea, of Cleveland, grew up on the old Connecticut farm,
attending public schools. In his seventeenth year, in 1882, he went to
work as a railroad man, becoming a brakeman on the Norwich and Wooster
Railway. Two and one-half years later he was promoted to conductor.

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Leaving Connecticut in 1886, he entered the service of the Central Railway
Company of New Jersey as a locomotive fireman, and subsequently was
made locomotive engineer. He was with the Central of New Jersey until
he resigned to take up his official duties with the Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive Firemen and Enginemen in 1902, in which year he was elected vice
president of the Brotherhood. He has given over twenty years of service
to this great railroad organization. For a number of years he was stationed
at the official headquarters at Peoria, Illinois. In 1910 he was advanced
to assistant president, the title of the office he still holds. In 1917 the head-
quarters of the brotherhood was transferred from Peoria to Cleveland,
and since then Mr. Shea has been an interested and public spirited resident
of this city.

In 1912 Mr. Shea was selected as fraternal delegate to the triannual
conference of the Associated Locomotive Engineers and Firemen of Great
Britain. At a conference held in Albert Hall at Leath, England, June 12,
1912, he made one of the addresses. During the World war he served as
international president of the Brotherhood. When the railroads were
restored to private ownership he resumed his duties as assistant president
of the Brotherhood.

Mr. Shea is a member of the Cleveland City Club, the Cleveland Auto-
mobile Club, the Chagrin Valley Country Club, and the Knights of Co-
lumbus. He married Miss Molly Powers, a native of Peoria, Illinois, the
daughter of Michael and Mary Powers. Her father was born in Cork and
her mother in Skipereen, Ireland, both coming to the United States as
young people, and being married here. Mr. and Mrs. Shea have one
daughter, Philomene, aged ten years.

John P. Dempsey, chief justice of the Municipal Court of the City
of Cleveland, and known as one of the representative members of the bar
of Cuyahoga County, was born at Bellevue, Huron County, Ohio, on the
27th of March, 1878, and is a son of John A. and Anna Dempsey. Judge
Dempsey was prepared for college by attending Sandwich Academy, at
Sandwich, Ontario, Canada. In preparation for his chosen profession
he completed the prescribed curriculum in the Cleveland Law School, in
which he was graduated in June, 1907, and from which he received his
degree of Bachelor of Laws. In 1907-8, to fortify himself further for the
manifold exactions of his profession, he took courses in economics, litera-
ture and philosophy at Western Reserve University. He was admitted
to the bar of his native state in 1907, and one year later he engaged in
the practice of his profession in Cleveland. He proved his resourcefulness
as a trial lawyer and well fortified counselor, and continued to give his
close attention to his substantial law business until he received, on the 1st
of March, 1921, appointment by Governor Davis to his present office,
that of chief justice of the Municipal Court of the Ohio metropolis, his
regular election to this bench and office having occurred in November
of the same year, for the six-year term beginning January 1, 1922. Thus
his service has been consecutive since he served out the unexpired term
for which he was first appointed.

The World war service of Judge Dempsey was initiated in the mont/j
following that in which the United States became definitely involved in

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the great conflict. On the 12th of May, 1917, he entered the Officers
Training Camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, and on the 15th of
the following August he there received his commission as captain. He
was assigned to Company G, Three Hundred and Thirty-second United
States Infantry, and with this command he went overseas and served
on the Italian front. He continued in active service until the armistice
brought the war to a close, and remained abroad in occupation duty in
Austria for some time thereafter. He returned home and received his
honorable discharge in May, 1919.

Judge Dempsey is an active member of the Cleveland Bar Association,
and holds membership also in the Ohio State Bar Association and the
American Bar Association. He holds membership also in the American
Legion, the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, the famed military organiza-
tion known as the Cleveland Grays, the Civitan Club, and the Shaker
Heights Country Club, besides he'mg affiliated with several fraternal or-
ganizations.

Mrs. W. G. Rose is a gentlewoman of distinctive culture, has played a
large part in the social and cultural life of Cleveland, is a writer and
author of recognized talent, and has been active and influential in advancing
charitable, philanthropic and benevolent agencies in her home city.

Mrs. Rose was born at Norton, Ohio, March 5, 1834, a daughter of
Theodore Hudson Parmelee and Harriet (Holcomb) Parmelee, and a
granddaughter of Capt. Theodore Parmelee, a patriot soldier in the War
of the Revolution. David Hudson, a great-uncle of Mrs. Rose, was the
founder of Western Reserve College, at Hudson, Ohio, which is now
Adelbert College of the Western Reserve University, Cleveland. In 185.S
Mrs. Rose was graduated in Oberlin College, and thereafter she became a
teacher of music in a seminary at Mercer, Pennsylvania, her marriage to
W. G. Rose having occurred in 1855 and their four children having been
reared in Cleveland.

Mrs. Rose has shown deep concern in advancing the interests of work-
ing women in Cleveland, and was the founder of the Woman's Employ-
ment Society, the work of which has been of inestimable value. In 1881
she was elected president of the Cleveland Sorosis. an office which she
retained three years. In 1898 she founded the Health Protective Associa-
tion, and she has been prominent in the general Federation of Women's
Clubs. She was a leader in organizing a civic club in Cleveland, and in
establishing the first playgrounds of the Ohio metropolis. Under the nom
de plume of Charles C. Lee, Mrs. Rose wrote a series of articles on the
trade schools of France, and the publication of these in the daily news-
papers aided in the establishing of the manual training schools of Cleve-
land. She is a charter member of the local chapter of the Daughters of
the American Revolution, and has given effective service as treasurer of
the National Health Protective League and president of the Cleveland
Health Protective Association. Her earnest and loyal stewardship is evi-
denced in human sympathy and helpfulness, and she is loved by all who
have come within the sphere of her gracious influence. She is the author
of three books : "Travels in Europe and Northern Africa ;" "An Album,"
and "Reminiscences of Character Building." Her three sons and one

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daughter are married and well established in life, and all are honoring the
family name. Of the husband, W. G. Rose, mention is made on other
pages of this work.

Willis Vickery, distinguished Cleveland lawyer and jurist, was born
at Bellevue, Huron County, Ohio, November 26, 1857, and soon afterward
the family home was established on a farm in Erie County, removal having
later been made to Sandusky County, where the subject of this review was
reared to manhood on the home farm. In 1880 Judge Vickery was gradu-
ated in the high school at Clyde, and thereafter he studied law and gave
his attention to teaching in the public schools until he entered the law
department of Boston University, Massachusetts, in which he was gradu-
ated in 1884. In 1885 he formed a law partnership with his brother Jesse,
and they opened an office at Bellvue, where the alliance continued until the
removal of Judge Vickery to Cleveland, in 1896. Here Judge Vickery
continued in the successful practice of his profession until he assumed his
place on the bench of the Common Pleas Court of the fourth subdivision of
the third judicial district of Ohio. In this office he made a record of emi-
nent success, and he has been prominent also in the educational work of
his profession, especially in his service as secretary of the Cleveland Law
School. On the bench Judge Vickery has been called upon to render deci-
sions in many important cases, including a number of major bearing upon
the welfare of Cleveland, and he has proved one of the able and repre-
sentative members of the Ohio judiciary. He is a republican, is affiliated
with the Masonic fraternity and Knights of Pythias, and is a member of
the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, and is identified with various pro-
fessional and social organizations of representative order.

Judge Vickery is known as a bibliophile and a man of exceptional cul-
ture and literary ability. He has one of the best private libraries in Cleve-
land, is known throughout the United States as an enthusiastic Shake-
spearean student, and has given service as president of the New York
Shakespeare Society, besides having membership in the Bibliophile Society
of Boston, the Carteret Book Club of Newark, New Jersey, and the
Rowfant Club of Cleveland. He has served as president of Rowfant
Bindery Company, known for its great artistic work in the binding of
books. Judge Vickery is a popular lecturer on literary subjects, and there
is much call for service in this capacity, besides which he has written and
published several books.

By his first marriage Judge Vickery is the father of two sons and on&
daughter, the mother, whose maiden name was Anna L. Snyder, having
died when the younger son was an infant. The second marriage of Judge
Vickery was with Eleanor R. Grant, of Boston, and she died in 1902. In
1904 was solemnized his marriage to Mrs. Rosalie Griggs Mayberry, of
Cleveland.

Charles Herbei^t Gardner initiated his business career in the City
of Cleveland with most modest financial resources, but his vital energy, his
initiative ability, and his progressive policies eventually gained to him
substantial success and a place of prominence and influence as one of the
representative men of affairs in the Ohio metropolis. A more genial and

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engaging personality and a character expressive of greater integrity and
loyalty that significantly marked this sterling and honored citizen, would
be difficult to find, and from boyhood until the close of his life Mr. Gardner
manifested the qualities that ever beget the supreme measure of popular
confidence and good will. It has consistently been said by one of the
friends and comrades of Mr. Gardner's youth, that his personality was
such that his'every acquaintance was destined to be his friend for all time.

Mr. Gardner was a native son of the county to which this publication
is devoted. He was born in the historic old town of Chagrin Falls,
Cuyahoga County, on the 26th of August, 1855, and was a son of Albon
and Sarah (White) Gardner, who there continued their residence until
their death, the father having had large real estate holdings in and about
Chagrin P'alls and having for many years been there engaged in the insur-
ance business, in connection with the supervision of his real estate mterests.

After having duly profited by the advantages of the public schools of his
native place Mr. Gardner further fortified himself by completing a course
in the Spencerian Business College in the City of Cleveland. His first
employment was in the private bank conducted at Chagrin Falls by E. B.
Pratt, and he was about twenty-five years of age when, with very limited
capital, he organized in Cleveland the Globe Oil Company, of which he
became president and manager. By close application and indefatigable
energy he developed for his company a substantial and prosperous business
in the buying and distributing of oil, and eventually the concern was
merged with the National Oil Company, with which he continued his
alliance until he sold his interest in the corporation and business. He
then turned his attention to the wholesale and retail flour business, pur-
chasing the interest of Donmeyer, Gardner & Company corporation, of
which he continued the president and general manager until his death, which
occurred December 6, 1920. He made this one of the leading concerns
of its kind in the Cleveland metropolitan district, and became interested
also in other local business enterprises of important order. He became a
stockholder and executive of the City Ice Company about the time of its
organization, and was active in the development of this company's ex-
tensive business, now one of the largest of the sort in the entire United
States. He was a member of the first Board of Directors of the Dow
Chemical Company, and became the first president of the Federal ]\Iort-
gage & Finance Company, with both of which corporations he continued
his connection until the close of his life.

Mr. Gardner, ever loyal and liberal in his civic attitude and w-ell
fortified in his opinions concerning political and economic afifairs, had no
ambition for public office, but was aligned staunchly in the ranks of the
republican party. He was a most earnest, zealous and liberal member
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, as is also his widow, and it was in
their home, at 14965 Euclid Avenue, where Mrs. Gardner still resides,
that the Windermere Methodist Episcopal Church was organized, the
new church edifice having been dedicated in 1908. Mr. Gardner was
called upon to serve in virtually all of the laymen's offices of his church,
and was for a long term of years chairman of the Board of Trustees of
the same. With the finest of social instincts and with deep appreciation
of the ideals that represent the best in human thought and motive, ]Mr.

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Gardner enjoyed greatly his association with his fellowmen, but his in-
terests ever centered in his home, every relation of which was of idyllic
order.

On the 28th of May, 1885, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Gardner
and Miss Hattie E. Vaughn, daughter of the late William A. and Sarah
(Mossman) Vaughn, of Greenville, Pennsylvania, and she has long been
a loved figure in church and social circles in the community that has
represented her home for more than thirty-five years. Mr. and Mrs.
Gardner became the parents of four children, three of whom survive the
honored father : Lawrence, who resides in the City of New York, married
Miss Percita West, of that city, and they have one daughter, Fernande;
Eugene, who likewise resides in the national metropolis, married Miss Mary
Oughton, of Chicago, and they have two children, Dana and Eugene, Jr. ,
Marjorie is the wife of Mills G. Clark, and they reside in Cleveland ; and
Grace is at home

Fayette Brown was one of the most venerable and honored citizens
of Cleveland at the time of his death, and had made large contribution to
the civic and material advancement of the Ohio metropolis. He was born
in Trumbull County, Ohio, December 17, 1823, and after receiving good
educational advantages, as gauged by the standards of the locality and
period, he became a clerk in a wholesale hardware establishment in Pitts-
burgh, Pennsylvania, he having eventually become a partner in the business.
In 1851 he became a resident of Cleveland, where he became junior mem-
ber of the banking firm of Mygatt & Brown. In 1857 he assumed full
control of the business, but at the inception of the Civil war he closed his
bank and became a paymaster in the United States Army. Personal inter-
ests necessitated his resignation the following year, and upon his return to
Cleveland he became general agent and manager for the Jackson Iron
Company, a position which he retained until December, 1887. He became
one of the prominent representatives of the iron industry and was foremost
in making Cleveland a great iron center. He became president of the
Union Screw Company, the Brown Hoisting Machinery Company, the
National Chemical Company, and the G. C. Kuhlanan Car Company, was
made chairman of the Stewart Iron Company, Ltd., and was a member
of the firm of H. H. Brown & Company, one of the large iron-ore con-
cerns of the country. His was a loyal and noble personality, and his name
merits high place on the roll of those prominently concerned in the
upbuilding of Cleveland.

In 1847 Mr. Brown married Miss Cornelia C. Curtiss, of Allegheny
City, Pennsylvania, and they became the parents of three sons and two
daughters, two of the sons having, like their father, become prominent
representatives of the iron trade in Cleveland.

Myron T. Herrick, a former governor of Ohio and former United
States ambassador to France, was born at Huntington, Ohio, October 9,
1855, and his early educational advantages included those of Oberlin Col-
lege and Ohio Wesleyan University, the latter of which conferred upon
him in 1899 the honorary degree of Master of Arts. In 1915 he received
from Princeton University the degree of Doctor of Laws.

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Mr. Herrick was admitted to the bar in 1878, and continued in the
practice of his profession in Cleveland until 1886, when he became secre-
tary and treasurer of the Society for Savings, of which Cleveland institu-
tion he was made president in 1894. His business connections have involved
also his service as vice president of the National Carbon Company. He
was a member of the City Council of Cleveland in the period of 1895-98.

Mr. Herrick has long held much of leadership in the affairs of the
republican party in Ohio, and has been a delegate to many of the national
conventions of the party, as well as a member of the republican state execu-
tive committee of Ohio, and merriber of the republican national committee.
He served as a member of the stafif of Governor McKinley, with the rank
of colonel, and was himself governor of Ohio in 1903-06. From February
15, 1912, to December, 1914, he was United States ambassador to France.
He has been trustee and treasurer of the McKinley National Memorial
Association, is a former president of the American Bankers' Association,
and was a commissioner of the Centennial Celebration in New York. In
1880 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Herrick to Carolyn M. Parmely,
of Dayton, Ohio.

Samuel Eladsit Williamson long held place as one of the distin-
guished members of the bar of his native city and state, and made also a
record of able service on the bench of the common pleas court of Cuyahoga
County, his service having been of only two years' duration, as other large
and important interests put a greater claim upon his attention.

Judge Williamson was born in Cleveland April 19, 1844, and his father,
Samuel Williamson, was a leading member of the Cleveland bar for many
years. In 1864 Judge Williamson was graduated from Western Reserve
College, and in 1866 he was graduated from Harvard Law School. In Feb-
ruary, 1867, he became associated with his father in the practice of law in
Cleveland, and thereafter he had other professional alliances. In 1880 he
was elected judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and this office he resigned
in September, 1882, to become general counsel for the Nickel Plate Railroad,
a position which he retained many years. He served as a trustee of Adelbert
College of the Western Reserve University from shortly after his gradua-
tion therein until the time of his death. He was one of the founders of
the University School of Cleveland and was president of its board of
trustees from 1890 until his death. He served, as had his father and pater-
nal grandfather, as a director of the Merchants Bank of Ohio, was a trustee
of the Cleveland Society for Savings, and he became a director and vice
president of several of the corporations connected with the New York Cen-
tral's system of railroads, besides being a director of the Western Reserve
Trust Company. He served as president of the First Presbyterian Church
organization of Cleveland, was a trustee of Lakeside Hospital, and he
was an honored member of representative professional organizations, as
well as of leading clubs of Ohio and New York, besides having been a
member of the executive committee of the Eastern Railroad Association.
His was a life of high ideals and noble stewardship, and his name merits
a place of distinction on the pages of Ohio history.

Judge Williamson married Miss Mary P. Marsh in 1878, and she died

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in 1881, survived by two daughters. In 1884 Judge Williamson married
Miss Harriet W. Brow^n, and the one child of this union was a son.

Frederick H. Goff, lawyer and financier, was president of the Cleve-
land Trust Company at the time of his death, and also vice president of the
Cleveland Terminal & Valley Railroad Company, and the Cleveland, Lorain
&: Wheeling Railroad Company.

Mr. Goff was born in Kane County, Illinois, December 15, 1858, and
in advancing his education along higher academic lines he entered the
University of Michigan, in which he was graduated in 1881, with the degree
of Bachelor of Philosophy. He was admitted to the Ohio bar in June,
1883, and thereafter he continued the practice of his profession in Cleve-
land until 1908, when he retired, shortly after being elected president of
the Cleveland Trust Company. At the time of his retirement from the
practice of law he was president of the Cleveland Bar Association. In 1903
he was elected mayor of the suburban town of Glenville. He was a repub-
lican in politics and was a member of the Unitarian Church. He held mem-
bership in the Union, Rowfant and Country clubs. In 1894 Mr. Goff
married Miss Frances Southworth, and they became the parents of one son
and two daughters.

James Humphrey Hoyt was at the time of his death one of the dis-
tinguished members of the bar of his native City of Cleveland, his birth
having here occurred November 10, 1852. In 1874 he was graduated
from Brown University with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and in 1877
he received from the law school of Harvard University his degree of
Bachelor of Laws. He forthwith engaged in the practice of his profession
in Cleveland, where he made a record of large and worthy achievement
and gained priority as one of the representative members of the Cuyahoga
County bar. He was long the senior member of the law firm of Hoyt,
Dustin, Kelley, McKeehan & Andrews. He was general counsel of the
Hocking Valley Railway, and was secretary of the Lake Superior & Ish-
peming Railway, and the Munising, Marquette & Southeastern Railway.
He was an active member of the American Bar Association and other pro-
fessional organizations, and was a Government delegate to the Universal
Congress of Lawyers and Jurists held in connection with the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Missouri, in 1904. In 1885 was solemnized
his marriage to Miss Jessie L. Taintor, of Cleveland.

Henry Gilrert Rknker. One of the progressive business men of
Cleveland is Henry G. Renker, president of the Ideal Products Company,
who is a native of this city and is descended from one of the old families of
Brooklyn Township (now Cleveland) where three generations of his
family have had active part in the business and civic affairs.

His grandfather, Flenry Renker, who was born in Germany on
September 19. 1808, came to the United States as a young man, then went
to Mexico, where for a few years he owned and operated a coffee planta-
tion. While in Mexico he married Bertha Schlechterway, who was born
in Germany, January 21, 1811. From Mexico they came North to Ohio,
living for a time in Lorain County, and then moving to Cuyahoga County,

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and settled in the village of Brighton, now within the Cleveland city limits.
He was a cooper by trade, and at Brighton he established one of the early
cooper shops and continued active in that business the rest of his life. He
died December 6, 1879. His wife died October 3, 1869.

Julius Renker, son of Henry, and father of Henry G., was born in
Brighton, Brooklyn Township, September 2, 1848, and lived for three-quar-
ters of a century in that section of the city. From his father he learned the
cooper's trade, and was actively associated with him and succeeded to the
business upon his death and carried it on until 1886, when he became a
contractor and builder, and continued in that line of business until he re-
tired. For six consecutive years he served as assessor of Brooklyn Town-
ship, and for a number of years was on the village board of health
before Brighton was consolidated with Cleveland. He is a member of
Riverside Lodge, Knights of Pythias, is affiliated with the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, and is a member of the Lutheran Church.
May 28, 1873, he married Eva C. Kline, who was born in Parma
Township, Cuyahoga County, daughter of Philip and Mary (Messersmith)
Kline, early settlers of Parma. It is one of the interesting evidences
of the development of Cleveland in a business way, that the business
offices now occupied by Ideal Products Company, at one time was the
residence of the Renker family, and it was in this structure that Henry G.
Renker was born on April 9, 1881. He acquired his education in the
graded and high schools, attended business college, and his first employ-
ment was with a lumber company. Subsequently he took up building work
and did an independent business in building houses for a time. From
that he engaged in the manufacture of cement building blocks under the
firm name of the Renker Stone Company, from which the Ideal Products
Company has been developed.

Mr. Renker is a director in several other corporations, including the
Independent Brick and Tile Company, The Brooklyn Mortgage Company
and The State Mortgage Company. He is a member of the Chamber of
Commerce, the Chamber of Industry, the Cleveland Builders Exchange,
and Brooklyn Lodge No. 426, Knights of Pythias.

Mr. Renker married Miss May E. Ingham, who was born in the Village
of Brighton, the daughter of Albert and Lucy D. (Eldridge) Ingham. Mr.
and Mrs. Renker have four children: Irwin, born December 26, 1901 ;
educated in the public schools and West Technical School, and is in
charge of all equipment repairs of the Ideal Products Company; Myrtle
May, born September 25, 1905, graduate of Brooklyn Heights High
School; Howard Henry, born December 5, 1906, graduate of Brooklyn
Heights High School, is in the office of the Ideal Products Company ; Eva
Electa, born June 30, 1917.

Julius Renker. To have lived in one community his entire life, to
have witnessed the development of that community from a small village
into an important section of a great city and, best of all, to have had an
active part in that development', is the experience of Julius Renker. one of
the most highly respected citizens of the South End of the City of Cleve-
land, where he was born and where he has spent the seventy-six years of
his busy and honored life.

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Mr. Renker was born in the village of Brighton, Brooklyn Township,
Cuyahoga County, on Septem])er 2, 1848, the son of the late Henry and
Bertha (Schlechterway) Renker. His father was born in Germany, on
September 19, 1808, and came to this country when he was a young man.
He later went down into Mexico, where he purchased land and for several
years was engaged in growing coffee on his own plantation. There he met
and married "his wife. Bertha, who was born in Germany, on January 21,
1811. Selling his plantation in Mexico, Mr. Renker and wife came north
into Ohio, lived for a time in Lorain County, and then settled in the Village
of Brighton, Brooklyn Township, Cuyahoga County. He had learned the
cooper's trade in his native country, and upon locating in Brighton he
opened one of the very earliest cooper shops in that part of the county, and
continued in business the remainder of his life. His wife preceded him to
the grave, she having died on October 3, 1869, while his death occurred on
December 6, 1879. To Henry and Bertha Renker the following children
were born: Franzisco, born September 30, 1837, died January 16, 1838;
Hermina, born August 10, 1839, died June 22, 1915, married John Penning ;
Amelia, born February 27, 1842, married Martin Lind ; Herman, born
May 21, 1844, died in July, 1910; Matilda, born July 2, 1846, married
Herman Brantmiller; Julius, born September 2, 1848; Bertha, born Janu-
ary 30, 1850, married Charles Love; Emma, born June 17, 1852, died
January 12, 1910, married Gilbert Livingston, and Louise, born June 18.
1855, died November 26, 1919, married Joseph Stafford.

Julius Renker attended the village schools and learned the cooper's trade
under his father. He continued in his father's shop, and upon the death
of the latter he succeeded to the business and continued to conduct the
same until 1886. In that year he engaged in contracting and building,
developed a large business, and continued successfully until he retired
from active business.

During his active life he was interested and took an active part in
public affairs. For six consecutive years he served as assessor of Brooklyn
Township, and also served as a member of Brighton Village Board of
Health until the village became a part of the City of Cleveland. He was a
charter member of Riverside Lodge, Knights of Pythias, is a member of
the Order of Odd Fellows, and of the Lutheran Church. A man of
rugged strength of character, of finest moral fiber, enterprising and public
spirited, his life has been that of the good citizen and careful business man,
and now, in the evening of his long and useful life, he enjoys the genuine
respect of the community of which he has so long been an honored and
useful member.

On May 28, 1873, Mr. Renker was united in marriage with Eva C.
Kline, who was born in Parma Township, Cuyahoga County, the daughter
of Philip and Mary (Messersmith) Kline. Her parents were born in
Germany, came to this country in their young days, and after marriage
settled on the old State Road in Parma Township, where they spent the
remainder of their long lives. The father died in July, 1894, at the age of
seventy-two years ; the mother died in August, 1904, at the age of seventy-
eight years.

To Mr. and Mrs. Renker the following children have been born:
Luella, born July 29, 1874, died August 24, 1877; Julia B., born June 24,

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1876, died May 8, 1914, married David J. Guscott; Henry G. (see biog-
raphy preceding this), and FrankHn, born June 4, 1888.

Charles Francis Brush, a distinguished Ohio scientist and inventor,
was born at Euclid, Ohio, March 17, 1849, and was a resident of Cleveland
at the time when he made the series of exjDeriments that brought about the
practical development of electric arc lighting, he having been a pioneer in
the investigation of electric lighting, and having invented, in 1878, the
Brush electric arc light.

Mr. Brush received from the University of Michigan the degree of
Mechanical Engineer, in 1869, and in 1899 the honorary degree of Master
of Science. Western Reserve University has given him the degrees of
Doctor of Philosophy and Doctor of Laws, which latter honorary degree
was likewise conferred upon him by Kenyon College, while in 1912 the
University of Michigan gave him the degree of Doctor of Science. He
made the fundamental invention of the storage battery and was a pioneer
in inventing other devices essential to modern electrical engineering. He
was the founder of the Brush Electric Company, founder and first president
of the Linde Air Products Company, became president of the Cleveland
Arcade Company in 1887, was a corporator of the Case School of
AppHed Science, and has served as trustee of Western Reserve University,
Adelbert College, the University School and the Cleveland School of Art.
In 1881 he was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, France; and
in 1899 he received the Rumford medal of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences. He has membership in the American Physical Society
and the American Philosophical Society, is a fellow of the American Asso-
ciation for the Advancement of Science. He had been a valued member
of the Ohio State Board of Commerce, and has served as president of the
Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. He has membership in the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Institute of Electrical Engi-
neers, the Archaeological Institute of America, the American Historical
Association, the National Electric Light Association, the Franklin Institute
in Philadelphia, the American Chemical Society, the Royal Society of Arts,
besides being affiliated with leading clubs and other social and scientific
organizations.

In 1875 Mr. Brush wedded Miss Mary E. Morris, of Cleveland.

Rev. Charles Franklin Thwing, distinguished clergyman, educator
and author, has been president of Western Reserve University and Adelbert
College, Cleveland, since 1890. He was born at New Sharon, Maine,
Nov. 9, 1853. In 1876 he was graduated in Harvard University, with the
degree of Bachelor of Arts, and in 1879 he was graduated in Andover Theo-
logical Seminary. In 1889 the Chicago Theological Seminary gave him
the degree of Doctor of Sacred Theology, and the honorary degree of Doctor
of Laws has been conferred upon him by several educational institutions,
including Washington & Jefferson College and Kenyon College.

In 1879 Doctor Thwing was ordained a clergyman of the Congregational
Church, and thereafter he served until 1886 as pastor of the North Avenue
Congregational Church at Cambridge, ^lassachusetts. his next pastoral
charge, 1886-90, having been Plymouth Church at ]^linneapolis, Minnesota.

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From this pastorate he came, in 1890, to his present important office, that pf
president of Western Reserve University and Adelbert College, his adminis-
tration having been one of distinctive success along both scholastic and
executive lines. Doctor Thwing is associate editor of Bibliotheca Sacra,
is secretary of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching;
and has given able service as president of the Intercollegiate Peace Associa-
tion. The doctor is the author of many valuable w^orks, the titles of a few
of which are here noted : "American Colleges — Their Students and Work,"
'The Reading of Books," "The Family" (in collaboration with Mrs.
Thwing), "The Working Church," "Within College Walls," "The College
Woman," "The American College in American Life," "The Best Life,"
"College Administration," "The Youth's Dream of Life," "God in His
World," "A Liberal Education and a Liberal Faith," "College Training
and the Business Man," "A History of Higher Education in America,"
"Education in the Far East," "History of Education in the United States
Since the Civil War," "Universities of the World," "The Coordinate Sys-
tem in Higher Education," "The American College," "Education According
to Some Modern Masters."

In 1879 Doctor Thwing wedded Miss Carrie F. Butler, whose death
occurred in 1898. In 1906 was solemnized his marriage to Mary Gardiner
Dunning.

I'

Charles Sumner Howe, who is giving a most able administration as
president of the Case School of Applied Science, in Cleveland, was born
at Nashua, New Hampshire, September 29, 1858, a son of William R.
and Susan D. (Woods) Howe. He received in 1878 the degree of Bachelor
of Science from the Massachusetts Agricultural College, and has the same
degree also from Boston University. He took a post-graduate course in
mathematics and physics, at Johns Hopkins University ; he received from
Wooster University, in 1887, the degree pi Doctor of Philosophy ; in 1905
Armour Institute of Technology, Chicago, conferred upon him the degree
of Doctor of Science, and from both Mount Union and Oberlin colleges,
Ohio, he has received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. He was
president of Albuquerque (New Mexico) Academy in the period of 1879-
81 ; was professor of mathematics and astronomy in Buchtel College (now
Akron University), Akron, Ohio, 1883-89, and he then became professor
of mathematics and astronomy in the Case School of Applied Science, of
which he became acting president in 1902, and of which he has been the
president since 1903. President Howe is a fellow of the American Associa-
tion for the Advancement of Science and the Royal Astronomical Society,
and has membership in the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, the Ameri-
can Mathematical Society, and the Astronomical and Astrophysical Society
of America. He has made many and valuable contributions to the standard
and perodical literature of science, notal)ly to the Astronomical Journal and
the Journal of the Association of Engineering Societies. May 22, 1882,
he wedded Miss Abbie A. Waite, of North Amherst, Massachusetts.

Charles C. Dewstoe, who has given able administration as post-
master of Cleveland, was born at West Bloomfield, New York, May 10,
1841, and as a young man he removed to Michigan. At the outbreak of

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the Civil war he enh'sted in Company F, Second Michigan Volunteer
Infantry, and with this command he participated in many engagements,
including the first hattle of Bull Run. He was later made sergeant in the
signal service, and in this connection he was with the Army of the Potomac
in numerous battles and minor engagements. After the close of the war
he was retained in service in the quartermasters' department one year, at
Little Rock, Arkansas.

In May, 1866, Mr. Dewstoe engaged in the plumbing business in
Cleveland, and eventually this enterprise developed into the substantial
business now conducted under the title of the Dewstoe & Brainard Com-
pany. Mr. Dewstoe has served as a member of the Cleveland Board of
Health, was for two years sheriff of Cuyahoga County, and in 1899 he
initiated his long and able service as postmaster of Cleveland. He is a
republican, is affiliated with the Grand Army of the Republic, in which he
is a past commander of two local posts, and he has been known and
honored as a sterling citizen of marked civic liberality and progressiveness.

Col. Clark N. Thorp, a resident of Cleveland over forty years,
a veteran of the Civil war and a veteran in the railroad service, was
born in Canandaigua, New York, September 6, 184L His grandfather,
John Thorp, probably a native of England, came to America and settled
in Philadelphia, where he acquired considerable real estate.

Peter Thorp, father of Colonel Thorp, was born in New York state
on January 27, 1797. He learned the trade of wagon maker, and in 1842
came to Ohio, traveling by the Erie Canal to Buffalo, by boat to Toledo
and by wagon team to Sylvania, a village near Toledo. At that time,
eighty years ago, Ohio was a state of considerable prosperity, both agri-
culturally and in other lines of business, but depended altogether upon
the transportation facilities of its pike roads and waterways. A great
part of the northwestern counties were covered with the original forests,
and occasionally a tribe of Indians camped near Sylvania. Colonel Thorp
as a boy once witnessed an Indian funeral, when the brave was buried wath
his favorite weapons. Peter Thorp followed his trade as a wagon maker at
Sylvania for many years, or until he lost an arm in an accident, and then w^as
engaged in merchandising until his death in 1856. He married Phoebe
Young, who was born in Canandaigua, New York, on October 10, 1803,
the daughter of Stephen and Hannah (Brott) Young, the father born
August 20, 1780, and the mother born June 7, 1783, and died December
28, 1868.

Clark N. Thorp was a year old when his parents came to Ohio. He
grew up at Sylvania, and was educated at the Village Academy. At the
age of sixteen years he began an apprenticeship at the carpenter's trade
at Rockford, Illinois, but about a year later, returned home and finished
his apprenticeship at Toledo. In 1859 he joined a crew engaged in
building bridges for the extension of the Evansville and Crawfordsville
Railway east of Terre Haute, Indiana, and in March, 1861, while thus
engaged, he was one of the audience before which President Lincoln
made a speech from the balcony of the old Bates House in Indianapolis,
while on his way to Washington to be inaugurated. During the early
months of the Civil war he was at work as a bridge builder with the

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Peru and Indianapolis Railway, but in November, 1861, he enlisted in
Company D, Nineteenth United States Infantry, and went to the front
with his regiment. During the next two years he saw active service with
the Army of the Cumberland, including such important battles as Pitts-
burg Landing, Stone River, Chickamauga and others. On September
20, 1863, at the battle of Chickamauga, he was captured by the enemy
and taken to Richmond, Virginia, thence to Danville, Virginia, and after
a few months was transferred to Anderson ville, Georgia, where he re-
mained nearly a year, having been one of the last prisoners to leave that
stockade prison camp. While he was confined in that notorious prison
thousands of his fellow prisoners died of starvation and exposure, and only
his very strong constitution carried him through that experience. On
being released he was sent to Jacksonville, Florida, thence by boat to
Annapolis, Maryland, and then to Fort Wayne at Detroit, where he
was mustered out and received his honorable discharge.

On his return from the w^ar Colonel Thorp went to work in the shops
of the Cleveland & Toledo Railway (now the New York Central System)
at Norwalk, Ohio. In 1870 he took charge of the wood machine shop
of the Atlantic & Great Western Railway (now the Erie System) at
Kent, Ohio. In 1881 he removed to Cleveland and for the next seven
years had charge of the car department in the Mahoning Division of
what is now the Erie Railway going next to the Big Four and having
charge of the Merwin Street Shops, Cleveland, continuing in charge of
the shops for three years. In 1892 he went to work at the No. 1 Works
of the Standard Oil Company in Cleveland, which works were later
engaged in wagon building and repairs, and still later in automobile
building and repairs, where he remained until he retired from active work
in 1914.

Colonel Thorp is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and
in 1913 served as commander of Army and Navy Post of that order in
Cleveland. A souvenir of that experience is a handsome gold Past
Commander's jewel. He was made a Mason by the Mount Vernon Lodge
of Norwalk, Ohio, soon after he returned from the war, and later was
knighted by De Molay Commandery No. 9, Knights Templar, at Tiffin,
Ohio. He is a charter member of Norwalk Commandery No. 18, Knights
Templar, and a charter member of Holy Grail Commandery No. 70
of Lakewood, Ohio, having demitted from Oriental Commandery No. 12,
Knights Templar, Cleveland, to help institute the Holy Grail. He is
deeply interested in Masonry and very active in Gaston G. Allen Lodge
No. 629, Lakewood, from which he received a gold Chaplain's Medal
in 1923. For thirty years he was a member of the Pilgrim Congregational
Church, Cleveland, and now is a member of the Lakewood Congregational
Church. He is a member of Lakewood Chamber of Commerce, and is
a staunch republican in politics.

On December 10, 1868, Colonel Thorp married Anna McKelvey,
who was born in Huron County, Ohio, October 8, 1843, daughter of
Robert and Mary (Prosser) McKelvey. Colonel and Mrs. Thorp
celebrated their golden wedding anniversary on December 10, 1918,
and just a year later she passed away in death, on December 13, 1919.
There were three children : Walter Eugene, Leon Ernest and Bessie

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Pearl. Walter E. married Mary Quayle, who was born in Cleveland
and who died at the age of twenty-one, leaving a daughter, Bessie May,
who was reared by Colonel and Mrs. Thorp, and who, since the death of
Mrs. Thorp, has had charge of her grandfather's home. She married
Herbert W. Randt, and they have a son, Clark Thorp Randt. Walter
E. Thorp married for his second wife, Clara Ren f tie. Leon E. Thorp
married Jennie Cayward, of St. Paul, Minnesota. Bessie Pearl married
Clarence L. Bloxham, and they have two sons, William Robert and
Raymond Thorp Bloxham.

Alexander Hadden has been an honored member of the Cleveland
bar since 1875, has given a specially effective administration as judge of
the Probate Court of Cuyahoga County, an office of which he became the
incumbent in 1905, and since 1894 he has been professor of criminal law
in the law school of Western Reserve University, with a record of able
service in the educational work of his chosen profession.

Judge Hadden was born in Wheeling, Virginia (now West Virginia),
July 2, 1850, and is a son of Alexander and Mary Eliza (Welch) Hadden.
He attended Shaw Academy in East Cleveland, and in 1873 he was
graduated in Oberlin College, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He
then instituted preparation for his chosen profession, was in due course
admitted to the Ohio bar, and in 1875 he established himself in the general
practice of law in Cleveland. In 1881-82 he was associated in practice
with Harvey D. Goulder; he was assistant prosecuting attorney of Cuya-
hoga County in the period of 1882-85, and thereafter he continued in the
successful practice of his profession until his election to the office of judge
of the Probate Court of the county, as previously noted in this review. He
has been aligned with the republican and progressive parties, he and his
wife hold membership in the Unitarian Church, he is affiliated with the
Phi Beta Kappa college fraternity, and is a member of the University Club
of Cleveland. The marriage of Judge Hadden to Miss Frances Hawthorne,
of Coshocton, Ohio was solemnized July 17, 1883.

John G. W. Covv^les, a man of noble character and large achievement,
has written in indelible characters his impress upon Cleveland and his
native state of Ohio, his birth having occurred at Oberlin, this state,
March 14, 1836, and he being a son of Rev. Henry and Alice (Welch)
Cowles. Mr. Cowles was graduated in Oberlin College in 1856. In 1859
he was graduated in the theological school and was ordained a clerg}-man
of the Congregational Church. He was engaged in pastoral service when
the Civil war began, and in 1861 he was chosen chaplain of the Fifty-fifth
Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which he saw service in Virginia and West
Virginia. He resigned the chaplaincy in the fall of 1862, and thereafter
he held pastorates in turn at Mansfield, Ohio, and East Saginaw, Michigan.
A physical difficulty finally made it impossible for him to continue his work
as a public speaker, and he then became associate editor of the Cleveland
Leader, with which he was connected until 1873. He then concentrated
his energies in the real estate business, of which he became one of the
leading exponents in Cleveland, and in his varied operations he did much
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has had entire charge of the Cleveland real estate interests of John D.
Rockefeller, as well as those of Charles F. Brush. He was one of the
organizers of the Cleveland Trust Company, in 1894, and became its first
president, an office which he retained until its consolidation with the
Western Reserve Trust Company, when he became chairman of the board.
Mr. Cowles gave also an efl:ective administration while serving as presi-
dent of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, a position to which he was
elected in 1896. He has had much of leadership in movements and enter-
prises advanced for the civic and material well-being of the community.
He was president of the Board of Park Commissioners in 1900, and he
has delivered many addresses on public occasions of note. He has been
since 1874 a trustee of Oberlin College, which, in 1898, conferred upon
him the degree of Doctor of Laws. He is a member of the Ohio Com-
mandery of the Loyal Legion and of the Army and Navy Post of the
Grand Army of the Republic. He is a republican, and he has given many
years of service as a deacon of Plymouth Congregational Church. His
has been an earnest and loyal support of charitable and benevolent objects
and interests, and his has ever been a secure place in popular confidence
and esteem.

Li 1859 Mr. Cowles wedded Miss Lois M. Church, and her death
occurred in 1903, she having been survived by two daughters. Mr. Cowles
later married Miss Beatrice Walker, and a daughter was born of this union.

John G. White was born and reared in Cleveland and has been for
more than half a century numbered among the representative members of
the bar of his native city, he having here initiated the practice of law in
May, 1868. Aside from his professional attainments, Mr. White has so
extended his intellectual ken as to have gained designation as "a living
cyclopedia." He is also an enthusiast in chess and checkers, the scientific
principles of which make special appeal to him, is a keen sportsman, and
has been a deep student of oriental literature, of which he has presented
several thousand volumes to the Cleveland Library. He is a charter mem-
ber of the Union Club, and his political allegiance is given to the republican
party. Mr. White has appeared in much important litigation in the various
courts, and as a lawyer and a citizen he has given service showing his
appreciative loyalty to his native city.

Mr. White was born in Cleveland August 10, 1845, and was graduated
in Western Reserve College as a member of the class of 1865. He studied
law under the preceptorship of his father, Bushnell White, was admitted
to the bar in 1868 and has since been continuously engaged in practice in
Cleveland, he having long been a member of one of the foremost law firms
of the Ohio metropolis.

Solon L. Severance is to be designated as a native son of Cleveland
and a representative of one of the sterling pioneer families of the Ohio
metropolis. He was born in Cleveland September 8, 1834, and is a son of
Solomon L. and Mary H. (Long) Severance. He gained his education
in the schools of the locality and period, and he initiated his association
with banking in the modest position of offtce boy. He made consecutive
advancement and finally became one of the organizers of the Euclid Ave-

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nue National Bank, of which he was the first cashier and of which he was
the president at the time of its absorption into the EucHd Park Bank, which
later became merged in the First National Bank of Cleveland, Mr. Sever-
ance continuing as a director of the First National, which is the largest
bank in Ohio. He has membership in the Chamber of Commerce and the
Union Club, is a charter member of the Woodland Avenue Presbyterian
Church, which he served many years as elder and Sunday school super-
intendent. Mr. Severance has made several foreign tours, including a trip
around the world, and he has delivered many public addresses concerning
his experiences as a traveler, in which connection he made use of illustra-
tions by the stereopticon.

In 1860 Mr. Severance married Miss Emily C. Allen, a native of
Trumbull County, and they became the parents of one son and two
daughters, the son, Prof. Allen D. Severance, having become a successful,
and prominent educator and having long held a chair in Western Reserve
University.

Joseph Carabelli, proprietor of the Lake View Granite Works. Cleve-
land, was born at Porto Ceresio, Italy, in April, 1850, and at the age of
twelve years he began an apprenticeship to the sculptor's trade and art,
while he continued to attend school during the forenoon sessions. He gave
special attention to the study of the English language, with an ambition to
come eventually to the United States. He landed in New York City in
1870, and as an expert at his trade he soon found employment. He had
the distinction of carving the statue of "Industry" for the New York post-
office, and he continued to give his attention to the producing of ornamental
work for this building during a period of eight years. In 1880 he came to
Cleveland and established the Lakeview Granite & Monumental Works,
now the largest concern of the kind in Northern Ohio. Mr. Carabelli is not
only an artist but has proved himself to be also a business man of marked
ability, as shown by the splendid achievement that has been his during the
period of his residence in Cleveland, where his circle of friends is coincident
with that of his acquaintances. He has membership in the Chamber of
Commerce and the Builders' Exchange, is a stalwart republican, and in
1908 he was elected a representative of Cuyahoga County in the State Legis-
lature. He was the author of the bill which, as enacted by the legislature,
makes October 12 a legal holiday in Ohio, in commemoration of the discoverv
of America by Christopher Columbus.

Kazimier G. Cieslak, M. D. One of the physicians and surgeons of
Cleveland who has won success in his profession and prestige as a patriotic
and worth-while citizen is Doctor Cieslak. who has been in general
practice on the West Side of the city for the last ten years, and is director
of the Health Clinic, the only clinic on that side.

Doctor Cieslak was born in the City of Posen, German Poland, on
March 3, 1878, the son of Joseph and Josephine Cieslak. His father died
in the old country, his mother re-married, and with her husband and
children came to this country in 1890. when the doctor was a boy of
twelve years. He had attended school in the old country, and he con-
tinued his preliminary education in the public schools of Ludington and

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Manistee, Michigan, and of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In the latter
city he also took a course in college to prepare himself to enter medical
college, and in 1906 he entered the medical department of the University
of Pittsburgh, where he was a student for two years, and then entered
the medical department of Ohio State University, where he was graduated
Doctor of Medicine with the class of 1913. Leaving Ohio State University
he came to Cleveland, and for a year served as interne in Cleveland City
Hospital, and then entered the general practice of medicine and surgery
at 2297 West Fourteenth Street. For several years he has specialized in
X-ray work and in electro-therapeutics. There being no clinic on the
West Side, and to supply such a much-needed institution to that important
section of the city, Doctor Cieslak, on May 1, 1924, established the
Health Clinic in the large and commodious residence property where he
has so long maintained his offices. The clinic is equipped with every
modern appliance needed for such a purpose, and has a large staff of skilled
physicians and surgeons, all under the supervision of Doctor Cieslak
as director. While the Flealth Clinic is one of the newest of our medical
institutions, its early days have been such as to justify the prediction
of its future success.

Doctor Cieslak is a prolific writer on the topic of public health, of which
he is a close student, and is a frequent and valued contributor to the press,
he having been for some time furnishing weekly articles on the above
subject to a large Polish daily paper of Cleveland and also to the largest
PoHsh daily of Detroit, Michigan.

Doctor Cieslak is a member of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine,
the Ohio State Medical Association, the American Medical Association
and the Therapeutic Medical Association of America. He is active in all
Polish-American affairs, and is a member of the Polish National Alliance,
and a member and lecturer of the Polish Educational Society of the city.
He is a member of the leading Polish clubs, and is deeply interested in the
welfare of his fellow-countrymen, giving freely of his time and experience
to the end that they become consistent citizens of the city and country.

Doctor Cieslak married Miss Mary Ziawinski, who was born in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Ignatz Ziawinski, a native of
Poland, and to their marriage two sons have been born: Arthur, aged
nine years, and Daniel, aged seven years.

George H. Olmsted has been for more than half a century one of the
leading representatives of the insurance business in the City of Cleveland,
and his operations are conducted under two firm alliances, those of Olmsted
Brother & Company, and George H. Olmsted & Company, the latter firm
controlling a large and important general insurance business, and the
former representing the National Life Insurance Company and the Standard
Accident Insurance Company of Vermont, of which great corporation Mr.
Olmsted is a director. Mr. Olmsted is treasurer of the National Safe &
Lock Company of Cleveland ; has given effective service as president of the
Life Insurance Managers Exchange; is president of the National Land
Company ; is vice president of the Bankers Surety Company ; is treasurer of
the Union Savings & Loan Company ; and is a director in other important
banking institutions in Cleveland, as is he also of the Cleveland Homeo-

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pathic Medical College and the Cleveland Trunk Company. He is a member
of the local board of fire underwriters and is an active member of the
Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. He is a deacon in the Willson Avenue
Baptist Church, and has served as chairman of the apportionment commit-
tee of the Northern Baptist Convention, besides having done much to fur-
ther the service of the Young Men's Christian Association.

Mr. Olmsted was born at Lagrange, Lorain County, Ohio, September 21,
1843, and his early education included a course in the Eastman Business
College at Poughkeepsie, New York. He devoted three years to teaching
in the public schools, and thereafter was variously employed until the spring
of 1867, since which time he has continued to be engaged in the insurance
business in Cleveland, where his success has been such as to mark him as
one of the leading insurance men of Ohio. His insurance work has involved
also two years of traveling as special agent for the Brooklyn Life Insurance
Company.

In 1872 Mr. Olmsted married Miss Ella Kelley, and they became the
parents of one son and one daughter, the latter of whom is deceased.

Isaac Porter Lamson was born in Berkshire County, Massachusetts,
September 2, 1832, and for more than forty years he was numbered
among the representative figures in manufacturing industry in the City of
Cleveland, Ohio, he having been one of the honored and influential citizens
of the Ohio metropolis at the time of his death.

Mr. Lamson was reared and educated in his native county, and at the
age of eighteen years he entered upon an apprenticeship to the trade of
bolt manufacturing. He followed his trade eighteen years and became
superintendent of a factory in New England. In 1865 he became asso-
ciated with his brother and S. W. Sessions in organizing the Lamson &
Sessions Company, at Mount Carmel, Connecticut, and in 1869 the plant
was removed to Cleveland, Ohio. In 1884 the business was incorporated,
with Mr. Sessions as president of the company and Isaac P. Lamson
as its superintendent. This corporation developed one of the large and
important industrial enterprises of Cleveland, in the manufacturing of bolts
and nuts, and Mr. Lamson continued his association with the business until
his death.

Mr. Lamson showed earnest stewardship as a citizen and gave Hberal
support to charitable and benevolent agencies and objects. He served
as president of the Jones Home, was a valued member of the Cleveland
Chamber of Commerce, was a staunch republican, and he served one term
as a member of the city council. He was a delegate to two national con-
ventions of the republican party.

In 1856 Mr. Lamson married IMiss Fannie L. Sessions, and she preceded
him to eternal rest, her death having occurred in 1908. The one child of
this union is Lillian, wife of John G. Jennings.

George H. Worthington was born in Toronto, Canada. February 13,
1850, and there he was reared and educated, his training having included a
course in a commercial college. He was thereafter employed in a wholesale
grocery establishment, and he next became associated with the business of
his father, who was then engaged as a contractor in railroad construction in

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the State of New York. He assumed much of the management of this con-
tract business and in the same made a splendid record before he was
tvv'enty-one years of age. Upon coming to Ohio he entered the employ of
Worthington & Son, a firm composed of his father and an elder brother,
and conducting a stone quarry at Brownhelm. He was admitted to the
firm a year later, and after the death of his father, in 1873, he and his
brother continued the business, which later was carried forward under
the title of the Cleveland Stone Company. Mr. Worthington was one
of the organizers of the Beeman Chemical Com.pany, and since the same
was merged into the great American Chicle Company he has been president
of the latter corporation, the world's largest manufacturers of chewing-gum.
Mr. Worthington is president of the Union National Bank of Cleveland;
the American Dynalite Company, of Cleveland; the Underwriters Land
Company , of Missouri ; the Cleveland Stone Company, the Perry-Mathews-
Buskirk Stone Company; and the. Bedford Stone Railway Company, of
Indiana. He is a director in a number of other important industrial and
financial corporations, and is interested in zinc and lead mining in Missouri.
He has gained for himself a place among the representative captains of
industry in America, and is one of the loyal, progressive and liberal citizens
of the Ohio metropolis. He has been honored with the office of commodore
of the Cleveland Yacht Club, and is an enthusiastic yachtsman. He is
identified with other leading clubs of Cleveland and also with the New York
Yacht Club. In the Masonic fraternity he has received the thirty-second
degree of the Scottish Rite. In 1878 was solemnized the marriage of Mr.
Worthington to Mrs. Hannah L. Weaver. Mr. Worthington is a son of
the late John Worthington, who became a prominent railroad contractor
and had other large business interests, he having erected the Union depot
that long gave service to railroads entering Cleveland.

Ebenezer Henry Bourne was born at Wareham, Massachusetts,
October 22, 1840, a scion of a distinguished New England colonial family,
and he gained in his iiative state his youthful education, where his early
business experience was in connection with a railroad company. In 1866
he came to Cleveland, and here he organized the Bourne, Damon & Knowles
Manufacturing Company, for the manufacture of washers, nuts, etc. The
business was incorporated in 1881 as a stock company, under the title
of the Bourne & Knowles Manufacturing Company, and of this great
industrial corporation Mr. Bourne became the president, as did he also of the
Cleveland Spring Company, another important manufacturing concern.
He was president of the Union National Bank at the time of his death.

Mr. Bourne became not only one of the prominent men of affairs in
Cleveland, but also gained prestige as a liberal and public spirited citizen.
He served as city treasurer, was a member of leading clubs and other local
organizations of business and social order, he served as president of the
National Association of Spring Manufacturers, his political allegiance
was given to the republican party, and his religious faith was that of the
Unitarian Church.

In 1861 Mr. Bourne wedded Miss Olivia H. Norris, of Hyannis,
Massachusetts, and they became the parents of four children. After the
death of his first wife he, in 1902, married Miss Lucy Oliver Thatcher, of

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Yarmouth, Massachusetts, and she survived him, his death having occurred
April 24, 1908.

William Edward Kuhlman passed his entire Hfe in the City of
Cleveland and here made for himself a record of successful achievement
in connection with business affairs, the while his buoyant and generous
nature gained to him a host of friends, he having ever retained lively
interest in young folk and having delighted in association with them.
His was the spirit of perpetual youth, and among those who sincerely
mourned when his gracious life came to its close were the many young
friends whom he had "won to him with hoops of steel," even as he had
retained the high regard of all others with whom he had come in contact
in the varied relations of his earnest and upright life.

Mr. Kuhlman was born in Cleveland on October 22, 1862, and here
his death occurred February 7, 1923. He was a son of Frederick and
Mary (Goetz) Kuhlman, his father having been born and reared in
Germany, and having established his home in Cleveland in the year 1848,
the Goetz family having been founded about two years later.
Frederick Kuhlman, a skilled cabinet maker, here engaged in the work of
his trade, and was a pioneer in establishing a business of this order in
Cleveland. He eventually admitted to partnership his son Gustav, and
the firm first had headquarters at the corner of St. Clair Avenue, back
of his house, running through Oregon Avenue, where the partnership
alliance continued a few years. Gustav Kuhlman, an elder brother of the
subject of this memoir, finally retired from the firm and became the
founder of what is today one of the extensive and important industrial
enterprises of the Cleveland metropolitan district, that of the G. Kuhlman
Car Company, a corporation that is engaged in the building of street
cars on an extensive scale, its cars being in service in many of the leading
cities of the Union.

William E. Kuhlman applied himself with characteristic diligence and
appreciation to his studies while attending the public schools of Cleveland,
and as a youth he served a practical apprenticeship to the cabinet maker's
trade, largely under the able supervision of his father. He acquired ex-
ceptional technical skill, and this was enhanced by his artistic talent, with
the result that he was called upon to prepare the interior wood finishings
in many of the finest houses in Cleveland, where are to be found admirable
specimens of his handiwork. He finally engaged in business in an
independent way, on East Fifty-seventh Street, near Euclid Avenue, and
he built up a substantial and representative business, to which he continued
to give his supervision until impaired health led him to sell the same,
in 1919. Thereafter he lived virtually retired until his death. The in-
fluences and associations of his ideal home gave him his maximum satis-
faction and pleasure, and his genial and optimistic attributes made him
specially worthy of recognition as the generous host of his attractive and
hospitable home, where he delighted to entertain his friends of his own,
as well as older and younger generations. In this home, at 7319 Dellen-
baugh Avenue, his widow still resides, and no children survived him. Mr.
Kuhlman was an earnest and zealous communicant of St. Francis Catholic
Church, as is also Mrs. Kuhlman.

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February 17, 1886, recorded the marriage of Mr. Kuhlman to Miss
Anna L. Schoonard, daughter of John and EHzabeth (Warfel) Schoonard,
her father having been reared and educated in Holland and having es-
tablished his residence in Cleveland about the year 1851 and living here
the remainder of his life, dying July 31, 1923, at the age of eighty-six years,
having long survived his wife, who died in 1906, aged sixty-six years.
They were both members of the Catholic Church. Mrs. Kuhlman is
sustained and comforted by the gracious memories that attach to her home,
and by the loyal affection of her wide circle of friends in her native city.

Leander McBride, influential in business affairs of broad scope and
importance, known for his generous support of charitable and philanthropic
work and service, and loyal and liberal as a citizen, was a prominent figure
in the City of Cleveland for many years prior to his death, April 20, 1909.

Mr. McBride was born at LowcUville, Ohio, December 18, 1837, a
son of Samuel H. and Phoebe (Harris) McBride. After attending West-
minster College at Wilmington, Ohio, in which he was graduated at the
age of twenty years, Mr. McBride, in 1857, established his residence in
Cleveland. Here he found employment in the mercantile establishment of
Morgan, Root & Company, and four years later he was admitted to the
firm. The business was incorporated in 1894, as the Root & McBride
Company, and Mr. McBride became president of the company, which
^luilt up a very substantial and prosperous business — one of the largest of
its kind in Ohio. Mr. McBride likewise became president of the Cleveland
Hardware Company, was a director of the Cleveland Telephone Company,
was one of the organizers and original directors of the Union National
Bank, and was vice president of this institution at the time of his death.
He held membership in leading clubs of his home city, for a time held
membership in the Cleveland Grays, was a staunch republican, and he
served as a member of the first board of alderman of Cleveland. Lakeside
Hospital was established largely through his efforts, and he was a trustee
of the same, as was he also of the Jones Home and of Calvary Presbyterian
Church. His support of charities, benevolencies and philanthropies was
ever earnest and liberal, and he lived a righteous and useful life that was
guided by the highest of ideals and principles.

In 1863 Mr. McBride wedded Miss Harriet E. Wright, hkewise a
native of Ohio, and they long were honored figures in the representative
social life of the Ohio metropolis.

James Barnett, banker merchant and gallant soldier and officer in
the Civil war, was long an honored and influential citizen of Cleveland,
and at the time of his death was a director of the First National Bank;
president of the George Worthington Company, one of the most important
hardware concerns of Ohio; vice president of the Society for Savings;
president of the Garfield National Memorial Association ; besides having
been identified with many other important financial and business corpor-
ations. He was for a term of years president of the First National Bank,
was formerly a director of the Cleveland Iron Mining Company, and was
for a number of years a director of the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati &
Indianapolis Railroad. He was consistently termed "the grand old man of

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Cleveland," and this title betokened alike his distinction and his high
place in popular esteem.

Gen. James Barnett was born at Cherry Valley, New York, June 20,
1821, and in 1825 his parents established their home in Cleveland, where
his father, Melancthon Barnett, who here became a prominent business
man, served as a member of the city council and held the office of treasurer
of Cuyahoga County, the maiden name of his wife having been Mary
Clark. General Barnett was reared and educated in Cleveland, and as a
youth he found employment in the hardware establishment of George
Worthington. He was eventually admitted to partnership in the business
and upon its incorporation, under the title of George Worthington Com-
pany, he became president of the company.

As a young man General Barnett was a member in turn of the Cleve-
land Grays and the Cleveland Light Artillery, of which latter he was
commissioned colonel in 1859. With this command he entered the Union
service at the inception of the Civil war, and by the regiment were fired
the first artillery shots of the Union forces in the war. He was commis-
sioned by Governor Dennison to raise a regiment of light artillery, and of
this he was commissioned colonel September 3, 1861. The command became
a part of the army of the Ohio, and took part in the battle of Shiloh, the
siege of Corinth. General Barnett won consecutive advancement and was
finally made chief of artillery in the Army of the Cumberland, besides serv-
ing as chief of ordnance. He took part in the battles of Stone's River and
Murfreesboro, the engagements of the Chattanooga campaign, and received
special commendation, from General Rosecrans, for gallantry and efficiency.
He later was assigned to command of the reserve artillery. Army of the
Cumberland, and was thus engaged until mustered out, October 20, 1864
He then became a volunteer aide-de-camp to Gen. George H. Thomas, and
participated in the battle of Nashville, March 13, 1865, he was brevetted
brigadier-general.

General Barnett served as police commissioner, as a director and trustee
of the Soldiers & Sailors Orphans Home at Xenia, as a director of the
Cleveland Asylum for the Insane and as a member of the city council.
He as a delegate to the republican national convention of 1880 and also
that of 1900. In 1881 he was made a member of the board of managers
of the National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, and he served
until April, 1884. He was affiliated with the Grand Army of the Republic
and the Loyal Legion. For many years he was president of the Cleveland
Associated Charities and also the Cleveland Humane Society, besides which
he was one of the original trustees of the Case Library, a member of the
Western Reserve Historical Society, a member of the Cleveland Chamber
of Commerce, to which a portrait of him was presented in 1907, with
reference to him as the "first citizen of Cleveland."

In 1845 General Barnett married Miss Maria H. Underbill, and they
became the parents of five daughters, three of whom survived him.

Henry W. Kitchen, M. D., whose death occurred September 30.
1907, gained place as one of the distinguished physicians and surgeons
of Cleveland, was prominent also in local financial circles, and was a citizen
who commanded uniform popular confidence and esteem.

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Doctor Kitchen was born in Stark County, Ohio, July 8, 1843, was
reared on the home farm and received the advantages of the local schools.
In October, 1861, at the age of eighteen years, he enlisted in Company I,
Nineteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and at the battle of Chicamauga
he was wounded and taken prisoner, in September, 1863. He was paroled
November 30, 1864, and in January, 1865, he received his honorable
discharge. After the war he taught school, attended Oberlin College and
the University of Michigan, and in 1870 he was graduated in what is now
the medical department of Ohio Wesleyan University, in which institution
he thereafter held for twenty years the professorship of anatomy. He
became one of the prominent medical practitioners and educators of Ohio,
served as president of the Cleveland Board of Health and surgeon of the
Cleveland Grays, and in 1882 he was elected clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas, an office which he retained two terms. He was made president of
the State Banking & Trust Company of Cleveland at the time of its
organization, and was for many years active in its management. He
served as chairman of the republican committee of Cleveland, was a thirty-
second degree Mason, was a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Com-
merce and the Union and Colonial clubs, was identified with various
professional associations, and was affiliated with the Grand Army of the
Republic.

In 1875 Doctor Kitchen married Miss Grace Kingsley, of Cleveland,
who survived him, as did also their two sons.

James W. Conger was long numbered among the substantial citizens
and representative business men of Cleveland, and here was president and
treasurer of the Auld & Conger Company, manufacturers of and dealers
in roofing, slates, grates, mantels and tiles. He continued to be identified
with business and civic afifairs in Cleveland until the time of his death.

Mr. Conger was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, August 6,
1845, and was seven years of age when he was taken into the home of his
maternal grandfather, Archibald Auld, a farmer in Morrow County, Ohio,
the father of Mr. Conger having died about one year previously. When the
Civil war came, Mr. Conger, at the age of sixteen years, enlisted in 1861,
as a member of Company B, Forty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and he
continued in active service until the close of the war, with honorable
discharge in July, 1865.

After the war Mr. Conger completed a course in a business college
at Columbus, Ohio, and in 1867 he was associated in establishing the
first steam brick manufactory in the capital city. In 1870 he there formed
a partnership with his cousin David Auld, in the general contracting busi-
ness, the firm having erected many important buildings and finally having
turned attention to me roofing Inisiness, in connection with brick manu-
facturing at Steubenville. In 1873 the business was removed to Cleveland,
and here was developed an industrial and commercial enterprise of great
scope, the concern having slate quarries in Pennsylvania and also quarries
in Vermont, with precedence as one of the largest of slate-roofing producers
in the country. Mr. Conger became also a director of the American Sea
Green Slate Company, vice president and treasurer of the Bangor Building
Company, and president and treasurer of the Aukx)n B)uil(ling Company

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He was a trustee of the Cleveland Medical College, was a member of the
local chamber of commerce and also the Builders Exchange, was one of the
organizers of the Colonial Club, was affiliated with the Masonic fraternity
and the Grand Army of the Republic, and was a member of the Presby-
terian Church. He was a presidential elector on the McKinley-Roosevelt
ticket, was a stalwart republican, but never sought political office.

In 1869 Mr. Conger wedded Miss Anna M. Higgins, and they became
the parents of two sons and one daughter.

Mrs. Virginia Darlington Green, member of the Cleveland Board
of Education and one of Cleveland's most influential woman citizens, was
born at Zanesville, Ohio, daughter of the late James and Margaret Eliza-
beth (Bowman) Darlington.

The Darlington family is of English stock, the name being derived
from the borough of that name in the County of Durham, England, though
the first recorded Darlington was John Darlington (1282), who was Arch-
bishop of Dublin. The American immigrants of the family were John and
Abraham Darlington, sons of Job and Mary Darlington of Darn Hall,
about thirty-six miles from Liverpool, England. These brothers came over
early in the eighteenth century, one settling in Pennsylvania and the other
in Virginia. Mrs. Green is descended from the Virginia settler, John
Darlington. Her great-grandfather, Rees Darlington, was born in Vir-
ginia and spent his life in that state. His son, Meredith, was born in
Frederick County, Virginia, where he married Mary Dostor, and their
children were Joseph, Harvey, Evelina and James. Meredith Darlington
died in Virginia, and several years later his widow, son James, and the
widow's brother came to Ohio and settled in Zanesville.

James Darlington was given as good an education as the times afforded,
and at an early age became a coal producer, operating mines of his own
in different parts of Southeastern Ohio. At a later date he became owner
of and operated a line of steamboats on the Muskingum River between
Zanesville and Marietta, occasionally going up the Ohio River to Pitts-
burgh. During the Civil war the Federal Government pressed all his
boats into war service, mainly on the rivers of the South, the Government
permitting him to go with the boats and oversee their management and
safety. In that capacity he saw and participated in many of the movements
and maneuvers of the navy during the war. At the close of the war his
boats were returned to him and he again operated his line between Zanes-
ville and Marietta for a number of years, finally retiring from that business.
He died in 1886. His widow survived until 1903. She was the daughter
of John and Susanna (Border) Bowman, both of whom were of German
ancestry. John Bowman was a banker and a successful dealer in real estate
of Zanesville, accumulating for his day a fortune.

Mrs. Green was educated at Putnam Female Seminary at Putnam,
across the river from Zanesville, but now a part of that city. She graduated
with distinction, and soon afterward, accompanied by several of her class-
mates, their principal being in charge of the party, went abroad and spent
three years in travel and study, principally in the cities of London, Berlin,
Paris and Vienna. All this post-graduate work rounded out in brilliant

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form her previous liberal education, fitting her for the career of culture
and social progress that has been her destiny.

In 1876, two years after completing her education abroad, she was
married to the late Arnold Green, who at that time was serving as clerk of
the Ohio State Supreme Court, and had already distinguished himself in
the public afifairs of Ohio. Arnold Green was born on a farm near
Adolphustown. Ontario, Canada, October 16, 1845. His father, John
Cameron Green, had been an officer in the English army. Arnold Green's
maternal grandfather was Edward Mallory, a stanch patriot of Canada
and England, and a member of the United Empire Loyalists, who at the
time of the American Revolution emigrated from Connecticut to Canada.

Arnold Green was given an unusually good education in Canada, and
coming to Cleveland in 1867, when a young man, took up the study of law
in the office of William Heisley, who served for several terms as city
solicitor of Cleveland. Passing the required examination, he was ad-,
mitted to the bar. and from the start showed an unusual interest in all
worthy public affairs. In 1874 the democratic party brought him forward
as a candidate for the office of clerk of the Supreme Court, and he was
elected and served with efficiency for the term of two years. About that
time he was appointed a member of the State Board of Examiners for
admission to the bar. On leaving his office as clerk of the Supreme Court he
resumed his private practice in Cleveland, and devoted more than thirty
years to his profession. On November 7, 1906, while trying a case in
court, he suffered a stroke of paralysis, and from that time was practically
an invalid until his death on June 16. 1909. His ability as an attorney
and his strong personality made him one of the leading lawyers of the
Cleveland bar. He served many years as a vestryman of the Church of the
Good Shepherd, Protestant Episcopal, and later became a member of Holy
Trinity Cathedral, attending to all of its legal affairs without charge. He
was a member of the Bar Association, of the Colonial Club, of the Cleve-
land Yacht Club and of the Cleveland Whist Club.

Since her marriage Mrs. Green has accepted numerous and important
responsibilities in the social and civic affairs of her home city. As the field
of service closest to the home, she has made the object of her special study
and attention the schools and educational problems in general. In 1912 she
was elected a member of the Cleveland Board of Education, and has served
it continuously for thirteen years. Some of the distinctive points of her
service and influence during that time included her championship of the
proposition that the Board of Education ask the voters to authorize a bond
issue of $100,000 for school playgrounds, thus committing the board to
the present policy of school playgrounds. The school board issue carried,
defeating one asked for at the same election by the city. Furthering the
aims of the Grade Teachers' Club, the object of which was to increase grade
teachers' salaries, and the outcome of which organization is the present
Teachers' Federation, was her next object, and while she has been on the
school board the teachers' pay in Cleveland has been increased from an
average of $850 to $1,500 for the school year. She was mainly instru-
mental in 1916 in getting through the Legislature the Bohm bill, granting
boards of education throughout the state power to levy a tax of two-tenths
of a mill for the use of schoolhouses as community centers. Her official

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influence was imix)rtant in getting the city school buildings opened in 1921
to be used for polling and voting purposes, and likewise securing the com-
munity use of the public school auditoriums, so that at the present time
the school buildings are opened to all public meetings except those of a
religious nature. Mrs. Green has worked steadily to improve the status
of the teachers' occupation, to advance it to a profession similar to that of
law and medicine. Those best informed on educational matters in Cleve-
land say that no other woman has done more for the school or for the
advancement of educational reforms than has Mrs. Green. Since 1922
she has been working on a proposition of granting a sabbatical year for
teachers who have served for a certain length of time without the loss of a
day from school duties. Nothing daunted by the defeat of her first bill
introduced in the Legislature in 1903 by Senator George H. Bender, Mrs.
Green is now working on a taxation measure for home rule in public school
matters of the state.

In 1922, after the political primary election had been held and the major
parties had made their nominations, Mrs. Green became an independent
candidate for the United States Senate. This step was taken by Mrs.
Green without expectation of election, but with the object, if possible, of
getting out a large protest vote against both the republican and democratic
candidates for that office. She felt that with the advent of women into
political afifairs it would be well for them to take a decided stand against
the methods employed by both of the old parties. With no organization
behind her, and with practically no campaign funds, Mrs. Green was tre-
mendously handicapped in getting her appeal before the people of the state
at large. However, she received between 25,000 and 30,000 votes.

Mrs. Green is a pioneer in Ohio of woman's suffrage. In 1912, in com-
pany with Miss Florence Allen (now of the Ohio State Supreme Court),
she traveled through the state in an automobile, stopping at towns, villages,
cross-roads and wherever two or three people could be gathered together,
teaching the doctrine of woman suffrage. She has always been interested
in world peace, and has consistently opposed the introduction of military
training in the public schools. She was largely instrumental in having
established the first public kindergarten in connection with the Cleveland
Day Nursery at what was then known as the Perkins' Day Nursery on
St. Clair Street. She is a charter member of the City Club, a member of
the Board of Directors of the Children's Fresh Air Camp, and a supporter
of the Consumers' League. Perhaps the dominant characteristic of Mrs.
Green may be epitomized as the socialization of public education.

When Mrs. Green came to Cleveland as a bride in 1876 she brought with
her a letter of transfer from her home parish of St. James, Zanesville. to
Trinity Cathedral (then Trinity Parish on Superior Street), and she has
been a consistent and loyal supporter of that church throughout all these
years, continuing as a contributing member at the present time.

Webb C. Ball was the originator of the system of railroad time
inspection that has been of inestimabl-e benefit in the saving of life and elim-
inating loss of property in connection with railroad operations in the
United States and Canada, and he continued the executive head of his
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in Cleveland, until his death; besides which he was the founder and
president of the Webb C. Ball Company, controlling one of the largest
enterprises in retail jewelry and watch business in Cleveland.

Mr. Ball was born on a farm in Knox County, Ohio, received the advan-
tages of the public schools, and as a youth he served an apprenticeship to the
trade of watchmaker and jeweler. He held from 1874 to 1879 the office of
business manager with the Deuber Watch Manufacturing Company, and
from March, 1879 until his death he was a resident of Cleveland. Here he
initiated a modest enterprise in the retail jewelery trade, and eventually he
built up an extensive and prosperous business, the amplification of which
led to the organization and incorporation of the Webb C. Ball Company,
a concern that is now the largest of its kind in this section of the country,
and the business of which has been specially notable in the great scope
of its service in the handling of the highest grade of standard railroad
watches. Mr. Ball gained fame as the inventor of railroad watch move-
ments and new appliances used in their construction, and he evolved the
admirable system of regular inspection of railroad timepieces that came into
use on virtually all important railroad lines in the United States, Canada
and Mexico. In developing his great inspection system he maintained
his headquarters in Cleveland, retained a large corps of local inspectors,
traveling assistants, etc., with branches in Chicago and San Francisco. In
building up this remarkable and effective inspection service for railroads
Mr. Ball achieved a work that shall ever reflect honor and distinction
upon his name.

Mr. Ball was one of the honored and representative business men of
Cleveland at the time of his death, and his civic loyalty was of the highest
type, he having been an independent republican in politics.

In 1879 Mr. Ball wedded Miss Florence I. Young, of Kenton, Ohio,
and they became the parents of one son and three daughters.

Charles A. Otis is a representative of the third generation of the
Otis family in Cleveland, and in his splendid achievement in connection
with large and varied business interests and with civic affairs he has well
upheld the prestige of the family name. He is proprietor and publisher
of the Cleveland News, and has other large and important financial and
business interests in his native city.

Mr. Otis was born in Cleveland July 9, 1868, a son of Charles A. Otis,
Sr., and a grandson of William A. Otis, both of whom write their names
large in the record of Cleveland civic and material progress. In 1890 Mr.
Otis was graduated in Yale University, with the degree of Bachelor of
Philosophy, and thereafter he took a course in the law school of Columbia
University. For three years he was identified with the cattle business in
the West, and upon his return to Cleveland he became one of the organ-
izers of the firm of Otis, Hough & Company, in 1895, this concern entering
the iron and steel brokerage business. In 1898 he became one of the organ-
izers of the firm of Otis & Hough, bankers and brokers, and this firm
played a prominent part in the establishing of the Cleveland Stock Exchange.
The firm has long controlled a large and important business of wide rati-
fications. Mr. Otis has been identified -also with the steel industry, as senior
member of Otis, Bonnell & Company; and his further connections have

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included his alliance with the Lenox Realty Company, the Tavistock
Building Company, the Cuyahoga Company, the Citizens Savings & Trust
Company, the National Commercial Bank, the Standard Sewing Machine
Company, the Bankers Surety Company and the American Lumber Com-
pany. In 1910 he became president of the Cuyahoga Telephone Company.

After having been for several years president of the Finance Publish-
ing Company, Mr. Otis, in 1905, initiated his connection with daily-news-
paper enterprise in his native city. He first purchased the Cleveland
World, and evening paper, and soon consolidated therewith the evening
editions of two other local papers, under the title of the Cleveland News,
which thus became the only afternoon paper in the City. Mr. Otis has
made the News a power in the local field and it is one of the leading news-
papers of the Buckeye State.

Near Willoughby, Ohio, Mr. Otis owns the fine rural estate known
as Tannenbaum Farm, and he takes deep interest in the management of this
splendid property. He has membership in the Gentlemen's Driving Club,
the Forest City Fair & Live Stock Association, the Cleveland Fanciers
Club, and the Union, Tavern, Hermit, Roadside, Euclid Country, Cleveland
Athletic, Cleveland Automobile, University and Mayfield clubs of his home
state, as well as the Lambs, University and St. Anthony clubs in New
York City. He has given loyal and effective service as president of the
Babies Dispensary & Hospital of Cleveland.

Mr. Otis married Miss Lucia R., a daughter of the late Col. William
Edwards, of Cleveland.

Harvey Danforth Goulder early gained for himself a position of
distinction as one of the able and representative members of the bar of
his native City of Cleveland, and his has been a great and benignant influ-
ence in advancing maritime interests on the Great Lakes and their tribu-
taries.

Mr. Goulder was born in Cleveland March 7, 1853, a son of Christopher
and Barbara (Freeland) Goulder. He was graduated in the Cleveland
High School and thereafter gave his attention to the study of law until he
so fortified himself as to gain admission to the Ohio bar, in 1875. Cleve-
land has figured continuously as the central stage of his professional and
civic activities, and his has been special prominence in connection with mari-
time, insurance and corporation law. He did great service as counsel for
the Lake Carriers Association, and was specially active in the furthering
of legislation for the improvement of channels on the Great Lakes and their
tributaries, and in the rehabilitating of the United States merchant marine.

In 1878 Mr. Goulder married Miss Mary Rankin, daughter of the late
Rev. Jeremiah E. Rankin, of Washington.

Samuel Mather, a native son of Cleveland, has played a large part
in the business and industrial activities of the Ohio metropoHs, and has
stood exponent of the fine civic loyalty that has characterized each succes-
sive generation of the distinguished New England colonial family of which
he is a scion. The Mather family has been also one of prominence and
influence in Cleveland for many years.

Samuel Mather was born in Cleveland July 13, 1851, a son of Samuel

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Livingston Mather and Georgiana Pomeroy (Woolson) Mather. He
profited by the advantages of the Cleveland public schools and thereafter
attended St. Mark's School at Southborough, Massachusetts. He proved
an effective successor of his father in connection with large and important
industrial and financial interests in Cleveland, w^here he became the senior
member of the firm of Pickands, Mather & Company, miners of coal and
iron ore and manufacturers of pig iron. His prominence was further
advanced by his becoming president of the Hemlock River Mining Com-
pany, vice president of the Bank of Commerce, and director of the United
States Steel Corporation, and a director of the Lackawanna Steel Company.
His interests have included also his connection with more than twenty-
five other corporations of important order. Mr. Mather has long been
known as one of the liberal and progressive citizens of Cleveland, has
served as a member of the executive committee of the National Civic
Association, and he held membership with the central committee of the
American Red Cross, besides which he has served as a trustee of the
Carnegie Peace Foundation.

October 19, 1881, recorded the marriage of Mr. Mather to Miss Flora
A. Stone, of Cleveland.

Charles Alfred Jilek, Cleveland attorney and former chief police
prosecutor for the city, is a veteran of the World war, who completed his
law studies and engaged in practice after his return from overseas. He
was born in Cleveland, April 10, 1889, and represents one of the pioneer
Bohemian families of this city. His parents, Charles and Anna (Jirele)
Jilek, were both born in Bohemia, his father having come to the United
States in 1880, locating at once in Cleveland, where for many years he
was a contracting carpenter. He died in 1909. Anna Jirele, his wife, was
about one year old when she was brought to the United States by her
parents. Her father, John Jirele, was an iron molder by trade, and worked
at that occupation for a time after arriving in Baltimore, but before the
close of the Civil war period he located at Cleveland, and was one of the
very early men of his nationality in the city, being a pioneer in the Bohemian
colony of this city. She is still living.

Charles A. Jilek acquired his early education in the public schools,
attending the Central High School until his junior year, and then went to
work as a clerk in the offices of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Rail-
way. For six years he held a clerkship, studying and taking examinations
from time to time, and entering the building department of the City of
Cleveland he was later promoted chief clerk of that department. During
that time he also pursued and completed two years of the course in law.

When the United States entered the war against Germany Mr. Jilek
volunteered, though married and a father, and entered the first Officers'
Training Camp at Fort I'enjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, where he was
commissioned a second lieutenant, and sent to Camp Sherman, Ohio, and
was assigned to duty with the Three Hundred and Thirty-first Infantry.
Subsequently he was detailed to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, as instructor in
grenade work, and was made general instructor for the division, teaching
grenade and the use of automatic rifles, particularly the French gun, known
as the Chauchat automatic rifle. On May 23, 1918, with his command,

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he left Camp Sherman for overseas, landing in England June 6, and thence
proceeding to an eastern area in France. Later his division was assigned
duty in the Lemon area, where he was put in charge of the ordnance
department of that area and remained there until after the close of the war.
On his return to the United States he was honorably discharged and was
mustered out March 15, 1919. He was offered a commission if he would
remain in the service, but declined.

On returning to Cleveland he immediately resumed his law studies, and
was graduated from the Cleveland Law School of Baldwin-Wallace Uni-
versity in 1920, and in 1922 he took a post-graduate course in the John
Marshall Law School of Northern Ohio University, and received his Doctor
of Laws degree. Admitted to the bar in June of 1922 he engaged in law
practice in association with the firm of Payer, Winch & Minshall, one of
the foremost law firms in Cleveland. Five months later he withdrew to
engage in private practice, and he has distinguished himself as one of the
best qualified of the younger attorneys in the city.

In 1920 he was an unsuccessful candidate at the republican primaries for
the nomination for the Legislature. He was appointed assistant police
prosecutor January 1, 1922, and on September 1, 1923, was promoted to
chief police prosecutor, which position he resigned in 1924 to enter private
practice. He is generally active in political and civic affairs, and frater-
nally he is affiliated with the Masons, the Knights of Malta, the American
Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

Mr. Jilek married Miss Sarah Smith. She was born in Omaha,
Nebraska, but her father, William R. Smith, brought his family to Cleve-
land, and has lived here for twenty years or more. Mr. and Mrs. Jilek
have one son, Byron Charles, born February 14, 1917.

Ambrose Swasey has given to the City of Cleveland a special distinction
through his large and noteworthy achievement in connection with important
manufacturing industry and applied science. He was born at Exeter, New
Hampshire, December 19, 1846, and was there reared and educated. His
education along scientific lines eventually carried itself to distinction, and
it is to be noted that in 1905 he received from the Case School of Applied
Science, at Cleveland, the degree of Doctor of Engineering, and that in
1910 Denison University, at Granville, this state, conferred upon him the
degree of Doctor of Science.

In 1880 Mr. Swasey formed a partnership with W. R. Warner, under
the title of Warner & Swasey, and engaged in the manufacture of machine
tools and astronomical instruments. By this concern were manufactured
the famed 36-inch Lick telescope ; the 26-inch telescope of the Naval
Observatory, in Washington ; and the 40-inch Yerkes telescope. Many
other important products perpetuate the fame of this firm, including an
exceptionally accurate dividing engine. Mr. Swasey invented the Swasey
Range and Position Finder, adopted by the United States Government.
He became a director of the Cleveland Trust Company, a trustee of
Denison University, and a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, France
(1900). In 1894 he was president of the Cleveland Engineering Society,
and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers found in him an influ-
ential and valued member. He served as president of the Cleveland Cham-

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ber of Commerce, and became a member of the Institute of Mechanical
Engineers, Great Britain ; a member of the British Astronomical Society ;
and a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. He became also a member
of the Engineers Club of New York, and served at one time as president of
the Union Club in Cleveland. To the literature of applied science Mr.
Swasey made valuable contributions, including his monograph on "A New
Process for Generating and Cutting the Teeth of Spur Wheels," and his
article entitled "Some Refinements of Mechanical Science."

October 24, 1871, recorded the marriage of Mr. Swasey to Miss Lavinia
D. Martson, of Hampton, New Hampshire.

Newton Diehl Baker, who served with distinction as United States
Secretary of War during the climateric period of American participation
in the World war, and who has continued in the practice of law in the
City of Cleveland since his retirement from the cabinet of President
Wilson, claims the State of W^est Virginia as the place of his nativity.
He was born at Martinsburg, that state, December 3, 1871, and is a son of
Newton Diehl Baker and Mary (Dukehart) Baker. In 1892 Mr. Baker
was graduated in Johns Hopkins University, with the degree of Bachelor
of Arts, and in the law department of Washington & Lee University,
Virginia, he was graduated as a member of the class of 1894. In 1896-97
he was private secretary to the postmaster general of the United States,
and in 1897 he engaged in the practice of law at Martinsburg, West
Virginia. From his native city he finally came to Cleveland, .Ohio, and
in connection with his professional work here he served as city solicitor
in the period of 1902-12. He was mayor of the city for the terms of 1912-
14 and 1914-16, and in 1916 President Wilson appointed him United States
Secretary of War. In this office his record of service has become a part of
national history, and needs no reviewing in this sketch.

Mr. Baker has been known as a stalwart and efifective advocate of
the principles of the democratic party, is affiliated with the Phi Gamma
Delta college fraternity, and in his home city he has membership in the
Union and University clubs. July 5, 1902, recorded his marriage to Miss
Elizabeth Leopold, of Pottstown, Pennsylvania.

John Bernard McGee, M. D., whose death on the 10th of February,
1923, brought to a close a life of signal honor and usefulness, had for
forty years been recognized as one of the leading physicians and surgeons
in the City of Cleveland. As a national authority in the domain of thera-
peutics he had made large and valuable contribution to the advancement
of medical science. Doctor McGee held for many years the chair of thera-
peutics in the medical department of Ohio Wesleyan University, and it
has consistently been stated that he was "widely known for his scientific
attainments, both within and without the strict path of his profession."
The noble professional stewardship of Doctor McGee was based not alone
on technical knowledge and skill but also upon an abiding human sympathy
that found expression in a loyal service of helpfulness.

Doctor McGee was born in the City of Boston, Massachusetts, on the
3d of July, 1853, and in that state his parents, Peter and Mary A. (Don-
nelly) McGee, passed their entire lives. The Doctor was doubiy orphaned

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when he was but six years of age, but the loss of his parents did not
deprive him of proper fostering care. He profited fully by the advantages
of the excellent public schools of his native city, including the Boston
Latin School, and there also he gained his initial experience in connection
with the drug business. He was eighteen years of age when, in the
autumn of 1871, he came to Cleveland, Ohio, where for the ensuing five
years he was employed as a pharmacist. This association had an inherent
tendency to promote in him a desire for wider activities and led to his
preparing himself for the exacting profession in which he was destined to
gain both distinction and priority as a practitioner and as an educator.
In 1878 Doctor McGee was here graduated from the medical department
of Western Reserve University, and he won the honors of his class as
well as his degree of Doctor of Medicine. From that year forward until
his death Doctor McGee continued in the general practice of his profession
in Cleveland, where he built up a practice that was of notably representative
order and that attested alike his ability and his secure place in popular
confidence and esteem. In 1896 Doctor McGee became professor of thera-
peutics in the medical department of Ohio Wesleyan University, this
medical school being in Cleveland, and his service in this important chair
continued until his death. He served also as secretary of the faculty of the
school from 1900 until the close of his life.

In addition to the splendid service he rendered in a direct way as an
educator Doctor McGee also made large and valuable contribution to
the standard and periodical literature of his profession. He ever continued
a close student, and his research and investigation were conducted along
broad lines. As an authority on therapeutics he was called upon to review
many leading medical books and to suggest changes and additions that
should tend to enhance their value. He wrote much, and his work along
this line is of permanent value in the domain of medical science. His was
a life of service, and the intrinsic nobility of the man, as well as the high
order of his service, gained to him the high regard and appreciative afifection
of those with whom he came in contact, no one member of his profession
in Cleveland having had a wider circle of loyal friends.

In 1907 Doctor McGee was elected president of the Cleveland Academy
of Medicine, and he was one of its most honored and influential members
at the time of his death. He was actively identified also with the Ohio
State Medical Society, the American Medical Association, the American
Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Anthropological
Association and the Cleveland Medical Library Association. He gave
many years of service as attending physician of St. Josephs Orphan Asylum,
and was for several years associate editor of the Cleveland Medical Journal.
In 1899 the Doctor did post-graduate work in leading medical colleges
and clinics in Europe, and in every stage of his long and useful career he
was the exponent of advanced thought and service in his profession. His
range of reading and study covered the best in literature of all kinds, and
he was specially interested in genealogy, besides having become an authority
on the pedigrees of all famous horses, his love for the horse having been
distinctive.

In October, 1884, Doctor McGee wedded Miss Levina Rodgers, of
Cleveland, and her death occurred in May of the following year. On the

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17th of September, 1892, was solemnized his marriage to Miss Elizabeth
Dieter, of Cleveland, who survives him and who still maintains her home
in the Ohio metropolis. Of the two children the elder is Eliza M., who
is the wife of Richard Wilkins, of Boston, Massachusetts, and the younger
daughter is Miss Plilda Jeanette.

Lincoln A. Wheelock, M. D., distinguished physician of the east
end of Cleveland, was born on the old Wheelock farm at Freedom, Portage.
County, Ohio, on the 24th of March, 1865, and is the son of De Forest
and Sophronia (Parshall) Wheelock. The ancestors of the present
Wheelocks came West soon after the Revolutionary war and settled per-
manently in what is now Portage County and there they remained for at
least two generations engaged in farming and trading and assisting in
building up the foundation of the present gigantic commonwealth. When
they first came there the whole region to the westward was swarming with
Indians who often camped along the streams in Portage County and mingled
with the whites to secure ix)rk and flour, and perhaps captives and other
victims.

The geat-grand father of Doctor Wheelock was Amariah Wheelock, who
served the Colonies in the Revolution and also fought Great Britain in the
War of 1812 and was afterwards awarded, according to acts of Congress,
a tract of land in Portage County where now stands the town of Freedom.
With his wife and nine children Amariah formed a wagon train at Tyring-
ham, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, left his old home there and started
for the West in a long and tiresome march across the mountains and val-
leys inten^ening. While on the march in the State of New York and at a
critical stage of the journey, he received a fatal stroke of paralysis and
perished before the aid of a physician could be secured. The widow and
the children suffered the horrors of the situation, but, after his interment,
continued the sad journey and finally reached their destination and located
on the land at Freedom which had been assigned to Amariah by the Govern-
ment.

John Wheelock, son of Amariah, and grandfather of Doctor Wheelock,
became a successful farmer and a distinguished citizen in that portion of
the state and remained there on the same tract of land all the rest of his life.
His son, De Forest, father of subject, was born at Freedom and was there
reared and educated. In early manhood he became a traveling salesman
and later conducted a grocery store at Slatersville. Still later he became
a general merchant at Brooklyn, now the City of Cleveland. In early
manhood he married Miss Parshall, who was born at Shalersville, Ohio,
and was the daughter of Otis Parshall, one of the early and prominent
settlers of that town.

Lincoln A. was reared on his father's farm and while in his adolescence
learned much about the intricacies and hardships of farm life. He was
given a good education and remained on the farm until he reached the age of
eleven years, when he came with his parents to Brooklyn village (now
Cleveland) in 1877 and there continued his schooling. He graduated from
the high school while quite young, and soon afterward became a book-
keeper, which occupation he pursued for many years with success and
remuneration. While yet comparatively young he was elected to the office

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of township clerk of Brooklyn Township and was reelected, serving for
four years with proficiency and observable superiority. While thus serving
the township he took up the study of medicine and at a later date entered
the medical school of the Western Reserve University, took the full course
and was graduated with credit in 1900 with the degree of Doctor of
Medicine. He at once began the general practice of his profession and has
continued the same up to the present time both with success and high dis-
tinction. His practice has been general and embraces both medicine and
surgery. His reputation for superior skill in the science of surgery became
so pronounced that in time he was appointed surgeon for the Cleveland
Street Railway Company, in which capacity he served for ten years. And
for an equal number of years he served as surgeon for the Nickel Plate
Railway Company, at the same time conducting his extensive private
practice.

He is a member of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State
Medical Association and the American Medical Association. He is like-
wise a member of Brenton B. Babcock Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted
Masons and of the Cleveland Chapter, Royal Arch Masons. He married
Miss Ella, daughter of William A. Cumberworth, a veteran of the Civil
war. The children born to this marriage are, namely: Dorothy S., who
married William H. Spear; Mary F., who married Arthur E. Davies of
Cleveland ; they have a son named Griffith and a daughter named Mary
Ellen ; and Helen G. Wheelock, who is unmarried.

H. Clark Ford. For many years before his death, which occurred
August 25, 1915, H. Clark Ford was one of the notable men of Cleveland,
esteemed for a broad range of intellectual and active interests that made
him well known as a lawyer, as a constructive business man and financier,
and a helpful factor in many movements for the general welfare of the
community.

He was born at Cleveland, August 25, 1853, his death occurring on his
sixty-second birthday. He was a descendant in the tenth generation from
Andrew Ford, who arrived in Weymouth, Massachusetts, in 1650. Mr.
Ford's grandfather came West in 1840. traveling with his family by wagon
and team as far west as Massillon, Ohio, and subsequently returning to
Cleveland and acquiring land in what subsequently became a valuable section
of East Cleveland. Horatio C. Ford, father of the Cleveland attorney, was
about fourteen when the family came to Ohio in 1840. He taught school
in his early manhood, and he and his brother, Henry Ford, at one time
taught the only two schools west of the river. During the Civil war period
he had charge of all the schools in Collamer, now East Cleveland. He
also engaged in farming, and died in 1876 at the age of fifty-one. He had
been a member of the City Council, was a trustee of Oberlin College and
exerted a constant influence for the sound development of his community.
He married Martha C. Cozad, of French Huguenot ancestry. The Cozad
family came from Pennsylvania to Cleveland about 1805, and the home of
H. Clark Ford was on a part of a tract of land acquired by the Cozads
at that time. The land also included the site of Adelbert College.

H. Clark Ford attended the grade schools in East Cleveland, the old
Central High School, was a student in Oberlin College in 1870-72, and

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took his Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Michigan in 1875.
In 1878 he engaged in law practice at Cleveland, being a member for a
number of years of the law firm of Judge C. C. Baldwin and later of Ford,
Ford, Snyder & Henry and still later of Ford, Snyder & Tilden. The large
part of the practice handled by this firm was in corporation law.

Mr, Ford served as a member of the City Council of Cleveland from
1879 to 1885, part of the time being vice president. He organized in 1886
the old East End Savings Bank Company, and in August, 1892, the Garfield
Savings Bank Company, and served as president of the latter until his
death. He was one of the organizers of the Cleveland Trust Company,
withdrawing to help organize the Western Reserve Trust Company, and
when the latter was consolidated with the Cleveland Trust Company, in
1905, he assisted in the merger and was on the Board of Directors until
his death. He helped organize and became president of the Williamson
Company, which erected and owned the Williamson Building, at that time,.
1900, the largest and finest office building in Cleveland. The company
also owns the Otis Block and the New Amsterdam Apartments. Another
line of interest took Mr. Ford into the railroad and electric traction field.
He was president for a number of years of the Eastern Ohio Traction
Company, and at the time of his death a director of the Cleveland and
Eastern Traction Company. In 1895 he became a member of the executive
committee of the Wheeling Traction Company, owning a large number
of electric traction lines in and around Wheeling, also the Toronto, Canada,
and Syracuse electric lines.

For a number of years before his death Mr. Ford was a trustee of
Oberlin College and chairman of its finance committee, was a member of
the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, and a
member of the board and chairman of the finance committee of the Congre-
gational Board of Ministerial Relief, and from its organization in 1892
acted as president of the Cleveland Congregational City Missionary Society.
His first membership was with the Euclid Avenue Congregational Church,
of which his father and grandfather were charter members. He was a
member of the Zeta Psi college fraternity, and belonged to the Union
Club of Cleveland.

On October 17, 1877, he married Miss Ida M. Thorp, who survives him.
Her father, John H. Thorp, was a prominent figure in Cleveland's early
business history. The six children born to Mr. and Mrs. Ford were:
Mildred E., who died in September, 1918, wife of James M. Cobb;
Horatio; Cyrus Clark; Loreta, who died when ten years old; David
Knight ; and Baldwin Whitmarsh, who died when seventeen years of age.
The son David was on the border during the Mexican trouble and was^in
France during the World war.

George Worthington became a resident of Cleveland in the year 1835,
and now that he has passed from the stage of his mortal endeavors it is'
easy to gain a perspective view that indicates significantly the value of his
life and labors as touching the civic and business interests of the Ohio
metropolis in an earlier period of its history. There was much of largeness
and vital constructiveness in the career of this man of thought and action,
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in connection with the activities of his long and useful career. He meant
much to Cleveland, and the city and its interests ever meant much to him,
as shown in his loyal support of measures tending to advance the general
welfare of the community, as well as his cooperation in the furthering of
business enterprises of major importance. His mature judgment and admin-
istrative ability made for the maximum success of any undertaking with
which he consented to identify himself, and his work, in whatever field,
was always constructive, straightforward and marked by that characteristic
integrity of purpose that so definitely denoted the man of resourceful
strength and sterling natural attributes.

George Worthington was born at Cooperstown, New York, September
21, 1813, a son of Ralph and Clarissa (Clark) Worthington, representatives
of families that were early founded in this country. Mr. Worthington
was reared and educated in the old Empire State, and there gained also
his initial experience in connection with business affairs. In 1835, as noted
in the opening paragraph of this memoir, he came to Cleveland, and here
he founded the George Worthington Hardware Company, and in the local
hardware trade he built up the leading establishment of his day — one that
continues to have similar precedence at the present time, as the enterprise
is still continued, and under the original corporate name that consistently
perpetuates the name and achievement of the honored founder. Mr.
Worthington's original hardware store was maintained on the site of the
present Bethel Building. He later purchased the business of the firm of
Cleveland, Stalling & Company, established at the corner of Water and
Superior streets, where later was erected the building of the National
Bank. In the development of his business Mr. Worthington admitted Wil-
liam Bingham to partnership, and the latter sold his interest in 1841.
Thereafter Mr. Worthington had as associated principals in conducting the
ever expanding business two other citizens whose names likewise became
prominent in local business circles, Gen. James Barnett and Edward
Bingham.

About the year 1862 Mr. Worthington effected the organization of the
Cleveland Iron & Nail Works, with William Bingham as his coadjutor in
the enterprise. Within a year the concern completed the erection and
equipment of its manufacturing plant and initiated active operations, with
special attention given to the manufacturing of gas pipe. Under the able
and progressive administration of Mr. Worthington this grew to be one
of the large and important industrial concerns of Cleveland. He became
interested also in the ownership and operation of blast furnaces, and, all in
all, was one of Cleveland's most influential captains of industry in his day.

In 1863, shortly after the passage by Congress of the act providing
for the establishing of national banks, Mr. Worthington organized the First
National Bank of Cleveland, he having been the first president of this
institution and having continued ably to guide its administration in this
capacity of chief executive until the time of his death, which occurred in
the year 1871. He made a special journey to Washington, District of
Columbia, to obtain the charter for the new bank, and this trip was attended
by no little peril and difficulty, owing to the fact that the Civil war was
then in progress. Mr. Worthington likewise gave the benefit of his initiative
and executive ability to the upbuilding of the Ohio Savings & Loan Bank,

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of which he was a director at the time of his death. He was concerned
also in the insurance business, was president of the Cleveland Iron Mining
Company, and was for years a director of the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincin-
nati & Indianapolis Railroad. It should be noted that the wholesale business
of the George Worthington Hardware Company had grown prior to his
death to be one of the largest of the kind west of New York City. Mr.
Worthington was one of the most liberal and progressive business men and
citizens of his day and generation in Cleveland, and his capacity for the
achievement of large things was equaled by his courage and tenacity of
purpose when he once set his hand to the wheel and initiated the guidance
of any vessel of industrial enterprise with which he became concerned.
He was a leader in civic and material development and progress in his
home city, and in all of the relations of life he ordered his course in such
a way as to merit and receive the unqualified confidence and good will of
his fellow men.

While Mr. Worthington had a full equipment for effective service in
offices of public trust, his tastes and inclinations militated against his
consenting to become a candidate for such preferment. His political alle-
giance was given to the republican party, and his religious faith was that
of the Presbyterian Church. In this religious denomination he became
one of the organizers of the Old Stone Church of Cleveland, and later
he was one of the thirteen members that withdrew from this organization
to become founders of the present Third Presbyterian Church, in the
beautiful edifice of which a fine memorial window of most artistic design
offers an enduring tribute to this honored member and founder.

The domestic chapter in the life of Mr. Worthington was one of ideal
relations, and there can be no desire to offer any revelation of its gracious
intimacies through the medium of this publication. It is sufficient to state
that on the 16th of November, 1840, Mr. Worthington was united in mar-
riage with Miss Maria Cushman Blackmar, who was born in the State
of New York, September 14, 1817, and who preceded him to the life eternal,
her death having occurred March 3, 1862. Of the eight children of this
union only four are living at the time of this writing, in 1924. Ralph is a
resident of Miami, Florida; George maintains his residence at Bennington,
Vermont ; Mary is the widow of Clark I. Butts, to whom a specific tribute
is offered on other pages of this publication; and Clara is the wife of W. B.
Hale.

George R. Wilkins, M. D. One of the members of the medical pro-
fession of Cleveland who has won success as a physician and surgeon and
prominence as a citizen is Dr. George R. Wilkins, who has been in practice
on the west side of the city for over twenty-five years.

Doctor Wilkins was born in Union City, Pennsylvania, on February
8, 1870, the son of John P. and Sidney A. (Shreve) Wilkins, both natives
of the Keystone State, where they continue to reside. The lineage of the
Wilkins family traces back to English origin, while that of the Shreve
family goes back to Holland-Dutch ancestors, both families having been
founded in America in Colonial days. The records show that a Shreve
served in the Revolutionary war, and was with General Washington's
army at historic Valley Forge. »

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Doctor Wilkins acquired his preliminary education in the common and
high schools of Union City, Pennsylvania, where he also took a course in
business college. Coming to Cleveland, he entered the Cleveland Homieo-
pathic Medical College, from w^hich he was graduated Doctor of Medicine
with the class of 1899. He then served for six months as interne at Huron
Road Hospital, this city, following which he entered the general practice
of medicine and surgery on the West Side, and has so continued with the
exception of a year he spent in his country's military service abroad.

When this nation entered the World war Doctor Wilkins promptly
volunteered for active service in the United States Army Medical Corps,
was accepted, and in July, 1918, he was ordered to report for duty at
Camp Perry, Ohio. From that camp he was ordered to Hoboken, New
Jersey, where he was assigned to the Three Hundred and Ninth Ammu-
nition Train, Eighty-fourth Division, for transportation purposes, and
with that command he sailed from that port on August 18, 1918, for France,
via London, England. Arriving in France, the doctor was assigned to duty
at Camp Hospital No. 5, at Jeannecourt, near Bordeaux, where he con-
tinued on active duty the major part of his service until his return to this
country in the middle of July, 1919. Arriving at Camp Sherman, Ohio, he
was honorably discharged and mustered out of service on August 24, 1919,
and immediately returned to his practice which, notwithstanding the inter-
ruption caused by his service for his country, was in no wise impaired,
and has since increased.

Doctor Wilkins is a member of the staff of Grace Hospital, and is a
member of the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical Society, the Ohio State
Homeopathic Medical Society and the American Institute of Homeopathy.
He is a member of the Halcyon Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons ;
Thatcher Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; Forest City Commandery, Knights
Templar; Al Koran Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; Valley of Cleve-
land, Lake Erie Consistory and Council ; Scottish Rite, thirty-second de-
gree, and of the Order of the Eastern Star. He is also a member of the
Lakewood Country Club and of the United Service No. 75, American
Legion, and of the Forty and Eighth. He and wife are members of the
Lakewood Methodist Episcopal Church.

Doctor Wilkins was united in marriage with Anna M. Thomas, the
daughter of Edward M. and Sarah (Dunham) Thomas, of Union City,
Pennsylvania, where Mrs. Wilkins was born. Her mother is now deceased,
her father residing in Cleveland. To Doctor and Mrs. Wilkins a daughter
and son have been born : Marjorie E. and Robert.

Doctor Wilkins maintains offices at 9806 Madison Avenue, the family
residence being at 1084 Nicholson Avenue, Lakewood.

George Armstrong Garretson. No single metew^and can suffice to
gauge accurately the value of the services that were rendered to the world
by Gen. George Armstrong Garretson, who was long one of the honored
and influential citizens and representative men of affairs in the City of
Cleveland. To measure his worth and his usefulness by means of any one
standard of delineation is impossible by reason of the many and diverse
avenues along which he directed his splendid energies, wath a loyalty of
personal stewardship that betokened a nature that was signally true to

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itself and to all that it touched in the complex affairs of life. Within the
necessarily prescribed limitations of a publication of this order it is possible
to sketch in only the briefest outline the record of the character and achieve-
ment of General Garretson, but even this circumscribed review can not fail
to offer lesson and incentive.

On the paternal side General Garretson w^as a scion of a sturdy Holland
Dutch family that was founded in New Jersey in 1670, and each successive
generation gave to the nation men of prominence and influence in their
respective fields of activity. General Garretson was born at New Lisbon,
Columbiana County, Ohio, January 30, 1844, and was a son of Hiram and
Margaret King (Armstrong) Garretson, he having been a youth at the
time of the family removal to Cleveland. Hiram Garretson became promi-
nently identified with marine transportation between Cleveland and the
great Lake Superior copper region, besides which he founded, in 1868, the
Cleveland Banking Company, of which he became the president, as did he
later of the Second National Bank, with which the former institution was
merged in 1872. He was chief commissioner from the United States at
the Vienna International Exposition in 1873, and long held place as one
of the leading citizens of Cleveland.

On the maternal side General Garretson was of Scotch-Irish lineage.
His maternal grandfather. Gen. John Armstrong, was a soldier in the War
of 1812, and served as brigadier general in the Ohio militia of the pioneer
days. Basileal Armstrong, an uncle of the subject of this memoir, was
graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, and
was in active service as an officer in the Mexican war. One of his grand-
fathers and several others of his kinsmen were patriot soldiers in the War
of the Revolution.

After attending the schools of Cleveland and an academy at Cornwall-
on-the-Hudson, New York, Gen. George A. Garretson finally entered the
United States Military Academy, and in this institution he was graduated
as a member of the class of 1867. Thereafter he was a lieutenant in the
Fourth United States Artillery until 1870, when he resigned and returned
to Cleveland. He here became an interested principal in the wholesale
grocery business of Briggs, Hathaway & Garretson, but in 1875 he
assumed a position in the Second National Bank, in which he won rapid
advancement and of which he was the vice president at the time when it
was succeeded by the National Bank of Commerce, of which he became
vice president. In 1890 he was elected president of this important finan-
cial institution, which later was consolidated with the Western Reserve
National Bank, under the corporate title of the Bank of Commerce
National Association. Of this corporation General Garretson continued
the president until his death, December 8, 1916, at the age of seventy-two
years, he having had at the time seniority among all bank presidents in
Cleveland. General Garretson became a recognized authority in all matters
pertaining to banking enterprise, and as such his advice and counsel were
much in demand. He was a close student of governmental and economic
problems, and thus fortified himself thoroughly for the management of
the great financial interests with which he was identified. He was a
director of the Citizens Savings & Trust Company, the Guardian Savings
& Trust Company, and the Cleveland Stone Company ; was chairman of

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the directorate of the Great Lakes Towing Company, and was treasurer
of the Montreal Mining Company. Concerning his connection with the
banking business, the following appreciative estimate has been written ;
"During his association with the development and life of the banking
institutions of Cleveland, his was a staying and upbuilding influence at all
times. The business world witnessed several panics during his life as a
banker, and the monetary institutions of Cleveland faced several crises, but
in every trying situation General Garretson's position and influence were
strong in harmonizing and drawing together all the banks and insuring
their acting in such unison that Cleveland has for the past generation stood
in the front as a city where the bankers work concordantly and at all times
for the good of every depositor and that of the community. Occupying
the position of president and active manager of one of the largest and
most important banks in the State of Ohio, it can consistently be said that
General Garretson ranked with the leading bankers of America. He was
not unknown also in railroad circles, as he served for a number of years
as a director of the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad."

In his military career General Garretson added new honors to the
family name and to an ancestry that had given loyal soldiers to the various
wars in which the nation has been involved, including that of the Revolu-
tion. At the age of eighteen years, on the 26th of May, 1862, he enlisted
for service as a soldier in the Civil war. He became a private in Com-
pany E, Eighty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and with this command he
was in service in West Virginia and Maryland, until he received his honor-
able discharge September 20 of that year. On July 1 of the following
year he entered the United States Military Academy, in which, as previ-
ously noted, he was graduated in 1867.

General Garretson never lost his vital interest in military afTairs and
ever stood exponent of lofty patriotism. In 1877 he became one of the
organizers of the First Cleveland Troop, which later became Troop A of
the Ohio National Guard, and of this splendid organization he served as
captain from 1884 until his resignation in October, 1891. In the period of
1880-84 he was aide-de-camp on the military stafif of Governor Charles
Foster of Ohio, with the rank of colonel. At the initiation of the Spanish-
American war he promptly tendered his services to the government, and
May 27, 1898, was commissioned brigadier general of the United States
Volunteers. He was assigned command of the Second Brigade, First
Division, Second Army Cor'DS, and with his command he entered active
service in Cuba in the following July. The brigade took part in the
demonstrations against the Spanish works at the entrance of Santiago
harbor, and after the capitulation of that city he was in command of the
first United States troops to land on the island of Porto Rico, where he led
his forces in important conflicts with the Spanish troops and compassed
the surrender of the city of Ponce. His achievements in this connection
led to his being recommended, in the reports of General Miles and General
Henry, for advancement to the brevet rank of major general, bv reason of
his gallantry in action. He was actively identified with the Porto Rico
campaign until the cessation of hostilities, and received his honorable dis-
charge, November 30. 1898, the board of regular army officers having like
wise recommended him for rank of brevet major general.

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Of General Garretson the following has been written: "In a military
sense he stood for a great deal in Northern Ohio — no one was held in
higher esteem or looked to with more confidence than was General Garret-
son. Always kind, just and loyal, he was admired by everyone connected
with the national or state military service in this part of the country.
Always taking a large and earnest interest in military afifairs, he was a
thorough believer in military preparation and discipline. The record of
his services to his home city would be incomplete without a reference to
his work in connection with the National Guard organization of Cleve-
land, through his organization of the military committee of the Chamber
of Commerce in 1897. As chairman of this committee several years and
as a member thereof for a still longer period, and as its wise counsellor at
all times, he rendered a valuable service." General Garretson was a mem-
ber of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, and
in 1899 he was elected senior vice commander through the commandery of
the State of Ohio. He had membership also in the Military Order of
Foreign Wars, and served as commander of its Ohio Commandery. He
was an honored member of Garretson Camp No. 4, United Spanish-
American War Veterans, which was named in his honor, and he served
as a member of the first corps of officers of the national organization of
the Society of the Porto Rican Expedition. He had membership in the
Army and Navy Club at the national capital, the Ohio Society of New
York, the University Club of New York City, and in his home city was a
member of the Union, Country, University and Roadside Clubs, besides
having been an active member of the Chagrin Valley Hunt Club.

General Garretson was a stalwart republican, but never sought political
preferment. His fine sense of personal stewardship was shown in his
punctilious observance of all civic duties and also in his earnest support of
charitable and benevolent agencies. His philanthropies were many and
ever of unostentatious order. He was active in advancing Red Cross
service, was for years vice president of the Board of the Children's Fresh
Air Camp, a trustee of Lakeside Hospital and also of the Cleveland Orphan
Asylum, the Old Stone Church (Presbyterian), and Adelbert College.

The first marriage of General Garretson occurred in 1870, when
Miss Anna Scowden, of Cleveland, became his wife. The death of
Mrs. Garretson occurred in 1886, and she was not survived by children.
In the autumn of the year 1888 was solemnized the marriage of General
Garretson and Miss Emma R. Ely. daughter of the late George H. Ely. an
honored citizen to whom a memoir is dedicated in the following sketch,
so that further review of the family history is not here required.
Since the death of her husband Mrs. Garretson has continued her residence
in Cleveland, where she has long been active in representative social and
cultural circles, and here also remain the three children : Margaret
(Mrs. Henry A. Raymond), George Ely and Hiram.

George H. Ely. A student and reader of rare appreciation, a man of
broad intellectual ken and high ideals, there is reason to believe that the
late George H. Ely, long one of Cleveland's most honored and influential
citizens, made much of personal sacrifice of his inherent tastes and inclina-
tion in giving for many years the greater part of his time and attention to

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the regulation of large business interests, rather than to the enjoyment of
the more purely intellectual phases of life. In his self-denial, however, he
gave evidence of his distinct appreciation of his individual stewardship, and
made his influence constructive and benignant along every line of endeavor.
He was loved for his cultured and gracious personality, and was admired
for his large and worthy achievement in connection with industrial and
commercial enterprises of broad scope and importance.

George H. Ely was born at Rochester, New York, October 18, 1825,
and his sudden death occurred January 24, 1894, in the City of Washing-
ton, District of Columbia, whither he had gone to lend his influence in a
protest against the proposed congressional abolition of the duty on iron
ore, a matter which he considered one of grave industrial and economic
importance, as he had been long and prominently identified with the inter-
ests involved in this purposed legislation.

Elisha Ely, father of the subject of this memoir, was one of the
founders and builders of the City of Rochester, New York, and it was
there that GeOx-ge H. Ely passed the period of his childhood and youth,
the while he was given the advantages of a cultured home and the best
available educational facilities. In 1848 he was graduated from Williams
College, in which he completed in two years the prescribed four years'
course and from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts, his
alma mater having conferred upon him the degree of Master of Arts in
the year 1851. As a young man he was called upon to devote about two
years to supervising the interests of the large landed estate and flour-mill
property which had been accumulated by his brother, Alexander L., in
and near the City of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and upon his return to his
native <city he there became largely interested in the manufacturing of
flour. About three years later he became concerned in the development
of the great mineral resources of the Lake Superior region, and on the
upper peninsula of Michigan he was associated with his brothers, Samuel P.
and Henian B. in the constructing of a private railroad for the transporta-
tion of iron ore, this line eventually becoming a part of the Duluth. South
Shire & Atlantic Railroad. This pioneer line was completed in 1857 by
George H. and Samuel P. Ely, the brother Heman B. having died in the
preceding year. Samuel P. Ely made large investments in iron-ore lands,
and was one of the founders of the Lake Superior Iron Company. The
Ely brothers were pioneers in opening up and developing the great iron-
producing districts of both Michigan and Minnesota, and it was his experi-
ence in this connection that eventually made George H. Ely an authority
in matters pertaining to the iron industry. In 1863 he established his
permanent home in Cleveland, as a partner in the firm of H. B. Tuttle &
Company, and he continued to his death his active association with the iron
industry, in which his capitalistic interests were large and varied and
through the medium of which he did much to advance Cleveland as one
of the leading lake ports in the reception of iron ore from the great ranges
in the north. He gave his influence to the project that resulted in the
construction of the fine locks and ship canal at Sault Ste. Alarie. and was
called into consultation frequently when national consideration of the iron
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interests of this great industry has become a very part of its history. As
a member of the firm of George H. & S. P. Ely, with headquarters in
Cleveland, he played a large part in the development of the iron business.
In 1890 he became one of the organizers of the Central National Bank of
Cleveland, and upon its incorporation was elected its president, an office
which he retained until his death. He was a loyal member and supporter
of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, and served as a director of this
organization. He was a member of the four executive committees of the
American Protective Tarifif League, and in this connection gave valuable
service. He was called also to the office of president of the Western Iron
Ore Association. From an editorial that appeared in the Cleveland Plain
Dealer at the time of the death of Mr. Ely are taken the following extracts :
"From the beginning of his active life, he was intimately connected with
the iron interests, having large holdings in iron mines in the Lake Superior
country. No man had a more thorough knowledge of that branch of the
iron industry, or commanded more attention when setting forth its import-
ance and explaining its needs. It was for this reason, as well as from
knowledge of the influential value of his reputation for sincerity, that he
was so frequently chosen to represent the business interests of Cleveland —
manufacturing, commercial and marine — that are so greatly dependent on
the prosperity of the iron industry. He labored unceasingly, and unspar-
ingly of himself, in the faithful discharge of such trusts."

Mr. Ely had in the most significant sense the faith that makes faithful
in all things, and to him duty was the veritable canopy of life. He was
liberal, progressive and public-spirited, and did much to advance the civic
and material welfare of his loved home city. His charities and benevo-
lences were large and found varied avenues of concrete expression. He
served as president of Lakeside Hospital, and was a trustee of Adelbert
College, and of Western Reserve University, the Cleveland Humane
Society, the Industrial Home and other benevolent institutions. He was
for thirty years an elder and trustee of the Old Stone First Presbyterian
Church. His political allegiance was given to the republican party, and
he gave two terms of characteristically loyal and effective service as a
member of the Ohio State Senate, his first election having occurred in
1883, and he having been returned by a still larger majority in the election
of 1885.

The sudden death of Mr. Ely brought sorrow to the community in
which he had so long maintained his home, and from manifold sources
came tributes of appreciation and of sorrow, these including formal resolu-
tions by business, civic and social organizations, the church of which he
had long been a member, and countless friends having marked their
sense of loss and bereavement.

The home life of Mr. Ely was one of ideal order, and in this con-
nection his noble and lovable nature best manifested itself. His wife,
whose maiden name was Amelia Ripka, of Philadelphia, survived him.
The one surviving child, Emma R., still maintains her home in Cleveland
and is the widow of Gen. George A. Garretson, a review of whose career
is given in the preceding sketch. The son, Montague, died in Prince-
ton College in 1880, and Laura died in 1877, aged thirteen years. Two
children died in infancy.

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Barzilla L. Marble, who for many eventful years has resided at
Bedford, Ohio, was born on the historic Libby Road, near Bedford, on the
6th of February, 1851, and is the son of Levi and Mary (Richardson;
Marble, who became prominent citizens and most desirable neighbors in
this section of the state. The grandfather of Barzilla L. was Thomas
Marble, who, away back in 1832, came westward from New York State
in the old fashioned way of traveling and settled on an attractive stretch
of land on what is now Broadway and Maple Heights, about two miles
from the present site of Bedford. Though this region was then populated
with a scattered white population, all this portion of the state was wild and
rugged and here and there could be seen camps of Indians who were
steadily being driven westward to the prairies of the now "Great West."
It was in this vicinity that Thomas Marble secured a rich tract of land and
began the Herculean task of clearing off the timber and raising crops of
grain and herds of live stock. Here he passed the remainder of his life,
building up a fine farm and an enviable reputation as a superior citizen.

When Levi Marble, father of subject, was a lad of twelve years, he
was brought to Cuyahoga County and worked for some twelve years for a
farmer named Billings, whose farm is now a part of Garfield Park, learning
the arts and angles of successful agriculture. In early manhood he engaged
in the butchering business which enabled him to get a start in the financial
world of the West. Still later he engaged in the occupation of making
monuments, and engaged in other profitable business pursuits from time
to time. He became one of the leading citizens and took an active part in
the uplift of the community. He served as treasurer of Bedford Township,
which fact proves his high standing among his neighbors. He was both
industrious and successful. He passed away at the age of sixty-nine
years.

Barzilla L., during his adolescent period, received only a common school
education, but managed to supplement this standing by outside reading and
study. During the Civil war and for many years thereafter times were
hard, money scarce and evasive and all people were destitute of means to
advance in industry and literature. However, he managed to attend the
night schools for a time and there revealed his superior aptitude for mathe-
matics. At the very early age of thirteen years he began work in the old
Purdy Chair Factory under the ownership and management of Chester
Purdy and was there engaged for some time. Succeeding this experience
he managed to secure a position with the Wheelock Chair Factory Company
and was there employed during his early manhood. About the year 1871 he
was given a position with the Taylor Chair Factory Company and was
quickly promoted step by step until he occupied the important post of super-
intendent in 1880. In that capacity he mastered the problems of successful
industry and gained the utmost confidence and esteem of his employers
and his neighbors.

In 1885 he became one of the founders of the Marble & Shattuck Chair
Company, which concern began at once active operations and continued
with success until about 1895, when Mr. Marble disposed of his interests
in the company and with others organized and established the B. L. Marble
Chair Company, which is still in active existence. Under the directions
and management of Mr. Marble the company grew and expanded until in

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1901 it was duly incorporated with a capital of $50,000 and is now one of
the most important and conspicuous industrial concerns of Bedford and
even of this part of the state. It has a wide patronage over a thickly popu-
lated region, and its products are shipped to all parts of the Union. In
1913 Mr. Marble sold his interests in the company and has since lived
practically a retired life in the same old town among his acquaintances and
friends.

In 1873 he was united in marriage with Miss Mary A., daughter of
Joseph and Martha (White) Matthews, and to this wedding three children
were born: Bessie Lou, who became Mrs. I. G. Walling; Lloyd J., who
was called by death on July 2, 1907 ; and Lynn L. Their mother was given
a good education in girlhood, loved her home, but died in 1901. Mr.
Marble selected for his second wife Mrs. Ellen A. (Nelson) Hamilton,
who by her first husband was the mother of two children : Lucius E. and
Clark N. She passed away on February 20, 1920. Mr. Marble is a member
of the Masonic order, is a Knight Templar, York Rite and a thirty-second
degree Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite Mason and a member of the
Mystic Shrine. He has firmly established his enviable reputation as a
superior citizen and as an enterprising and successful business leader.

Harvey Drucker. One of the well-known citizens of Cleveland who
has won success in business and prominence in public affairs is Harvey
Drucker, public accountant and consulting tax expert, who has been a
resident of Cleveland for over twenty years. He received his early educa-i
tion in the public schools of Boston, Massachusetts. Coming to Cleveland
in 1900, he attended the Cleveland Law School for a time, and then
became a salesman for the H. C. Christy wholesale grocery company, and
while thus employed he studied law and accounting in night schools. In
1916 he engaged in business as an expert accountant, and a while later
began specializing in tax service, assisting large concerns in making out
income and other tax reports, and has developed one of the largest clien-
teles in the city, his abilities being in constant demand in that special service.

Mr. Drucker has been active and prominent in republican party affairs
since the presidential campaign of 1916, in which year he served as secre-
tary of the Charles E. Hughes League of Cuyahoga County, and as
manager of Mr. Hughes' campaign in the county. In 1918 he was
active in behalf of the candidacy of Frank B. Willis for governor, and in
1920 he was secretary of the Leonard Wood League of this county. He
also had charge in this county of the campaigns of Ralph D. Cole for
governor and of Simeon D. Fess for United States senator. He was an
alternate Coolidge delegate from the Twentieth Congressional District to
the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in 1924. His abilities
and services to the party were recognized in the republican primaries in
August, 1924, by his nomination as a candidate for Congress for the
Twentieth Congressional District.

Mr. Drucker is a member of the Tippecanoe and the Western Reserve
Clubs, the Twenty-fifth Ward Republican Club and a former vice presi-
dent of the League of Republican Clubs of Cuyahoga County and a mem-
ber of the Republican County Executive Committee. He is popular both
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circle of friends and acquaintances who esteem him for his qualities of
both heart and mind.

Mr. Drucker married Miss Evelyn R. Markowitz, who was born in
Cleveland, and they are the parents of three children : Eugene, Gwendolyn
and Alvina.

Maurice Francis Hanning, who for the past six years has been
engaged in the practice of law at Cleveland, is a native of Ohio, and
earned a favorable record as a public-spirited young citizen near the old
university town of Delaware prior to coming to Cleveland.

He was born at Delaware, Ohio, February 8, 1894, the son of Jerry S.
and Nellie A. (Kelly) Hanning. His parents were born at Delaware,
while the paternal grandparents, Maurice and Margaret Hanning, were
natives of County Kerry, Ireland. Maurice Hanning came to Ohio wheil
a young man, and was long and favorably known in Delaware. Jerry S.
Hanning and wife, who reside at Delaware, have spent most of their lives
in that community, where the father is engaged in business.

Maurice Francis Hanning attended parochial schools and the public
high school at Delaware, and continued his education in Ohio Wesley an
Academy, Ohio University and Ohio Wesleyan University, where he
graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1916, and in Ohio State University and
Western Reserve University Law School. He was graduated from the
last named with the Bachelor of Laws degree in 1919. He was admitted
to the Ohio bar in December of 1918, and since this date he has been
engaged in private practice at Cleveland.

While a young man at Delaware, Mr. Hanning served five years as
clerk of the Board of Elections and three years as chairman of the Dela-
ware Civil Service Commission. He was one of the brilliant debators of
Ohio Wesleyan University. He is a member of the Cleveland Bar Asso-
ciation, Delaware Lodge No. 76, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks,
Gilmour Council, Knights of Columbus, and Phi Delta Phi and Delta Sigma
Rho college fraternities.

Mr. Hanning married, June 9, 1920, Miss Mary M. Miller, of Colum-
bus, Ohio, daughter of Enoch and Elizabeth (O'Hara) Miller. They have
one daughter, Mary Geraldine, born August 31, 1923.

Charles Theodore Prestien, vice president of the Joseph Laronge
Company, is a former county auditor of Cuyahoga County, and has long
been favorably known in business as well as in politics in Cleveland.

He was born May 18, 1870, on the west side of the city, on old Mechanic
Street, now West Thirty-eighth Street. His parents, Frederick and IMinnie
(Rhode) Prestien, were natives of Germany, his father born in 1835 and
his mother in 1836. They were married in the old country and, coming to
the United States, settled in Cleveland in 1854. Frederick Prestien during
the greater part of his residence in Cleveland was in the service of the
Lake Shore Railway Company. He was with that company in the depot
service when the old passenger station was built. Frederick Prestien died
in 1901 and his wife in 1898.

Charles T. Prestien was educated in the public schools on the west side
of Cleveland. He was engaged in the provision business for a period of

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ten years before his entrance into official affairs. He was appointed deputy
clerk of the Police Court in 1897 and served until 1909, when he resigned,
having been elected on the republican ticket in 1908 as county auditor.
He was reelected in 1910 and in 1912 was renominated for the third time,
but in that year the entire county republican ticket went down to defeat.
Mr. Prestien after leaving the office of county auditor joined the organiza-
tion of the Joseph Laronge Company, one of Cleveland's best known real
estate organizations.

His personal aspirations for public office have been fully satisfied, but
he is still active in the republican party, working for its success and the
interest of his friends. He is a member of the Cleveland Real Estate
Board, the City and Tippecanoe clubs and the Knights of Pythias and Elks.

Mr. Prestien married Miss Johanna Muehlhauser, daughter of the late
John Muehlhauser, of Cleveland. Mrs. Prestien died April 2, 1924. Three
children were born to their marriage : Carl Frederick, who died when five
and a half years of age ; Ruth Johanna, who died at the age of ten years ;
and the surviving child is Miss Grace Theodora, who was born in 1907.

Samuel Harmsworth Volk, M. D. One of the talented younger
physicians and surgeons of Cleveland, Doctor Volk was brought to this city
as a small boy and was reared and educated in its environs.

He was born in Southern Poland, February 16, 1894, son of Benjamin
and Rose (Sloyer) Volk. His parents were of well to do families with
permanent business connections in their section of Poland. In 1901
Benjamin Volk, father of Doctor Volk, came to the United States and
located in Cleveland, and was joined by his family here on January 1, 1902.
He established a bakery on the East Side, and build up a large and pros-
perous business.

Samuel Harmsworth Volk was eight years of age when brought to
Cleveland, and had previously been schooled under private tutors in the
old country. He attended public schools in Cleveland, graduated from the
Central High School in 1912, and then entered Adelbert College, where
he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1916. He next entered the
medical department of Western Reserve University, finishing his course
and receiving his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1920. Before graduating
he was an interne in St. Alexis Hospital during 1919-20. Since graduating
he has conducted a general practice, with offices at 7804 Broadway. Much
of his work has been done in hospitals, including the St. Alexis, the East
Seventy-ninth Street, St. Clair's, and St. Anne's hospitals.

Doctor Volk is a member of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine, the
Ohio State and American Medical associations, and is affiliated with the
Knights of Pythias. He married in 1920 Miss Jessie Lefkowitz, daughter
of Herman Lefkowitz, a Cleveland business man.

William Amherst Knovvlton, M. D. One of the prominent physi-
cians and surgeons of Cleveland, with home on Warner Road, Doctor
Knowlton is a native of Cuyahoga County, and represents a family that
has supplied a number of names to the medical profession in Northern Ohio.

His grandfather. Dr. W. A. Knowlton, came from New Brunswick
to Ohio, and was a pioneer physician at Brecksville. He did his practice in

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the early days, and performed much of his riding about the country on
horseback. He remained a resident of Brecksville until his death. His
wife was a Miss Haskell, and they reared six children, named Augustus,
William A., Albert, Ellen, Caroline and Charlotte. Augustus practiced
medicine at Royalton and later at Berea, Ohio, until his death, and Wil-
liam A. also followed the profession of medicine, but is now retired and
spends his winters in Florida. He is a veteran of the Civil war.

Rev. Albert W. Knowlton, father of Dr. William Amherst Knowlton,
graduated from Adelbert College at Cleveland, later from the Lane Theo-
logical Seminary of New York, and was ordained to the Presbyterian
ministry in that city. He subsequently located at Strongville in Cuyahoga
County, where he built a beautiful home, occupied by the family for some
years. He died at the age of eighty-one. His wife was Jemina Hawes
Wight, a lineal descendant of Lord Sanderson Wight, of the well known
family of that name on the Isle of Wight. She reached the age of eighty-
seven. The children of Rev. Albert W. Knowlton and wife were: Janet,
Albert, William Amherst, Edgar H., Naomi and Jessie. The daughter
Janet has made a notable record in educational circles. She graduated
from the Woman's College at Zanesville, and for ten years taught in
Tuskegee College, and from there went west to the Pacific Coast. The
daughter Jessie married A. B. Strong, of Los Angeles.

Dr. William Amherst Knowlton was born at Strongville in Cuyahoga
County, acquired his early education in public schools, and then entered
Wooster University at Wooster, Ohio, where he pursued the classical
course for two years and then entered the Medical School, graduating
Doctor of Medicine in 1895. Doctor Knowlton for twenty-nine years has
practiced medicine and surgery, and since 1916 has been a resident of
Cleveland, where he enjoys an extensive general practice. He is a member
of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine.

He married in 1904 Miss Effie Dyer, who was born at Cambridge,
Ohio, daughter of William and Margaret Dyer. She died in 1916, and in
1918 Doctor Knowlton married Miss Pauline Smith, a native of Cleveland,
daughter of Charles and Sophie Smith.

Walter Cato Astrup. One of the successful business men and rep-
resentative citizens of the south side of the city is Walter C. Astrup,
president of the Astrup Company, one of the oldest and best known manu-
facturers of awnings, tents and awning hardware in Cleveland. He was
born in the old Astrup family residence on Twenty-fifth Street (then
Pearl), July 28, 1886, the son of the late William J. O. and Margaret G.
(Cato) Astrup.

William J. O. Astrup was born in Denmark, in 1845. and died in
Cleveland in 1917. He learned the trade of sail making in his native coun-
try, and came to the United States and to Cleveland in 1866. In 1872 he
began the manufacture of tents and awnings under his own name, beginning
in a small way and doing all his work, and that was the beginning of the
Astrup Company of the present day. Gradually, as the business grew, he
employed help, and before many years had passed his concern was one of
the leading ones of the city. In 1909 he incorporated the business under
its present name, he becoming president of the company, with his son,

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Walter C, as vice president and his son, William E., as secretary and treas-
urer, which organization continued until the deaths of the father and son,
William. Mr. Astrup was for many years regarded as one of the leading
business men and citizens of the south side, where he took an active part
in the civic affairs, lending his support to all movements which had as their
object the welfare and improvement of the community. He was a member
of Bigelow Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and took his advanced
degrees in Masonry in Scotland. It was in Aberdeen, on a visit in Scotland,
there he met and married his wife. Margaret, who was born in that city in
1848, and died in Cleveland in 1921.

Walter C. Astrup was educated in the public schools, graduating from
high school in 1904. Upon leaving school he went to work for his father,
and for the last eighteen years he has been identified with what is the
Astrup Company, for the last six years as president.

Aside from the Astrup Company, Mr. Astrup has other important
business interests. He is a member of the advisory board of the Pearl
Street Savings and Trust Company, is a member of the advisory board
of the United Bank and Trust Company, and a member of the board of
directors of the Exchange Savings and Loan Company. He is a member
of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce and of the Cleveland Chamber of
Industry, and is a member of Bigelow Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons,
the Cleveland Athletic, Cleveland Yacht, Dover Bay Country and the
Exchange clubs.

In 1910 Mr. Astrup was united in marriage with Miss Lucy Meinberg,
of Cleveland.

Frank Jauh Kern, M. D. The medical profession of the City of
Cleveland, Ohio, has long been accounted an eminent scientific body, and
this reputation was in no way lessened when its ranks were opened to
admit, in 1913, a youthful general practitioner in the person of Dr. Frank
Jauh Kern, who had already become widely known in the field of journalism,
and who since then has become a leader in scientific research.

Doctor Kern was born at Skofja, Jugoslavia, March 18, 1887. His
parents, Frank and Mary Kern, spent their entire lives in their native land,
respected and worthy people in every relation of life and faithful members
of the Catholic Church.

In the common schools of his native land Doctor Kern had the usual
educational privileges, and later very superior ones in the gymnasium at
Krainburg, Germany, where he spent six years. ^ He early cherished an ambi-
tion to come to the United States, and in 1903 circumstances made this
possible. He made his way to St. Paul, Minnesota, where he entered St.
Paul's Seminary, and there for three years he was a student of philosophy
and theology under the jurisdiction of that eminent and highly honored
prelate, the late Archbishop Ireland, who was not only reverenced and
beloved by the Roman Catholic Church, but by the country at large. Doctor
Kern in his sociological studies came under the preceptorship at St. Pauls
of Rev. John A. Ryan, who is now a member of the faculty of the Catholic
University at Washington, District of Columbia.

In 1906 the young collegian came to Cleveland to become assistant
editor of The Nova Domovina, a Slovenian newspaper, but later accepted

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the editorship of The Glasnik, a Slovenian newspaper at Calumet, Michigan.
In 1907 he returned to Cleveland as manager of The Glasnik, and in 1908
he entered Western Reserve University Medical School, from which he
was graduated in 1912 with his medical degree, a most worthy achievement
reflecting great credit upon his studious habits. He served for a time as an
interne in Charity Hospital, Cleveland, and then entered into general
medical practice, and has become well known in this field in city and county
to the general public, and deeply interesting to his brother practitioners
here and elsewhere because of his scientific investigations. Doctor Kern
is a pioneer in the use of ultra-violet ray therapy in Ohio, and his learned
article entitled "Actino Therapy in General Practice : with Case Histories,"
which appeared in the Ohio State Medical Journal in April, 1922, met with
medical approval and opened up much interesting and scientifically valuable
discussion.

Doctor Kern married, at Calumet, Michigan, Miss Agnes Wertin, who
was born at Calumet and is a daughter of Matthias Wertin, who came from
Europe to the TJnited States in 1864 and became a pioneer in the copper
region of Michigan. Doctor and Mrs. Kern have three children, Francis,
Edward and Ella, aged respectively, nine, eight and six years.

Doctor Kern is a member of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine, the
Ohio State Medical Association, and the American Medical Association.
He is supreme medical examiner for the largest Slovenian Benefit Society
in the world, at Chicago, Illinois, which has a membership that numbers
35,000. In addition to his other work and study Doctor Kern is an author
and compiler, and his English-Slovene Dictionary, issued in 1919, is a com-
prehensive work and the only complete one of its kind ever published. He
is not only held in great respect professionally, but is much esteemed per-
sonally, an educated, courteous gentleman, never forgetful of his native
land, but appreciative of the blessings of his adopted country.

Abraham B. Grossman, A. B., M. D., whose loyal stewardship is
shown not only in his able and successful professional ministrations but
also in effective civic and welfare work in his native city, was born and
reared on Lorain Avenue, on the West Side of Cleveland. The Doctor is
a son of Benjamin and Rose (Gelb) Grossman, who were born in Hungary
and whose marriage was solemnized in Cleveland, where the father became
a successful merchant and honored and influential citizen. Benjamin
Grossman was born in the year 1859, and was about twenty-four years old
at the time the family home was established in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1883.
Here he passed the remainder of his life, his death having occurred in
1908. His widow, who was born in 1863, was reared and educated in her
native land and came to the United States in 1882, in which year she
became a resident of Cleveland, where she still maintains her home.

Doctor Grossman was born August 24, 1889. and in the public schools
he continued his studies until his graduation from the West Side High
School in 1907. In 1911 he was graduated from Adelbert College
of the Western Reserve University, from w^iich he received the degree
of Bachelor of Arts, and in the medical department of the same
university he was graduated as a member of the class of 1914. After
having thus received his degree of Doctor of Medicine he found further

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technical reinforcement through the service which he gave, 1916-17, as
an interne in the Michael Reese Hospital in the City of Chicago. He then
engaged in general practice in his native city, but his private niterests were
soon subordinated to the call of patriotism, when the nation became in-
volved in the World war. In August, 1917, the Doctor received com-
mission as a lieutenant in the Medical Reserve Corps of the United States
Army, his preliminary training having been received at Fort Benjamin
Harrison, Indiana. He was later assigned to service with the Three Hun-
dred and Thirty-second United States Infantry at Camp Sherman, Ohio,
and later he was in service as surgeon at Camp Perry, this state, and Camp
Merritt, New Jersey. In June, 1918, he embarked with his command at
Hoboken, New Jersey, and set forth for overseas service. The regiment
landed at Liverpool, England, and the Doctor was thence sent to the
training camp at Chaumont, France, then the headquarters of General
Pershing. Six weeks later he was assigned to duty on the Piave front in
Italy, and he took part in the great Italian offensive movement against
Austria. He remained on that sector six weeks, and was there when thd
Austrian-Italian armistice was signed. From Italy he was ordered to
Jugo-Slavia and assigned to service with the Army of Occupation in con-
trol of Dalmatia, Montenegro, Serbia and Albania. While in Italy
Doctor Grossman received promotion to the rank of captain, and he con-
tinued in service overseas until April 29, 1919, when he embarked for the
voyage to his homeland. At Camp Sherman, Ohio, the Doctor received
his honorable discharge, on the 20th of May, 1919, and he then resumed
the active practice of medicine in Cleveland, where he mantains his office
at 7828 St. Clair Avenue. Doctor Grossman is a member of the stafif of
Mount Sinai Hospital, with assignment to the pediatric department, is
physician in charge of the Jewish Orphans Home, and also of the Welfare
Association for Jewish Children. He is a member of the Cleveland
Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State Medical Society, the Cleveland
Clinical Club, and the American Medical Association. He is affiliated
with the Zeta Beta Tau and the Phi Delta Epsilon college fraternities, is
an appreciative and popular member of the American Legion, and is loyal
and zealous in his service in connection with general civic and welfare
work. He is an active member of B'nai Jeshurum Temple.

August Haffner. One of the well-known insurance men of Cleve-
land, and particularly of the St. Clair Avenue district, is August HaflFner,
who has built up a large and prosperous clientele.

Mr. Hafifner was born in the town of Laibach of Jugo Slavia, Europe,
August 7, 1885, and is a son of the late Peter and Mary (Dezman) Haflfner.
both of whom passed their entire lives in their native land, where they died.
In the town of his birth August Haffner was given the advantages of a
public school education, and there also he mastered the trade of cabinet
maker. He was eighteen years of age when he decided to seek his fortune
in the United States, and on his arrival in the country he located at Cleve-
land. Here he soon found employment at his trade, and during the next
four years applied himself to learning the language of his adopted land
and to further preparing himself for a business career. Naturally ambi-
tious, when the offer came he accepted a position as bookkeeper and teller

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of the Franklin Savings and Banking Company, in March, 1907, and on
October 11 of the same year transferred his services to the branch bank
of the Cleveland Trust Company at East Fortieth Street and St. Clair
Avenue, in the capacity of teller. While thus engaged Mr. Hafifner
became interested in insurance, and September 15, 1916, resigned his posi-
tion at the bank and opened a general insurance office at 6106 St. Clair
Avenue, where he has since been located. In 1919 Mr. Haffner became
one of the organizers of the North American Banking and Savings Com-
pany, with Dr. J. M. Seliskar, Francis M. Jaksic and others, and was made
its first treasurer, as well as a member of the Board of Directors and of
the executive committee. He remained as such until August 15, 1920,
when he resigned his official connection with this institution because his
insurance business claimed his attention to the exclusion of all other
matters. He is a member of the Cleveland Insurance Agency, of which he
was one of the incorporators, a member of the Ohio Association of Insur-
ance Agents and a member of the Cleveland Fire Insurance Club.

On June 11, 1907, Mr. Hafifner married Miss Mary Grdina, daughter
of John Grdina, a Cleveland business man.

Frank Joseph Svoboda. One of the prominent newspaper men of
Cleveland is Frank J. Svoboda, founder, owner and publisher of The
American, the leading Czechoslovak daily newspaper of Cleveland, and
one of the most influential and prosperous foreign language publications
in the United States

Mr. Svoboda was born in Bohemia, on May 1, 1874, and came to
Cleveland direct from the old country in 1884. Here he finished his educa-
tion in the parochial and night schools, working in a job printing shop
during a part of that period, thus mastering the fundamentals of the
printing trade. Leaving school, he found employment as compositor and
proofreader on a Bohemian newspaper for four years, and in 1893 he
opened a small job printing office of his own, doing work in the evenings.

In 1899 he established The American, starting its publication on limited
means, but with unlimited confidence in himself and the future, and the
success of the enterprise has fully demonstrated that both the man and
project fully warranted the undertaking, for, starting without advertising
or circulation prestige, Mr. Svoboda built up one of the leading newspapers
of Cleveland, one which is a real factor in the afifairs of the city, especially
in the affairs of the large Bohemian population of Cleveland and of the
state.

Recently, when The American celebrated its twenty-first anniversary,
a special photogravure edition of eighty-six pages was issued, containing
twenty-four full-page advertisements, together with the history of Czecho-
slovaks in Cleveland, which was embellished with the portraits and biog-
raphies of many of the pioneer and prominent Bohemian citizens of
Cleveland. Three thousand copies of the edition were mailed to Czecho-
slovakia in order that the people of that country might know and appreciate
the influence of an American newspaper in their language.

While the United States was engaged in the World war Mr. Svoboda
gave all possible assistance to the Government, especiallv in giving publicity
through his paper to the sale of all bonds and securities. He is affiliated

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with the various Bohemian organizations, is active in municipal affairs, is
a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, the City Club and the
Knights of Columbus.

Mr. Svoboda is married and has two daughters and three sons, one of
his daughters being the wife of Dr. Frank Stovicek, the other daughter
being a student at Ursuline College.

William Hughes. One of the best examples of the self-reliant, self-
made and successful business men of Cleveland, William Hughes has
achieved a well deserved popularity while laying the foundations for his
present prosperity. He was born in Cambridgeshire, England, September
29, 1875, a son of the late Samuel W. and Mary (Smith) Hughes, both
natives of Cambridgeshire, where he was born in 1836, a son of a farmer
and cattle buyer, and he followed in the same lines of business, becoming
prominently identified with the livestock and slaughtering business in Cam-
bridgeshire. Meeting, however, with business reverses, he decided to seek
a new home in America, and in 1881, with his wife and seven children, he
came to this country. He first located in Warrensville Township, and by
degrees returned to the livestock and slaughtering business, and from 1884
until his death he was an active figure in the industry. In 1906 he moved
to Cleveland, and in 1909 became a member, with his sons, of the Hughes
Provision Company. His death occurred in 1910, but his widow survived
him until 1922, when she died at the age of seventy-six years. To them
were born the following children, all of whom are living: Jennie, who
was born in England, married Edward Castle, and resides at East Cleve-
land; Clara, who was born in England, married Frank Judson, and resides
at Cleveland ; Ada, who was born in England, married Harry Bates, and
they reside at Cleveland ; Carrie, who was born in England, married John
Gibbs, and resides at Lakewood, Ohio ; Ernest, who was born in England,
rharried Libbie Crane, and resides at Lakewood ; William, whose name
heads this review ; Maude, who was born in England, married Frank Day,
and resides at Cleveland ; John, who was born in America, married Emma
Schermeier, and resides at Cleveland ; Ruble, who was born in the United
States, married Howard Cole, and resides at Akron, Ohio ; and Oliver, who
was born in the United States, married Ella Hopperlin, and resides at
Cleveland.

William Hughes was a boy of six years when he was brought by his
parents from England. He attended the public schools at Warrensville,
and from the time he was old enough until his eighteenth year he assisted
his father in buying and slaughtering livestock. In 1893 he began buying
and selling livestock for the Cleveland market on his own account, and
later was in partnership for two years with his brother-in-law, Edward
Castle. In 1898 he sold his business and went to the gold fields of Alaska,
accompanying a Cleveland party of thirty-five, and spent a year and seven
months in those regions. Returning from Alaska in 1899, he engaged in
the buying and slaughtering business in partnership with his brother-in-
law, John Gibbs, and in 1901 he again engaged in the same business on his
own account, killing at the Cleveland stockyards, and so continued until
1909, when he, with his brothers, organized the Hughes Provision Com-
pany, and bought the plant of the Retail Butchers' Association. Since 1921

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Mr. Hughes has been president of this company, his associates being his
brother John, George Hockey, J. L. Bestricky, A. E. Dressier, Hugo
Hofifman and Earl Hughes, the latter his son. AH of the above mentioned
gentlemen are on the Board of Directors of the company. The plant, one
of the large ones in the packing house district, is absolutely modern in
equipment both for slaughtering and for preparing the meats for the
market. The company also maintains large retail markets at Akron,
Canton and Youngstown, Ohio, and the annual business of this concern
aggregates over $1,500,000.

Mr. Hughes is a member and former director of the Cleveland Chamber
of Industry, and he and his wife are members of the Franklin Circle
Church of Christ.

In 1900 Mr. Hughes married Dora Pratt, w^ho was born at Cleveland,
a daughter of the late Dr. Frederick and Dora (McDonald) Pratt. They
have one son. Earl William, born April 26, 1901, who is a director in the
Hughes Provision Company. He married Marion Rye, of Cleveland.

Clifford Norton, who for many years has been actively identified
with the photographic profession in Cleveland, is a native of that city and
member of an old pioneer family of Cuyahoga County.

He was born in the family residence at old Root Street in Cleveland,
son of Walter Norton, who was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1836, and
grandson of Capt. James Norton. Capt. James Norton was a noted mariner
on the Great Lakes in pioneer times, and at one time was on the first steam-
boat on the Great Lakes, the "Walk in the Water." He brought his family
to Cleveland in 1841. At that time Cleveland derived its importance
almost entirely from its situation as a port on Lake Erie and as a com-
mercial and supply center for the country behind it. There was no manu-
facturing. Captain Norton purchased land now included within the city
limits, and he farmed and grazed land now covered with dwellings and
business blocks. He lived in the city until his death. He married a widow,
whose maiden name was Gorham. She was born in New York State, and,
surviving her husband, reached the venerable age of ninety-seven years.

Walter Norton was educated in the city schools of Cleveland, and after
leaving school worked in the ore docks. He resigned his position there as
superintendent to enlist in Shields Nineteenth Ohio Battery, and was with
this command in many battles of the war. After his honorable discharge
he returned home, followed several occupations, and for twenty-five years
was an employe of the Standard Oil Company. He died at the age of
seventy-eight. His wife, Hannah Francisco, was born at Boat Creek.
New York, and also died at the age of seventy-eight, though surviving her
husband. They reared five children : Samuel Gorham, \\'alter Francisco,
Nellie (wife of Franklin B. Hall), Guy Payne and Cliflford.

CHfford Norton as a boy attended the old Bolton Avenue School and
Central High School. After finishing his education he went to work for
the W. Bingham Company, remaining with that business six years. He
then took up photography, and for many years has conducted one of the
best known studios in the city. He married in 1914 a Miss Irene Marie
Alexander, a native of Cleveland, and daughter of John W. and Ann
(Degnan) Alexander. They have three children: Jane Rita, Elizabeth
Ann and Donald Alexander.

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Carl H. Brown is proprietor of one of the oldest undertaking services
in the City of Cleveland, a business that was established more than eighty-
five years ago, and in which the Brown family has been continuously active
for over sixty years.

Carl H. Brown was born at the Brown family home in Cleveland, on
old Dodge Street. His father, Jacob H. Brown, was born at Utica, New
York, in 1843. The grandfather, Charles H. Brown, was also a native
of Utica, New York, and in one branch his ancestry ran back to the May-
flower. Charles H. Brown was a tailor by trade, and about 1860 came to
and established his home at Cleveland, where he was engaged in business
for several years and lived retired until his death at the age of eighty-four.
Charles H. Brown married Susan Hayes, who reached the age of eighty-
two.

Jacob H. Brown was reared and received his early education in Utica,
and was about seventeen years of age when he came to Cleveland. He
soon became associated as a partner with Daniel Doty, a pioneer under-
taker of Cleveland, who had established his business prior to 1837, since
in the city directory of that year his place of business is noted as occupying
the site of the Rose Building on East Ninth Street. Jacob H. Brown was
actively identified wth the undertaking business until 1911, when he retired
and his death occurred in January, 1921. He married Frances Van Ness,
who was born at Utica, New York, in 1845. Her father, John Van Ness,
was also a native of Utica, and of old Holland Dutch ancestry. John Van
Ness established his home at Cleveland about 1865, and for some years
was associated with Jacob H. Brown in the undertaking business, and
afterward lived retired. John Van Ness married Catherine Cutler, and
both of them reached a good old age. Mrs. Jacob H. Brown died in 1899,
having reared four children, Ida, Bessie, Carl H. and Ralph. Ida, now
deceased, married Frank NefT. Bessie died at the age of eighteen years.
Ralph is in the real estate business at Cleveland.

Carl H. Brown attended the public schools of Cleveland, including the
University School, and as a young man began assisting his father in the
undertaking business. When his father retired he was well qualified both
in a technical and in a business way to be his successor, and under him the
service has been continually improved and its facilities measure up to the
reputation the firm has so long enjoyed.

In 1901 Mr. Brown married Miss May Clements, daughter of Robert
J. and Catherine Clements. Their two children are Frances and Carl, Jr.
lAr. Brown is prominently known among Ohio funeral directors, being a
member of the Ohio State Undertakers' Association. He is active in the
various Masonic bodies, including the Scottish Rite Consistory, and be-
longs to the Exchange Club, the Acacia Country Club and the Athletic
Club and Civic Club.

Hon. Henry George Reitz, well-known citizen and civil engineer
of Cleveland, was born on the family homestead farm in Rockport
Township, Cuyahoga County, on the 14th of January, 1883, the place
of his birth being now within the city limits of Cleveland, in the district
known as West Park. His grandparents on the paternal side were Peter
G. and Barbara (Lehr) Reitz, who came from Germanv to the United

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States on a sailing vessel in 1842, and who landed in the Port of New
York City, whence they came to Cuyahoga County. The grandfather
purchased land in Rockport Township, developed a productive farm and
continued farming during the remainder of his life, both he and his
wife having died on the old homestead.

On the farm above mentioned the birth of John G. Reitz, father of
Henry G., occurred in the year 1855, and there he was reared to man-
hood, his educational advantages having been those of the schools of
the locality and period. He continued his activities as a farmer in his
native township until about the year 1912, when he retired from active
farming. He served two terms as township trustee and two terms as
a member of the village council of West Park. He and his wife were
members of the Protestant Evangelical Church in their community, and
he served forty years as its treasurer. He died in June, 1922. He mar-
ried Mary S. Barthelman, who was born on Puritas Road, Rockport
Township, in 1858, and she survives her husband. Of the children,
Henry G., of this review, is the eldest ; Frederick William owns and
operates a greenhouse at North Olmsted, this county ; Anna K. remains
with her widowed mother; and the youngest of the number is John
C, who is now associated with his eldest brother, Henry G., as a member
of the Henry G. Reitz Engineering Company.

John C. Reitz was graduated from the Case School of Applied Sciences,
as a member of the class of 1913, with the degree of Civil Engineer. He
served with the United States military forces on the Mexican border, and
in the World war he was for ten months in service with the American
Expeditionary Forces in France, he having received commission as cap-
tain. He was for some time engineer for the City of West Park.

Henry G. Reitz was born in the same house as was his father and
was reared on the old home farm. He was a member of the first class
to be graduated in the West Park High School, in 1901. In 1906 he
received from Case School of Applied Sciences the degree of Bachelor
of Science, and in 1913 that institution conferred upon him also the
degree of Civil Engineer. The first engineering service given by
Mr. Reitz was with the engineering department of the City of Cleve-
land, with which he continued his connection twelve years. In 1917 he
became village engineer of West Park, and in 1919 he was elected mayor
of that village, whch obtained a city charter in 1921, and of which he
became the first mayor under the charter. He was the incumbent of
this office at the time when West Park became a part of the City of
Cleveland, and thus he has the distinction of having been the first and
the last mayor of the little City of West Park.

Mr. Reitz was one of the organizers and is secretary and treasurer
of the Riverside Greenhouse Company; he was one of the organizers
and is a director of the Cleveland Motor Car Sales Company; he is
treasurer of the Thrift Savings & Loan Company, in the organization
of which he assisted ; and was one of the organizers of the United
Greenhouse Company, and treasurer of the company.

Mr. Reitz is a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, the
Cleveland Chamber of Industry, the American Society of Civil Engineers,
the American Association of Engineers, the Cleveland Engineering Soci-

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ety, the Cleveland Yacht Club, the Lakewood Country Club, the Western
Reserve Club, the League of Republican Clubs, and the Protestant
Emmanuel Evangelical Church. He is a member of North Star Lodge
No. 638, Free and Accepted Masons; West Park Chapter No. 214, Royal
Arch Masons (of which he was high priest in 1920) ; Forest City Council
No. Ill, Royal and Select Masters; Forest City Commandery No. 40,
Knights Templar ; Lake Erie Consistory, Scottish Rite (thirty-second
degree); Al Koran Temple, Mystic Shrine; Al Sirat Grotto; the Tall
Cedars of Lebanon, and the Order of Rameses.

On June 7, 1911, Mr. Reitz married Miss Clara Herthneck, daughter
of John and Christina (Baumgardner) Herthneck, of Brooklyn Town-
ship, Cuyahoga County, and to them two daughters have been born, Edna
Jayne and Jeanne Clare.

John F. Goldenbogen, county commissioner of Cuyahoga County, has
been in close touch with public affairs in Cleveland for many years, and is
widely known as a leader and prominent influence in the republican party
of his home county and state. His official record has been one marked
throughout by the highest efficiency and fidelity.

Mr. Goldenbogen has spent practically all his life in Cleveland, though
he was born in Germany, September 8, 1864, and was brought to this
country in 1866 by his parents, Frederick and Frederica (Wismar) Golden-
bogen. They settled in Brooklyn Township, now the Seventh Ward of the
City of Cleveland. Frederick Goldenbogen was a car builder by trade.
For a number of years he was qnployed in the shops of the old Atlantic
and Western, now the Erie Railroad. Subsequently he was a foreman for
the old Six Cent Street Railway. When electric power was substituted
for the operation of that street car line he resigned. His death occurred
in 1916, and his wife died when her son John was a small boy.

John F. Goldenbogen acquired a public school education. When in
his eighteenth year he went to work in the shipping department of the
Peck, Stowe & Wilson Company, and two years later went with J. Herig &
Sons, leaving there to become a clerk in the freight department of the Erie
Railway at Cleveland. During the thirteen years he was in the railroad
service he was several times promoted, and when he resigned was pre-
sented with a handsome token of the high regard of his fellow employes
and superiors.

In the meantime he had interested himself in public affairs and was
building up a large personal influence in politics. In 1892 he was elected
clerk of the Cleveland Board of Education, and served until a change
occurred in the political makeup of the board. Following that he went to
the City of Washington to become superintendent of the Document Room
of the United States Senate, and held that office until 1908. He was
appointed by his personal friend, the late Senator J. B. Foraker. On his
return to Cleveland Mr. Goldenbogen was appointed clerk of the Board of
County Commissioners, serving until January 1, 1915, when a change in
politics of the board let him out. In January, 1915, he was elected secre-
tary of the South Brooklyn Business Men's Association, and after several
years in that work was appointed deputy auditor by Auditor Zangerle.

In 1922 the probate judge, county auditor and county recorder selected

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Mr. Goldenbogen as a county commissioner to fill out th-e unexpired term
of Fred Kohler, who had resigned to become mayor of Cleveland. He
served under the appointment until the next general election in August,
1922, v^hen he was chosen to fill out the unexpired term, until January 1.
1925.

Mr. Goldenbogen has a most interesting record of service in the repub-
lican party of Cleveland, Cuyahoga County and the state. As a young man
he was elected a member of the Republican County Central Committee,
serving three years. He is a charter member of the Tippecanoe Club, and
has served as president of the Ohio League of Republican Clubs, secretary
of the McKinley Club, treasurer of the South Side Republican Club,
treasurer of the Young Men's Republican Club, secretary of the Repub-
lican Committee of Cuyahoga County and has been a delegate to various
county and state republican conventions.

Mr. Goldenbogen is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, the Benevo-
lent and Protective Order of Elks, the National Union and the American
Insurance Union. Mr. Goldenbogen married Miss Minnie Wendell,
daughter of Karl Wendell, who came to Cleveland from Chicago, where
Mrs. Goldenbogen was born. To their union have been born the following
children: Arthur, who married a Miss Schaaf, of Cleveland; Florence,
who married Rudolph Groege, of Cleveland; John F., Jr., who married
Bertha Booth, of West Jefiferson, Ohio, and Miss Grace, at home.

Harvey Elmer Yoder, M. D. Among those whose names have figured
prominently in connection with the medical profession of Cleveland during
the past two decades and whose labors have proved most valuable and
effective both in private practice and in hospital work is Dr. Harvey Elmer
Yoder, whose career is typical of modern progress and advancement. Since
1904 his professional service has been discharged with a keen sense of
conscientious obligation, and his skill is evidenced through results which
have followed his labors.

Doctor Yoder was born on the old Yoder farm near North Industry,
Stark County, Ohio, March 20, 1877, and is a son of Samuel and jMollie
(Schaefifer) Yoder. Samuel Yoder was born in Wayne County, Ohio,
September 17, 1843, the son of Eli Yoder, a native of Pennsylvania, who
was a pioneer of Wayne County, as well as of Stark County, to which latter
he removed when Samuel Yoder was still a boy. Samuel Yoder, in early
days, was a merchant at North Industry, but in the main has been engaged
in agricultural operations, and his farm is one of the best improved prop-
erties in Stark County. He is a man of good citizenship, personal probity
and public spirit, and has the full confidence and esteem of the people
of his community, who have recognized and appreciate his numerous good
qualities. The mother of Doctor Yoder was born on a farm in Stark
County, January 31, 1848, the daughter of an early settler of the North
Industry neighborhood, and she died in 1920. Her mother was a native of
Strasburg, France, who came to the United States when she was a girl of
twelve years.

Harvey Elmer Yoder was reared on the old homestead, and in the mean-
time acquired his primary education in the district school in the neighbor-
hood of the home place and the public school at North Industry. In

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September, 1895, he entered Hiram College, where he took his high school
course and one year of college work, and then spent one year at the Ohio
State University. Four years at the Western Reserve Medical School fol-
lowed, and in 1904 he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine.
'On leaving the university he spent one year as interne at St. Johns Hos-
pital, Cleveland, and then entered general practice in the offices which he
now occupies at 8900 Lorain Avenue, corner of Eighty-ninth Street. He
has built up a large and representative practice, and has been given the
confidence of the people of his community ^ while from his professional
brethren he has received the respectful treatment given only to those who
■observe the highest ideals of the profession. Doctor Yoder is a member
■of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State Medical Society
•and the American Medical Association. Fraternally he is affiliated with
•Guyer Lodge No. 728, Knights of Pythias, and the Phi Rho Sigma college
fraternity. His religious connection is with Bethany congregation of the
Evangelical Lutheran Church. On October 29, 1918, Doctor Yoder was
•commissioned a first lieutenant in the United States Army Medical Corps,
and was on duty at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, when the armistice was
signed marking the close of hostilities.

Doctor Yoder was united in marriage with Miss Blanche Lash, daughter
of David F. Lash, of Bolivar, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and they have two
daughters: Doris Ruth, who was born December 16, 1915; and Virginia
Eleanor, who was born May 28, 1917. The pleasant family residence of
-Doctor and Mrs. Yoder is located at No. 2141 West Ninety-eighth Street.

Ernst C. Schwan, whose offices are in the Cuyahoga Building, is one
'of the veteran members of the Cleveland bar, a man distinguished by his
professional attainments, by his earnest and high minded citizenship and
vthe scholarly talents that are a tradition in his family.

Mr. Schwan was born in the old Schwan family home on Oregon
Street, near East Ninth Street, in Cleveland. He is a son of the late
Henry C. Schwan, who was born at Horneburg, near Hanover, Germany,
in 1819. Mr. Schwan's father and grandfather were Lutheran ministers.
Henry C. Schwan was a graduate of the University of Jena, was ordained
to the Lutheran ministry, and was soon sent as a missionary to South
America, being stationed at Bahia in Brazil, where he remained until 1848.
Coming to the United States by sailing vessel, he landed at New Orleans
and by boat came up the Mississippi River to St. Louis, where he assumed
his duties as a Lutheran pastor.

Rev. Henry C. Schwan came to Cleveland in 1857, and for upwards of
half a century was a resident of the city, and became one of the most promi-
nent men in the Lutheran Church of America. He was for nearly twenty
years pastor of the St. Zion Lutheran Evangelical Church, resigning the
pastorate in 1876 when he was elected president of the Lutheran Synod
of Missouri, Ohio and other states, the jurisdiction of which included all
of the United States and Canada. However, he retained his residence in
Cleveland and remained as president of the synod until 1904, when he
retired. The death of this eminent official of the Lutheran Church occurred
■in 1905.

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father had come from Germany and settled in Brazil, where he became
owner of a large coffee plantation near Bahia, operating with slave labor.
His descendants are still living in Brazil. Mrs. Henry C. Schwan died in
1915. She reared a family of eight children: Paul, Louis M., Ernst C,
Charles J., George H., Fred, Emma and Hannah. George H. Schwan
has had many of the honors of the legal profession, having been respectively
United States commissioner, judge of the PoHce Court and judge of the
Common Pleas Court. He has long been a member of the firm of E. C. &
George H. Schwan. Ernst C. Schwan first attended the Lutheran parochial
schools in Cleveland, then the, public schools and the Lutheran College at
Fort Wayne, Indiana. On returning to Cleveland he took up the study of
law in the office of Leonard Case and later with Judge Cleveland, and was
admitted to the bar in 1877. He has been continuously in practice since
that year, and has successfully looked after the interests of a large clientage.
He is a member of the Cleveland Bar Association and served four years
on the City Council.

He married in 1877 Katherine Faust, a native of Cleveland. Mr. and
Mrs. Schwan are the parents of six children. Ernst H., Lottie, Agnes,.
Ethel, Vera and Theodore. The son Ernst married a Miss Wannamaker,
and their three children are Philip, Susan and Katherine. Lottie is the wife
of Charles Herzer, their four children being Miriam, Ernst Karl, Robert
and Charles. Agnes married Edward Parshall and has a son James, and
the family live in Hudson, Ohio. Ethel is the wife of Rev. Harry Bergen,
their two children being Robert and Jay. Vera married C. W. Cuddy, and
is living in Boston, Massachusetts.

Walter Martin Bucher, B. S., M. D. Among the successful
members of the Cleveland medical profession who have won high standing
both as physicians and surgeons and also as worth-while men and citi-
zens is Dr. Walter M. Bucher, who has been in the private practice of
his profession for the last ten years.

He was born at Tiffin, Ohio, on June 5, 1886, the son of C. Theo-
dore and Anna (Liechti) Bucher, both natives of Switzerland. His
father was born in 1840, and came to the United States when he was
a young man of twenty-two years, his first location being at St. Louis,.
Missouri, where he met his wife, who was born in 1844, and came to
this country when she was sixteen years of age. They were married
in St. Louis in 1872. Later they made their home in Tiffin, Ohio, where
on September 20, 1922, they celebrated their golden wedding anniversary.
For many years the father was engaged in structural iron work, but
is now retired from active business life. The parents are members of
the Reformed Church.

Doctor Bucher was reared at Tiffin, and was graduated from high
school in 1903. He was graduated from Heidelberg University, Bachelor
of Science, with the class of 1907, and then entered the medical depart-
ment of Western Reserve University, where he was graduated Doctor
of Medicine with the class of 1911. During the years of 1910 and 1911
he served as interne at Fairview Hospital, Cleveland, and during the
years of 1911 and 1912 he served in the same capacity in Cleveland
City Hospital. In 1913 he was given charge of the Warrensville Tuber-

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culosis Sanatorium, and from 1914 to 1922 he was medical inspector of
the city schools of Cleveland, from which latter position he resigned in
order to give all of his time to private practice, which by that time had
grown to such extent that it required his undivided attention.

Doctor Bucher is a member of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine, the
Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He
is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha college fraternity, Ellbrook Lodge,
Free and Accepted Masons ; John K. Corwin Chapter, Royal Arch Ma-
sons ; Forest City Commandery, Knights Templar ; Al Koran Temple,
Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine ; the Grotto, and of
South Brooklyn Lodge, Knights of Pythias, and Glenn Lodge, Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, and of the Eighth Reformed Church. He is
also a member of the Cleveland Athletic Club and of Sleepy Hollow
Country Club.

Doctor Bucher married Miss Rena Richards, the daughter of Judge
and Jenny (Harding) Richards, of Clyde, Ohio, and to them two daugh-
ters have been born: Betty, born in 1918, and Joan, born in 1922.

IsiDOR C. NuNN conducts at 2041 East Eighty-ninth Street an under-
taking business that has been in three successive generations of the family
at different locations in Cleveland.

Isidor C. Nunn was born at his father's home on Woodland Avenue
in Cleveland. His grandfather was born in Baden, Germany, was reared
and educated there, served an apprenticeship at the cabinet maker's trade,
and in 1851 came to the United States by a sailing vessel that was forty-two
days on the water. He landed in New York and soon came to Cleveland.
He followed his trade as a cabinet maker. At that time the cabinet maker
was almost invariably a coffin maker, since coffins were then ordered as
needed from some local cabinet making shop. In time he established him-
self in business as a coffin maker on Lorain Street in what was then Ohio
City, and subsequently combined the service of an undertaker. He is now
living retired at the venerable age of ninety-two. His wife was a Miss
Miller, also a native of Baden, Germany, and she died many years ago.

One of their nine children is John I. Nunn, who was born in Cleveland
in 1860, and as a youth began assisting his father and later started in busi-
ness on his own account on Woodland, near Wilson Avenue, a property
he leased from John D. Rockefeller. The Nunn undertaking quarters
were on Woodland Avenue for a number of years and subsequently were
moved to 2347 East Fifty-fifth Street, and later to 2041 East Eighty-ninth
Street. John I. Nunn married Mary Lenze, a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsyl-
vania, and daughter of Casper and Theresa (Knowles) Lenze, who came
to this country from Alsace-Lorraine. John I. Nunn and wife had four
children: Isidor C, Alardus J., Olga and Wanda. Alga married Peter
Murphy, and Wartda is the wife of Chester Gynn.

Isidor C. Nunn was educated in public and parochial schools, including
the Central High School at Cleveland, and finished his literary education
in Notre Dame University at South Bend, Indiana. For one year he
studied law in Cleveland, but gave up further progress in that profession
to become associated with his father in the undertaking business, and is
now the manager of the establishment on Eighty-ninth Street.

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In 1910 he married Miss Anna L. Richard, who was born at Ripley,
Ohio, daughter of Emil P. and Elizabeth Richard. They have three chil-
dren, John R., Robert C. and WiUiam. Fraternally he is affiliated with the
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Fraternal Order of Eagles
and the Loyal Order of Moose.

Giuseppe Tanno, M. D. A Cleveland physician and surgeon engaged
in practice here for nearly twenty years. Doctor Tanno has also been a
leader among his Italian countrymen in this city.

He was born in Rapalimosani, Italy, March 12, 1877, a son of Luigi
and Lucia (lammarino) Tanno. His parents came to America in 1908,
and spent the rest of their lives in Cleveland, where his mother died in
1913 and his father in 1918.

Doctor Tanno was liberally educated in Italy, attending the gymnasium
or high school of his native city, and in 1902 received the degree in medicine
from the University of Naples. He soon afterward came to the United
States and Cleveland, in 1903, and in 1904 successfully passed the Ohio
State Medical Board of Examiners and in the same year engaged in gen-
eral practice at Cleveland. His offices from the beginning have been at
12110 Mayfield Road. For a number of years he has had a reputation as
a specialist in obstetrics. He is a member of the various medical societies
and is prominent in the Order of the Sons of Italy. In religion he is a
Catholic.

Doctor Tanno married Miss Lettzia lammarino, a native of Italy. They
have four children, Lucy, Louis, Anthony and Rose.

A brother and active associate in medical practice at Cleveland of Dr. G.
Tanno is Victor Lucius Tanno. He was born March 4, 1892, and came
to America in boyhood. He finished his medical education in Western
Reserve University in 1918 and at once became associated with his brother.
He is a member of the ear, nose and throat staff at the Lakeside Hospital
Dispensary and belongs to the various medical associations and the Order of
the Sons of Italy.

John Wesley Stone. The career of John Wesley Stone, one of
Cleveland's successful merchants, was for years a progressive overcoming
of difficulties, and a gradual advancement and improvement of his abilities
for the responsibilities of the next higher plane. Mr. Stone for thirty
years was in business in Cleveland, coming here after spending several years
in general merchandising.

He was born at Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio, June 22. 1865. son of
Richard R. and Elizabeth (Winemiller) Stone. His father was born in
Canada, of English parents. His mother was a native of Ohio, of German
ancestry. Richard R. Stone came to Ohio in I860, and married in Ashland
County, but subsequently returned to Canada.

John Wesley Stone in 1872 returned to Ohio from Toronto. Canada,
and for several years made his home with his maternal grandfather. Jacob
Winemiller, who lived on a farm between Galion and Alansfield. At the
age of ten years Mr. Stone went to the home of James Crow in the same
neighborhood. With this man it was arranged that he was to work for
wages of eight dollars a month during the summer, and while attending

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school in the winter would pay his board by doing chores. That winter he
walked night and morning to a country school house two miles away. The
following spring he was working on the farm of Jacob Fletcher in the
same neighborhood, at wages of .$12 a month, and with similar school privi-
leges, though with his new employer he had to walk three and one-half
miles to school. In 1878, being then thirteen years of age, he went to
work for L. T. Ross, a farmer in Lorain County. Mr. Ross paid him $15
a month, and during the winter he milked cows for a dairy farmer for his
board and schooling. The year 1879 found him on the farm of E. C.
Winchel, a mile and one-half from Wellington, and during the next winter
he attended the Wellington High School. During the summer he worked
on the farm of William P. Ledgard in Lorain County, and in the fall went
to live with his uncle, Samuel Davis, at Ashland, and during the winter
completed a course and received a diploma at the Ashland Business College.
While in college he worked on Saturdays in the dry good store of J. J,
Shumacher, who later offered him a permanent place in the store. He
remained with that establishment a year and a half, spending much of
his spare time in the office of Doctor Sampsell, reading medicine. At that
time he was making an efifort by experiment to determine a permanent
choice between a professional or a business career. In the fall of 1886
Mr. Stone and his cousin, Samuel Davis, Jr., engaged in merchandising at
Rows, Ashland County. For two years they conducted a general store,
handling all the goods required in a country community. They supple-
mented their local business by operating a wagon over the rural district,
trading merchandise for butter and eggs.

In 1888 Mr. Stone sold his interest to his partner, and, going to Mans-
field, had practically accepted a position with the Boston Dry Goods Com-
pany. Before beginning duties he took a brief vacation in Cleveland, and
in passing the store of John Meckes on Pearl Street his attention was
attracted by a display of goods, and going inside to look around he met the
manager, with the result that a week later he was at work in that store.
This was the beginning of his Cleveland experience, and he remained
with the Meckes store until 1893.

While that year was the culmination of a great panic, Mr. Stone
embarked his modest capital in a business of his own. He established a
small general store in a room 20 by 45 feet at 9606 Madison Avenue. He
was well fortified by long experience with the knowledge required of a
successful merchant, and his establishment was increased from year to
year in proportion to the expanding trade. Finally he was occupying the
entire building, and also erected a $600 addition. This was his business
home for ten years. In the meantime Mr. Stone had purchased ground and
in 1904 erected a four-story brick block, 80x125 feet, at 9702-fO Madison
Avenue. This is one of the substantial business structures in that section
of the city and also contains twelve apartments on the upper floors.
Mr. Stone disposed of his business in March, 1923.

While building up this successful business concern Mr. Stone did not
neglect his o1)ligations to the community. He is a charter memljer of the
Chamber of Industry, has served as its vice president, and for three years
represented Ward No. 1 on the Board of Directors. In all committee work
of the Chamber he has taken an active part, and has labored faithfully for

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the success of the various movements and the plans inaugurated by that
organization for the benefit of the West and South sides. Mr. Stone is
a member of the Rotary and Advertising clubs and the Lakewood Christian
Science Church.

September 5, 1889, soon after coming to Cleveland, Mr. Stone married
Miss Lillie May Lucas. She was born at Rows in Ashland County, daugh-
ter of Hiram H. Lucas. Mr. and Mrs. Stone have two daughters: Helen
Caroline Lucas, who assisted her father in the merchandise business ; and
Bertha May Lucas, wife of Nelson Parker Waits, of Cleveland.

Arthur Seymour Cooley. In the profession of veterinary medicine
Arthur S. Cooley, of Cleveland, has been one of the most prominent
men of Ohio, both in his practice and in the constructive work he has
done for the profession in general, and also for the valuable services he
has rendered to the live stock growers of the state.

Doctor Cooley is a native of Cuyahoga County, and is of the third
generation of his family in this county, his grandfather, Asher Cooley,
having settled in Dover Township in the early part of the nineteenth
century. Asher Cooley was born in Massachusetts, in the year 1787, and
was a descendant of Robert Cooley, who was born in England in 1596,
and with his wife, Anne, and three sons, sailed from England for America
in April, 1634, and settled in the Massachusetts Colony. His son, Ben-
jamin Cooley, the ancestor of Doctor Cooley, became one of the first
citizens of Springfield, Massachusetts. In the year 1808 Asher Cooley
married Lydia Smith, who was born in Connecticut in 1789, and a few
years after their marriage they came to the Western Reserve and settled
at what is now Dover Village, where they passed the remainder of their
lives, Asher dying in 1853, his wife in 1866.

John M. Cooley, youngest of the ten children born to Asher Cooley
and wife, was born on the Cooley farm in Dover Township on November
20, 1830, and died in 1907. On January 26, 1854, he married Lucy, the
daughter of Bennet Seymour, who came from Connecticut to Ohio at
an early date. She died on April 28, 1887. John M. Cooley devoted his
active life to farming the old family home farm. In May, 1864, he
enlisted in the One Hundred and Fiftieth Regiment, Ohio National Guard,
and was serving in the One Hundred Day service when the Civil war
came to a close. He took an active part in local public aflfairs, served
as postmaster at Dover for a number of years, and in 1874 he was elected
as a republican to the Ohio General Assembly.

Dr. Arthur S. Cooley, son of John M. and Lucy Cooley, was born
on the Cooley homestead, which he now owns and occupies, on June
11, 1858. He grew up on the farm, and early in life manifested the
scientific interest in live stock which decided his choice of a vocation, and
which has brought him unusual prominence throughout the state in later
years. His early education was acquired in the Dover schools, from which
he entered Ohio State University. He then entered the Chicago V^eter-
inary College (taking a part of the curriculum at the Eclectic Medical
College of Chicago), where he was graduated with the degree of Veterinary
Surgeon in 1887, and in the same year he entered the practice of his profes-
sion in Cleveland. While Doctor Cooley won success and lasting pres-

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tige as a practitioner, it is in the domain of public affairs that he has
won statewide prominence. For seventeen years he was a member of
Troop A, Ohio National Guard, during which period he served as veter-
inarian to the Ohio Squadron of Cavalry, with the rank of lieutenant, under
commission from Governor Harris. He was active in organizing the
Veterinary Section of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine, and continues
a member of the Academy. During the administration of Governor
Willis, and a part of the administration of Governor Cox, Doctor Cooley
served as state veterinarian. In 1920 he was elected on the republican
ticket a member of the Ohio General Assembly, and was reelected in 1922.
During the regular session of the Eighty-fourth Assembly he served as
a member of the house committees on agriculture, public health and state
and economic betterments. During the regular session of the Eighty-
fifth Assembly he served as chairman of the dairy and food committee
of the House and as a member of the committees on public health, county
affairs, state and economic betterments, and on the important steering
committee of the House. He introduced House Bill No. 187, regulating
the length of time of storage for cold storage houses, which was enacted
into law. Following Governor Donahey's message to the General Assembly
in 1923, recommending the abolishment of the State Research Laboratory
at Reynoldsburg, Doctor Cooley took the leading part in the effort to
retain the laboratory, he having introduced the joint resolution providing
for the retention of the institution, which resolution was adopted. In
many ways have the services of Doctor Cooley been of great value to
the live-stock growers of Ohio. He has been active in assistance to boards
of health in the prevention of the sale of infected meats and the intro-
duction of diseased stock into the state, giving much of his time to the
advancement of the public welfare in those directions. After a suc-
cessful active professional career of over thirty years, Doctor Cooley
retired from practice in 1921.

Doctor Cooley is a member of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine
(Veterinary Section), is a member of and former president of the Ohio
State Veterinary Medical Association, is a member and former vice presi-
dent of the American Veterinary Medical Association, and a member and
former vice president of the United States Live Stock Sanitary Association.
He belongs to the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, the Cleveland Army
and Navy Club, and is a veteran member of Woodward Lodge No. 508,
Free and Accepted Masons.

On May 10, 1894, Doctor Cooley married Miss Flora A. Arnold, of
Cleveland, and they are the parents of three children, as follows: Richard
Seymour, a graduate of Ohio State University, is dairy and food com-
missioner of the City of Lakewood, Ohio. He married Myrle Krause,
and is the father of two children, Marian Louise and Richard Arthur.
Ellen L. married Kenneth Carter, an attorney of Cleveland, and is the
mother of two children, Thalia Lucy and Jane Ellen. Lucy S. married
Stiles W. Koons, assistant treasurer of the Cleveland Automatic Machine
Company, and is the mother of a son, John David. The daughters of
Doctor Cooley are twins. They were educated at Shaw High School,
Western Reserve University and the Cleveland School of Art.

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Frank H. Pelton, a meml)er of the Cleveland law firm of Krueger &
Pelton, with offices in the building of the Fidelity Mortgage Company, in
which corporation both members of the firm are interested, is a scion of
one of the old and honored pioneer families of the Western Reserve in
Ohio, the while he is a representative in the ninth generation of direct
descent from John Pelton, who came from England to America in 1632 and
settled first in Boston, whence he later went to Connecticut, with the annals
of which commonwealth the family name long continued to be prominently
identified. Ephraim Pelton, great-grandfather of him whose name initiates
this review, was born and reared in Connecticut, and became an early
settler in the Genesee Valley of the State of New York, where was born
his son Henry, grandfather of Frank H. of this sketch. In the year 1826
Henry Pelton came to the historic Western Reserve in Ohio and settled at
Wiloughby, Lake County, in which section of the state he passed the
remainder of his long and useful life, he having been one of the honored
pioneer citizens of that county at the time of his death. His son John,
father of him to whom this sketch is dedicated, was born and reared in
Lake County, where he still resides and is successfully engaged in farm
enterprise, a basic industry which there had a substantial representative in
the person of his father, who contributed distinctly to the civic and material
development and advancement of that favored section. John Pelton
wedded Miss Jennie Baker, who was born at Painesville, Lake County,
Ohio, and who is a daughter of the late Simon Baker, likewise a native
of Painesville, his father, Henry Baker, having been another of the sterling
pioneers of that part of the Western Reserve.

The birthplace of Frank H. Pelton was in the same room of the old
homestead in which his father likewise was born, and the year of his
nativity was 1882. In the public schools of his native town of Willoughby
Frank H. Pelton continued his studies until his graduation from the high
school as a member of the class of 1900. His higher academic education
was obtained in Adelbert College, now a part of Western Reserve Uni-
versity, where he was a recognized leader in athletics and college activities.
He was graduated in 1904, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In
1906 he was graduated from the law school of Western Reserve Univer-
sity, and his admission to the bar of Ohio was virtually coincident with his
reception of the degree of Bachelor of Laws. In 1908 he was admitted to
practice in the United States District and Circuit courts in Ohio.

Shortly after his graduation from law school Mr. Pelton engaged in
the work of his profession in Cleveland, where he continued to be asso-
ciated with the law firm of Treadway & Marshall until April. 1921. when
he became a member of the firm of Townes. Krueger. Portmann & Pelton.
He continued this professional alliance until the spring of 1922, when both
Mr. Krueger and himself withdrew from the partnership and formed the
present law firm of Krueger & Pelton. The members of the firm and
associates have well proven their powers as resourceful advocates and
counselors and have a secure vantage-ground as representative members of
the Cleveland bar. August 20, 1911, recorded the marriage of Mr. Pelton
and Miss Elsie Ann Johnson, the daughter of Capt. Thomas Johnson, vice
president and manager of the Great Lakes Towing Company.

Mr. Pelton takes vital interest in all that concerns the well-beins: of his

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native state and his home city. He is on the directorate of many successful
companies, and is actively identified with the Cleveland Chamber of Com-
merce, is a popular member of the Cleveland Bar Association, the Uni-
versity Club, the Mid-Day Club and the Shaker Heights Country Club.

Francis Martin Jaksic. The career of Francis Martin Jaksic is one
which illustrates the awards which may be secured through hard and
earnest effort when well directed, even though the obstacles in the way
of advancement be numerous and difficult of overcoming. Starting his
career in a humble capacity, when still a mere lad, with only a public school
education and his ambition to aid him, he has worked his way to the fore-
front among bankers and business men of Cleveland, and now, in addition
to being connected with numerous other enterprises of a varied and
important character, he is secretary and manager of the North American
Banking and Savings Company.

Mr. Jaksic was born at Zuzemberk Village, in what is now Jugo Slavia,
Europe, December 11, 1887, and is a son of Frank and Theresa Jaksic,
natives of the same country. When he was but a year old his father came
to the United States to prepare a home for his family, consisting then of
Francis Martin and his mother, who followed in 1889. On his arrival in
this country Frank Jaksic settled at once at Cleveland, and this city con-
tinued to be his home during the remainder of his life. He was a man
of industry, who engaged in various occupations, but did not live to enjoy
success, his death occurring in 1905. Mrs. Jaksic, who survives her hus-
band, is a resident of Cleveland.

Francis Martin Jaksic was brought up to habits of industry, to an
appreciation of the value of hard work and to principles of integrity. He
acquired his rudimentary education in the parochial school of St. Peter's
Catholic Church, and later spent a short time at St. Ignatius College, Cleve-
land. He was but thirteen years of age when he entered upon his business
career, his first experiences being those gained in a printing office, where
he mastered the trade in all its branches. However, he did not care for
the business as a regular vocation throughout life, and accordingly gave
up the trade for the retail grocery business, which he followed for a time
with a partner. Mr. Jaksic then evidenced a desire for the law, and entered
the legal department of Cleveland Law School, where he spent two years,
during which time he also served as deputy in the office of the county clerk
of Cuyahoga County. While he has never followed the law as a regular
profession, the knowledge which he gained during those two years has
been of incalculable value to him. When he left law school Mr. Jaksic
became associated with Anton Grdina in conducting the Grdina Furniture
Company, a business in which he still is interested. At the close of the
World war Mr. Jaksic spent eight months in his native land, engaged in
relief work, and on his return, in 1919, with Dr. J. M. Seliskar and others
organized and chartered the North American Banking and Savings Com-
pany, of which he has since been the secretary and manager. This institu-
tion has enjoyed a rapid growth and is now numbered among the leading
banking organizations of the city. In addition Mr. Jaksic is vice president
of the Euclid Foundry Company, vice president of the St. Clair Avenue
Improvement Association and chairman of the finance committee of the

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Slavonian Mutual Benefit Association. He is affiliated with Cleveland
Council, Knights of Columbus, and his religious connection is with
St. Vitus Catholic Church, in the work of which ,he is active. He has
always been a supporter of worthy civic measures.

Mr. Jaksic married Jeanette Mary Grdina, daughter of John Grdina,
of Cleveland, and to this union have been born three children: Frank R.,
Genevieve and Richard.

Joseph Kremzar, the present business partner in the Grdina Furniture
Company at 6017-19 St. Claire Avenue, was born in the Village of Brezavic,
Jugo-Slavia, on March 3, 1876, and is the son of Joseph and Mary Kremzar.
Unfortunately for his family the father died when his son Joseph was only
seven weeks old, and the result was a lack of education for the children
as well as the want of tutelage and support. But their mother came to
the rescue and reared the children to ages when they could care in the main
for themselves. Under her support Joseph received four years of school-
ing, but was then, to a large degree, placed upon his own resources and
obliged to care for himself. While quite young, a mere boy, he began
to serve a three years' apprenticeship at the cabinet maker's trade, at the
end of which time he was proficient enough to work independently, and did
so for another three years, laying up in the meantime considerable money.
He then determined to widen his opportunities and improve his business
surroundings.

Accordingly, in 1901, he secured a ticket and took passage on a vessel
across the Atlantic and landed in New York, where for about one month
he worked at his trade for various concerns where he could get the best
remuneration. He then had heard more about the Slavonian colony
in Cleveland, Ohio, to induce him to leave the "Metropolitan City" and go
west to the big city growing so swiftly in the Western Reserve. He
secured a ticket and came direct by rail to Cleveland, where he was wel-
comed and assisted by his fellow countrymen who had preceded him to the
New World.

Upon reaching the historic shores of Lake Erie and the sprightly city
of Cleveland he soon secured a permanent position with the Lake Shore
Lumber Company's sash and door factory, and there remained, gaining
prominence and popularity year after year and greatly increasing his
knowledge of the ways and intrigues of the American workmen and people.
Greatly to his credit he remained in the employ of that company for eleven
years, thus proving his qualifications and his fitness for the tasks set before
him, and being required to serve a portion of the time as foreman, an exact-
ing and expanding position.

Upon leaving the employ of the Lake Shore Lumber Company he began
working as a journeyman carpenter for various contractors, and was thus
employed for about eleven years, during which time he managed to save
considerable wages and profits. He then determined to branch out for
himself along independent lines of the trade that had served him so well.
Accordingly he began taking his own building contracts on a moderate
scale, and so continued until the 1st of January. 1918, when he became
shipping clerk and repair supervisor for the Grdina Furniture Company.
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membership in the company and was placed in charge of both the main
store and the Nottingham branch store, both estabhshments being among
the largest and most prosperous in the east end of the city. The company
have three stores, the third being at Waterloo and Huff avenues.
Mr. Kremzar is now a well-known and prominent business man, not only
of the Slavonian colony, but of the great city itself.

He has attained eminence in other walks of life in America. He is
one of the original stockholders of the North American Banking and Sav-
ings Company, one of the prominent and prosperous banking concerns of
the city. He is a zealous and steadfast member of the St. Aloysius Roman
Catholic Church and a member of several worthy Slavonian fraternal
organizations. He married Mary Cufer, a native of Jugo-Slavia, and to
this union five children have been born: Albin J., aged twenty years;
Jennie, aged sixteen years; Gladys L., aged fourteen years; William, aged
twelve years ; and Carrie, aged ten years. The parents are giving their
children sound and practical educations.

Frank Seither. Among the native born citizens of Cleveland none
perhaps was better known than the late Frank Seither, banker and promi-
nent in other directions, who spent practically all his long and busy life
here, and through business sagacity and spirit of enterprise added greatly
to the city's commercial prosperity.

Mr. Seither was born July 23, 1848, at Cleveland, Ohio, in a log house
that stood on the corner of Wilson and Superior avenues, now East Fifty-
fifth Street and Superior Avenue. He died at the residence on Bosworth
Road which had been his home for the last thirty years. His parents were
Leonard and Sibella (Wetengle) Seither. Leonard Seither was born in
Germany, May 3, 1825, and had come to the United States in 1840, leaving
his own land secretly because he was a man of peace and abhorred his
country's military policy. He was landed at the Port of New Orleans,
where he occupied himself variously for six months and then came to
Cleveland, where, shortly afterward, he married Sibella Wetengle. She
was born in 1826 in the same province as himself in Germany, and had
come along to the United States, and her death occurred at Cleveland in
1888, he surviving until 1905. To Leonard and Sibella Seither the follow-
ing children were born : Frank ; Henry, who is a resident of Defiance, Ohio ;
Elizabeth, who is the widow of William Brooker ; and Annie, who is the
widow of Milton Hafifner, both daughters residing now in California.

It is difficult for residents of Cleveland to think that within the memory
of many of its citizens the territory adjacent to Wilson Avenue, now the
heart of the city, was a belt of heavy timber, and it was there that Leonard
Seither first provided for his necessities by chopping wood. In 1851,
through industry and thrift, he had become able to invest in land, and
bought fifteen acres in Brooklyn Township, Cuyahoga County, which was
the nucleus of his fortune, for he kept on adding to and improving his prop-
erty until, at the time of death, he owned a valuable, well improved farm of
seventy acres.

Frank Seither grew up on the home farm and attended the district
schools in boyhood. When twenty-one years old he started out for himself
as an agent, and for about ten years sold reaj^ers and mowers to farmers all

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over Cuyahoga County. In 1879 he went into the business of manufactur-
ing oleomargerine at Cleveland, a comparatively new enterprise, and pros-
pered greatly for a time, the product having a wide sale. The profits of
the business, however, fell away after the decision of the government in
regard to artificial coloring, and, although Mr. Seither fought the decision in
the courts, he finally retired and turned his attention to his many other
business interests. One of these, the Star Baking Company, of which he
was president and chairman of the board of directors at the time of his
death, has been developed into one of the important business concerns of
Cleveland. After closing out his oleomargerine business he moved the
bakery to the plant on Clark, near West Twenty-fifth Street, where it has
been expanded and is one of the best equipped and most modern baking
plants in the country. Mr. Seither was a charter member, vice president
and chairman of the finance committee of what is now the Pearl Street
Savings and Trust Company, one of the largest banking institutions of the
city. He was also vice president of the National Woolen Mills Company,
also a corporation of strength and importance. He was vice president and
director of the Becker Steamship Company and prominently identified with
other large enterprises.

In 1869 Mr. Seither married Miss Sarah Tuttle, who was born at Cleve-
land, and died here in 1905. Her father, Jesse W. Tuttle, was a pioneer
in Cuyahoga County, and settled on the farm in 1835 which Mr. Seither
now owns. Mr. and Mrs. Seither became the parents of four children :
Frank, who is secretary and treasurer of the Defiance Pressed Steel Com-
pany, Defiance, Ohio, married Ella Beauhope, and they have one daughter,
Irene; Esther, who is the wife of Wilfred Singleton, now president and
general manager of the Star Baking Company, and they have two sons and
one daughter; Eugene, who is president and manager of the Defiance
Pressed Steel Company, married Clara Palmer; and Blanche, widow of
George Clough, and who resides at Springfield, Massachusetts, where her
two sons are attending school.

Mr. Seither's second marriage, to Miss Anna Fisher, connected him
with another of the old pioneer families of Cleveland. Mrs. Seither \yas
born in this city, and her parents were John Leonard and Katherine
(Meyer) Fisher. Her father was born in one of the agricultural provinces
of Germany, in 1833, and died at Cleveland in 1912, and her mother, born in
Germany in 1832, came alone to Cleveland in young womanhood, married
here, and died in 1887. John Leonard Fisher was only three years old
when brought to Cuyahoga County by his father, Jacob Fisher, and his
grandfather, also Jacob Fisher. They were all buried in the old Erie
Cemetery, which is now in the very heart of the business district of the city.

Frank Seither took no interest in social afifairs, he never joined either
lodge or club, nor was he known to attend any of these gatherings. His
entire life was devoted to his family and to the organization and develop-
ment of various business enterprises which stand today as monuments to his
far-sightedness and thrift. His remains now rest in Riverside Cemetery.

Otto William Carpenter, president of the Lakewood Savings &:
Loan Company, and general agent of the Union Central Life Insurance
Company for the City of Cleveland, was born in ]\Iansfield, Richland

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County, Ohio, and is a descendant of two of the pioneer famihes to settle
in that part of the state. He is the son of the late William B. and Emeline
(Grove) Carpenter, who became useful and prominent citizens in that
county. The father was born in that part of the state, while the mother
was a native of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, but was reared from
childhood in Richland County. WilHam B. was the son of Daniel Car-
penter, who was born at Barre, Vermont, in 1796.

Daniel, though quite young at the time, served in the United States
Army during the W^ar of 1812. After that war had ceased he came west
to Richland County in 1818, locating on a farm, where he carried on agri-
culture, as well as general merchandising until 1847, when he migrated to
Iowa and Colorado, where he died in 1885, at the age of eighty-eight years.
Daniel Carpenter, was the offspring of George, and George, the offspring
of William, who served the Colonies in the Revolution and distinguished
himself for his opposition to the oppressive tactics of the English monarch.
After his arrival in Richland County in 1818 Daniel became prominent in
all reputable acts of sound citizenship, and as soon as the pioneers became
sufficiently numerous he assisted in organizing the local State Militia and
was elected colonel of the Richland County forces. He usually occupied
some official position therein as long as he lived or until general interest in
the militia faded and finally passed away.

William B. Carpenter followed the occupation of tanning at Mansfield,
Ohio, for over fifty years, and became one of the most active and reliable
business men of that city. He took a leading and prominent part in all
worthy industrial and municipal affairs, and was always on the side of law
and order. He died in that city on June 5, 1913, at the advanced age of
eighty-six years.

His wife, Emeline, was the daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Boyer)
Grove, which name was formerly or originally Groff, no doubt. The
Groves came to Ohio in 1826 and located on a tract of land in Richland
County, where they were prosperous and prominent for many years. Eme-
line passed away on December 22, 1902, at the age of seventy-four years.

Otto W. Carpenter was born November 12, 1870, and was reared to
manhood at Mansfield. In youth he was given a good education in the
public schools and was graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University
with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, in the class of 1894. Soon after his
graduation he began the study of law in the office of his uncle at Mansfield,
and while thus occupied managed to secure a position as examiner in the
Ohio State Department of Insurance at Columbus and was thus employed
from 1896 to 1900. In the latter year he secured the appointment of
general agent for the Union Central Life Insurance Company at Cleve-
land, and the same year removed to Lakewood, which has since been his
residence. In 1908 he was duly admitted to the bar, but did not begin the
practice of that profession, instead giving his entire time and attention to
the insurance business, which he still carries on in Cleveland, with offices in
the Society for Savings Building.

At this date Mr. Carpenter is president of the Lakewood Savings &
Loan Company of Lakewood, and is also a director in the Colonial Savings
& Loan Company of the same city. He takes an earnest interest in the
welfare of the community where he resides, and has served the people in

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various capacities with credit to himself and advantage to his neighbors.
He is active in the civic and municipal upbuilding of the city, and admits his
obligations as a citizen to serve the people if required to do so. He has
rendered important service on the various boards and otherwise. He
served for four years on the Lakewood Board of Education and for two
years on the Sinking Fund Commission. During the World war, as chair-
man, he had charge of two campaigns to sell Liberty Bonds in Lakewood,
and these personally conducted campaigns were the first to raise their full
quotas in Cuyahoga County. He also assisted in all other Liberty Bond
campaigns and in war activities.

He is a member of both the Lakewood and the Cleveland Chambers of
Commerce, is a charter member of Lakewood Lodge No. 601, Free and
Accepted Masons ; a member of the Lakewood Country Club, and of the
Official Board of Detroit Street Methodist Episcopal Church.

Mr. Carpenter chose for his wife Miss Ruby Desiar Sears, who is a
native of Bucyrus, Ohio, and is the daughter of Benjamin and Melissa
(Minnick) Sears, both deceased. Her people were early pioneers of
Crawford County. Mrs. Carpenter is a lineal descendant of Elder William
Brewster, who was one of the company of pilgrims to cross the Atlantic
in the historic Mayflower landing at Plymouth in 1620. She is a member
of the Ohio Society of Descendants of the Mayflower, also of the Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution and of the Society of Founders and
Patriots of America. Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter have the following children :
Emeline, who graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts from the
Ohio Wesleyan University and the Simmons College (post graduate work)
of Boston, Massachusetts. She is now in the service department of the
Illuminating Company of Cleveland. Benjamin Sears graduated with the
degree of Mechanical Engineer from the Case School of Applied Science,
Cleveland, in 1923. Otto William II graduated from the Lakewood High
School in 1923, and is now a student in the Ohio Wesleyan University.

William John Ellenberger, one of the leading business men and one
of the public-spirited citizens of Lakewood, was born on Cedar Avenue,
Cleveland, on the 30th of April, 1871, and is the son of Frederick Herman
and Margaret Ann (Hudson) Ellenberger. The father was born in Canal
Dover, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, in 1849, and was the son of William
Ellenberger, who came from Friedesheim, Germany, at an early date and
became one of the pioneers of Tuscarawas County. There he became one
of the active business men and one of the reputable citizens of that com-
munity. He died there in 1856, leaving a widow and several children.

Frederick H., better known as Herman, came to Cleveland the same year
his father died, or when he was about seven years old, and thereafter made
his home with his aunt in that city. He received a fair education, princi-
pally at the old Brownell Public School, and for a time was taught by a lady
teacher who afterward became Mrs. John D. Rockefeller. At the age of
fifteen years he began operations for himself in the business world, and
accepted a clerkship in a cigar store, where he remained for some time.
Later he secured a position with Thomas and Butts, for many years leading
lumber dealers in this part of the state. There Frederick gained much of
the information which became valuable to him in his subsequent lumber

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operations. He managed to lay up considerable money for his own future,
and with it he was able a little later to enter into partnership with the
N. Mills & Company lumber concern. There he remained in constant work
for several years, still further perfecting his knowledge of the lumber
traffic, but in 1895 withdrew from that establishment and entered into part-
nership with his brother, Albert W., under the firm name of the Ellenberger
Lumber Company.

In 1901 he relinquished his interests in this company and in conjunction
with his brother bought out the Smeed Box Company and began an active
business along somewhat different lines. At the same time he and his
brother became the owners of the Worden Tool Company, another departure
from the old lumber industry. He was made general manager and treasurer
of the Smeed Box Company, and served as president of the Worden Tool
Company until his death on the Uth of October, 1914. He was identified
with the lumber industry of this part of the state for over forty-seven
years, and at the time of his demise was one of the oldest members of the
Cleveland Board of Lumber Dealers, which organization, at the time of
his death, passed resolutions of sympathy and condolence.

He was a steadfast and unwavering member of the Free Will Baptist
Church. He took unusual interest and concern in the growth and develop-
ment of the Sunday school. He was one of its most earnest and active
workers. For many years he was a faithful member of the Cuyahoga
County Sunday School Association, of which the present Cleveland Sunday
School Association is the successor. He also became a member of the
Ohio State Sunday School Association, and was much interested in the
establishment and progress of the International Sunday School Association.
For twenty-five years he served with much credit as superintendent of the
Sunday schools of the Cleveland Free Will Baptist Church.

His wife, formerly Margaret Ann Hudson, was born in Richmond,
England, in 1848, and was the daughter of William Hudson, who came to
the United States at an early date and settled in Cleveland. He left his
family in England, probably to get well located here before their arrival.
But he died ere long and was buried in the old Erie Street Cemetery. He
was living when his daughter left England to join him, but when she
reached Cleveland she learned for the first time that he was dead and
buried. The daughter is still living. To Frederick and Margaret Ellen-
berger were born two sons, William John and Walter Edward. The latter
now resides near Hiram, Ohio, and is successfully engaged in agriculture
and stock breeding. Frederick Ellenberger and family moved to Lakewood
in 1901, where he purchased two acres of land on Detroit Avenue, built
his home and there passed the remainder of his day.

William John Ellenberger was educated in the Walton School, the
Cleveland West High School and Oberlin College, receiving, as a whole, an
excellent schooling. His first important labor was with the Worden Tool
Company in their works for two years. Then he worked for the N. Mills
Company and finally with the Ellenberger Lumber Company. When the
latter was incorporated he became one of its directors. Then for a time
he was with other business concerns, among which was the Cleveland Car
Company, be^ng a director. When his father and uncle bought the Smeed
Box Company he became secretary, and upon the death of his father he

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assumed the management of the company as secretary-treasurer. He also
was a director in the Worden Tool Company, in the Security Savings &
Loan Company and in the Mutual Mortgage Company. He was also treas-
urer of the Metropolitan Motor Insurance Company and a director in the
J. L. Free Company. He is treasurer of the Brecksville Country Club, a
member of the Chamber of Commerce, West Side Chamber of Industry,
Rotary Club, Sleepy Hollow Country Club, member of the Board of
Stewards of the Detroit Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, member of
the Executive Committee of the Cleveland Sunday School Association and
member of the Governing Board of the Lakewood Young Men's Christian
Association.

In early manhood he married Flora May Hulburt, a native of Seville,
Ohio, and daughter of William and Caroline (Chambers) Hulburt. Six
children were born to this union: Irene Imogene, who married Frank J.
Roubal ; William H., who died in 1907, at the age of seven years ; F. Her-
man, who is now with the Smeed Box Company ; Phillip E., a student at
Ohio Wesleyan University; Carl, in high school; and Ernest L., in high
school. Mr. and Mrs. Ellenberger have for many years resided in the old
Ellenberger home in Lakewood.

Ralph Allen Scherz, M. D. One of the well known physicians of
Cleveland, and a leading citizen of the West Side, is Dr. Ralph Allen
Scherz, who has built up a large practice in this city and commands the
respect and confidence of his professional associates as well as of the general
pubHc. Doctor Scherz was born at Sandusky, Ohio, March 5, 1884, and is
a son of the late J. Louis and Josephine (Daniels) Scherz.

J. Louis Scherz was born at Sandusky, Ohio, in 1850, and died in that
city May 7, 1920. His father, J. Louis Scherz, Sr., was the founder of the
family in Ohio. He was born at Heidelberg, Germany, and came from
there to the United States in 1844, settling at Sandusky, of which city he
became a prominent and substantial business man. By trade he was a pat-
tern maker, and he made some of the first patterns used by the Mad River
Railroad, now the branch of the Big Four out of Sandusky. As a business
man he saw opiX)rtunities quickly and practically, and when he bought a
large tract of hard wood timber in Sandusky County he used it in the
manufacture of ax handles to good advantage.

J. Louis Scherz, Jr., was educated at Sandusky, and in early life was a
machinist, but later entered the Government railway mail service, with
which he was connected for thirty-five years, running on the New Y'ork
Central lines between Cleveland, Ohio, and Syracuse, New York. A reh-
able and trustworthy man in every relation of life, he became well known
and valued by his fellow citizens, and at the time of his death was chairman
of the board of trustees of the Sandusky Children's Home. He was a
charter member of the first lodge of the order of Knights of Pythias organ-
ized at Sandusky. He married Josephine Daniels, who was born at San-
dusky, and died in 1884, as the result of an accident.

Ralph Allen Scherz received his early educational training in the San-
dusky public schools, and was graduated from high school. In 1^^04 he
entered the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College, from which he was
graduated in 1908, with his medical degree. He applied himself closely

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to his studies, and in his senior year served as an interne at Cleveland City
Hospital, and following his graduation served in the same capacity at
Huron Road Hospital. As an indication of his proficiency in his medical
studies and the value placed on this proficiency by his professors it may be
stated that he was then appointed instructor in physical diagnosis at his
alma mater, and so continued until that college was taken over by the Ohio
State University; and in 1920 he was granted a certificate showing him to
be a graduate of that institution under its present name. He is interested
in everything pertaining to his profession, and is a member of the American
Institute of Homeopathy.

Doctor Scherz married Miss Mae Kers, who is a daughter of Joseph
Kers, of Cleveland. She is a lady of education and force of character, and
is a graduated nurse of Mount Sinai Hospital of Cleveland and a post-
graduate of Bellevue Hospital, New York City.

In political life Doctor Scherz is interested only as a good citizen, and
takes part in civic afifairs from the standpoint of a man of science. Like
other members of his profession, he gives generously to charity, and, like
them, also is silent as to the objects of his benefactions, whether they
prove grateful or otherwise. This, possibly, is professional ethics, neverthe-
less it is beneficence in the widest sense. Doctor Sherz is a member of
O. N. Steel Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; Robert Wallace Chapter;
Forest City Council; Forest City Commandery, Knights Templar, and
Al Koran Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and
is also a member of Hesperian Lodge, Knights of Pythias.

Edwin Carlos Forbes, founder of The Letter Specialty Company of
Cleveland, of which he is president and manager, has developed in this
connection a specially effective organization for direct mail advertising,
and the enterprise is one of importance and consecutive expansion.

Mr. Forbes was born on the parental homestead farm in Hartland
Township, Huron County, Ohio, January 18, 1868, and is a son of Carlos
and Mary Jane (Pond) Forbes. Carlos Forbes was born in Parma Town-
ship, Cuyahoga County, a son of Thomas B. Forbes, who came to Ohio
from Massachusetts in the pioneer days, he having transported his family
and small supply of household effects by means of wagon and ox team
and having reclaimed and developed a productive farm in Parma Town-
ship where he passed the remainder of his life. Mrs. Mary Jane (Pond)
Forbes was born at Basin Harbor, Vermont, and was a girl of ten years
at the time her father brought the family from the old Green Mountain
State to Ohio in 1848, the home having here been established on a pioneer
farmstead in Warrensville Township, Cuyahoga County, whence removal
later was made to the Huron County farm on which Edwin C. Forbes was
born. Carlos Forbes and his wife both attended Oberlin College, where
was formed the acquaintance that finally culminated in their marriage.
After their marriage they resided on the old homestead farm of the Pond
family in Huron County until 1882, when they removed to the Village of
Brooklyn, which is now a part of the City of Cleveland, Mr. Forbes having
been a master carpenter and having here developed a substantial business
as a contractor and builder. Here he passed the remainder of his life.

Edwin C. Forbes gained his earlier education in the rural schools of

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Huron County and after the removal to Brooklyn was graduated from
the Brooklyn High School. Thereafter he was for two years a student
in the Spencerian Business College in Cleveland, and then became book-
keeper for the Grossman Paper Box Company. After three years with that
concern he assumed a similar position with the Voice Publishing Company,
and later he purchased the Cuyahoga County News, a weekly paper cir-
culating in the western part of the county and also in the counties of
Lorain and Medina. His initial service in public office was that of deputy
county auditor under Albert E. Aiken, with whom he thus served three
years. He was retained in the same position through the administration of
William E. Craig and for a time under Robert Wright, the successive
incumbents of the office of county auditor, leaving that office to become
deputy to William R. Coates, county clerk of Cuyahoga County, with
whom he was thus associated until the expiration of the term of Mr. Coates.

Upon leaving the office of the county clerk Mr. Forbes established a trade
paper known as the Macaroni & Noodle Manufacturers Journal, and in
May, 1904, he brought about the organization of a national association of
macaroni and noodle manufacturers, of which his paper became the official
organ. While continuing the publication of his paper Mr. Forbes also
gave fourteen years of service as secretary of the association above men-
tioned, and in the meanwhile he gave six years of service as cashier in the
office of the treasurer of Cuyahoga County, under the regimes of Albert K.
Spencer and George E. Myers.

In 1910 Mr. Forbes established the business since conducted under the
title of The Letter Specialty Company, and under his effective supervision •
this concern has developed a large and prosperous business, the functions
of which are meeting with constantly increasing appreciation on the part of
advertisers.

Mr. Forbes was actively concerned in the organization of the Kiwanis
Club of Cleveland and is a charter member of the same, this having been
the second Kiwanis Club organized in the United States. He became tem-
porary president of the club at the time of its inception, in July, 1915, and
continued his service in this capacity until the following October, when at
his own request, he was retired from this office and was chosen secretary
of the club, in which position he has since continued and has been able
greatly to advance the splendid civic and business ideals and policies for
which the name of Kiwanis stands sponsor. Mr. Forbes is identified with
the Cleveland Chamber of Industry, the Cleveland Real Estate Board, the
Cleveland Advertising Club, and the Cleveland Automobile Club. He is
president of the Mail Advertising Service Association of Cleveland, and a
member of the Board of Governors of the Mail Advertising Service Asso-
ciation of North America. In the Masonic fraternity his affiliations are with
Laurel Lodge No. 657, Free and Accepted Masons ; and Keystone Chapter
No. 217, Royal Arch Masons. He is a member also of Riverside Lodge
No. 209, Knights of Pythias, and Riverside Circle No. 87, Protected Home
Circle, in which last mentioned order he is a past grand president of Ohio.
His wife, whose maiden name was Lucy Wilde, was born in the Village of
Berea, Cuyahoga County, and is a daughter of the late William and Emma
(Crawford) Wilde. Mr. and Mrs. Forbes have one son, Earl Edwin, who
is with the tourist-service department of Wonder Tours, Inc.

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Nicholas Leo Zinner, A. B., M. D., maintains his office at 1355 East
Fifty-fifth Street in his native City of Cleveland, w^here he has been
engaged in the successful general practice of his profession since 1916, save
for the interval of his loyal service vi^ith the Medical Corps of the United
States Army in the World war, he having had a full quota of experience
in connection with the operations of the American Expeditionary Forces
on the stage of active conflict overseas.

Doctor Zinner was born in Cleveland on the 1st of August, 1889, and
'is a son of David and Helen (Fox) Zinner, who were born and reared in
Austria, where their marriage was solemnized and where they continued
to maintain their home until 1887, when they came to the United States
and established their residence in Cleveland. David Zinner, a man of fine
intellectuality and a specially talented linguist, was identified with various
lines of business enterprise in the Ohio metropolis up to the time of his
death, April 24, 1924. Mrs. Zinner died November 5, 1922.

In the public schools of Cleveland Doctor Zinner continued his studies
until his graduation from the Central High School in 1908, and in advanc-
ing his education along academic lines he completed a course of study in
Adelbert College of the Western Reserve University, in which he was
graduated as a member of the class of 1912 and with the degree of Bachelor
of Arts. His preliminary educational work thus completed, he forthwith
began preparation for the profession of his choice, and as a member of the
class of 1915 in the medical department of Western Reserve University he
received his degree of Doctor of Medicine. He thereafter gave a year of
service as an interne in the Cleveland Charity Hospital, and then, in 1916.
initiated the active general practice of his profession, in which he here
continued until there came to him a higher duty, that of patriotic service
in connection with the nation's participation in the great World war. In
May, 1917, about one month after the United States declared war against
Germany, Doctor Zinner received commission as first lieutenant in the
Medical Corps of the United States Army, and in the following August
he was sent to Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, for preliminary training.
On the 25th of November of that year he was ordered to the base hospital
at Camp Greene, Charlotte, North Carolina, and there he was detailed to
special service as registrar, summary court officer, member of the Board
of Disability, and also member of the Neuropsychiatric Board. In 1918
he received his commission as captain in the Medical Corps of the United
States Army, and in June of that year he was transferred to Base Hospital
No. 54, in connection with which unit he was ordered to overseas service
in the following August. He disembarked at Brest, France, and ten days
later his unit was assigned to the base hospital center of the American
Expeditionary Forces at Mesves, France, his unit having been the third to
enter service at that point. There Doctor Zinner was made registrar of
the base hospital, as well as receiving and evacuating officer and member
of the board of disability, besides which he was associated with other sur-
geons in active charge of a hospital ward provided with about 150 beds.
No minor responsibilities rested upon him, and his leisure hours were
principally minutes, he having assumed charge of virtually all operations
and wound-dressing in the large ward just mentioned. His record of
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flict known in the annals of time is one that shall ever reflect honor
and distinction upon his rtame. In January, 1919, Doctor Zinner
received orders to return to the United States, the trip having been made
on the steamer "Lapland," which left Brest, France, with about 3,6(XJ
sick and wounded soldiers on board. The voyage was thus one that
incidentally placed as great demands upon the time and professional
attention of Doctor Zinner as had his previous service in France, and
nothing within his power to do for the suffering heroes was left undone.
On the 21st of January, 1919, the day following that of his arrival at
Camp Dix, New Jersey, Doctor Zinner there received his honorable
discharge. He immediately returned to Cleveland, and three days after
his arrival in his native city he girded himself with characteristic energy
and enthusiasm and resumed the active practice of his profession, in
which his success shows a constantly cumulative tendency, his practice
being now of substantial and representative order.

Doctor Zinner is a popular member of the Cleveland Academy of
Medicine, and is actively identified also with the Ohio State Medical
Society and the American Medical Association. He is affiliated with
Army and Navy Post No. 54, American Legion, and takes deep interest
in this splendid Cleveland organization.

In December, 1917, was solemnized the marriage of Doctor Zinner
and Miss Erma Brobst, who was born at Brimfield, Portage County,
Ohio, a daughter of William and Caroline (Catline) Brobst, both
deceased. Doctor and Mrs. Zinner have a fine little son, Theodore Lee,
who was born February 22, 1919, and who has much of autocratic sway
in the attractive home circle.

Alden Buerkin Hare. Since his university career and his service in
the navy during the World war, Alden Buerkin Hare has had time in
which to achieve definite recognition among the business men of his native
City of Cleveland. Though only twenty-seven, his indomitable energy and
judgment have put him among the leaders in the real estate field.

Mr. Hare was born at Cleveland April 7, 1897, son of William A. and
Wilhelmina (Buerkin) Hare. His mother's people came from Baden.
Germany, about 1865 and located in Wood County, Ohio, where her father
was a farmer. William A. Hare was born in Cleveland, in 1867, and is of
English and Irish ancestry. As a youth he attended West Point Tvlilitary
Academy, studied engineering, and for many years has been a building
contractor. He was formerly associated with local politics with the late
Tom L. Johnson. He is also a veteran of the Spanish- American war,
having been on duty in Cuba.

Alden Buerkin Hare was liberally educated, attending the May field
grade schools, East High School and graduating from Shaw High School
in 1914. He then entered Ohio State University, graduating in 1918.
Immediately after graduating in June he went into the service as a
second class seaman of the navy and was immediately transferred to
the Great Lakes Officers Training School. He remained there three
months, and after passing a successful examination for Officers Mate-
rial School was given two months' training at the Municipal Pier in
Chicago, was then assigned to Pelham Bay for two months, and went

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on convoy duty out of New York and back for four weeks. On the
United States Steamship "RepubUc" he was shipped to Cuba and Chili,
South America, and on June 4, 1919, returned to New York and was
granted his honorable discharge. Mr. Hare returned to Cleveland July
4, 1919, and the same day saw Dempsey knock out Willard at Toledo.

For a few months after the war Mr. Hare had charge of the sales
of the Paco Chemical Company, and is still a stockholder in that cor-
poration. He was also associated with the Building Service Company,
general contractors, and from there entered the real estate field with
the Van Sweringen Company, his success with that organization encour-
aging him to go into business for himself.

Mr. Hare's first notable achievement was his execution of his ideas
of forming Lyndhurst Village out of May field Township and Euclidville,
and subsequently he opened up and developed Lyndhurst Manor. About
that time he incorporated the Alden B. Hare Company, with his father,
William A. Hard, president; M. Hare, vice president, and Alden B. Hare,
secretary and treasurer. The Lyndhurst Manor developed by this
organization is one of the most perfect residence subdivisions around
Cleveland. The Alden B. Hare Company is now a company ofifering
every facility of service, including allotment and subdivision develop-i
ment, real estate brokerage, financing, architectural division and construc-
tion. Mr. Hare has kept in view throughout the idea of making his
company an auxiliary factor in city planning and a thoroughly public
service medium. It is the company's policy at all times to place its real
estate operations on a high professional scale. Through the Building
Service Company in which Mr. Hare is also a stockholder, a large number
of fine homes and business structures have been constructed in and around
Cleveland. The company has more recently undertaken projects in
Youngstown and Toledo, which will run to a value of around a million
dollars.

Mr. Hare has been an active member of the realty board. He is a
member of Glenville Masonic Lodge, and of Navy Post No. 54, Amer-
ican Legion ; is affiliated with Americus Lodge, Knights of Pythias,
belongs to the Ohio State University Chapter of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon,
and is a member of the Aviation Athletic Club and the Business Men's
Club. He is a Lutheran in religious belief, and a republican.

William Robert Powell is a Cleveland architect, and by education
and experience is deeply versed in both the ancient and modern
technique of the art. His offices are in the Rose Building, and he is a
native of Ohio.

He was born at Radnor, in Delaware County. His father was John
Powell, a native of Llanafan, Breconshire, Wales. The grandfather was
owner of three small farms in Breconshire, but in 1845 sold his property
and with his wife and two children came to America, landing at Phila-
delphia. After a short time he proceeded westward by wagon and team
to Newark, Ohio, where he opened a general store. His goods bought
in New York were brought west by canal and lake. He conducted a
successful business there for two years, then moved with his family
to Radnor, Ohio, where he continued as a merchant.

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His two children were John and Margaret Powell. John Powell
acquired his first advantages in the schools of Wales, and afterward
attended public schools at Newark, and also Ohio Wesleyan University
at Delaware. He was a teacher, and later became associated with his
father in business at Radnor, a village located on the old Indian trail
that passed through Delaware County. He conducted his business there
until his death in 1902. John Powell married Sarah L. Watkins, who
was born at Radnor, Ohio, in 1846. Her father, William Watkins, a
native of Llanervil, Wales, came to America as a young man and located
in Delaware County, Ohio. He was a pioneer in that district, and estab-
lished his home on the old Indian trail where he purchased a tract of
timberland. He was a cabinet maker by^ trade, and used his skill in
making furniture, since all furniture was then made by hand, and he
also did much building construction as a carpenter. Mrs. John Powell
was one of eleven children, and is the only one now surviving. She
became the mother of four children, named William Robert, John Wat-
kins, David Harvey and Edward K.

William Robert Powell was well educated, first attending the public
schools at Radnor, then spending two years in the Oberlin Preparatory
School and two years in the Case School of Applied Science at Cleveland.
Following that he was graduated from Columbia University, and then
spent two and one-half years as a student in the School of Fine Arts
at Paris. On returning to America he located at Cleveland, where as an
architect he has gained a high standing in his profession. He is a
member of the Beta Theta Pi college fraternity and Hiram Lodge of
Masons at Delaware.

James Barnum Savage became a resident of the City of Cleveland in
the year 1869, and in the passing years he here built up one of the largest
and most important general printing establishments and enterprises in
the Ohio metropohs. His interests ever centered in his home and his
large and prosperous business, he had no desire for political activity or
public office, but in a quiet and unassuming way he stood exponent of
the most loyal and public-spirited citizenship and of personal rectitude
that marked him as the object of unqualified popular confidence and es-
teem in both business and social life. He was one of the veteran and
honored business men of Cleveland at the time of his death, which occurred
February 3, 1922.

Mr. Savage was born at Saratoga Springs, New York, July 25, 1841,
and was a son of James and Eunice (Barnum) Savage, who were residents
of Cleveland at the time of their death. Mr. Savage received in his youth
the advantages of private schools in his native state, and was nineteen
years of age at the inception of the Civil war. He soon received appoint-
ment as assistant paymaster in the army, and in this capacity he continued
his effective service until the close of the war. He then received appoint-
ment to the position of collector at the port of Shreveport, Louisiana, and
while he was absent from home his parents had in the meanwhile estab-
lished their residence in Cleveland. In 1869 he here visited his parents,
and while here he formed the acquaintance of Scott Robison. who owned
and conducted a general commercial and job-printing establishment. Mr.

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Savage returned to Shreveport, but later in the same year he came again
to Cleveland, where he purchased an half interest in the printing business
of Mr. Robison. About two years later he assumed full controll, by pur-
chase of the interest of his partner, and eventually, while continuing sole
owner, he found it commercially expedient to incorporate the business,
to which was then applied the title of the J. B. Savage Company. At
the time of allying himself with this enterprise Mr. Savage had no tech-
nical knowledge of the printing business, but his powers of absorption and
assimilation came effectively into play, he familiarized himself with the
various details of the business, and by his energy and progressive policies
eventually developed one of the largest and most modern general printing
establishments in the city. Erecting a six-story brick and stone building
at 1395 Third Street, 50,000' square feet of floor space, and employed
about 150 people. He built up a business of broad scope and
unqualified financial solidity. In this establishment he provided the
best of facilities for the handling of all kinds of commercial printing,
book and catalogue work, etc., and the invariably efficient service
was the basis on which was built up a large and important business.
Mr. Savage always maintained his establishment free from union domi-
nation, and as an "open shop" his place gained its corps of loyal and
efficient employes, many of whom had been there engaged for many years
prior to the death of the honored proprietor.

Mr. Savage was an appreciative student and reader during the course
of his entire adult life, and became a man of broad intellectuality and
mature judgment, even as he stood sponsor of high ideals in all of the
relations of Hfe. His political allegiance was given to the republican
party, he was a member of the Union Club of Cleveland, and was an
earnest member of Saint Paul's Church, Protestant Episcopal, as is also
his widow.

On the 9th of November, 1886, was solemnized the marriage of Mr.
Savage and Miss Mary Tisdale, daughter of the late George A. Tisdale,
to whom a memorial tribute is dedicated in the following sketch, so that
further review of the family history is not here demanded. Since the
death of her husband Mrs. Savage has retained control of the business
which he built up ably and faithfully, and her attractive home is at 3410
Euclid Avenue, she having been reared in the family home on this same
avenue, but in a locality that is now given over to business. Mr. Savage
is not survived by children.

George A. Tisdale gained prominence and influence as one of the
early executive officers in a pioneer fire-insurance company in the City of
Cleveland, and later made his technical ability and administrative resource-
fulness distinctly potent in the development of the business of the Mer-
cantile Insurance Company of this city, of which he continued the secretary
and manager until about a year prior to his death, ill health having been
the cause of his retirement. Aside from the success and prestige gained
by Mr. Tisdale, it is pleasing to record that those who knew him remember
him as a man of noble and well poised character and most gracious per-
sonality. Without desire for political activity or public office, he wielded
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place in the confidence and good will of all who knew him, as business
associate, as friend and as man among men. His strength was as the
number of his days, and he was one of the venerable and honored citizens
of Cleveland at the time of his death, in 1893, at the age of seventy-two
years.

At Sacketts Harbor, at the foot of Lake Erie, in Jefferson County,
New York, George A. Tisdale was born October 3, 1821, a son of George
L. and Amelia Maria (Graham) Tisdale, the former of whom was born
in Taunton, Massachusetts, and the latter in Dutchess County, New York,
and were representatives of families early founded in America. Mr.
Tisdale received good educational advantages, as gauged by the standards
of the locality and period, and was a student in an excellent school at Caze-
novia, New York, at the time of his father's death, in 1838. As a young
man Mr. Tisdale made an extended tour through the West, and in April,
1852, he established his permanent home in Cleveland, where he became
secretary and treasurer of the Commercial Mutual Insurance Company.
He continued his able and successful administration of the affairs of this
corporation until, like many others, its business was swamped by losses
entailed in connection with the great Chicago fire of 1871, and it passed
out of existence. Within a short time thereafter, with virtually the same
directorate as that of the former company and with Mr. Tisdale as secretary,
treasurer and manager, the Mercantile Insurance Company was incorpo-
rated with its general offices in Cleveland. Concerning the connection of
Mr. Tisdale with this corporation the following record has been given :
"This position he held until a year or so before his death, when failing
health made it necessary for him to retire from active life. By reason of
this enforced retirement, the Mercantile Insurance Company decided to
liquidate the business while Mr. Tisdale was still able to manage its affairs'.
Thus he had the satisfaction of seeing his life work brought to a successful
close after nearly forty years of strict and unremitting attention to business.
He may be called a pioneer in the insurance business of Cleveland. He was
well known along the shores of the Great Lakes as a man who was thor-
oughly informed in both fire and marine insurance, and he was also con-
sidered an authority in the matter of insurance law."

Mr. Tisdale was a stalwart advocate of the principles of the republican
party, was distinctly liberal and public-spirited in his civic attitude, was
kindly, tolerant and considerate in all human contacts, was a loyal steward
in his support of charitable and benevolent work and agencies, and made
his life count for good in its every relation. He and his wife were earnest
communicants of St. Paul's Church, Protestant Episcopal, in which he
served many years as a memlfer of the vestry and of which he was senior
warden at the time of his death. His widow survived him a number of
years, and her memory is revered by all who came within the sphere of
her gentle and gracious influence. The family home was maintained for
more than thirty years in that section of Euclid Avenue that is now the
business center.

In his old home town of Sacketts Harbor was solemnized the marriage
of Mr. Tisdale and Miss Caroline M. Burt, and their surviving child is
Mrs. James B. Savage. Miss Caroline A. Tisdale died November 13. 1919.
To the late James B. Savage a special memoir is dedicated in the preceding
sketch. •

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Clarence Sheridan Metcalf, of Cleveland, was born at McCon-
nelsville, Morgan County, Ohio, September 17, 1878, and is a son of
Frank F. and Ada (Wynn) Metcalf, both likewise natives of that county
and respectively of English and Scotch ancestry. That the Metcalf family
was founded in Morgan County in the early pioneer days is assured by
the fact that Joseph Metcalf, grandfather of the subject of this review,
was likewise a native of that county, where his parents settled in 1805
or 1806, upon removal from one of the eastern states. Thomas Wynn,
maternal grandfather of Mr. Metcalf, entered service as a loyal soldier
of the Union in the Civil war, and sacrificed his life in the cause, as he
was killed in battle.

Frank F. Metcalf became one of the prominent lawyers and influential
citizens in his native country, where he was for many years established
in the practice of his profession at McConnelsville, the county seat, and
where he served as prosecuting attorney of the county. He died in the
year 1887. His widow resides in Cleveland.

After leaving college Clarence S. Metcalf went to Columbus and took
a position in the offices of the Hocking Valley Railroad. Later he was
employed in the offices of the Sunday Creek Coal Company at Columbus,
and in Ohio's capital city he still later held the position of auditor of
the Bruce Electric Company. His next clerical incumbency was in
the offices of the auditor general of the state, and the auditor, Mr. Gilbert,
thereafter assigned him to special service as traveling auditor of the
electric light and water plants of the state, while still later he was
assigned to service as examiner of city accounts.

In 1916 Mayor Davis appointed Mr. Metcalf commissioner of
accounts for the City of Cleveland, and in 1920 he was appointed director
of finances for this city, an office from which he retired January 1, 1922,
upon change of the municipal administration.

In 1921 Mr. Metcalf became one of the organizers of the First Savings
& Loan Company of Cleveland, of which he was elected the first presi-
dent. He resigned this office in the spring of 1922, when he became
treasurer of the Fidelity Mortgage Company. The year 1922 recorded
him also as a director of the Cleveland Chamber of Industry, and he is
a member of the Chamber of Commerce and the Exchange Club. In
May, 1924, he was elected secretary and treasurer of the public library,
elected by the library board. Mr. and Mrs. Metcalf are zealous members
of the Old Stone Church, in which he is serving as a deacon, and he is
also affiliated with Roosevelt Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons.

In Columbus was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Metcalf and Miss
Alice Boltman, daughter of the late C. F. Boltman, of Columbus. Mr. and
Mrs. Metcalf have three daughters : Margaret, Frances and Alice.

John G. Tomson, superintendent of streets for the City of Cleve-
land, was born at the family home on Pearl Road, now in the City of
Cleveland, March 17, 1879. His grandfather, Martin Tomson, was
born in France and after his discharge from the French army came to
the United States and bought a farm in Wyoming County, New York.
In 1860 he moved to Iowa, where he spent his last days. Barney Tom-
son, father of John G., was born in Wyoming County, New York, in

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1845. In 1861, at the age of sixteen, he enlisted, and performed his
first duty as a soldier as body guard for General Scott, and subsequently
was with the One Hundred Eleventh New York Cavalry in continuous
and hard service in the Army of the Potomac, participating in Gettys-
burg and other battles. At the close of the war he returned to Warsaw,
Wyoming County, New York. He had served an apprenticeship at the
blacksmith's trade, and after the war he set up in business as a carriage
maker and blacksmith. In 1870 he removed to Cleveland, purchasing
property on Pearl Road, then a partially settled region, where he operated
a blacksmith shop and conducted it until he retired from active life. He
died in 1910. His wife, who was Pauline Schneckenberger, was born in
Switzerland in 1845, and came to America when seventeen years of age
in company with her brother Jacob. Barney Tomson and wife reared
six children: Edward, Albert W., Barney W., Lydia (wife of Jack
Healy), John G. and Otto.

John G. Tomson attended public schools at Cleveland, but at the age
of thirteen was working to earn his own living, and he also learned the
trade of blacksmith. He engaged in business as a general blacksmith and
horseshoer, with shop on Carnegie Avenue, and continued there until
1910. In that year he was appointed assistant to the superintendent of
streets, serving one year, and was then made superintendent of sidewalks
during Mayor Bayer's administration. For four years he resumed his
business as a blacksmith, until January 1, 1916, when Mayor Davis
appointed him commissioner of streets, with offices in the City Hall.
He has been retained in that office continuously, having charge of street
repair and street cleaning and street permits.

Mr. Tomson married in 1902 Miss Louise Westfall, a native of
Switzerland and daughter of John Westfall. She died at Cleveland,.
November 3, 1916, leaving one daughter, who was born September 26,
1903. Mr. Tomson married at Cleveland, November 8, 1917, Miss Carrie
MacTavish, daughter of Alexander and Ella (Jorson) MacTavish. Her
father was a lake captain.

Mr. Tomson has been prominent in republican politics, serving as
president of the Western Reserve Club, a republican party organization,
and he represented the Twenty-first Ward in the city council in 1911.
He is a member of the Masonic lodge, John Corwin Chapter No. 205,
Royal Arch Masons ; Forest City Commandery No. 39, Knights Templar ;
Al Sirat Grotto No. 17; Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine, is
past chancellor of Forest City Lodge Knights of Pythias, past dictator of
Cleveland Lodge of Moose, and a member of the Fraternal Order of
Eagles, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Lakewood Lodge
of Elks.

James Mathew Seliskar, M. D. Not a few physicians of foreign
birth have attained high standing at Cleveland, and among these none
are held in greater esteem than Dr. James Mathew Seliskar. The career
of this physician has been what may be spoken of as remarkable, for not
alone has he risen to distinction in the ranks of his profession in a city
in which such a position denotes the possession of much more than ordi-
nary abilities, owing to the presence of so many practitioners of splendid

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talents, but he has also advanced himself to a prominent place among
the bankers of the city, being president of the North American Banking
and Savings Company.

Doctor Seliskar is a native of what is now Jugo-Slavia. He was born
in Laibach, a city of that country, June 10, 1880, a son of the late
Joseph and Gertrude Seliskar. The father died in the old country, while
the mother came to America after her husband's death and passed away
at Cleveland. Doctor Seliskar was seventeen years of age when he came
to the United States, settling at St. Paul, Minnesota, where several of
his relatives were living. In his native town he had acquired the rudi-
ments of an education, and after some preparation he entered St. Thomas'
College, St. Paul, from which he was graduated with the degree of
Bachelor of Arts as a member of the class of 1900. He followed this
with a course in philosophy at St. Paul's Seminary, St. Paul, and after
a year spent in the study of medicine at the University of Minnesota, in
1903 he came to Cleveland and entered Western Reserve University. He
was graduated therefrom in 1905 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine,
and during the remainder of 1905 and a part of 1906 served as interne
at the Cleveland City Hospital. On completing this preparation he
embarked upon the practice of medicine and surgery, with an office at
6129 St. Clair Avenue, where he has since continued. Doctor Seliskar
is a thorough master of his profession and keeps himself fully abreasi
of all of its advancements, devoting a large part of his time to stud}'
and research when not busily engaged with his large and constantly
growing practice. He is an active and valued member of the Cleveland
Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American
Medical Association, and bears an excellent reputation in the ranks of
his calling.

Aside from his profession Doctor Seliskar is one of the well-known
bankers of Cleveland, and is president of the North American Banking
and Savings Company, one of the strong junior banks of the city. This
institution was organized and chartered in 1920 by the doctor and the
following associates : Frank Paulin, vice president ; John Breskvar, vice
president; Frank Jaksic, secretary and manager, and August Hafifner,
treasurer. The bank was capitalized at $125,000, and in four years' time
its surplus has grown to $125,000. while it has over 6,000 depositors,
whose deposits amount to $3,000,000. The bank is a member of the
American Bankers Association. Doctor Seliskar belongs to the Knights
of Columbus, and his religious connection is with St. Jerome's Catholic
Church.

Doctor Seliskar married Miss Fredericka Kline, a daughter of Henry
Kline, of Medina, Ohio, and to this union there have been born the
following children : James Frederick, John A., Elizabeth, Paul Joseph,
Richard Thomas, Carl and Mary Catharine. The pleasant and attractive
family home is located at 17820 Nottingham Road, Cleveland.

William Rigelhaupt, M. D., an able and successful physician and
surgeon established in active general practice in Cleveland, was born in
the City of Bela, Bohemia (now Czecho-Slavia), October 20, 1881, and
is a son of the late Leo and Eva Rigelhaupt. In his youth Doctor Rigel-

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haupt received exceptional educational advantages, including those of the
University of Budapest, Hungary, and the University of Jena, Germany.
In the year 1906 he came to the United States and forthwith established
his residence in Cleveland, where he joined his older brother, I. J., who
had been for many years engaged in the retail drug business on the
West Side of the city. Doctor Rigelhaupt entered the medical department
of Western Reserve University where he was graduated, as a member
of the class of 1911 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He then
returned to Europe, where he further fortified himself along professional
lines by an effective post-graduate course in the great University of
Vienna, Austria, and again, in 1923, was abroad for six months studying
internal medicine. Since his return to Cleveland Doctor Rigelhaupt has
built up a substantial and representative practice, and he is one of the
leading physicians of the West Side of Cleveland. The doctor is a member
of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State Medical Society
and the American Medical Association. He is serving as a member of
the staff of physicians and surgeons in the Lutheran Hospital,, is a member
of the Cleveland Chamber of Industry, and is affiliated with Forest City
Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons.

September 14, 1910, recorded the marriage of Doctor Rigelhaupt and
Miss Sarah R. Alexander, daughter of Isador Alexander, of Cleveland.

James H. McCall is in the most significant degree one of the influen-
tial and successful exponents of real-estate enterprise in the metropolitan
district of Cleveland, and in connection with the development and progress
of the city he has shown marked pre-vision and a confidence that has found
expression in constructive action.

He is the founder and head of The J. H. McCall Company, one of the
substantial and progressive real-estate concerns of Cleveland, with offices
in the Sloan Building.

Mr. McCall was born at Londonderry, Guernsey County, Ohio, Janu-
ary 16, 1877, and his father is now a successful representative of agricul-
tural industry near New Concord, Muskingum County. The lineage of
the McCall family traces back to staunch Scotch origin, and William
McCall, great-grandfather of the subject of this review, became a citizen
of Washington County, Pennsylvania, whence representatives of the family
came to Ohio in 1850.

The public schools of his native place afforded James H. IMcCall his
earlier education, he studied one year under the preceptorship of a private
tutor, and thereafter attended Geneva College one year. His ambition
for liberal education was further shown by his passing four years as a
student in Muskingum College, at New Concord, and for a time he was a
student in the Western Reserve Medical College. A fine sense of personal
stewardship has characterized the entire career of Mr. McCall, who not
only earned the funds that enabled him to attend college, but who also made
his productive efforts count at the same time by earning enough likewise to
pay off the mortgage of $1,000 on his father's farm.

Mr. McCall remained at the parental home until he was seventeen years
of age, and his leaving was prompted by his determination to make his
own way through college. He first went to Pittsburgh and became a sales-

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man for the American Tea Company. He won advancement to the position
of general agent for this company, and retained the same eighteen months.
He then passed a year in college, and during vacation periods sold stereo-
scopic views in order to raise funds with which to continue his college
course. While a college student he passed two winters in the South,
where he visited the leading universities and colleges in soliciting for the
Keystone View Company and in training new salesmen for that concern.
While in college he started a college paper and acted as its editor. He also
played four years on the football team, and was its manager in his senior
year, besides which he took part in several oratorical contests.

In June, 1908, Mr. McCall took a position as salesman with the Green-
lund-Kennerdell Company, a Cleveland real-estate concern, and after con-
tinuing in this service about one year he accepted the position of manager
of the real-estate department of the Garfield Bank, with which he continued
his alliance nearly seven years, within which he gained comprehensive
and accurate knowledge concerning real-estate values in Cleveland. While
identified with the bank his service was largely comprised in the selling
of houses, the effecting of ninety-nine-year realty leases, and the supervision
of a general real-estate business. He had charge of the building and sale
of a goodly number of single and two-family dwellings, as well as apartment
houses. In 1916 he became associated in the organization and incorpora-
tion of the McNutt-McCall Company, the business of which covered
down-town real estate and also subdivisions. On the 3d of September,
for the purpose of extending still further the scope and importance of his
operations, Mr. McCall organized the J. H. McCall Company, of which
he has since continued the progressive executive head and the service of
which he has brought to the highest standard in every respect. It is not
within the province of this circumscribed review to enter into details
concerning the splendid business that has been developed and controlled
by this representative real-estate organization, but is consistent to oflfer
the following quotations from a comprehensive and appreciative newspaper
article recently published :

"The success made by the J. H. McCall Company in Cleveland and
its suburbs as sellers of improved homesites is the result of J. H. McCall
and his associates having measured up to the requirements of the times,
and in the realty field making selfish interest serve the interests of all —
pointing the way for all to prosper. Mr. McCall may rightly be termed
a constructive operator of suburban real estate, for it has been his policy,
first, last and at all times not just to scheme up and plot ofif a parcel of
property for an allotment, but to 'see it through,' improve it, and then go
about interesting the right kind of people in locating and building their
homes there. Mr. McCall has noticeably, in all his selections and improve-
ments, stuck to the principal thoroughfares and main arteries of develop-
ment, and through exercising vision and wisdom in taking on his land
parcels, he has been favored with remarkable success."

Mr. McCall is an active member of the Cleveland Chamber of Com-
merce, holds membership in the local Athletic, City and Advertising clubs,
is a member of the Board of Trustees of Muskingum College, is a com-
municant of Trinity Cathedral of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and
is unswerving in his allegiance to the republican party. He finds his chief

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recreation in hunting, and he maintains a hunting camp on Lemon Bay,
Plorida, in a wild district thirty-five miles south of Sarasota.

Worcester Reed Warner was born at Cummington, Hampshire
County, Massachusetts, May 16, 1846, and is a scion of sterling New
England colonial stock. He received the advantages of the common schools,
and as a youth served a thorough apprenticeship to the machinist's
trade. From 1870 to 1880 he was foreman in the shops of the Pratt
& Whitney Company, Hartford, Connecticut, where also he gave attention
to the study of astronomy and other scientific branches, besides experi-
menting in the construction of telescopes. In 1881 he and Ambrose
Swasey established in Cleveland, Ohio, a modest plant for the manufac-
turing of machine tools, and from this has been developed the large and
important industrial enterprise now conducted under the title of the
Warner & Swasey Company. In 1897 the Western University of Penn-
sylvania conferred upon Mr. Warner the degree of Doctor of Mechanical
Science. He has served as president of the American Society of Mechan-
ical Engineers, and as president of the Civil Engineers Club of Cleveland
and the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. He has membership in the
American Association for the Advancement of Science, the British Astro-
nomical Society, the Royal Astronomical Society, and various clubs and
other social organizations. Mr. Warner is a trustee of Western Reserve
University and also of the Case School of Applied Science, and is a
director of leading financial institutions of Cleveland. He is a republican
in political allegiance. Mr. Warner has been one of the builders of a
great industrial enterprise in Cleveland, and concerning his achievement
incidental mention is made on other pages, in the personal sketch of
Ambrose Swasey, his associate in business.

Louis Black was a resident of Cleveland from his boyhood until
the time of his death, and gained precedence as one of the representative
business men and honored and influential citizens of the Ohio metropolis.

Colonel Black, as he was familiarly known, was born in Hungary,
December 24, 1844, and in 1854 his parents established their residence
in Cleveland, this having been the first Hungarian family in Cleveland.
The father, Morris Black, was a sterling citizen who had much to do
with promoting Hungarian immigration to Ohio, and he was one of the
honored citizens of Cleveland at the time of his death, in 1864. Louis
Black was ten years old when the family home was established in
Cleveland, and here he received his youthful education. He was employed
in a local mercantile establishment at the time when, in 1864, he enlisted
for service in the Civil war, as a private in Company A, One Hundred Fifti-
eth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. After the close of the war he resumed his
association with business affairs in Cleveland. He became eventually the
president of the Bailey Company, one of the most important mercantile
concerns of the city, with a large department store and establishments
devoted to the wholesale and retail trade in dry goods and house furnish-
ings. In addition to being at the time of his death the president and
treasurer of this company he was president and treasurer of the Acme
Realty and the Bailey Realty Company ; vice president of the Building 5:

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Investment Company and the Superior Savings & Trust Company; treas-
urer of the Bailey-Young Company and the Sincere Realty Company ; vice
president of the Tuscaloosa Cotton Company; and a director of the
Central National Bank, the Cleveland Jewish Hospital Association, the
Cleveland Realization Company, the Champont Realty Company, and
the Acme Foundry Company.

Colonel Black was a most loyal and public-spirited citizen, served as
city fire director and as a member of the city council, was a member of
the Chamber of Commerce and the local Rotary Club, held the rank of
colonel in the Second Regiment of Knights of Pythias, and served as
president of the Hungarian Benevolent Association. He and his wife
celebrated in 1917 their golden wedding anniversary.

John Joseph Stanley, president of the Cleveland Street Railway
Company and an influential member of the American Electric Railways
Association, of which he was elected vice president in 1917, was born
in Cleveland March 5, 1863, and here received the advantages of the
public schools. As a young man he became associated with local street
railway interests, and his alliance with this branch of public utility service
has been continued during the intervening years. He has built many
street railway systems, especially in the State of New York, and is a
director of the Rochester Railway & Light Company, of Rochester, that
state. In Cleveland he is a director of the Central National Bank, the
Guardian Savings & Trust Company, and the Mutual Building & Invest-
ment Company. He has membership in the Chamber of Commerce, the
Union Club, the Country Club and the Cleveland Athletic Club. In
1885 he wedded Miss Rose Francis, and they have three daughters.

Leonard Colton Hanna, senior member of the tirm of M. A. Hanna
& Company, has been a prominent figure in Cleveland business affairs for
nearly half a century, and is a brother of the late and distinguished
Senator Mark A. Hanna, whose name is written large on the pages of
Ohio and national history.

Leonard C. Hanna was born at New Lisbon, Ohio. November 30;
1850, and was reared and educated in Cleveland, which has been the
central stage of his important business activities in the later years. In
addition to being executive head of the great industrial business con-
trolled by M. A. Hanna & Company, Mr. Hanna has financial and
official alliance with the Superior Savings & Trust Company, the Guardian
Savings & Trust Company, and the Union National Bank of Cleveland.
He has membership in leading clubs and other civic organizations, and
for eight years was commander of the Cleveland Catling Gun Battery.

Tom Loftin Johnson, one of the most picturesque figures in business
and public life in America, gave to Cleveland a greater measure of loyal
and public-spirited service than can be outlined in any one review of his
life and achievement. He was a millionaire when he assumed the office
of mayor of Cleveland, and so closely and earnestly did he devote his
time and thought to the interests of the city that his private business suf-
fered, with the result that he was a comparatively poor man at the time

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of his death, in 191 L His published work, "My Story," is to be found in'
all important libraries, and may be referred to by thcjse who wish to
study the life history of this really great and noble citizen.

Mr. Johnson was born at Georgetown, Kentucky, July 18, 1854, and
was reared and educated in Indiana. He invented several street railway
devices, and eventually acquired large street railway interests in Indian-
apolis, Cleveland, Detroit and Brooklyn, besides having become an iron
manufacturer in Cleveland. He was a democrat, was a member of
Congress in 1891-95, and served four terms as mayor of Cleveland, 1901-10,
his death having occurred April 10, 1911.

Tom L. Johnson was an idealist and a practical worker for the advance-
ment of human kind. He was a leader in thought and action, and in
Cleveland he did a great and noble service in kindling the fires of civic
righteousness and common justice. As mayor of Cleveland he did more
than any other man to bring about an equitable system of taxation, and
his fight to obtain for the city a three-cent fare on street railways has
become a part of national history. His life was marked by devotion to
the common people. He worked that justice might prevail between the
poor and the rich. He was a humanitarian of the highest type, and his
name and memory shall be held in enduring honor in the Ohio metropolis,
to the interests of which he devoted himself with bravery, ability, deter-
mination and utter self-sacrifice.

John G. Fischer, one of the influential and public-spirited citizens of
Cleveland, was born and reared in Cuyahoga County and has honored the
same by his character and his achievement. He has served in various
positions of public trust, including membership in the State Legislature,
and has done much to advance the interests of his home city, county and
state.

Mr. Fischer was born on the family homestead farm in Parma Town-
ship, Cuyahoga County, on the 1st of January, 1861, and is a scion of the
third generation of the Fischer family in Cuyahoga County. His grand-
father, Michael Fischer, a native of Birne, near Wertzberg, Germany, was
there a subject of Maximilian, the Austrian arch-duke who later became
emperor of Mexico, and as he did not wish to rear his only son under the
military reign and government of Maximilian, Michael Fischer decided
to establish a home in the United States. His wife died in Germanv, and
thereafter he came alone to the United States and made settlement in
Cuyahoga County, Ohio, where he was later joined by his only son, who
was born at the old family home in Germany, in the year 1832, and who
was reared and educated in his native land, where he learned the butcher's
trade. There was solemnized his marriage to Margaret Kleinholtz. and
he, in company with his young wife, joined his father on the latter 's farm
in Parma Township, Cuyahoga County. John Fischer here became success-
fully established in the livestock and wholesale meat business, in which he
continued on the old home farm of his father until 1876. when he pur-
chased forty-five acres of land in Rockport Township, where he continued
in the same line of business until his sudden death in a railroad accident,
■while he was en route home after purchasing a carload of cattle in the
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estate, and with utmost solicitude cared for her three minor children,
John G., Margaret (now deceased) and George, whom she reared and
educated with utmost maternal devotion, the while she ably conserved the
interests of the family estate. This noble and gracious woman remained
a widow until her death, February 13, 1913, at the age of eighty-three
years and eight months.

John G. Fischer gained his youthful education by attending the public
schools of his native county and through discipline received under the
direction of private tutors. He early decided to fit himself for the line of
business with which his father had been identified, and thus, at the age
of fourteen years, he entered the employ of a butcher and livestock dealer,
who paid him $7 a month in the winter season and $9 in the summer.
After about eighteen months of service in this connection Mr. Fischer
found his advancement to be of rather negative order, his financial status
having been shown in his indebtedness to his employer in the sum of 20
cents. Fie sized up the situation and made a change in his plans. He tied
his small surplus of clothes in a red bandana handkerchief and then set
forth on foot for the maternal home, four miles distant. Upon his arrival
he informed his mother that he wished to engage in business for himself,
and so implicit was her faith in him that she consented to lend him $400.
He was then sixteen years of age, and with this financial reinforcement
he engaged independently in the livestock business, in which he continued
successfully in Cuyahoga County for the ensuing quarter of a century, save
for the interval of 1884-1887, during which he held the position of man-
ager of the George H. Hammond Company's packing plant at South
Omaha, Nebraska.

Mr. Fischer made his debut in public office in the year 1888, when he
was elected trustee of Rockport Township, said township now constituting
the West Park district of the City of Cleveland. He continued his effective
service in this office until 1894, when the township system of government
was abolished and Rockport Township was incorporated as a village.
Mr. Fischer was then elected a member of the board of education of Rock-
port school division, and in this service he continued, without compensation,
about fifteen years, during a considerable portion of which he was clerk
of the board.

In 1900 Mr. Fischer became a member of the Cuyahoga County
Republican Central Committee, as representative of the district west of
the river, and after serving one year he was made secretary of the com-
mittee, a position which likewise he retained one year. In 1902 he was
appointed deputy state supervisor of elections in Cuyahoga County, and
this position he held until January 1, 1904. In the November election of
1903 he was elected representative of his native county in the Lower
House of the State Legislature, and he served during the Seventy-sixth
General Assembly. In 1904 Mr. Fischer was elected a county commis-
sioner, for a term of three years, and he continued the incumbent of this
position, by successive reelections, until September, 1913.

As commissioner he was active in securing the necessary action in the
board for building, under the good roads law, over 300 miles of brick and
heavy duty type of roads in the county. While he was a member of the
board and by his active support the new Superior High Level Bridge, the

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first in the state, costing over $4,000,000, was put under construction, the
Denison Harvard Bridge, three-quarters of a mile in length, connecting
the w^est and south sides of the city with the section of the city containing
the great iron industries, which employ thousands of men, was constructed,
the building of the new $6,000,000 courthouse, the pride of the city and
county, was carried out. Mr. Fischer was chairman of the building com-
mission for two years. While he was commissioner the Detroit and Rocky
River Bridge, at the time the greatest concrete arch in the world, was con-
structed. His name appears upon more bonds for public improvements
than that of any other man that has served in the county, and in all his
long service upon the board there was never a criticism from any civic
or public body as to the expenditures or as to the carrying forward of these
contracts, and there was never a contract carried out that did not leave a
surplus in the fund set apart for that especial purpose.

While a member of the Seventy-sixth General Assembly of the Ohio
Legislature Mr. Fischer introduced and ably championed the first good
roads bill in the state, the same providing for a department of public high-
ways. This bill was made a law, and in 1920, moved by a desire to bring
about an amendment of this law, Mr. Fischer became a candidate for
reelection to the House of Representatives. He was elected and in the
ensuing legislative session his efforts resulted in the supplementing of the
above mentioned law in such a way as to vest in the department of high-
ways the power to bring about the elimination of all grade crossings of
railroads over public highways in the state, this amendment to the law
having passed the House but having been lost in the Senate. Mr. Fischer
was the author of several other bills of somewhat minor importance, and
these came to enactment. One of these laws gives to railroads further
power of permanent domain, the purpose being to lessen the cost of high-
ways by giving railroads the right-of-way to lands containing deposits of
gravel, sand, marl and asphalt in the state. In the election of November,
1922, Mr. Fischer was returned to his seat in the State Legislature, and
again introduced the grade crossing elimination law, and it was passed and
became a law in April, 1923.

In 1914 Mr. Fischer initiated the purchasing of real estate for the
Belt Terminal Realty Company, and he was successful in securing the
right-of-way for the Belt Line Railroad west of the river, in Cuyahoga
County, in the interest of the New York Central Lines. He purchased in
this connection many farms that are being held for future development.

After having acquired ownership of the old family homestead
Mr. Fischer in 1916 sold forty acres of this tract, but reserved the five
acres on which stood the old home of his mother. Here he erected his
present modern house, which is probably one of the finest of the many
handsome residences in the West Park section of Cleveland.

Mr. Fischer takes deep interest in all that tends to advance the civic
and material interests of his home city and county, is a valued member of
the Cleveland Chamber of Industry, of the West Side Advisory Committee,
of the Cleveland Trust Companv, and holds membership in the Western
Reserve Club, and is one of the oldest members of Tippecanoe Club.

The year 1884 recorded the marriage of Mr. Fischer and Miss Eliza-
beth Colbrunn. who was born in what is now the West Park division of

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Cuyahoga County, February 2, 1866, and who is a daughter of the late
Frederick A. Colbrunn, her father having been born in Germany and his
father having become a pioneer settler in Cuyahoga County. In conclusion
is given a brief record concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs. Fischer:
John Carl, born in 1886, was graduated in engineering and mining at the
Case School of Applied Science, later read law and was admitted to the
bar, and he is now a successful paving and bridge contractor in Cuyahoga
County. He married Bessie Kennedy, and they have three children :
John G. (H), Richard H. and Jane. George Herman, born in 1889, is a
graduate of the Spencerian Business College in Cleveland, and is now
(1923) a deputy in the office of the treasurer of Cuyahoga County. He
married Miss Pearl Ketcham, of New London, Ohio. Pearl Margaret,
the only daughter, born in 1892. is the wife of Herman L. Christensen,
engaged in the greenhouse business at Rocky River, Cuyahoga County, and
they have two children, Irene and Laverne.

Horace Kelley was a native son of Cleveland, a member of one
of the representative pioneer families of this city, and the citizens of
the Ohio metropolis owe to his memory an enduring tribute of honor
and appreciation, especially by reason of liberality and civic loyalty that
found expression when he gave the major part of his fortune for the
erection and maintenance of the city's magnificent museum of art. Nearlv
all of his fortune, estimated as more than $600,000, Horace Kelley left
to trustees for the purpose of founding in Cleveland a museum of art.
This sum, together with subsequent accumulations, was combined with
funds given by the late John Huntington, and made it possible to found
in Cleveland a museum of art that is today one of the chief objects of
local civic pride.

Horace Kellev was born in Cleveland July 18, 1819, and here his
death occurred December 4, 1890. He was a son of Joseph R. and
Betsey (Gould) Kellev, and a grandson of Judge Daniel Kelley. one
of the honored and influential pioneer citizens of Cleveland. Mr. Kelley
gave the greater part of his time and attention to the management of
extensive properties, including lands in the heart of Cleveland and also
on what is now known as North Bass Island. One of the wealthy men
of Cleveland, he used his resources not only in his benefactions to his
native city but also in broadening his intellectual horizon through extended
foreign travel. He married Fanny Miles, of Elyria. Ohio, and she sur-
vived him. no children having been born of their union.

Mary H. Severance was a lifelong resident of Cleveland, was the
daughter, wife and mother of prominent and honored citizens, and was a
gracious gentlewoman who was widely known and loved. She was born
in Cleveland March 1. 1816, the only child of Dr. David Long, the dis-
tinguished pioneer physician of Cleveland. She received excellent edu-
cational advantages and became a woman of distinctive culture. In 1883
was solemnized her marriage to Solomon Lewis Severance, a successful
voung merchant whose death occurred five vears later. The two children
of this union were Solon L. and Louis H. Mrs. Severance continued
as a loved and influential figure in the representative social and cultural

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activities of her native city until her death, October 1, 1902, at the
venerable age of eighty-six years and seven months. In her girlhood she
became a devoted member of the First Presbyterian Church, later she
became a charter member (;f the Second Presbyterian Church, and in
1872 she assisted in founding the Woodland Avenue Presbyterian Church,
with the support and upbuilding of which she was actively identified. She
was a zealous and devoted worker in patriotic lines in the Civil war
period, especially in connection with the sanitary commission, and she
assisted in the founding of the Protestant Orphan Asylum and the Lakeside
Hospital, of the latter of which she continued a trustee until her death. In
all of the relations of life she went about trailing the beatitudes in her
train, and her gentle and gracious life signified much to Cleveland.

William G. Rose was born in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, Sep-
tember 23, 1829, and his death occurred in the City of Cleveland, Ohio,
September 15, 1899. He received a liberal education, as gauged by the
standards of the period, and in 1855 he was admitted to the Pennsylvania
bar. He joined the republican party at the time of its organization, he
for a time was publisher and editor of a newspaper in his native county,
and from 1858 to 1860 he was a member of the Pennsylvania Legislature.
He was a delegate to the republican national convention of 1860, when
Abraham Lincoln was nominated for the presidency, and he was twice
nominated by his party for Congress. He served in the Civil war, under
the three months' term of enlistment. In 1865 he established his residence
in Cleveland, and his activities in the oil fields and the real estate business
brought him such substantial returns that in 1874 .he virtually retired
from business. In 1877 he was elected mayor of Cleveland, and he gave
a most able and loyal administration during a period of grave importance
in the affairs of the city, the state and the nation. He served as mayor
until 1879, and in 1891 he was again elected chief executive of the city
government. In 1883 he was the republican candidate for lieutenant
governor of Ohio. Mr. Rose did splendid service in advancing and fos-
tering the interests of Cleveland, and here his name and memory are held
in lasting honor. In 1858 he married Miss Martha E. Parmelee, who
survived him and of whom individual mention is made on other pages
of this publication.

Samuel H. Kleinman, through his enterprise as a real estate man,
has helped shape and mould a considerable part of the physical bulk and
greatness of the modern city of Cleveland. Through his vision, foresight
and ability he has built up the largest organization of its kind in the state,
the S. H. Kleinman Realty Company, of which he is president.

Even as a boy he had visions of constructive development that would
transform some of the outlying sections of the city and thereby greatly
increase the scope of Cleveland as a residential, commercial and industrial
center. While still in his twenties he began the unfolding of his plans and
started the nucleus of the big business which is today the S. H. Kleinman
Realty Company. He was the pioneer in developing parcels of real estate
as the site for homes built for people of moderate means, and so financed
as to permit a purchaser to build a home on the installment plan. It is

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estimated that in the past twenty years since Mr. Kleinman began business,
38,000 people have acquired their present or future homesite from his
company.

Mr. Kleinman has developed seventy subdivisions, v^hich have more
than 125 miles of street frontage — more Cleveland property that any other
one man or organization.

That his faith in Cleveland as a whole has been his basis for activity,
rather than only one section, is emphasized by the fact that his residential
and business developments are located in every section of the city and
range from city homesitcs and suburban estates to business property of all
kinds. The zenith of his aspirations was reached in the magnificent new
lake shore residential community at the eastern city limits of Cleveland,
surpassing anything of its kind along the shores of Lake Erie, and which
owes its existence to Mr. Kleinman's energy, ability and high ideals gained
through years of experience. Six million dollars is represented in this
premier effort, which is known as "Utopia Beach," being one of the sev-
enty developments. Other large developments are "Beverly Hills," on
Euclid Avenue, "Traymore Estates," "Clifton Boulevard Subdivision,"
"Lakewood Allotment," all being located in Cleveland.

Mr. Kleinman purchased the initial tract of ground for his first real
estate development twenty years ago. This tract was on the West Side,
close to a country road and some distance from the built-up section. He
went ahead with his plans, relying on the future of Cleveland, against the
advice of his friends. By his personal efiforts he sold the property, it being
known as Regal Park. Regal Park is today bounded by West Ninetieth,
West Ninety-first, West Ninety-second, West Ninety-third streets and
Almira Avenue, while the country road is Denison Avenue.

Mr. Kleinman is a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce,
the Oakwood Country Club, the Cleveland Advertising Club, the City
Club, the Chamber of Industry, the Southwestern Civic Association, the
Civic League, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Mortgage Association,
the Euclid Avenue Association, the Cleveland Association of Building
Owners and Managers and the Cleveland Bar Association, and is a mem-
ber of the congregation of the Euclid Avenue Temple.

Mr. Kleinman's hobby is breeding fancy Holstein cattle, and he operates
a large farm at Hudson, Ohio, and is a member of the Holstein-Friesian
Association of America.

In addition to being president of the S. H. Kleinman Realty Company,
Mr. Kleinman is president of the Mortgage Syndicate Company; treasurer
of the Ninth-Chester Company and treasurer of the Lake Shore Land &
Development Company.

Mr. Kleinman is married and has a daughter, Bertha Mae, and a son,
S. Herbert Kleinman.

Harry L. Davis served as treasurer of the City of Cleveland in
1910-11, and in 1916 he initiated his specially loyal and progressive
administration as mayor of the Ohio metropolis, which is his native city,
his birth having here occurred January 25, 1878, and he being a son
of the late Hon. Evan H. Davis, who was an honored and influential
citizen and who served as a representative of Cuyahoga County in the

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State Legislature, besides having held for seven years the office of district
factory inspector.

Harry L. Davis gained in the public schools of Cleveland his early
education, and as a youth he was for several years employed in the
rolling mills at Newburgh. He was for some time associated with the
service of the Cleveland Park Board, was later a solicitor for the Bell
Telephone Company, and eventually he became president of the Davis
Telephone Rate Adjustment Company. In 1912 he was national organ-
izer for the Loyal Order of Moose, and thereafter he was engaged in
the general insurance business until his election to the office of mayor, in
November, 1915. He is a republican and has served as chairman of
the republican executive committee of Cuya;hoga County, as well as a
member of the Republican State Central Committee of Ohio. He is
identified with leading clubs and other social organizations in his home
city, has served as president of the local Welsh Society, and in the
Masonic fraternity he has received the thirty-second degree of the
Scottish Rite. Mr. Davis married, in 1902, Miss Lucy V. Fegan.

Philip Henry Baker, From farm boy to Cleveland man of busi-
ness. Written by a business associate who has for three vears been in a
position to appreciate his capacity for hard work and intelligence in its
performance. Philip Henry Baker, better known as "Phil Baker,"
first saw the light of day on April 7, 1885, at Stone Creek, Ohio, a village
of less than 100 inhabitants. His father's home cornered up against the
railroad station at the edge of the little village. The old saying that "the
boy is the father of the man" was well born out in Phil's case, for he could
scarcely walk when he fell in love with horses. He looked upon them as
almost human — and to see one of them roughly handled cut his little heart
to the very quick. ' As he grew older his chief delight was to organize his
boy playmates into a trading community, and it was always observed that
certain long sticks set by Phil at intervals along the fence were "horses,"
each with a name, and any of them for "sale if the boy buyers had the
price." The first real rough-and-tumble fist fight he ever had was with a
little village lad, and bigger than he, too, who made the mistake of declaring
that those animals were not horses at all, but mere pieces of board from the
Baker woodshed.

When little Philip was ten years old the Baker family moved from
Stone Creek to a farm one mile and a half west of Tuscarawas, Ohio, in
what is known as Sharon Valley, where the boy soon became very home-
sick for his former playmates in the village. He was a total stranger to
the forty odd children in the country school he now attended, but being
naturally of a friendly disposition he soon made many chums among them,
and further showed his best toward organization by inaugurating a "spelling
bee," with added attractions in the way of recitations, songs, etc., such as
he was used to in the village. A program was arranged, but when the
night for the entertainment arrived and the teacher called upon the different
children to recite, their nerve failed them. Little Phil Baker, with a courage
that nothing could daunt, jumped into the breach— so to speak — and saved
the entertainment by giving the audience three recitations and as many
songs, which were not only loudly praised by the teacher but which made

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him the acknowledged leader of the school. Later he received a very good
common school education there, but did not move on to high school, as he
felt his father needed his service on the farm. He now says frankly that
this was a mistake, and he always advises boys to get a thorough schooling,
no matter at what cost.

At the age of fifteen Phil was the only one of the three brothers and
one sister of the family left at home, and as his father fell sick, all the
work of the farm was done by Phil, with the help of a hired man and a
hired maid. Two years later his father sold all the stock and implements
of the farm and retired from work, an older brother moving his goods
home and taking charge. That year, 1903, Philip worked for a River
Valley farmer named John Wolf, whose farm was a large one, conducted
very systematically, giving the boy a good insight into business methods
as applied to agriculture. He constantly kept his eyes open for new ideas,
and when in the following spring he decided to come to Cleveland he was
well supplied with health and courage for taking on more responsible
duties.

.Thus in the spring of 1904 he began to work for the Telling Brothers
Ice Cream Company, where for the better part of twelve years he toiled
in various capacities, from doing common labor to handling deliveries and
assisting in the sales.

The following incident, which had a good deal to do with his promo-
tion, and which illustrates his natural faculty for "sticking" to any task
assigned him, shows how he began to learn the streets of a big city. He
had been placed on a retail delivery wagon taking in every street north of
Euclid Avenue and east of what is now known as East Fortieth Street,
clear out to the city limits. His first trip was on Thanksgiving day and his
wagon, containing seventy private orders, he had loaded, without proper
instructions, in a haphazard manner, instead of the load piled according to
the streets and their numbers in succession. Here was Phil, knowing abso-
lutely none of the streets to be traversed excepting Hough Avenue,
Euclid, St. Clair and Superior avenues. It was a day full of trouble. He
left the factory at 9 :30 in the morning and should have had all the orders
delivered by 1 o'clock in the afternoon. He actually did return at 5 :30 and
brought back five orders for houses he could not find. A good deal of his
time had been spent consulting city directories in corner drug stores, you
see. All along the way he had worried, and became thoroughly disheart-
ened, but the good old Pennsylvania German in his blood made him stick
it out. He sure had visions that raw cold day of losing his job, and prob-
ably returning to "the old home town" to get his second wind before tackling
the big city again. Imagine then his surprise and relief when the foreman
actually praised his work, saying he had done better than he expected, as
the task was about the biggest even an experienced driver could ever tackle,
and had been given Phil because they were desperately short of help.

So, while several more experienced men were laid ofif at the end of the
busy season, Phil went along regularly with his wagon the entire winter.
Soon he was promoted to a wholesale wagon delivering to stores, and three
or four years later was made a route foreman. In speaking of his experi-
ence along about this time Phil recently said : "Most men promote them-
selves— by this I mean that when an employe goes out of his way, regardless

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of regular hours of work, to do things for the good of the concern he is
working for, you can safely bet that it counts to his credit. I know it was
so in my case. Instead of dodging when the wagons were fully equipped
with drivers, I took many hours of such days to go out along the different
routes and try for new customers, or devoted my time to working out new
ideas for the betterment of the ice cream business ; and I say it without
wanting or meaning to boast, that every improvement upon cabinets and
ice cream delivery wagons that was made by that company during the last
seven or eight years I worked there was originated by me."

"When did you come into close touch with Mr. Tabor?" the writer
asked.

"It was soon after I went on the delivery wagons. Mr. Tabor was
general sales manager and secretary of the company, and naturally took an
interest in the men responsible for delivering his products to the trade. He
was quick to notice and compliment me upon my disposition to make
friends for the company among the retail dealers. I also worked with
him when he was establishing the Akron and Youngstown branches ; secur-
ing stores also in many other Northern Ohio towns. As a result when
Mr. Tabor decided to organize a company of his own he asked me to join
him, and I did so in spite of very flattering offers then made to me by the
older company, which I had served twelve years. (In fact my former
employers suddenly concluded my poor services were worth 50 per cent
more than ever before.) I am a little proud of the fact that I was the
first man on the job with the Tabor Ice Cream Company. I assisted
Mr. Tabor in laying plans for the new business, buying equipment, etc.,
and was with him day and night in the strenuous battle for stores that was
waged — and in fact is still going quite merrily and successfully on. Today
we are operating sixteen auto trucks, wagons, and over 100 men are in
the delivery and sales department under my immediate direction. I am
personally acquainted with all but a very few of the store owners we serve,
and know nearly every one we do not sell to. I know every street and
avenue in Cleveland, and about every road and cross road in nearby towns,
which naturally helps me in my delivery arrangement. I am particularly
fortunate in having loyal and experienced men about me, many of them at
one time working for the other company, and others who have been taken
on since. Upon all young men I try to impress the fact that they can
promote themselves — it all depends upon their loyal interest in the work
and ability to forget the 'clock' when there are things to do that will
advance the interests of the Tabor Ice Cream Company."

On March 15, 1919, after a large interest purchased the controlling
interests of the Tabor Ice Cream Company, bringing in many new acquain-
tances into the forces, I could see no further future for myself, and on
that dav I resigned my position with the Tabor Ice Cream Company and
formed a new company known as the Baker Ice Cream Company, located
at 4605 Dennison Avenue, and having a large acquaintanceship among deal-
ers. This company has made a great success from the start. After being
in business three years, with a large volume of business, it consolidated
with a Youngstown company operating factories in Youngstown, Wheel-
ing and Huntington, West Virginia, and is now known as the Baker-Evans
Tee Cream Company, Mr. Evans being a former associate, with a well

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known reputation, which helps to strengthen the Baker forces. The Baker-
Evans Ice Cream Company employs more than 250 employes, and sales
for 1924 will be approximately 1,500,000 gallons. Mr. Baker is president
of the new corporation and supervises his own business, and keeps in close
touch with all his employes, and his organization is made up of men of
practical experience, trained under his supervision for a great many years.
Many men have been with him as long as twenty years, and have gone
with him in every change he has made.

C^SAR Augustine Grasselli, chairman of the board of directors of
the Grasselli Chemical Company, one of the leading concerns of its kind
in the United States, has done a large part in the development and
upbuilding of this important manufacturing industry, of which his father,
the late Eugene Grasselli, was the founder, he having been a native of
the historic old City of Strasburg, Province of Alsace, France, where he
was born in 1810, he having been one of the honored citizens and repre-
sentative business men of Cleveland at the time of his death, in 1882.

Caesar A. Grasselli was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, November 7, 1850,
and received his youthful education largely under the direction of his
father, a man of exceptional intellectuality and high scientific attainments.-
In 1904 Csesar A. GrasselH received the degree of Doctor of Science from
Mount St. Mary's College, Maryland. In 1885 he became president of
the Grasselli Chemical Company, and he continued the executive head
of this great Cleveland industrial corporation until January, 1916, since
which time he has been chairman of its board of directors. He is presi-
dent of the Woodland Avenue Savings & Trust Company and the Broad-
way Savings & Trust Company, and is a director of the Union National
Bank, the Glidden Varnish Company, and the Akron & Chicago Junction
Railroad. Mr. Grasselli is a member of many important scientific and
civic organizations, including the American Chemical Society, the Amer-
ican Institute of Mining Engineers, the American Institute of Banking,
the American Academy of Political and Social Science, the National Civic
Federation, the Western Reserve Historical Society, the American
Museum of Natural History (New York), and the Ohio Society of
New York. In 1910 he received from King Victor Emanuel III the
distinction of being made a Knight of the Order of the Golden Crown
of Italy. He is a republican, a communicant of the Catholic Church, and
has membership in various representative clubs in Cleveland and New
York. In 1871 he married Miss Johanna Ireland, of Cincinnati, and
their son, Thomas S., succeeded his father as president of the Grasselli
Chemical Company.

Theodor Kundtz figures as the founder and upbuilder of one of
the great industrial enterprises of Cleveland, that of the Theodor Kundtz
Company, of which he is the president and which controls an immense
business in the manufacturing of sewing machine woodwork, school desks,
church furniture and automobile bodies. Five modern manufacturing
plants are operated by this progressive corporation.

Mr. Kundtz was born at Metzenzef, Hungary, July 1, 1852, and in
his native land he received good educational advantages, besides learning,

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in his father's shop, the trade of cabinetmaker. In 1873 he came to
the United States and found employment at his trade in Cleveland. Two
years later he assumed control of the little shop that figures as the
nucleus of the great manufacturing industry of which he is now the
executive head and which represents the results of his ability and well
directed efforts. He continued the business in an individual way until
1915, when the Theodor Kundtz Company was incorporated, and he
has since been president of this corporation. Mr. Kundtz is a member
of the Cleveland Cliamber of Commerce, and is valued as a sterling citizen
of distinctive public spirit and much civic liberality. He is a republican, a
member of the Tippecanoe Club, and a communicant of St. Rose Church.
His wife, whose maiden name was Mary Balasch, was born and reared in
Cleveland, and here their children were born.

William W. Taylor is president and general manager of the
Taylor Machine Company, an important Cleveland concern devoted to the
manufacturing of lathes, drill presses, priming cups and other kindred
products.

Mr. Taylor was born at New Straitsville, Ohio, August 8, 1879, there
received the advantages of the public schools, and in 1898 he came to
Cleveland and entered upon an apprenticeship to the trade of machinist,
besides which he advanced his scientific and mechanical knowledge by
attending night school. In 1907 he established the business of which
he is still the executive head, and the enterprise was conducted under
his name until 1917, when he efi^ected the incorporation of the Taylor
Machine Company, of which he has since been the president and general
manager. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, holds membership
in representative local clubs, and he and his wife are members of Trinity
Congregational Church. In 1904 Mr. Taylor wedded Miss Mary Beerer,
daughter of the late Joseph Beerer.

Francis Asbury Shepherd, a resident of Cleveland for thirty years,
is a lawyer by profession, but his name is most prominently associated with
the banking and financial interests of the South Side. He is president of
the Home Savings & Trust Company, and the success of that strong insti-
tution is largely the result of his capable direction since its founding.

Mr. Shepherd was born in Carroll County, Ohio, June 5, 1866. This
branch of the Shepherd family was established in Carroll County' more
than a century ago. The Shepherds were Protestants from Ireland, and
were among the pioneer home makers and developers of Carroll County.
The grandfather of the Cleveland banker was George Shepherd, whose life
was spent as a farmer in Carroll County. Francis A. Shepherd is a son of
Elijah and Jane (Kneen) Shepherd. His father was also a native of Car-
roll County, was a farmer, and died at his fine homestead near Harlem
Springs in 1887. His wife, Jane Kneen, was born on the Isle of Man. a
British subject, and came to the United States and to Carroll County with
her parents, who were among the first Manx settlers of Ohio. After the
death of her husband she made her home with her son in Cleveland, where
she died in 1903.

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a boy attended district schools, and was also a student in Harlem Springs
College. He was a student there about three years, leaving his studies to
take charge of the home farm after the death of his father. Mr. Shepherd
had five years of practical farm experience, an experience that has not been
without value to his subsequent career.

In 1892 he came to Cleveland, and after graduating from the Euclid
Avenue Business College, bought a half interest in a lumber business and
for a number of years was actively connected with the firm of Holmes &
Shepherd, lumber dealers. In the meantime he was a student of law in the
office of the late Amos Dennison, and was admitted to the bar in 1900.
During that portion of his life when he was a practicing attorney Mr. Shep-
herd served as city attorney of the Village of South Brooklyn, and had
much to do with initiating and completing the village's first public improve-
ments, including street paving and sewerage.

In 1902 he and Vernon R. Andrews organized the Home Savings &
Banking Company of South Brooklyn. Mr. Shepherd became secretary
and treasurer and active manager of the business, and was mainly respon-
sible for its early growth and substantial prosperity. In 1916 the name
was changed to the Home Savings & Trust Company, and since 1920
Mr. Shepherd has been president of the institution. This is one of the
largest banking and financial institutions in the south and west sides of
Cleveland. Besides being an able banker and active citizen Mr. Shepherd
was a member of the board of directors of the Cleveland Chamber of In-
dustry two years, and a member since its organization, and is a charter
member of the Cleveland Bankers' Club and the Southwestern Business
Men's Club. He is a member of the board of trustees of the Brooklyn
Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church. Fraternally he is affiliated with
Laurel Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons ; Cleveland Chapter, Royal Arch
Masons ; Glenn Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and Riverside
Lodge, Knights of Pythias.

Mr. Shepherd married Miss Olive C. Kelsey, of California. Her father,
J. W. Kelsey, for a number of years lived in Medina and Sandusky coun-
ties, Ohio, and moved from there to the Middle West and thence to the
Pacific Coast. He was a successful educator, but entered the ministry soon
after his marriage, and is still active in the ministry in California, though
eighty-three years of age. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Shepherd are:
Marian J., a senior at Wooster College ; Helen K., also a senior at Wooster ;
and Francis Vernon, in high school.

William Eli Futch. Among Cleveland's financial and business insti-
tutions none have brought more fame to that city than the first bank in
America organized and founded by labor, the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers Co-Operative National Bank, which was established November
1, 1920, by members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, and
while its management is in the hands of men of expert and successful
banking experience, several of the executive officers have long been
officially identified with the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. While
the bank has been in existence less than three years, its resources total over
$23,000,000.

One of the vice presidents of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers

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Co-Operative National Bank is William Eli Futch, who for many years has
been an official of the Brotherhood and is an old time railroad man.

Mr. Futch was born on a farm in Bryant County, Georgia, March 12,
1860, in a locality isolated from all to*vns and railroad centers. His parents
were William and Amy Adalaide (Spiers) Futch. His maternal grand-
mother was Mary O'Quinn, whose ancestors came from Ireland. His great-
grandfather, Onesymus Futch, was, according to the family tradition, a
native of Holland. His grandfather was Eli Futch, an extensive planter
and slave holder before the war. Eli Futch married Mary Wright, a direct
descendant of the first Colonial governor of Georgia.

William Futch, father of the Cleveland banker, was reared on his father's
plantation, and served throughout the period pf the Civil war in the
Confederate army. After the war he abandoned farming and became a
merchant at Brunswick, Georgia, where he continued in business until his
death in 1872 during a yellow fever epidemic. He was a very devout
Baptist and a member of the Masonic Order. His family consisted of
three sons and three daughters, William E. being second in age, and five of
them still living.

William Eli Futch spent his boyhood at Brunswick, Georgia. He was
twelve years of age when his father died, and that event put an end to his
further schooling except what education has come to him in liberal quantities
through practical experience with men and affairs. His father left his
business in such condition that it paid nothing to the family after all obliga-
tions were satisfied. William E. Futch, therefore, had to become the prac-
tical head of a family of seven, and from that time forward his career was
one of hard labor and he unselfishly devoted his time and earnings to the
benefit of the family for some years. On reaching his majority he qualified
as a locomotive engineer, and he had charge of a locomotive on the Plant
System of Railways in Georgia for a period of fourteen years.

Mr. Futch was elected president of the Locomotive Engineers Mutual
Life & Accident Insurance Association, an adjunct of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers, when he was thirty-six years of age, and for over
a quarter of a century has been officially identified with some of the great
fraternal, beneficiary and cooperative enterprises fostered and supported
by the organization of the locomotive engineers. He is a member of the
Advisory Board of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, and in
addition to his post in the bank at Cleveland, is a member of the Board of
Governors of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Pension Associa-
tion and is vice president and director of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers Building Association.

Mr. Futch is secretary of the National Fraternal Congress of America.
In Masonry he is affiliated with all the degrees and orders except the
supreme honorary thirty-third degree. He is a member of the Masonic
Club and the City Club of Cleveland.

Mr. Futch is married, and he and his wife became the parents of seven
children, five of whom are living. His oldest daughter. Ethyl Adalaide. is
a practicing attorney, having been admitted to the bar in Ohio, and is the
wife of Ian M. Ross, also an attorney. Mr. Futch's second daughter is
married. His first two sons died in early childhood. His third son is a
graduate in medicine and surgery from the University of IMichigan. His

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third daughter, a widow with one son, is an employe of the Cleveland Trust
Company. His youngest child and son is a student in the Staunton Military
Academy at Staunton, Virginia. Mr. Futch's aged mother, now eighty-six,
is also one of his family circle.

Junius Harvey Minton is one of the firm of Dresser-Minton Com-
pany, engineers and contractors, who have handled an important volume of
general construction and building work in Cleveland and elsewhere.
Mr. Minton is a well qualified engineer, having spent several years in rail-
road work before coming to Cleveland.

He was born in Virginia, of an old family of that historic common-
wealth. The Mintons came from England in 1700, and for many genera-
tions have been represented chiefly in planting and farming. Junius Harvey
Minton was born at Smithfield, Virginia, December 4, 1885, son of Junius
Harvey and Susan (Chapman) Minton. His parents were also natives of
Smithfield, and his mother is still living.

Mr. Minton was educated in the grammar and high schools of his
native Virginia town, and is a graduate of the Virginia Polytechnic Insti-
tute, where he completed the course leading up to the degree Batchelor of
Science in 1907. Soon after leaving college he entered the service of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, beginning as a rodman in the engineering
department, was promoted to draftsman and eventually was senior assistant
engineer. His service was with the Pennsylvania lines from Pittsburgh
west. After leaving the Pennsylvania Railroad Mr. Minton was with the
United States Steel Corporation in the raw materials department, and in
1920 came to Cleveland, where for one year he was vice president of the
C. R. Cummins Company. In 1921 he became associated with Mr. Dresser
in the Dresser-Minton Company.

While with the Pennsylvania Railway Company he was designer for a
number of railway freight and engine terminals. He was in the railroad
service during the World war, and consequently his work was regarded as
of first essential importance in that capacity, rather than as a soldier in the
field. Mr. Minton is a member of the Engineering Society of Western
Pennsylvania, of the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce and the University
Club of Pittsburgh.

He married Miss Elizabeth Cadman, daughter of A. W. and Kate
(Kennedy) Cadman, of Pittsburgh. They have one daughter, Elizabeth.

John Matteson, who has given nearly forty years of effective ser^'ice
to Cuyahoga County, where he now holds a responsible position in the
office of the county treasurer, has been a resident of the county since his
early childhood, was here reared and educated, and has seen Cleveland
advance from the status of a minor city to that of a pojnilous and beautifid
metropolis. In the city and county he has a wide acquaintanceship, and it
may consistently be said that the number of his friends is equally large.

On the North Sea, in the Province of Holstein, John Matteson was born
June 24, 1852, his native province having been a part of Denmark but having
passed to the governmental control of Germany in 1844. Mr. Matteson is
a son of John Matteson, and the family name of his mother was Lohmeyer.
In 1854, when he was about two years old, the family immigrated to the

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United States, and six weeks elapsed ere the sailing vessel completed the
voyage across the Atlantic and the family landed at historic old Castle
Garden in the Port of New York City. The first five years were passed at
Westerly, a village about twenty miles distant from Albany, New York,
and then, in 1859, removal was made to Cleveland. Mr. Matteson well
remembers the incidents of this momentous journey of his boyhood, the
same having been made by way of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern
Railroad, the line of which then entered Cleveland on a trestle work of
spiles in Lake Erie, a condition that caused wonderment to the observative
boy. The family home was established in that part of the south side of
Cleveland that was then known as Rockport and later as University
Heights. The district now constitutes an integral part of the City of
Cleveland, the limits of which on the south extended only to Erie Street
(now East Ninth Street) at the time when the Matteson family here located.
Cleveland then had a population of about 40,000 west of the river, extending
to Gordon Avenue, a district at that time known as Ohio City, and from
Gordon on to Highland was the district designated West Cleveland.
Mr. Matteson advances the statement that in that period West Cleveland
was governed by the trustees of Rockport. At the time when University
Heights made its initial efi^orts to become a part of Cleveland there were
only two bridges connecting that section with the city — one at Ohio City
and the other at Detroit Street.

Mr. Matteson gained his early education principally in the pubHc
schools, and as a boy he entered the employ of H. P. Hadlow, a gardener
and fruit grower. With other boys he there picked fruit, dug vegetables,
weeded gardens and did such other work as was assigned to him. He fre-
quently accompanied his employer to the Cleveland market, which was at
that time situated on Ontario Street, where now are the stores of the May
Company, Southworth, Bailey and Richardson Brothers. Mr. Hadlow, the
employer, there had a market stand at a point opposite the present establish-
ment of Richardson Brothers, and when the city built and equipped the new
market he there established a market stall. One of the duties of young
Matteson in the early days was to deliver vegetables at the Union Depot,
where Russell & Wheeler then conducted the dining room, and he had
customers also on Bouse, Seneca, Bond and Superior streets, as well as
Euclid Avenue. He delivered vegetables also to homes that stood on the
present site of the City Hall and the Cuyagoha County Courthouse.

After leaving the employ of Mr. Hadlow nineteen years of eflfective
service were given by Mr. Matteson in the employ of the Lanson-Sessions
Company, and he then took a position in the office of the county treasurer.
He has continuously been in the service of the county during the long inter-
vening period of thirty-three years, and during a part of the interval was in
the office of the county auditor. Mr. Matteson is a dimitted member of the
Knights of Pythias, and passed the various official chairs in that fraternal
order.

The year 1881 recorded the marriage of Mr. Matteson. at Buffalo,
New York, to Miss Katharine M. Welz, who was born on Johnson Street
in the City of Cleveland. Of this union have been born three sons and one
daughter: Lewis C, the eldest son, married Miss May O'Leary, and they
ha\^e one son. Jack L. John F. remains a bachelor and is a resident of

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Cleveland. Paul L. was one of seven persons killed in a railroad accident
in California, where, on the line between San Francisco and Los Angeles,
the engine and seven cars of his train were thrown from the track. Jasmine.
the only daughter, is the wife of William A. Cochran, and their one child
is a daughter, Marian L.

John William Latimer has made a record of large and resourceful
achievement in connection with business enterprise of broad scope, and he
is now established independently in business in Cleveland and other cities as
a selling engineer, dealing in asbestos products, his home office headquarters
being in the Marshall Building in Cleveland, while his residence is in the
attractive suburban city of Lakewood. He also has offices in Toledo, Ohio,
and Detroit, Michigan.

Mr. Latimer was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, January 15, 1881, and is a
son of George E. and Mary K. (Bernhardt) Latimer. The Latimer family
is of sterling English-Scotch lineage, and the subject of this review is a
direct descendant of Archbishop Latimer, of Canterbury, England. George
E. Latimer was a skilled mechanic, and was superintendent in charge of a
large mill in the City of Parkersburg, West Virginia, at the time of his
death. May 19, 1923, when sixty-seven years of age. His wife, who was
born in Cincinnati, was fifty-three years of age at the time of her death,
September 5, 191L She was a daughter of John Frederick Bernhardt, who
was born in Germany, and who served as a gallant soldier of the Union in
the Civil war from 1863 to the close of the conflict, he having been a member
of the One Hundred and Seventy-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He
was for many years a prominent merchant tailor in the City of Cincinnati.

John W. Latimer received his early education in the public schools of
Cincinnati, and by his own labors earned the money which enabled him to
continue his studies until he had completed a course in the high school. His
initial activities of independent order were represented in his work at the
painter's trade, and at the age of seventeen years he was foreman of a gang
of thirty-five workmen in this trade. Later he turned his attention to the
building trades, with the idea of engaging eventually in business as a con-
tractor and builder. He continued his activities in this line until the autumn
of 1904, when he entered the employ of the great Johns-Manville, Inc.,
organization, one of the most important concerns in the handling of asbestos
products in the United States. For this company he did construction work
at Dayton, Ohio, and in February, 1905, he became a salesman for the
concern in West Virginia, where also he had supervision of construction
work for the company in the City of Charleston. In 1909 he was assigned
the management of this company's sales and construction operations in the
district comprising Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky, with head-
quarters at Huntington, West Virginia. In 1914 he was transferred to the
Central district, Cleveland, Ohio, in charge of sales and selling engineering.
He continued his effective administration in this capacity until October 1,
1921, when he resigned his position with Johns-Manville, Inc., to engage
in business in an independent way. Under his own name he has since
developed a substantial selling engineering business in the handling of
asbestos and its allied products, and his business is constantly expanding in
scope and importance in the installation of insulation of every description,

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besides which he handles general lines of asbestos products. Mr. Latimer
.is a member of the Cleveland Engineering Society and the Lakewood
Country Club. He is a director of the Detroit Avenue Savings & Loan
Company of Lakewood.

Mr. Latimer is affiliated with Lakewood Lodge No. 601, Free and
Accepted Masons, his capitular Masonic affiliation being with Tyrian Chap-
ter No. 13, Royal Arch Masons, at Charleston, West Virginia. He is a
member of Holy Grail Commandery No. 70, Knights Templar, at Lake-
wood, and in the Scottish Rite of Free Masonry he has received the thirty-
second degree in the Consistory at Wheeling, West Virginia, in which state
he is also a member of Beni Kedem Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of
Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, at Charleston.

June 1, 1905, recorded the marriage of Mr. Latimer and Miss Ethel
Anna Pease, who was born at West Carrollton, Ohio, and who is a daughter
of the late D. W. and Anna (LeCompte) Pease. Since the year 1914
Mr. Latimer has been a resident of Lakewood, Ohio.

Albert George Daykin, business leader and philanthropist, is asso-
ciated with one of the largest and best known business establishments in
Cleveland, the Daykin Brothers Company, manufacturers of plumbers'
supplies, and of which he is manager.

Mr. Daykin is a native of Cleveland, son of the late James and Elizabeth
(Hugell) Daykin. James Daykin was born on the River Swales, near
Richmond, England, and was of the same family as Bishop Daykin, whose
monument stands in the churchyard at Richmond. His wife, Elizabeth
Hugell, was born at Richmond, England, and came from a collateral branch
of the same family as that from which Gen. George Washington descended.
James Daykin was an engineering contractor, and did some notable work
in England, especially in the building of several large railway tunnels. He
brought his family to the United States in 1855, locating in Cleveland,
where he became a manufacturer of pumps and engines. He owned a
factory on Columbus Road on the West Side, and continued at the head
of this prosperous business the rest of his life. The factory is still operated
by one of his sons.

Albert G. Daykin grew up on the West Side of Cleveland, attended the
Hicks Street Public School, the West High School and the Spencerian
Business College, and served an apprenticeship at the plumber's trade. Of
the practical phases of the plumbing trade and the manufacture of the
equipment used by the trade at least one of the Da}'kin l^rothers is an
authority and master, and the business developed by them has become the
largest establishment of its kind in Northern Ohio. The company has an
average of about 100 skilled workers. Their products are distributed
entirely through the jobbing trade, and the output of their plumbing supplies
has a recognized standard wherever plumbing goods are used. There are
seven brothers in the Daykin Brothers Company, and their business is a
landmark in Cleveland.

Mr. Albert G. Daykin has never married, and has employed iiis accumu-
lating wealth from a successful business career in practical philanthropy.
Money to him has meant the opportunity to relieve suffering and restore
the sick to usefulness and health. He has put in much time and thought

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in experimental investigation along lines of rehabilitating those broken down
by ill health, and has a knowledge of all the various systems employed for
curing disease, including such treatments as those used in electro-therapy
and the various mineral cures. Again and again he has sought to restore
the health of the poor after they had been given up by regular physicians,
employing the best scientific methods without charge, and in this way his
wealth has become an important source of practical philanthropy.

Recently Mr. Daykin bought the old Selden home, a landmark on the
West Side, and has entirely renovated and, in fact, practically rebuilt it,
making it a beautiful place for his own residence and also with special,
quarters and facilities for the treatment of the sick by scientific methods.
He has introduced into the old home all the modern improvements and
facilities, and it contains some exceptionally beautiful decorations. In this
house are quarters suitable for his interesting selection of relics, including
many rare pieces of jewelry, his hobby being the collection of cameos. He
has also collected many pieces of fire arms. On the wall of one of the
dens is an historical painting showing John Jacob Astor, the old fur trader,
bartering with Indians in a location which is now Edgewater Park. This
painting has been pronounced historically correct and is the only one on that
subject in existence.

Mr. Daykin is a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Industry, the
Cleveland Yacht Club, the Masons, Elks and Odd Fellows.

Ferdinand John Conrad Dresser is a civil and construction engineer
whose experience has covered many states in the building of railroads and
industrial plants. He is now senior member of the Dresser-Minton Com-
pany, general engineers and contractors, with offices in the Arcade at
Cleveland.

Mr. Dresser is a man of unusual attainments in his profession, and has
made his career the basis of his individual eflForts. He was born at Arcadia,
Wisconsin, December 21, 1883, son of John and Anna (Kirschner)
Dresser. His father, a native of Wisconsin, died leaving his widow with
three small children. She was the daughter of a Lutheran minister. She
was born in Germany, and was a child when her father came to this country
and located in Wisconsin. Left a widow, she faced courageously the task of
providing for and rearing and educating her children, and they have always
been deeply grateful for the sacrifices she accepted and the work she did in
giving them a start in life. Ferdinand John Conrad Dresser as a boy
attended the public schools in his native Village of Arcadia. Subsequently
he took a course in engineering at the University of Wisconsin. Leaving
the university in 1904, he joined an engineering party as rodman for the
Girard Construction Company. This company was then engaged in railroad
work in Illinois. He was soon advanced from rodman to assistant engineer
on location and construction for the Chicago, Milwaukee & Gary Rail-
way, and continued in that post until 1908. During 1908-09 he was super-
intendent of designing and construction of a large brick manufacturing plant
for the Blair Clay Company. From 1909 to 1914 Mr. Dresser was in the
service of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company as assistant
engineer on location in Dakota and Iowa, in new line construction in Wis-
consin, in the building of a new terminal at Milwaukee and Clinton, Iowa,

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and bridge, dock and reinforced concrete elevator work. On leaving the
Chicago and Northwestern he was for a time superintendent of bridges
for John Mausch, a contractor in railroad construction in Massachusetts,
and during 1915-16 was superintendent of reinforced concrete buildings
for the Turner Construction Company of New York City. From 1916 to
1921 Mr. Dresser was assistant general superintendent and later district
manager in general charge of the Cleveland district for the Austin Com-
pany, having charge of all the railroad work for that ccjmpany, including
the terminals at Logansport and Richmond, Indiana, and at Crestline and
Columbus, Ohio.

During the World war period Mr, Dresser had personal supervision in
general charge of the handhng of over fifty contracts concerning the erec-
tion of a number of buildings in record time, such as the New York Air
Brake Plant erected in fifty days, the Dayton-Wright Areoplane Plant, built
in thirty days, the Nordyke-Marmon Plant, also in thirty days, and a
structure of the National Cash Register, built in thirty days.

Mr. Dresser on August 1, 1921, organized the Dresser-Minton Com-
pany, engineers and contractors. The company has offices both in Cleveland
and Pittsburgh. Since January 1, 1919, Mr. Dresser has been representa-
tive of the association of general contractors of America and the National
Board of Jurisdictional Awards, a position bringing him into personal
contact with all the large general contractors and engmeers of the country.
He is also president of the Cleveland Chapter of that association and of
the Western Society of Engineers.

Mr. Dresser is a member of the Cleveland Athletic Club and the
Masonic order. He married in New York City Miss Helen Wallian.

Carl Albert Stein, who is Northern Ohio manager for the Ely &
Walker Dry Goods Company of St. Louis, Missouri, maintains his execu-
tive headquarters in his native City of Cleveland, where his offices are
in the Columbus Building.

In the old Stein homestead, at the junction of the present Woodland
Avenue, Fifty-fifth Street and Kinsman Road, a locality that became
later known as Rock's Corners, Carl A. Stein was born October 14, 1875,
and from that time to the present Cleveland has continued to be his home.
He is a son of the late Sigmund and Josephine (Statemeyer) Stein, who
at the time of their death were old and honored citizens of Cleveland.
Sigmund Stein was born in Germany, and became a resident of Cleve-
land, Ohio, in 1848, his wife, who was a native of Switzerland, having
arrived in this city a few years later and their marriage having here been
solemnized. Sigmund Stein was for many years a successful representa-
tive of the real estate business in Cleveland, and he was one of the sub-
stantial, well known and highly honored citizens of the Ohio metropolis
at the time of his death, in 1906. His widow passed away in 1908.

Carl A. Stein attended the public schools until he was fifteen years
of age, and then found employment in a local factory. A few years later
he entered the employ of the old established dr\' goods house of Root &
McBride. and with this Cleveland concern he continued his alliance twenty
years. He learned all details of the wholesale dry goods business and
gradually won advancement until he became one of the most successful

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and popular traveling salesmen for this old and reliable house. In
November, 1917, Mr. Stein assumed the position of manager of the Cleve-
land ofhce of the Ely & Walker Dry Goods Company of St. Louis, and
he now has executive charge of that concern's business in Northern Ohio,
besides personally acting as salesman for his house in the larger cities of
his assigned jurisdiction, including Akron and Toledo. Mr. Stein is a
member of the board of directors of the Colonial Savings & Loan Com-
pany of Lakevi^ood, and is vice president of the First National Bank of
Rocky River, he having been one of the organizers of this institution. He
maintains his home in the attractive Village of Rocky River, vi^here he has
given nine years of effective service as a member of the Municipal Council
and four years as a member of the Board of Education. Of his secure
status in popular confidence and esteem in his home village further assur-
ance is given in the statement that he is now (1923) serving his sixth
consecutive year as mayor. He is one of the liberal and progressive citi-
zens of Rocky River, and is an active member of its Chamber of Commerce.
His York Rite Masonic affiliations are with Dover Lodge, Ancient Free
and Accepted Masons ; Cunningham Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; Holy-
rood Commandery, Knights Templar; while in Lake Erie Consistory
of the Valley of Cleveland he has received the thirty-second degree of the
Scottish Rite, besides being a Noble of Al Koran Temple of the Mystic
Shrine.

Mr. Stein married Miss Eva M. Mastic, who was born in Rockport
Township, Cuyahoga County, and who is a daughter of Frank and Hannah
Mastic. Mr. and Mrs. Stein have two sons, Sigmund F. and Carl M. The
elder son is a member of the class of '24 in the University of Ohio.

Archibald J. Kennel, assignment commissioner of the criminal
branch of the Common Pleas Court of Cuyahoga County, was reared and
educated in this city, and since youth has been well known in newspaper
circles, being a former political writer for some of the leading Cleveland
dailies. >

Mr. Kennel was born in the City of St. Louis, Missouri, October 24,
1878, and is of German-Swiss ancestors. His parents, William H. and
Caroline (Weaver) Kennel, were also natives of Missouri, and his father
spent most of his life in the newspaper printing business. The family
moved to Cleveland in 1887, and William H. Kennel died in this city
November 21, 1892. His widow survives him.

Archibald J. Kennel was educated in public schools, and after leaving
school went to work with the Cleveland World, at first in the mechanical
department and later in the editorial room. His newspaper experience
included service with the Cleveland Press and later with the Cleveland
Plain Dealer. He spent five years as political writer for the Plain Dealer.

Failing health comf^elled him to give up the strenuous duties of a news-
paper worker. When the Cuyafhoga County Liquor Licensing Board was
organized, September 1. 1913, Mr. Kennel was appointed its first secre-
tary, and he held that office five or six years. When the Court of Common
Pleas created the office of assignment commissioner of the criminal branch,
the judges of the court by unanimous vote elected Mr. Kennel as assign-
ment commissioner. He has performed the duties of this office since Feb-

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ruary 1, 1919. Two years later the judges also appointed him jury com-
missioner, and since then he has filled both positions.

Mr. Kennel is well known and influential in democratic party politics
of Cleveland. He is a member of the Democratic County Executive Com-
mittee. He is affiliated with the Woodward Lodge of Masons and the
Cleveland City Club.

He married Miss Elma A. Kenel, daughter of Emery A. Kenel, whose
parents came from Germany. The three daughters of Mr. Kennel are:
Marjorie Grace, born in 1910; Elma Anna, born in 1913, and Irene Lucille,
born in 1917.

Albert George Stucky, who is one of the vice presidents of the
Guardian Savings & Trust Company, entered the employ of that great Cleve-
land financial institution twenty years ago, and his promotions indicate the
fidelity of his service and his unusual qualifications.

Mr. Stucky was born in Kirchdorf, Switzerland, March 17, 1878, and
was brought to the United States when a child by his parents, Edward
and Elizabeth (Frey) Stucky. The community in which he passed his
boyhood and early youth was New Philadelphia, Ohio, where he attended
high school. Mr. Stucky's early ambitions were inclined toward a banking
career. He was twenty-four when in 1902 he became a clerk of the
Guardian Savings and Trust Company. He was promoted to assistant
secretary in 1913, and since 1918 has been vice president and trust officer.

Mr. Stucky is affiliated with Glenville Lodge, Free and Accepted
Masons ; McKinley Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; Holy Grail Commandery,
Knights Templar ; Lake Erie Consistory of the Scottish Rite ; and Al Koran
Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He belongs to the Cleveland Chamber of
Commerce, the Lakewood Country Club, the Cleveland Automobile Club,
the City Club, and Electrical League. His church home is the Detroit
Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church.

Mr. Stucky married at New Philadelphia, Ohio, May 3, 1904, Miss Mar-
garet M. Kinsey, daughter of John W. and Anna (Meyer) Kinsey. They
have four children : Edward K., Ralph E., Margart A. and Marian L.

Charles Edward Benham at the age of nine years "went to sea" on
the Great Lakes. That was about 1856, the year the republican party
presented its first national candidate for president, and five years before
the outbreak of the Civil war. Captain Benham has been closely associated
with marine transportation, and for some years sailed the lakes as master
and vessel owner, and has been a witness of and participant in a remarkable
period of development and change aflfecting the destiny of the City of
Cleveland.

He was born in Ashtabula, Ohio, September 29, 1847, son of Samuel
and Harriet N. (Williams) Benham. His parents represented old New
England families, his father being a native of IMiddletown, Connecticut,
and his mother of Weymouth, Massachusetts. She died in 1897, at the
age of seventy-five. Samuel Benham, as a young man, located at Ashtabula,
where for many years he was engaged in merchandising, and after 1852
was identified with mercantile interests in Cleveland, being first located on
River Street and later on Detroit Street. He, too, died in 1897, aged

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seventy-seven years. During the Civil war, with headquarters in the
Northern Transportation Building on River Street, he shipped provisions
to the army for the Government. Prior to that he had heen interested in
the vessel business at Ashtabula, interests that coincided with the early
experiences of his son, Charles E., on the Great Lakes.

Charles Edward Benham was educated in the public schools of Ashta-
bula, and in the Bryant and Stratton Business College at Cleveland. From
his earliest recollections he had a great fondness for the water, and began
sailing on the lakes in the summer seasons when only nine years old.
During the winter months, following the completion of his commercial
course, he read medicine with Doctors Boynton and Van Norman for two
years, and afterwards with Doctor Van Norman alone for two years,
likewise attended lectures at the Huron Street Homeopathic Medical
College, but with no intention of engaging in practice as a life work, his
reading being done simply for his interest in the profession, and while navi-
gation on the lakes was closed.

On August 13, 1862, when sixteen years of age, he sailed his first
vessel, as master of the Industry, on Lakes Erie and Huron, and from that
time forward was in command of vessels of every description. He first
became financially interested in shipping at the time he was made master,
and gradually increased his investments, owning at different times the
schooners Henry C. Richards, Queen City, Zack Chandler, C. H. Johnson,
Reindeer, George Sherman, and the steamers Metropolis, Ketchum, Nahant,
H. B. Tuttle and Edward S. Pease, some of which he also sailed. For
eleven years he was the owner of the tug Sampson, the most powerful tug-
boat on the Lakes, which he sailed for five years. He also owned numerous
other tugs, and at one time controlled and operated the White Stack Tug
Line of seven tugs. In 1882 he practically left the Lakes, but has continued
his financial connection with vessel interests to some extent to the present,
although he ceased to be actively interested therein when he entered the
United States Government service as special deputy collector of customs
in 1898.

At the beginning of the Spanish-American war, during the administra-
tion of Luther Allen as president of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce,
Captain Benham, as chairman of the Navigation Committee, converted the
United States cutter Andy Johnson into the First Naval Reserve Ship of
Ohio, and commanded her for a number of trips.

About 1882 Captain Benham entered the firm of Palmer and Benham,
vessel owners and agents, and while associated therewith represented the
marine interests of the Mercantile Insurance Company and also looked
after the wrecking and appraising for several different companies. The
firm of Palmer and Benham was the first to occupy quarters in the Perry-
Payne Building. This relation was discontinued in 1897, when the firm
became C. P. Gilchrist & Company, vessel owners, the principal partners
being C. P. Gilchrist and Charles E. Benham. Later Captain Benham con-
ducted an extensive business in marine surveying, appraising, wrecking
and looking after the construction of steel and wooden ships. Probably no
other man in Cleveland has a wider acquaintance with the various crafts
which navigate the lakes or is more competent to speak with authority upon
shipping interests.

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In 1887 Captain Benham moved his residence to the West Side, becoming
a member of the Water Board of the West Cleveland Corporation, of
which he v^^as chairman until the annexation of that district to Cleveland.
He w^as chairman of the West Cleveland annexation committee and also
chairman of the joint committee of annexation of the two cities. As a
member of the water board he established the same system as used in
Cleveland for the tapping of all water lines and also the system of keeping
records in the office. Thereafter, under the Gardner administration, he
was a member of the Infirmary Board, and under Mayor McKisson was a
member of the City Council, During his term of service he acted as chair-
man of the committee which investigated the books of the Consolidated
Street Railway Company to ascertain the cost of carrying passengers.
Aside from his private business interests and public service already men-
tioned, he was for a term of years the first vice president of the West Cleve-
land Banking Company, now a branch of the Cleveland Trust Company,
with which he has been connected since its organization. He is likewise
interested in various other financial and commercial institutions and enter-
prises, and is the owner of valuable West Side real estate. He has been an
active member of the Chamber of Commerce for many years, and at one
time was chairman of the navigation committee ; has for a long period been
a member of the river and harbor committee, and has recently been made
a life member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. He was appointed
by Cleveland to represent the city in the deep water convention held in
Toronto, and. in many other ways has put forth effective and far reaching
efforts for the promotion of public progress. He was elected to serve the
unexpired term of Herman Baehr as president of the Cleveland Chamber
of Industry, when that gentleman was elected mayor of Cleveland, and was
later reelected, serving for the ensuing year 1911. Captain Benham is also
a member of the Lakewood Chamber of Commerce.

In an organization which has had for its object the benefit of shipping
interests Captain Benham is known as senior past grand president of the
International Shipmasters Association of the Great Lakes. The social side
of his nature has found expression in his membership in the Cleveland
Yacht Club, the Rough Riders Club and Tippecanoe Club, and in his
membership in all branches of the Odd Fellows, Masons and other fraternal
organizations.

Captain Benham is numbered among the few lake commanders who
have not only mastered navigation but have also displayed marked ability
in dealing with the financial problems of lake transportation. Through
the utilization of the opportunities which have been opened in connection
with the shipping interests of Cleveland he has won a thoroughly creditable
success. At the same time he has never lived a self -centered life, but
with broad outlook he has cooperated with concerns of public importance
wherein the city has been a direct beneficiary ; nor has he been unmindful
of the social and beneficial amenities of life, which are a source of much
happiness to him.

On New Year's eve of 1867 Captain Benham married at Cleveland Miss
Mary J. Prescott, a daughter of William Prescott, of Boston, Massachu-
setts. Mrs. Benham, who died January 10, 1899, was very active in chari-
table and benevolent work, and was a past grand president of Edge water

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Rebekah Lodge No. 264. She was a liberal contributor to the Old Ladies
Home and other benevolent institutions. By marriage she became the
mother of five sons and two daughters: Capt. C. A. Benham, master of
steamers of the Hutchinson fleet until his death in July, 1919; William P.,
master of the steamer C. L. Hutchinson ; George E., master of the steamer
John Owen, which was lost on Lake Superior, near Caribou Island, with
the entire crew on November 13, 1919; Robert H., formerly chief engineer
of the steamer J. J. Sullivan, now Government inspector of steam vessels
at Cleveland ; Harrison M., who graduated from Case School of Applied
Science and is now division superintendent of the New Jersey division
of the New York Telephone Company ; Eva May, wife of J. U. Karr, of the
Pioneer Marine Supply Company, dealers in ship supplies; and Jennie M.,
wife of Lawrence J. Efiferth.

On March 16, 1911, Captain Benham married Miss Minnie M. Hayes,
daughter of the late Thomas J. and Jennie Hayes, formerly of Wooster,
Ohio. Mr^. Benham successfully filled various positions as bookkeeper and
public accountant in Cleveland for about twenty-five years and has been
for the past seven years recorder for the Ladies Oriental Shrine of North
America, and is connected in an official way with other fraternal organi-
zations.

Robert Henry Sunkle, M. D. In the twenty-six years Doctor Sunkle
has practiced medicine and surgery in Cleveland, he has divided his time
and energies both with a large private practice and a professional service
of a public nature. He has been thoroughly successful in every way, is a
hard working doctor, a public spirited citizen, and is a man of unusual
interests and accomplishments.

Doctor Sunkle, whose home is on the South Side, was born at Wines-
burg, Holmes County, Ohio, November 15, 1863, son of Louis and
Rosina (Unselt) Sunkle. His father was born in Bolanden, near the
River Rhine, in Germany in 1836. His family were involved in the
German Revolution of 1848, and largely on account of their democratic
sympathies and activities they exiled themselves from Germany and came
to America. Louis Sunkle subsequently took part in the movement to
establish a free state in Kansas, and after that experience settled at
Winesburg, Ohio. For many years he was in the grocery business, and
also kept a tavern there and owned a small farm near the town. His wife,
Rosina Unselt, was born near Stone Creek in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, in
1843, and died at Winesburg in 1915. She was one of the very busy, old-
fashioned type of mother and housewife, and in addition to looking after
her home she contributed to the family income by running a millinery store.
Louis Sunkle and wife had nine children, seven of whom are hving: John,
deceased; Robert H. ; Leonora, wife of A. Shilgenbauer, a resident of
Cleveland ; Etta, wife of George Roller, a resident of Winesboro, Ohio ;
Charles P., a grocery merchant at Cleveland ; Emma, wife of Levi Kinsley,
of Cleveland; Theo J., of Cleveland; Irene, deceased; and Walter L., a
salesman of Cleveland. The parents of these children were members of
the German Evangelical United Church at Winesburg.

Robert H. Sunkle grew up in the old town of Winesburg, attended
the public schools there, and in after years he largely earned the money to

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complete his higher education and prepare himself for a profession. In
1889 he graduated Master of Arts from Ohio Northern University at Ada.
He took his professional course in Western Reserve University, being
president of both the junior and senior classes in medical school and
graduating Doctor of Medicine in 1898. Following his graduation he was
appointed an interne in the Lakeside Hospital, and he remained with that
institution as resident physician in charge of the dispensary for a period
of twelve years. In the meantime Doctor Sunkle had begun private prac-
tice, locating in 1899 in the building of the Pearl Street Savings and Trust
Company on West Twenty-fifth Street and Clark Avenue. At that time
he was a well qualified physician, but as yet had not accumulated a practice
that was highly profitable. When he opened his offices in the Bank
Building he had to borrow money to purchase a bicycle on which to
make his professional calls. Subsequent years have brought him all the
success that would satisfy any reasonable ambition. Doctor Sunkle is
now a director in the Pearl Street Savings & Trust Company, and the
Broadview Savings and Loan Company, is owner of a fine home on
Clark Avenue, and has a good farm of a 100 acres near the city. Prac-
tical farming is one of his hobbies, and he is also devoted to literature
and travel. In 1923 he made the trip around the world, visiting all prin-
cipal countries. The trip consumed five months, and at present he is
writing a book of his travels, entitled "Glimpses on a Journey Around
the World."

Doctor Sunkle is on the staff of the Lutheran Hospital as chief ob-
stetrician. He is a member of the Cleveland Academy of JMedicine, and
the Ohio State and American Medical associations. Fraternally he is
affiliated with Ellsworth Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons ;
Hellman Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Forest City Council, Royal and
Select Masters ; Holyrood Commandery, Knights Templar ; Al Koran
Temple of the Mystic Shrine; Lake Erie Consistory of the Scottish Rite.
He belongs to the Brooklyn Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church.

Doctor Sunkle married Clara Viola Karch. She was born at ^Mount
Hope in Holmes County, Ohio, daughter of Frederick and Mar\'
(Pounds) Karch. Doctor and Mrs. Sunkle have two children: Hunter
Robert is a graduate of the Lincoln High School and is now attending
Adelbert College of Western Reserve University. The daughter, Judith
Elizabeth, is a student in the Lincoln High School.

Sheldon Sickels attained to the venerable age of eighty years, and
nearly sixty years marked the period of his residence in the City of Cleve-
land. There is no fixed ultimate, no definite maximum in the scheme
of human motive and action, but the man who best uses his intrinsic powers
and objective opportunities comes most nearly to the realization of his
maximum potentiality. This was significantly shown in the career _ of
Sheldon Sickels, who made his influence large and benignant in connection
with business afifairs, whose intellectuality and well poised personality well
equipped him for a goodly measure of influence in the directing of popular
thought and action, and whose aid was given loyally to the advancement
of educational interests and all other agencies making for social betterment.
This nation has had very few who have been closer and more appreciative

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students of the history and teachings of the Masonic fraternity, and in
much pertaining to this time-revered organization Mr. Sickels was a nation-
ally recognized authority. A man who thought well, taught well and
worked well was this honored and veteran business man of the Ohio
metropolis, and it is gratifying to pay in this work a tribute to his memory.

Sheldon Sickels was born at Albion, the judicial center of Orleans
County, New York, March 25, 1839, and at his home in the City of
Cleveland, Ohio, his death occurred November 7, 1919. He was a son of
Henry J. and Rebecca (Sheldon) Sickels, who continued their residence
in the old Empire State until their death, the father having been one of the
prominent and honored citizens of Albion, where he served a number of
years in the office of postmaster, besides having represented Orleans County
in the New York Legislature. Sheldon Sickels profited by the advantages
afforded in the public or common schools of his native place, and also
attended a business college in the City of Rochester, but in the acquiring
of a really liberal education in the passing years he had recourse to fortifying
self-discipline through well ordered study and reading, the while he made
the most of the progressive influence which practical experience ever lends.
As a lad of fourteen years, Mr. Sickels began to assist his father in the
Albion postoffice, and later he was appointed to a clerkship in the New York
State Legislature, of which his father was a member at the time. When
he was about eighteen years of age he went to the State of Michigan,
and after having there been employed a few months as a bookkeeper he
returned to the old home in New York.

On the 29th of April, 1860, about one month after celebrating his
twenty-first birthday anniversary, Mr. Sickels arrived in Cleveland, the
city that was to continue the stage of his activities during the remainder of
his long and useful life. Here he found employment as bookkeeper in the
office of the Gordon, Fellows & McMillan Company, and with compensation
represented only in the providing of his room and board during the first
month he so definitely proved his efficiency that he was given a regular
salary of $35 a month. Out of his salary for the first year he saved eighty
dollars, and as a mark of special appreciation of his efficient and faithful
service Mr. Gordon, one of his employers, presented him with a bonus of
$50, which he was thus able to add to his reserve. Mr. Sickels continued
to give evidence of his capacity for larger responsibilities, and thus won
advancement of consecutive order. In three years he thus gained promotion
to the position of cashier for this company, which was then the largest
concern of its kind west of New York, its province being the handling of
wholesale groceries, etc. In his two years of service as cashier Mr. Sickels
became an expert in the detecting of counterfeit money, and it may be said
in this connection that all through his signally active business career he made
each successive experience render to him knowledge of enduring value.

After leaving the employ of the company mentioned in the preceding
paragraph Mr. Sickels here became a manufacturer of sewing-machine
cabinets, and after establishing the industry on a solid foundation he sold
the same, taking the buyer's note for virtually the entire purchase price.
Under the changed control the business failed before the note matured, and
Mr. Sickels consequently realized nothing from his labor and his investment.
In the meanwhile he had formed the acquaintance of the officials of the

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Union Steel Screw Company, and in 1873 he accepted the office of secretary
of this corporation, a position which he retained thirty-two years, until
April, 1906, when he became vice president of the company. He had
served also as general manager of the company from 1878 onward, and
was the highest-paid official of this important industrial corporation, his
interest in which he retained until his death.

With his home, his business and his affiliation with the Masonic fra-
ternity as his dominating interests for many years, Mr. Sickels had no
desire to enter the arena of practical politics or to become a candidate for
public office. His civic loyalty, however, was of the highest type, and his
political allegiance was given to the republican party. He was ever ready
to lend his influence and tangible aid in the advancing of educational and
moral interests, and in this connection it is to be recorded that he was one
of the founders of the University School, to the development and upbuild-
ing of which he contributed in generous measure, the institution being
now an important and well ordered unit of the educational system of
Cleveland and the graduating class for the year 1924 mustering fifty-four
members.

In the year 1867 Mr. Sickels was raised to the degree of Master Mason
in Tyrian Lodge, and he then advanced through the other York Rite bodies
until he reached his maximum affiliations, in Oriental Commandery, Knights
Templars. After having received in the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite the
thirty-second degree Mr. Sickels had the distinction of gaining also the
supreme and honorary thirty-third degree, which was conferred upon him
in the City of Boston in 1880, he having been the thirteenth Mason in
the United States to receive this degree and having been the oldest thirty-
third degree Mason in this country at the time of his death. He was a
past master of Tyrian Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and
passed official chairs in the various other Masonic bodies with which he
was identified, he having run the full gamut of both the York and Scottish
Rites. While in the City of London, England, in 1870, Mr. Sickels received
a special invitation that enabled him to attend the meeting of the English
Grand Lodge and there to witness the ceremony of inducting the Prince
of Wales into the office of grand master, the Prince having later become
King Edward VII, and having succeeded Earl de Gray in the office of
grand master of the British Masonic Grand Lodge on the occasion when
Mr. Sickels was thus present.

In his study of the great mass of material touching the history and
teachings of the Masonic fraternity Mr. Sickels manifested an enthusiasm
and pertinacity that resulted in his becoming a recognized authority, as
stated in the opening paragraph of this memoir. Not until the latter years
of his life did he consent to abate his earnest study f)f Masonry, and then
only in accordance with the admonition of his physician, who urged his
cessation of such close application. His own estimate of what the
Masonic fraternity stands for has been given in the following statement
made by him : *T wish to express my belief that one who lives in accord
with its tenets is as fully assured of future salvation as one who places his
faith in the doctrines of the church."

On his trip abroad in 1870 Mr. Sickels visited France as well as
England, and as he was in France at the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian

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war, he experienced no little difficulty in leaving the country. He again
visited Europe in 1883, and in a diary which he faithfully kept for many
years is noted his wonderment at the great expenditure of time and
money being made by the Germans in the building of immense forts and
the extending of fortifications to manifold strategic points. He lived to
see and know the reason for this systematic movement of militarism, as
the great World war came to its close the year prior to his death.

September 29, 1864, recorded the marriage of Mr. Sickels and Miss Elli-
nor L. Davies, daughter of John and Eliza (Babcock) Davies, her father
having been a representative wholesale merchant in Cleveland. Of the five
children of this union the first born was Llewella. who is the wife of
Charles Keim, of Cleveland ; Bert L. died at the age of sixteen years ; Miss
Grace Ella maintains her home in Cleveland, as does also Edith Sheldon,
who is the wife of Marley T. Reynolds; and Malcolm Clark, youngest of
the number, resides in the City of Chicago, the maiden name of his wife
having been Ada Hewston.

Claude Alfred Wilkinson, vice president and secretary of the United
Banking and Trust Company of Cleveland, was born in Brooklyn Village,
now a part of the city, on February 24, 1879, the son of Charles A. and
Julia A. (Tilby) Wilkinson, and a grandson of Simon Wilkinson, who
settled in Hinckley Township when he came to Cuyahoga County from
New York State over seventy years ago.

Charles A. Wilkinson was born on the family farm in Hinckley Town-
ship in 1854. His wife, Julia A., was born in Parma Township, the daugh-
ter of W^illiam Tilby, who came over from England and settled on the
farm in Parma Township during the '50s.

Claude A. Wilkinson was educated in the common schools of Royalton
and the Brooklyn Village High School, and also took the course in a
commercial school. At the age of eighteen years he entered the Old
Farmers and Merchants Bank as a clerk. In 1904 he joined the organiza-
tion of the United Banking and Trust Company as bookkeeper, later was
promoted assistant treasurer, then secretary-treasurer, and in 1919 he was
elected vice president-secretary, and so continues.

Mr. Wilkinson is a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce
and the Cleveland Chamber of Industry, of Brooklyn Lodge, Free and
Accepted Masons, and Webb Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, and of the
Westwood Country Club, Clifton Club and the Cleveland Athletic Club.

Mr. Wilkinson married Alta B. Mawby, who was born in Fremont.
Ohio, daughter of the late John Mawby, and to their marriage two sons
have been born: Wesley x'\., aged seventeen years, and Paul W., aged
twelve years.

Mrs. May C. Wiiitaker. As a writer for newspapers, magazines and
clubs, as a leader in civic and philanthropic activities, Mrs. May Tarbell
Cannon Whitaker is one of the best known women of Cleveland. She is a
member of the Western Reserve Chapter, Daughters of the American
Revolution, and has done much conscientious work in proving up her
ancestry.

She was born at Bedford, Ohio, October 15, 1858, daughter of Leverett

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and Mary Helen (Tinker) Tarbell. The Tarbells were pioneers of the
Ohio Western Reserve. One of her ancestors in the paternal line was
William Tarbell, who served as a soldier in the American Revolution.
William Tarbell married Ann Chapman. Mrs. Whitaker's grandfather,
Col. Abner Chapman Tarbell, of the Ohio and Connecticut Militia, married
Lucy Parke Jones, daughter of Asa Jones, another Revolutionary veteran.
The wife of Asa Jones was Lucy Parke, daughter of Nehemiah Parke,
another soldier of the American Revolution. Col. Abner Chapman Tarbell,
grandfather of Mrs. Whitaker, was born at Colchester, Connecticut, August
24, 1791, a son of William and Ann (Chapman) Tarbell. He founded his
family on a farm in Wicklifife, Ohio, in 1817, where they lived until very
recently, when a part of the Tarbell farm became the estate of Frank
Rockefeller, Esq. Col. A. C. Tarbell died January 6, 1869. Leverett
Tarbell was born November 17, 1819, in what is now Willoughby (Wick-
lifife), Lake County, but was then Chagrin, Cuyahoga County. In early life
he was a school teacher. In 1849 he engaged in merchandising at Bedford
and was a merchant there for a quarter of a century. He also handled
real estate and served as postmaster and justice of the peace. He died in
1903, his wife having passed away in 1902.

Mary Helen Tinker, who became the wife of Leverett Tarbell and
the mother of Mrs. Whitaker, was born in Columbus, New York, May 22,
1829. When she was five years old her parents, John and Marilla (Holt)
Tinker, moved to Ohio and located in Cleveland. John Tinker was born
in Guilford, Vermont, son of Almarin Tinker, of Windham, Connecticut,
and grandson of Nehemiah Tinker, a Revolutionary soldier. Almarin
Tinker married Leafa Stowell, of Vermont. Nehemiah Tinker married
Mary Huntington, of Connecticut. Marilla Holt, wife of John Tinker,
was the daughter of Elijah and Anna (Dickey) Holt, of Wilton, New
Hampshire. Elijah Holt was a son of Jeremiah Holt. Referring again
to the paternal line of Mrs. Whitaker, her ancestor Nehemiah Parke married
Sybil Douglas, whose ancestors include for three generations the notable
Deacon William Douglas of New England.

The first husband of Miss May Tarbell was Grove Gordon Cannon,
born at Warrensville, Cuyahoga County, son of Alonzo S. and Delia R.
(Hawkins) Cannon. Alonzo Samuel Cannon, born in Aurora, Portage
County, was the son of Victor M. Cannon and Caroline (Baldwin) Cannon.
Caroline was the daughter of Samuel Smith Baldwin, the first sheriff of
Cuyahoga County. Delia R. Hawkins was a daughter of Jesse Gould
Hawkins of Streetsboro Corners, Portage County, Ohio. Grove G. Cannon,
who died February 5, 1888, at the age of thirty-three, was a traveling
salesman, representing the old wholesale grocery house of Babcock, Hurd
& Company. By her first marriage Mrs. Whitaker had three children.

Tom Tarbell Cannon, her oldest son. was born at Marion, Ohio, August
8, 1881. He was educated in the Bedford graded schools, the City High
School of Cleveland, Case School of Applied Science, and is now a member
of the Cleveland Stock Exchange. He married Dell Fulton, daughter of
H. F. and Elizabeth (Boyd) Fulton, and they had one daughter, Elizabeth
May, who died in 1920 at the age of eight years. Mr. and Mrs. T. T. Cannon
now reside in Pasadena, California.

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educated in the School of Mines of Columbia University, receiving the
Mining Engineer degree, and is a mining engineer of Cleveland, identified
with interests in this city, in New York and California. He married
Clarion Buell, a daughter of Dr. A. C. and Ada (Wait) Buell, of Cleveland,
and they have one son, Herbert Grove, Jr., born May 2, 1911.

Dana Alonzo Cannon, the third and youngest son, was born May 26,
1885. He was educated in the public schools of Cleveland, and is now
head of Cannon & Company, manufacturers of brick and tile at Sacra-
mento, California. He married Claire Lavenson, daughter of Gus Laven-
son, a shoe merchant of Sacramento. They have one daughter, Patricia,
born March 4, 1917.

On October 15, 1894, Mrs. Cannon became the wife of Alfred Whitaker.
Mr. Whitaker was born August 3, 1851, and was killed at a railroad cross-
ing, February 8, 1896. His parents were Andrew M. and Mary Jane
(Smith) Whitaker. His father, born in Mifflin Township, Allegheny
County, Pennsylvania, May 6, 1823, was a son of Abraham and Mary
(McClure) Whitaker. Abraham Whitaker spent his life in Pennsylvania
and for over a quarter of a century served as justice of the peace. Mary
McClure, the wife of Abraham Whitaker, was a daughter of Andrew
McClure, a native of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, who married Mar-
garet Barnett. Andrew McClure Whitaker, father of Alfred Whitaker, came
with his mother to Ohio in 1847, but a year later returned to his old home in
Pennsylvania. In 1849 he married Mary Jane, daughter of Joseph and
Phoebe Smith, of W. Brownville, Pennsylvania, and in 1850 they came to
Ohio, residing in Bedford, Cuyahoga County until this aged father entered
the great beyond, one month after the tragic death of his son.

Alfred Whitaker was a well known business man of Cleveland. He was
the founder of the Brooks Oil Company of this city and was owner of the
same at the time of his death. He was a leader in democratic politics. The
family home was in Bedford, but following her husband's cleath in 1896
Mrs. W'hitaker brought her little family to Cleveland for better educational
facilities.

By her second marriage Mrs. Whitaker has one son, Alfred Andrew
Whitaker, born September 23, 1895. He was educated at Dartmouth Col-
lege and Western Reserve University, graduating from the latter in 1917.
Immediately he entered the First Officers' Training Camp at Fort Benjamin
Harrison, Indiana. He was commissioned a lieutenant and assigned to
Camp Sherman. He went overseas with the Eighty-third (Ohio) Division
and was on duty in France for eight months. He is now associated with
Cannon & Company at Sacramento, California.

Mrs. Whitaker spent her girlhood in her native town of Bedford, where
she attended high school. It was her steadfast ambition to get a liberal edu-
cation, something that young women of that time seldom achieved. By
teaching school she paid her expenses while in college and university,
attended Willoughby College and subsequently graduated Bachelor of Lit-
erature from Ohio Wesleyan University with the class of 1879. In 1905,
in recognition of her work in philanthropy, Ohio Wesleyan University
conferred upon her the honorary degree Master of Arts. Soon after
graduating she was married and went to live with Mr. Cannon at Marion,
Ohio, which was a convenient residence for him as a traveling salesman,

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Later they returned to Bedford, Ohio. Mrs. Whitaker many years ago
became prominent in the non-partisan Woman's Christian Temperance
Union, conducting in Cleveland Central Friendly Inn, Mary E. Ingersoll
Working Girls Club, Training Home for Friendless Girls, Lakeside vacation
cottages for working girls and Rainey Memorial Institute. She .served
several years as city and state president of that organization.

Throughout her residence in Cleveland Mrs. Whitaker has been promi-
nent in democratic politics. In 1901 she entered the democratic primaries
for nomination for member of the Cleveland School Council, campaigning
Vi'ith Tom L. Johnson. She was nominated and during the campaign that
followed she addressed meetings in every precinct. She was elected by a
substantial majority, and served four years. While a member of the
council she was responsible for the founding of the special schools for
defectives and served as chairman of the committee on revision of rules
and chairman of the committee on old buildings.

It was about 1904 that Mrs. Whitaker took up writing as a serious
vocation. Her first paid article was "A Canvas Cottage," published in
the magazine, Suburban Life. This article describes her three summers'
experience of living in a tent cottage at Bedford. Subsequently she con-
tributed to various magazines and newspapers and was admitted to the
Cleveland Women's Press Club, now the Cleveland Writers' Club, of
which she has been three times elected president. For a number of years
she was on the staff of the Cleveland Press, writing at space rates. In
1915 she entered the Press office as associated editor of the woman's depart-
ment, writing the column called "Mrs. Maxwell's." When the World war
came on this department, as an information bureau, gave special attention
to the location and welfare of the boys from Cuyahoga County, thereby
giving much comfort to distressed parents. On all war questions Mrs.
Whitaker's department became an authority, second only to the Red Cross,
and news pertaining to units was, by order of the editor, submitted to
Mrs. W'hitaker before publication.

Mrs. Whitaker is a member of the executive board of the women's
department of the Cleveland Centennial Commission. This was organized
for the centennial of 1896, and is a self perpetuating commission designed
to preserve the early history of the city and to provide material for the
celebration of the next centennial of the city. Mrs. Whitaker is a member
of the committee having in charge the publishing of "The Memorial to
the Pioneer Women of the Western Reserve," recently completed in five
volumes. She is a member of the Epworth Euclid Methodist Episcopal
Church. She is a member of the Democratic Executive Committee of Cuya-
hoga County and the state. As this brief sketch indicates, Mrs. Whitaker
is a woman of most versatile talents. Much business passed through her
hands because of being twice left a widow. She opened and sold several
allotments and incorporated The Brooks Oil Company and acted as its presi-
dent for three years. One of Mrs. Whitaker's most cherished memories is
the statement of the probate judge in commending most highlv her work
as guardian of the persons and estates of her four children.

H. Ralph Hadlow, who is one of the representative construction
engineers established in business in Cleveland, was born and reared in
this city, and is the only male scion of the third generation of the Hadlow

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family in Cuyahoga County. In the work of his profession he maintains
his well appointed offices in the Finance Building.

Mr. Hadlow, who was here born on the 30th of December, 1881, is a
son of John Hadlow, who was born in a district now included in the City
of Cleveland, in the year 1839, a son of Henry R. Hadlow, who was born
and reared in Hadlow, England, and who became the pioneer representative
of the family in Cleveland. Henry R. Hadlow came to the United States
about the year 1830, and on a portion of his westward journey to Cleve-
land he utilized wagon and ox team as a medium of transportation. At
that period the section now embraced in the western part of Cleveland was
given over to farms and forest tracts. He purchased land that is now
bounded by West Twelfth, Starkweather, Fruit and Castle Avenue, and
there conducted a successful market-gardening business for a long period
of years, he having been upward of ninety years of age at the time of
his death, was one of the sterling pioneer citizens of the Ohio metropolis.
The family name of his wife, who was well advanced in years at the
time of her death, was Fields, and she likewise was born in Hadlow,
England. They became the parents of seven children, namely: Thomas,
Henry, James, George, John, Sarah and Lydia. John Hadlow eventually
purchased the interest of the other heirs and came into full ownership of
the old homestead place. There he continued the market-gardening busi-
ness several years, and with the substantial growth of the city in that
district he finally found it expedient to sell his land, which was acquired
by a syndicate and which is now substantially built up as an integral part
of Cleveland. John Hadlow lived virtually retired for a number of years
prior to his death, which occurred in 1920, within a few months after his
eightieth birthday anniversary. He married Miss Hannah M. Raines,
who was born in Merthyr-Tydvil, Wales, a daughter of John and Sarah
(Evans) Raines, with whom she came to the United States about the year
1863, the family home having been established in Cleveland, where her
father was identified with the oil-refining business until his death. Mrs.
Hadlow still resides in Cleveland, and is the mother of three children,
Gertrude, Carolyn and H. Ralph.

In the public schools of Cleveland H. Ralph Hadlow continued his
studies until his graduation from the high school, and for a time thereafter
he was a student in Williams College. He next completed a thorough
engineering course in the Case School of Applied Science, Cleveland, and
he has since been engaged in successful business as a constructing and
consulting engineer. He takes loyal interest in all that touches the welfare
and advancement of his native city, is a republican in politics, a member
of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and he and his wife
hold membership in the Congregational Church.

The year 1910 recorded the marriage of Mr. Hadlow and Miss Luella
Allen, who was born in the City of Rochester, New York, a daughter of
John and Margaret (Campbell) Allen, both of Scotch lineage. Mr. and
Mrs. Hadlow have one son, John Allen.

George Humphrey Camp, D. D. S., who has been engaged in the prac-
tice of his profession in Cleveland for twenty years, has become a leader
both in his profession and as a citizen in the Brooklyn section of the city.

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Doctor Camp was born at the old Camp homestead in Columbiana
County, Ohio, September 20, 1884, son of Castner and Margaret (Censor)
Camp. This is a pioneer family name in Columbiana County. Its founder
in that section of Eastern Ohio was Daniel Camp, a native of Pennsylvania
and of German parentage. His son, Garrett Camp, was born in Colum-
biana County. Castner Camp, son of Garrett and father of Doctor Camp,
■ was a native of the same county and is still active in the management of
the old homestead there. His wife, Margaret Consor, was born in the
same county, daughter of John F. Consor, also born there, where his parents
settled in pioneer days.

Doctor Camp as a boy attended district schools near the home farm,
also the graded and high schools at Salem, Ohio, and took up the study
of dentistry in the office of Dr. E. E. Dyboll and later in the office of
Dr. Homer G. Rymer, both of Salem. Doctor Camp in 1901 entered the
Dental School of Western Reserve University, graduating Doctor Dental
Science in 1904. Immediately after his graduation he established his office
at the corner of West Twenty-fifth Street and Dennison Avenue, and
subsequently removed to the corner of West Twenty-fifth and Archwood
streets. All his practice has been done in one general locality, including the
old Village of Brooklyn. Doctor Camp is a member of the Cleveland,
the Northern Ohio, the Ohio State, and National Dental societies, and also
the Cleveland Chapter and the Supreme Chapter of the Delta Sigma Delta
fraternities. He is also affiliated with Brooklyn Lodge of Masons and the
Zion Evangelical Church. Doctor Camp married Miss Cliffie B. Steitler, a
native of Owensboro, Kentucky, and daughter of Adam, Jr., and Elise Auer
Steitler.

Charles S. Whittern, who holds the office of grand-jury assignment
commissioner for Cuyahoga County, is showing in this connection the same
loyalty and effective stewardship that have characterized his activities
throughout a career of distinct service and usefulness.

Mr. Whittern is a native of Cuyahoga County, he having been born on
the parental home farm, on York Road in Parma Township, July 31, 1857.
His father, Charles Richard W^hittern, was born in Hawley, England, in
1833, a son of Richard Whithorne, who was born and reared in that same
district in England and who there remained until 1845, when he came
with his family to the United States. This voyage of the Whithorne family
was made on a sailing vessel of the type common to that day, and after
landing in the port of New York City the family passed a few vears in
Schoharie County, New York. Removal was then made to Cuyahoga
County, where Charles Whithorne, a brother of Richard, had previously
established residence, at Newburg. Richard Whithorne rented a farm in
Newburg Township, and there engaged in gardening and minor farm
enterprise. There he remained until after the death of his wife, and he
passed the closing years of his life in the home of his brother Charles,
who had removed to Monroeville, Indiana. Mrs. Wliithorne. who was a
widow at the time of her marriage to Richard Whithorne, died about the
year 1861. Of her second marriage were born two sons, Thomas and
Charles Richard.

In England Charles Richard Whithorne attended one of the branches

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of the Winchcombe Union School, and at the age of eight years he was one
of the three most deserving pupils who were each awarded five pounds and
a family Bible, the presentation having been made by Lord EUenborough,
who placed his signature on the flyleaf of the Bible presented to Mr. Wliit-
horne, the leaf bearing this signature being now in the possession of
Charles S. \\'hittern. In the State ot New York Charles R. Whithorne
advanced his education by attending Schoharie Institute, where he fitted
himself for service as a teacher. Soon after his arrival in Cuyahoga County
he engaged in teaching, and several years later he moved to Kentucky,
where he continued his efi^ective pedagogic service. He taught school in
the Glen Creek Meetinghouse, near Lawrenceburg, Washington County,
that state, and among his pupils was the late Hon. Champ Clark, ex-speaker
of the House of Representatives in the United States Congress. Incidentally
it may here be noted that Charles R. Whithorne found it expedient to
change the original spelling of the family name, Whithorne, to the present
form, Whittern, this action on his part having been taken because the
original spelling led to popular misspelling and mispronunciation of the
patronymic.

Of special interest are the following quotations, taken from the recently
published autobiography of Hon. Champ Clark :

"Of Whittern's arithmetic class, one was voted a gold medal by Congress
for heroic conduct on the field (Civil war), one was killed fighting
valiantly under Ouantrell, one was wounded, under Banks, at Mansfield, the
Prather twins were killed in a private feud (Levi Coulter, who killed them
"became a fugitive from justice), and the youngest member became speaker
of the House of Representatives.

"While Whittern, being a professional phrenologist, claimed that he
could tell what was inside his pupils' heads by feeling the bumps on the
outside, luckily he was not possessed of prophetic power, and could not
predict their future. Otherwise there would have been some long faces
in our little school.

"The best school-teacher who ever taught me was this strolling English
phrenologist, named Charles R. Whittern. for whose memory I have a
profound affection. Mv father induced him to teach a three months' subscrip-
tion school in the neighborhood, and, finding that he was a splendid teacher,
he and others induced him to teach in that vicinity for more than a year —
in fact, until he died. I thought then that he knew everything. I know
now that he did not know very much, but what he did know he could teach
better than any other man that I ever clapped my eves on. As between a
teacher who knows little, but can incite in his pupils a love of learning,
and one who knows a great deal and has not the power to incite a love of
learning, I prefer the former. He is far the more valuable of the two.
Whittern built up a great reputation for teaching arithmetic, and a lot
of grown men came to school. I was a little lad, only ten years old, but
I could outfigure any of them, and those bearded men made a great pet
of me."

The death of Charles R. Whittern occurred in Kentucky, in the '60s,
and there his remains lay at rest. His wife, whose maiden name was
Augusta Stroud, was born in Parma Township, Cuyahoga County, Ohio,
in August, 1.840, and she long survived her husband, her death having

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occurred at Cleveland in 1920, after she had attained to the venerable
age of eighty years. Mrs. Whittern was a daughter of Charles Stroud,
and the ancestral line is supposed to trace back to Holland Dutch origin.
In honor of representatives of this family the Town of Stroudsburg, Penn-
sylvania, was named. Charles Stroud became one of the pioneer settlers
in Parma Township, Cuyahoga County, where he obtained a tract of tim-
bered land and literally hewed out a farm from the forest wilds. He
married Sally Emerson, of English ancestry, and they continued to reside
in Parma Township until their deaths.

Charles S. Whittern, of this review, is the youngest of a family of three
children. Carrie is the wife of Charles Holmes, of Bloomingdale, Michigan,
and Mary, a former school teacher, is the wife of George Geiger, they being
residents on the old homestead which was the place of her birth, in Parma
Township.

A son of a father who was signally appreciative of the value of education,
Charles S. Whittern received in his youth good educational advantages,
and in his eighteenth year began teaching in the district schools of his
native county. He continued his successful pedagogic activities until 1884,
when he assumed the position of deputy county clerk, under the administra-
tion of Dr. Henry W. Kitchen. His ability in the handling of the manifold
details of the office led to his being retained in service by the two successive
county clerks, Harry L. Vail and William R. Coates, and by his appointment,
in 1904, to his present office, that of grand-jury assignment commissioner,
he having continued in official service in his native county for a period
of forty years. He is widely known throughout the county and has a
circle of friends that is equal to that of his acquaintances. He is a repub-
lican in politics, and his wife is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church.

The year 1883 recorded the marriage of Mr. Whittern and Miss Emma
A. Pillars, who was born in Wood County, Ohio, a daughter of John M. and
Emeline (McBride) Pillars, the former of whom was born in Pennsyl-
vania, and the latter was of Scotch ancestry. Hon. James Pillars and
Hon Isaiah Pillars, brothers of John M., became influential citizens of
Tiffin, Seneca County, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs.- Whittern have two children:
Emerson, who has adopted the original spelling of the family name, Whit-
horne, is a talented composer of music, is married and has one son, Cedric V.
Miss Hazel Whittern is a graduate nurse and is now (1924) taking a post-
graduate course in Columbia University, New York City.

Ward C. Bell, physician and surgeon, with offices in both Lakewood
and the West Park district, and residence m the latter, was born on the
Bell homestead near Utica, Licking County, Ohio, and is descended from
an old family of the state. His great-grandfather, James Bell, a native
of Pennsylvania, came to Ohio in 1810 and took up half a section of
Government land in Washington Township, Licking County, and there
spent the remainder of his life engaged in farming. His son Samuel,
grandfather of the doctor, was a lad of ten years when he came with
his parents to Ohio. David P. Bell, father of the doctor, was born on
the old family farm in 1850, and died in 1892. Like his father and grand-
father, he spent his Hfe on the farm. The mother of the doctor, Belle

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Clutter, was born in Knox County, Ohio, the daughter of John and
Rachel (Marlin) Clutter, natives of Pennsylvania, who were early citizens
of Knox County.

Doctor Bell was born on July 27, 1880, and spent his boyhood on
the farm. He was graduated from the Utica High School in 1900, and
took the four years' course at Denison University. After taking the
four years' course in medicine at Western Reserve University he then
entered the Toledo (Ohio) University, where he was graduated with
the Doctor of Medicine degree with the class of 1911. During his last
year in college he served as interne in the Toledo City Hospital. He
entered the general practice of medicine and surgery in Lakewood in 1911,
soon extending his practice to West Park, maintaining his residence in
the latter, which is now a part of the City of Cleveland. During the
last four years he has specialized in obstetrics in which branch of practice
he has been very successful. He served as health commissioner of the
then City of West Park for four and a half years.

Doctor Bell married Miss Beulah Allyne, who was born in Cleveland,
the daughter of the late Joseph Allyne, a former well-known citizen of
this city. To Doctor and Mrs. Bell three children have been born : Robert
Allyne, Alison Nora, and George Weightman.

Doctor Bell is a member of Ohio Lodge No. 101, Free and Accepted
Masons, and the order of the Modern Woodman, and is a member of

the official board of West Park Baptist Church.

I

Harry Harper Wilcoxen has been engaged in the practice of law in
the City of Cleveland since 1910, and has won distinct prestige and success
in the profession for which he had thoroughly equipped himself.

Mr. Wilcoxen was born at Wellsville, Columbiana County, Ohio, Janu-
ary 28, 1888, and is a son of Robert and Martha (Geer) Wilcoxen, the
former of whom died at Wellsville in 1907, and the latter now resides in
Cleveland. She was born in Hancock County, Virginia (now West Vir-
ginia), daughter of Benjamin and Ellen (Jackson) Geer, representatives of
families that were founded in the Old Dominion State at an early period
of its history.

Robert Wilcoxen was born in Hancock County, Virginia, in 1850, this
county being later made a part of the new state of West Virginia. His
father, Henry Hardy Wilcoxen, was born in Maryland, and became a pio-
neer settler in what is now Hancock County, West Virginia, where he estab-
lished his home long before the era of railroad construction in that section,
his removal from Maryland having been made with teams and wagons. He
reclaimed and improved a productive farm and continued a resident of
Hancock County until his death. Robert Wilcoxen was reared in his
native county, where he received the advantages of the common schools
of the period. Later he moved to Wellsville. Ohio, where he passed the
remainder of his life. He was in the employ for nineteen years of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and he was successful also as a builder.
Of the two children, the subject of this review is the elder, and the younger,
Helen, is the wife of Alfred Morgan, of Palo Alto, California.

In the public schools of Wellsville Harry H. Wilcoxen continued his
studies until his graduation from high school, and in preparation for his

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chosen profession he thereafter entered the law department of the great
University of Michigan. In this institution he was graduated in 1910, and
his reception of the degree of Bachelor of Laws was attended with his admis-
sion to the Michigan bar. In the same year he was admitted to the bar of
Ohio, and since that time he has been continuously engaged in the general
practice of his profession in Cleveland.

March 18, 1913, recorded the marriage of Mr. Wilcoxen and Miss
Jessie Whipple, who was born at Providence, Rhode Island, a daughter
of Edward and Nettie (Worthington) Whipple. Mrs. Wilcoxen passed
to the life eternal on the 4th of March, 1919. Her only child, Robert, died
at the age of fifteen months.

On the 18th of October, 1923, was solemnized the marriage of Mr.
Wilcoxen and Miss Helen Miller, who was born and reared at Ravenna,
Ohio, and who is a daughter of E. E. Miller.

Benjamin E. Ling, director of the Ohio Committee on Public Utility
Information at Cleveland, with offices in the Illuminating Building, has
been identified with Cleveland journalism practically since he left school,
except for the time he was in service during the World war. Mr. Ling
was born in the Ling family home on Trowbridge Street in Cleveland. His
father, Armin Ling, a native of Germany, was the youngest of thirteen
children. Two of his brothers preceded him to America and served as
Union soldiers in the Civil war. Armin Ling after getting a good education
came to America and located at Cleveland. For upwards of thirty years
he was superintendent of the City Insane Asylum, and remained a resident
of Cleveland until his death. His wife, Catherine McCrehen, who is a native
of Fredericksburg, Ohio, was reared and educated in Wooster, Ohio. They
have two children, Benjamin E. and Armin.

Benjamin E. Ling acquired his early education in parochial schools in
Cleveland, and in 1908 was graduated from St. Ignatius College. On leav-
ing college he became a reporter on the staff of the Cleveland Leader, and
in 1911 became a reporter for the Cleveland Press. Mr. Ling in 1918
entered the Government service, being assigned to duty in the quartermas-
ter's department at Washington, with the rank of captain.

In the spring of 1919, on being honorably discharged, he returned home,
again became a reporter for the Press, but in 1920 resigned to become
director of the Ohio Committee on Public Utility Information.

Mr. Ling married, in 1912, Miss Clara F. Schrod, a native of Cleveland,
and daughter of Michael and Barbara Schrod. They have three children.
Rosemary, Eugene and Anita. The family are members of St. Rose's Catho-
lic Church. Mr. Ling is a member of the National Press Club of Washing-
ton. D. C, the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, and the American Legion.

Pierre A. White, a representative member of the bar of Cleveland, a
former judge of the Municipal Court and for the past decade an out-
standing figure in political and civic affairs in the Ohio metropolis, was
born at Sandusky, this state, April 21, 1889. He is a son of Charles
and May (Zube) White, the former of whom was born in New York
City and the latter in Sandusky, Ohio. Charles White was actively
identified with newspaper work for a term of years, in the East and

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later in Ohio, and his death occurred in 1897, in the City of Cincinnati,
his widow being now a resident of Cleveland.

Judge Pierre A. White was graduated from the East High School
of Cleveland as a member of the class of 1905, and in 1910 he was
graduated from the Cleveland Law School of Baldwin-Wallace College,
from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws, with a virtually
coincident admission to the bar of his native state. Upon leaving high
school Judge White took a clerical position in the law offices of White,
Johnson & Cannon, of Cleveland, and he continued his association with
this firm, in varied capacities, including that of student of law, until
1910. After his admission to the bar he was engaged in practice with
the law firm of White, Johnson & Nefif until December 21, 191. S, when
he was appointed by Governor Frank Willis to the bench of the Municipal
Court of Cleveland. At the time when he assumed this judicial office
he had the distinction of being the youngest judge of a court of record
in the entire United States. Upon the expiration of his term on the
bench Judge White resumed the active practice of his profession, and
since 1918 he has been a member of the representative Cleveland law
firm of Calfee, Fogg & White, with offices in the Williamson Building.

Under the administration of Governor Davis, Judge White served
as assistant attorney-general of Ohio, for the Cleveland district, and from
this office he retired January 1, 1923.

Judge White is active and influential in the Ohio ranks of the repub-
lican party and has gained distinctive reputation as an eloquent and con-
vincing campaign orator. He was toastmaster at the McKinley Day
banquet held in Cleveland at the time when Nicholas Murray Butler,
president of Columbia University, was the guest of honor and delivered
his splendid address, entitled: "William McKinley, and Twenty Years
After." Judge White served as president of the League of Republican
Clubs, and is a member of the Tippecanoe Club and the Cleveland
Athletic Club.

August 1, 1914, recorded the marriage of Judge White and Miss Lola
Eileen Lowe, of Meadville, Pennsylvania, and they are popular figures
in the social life of their home city.

LuNDUs Abiathar Hildie, vice president of the Universal Valve &
Fittings Company, of Cleveland, Ohio, was born at Dresden, Ontario,
July 31, 1875, son of Christopher W. and Mary (McLeod) Hildie. His
parents were Canadians of Scotch ancestry and came to the United
State in 1884, locating on a farm in Huron County, Michigan. Subse-
quently selling that place, they removed to Kingston, Tuscola County,
Michigan, where Christopher W. Hildie died in 1914, at the age of
seventy years. His widow is now in her eightieth year.

Lundus A. Hildie began his education in the common schools of
Canada, attended a school in Michigan and finished his education in
the Normal School at Bad Ax, Michigan. His home has been in Cleve-
land since 1895, from the time he was twenty years of age. His first
employment was with the Cleveland & Buffalo Transportation Company.
The work which led to his permanent business estal)lishment began with
his service in the W. M. Pattison Supply Company, hardware and mill

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supplies. He continued with that firm until August, 1921. For fifteen
years he represented the company as a salesman of heating and ventilat-
ing apparatus, and made a thorough and practical study of everything
connected w^ith this business. He has handled a numljer of important
contracts in Cleveland and vicinity for the installation of heating and
ventilating apparatus.

His home has been in Lakewood since 1911, and he has become one
of that city's prominent men of aflairs. In the fall of 1918 he was
appointed to fill a vacancy in the Lakewood City Council, and was regu-
larly elected in 1919 and reelected in 1921. For two years he was
president of the council, and served as chairman of the committee on
streets, the committee on rules and ordinances, the committee on city
property and parks, the committee on finance, claims and accounts, and
was vice chairman of several other committees. He championed the
new traffic and present zoning ordinances, and was particularly active in
securing the land now in use by the city for park purposes. During
the World war Mr. Hildie served as ward captain of Ward No. 2 in
three of the Liberty Bond campaigns.

For two years he served as a director of the Lakewood Chamber of
Commerce and is a member of the City Club. Fraternally he is affiliated
with Halcyon Lodge No. 498, Free and Accepted Masons ; Cunningham
Chapter Royal Arch Masons ; Holy Grail Commandery, Knights Templar ;
Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine; the Grotto, and also Lakewood
Lodge of Elks, No. 1350. He and his family are members of the Lake-
wood Methodist Episcopal Church.

Mr. Hildie married Miss Agnes M. Milliken. She was born at Bay
City, Michigan, daughter of John and Emily Milliken. The one son of
their marriage is J. Newell Hildie, born April 14, 1910.

Adam H. Lintz is an engineer by profession, and has rendered
important service with industrial corporations, for the Government and
the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce.

He was born at Kenton, in Hardin County, Ohio, in 1889. His
tather was John Lintz, a native of Germany. John Lintz had a brother,
much younger than himself, also given the name John. This brother
was born after Mr. Lintz left Germany. On coming to the United
States he settled at Belle Center, Ohio, where he spent the rest of his
life. In America he always spelled his name John Lins. There were
seven children, five of whom now survive him. John Lintz acquired
a good education in Germany, and was a young man when he came to
America, settling at Kenton, where he established the first meat market
in that town. He continued in business there until his death. By his
first marriage he had three sons : John, \\' illiam and Henry. His
second wife was Marie Dorn, who came to America with her widowed
mother and a brother and sister, and was married in Kenton, where
she still resides. She reared a family of five daughters and two sons :
Lena, Elizabeth, Katherine, Mary. Flora, Louis and Adam H.

Adam H. Lintz was reared at Kenton, attending the public schools.
He was graduated from high school in 1907, and soon afterward went
to work as an employe of the Toledo & Ohio Central Railway Company.

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He spent six months with that railroad, and for a year and a half was
an employe of the Big Four Railway Company. In this way he earned
the money to begin his technical education, working also while in col-
lege. In 1909 he entered the Case School of Applied Science at Cleve-
land, where he completed his technical education, graduating as a Bachelor
of Science in 1913.

After graduating Mr. Lintz became an employe in the plant descrip-
tion department of the American Steel & Wire Company, and was pro-
moted to chief of the department. In 1914 he was put in charge of
the safety department of the work of this corporation in the Pittsburgh
district. In 1916 he was transferred to the engineering department, in
charge of the construction of a coke plant.

Mr. Lintz was given a leave of absence by the American Steel &
Wire Company in August, 1917, to permit him to enter the Government
service. He was assigned to duty in the Norfolk Navy Yard as safety
engineer during the war. In July, 1918, he was transferred to Philadel-
phia as assistant chief safety engineer to the United States Shipping
Board, covering 178 shipbuilding plants and 1,000 auxiliary plants. After
leaving the service of the Federal Government, Mr. Lintz returned to
Cleveland, and in April, 1919, was appointed the first manager of the
Cleveland Safety Council, local branch of the National Safety Council, a
subsidiary organization of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. In
this capacity he has been continued to the present time.

He married in 1923 Miss Sylvia J. Powell, who was born at Kenton,
Ohio, daughter of James H. Powell. He is a member of the Sigma
Chi and Theta Nu Epsilon college fraternities and was president and
treasurer of the Sigma Chi fraternity while in school and has served as
secretary of the Alumni Association of same. In Masonry he is affiliated
with Latham Lodge No. 154 at Kenton, and is a member of the Al Sirat
Grotto No. 17, in Cleveland. He also belongs to the Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks, the Cleveland City Club and the Chamber of
Commerce.

Linda Anne Eastman, librarian of the Cleveland Public Library,
has with brief exception been identified with that public institution for
thirty years.

She was born at Oberlin, Ohio, July 17, 1867, daughter of William
Harvey and Sarah (Redrup) Eastman. Her father was a direct
descendant of Myles Standish and also of Roger Eastman, the first of
the family to come from England to America, in 1638. Her grand-
parents came to Northern Ohio from New York State in 1828.

Linda Anne Eastman was educated in the public schools of Cleve-
land, also by private study, and from 1885 to 1892 her work was that
of a teacher in the public schools. She taught both in West Cleveland
and Cleveland. In 1892 she was appointed assistant at the Cleveland
Public Library, and during 1895 and 1896 acted as assistant librarian
and cataloguer at the Dayton Public Library. Since 1896 her service
has been continuous with the Cleveland Public Library, as vice librarian
from 1896 to 1918 and since 1918 as librarian.

She was an instructor in the Librarv School of Western Reserve

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University from 1904 to 1918, and since the latter year has been assistant
professor and library councillor of the same school. She is a member
and for several terms was on the council and executive board of the
American Library Association, she having served on its training board
and is a member of its commission on the library and adult education. She
is a member of the American Library Institute, and is a charter member
and was president in 1903-1904 of the Ohio Library Association. She
has been a contributor to library periodicals, and is one of the nationally
known members of her profession. Oberlin College in 1924 conferred
upon her an honorary degree of Master of Arts "for conspicuous service
in library work."

Miss Eastman is a member of the executive board of the Welfare
Federation of Cleveland, serving two years as second vice president of
that organization, is *a member of the boards of Cleveland Recreation
Council, Cleveland Girl's Council, Howe Publishing Society for the
Blind, and vice president of the Cleveland Cinema Club and a member
of various other philanthropic boards. She belongs to the League of
Woman Voters, is a charter member of the Woman's City Club of
Cleveland, and served on its board of directors six years and for one
term each was second and first vice president.

James H. Van Dorn, founder of the Van Dorn Iron Works at
Cleveland, was an inventor and manufacturer, who contributed in notable
measure to Cleveland's supremacy as an industrial center during the last
half century.

His ancestry was pure Dutch in name and blood, the name being
variously spelled, Van Doom, and in other forms. The nobility of
Holland to which many of the early Van Dooms belonged, always recog-
nized as the true name, Van Doom and Van der Doom. The earliest
of whom there is record was Stephen Van Doom, high sherifif of the
Margravate of Antwerp in 1088 under the famous Godfrey de Bouillon.
Many later Van Dooms were persons of note in Holland. The family
was established in New York as early as 1642. The ancestor of James
H. Van Dorn was Didlof Doom, the first record of whom is of his
marriage at Brooklyn in 1680. His son Cornelius Doom was born
probably on Long Island about 1683 and died in 1755, and was a weaver
by trade. He moved to Middletown, New Jersey. His son, Nicholas
Dorn, was born at Middletown about 1724, and died in 1796. He was
a farmer and weaver, and probably was the Nicholas Dorn who served
as a private in the Monmouth County Militia in the RcA'olutionary war.
His son, Nicholas Dorn, was born in New Jersey, April 4, 1762.

His son, Isaac Van Dorn, grandfather of James H. Van Dorn, was
born at Middletown, New Jersey. October 30, 1791. and died about
1872 in Fulton County, Illinois. He married Mary Chapman, who was
born at Saratoga, New York, December 23, 1791, and died September
8, 1828. Their son, Peter Van Dorn, was born in Onondaga County.
New York, March 28. 1812, and as a youth moved to Ohio. Between
the years 1830 and 1850 he had the reputation of being the "greatest
barn builder in Northern Ohio." When he was fifteen years of age, he
apprenticed himself to a barn builder near Syracuse, New York, and

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when twenty years of age, began to erect barns in Northern Ohio. It is
said of him that "he could spot more timber, lay out and raise a barn
quicker than any man in that part of the country." He finally settled
on a farm in Lorain County, and stood well in the community. "He
was arbitrary in the management of the premises and allowed no swearing,
tobacco chewing, smoking or drinking. His strongest trait was the
raising of boys. He knew what to do with a boy from the very start
up and the boy generally knew what to do every hour. He was anxious
to raise a president of the United States."

Peter Van Dorn died May 13, 1881. He married Keziah Gardner
of Connecticut, born December 8, 1812, and died July 12, 1864. They
were the parents of ten children.

Fifth of these children was the late James H. Van Dorn, who was
born at the home farm in York, Union County, Ohio, in 1841. His
boyhood was spent on a farm and in attending district school. Cleveland
Van Dorn, his older brother, had become a school teacher and his influ-
ence was exerted to have the Van Dorn children receive a good education,
James H. availing himself of every opportunity his brother ofifered or
made possible. Cleveland Van Dorn served as a captain of the Union
Army all through the Civil war, and later became a minister of the
Gospel in the Baptist Church. He died in Fenton, Michigan, two months
before his brother James H., a, brotherly affection and warm friendship
always existing between the two men.

School years ended for James H. Van Dorn in about 1860. He
then became a blacksmith's apprentice, going to Elyria, Ohio, and placing
himself under the instruction of John A. Topliff. Later he spent two
years as a journeyman blacksmith in the firm of Aultman & Miller of
Akron, Ohio. During that period, he bought a small home in Akron, where
he fitted up a room in the cellar, spending months in perfecting an iron
fence of attractive type, which, when erected in front of his own prop-
erty, proved such an interesting exhibit that it became town talk. That
fence was the foundation of his fortune and later business prominence,
for it attracted capital and led to its manufacture in Akron. His first
partner was a man named Goodrich who advanced part of the needed
capital for patents and manufacturing plant, and together they prospered
for two years. When Mr. Goodrich was called to Minneapolis by other
business engagements, the partners then made a division, Mr. Goodrich
retaining the factory building and Mr. Van Dorn taking the machinery
patents and good will of the business. With those assets he came to
Cleveland, Ohio, and securing financial aid through legitimate channels,
received a site from the city at the intersection of the Pennsylvania and
Nickel Plate railroads, there erected a plant, and began manufacturing
his patent iron fence.

In 1898, the Van Dorn Iron Works Company was incorporated, a
large addition was made to the plant and the manufacture of a structural
iron work begun. Many additions have since been made to the factory
and to the list of products, art metal furniture for offices becoming an
important line. The Williamson Building in Cleveland, long rated the
city's largest and best, was constructed by the Van Dorn Iron Works
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The steel crib in Lake Erie, just five miles outside the Cleveland break-
water, was built by the company and during the World war the Van
Dorn Iron Works Company made a good percentage of all steel tanks
used by the allies, its war work being rated 100 per cent. This plant was
Mr. Van Dorn's contribution to Cleveland's industrial greatness, and until
the day of his passing, he was the capable and energetic head of the
business he founded. That business has been vigorously prosecuted by
his successors, his sons, and with the years greater usefulness and pros-
perity have followed under the present officials : Thomas Burton Van
Dorn, president; H. A. Rock, first vice president; James P. Van Dorn,
second vice president; sons and son-in-law of the of the founder. James
H. Van Dorn was also president of the Van Dorn & Dutton Company, and
president of the Van Dorn Electric Tool Company.

The following is a partial list of contracts completed by the Van
Dorn Iron W^orks Company during his lifetime, and indicates the magni-
tude and variety of its operations under his leadership : Metallic furniture
— ^Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York ; Paris, Bourbon County,
Kentucky; Orange City, Sioux County, Louisiana; Monticello, Piatt
County, Illinois ; Jefferson, Fayette County, Mississippi ; Cleveland, Cuya-
hoga County, Ohio ; St. Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota ; Belton, Bell
County, Texas ; Hudson, St. Croix County, Wisconsin ; Mayersville, Issa-
quena County, Mississippi ; Union Bank & Trust Company, Helena, Mon-
tana ; Library of Congress, Washington, D. C. ; Post Office Department,
Washington, D. C. ; Treasury Department, Comptroller of Currency, offices
in State Capitol Building, Columbus, Ohio ; Kings Hall, Brooklyn, New
York ; Cook County Court House, Chicago, Illinois ; State Capitol Build-
ing, St. Paul ; Larkin Company, Buffalo, New York. The company built
the first 130 voting booths for casting the Australian ballot for the City
of Cleveland in twenty-eight days. These lasted eleven years with slight
repairs. Later the company manufactured 150 more for Cleveland, 100
for Boston and a number for several different cities.

Fencing contracts : Illinois Railway Company, to be used in the vicinity
of Chicago, five miles ; New York, New Haven & Hartford Railway
Company, two miles ; New York Central & St. Louis Railroad Company,
two miles ; New Y^ork Central & St. Louis Railroad Company, one mile ;
City of Cleveland, three miles ; City of Pittsburgh, three miles, and a
large amount for the City of Boston.

The company shipped 2,500 tons of timber hangers in three years, the
Van Dorn Iron Works Timber Hanger having been adopted and used
by the Boston School of Technology, the school's order given July 3. 1902.
Cell work for various penal institutions was completed as follows : Jail
at Washington, D. C, 116 cells ; Connecticut State Prison. 187 cells ; Tombs
Prison, New York, 352 cells; Nebraska State Prison, 240 cells; West
Virginia State Prison, 360 cells ; Maryland State Penitentiary. 820 cells ;
Hartford County Jail, 120 cells ; New Haven County Jail, 116 cells ; miscel-
laneous jail contracts, 8,750 cells.

Mr. Van Dorn was a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce,
an attendant of the Second Presbyterian Church, member of the Cleve-
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with the democratic party. He then became a repubHcan and thereafter
acted with that party.

James H. Van Dorn married at Canton, Ohio, September 10, 1865,
Sarah Ann Getridge, daughter of David and EHzabeth Getridge of an
old Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, family. Her brothers, William and David
Getridge, were soldiers of the Union and William a color bearer at the
fight on Lookout Mountain during the Civil war. Mr. and Mrs. Van
Dorn had five children, the oldest being Mrs. Margaret A. Baer of Cleve-
land. Thomas Burton, president of the Van Dorn Iron Works Company,
has four children: Winifred, wife of Howard D. Mills of Cleveland;
Isabelle, who married Arthur R. McKinstry ; Martha Early ; and James
Thomas. Elizabeth Van Dorn, deceased, was the wife of H. A. Rock,
one of the officials of the Van Dorn Iron Works Company, and they
have a son, Van Dorn Rock. James P., second vice president of the com-
pany, married Edith King Sterrett. Sarah L. is the wife of Chester
D. Blong of Cleveland.

The beautiful home of the Van Dorns, the Woodhill estate, was greatly
prized by Mr. Van Dorn, who there found relaxation from the burdens
of business, and reveled in his books, in art, music, nature and the com-
panionship of his family. He was interested in the work of the Western
Reserve Historical Society. Since his passing, Mrs. Van Dorn has sold
the home and lived until her death, August 23, 1924, at 2256 Delaware
Road, Cleveland Heights, with her widowed daughter, Mi's. Margaret
A. Baer.

In the death of James H. Van Dorn on August 31, 1914, the City of
Cleveland, Ohio, lost one of its most substantial citizens. Among the large
manufacturing enterprises that have made Cleveland famous throughout
the world as an enterprising city of great commercial and manufacturing
importance, the Van Dorn Iron Works stand as a mute witness to the
value of one man's life. James H. Van Dorn was a man who was most
widely known, highly respected by all who knew him; and whose influence
for the good of his adopted city was felt in many ways. He was a man
of noble heart and purpose, genial and light hearted, a lover of his
fellow men, of children especially, delighted in the works of nature ; he
was an absolutely just man in all his dealings, unvaryingly kind and
generous. In contemplation of Mr. Van Dorn's career, it is worthy to
remark that great cities are built up and prosper, institutions are founded
and natural progress is furthered by men of his type.

pRED William Thomas. The ordinary citizen, giving his attention
day after day to his private business and personal interests, may seldom
give much thought to the actual operation of civic government in its
details until, perhaps, some exigency arises in his own affairs that awakens
him to knowledge that is apt to be enlightening. Among other things
he discovers that the orderly management of municipal affairs, to which
he has owed protection by civic laws and the enjoyment of civic privi-
leges, is on a comprehensive plan that could not be effectively carried out
without the faithful cooperation of those especially fitted for their tasks.
A well-known citizen of Cleveland who has been identified with official
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high personal character and thorough business training, who is now
serving in the office of clerk of the city council of Cleveland.

Mr. Thomas was born at Cleveland, Ohio, November 17, 1876. a son
of George R. and Bertha W. (Hanna) Thomas, the former of whom
was born in Wales, and died at Cleveland September 12, 1922, at the
age of seventy-two years. The latter was born at Cleveland, of German
parentage, and still survives. Of their family of six children Fred Wil-
liam was the older born of twins, son and daughter.

In 1860 the father of Mr. Thomas came to the United States, locating
first in old Newburg, and while living there served on the board of educa-
tion. For fifty years he was engaged in the retail shoe business, living
retired during the remainder of his life. He took intelligent interest in
public afifairs in Cuyahoga County in particular, and at one time served
as deputy sherifif under Sheriff Sawyer. He was a member of the Early
Settlers Association, and belonged to the fraternal order of the Knights
of Pythias, an honorable, trustworthy man in every relation of life.

Fred William Thomas completed his public school training in the Cen-
tral High School, after which for twenty years he was in the hat busi-
ness and with Browning, King & Company in various capacities, being
one of the buyers of that firm when he retired. Mr. Thomas then
became secretary to Mayor Davis, and remained with this high-minded
public official until the latter resigned in order to accept the nomination
for governor, to which office he was elected on the republican ticket.
Mayor Fitzgerald succeeded Mayor Davis at Cleveland, and Mr. Thomas
served as his secretary for nine months, then became director of parks
and public property, and on January 1, 1922, became clerk of the city
council of Cleveland. In this capacity one of the duties of Mr. Thomas
is to render the council office of the most possible advantage to the public.
The records are kept up to date, six clerks are employed and inform.ation
is given quickly and cheerfully. The office publishes the City Record, a
weekly which contains the proceedings of the board of control, of the civil
service commission and of the city council. Mr. Thomas' courtesy and
spirit of accommodation have been in evidence ever since he took charge
of the office and are greatly appreciated by his fellow citizens.

Mr. Thomas married on December 7, 1907, Miss Esther Thompson,
who was bom at Bedford, Ohio. Her parents, who were natives of Eng-
land, are deceased. Mrs. Thomas is more interested in providing a
comfortable, well ordered home for her husband and their two young
daughters, Blanche and Margaret, aged twelve and ten years, respectively,
than outside matters. They are members of the Christian Science Church.

In political sentiment Mr. Thomas is a republican. He is a member
and past master of Halcyon Lodge No. 498, Free and Accepted IMasons.
He is also a member of Al Sirat Grotto, Al Koran Temple and Lake Erie
Consistory of the Scottish Rite, and of the Loyal Order of Moose. He
belongs further to such representative organizations as the Exchange, the
Advertising, the Tippecanoe clubs and the Western Reserve Republican
Club and the League of Republican Clubs.

SzABADSAG (Liberty) is the name of the oldest American Hungarian
daily newspaper, published at Cleveland by the Szabadsag Printing &

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Publishing Company at 700-701 Huron Road. The first issue appeared
on November 12, 1891. The late Tihamcr Kohanyi, the founder of the
paper, acted also as the editor in chief.

This has been one example of the foreign language press which through-
out has been edited in a thoroughly American spirit. In its political
platform it is independent republican. It grew rapidly in popularity, and
its influence was extended all over the country wherever Hungarians
live. The twentieth anniversary of its foundation was a celebration of
country-wide interest, former President Taft attending the jubilee banquet.

Shortly after this occasion Mr. Kohanyi died, and for some time the
management was in the hands of his widow. Later on Dr. Andrew Cherna
became head of the enterprise. The general manager of the Szabadsag
is Mr. Herbert Kobrak, and the managing editor is Mr. A. Fonyo.

Doctor Cherna as editor in chief of the Szabadsag and publisher and
president of the corporation, has had two aims to accomplish, one being
the foundation of a 100 per -cent American concern, and the other the
development of a great English printing establishment and the securing
of better news service and a more complete editorial policy.

The Szabadsag Printing & Publishing Company now has one of the
largest printing shops in Cleveland, with modern machinery equipment
and facilities that make it available for printing and manufacturing a
number of periodicals, weekly newspapers and other publications in
English.

The thirtieth anniversary of the Szabadsag was celebrated in 1922.
On this occasion the governor of Ohio, Harry L. Davis, in appreciation
of Doctor Cherna's services rendered during the late war, also during the
Liberty Loan campaign, appointed Doctor Cherna a colonel in the Ohio
National Guard. Doctor Cherna is a member of the Republican County
Executive Committee and the Republican State Executive Committee.

Sarah E. Hyre has been a recognized leader in the educational afifairs
of the City of Cleveland for many years. She was born near Akron,
Summit County, Ohio, daughter of Thomas Miflin and Nancy CarHsle
Cadwallader. Her Revolutionary ancestors were Isaac Cadwallader and
Elizabeth Mitchner, and she is a collateral descendant of Gen. John
Cadwallader.

Sarah Emma Cadwallader was reared in Mogadore, Ohio, and educated
at Akron, attending Buchtel Academy and College from 1880 to 1885. and
received the honorary degree Master of Arts from that institution in 1906.
She engaged in teaching, and on April 15, 1886, war, married to the late
Alonzo Eugene Hyre. Mr. Hyre was a son of Henry C. and Alameda
(Pofif) Hyre, and was also a graduate of Buchtel College. For a number
of years he pursued a career as an editor and publisher, and it was largely
due to his efiforts that the Cleveland Chamber of Industry was organized
in 1907. He was elected and reelected annually executive secretary of that
body from 1907 to the time of his death, 1922. He was a member of the
Delta Tau Delta fraternity.

Mrs. Hyre was one of the first women elected by popular vote to the
Cleveland Board of Education, serving as a member of that board from
1905 to 1912. In 1912 she was elected clerk of the board, and has served

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continuously to 1923. Mrs. Hyre i.s a republican in national politics but
independent in municipal affairs. She was a member of the committee
of 150 Cleveland citizens to welcome the National Republican Convention
in 1924. She is a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma College Sorority,
belongs to the Woman's Club of Cleveland, Daughters of the American
Revolution and the Service Star Legion. While a m.ember of the board
of education from 1905 to 1912 she performed some noteworthy service
in developing the use of school buildings for social purposes by the com-
munity and the Parent-Teachers Organization. She is the only woman
who has ever occupied the position of clerk of the Cleveland Board of
Education, to which she was elected in 1912, as well as the position of
treasurer, to which she was elected in 1918, holding the office of clerk-
treasurer till July, 1923.

Mrs. Hyre had two children: Rexford Cadwallader Hyre, who first
married Hazel Henderson, and after her death married Nora Williams
Longabaugh. The second son, Raymond E. Hyre, married Gabriel Weber.
Mrs. Hyre has one granddaughter, Sarah Lora Hyre.

Henry August Henke. One of the prominent business men of
the West Side of the city was the late Henry A. Henke, president of
the Henke Furniture Company, on Lorain Avenue, who was born on a
farm in Dover Township, this county, on February 1, 1861, the son of
Franz Henry and Catherine Mary (Lindemeyer) Henke, natives of Han-
over, Germany. The parents came to the United States on the same
sailing vessel in 1844, and were married in Cleveland four years later.

On arriving in this city Franz H. Henke found employment as a
laborer in the country, later worked a farm in Euclid Township, and still
later one in Dover Township. Returning to the city, he found employ-
ment in the shipyards. Finally, by the closest of economy, he accumulated
sufficient money to buy a span of horses, and engaged in teaming. Later
on he became a contracting teamster for the old oil firm of Riley &
Robinson, which firm subsequently became known as the Rockefeller &:
Andrews Oil Company, and was really the beginning of the Standard
Oil Corporation of today. In 1871 Mr. Henke disposed of his teaming
business and, forming a partnership with his brother-in-law. John F. Puis,
under the firm name of Puis & Henke. engaged in the furniture business,
opening a store on what in those days was known as Detroit Street
Hill, where is now located the high level bridge over the Cuvahoga
River. Four years later they removed to a store at the corner of Lorain
and Penn streets, now Lorain and West Thirty-second Street, a block
west of the present store. In 1875 Mr. Puis withdrew from the part-
nership, and Mr. Henke formed the firm of Koch & Henke. In 1881
he purchased the concern's present site at 3001-321 Lorain Avenue, and
at once began the erection of a three-story brick block, where he con-
tinued in active business until he retired and turned the business over
to the management of his son, Henry A., in 1888. After a long and
honorable career both as a business man and citizen, Mr. Henke. Sr..
died in 1906, at the age of eighty-two years, enjoying the esteem of all
those who had had business relations with him. and the warm friendship
of his intimates. His wife preceded him to the grave, she dying in
1901, aged seventy-five years.

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Henry A. Henke was a boy of two years when he came with his
parents from Dover Township to Cleveland. He attended the Lutheran
parochial schools and took the courses at the old Forest City Business
College. In early youth he assisted his father in the store, taking over the
management and relieving his father more and more with each succeeding
year, so that by the time his father was ready to relinquish the business
entirely Henry A. was ready and competent to assume the full responsi-
bility. In 1910 the business was incorporated as the Henke Furniture
Company, the stock being held by the Henke family, and Henry A. was
elected president and so continued until his death, on August 5, 1924.
Under his management the business grew from year to year in volume
of trade and popularity, the Henke Furniture Company becoming one
of the recognized commercial institutions of the city, enjoying a patronage
from all parts of the community.

On May 12, 1910, the first brick store was destroyed by fire, including
the stock, and almost immediately was begun the erection of a concrete
store on the same site of four stories in height; but, when nearing com-
pletion, the building collapsed, resulting in its total loss, and the loss of
several lives. However, another and larger store was soon under con-
struction, with a frontage of 100 feet and a depth of 140 feet, which
is today one of the handsome business blocks of the city of today.

Aside from his furniture business Mr. Henke had other important
interests. He was a member of the West Side Advisory Board of the
Cleveland Trust Company, a member of the advisory board of the United
Banking & Savings Company, and a stockholder in the Lorain Street
Savings & Trust Company ; he was secretary of the Lutheran Cemetery
Association ; for sixty years he was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church,
of which he was a member of the board of trustees for twelve or more
years, following which he became chairman of that church. He was
a member of the first board of trustees of Lutheran Hospital, and in later
years gave liberally to that institution. He was a member of the Cleve-
land Chamber of Industry, and was interested in and a supporter of all
civic movements whose object was the promotion of the welfare of the
community. Especially was he interested in his church affairs, contrib-
uting freely to all of its work, including Synodical Conference work,
Synodical colleges, and to all Lutheran institutions. But all of his benevo-
lent and philanthropic work was done in a quiet and unostentatious man-
ner, for he was of a quite, almost modest, nature and preferred to
do his part without boast. Mr. Henke was popular among his friends
and business associates, all of whom esteemed him for his many sterling
traits of character.

Mr. Henke was united in marriage with Marie Louise George, the
daughter of Christian Adam and Caroline (Meyer) George of Cleve-
land, and to them have been born the following children : George F.. who
is associated with the Henke Furniture Company; Louise, who married
Harry Dankorth, of Cleveland ; Helen, who married Clarence Hansen, of
Cleveland, and they have a son, James Edward ; Henry August, Jr., mar-
ried Harriet HinchlifYe, and they have a daughter, Emaline Louise;
Emily L. ; Edwin August, married Marion McArdle.

Henry A. Henke died at his handsome Lake Avenue residence on
August 5, 1924.

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John T. Bourke has been identified with Cleveland newspapers for
almost forty years, all the time with the Cleveland Leader and affiliated
publications. His long exj>erience as political editor has made him an
authority on Cleveland and state politics. Mr. Bourke was born in Sus-
quehanna, Pennsylvania, August 6, 1858, son of Thomas H. and Jane
(Barlow) Bourke. His father, an expert machinist, was connected with
industries in several cities in Pennsylvania and Ohio, and for a number of
years was proprietor of a machine shop in Cleveland, where he died in
1895.

John T. Bourke was educated in Rayen School, Youngstown, Ohio,
took the engineering course in Lehigh University at Bethlehem, Pennsyl-
vania, and as a young man was employed as a civil engineer on construction
work for the Burlington Railroad lines in Northwestern Kansas and
Western Nebraska. His active career as a newspaper man began at
Denver, Colorado, in 1884. He was on the stafif of the Tribune of that
city, but in 1885 came to Cleveland and began work for the Leader. He
was in turn reporter, assistant city editor and city editor. Since 1905 he
has been political editor of the Leader, the Cleveland News and the Sunday
News-Leader. Since 1914 he has been president of the Ohio Legislative
Correspondents' Association.

Mr. Bourke served as a member of Cleveland's first civil service com-
mission, from January, 1910, to February, 1914. He is a republican in
party politics, and was a supporter of Theodore Roosevelt in 1912. In
Masonry he is affiliated with Meridian Lodge and Webb Chapter. He
belongs to the Lakewood Country Club of Cleveland, and the Church of
the Ascension, Protestant Episcopal. Mr. Bourke married at Marshfield.
Wisconsin, January 14, 1893, Charlotte Frances Johnson. Her father.
Henry Johnson, who was a student under James A. Garfield at Hiram
College in Ohio, became a pioneer in Wisconsin.

Samuel Walter Kelley, M. D.. for many years an authority in
pediatrics, has been located in Cleveland since he began practice. He was
the first American surgeon to write a treatise on the surgical diseases of
children. Through his book, and through the many years he devoted to
teaching and staff work in Cleveland hospitals, he has exerted a profound
influence on the medical profession of today.

Doctor Kelley was born at Adamsville, Muskingum County, Ohio,
Septfember 1, 1855, son of Walter and Selina Catherine (Kaemerer)
Kelley. Both parents were born in this countr}^ his father being a child
of an Irish born father and American mother, while Selina Catherine
Kaemerer represented German ancestry, but established in America before
the Revolution.

Samuel Walter Kelley acquired a public school education at Zanesville,
Ohio, and at St. Joseph, Michigan, and graduated in medicine from Western
Reserve University in 1884. He also studied abroad in hospitals in Lon-
don. In the forty years since his graduation he has devoted himself with
singular fidelity to the demands of his profession.

Doctor Kelley was about twenty-nine when he entered upon the practice
of medicine and surgery. In his youth aixl early manhood he had a varied
working experience, in market gardening, farming, as sailor before the

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mast, and as a cowboy in the Southwest, driving stock over the great trails
leading from Texas up to Kansas and the Northwest. He had many expe-
riences similar to those described by Emerson Hough, Andy Adams, Owen
Wistar and others in their writings about the range and trail days of the
Great West.

While he has a large private practice, Doctor Kelley is also well known
by his official connections at the hospitals, institutions of medical education
and professional organizations. He was chief of the department of diseases
of children in the Polyclinic of Western Reserve University from 1886 to
1893. From 1893 to 1910 he was professor of diseases of children of the
Cleveland College of Physicians and Surgeons, the Medical Department
of Ohio Wesleyan University. He was surgeon to children of St. Luke's
Hospital's senior staff, was secretary of the medical staff of the Cleveland
City Hospital from 1891 to 1899, and its president from 1899 to 1902. He
acted as pediatrist at the City Hospital from 1893 to 1910. From 1885
to 1901 Doctor Kelley was editor of the Cleveland Medical Gazette, pres-
ident of the Ohio State Pediatric Society from 1896 to 1897, and was
chairman of section on diseases of children of the American Medical
Association in 1900-01. He was president of the Association of American
Teachers of Diseases of Children in 1907-08, and is a member of the
Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, the Ohio State
Medical Association, and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.

At the time of the Spanish-American war. Doctor Kelley entered the
service as a civilian surgeon, was recommended for "efficiency in the field
under the most trying circumstances," and commissioned brigade surgeon
with the rank of major on Augu.st 7, 1898. During the World war he
served with the French Army and with the Red Cross for eight months,
being past the age for admission to the United States Army. Doctor
Kelley advocated the early entrance of this country into the World war,
seeing that such a step was inevitable. In lectures and in individual argu-
ments he urged prompt and forceful action in that crisis.

His "The Surgical Diseases of Children," the first treatise on the
subject written by an American surgeon, was first published in 1909, and
the second edition in 1914. He is also author of "About Children," pub-
lished in 1897. Doctor Kelley is also known in the field of imaginative
literature, being author of a small volume entitled the "Witchery o' the
Moon, and Other Poems," published in 1919, and a medico-historical novel
"In the Year 1800," published in 1904, a book that pictures the state of
medical science and practice as well as customs and conditions of that day.
He is also the author of a number of original articles, essays and lectures
on medical and other subjects. Doctor Kelley is a republican, and a mem-
ber of the Cleveland Athletic Club. He has never affiliated with any
religious denomination or sect. On July 2, 1884, at Wooster, Ohio, he
married Miss Amelia Kemmerlein, daughter of George Kemmerlein and
Johanna (Hartz) Kemmerlein. Her parents were born at Wittenberg,
Germany. Mrs. Kelley was born at Wooster, Ohio, and was educated
in the public schools there. Of the two children born to their marriage
Walter Paul died in youth. The daughter, Katherine Mildred, married
Reed Taylor, of Cleveland.

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Dan Freeman Bradley, pastor of the Pilgrim Congregational Church,
is now in the twentieth year of his service with this church. This is one
of the oldest Congregational churches in the city, having been founded
seventy years ago. During Mr. Bradley's long pastorate the church has
perfected a splendid organization for work and service. The Pilgrim
Church has been responsible for much extensive religious work and organ-
ization among the foreign born elements of the population of Cleveland
in the vicinity of the church home at West Fourteenth Street.

Dan Freeman Bradley was born at Bangkok, Siam, March 17, 1857,
son of Dan Beach and Sarah (Blachly) Bradley. His father. Dr. Dan
Beach Bradley, a native of Marcellus, New York, went as a missionary
of the American Board to Siam in 1833. He died in Bangkok in 1874. He
had returned to the United States once after the death of his first wife,
Emilie Royce, of Clinton, New York. She left three children. On his
return to America in 1848 he married Sarah Blachly. She was one of the
first woman graduates of Oberlin College to take the Bachelor of Arts
degree. She died in Siam in 1894, never having returned to the United
States.

As a boy Dan Freeman Bradley was sent back to the United States to
complete his education. He graduated from Oberlin College with the
Bachelor of Arts degree in June, 1882, and graduated from Oberlin Theo-
logical Seminary in 1885. Honorary degrees of Doctor of Divinity have
since been bestowed upon him, by Yankton College of South Dakota in
1892, Cornell College in Iowa in 1904 and Oberlin College in 1908.

Ordained to the Congregational ministry in 1885, Mr. Bradley was
pastor of the Congregational Church of Steubenville, Ohio, and has been
a prominent figure in this denomination for forty years. For some years
past he has been active in his efforts to secure a union between the Presby-
terian and the Congregational churches in Cleveland and America. He is
a member of the Congregational National Council, a trustee of the Cleveland
Congregational Union and a director of the Educational Foundation of
Congregational churches.

While pastor of the Yankton Congregational Church in South Dakota
he became acting president of Yankton College, serving in that capacity
from 1890 to 1892. He was pastor of the Park Congregational Church
of Grand Rapids, Michigan, from 1892 to 1902, resigning to become pres-
ident of Grinnell College in Iowa and gave capable leadership to that school,
still regarded as one of the best in Iowa, until 1905. In 1905 he resigned
and came to Cleveland to accept the pastorate of Pilgrim Church.

Mr. Bradley is a descendant of William Bradley, one of the pioneer
settlers of New Haven, Connecticut. He has been a republican in poHtics
since 1877. He was made a Master Mason in the Masonic York Lodge
at Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1896. He belongs to the Cleveland Cham-
ber of Commerce and is a trustee of Oberlin College. ]\Ir. Bradley is a
sound scholar with a wide acquaintance with literature, but has a strong
tendency for the practical side of the ministry and delights in the material
aspects of nature. He is interested in trees and flowers, and he and his
sons built a cement house near Lake Michigan, on Traverse Bay. as their
summer home. Pilgrim Church sent him and ]\Irs. Bradley for a tour
abroad in 1923, the church paying the expenses of this travel.

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He married at Oberlin July 9, 1883, Miss Lillian Josephine Jaques,
daughter of the late D. L. Jaques, of Cleveland. She is a graduate of the
Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and was a teacher in the conservatory and
is president of the Ohio Congregational Woman's Union. Doctor and
Mrs. Bradley have three children : Rev. Dv^^ight J. Bradley, of Webster
Groves, Missouri, who married Kathryn Culver, of Oakland, California;
Robert Gamble Bradley, of Detroit, who married Grace Langdon, of Cleve-
land ; and Dan Theodore Bradley, of Detroit, who married Eloise Smiley,
of Cleveland.

Florence Ellinwood Allen was the first woman lawyer in the
United States to be elected judge in a court of general jurisdiction. She
is now judge of the State Supreme Court, the court of last resort in Ohio.

Judge Allen is a graduate of Western Reserve University. She was
born in Salt Lake City, Utah, March 23, 1884, daughter of Clarence Emir
and Corinne Marie (Tuckerman) Allen. Her early life was spent in
Utah, and she was a student at Salt Lake College in 1897-99. In 1904
she won her Bachelor of Arts degree at Western Reserve University in
Cleveland, and then pursued her law studies. Western Reserve gave her
the Master of Arts degree in 1908. Judge Allen's early interests were in
the field of music, and from 1904 to 1906 she acted as assistant Berlin
correspondent of the New York Musical Courier and was music editor of
the Cleveland Plain Dealer in 1906 to 1909. In 1910-13 she was lecturer
on music connected with the Board of Education of New York City. In
the meantime, from 1909 to 1910, she was a student in the law department
of the University of Chicago, and in 1913 graduated with Bachelor of
Laws from New York University.

She began the practice of law at Cleveland in 1914. Six years later,
in 1920, she was nominated and was elected judge of the Court of Common
Pleas of Cuyahoga County. Her term began January, 1921, and ran
for six years. In 1922 she was elected to the Supreme Court, court of
last resort in Ohio. Her term in this court is also for six years. Judge
Allen has been interested in a number of civic and social organizations.
She is a Phi Beta Kappa and also a member of the Social Sorority of
Sigma Psi, and of the legal sorority Kappa Beta Pi. She served as assistant
secretary of the National College of the Equal Suffrage League in 1911-13,
and from 1913 to 1915 was a member of the Executive Board of the
Ohio Woman Suffrage Association. She is a democrat, a member of the
Congregational Church, the Woman's City and Business Woman's Club.
In the midst of the literary duties that have absorbed her for many years
she wrote one book, Patris, published in 1908.

John Waltermeyer Keckler, Doctor of Osteopathy, and president
of the Cleveland Osteopathic Society, is one of the highly qualified men
in his profession and in X-ray work.

He was born at Hagerstown, Maryland, son of Jacob Keckler, and
grandson of Peter Keckler, who spent his life in Pennsylvania. Jacob
Keckler was born at Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, nnd as a young man
moved to Hagerstown, Maryland, where he is still living. He married
Elizabeth Waltermeyer, who was born at Hagerstown, daughter of John

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and Anna (Zeigler) Waltermeyer. They had two sons, Dr. John \V. and
Guy, the latter a resident of Hagerstown.

John Waltermeyer Keckler grew up in his native town, attended the
public schools and was graduated from high school in 1911. For two years
he was in Washington as a clerk in the navy department, and for one year
was a clerk in the sales department of the Security Cement and Lime Com-
pany. In 1914 he entered the American School of Osteopathy, and was
graduated with the degree Doctor of Osteopathy in 1918. Doctor Keckler
practiced for two years in Maryland, and then located in Cleveland, where,
in addition to the general routine of work as a Doctor of Osteopathy, he
specializes in X-ray and clinical diagnosis and therapy. He is a member
of the State and National Osteopathic societies and the Congregational
Church.

Doctor Keckler married, in 1918, Miss Lenora Routzahn, a native of
Hagerstown, Maryland, and daughter of Charles and Elizabeth Routzahn.

John Charles McGonagle. One of the progressive and popular
business men of Lakewood is John C. McGonagle, until recently pro-
prietor of the Lakewood Buick Company. He was born in the old
family home on Taylor Street (now West Forty-fifth Street), Cleveland,
on October 10, 1877, the son of John and Ellen (Casey) McGonagle.

John McGonagle was born in Scotland, where he attended school and
learned something of the mason's trade. When he was a lad of fourteen
years he and his older brother, William, came to the United States,
landing at New York, where the two boys separated and never afterwards
saw or heard of each other. Gradually working his way westward, John
finally reached Cleveland, finished his apprenticeship at the mason's
trade, and in later days became one of the leading mason contractors
of the West Side of Cleveland, and continued until his death. His
widow, still living, was born in Utica, New York, in which city they
were married. To their marriage the following children were born : Anna,
who married Peter J. Deighen, of Cleveland; William J., deceased; Sarah,
who married Charles Long, of Cleveland ; Nellie, deceased, and John
C, the youngest of the children.

John C. attended the public and night schools, and at the age of
eleven 3^ears he became a messenger boy for the Western Union Tele-
graph Company, and in the succeeding years he was at different times
in the employ of Likely & Rocket, leather merchants and manufacturers ;
the H. A. Lozier Company, manufacturers of the Cleveland bicycle ; the
Koch & Henke Furniture Company, and in Halle Brothers' department
store. In 1916 he became salesman for the Ohio Buick Company, with
which concern he continued for three years, and in 1919 he established
his own business at 1240 West One Hundred Seventeenth Street
(Highland Avenue), Lakewood, where he had a large service station,
and from where he distributed the Buick automobile under the name of
the Lakewood Buick Company, of which he was sole owner. He sold
this business on January 1, 1924, and is now selling suburban property.

Aside from business ]\Ir. McGonagle is very active in the social and
civic affairs of Lakewood. He is a member and president of the Lake-
wood Chamber of Commerce, president of the Lakewood Kiwanis Club,

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Lakewood Country Club, Cleveland Yacht Club, Cleveland Advertising
Club, Cleveland Automobile Club, Cleveland Association of Credit Men.
He is a past master of Bigelow Lodge No. 243, Free and Accepted
Masons; Robert Wallace Chapter No. 179, Royal Arch Masons; Forest
City Council, Royal and Select Masters ; Forest City Commandery No. 40,
Knights Templar; Lake Erie Consistory, Scottish Rite (thirty-second
degree); Al Koran Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; Forest City
Chapter, Order Eastern Star (past patron), and the Ohio Masonic Past
Masters' Association. He is also a member of Hesperian Lodge No. 281,
Knights of Pythias.

Mr. McGonagle married Miss Lillian May Peter John, who was born
in Cleveland, the daughter of George and Kate (Baumgartner) Peter John.
To their marriage children have been born as follows : Ralph William, who
is associated with his father's business, and Grace Lillian.

As a citizen and business man Mr. McGonagle enjoys a large circle
of friends who, appreciating his sterling traits of character, his willing-
ness to assume his full measure of obligation to the community, and his
friendship, have nothing but the highest of praise for him, and miss no
opportunity of voicing their praise.

Jonas Stafford. In the early '40s Jonas Stafford bought fifty
acres of land, all of which through the building progress and expansion
of eighty years has been covered with workshops, great office buildings
and residences, and is now close to the geographical center of the City
of Cleveland. Jonas Stafford, like others of his time, probably never
entertained a prophetic vision of the great city that would grow up on
his land. He used it as a farm, raised apples, peaches, cherries, grapes
and farm commodities.

This interesting Cleveland pioneer and real estate investor was born
in Vermont, in 1794. He was reared and educated in his native state,
and he served as a soldier in the War of 1812. For his services he was
given a land grant for 160 acres in the West, but he never utilized this
privilege. About 1835 he came to Ohio as the western representative
of a wholesale grocery establishment. Some five years later he established
his permanent home in Cleveland. When ill health caused him to give up
a commercial career he bought the farm above described, and devoted the
greater part of his life to its cultivation and management.

Jonas Stafford was a quiet, unassuming man, a devout Christian, and
was one of the founders of the Old Second Baptist Church, now the
Euclid Avenue Baptist Church. He served as a deacon of this
church. Jonas Stafford worthily filled the niche appointed to him, and
was beloved for his kindness of heart, his examples of good deeds
accomplished and his sterling worth. His wife was Miss Lucy Fish, of
Pequot Hills, Connecticut. They were the parents of five children :
Edmund Fish, who was a union soldier in General Barnett's command;
Henry Fish, who likewise was a Union soldier, in the Thirteenth Illinois
Cavalry; Louise Mead, who became the wife of Thomas M. Irvine;
Oliver Mead and Frank J.

Of the children of Jonas Stafford perhaps the best known in Cleveland
is Oliver Mead Stafford, who is a vice president of the Union Trust

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Company, and is the executive of the Broadway Bank, Woodland Bank,
Buckeye Road, Pasadena and Kinsman-One Hundred Fortieth ottices of
the Union Trust Company; is president of the Cleveland Worsted Mills
Company and of the Sheriff Street Market & Storage Company; a member
of the Union and Country clubs. He is an official member of "Old
Broadway" Church, and was appointed one of the committee to arrange
for the celebration of Cleveland's centennial anniversary.

Irene Nungesser. One of the interesting members of the Cleveland
bar is Miss Irene Nungesser, who is serving as assistant United States
district attorney.

Early in life she learned the value of independent thought and judg-
ment, and through her own efforts has qualified for a difficult profession.
She was born in Cleveland, March 2, 1890, and completed a grammar
school course at the age of twelve years. At home she kept up her
school studies, and at the age of fifteen began a course in the Berkey
& Dykes Business College. She was graduated after a year and a
half, and then entered the offices of Bernsteen & Bernsteen, Cleveland
attorneys. While working with this law firm she became interested in
the study of law, and for a year and a half attended classes in the
Cleveland Law School. At the same time she was working diligently
to pursue the study courses required in high school, subsequently passed
successful examinations in Columbus from high school work, this giving
her nineteen points to her credit and permitting her to take examination
for admission to the bar. She took her bar examinations May 28, 1920,
and in the following June was admitted to practice.

She then returned to the offices of Bernsteen & Bernsteen, engaging
in law practice, and in June, 1923, obtained the honor of appointment
as assistant United States attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.

Miss Nungesser is the only child of the late George Franklin and
Anna C. (Fretter) Nungesser. Her grandfather, John Nungesser, was
a native of Hesendamstrett, Germany, coming to America when a boy
and spending the rest of his life in Cleveland. Her father, George
Franklin Nungesser, was born at Cleveland, one of three sons, the other
two being John and Edward O. He attended public schools, completed
an education at the cabinet maker's trade, and followed that occupation
until his death in 1912. Miss Nungesser's mother was born in Cleveland,
daughter of Samuel and Barbara Fretter, and she passed away in 1920.

Miss Nungesser is a member of the Cleveland Bar Association, belongs
to the Woman's Relief Corps, is an honorary member of the Spanish
War Veterans' Association, the Cleveland Chapter of the Eastern Star,
the White Shrine, the Cleveland Business W^oman's Club.

John J. Sullivan, judge of the Court of Appeals, was born October
25, 1860, in New York City, and moved to Trumbull County, Ohio, when
a mere lad, where he was brought up on a farm, and educated in the
district schools and the old Gustavus Academy.

His parents immigrated to New York from Kanturk, County Cork,
Ireland, where they were born, and his father was Daniel J. Sullivan,
and his mother, Mary (Sheehan) Sullivan, and the subject of this sketch

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was one of nine children born of said parents, who died when he was
a mere lad.

He taught school and was city editor of the Warren Daily Chronicle,
Warren, Ohio, studied law and was admitted to the bar by the Supreme
Court of Ohio, October of 1885, and began practicing in Warren, Ohio.
He served as prosecuting attorney, Trumbull County, for two terms, and
represented the Twenty-third District of Ohio in the State Senate for
two terms. He served nine years as United States attorney for the
Northern District of Ohio, having been appointed first by President
McKinley, and afterwards by President Roosevelt. He was a delegate
to the Republican National Convention from the Cleveland District in
1912, and a delegate at large to the National Progressive Convention held
in 1912, which nominated Theodore Roosevelt for president. In 1916
he was a delegate at large to the Republican National Convention when
Mr. Hughes was nominated for president.

During his incumbency of the United States attorney's office, he
prosecuted and convicted in the famous case of the United States vs.
Cassie Chadwick of frenzied finance fame, and appeared in many other
notable cases.

While a member of the Ohio Senate he made the nominating speeches
presenting the name of Senator Foraker in 1896 and Senator Hanna
in 1898, for the office of United States Senator from Ohio.

He was appointed by the governor to the office of judge of the Court
of Appeals for the Eighth District of Ohio in 1921, and was unanimously
nominated and reelected for a term of six years to the bench of the
Court of Appeals in 1922, which position he is now holding.

With the exception of his incumbency in office, he has been in active
practice of the law in Warren and Cleveland, Ohio, thirty-six years, both
in State and Federal courts.

He is now president of the Cleveland Law Library Association and
the Tippecanoe Club, and is serving his fourth term as president of
the Cleveland Bar Association. He was elected a delegate from the
Ohio Bar Association to the Philadelphia and London, England, sessions
of the American bar.

He was married December 28, 1886, to Olive Tayler Sullivan, daughter
of M. B. Tayler, pioneer banker of Warren, Ohio, and two daughters
were born of said marriage, Miss Adaline Tayler Sullivan and Miss
Mary Tayler Sullivan, and the family resides at 1497 East One Hundred
Eighth Street, Cleveland, Ohio.

Robert H. York. Death coming suddenly March 15, 1924, deprived
Cleveland of one of its business leaders in the person of Robert H. York,
who for a number of years had been an important figure in some of the
city's most prosperous enterprises, including the Heights Savings & Loan
Company, the Berkshire Manufacturing Company and the Metropolitan
Motor Insurance Company.

The late Mr. York was born at Saginaw, Michigan, October 29, 1866,
a son of Barney H. and Julia (Harkness) York. The York family is
of English stock. His grandfather came to Ohio from the vicinity of
Bedford, Massachusetts, buying land in Sandusky County and building

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his home at what became known as York's Corners, now the thriving
little City of Clyde. Barney H. York was born at York's Corners, Ohio,
in 1834, and died at Cleveland in 1884. His wife, Julia Harkness, was
a native of Bellevue, Ohio, where her father, Dr. L. G. Harkness, was
an early physician. Julia Harkness' sister became the wife of Henry
M. Flagler, a distinguished Ohioan who was first an official of the
Standard Oil Company and during the last thirty years of his Hfe the
capitalist who did more for the development of Florida than any man
before or since. For some years Henry M. Flagler was engaged in the
grain business in Ohio, and lost his first modest fortune of about $50,000
in the salt industries at Saginaw, Michigan. Barney York was likewise
interested in the lumber and salt industries in Michigan as an associate
of Mr. Flagler. For a number of years Barney H. York was in the
grain and elevator business at Clyde, and in 1867 he located at Cleveland,
where he became a member of the firm of Flagler & York. Subse-
quently he was a partner with the late Doctor Otis in the Otis Elevator
Company. Following the burning of the elevator, in the early '70s, he
became a member of the firm of Gardner, Clark & York, owners and
operators of the Union Elevator Company, to which he belonged at the
time of his death. Barney H. York was very active in the business
affairs of Cleveland, having been vice president of the old board of trade
and president of the Chamber of Commerce. The Old Stone Church
held his membership, and he belonged to the Masonic fraternity. His
widow survived him nearly forty years, passing away at Cleveland in
June, 1922. There were three children : Georgiana, widow of John D.
Maclennan, of Toronto, Canada; Robert H.; and Roy F., who made his
home at Baltimore, Maryland.

Robert H. York was an infant when the family settled in Cleveland,
where his education was acquired in the city schools and in old Bridgeman
Academy. He also graduated from the Phillips Academy of Andover,
Massachusetts, one of the most exclusive preparatory schools in the East.
After leaving that school he went to St. Augustine, Florida, and at a salary
of five dollars a week became an employe of his uncle, Henry M. Flagler,
who at that time, about 1885, was engaged in the building of Ponce de
Leon Hotel, the first of the enterprises by which he did so much to develop
the Florida east coast. Subsequently Mr. York had two years of travel
abroad and spent two years in Colorado, and when he resumed his
residence at Cleveland he entered the service of the Standard Oil Com-
pany in the cooperage department, under Martin Snyder. Mr. York for
fifteen years was in the brokerage business, and his later years were
occupied in looking after his varied business interests.

He was one of the organizers and at the time of his death president
of the Cleveland Heights Savings & Trust Company; helped to organize
and was president of the Berkshire Manufacturing Company; and was
president of the Metropolitan Motor Insurance Company. He was also
vice president of the Securities Company; vice president of the Sterling-
Knight Motor Company, and a director in the Ritters Trust Company.

His interests brought him relationship with many of the prominent
social organizations, including the Manhattan and Brook Club of New
York City, the Union, Tavern, Roadside, Cleveland Country, IMayfield

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Country, Kirtland County, Chagrin Valley Hunt, and Pepper Pike Coun-
try clubs, all at Cleveland.

Mr. York married Miss Clara Gordon, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. O. F.
Gordon, of Cleveland. He is survived by Mrs. York, and there are
three children: a daughter, Mrs. Thomas H. White, of Cleveland; a son,
Barney H., a member of Hord, Curtiss & Company, attorneys at Cleve-
land; and Gordon F., a student in Yale University.

James L. Holan, founder and president of the James Holan Manu-
facturing Company, manufacturers of commercial automobile bodies (Plant
No. 1) and of high grade flooring (Plant No. 2), has gained for himself
success and prestige as one of the vigorous and progressive business men
of Cleveland.

Mr. Holan was born at Velky-osek, Bohemia, on the 15th of June,
1885, and is a son of Michael and Mary (Rouny) Holan, both represen-
tatives of old and sterling Bohemian families. Michael Holan learned
in the establishment of his father the trade of cabinet-maker, and after
the death of the father he assumed control of the business, v^^ith which
he continued his active association fifty-four years. He is now living
retired in his old home town in Bohemia, and is venerable in years. His
wife died March 15, 1893.

In his native place James L. Holan gained his youthful education
in the public schools, and thereafter he served a thorough apprenticeship
to the trade of blacksmith and carriagemaker. He continued his resi-
dence in his native land until 1906, when, about the time of attaining to his
legal majority, he came to the United States and made Cleveland his
destination. The day after his arrival in this city he went to work at
his trade, and the success and advancement that have marked his course
in the intervening years stand in evidence of his energy, ability and pro-
gressiveness. In 1908 Mr. Holan engaged independently in business by
opening a blacksmith and wagon shop at the corner of Clark Avenue and
West Forty-first Street. Of the prosperity that attended this initial
venture it is unnecessary to ofTer further evidence than that eight years
later he had thirty men in his employ and was doing a large volume of
business. He had no clerical or office force, but personally gave super-
vision to all details of his successful enterprise.

In 1918 Mr. Holan organized the James Holan Manufacturing Com-
pany, and erected a manufacturing plant at 3809 Clark Avenue. Here he
engaged in the manufacturing of commercial automobile bodies, with an
average of 100 employes. In 1920 the company erected and equipped
what is conceded to be the most important plant in Northern Ohio devoted
to the manufacturing of flooring, and this establishment is the central
stage of a large and prosperous manufacturing business. As president
of the company Mr. Holan has active charge of both of these modern
manufacturing plants, and to him is primarily due the successful upbuild-
ing of the two thriving enterprises. He is a valued member of the
Cleveland Chamber of Industry, and in a fraternal way he is affiliated
with the Knights of Pythias.

Mr. Holan married Miss Ella Beneda, who was born in Pilsen,
Bohemia, a daughter of Joseph Beneda. Mrs. Holan came to Cleveland

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in the year 1906, and here her marriage was solemnized. Mr. and
Mrs. Holan have two children, Ella Mary, aged ten years (1922), and
Howard James, aged eight years.

William Jacob Becker. This distinguished citizen has lived his
entire life thus far in this city, and was born in the old Becker home
at 56 Mechanic Street (now 2100 West Thirty-eighth Street), on July
25, 1865. He is the son of John and Christina (Slaughter) Becker, both
of whom were natives of Germany and crossed the Atlantic at an early
date. They were married in Cleveland, where they became acquainted, and
promptly began their duties as upright and industrious citizens.

W hile still in Germany John Becker learned the butcher's trade, and not
long after beginning operations in Cleveland he engaged in the wholesale
butchering business. At this he was quite successful, and at the same time
built up a desirable reputation. In 1875, hoping to expand his opportuni-
ties, he entered the moving and trucking business, becoming the founder
and owner of the large concern now owned and operated by his son Wil-
liam. In early times the establishment was comparatively small, the entire
outfit comprising only three head of horses and the equipment which they
could haul. However, steadily and quite rapidly the business increased
and at all times proved a profitable undertaking. John Becker, the father,
passed away in 1898, at the age of sixty-eight years ; his widow sur-
vived him until 1912, dying at the age of seventy-one years. Both were
eminent and upright citizens and were members of the First Reformed
Church.

William Jacob Becker, now one of the leading and conspicuous citizens
of the West Side, and one of the widely-known and prominent business
men of the city, was educated at the parochial and the public schools here,
and at the age of fifteen years began work for his father in the trucking
business. In 1903 he took control of the entire business, and ever since
then has steadily improved his facilities to meet the demands of an up-to-
date, modern and swiftly-growing city. He is now probably the leader
of this important branch of business on the West Side, with eleven auto
trucks, doing exclusive trucking in the moving, packing and storage
business at 2110 West Thirty-eighth Street.

In addition to his important business enterprises he has distinguished
himself in other notable social and economic movements. For years he
has been an. active member of the Cleveland Chamber of Industry, has
twice been a member of its board of directors, and has often served on
various important committees. He is a member of Halcyon Lodge No. 498,
Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; Thatcher Chapter, Royal Arch
Masons; Forest City Council, Forest City Commandery No. 40. Knigiits
Templar ; Lake Erie Consistory, Valley of Cleveland. Scottish Rite, thirty-
second degree; Al Koran Temple, ATv^tic Shrine; and Al Sir-^t Grotto.
He is also a member of the Cleveland Yacht Club, the Lakewood Country
Club and the First Reformed Church, of which latter he was a former
member of the executive committee.

On the 6th of July, 1893, Mr. Becker was united in marriage with
Lydia M., daughter of George and Elizabeth Eichenniller. both natives
of Germany. Her birth occurred on Clark Avenue, South Side, May 20.

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1867. Mr. Becker and wife have two children : Viola, now a teacher in
the public schools of the city, and Walter, a student at Dartmouth College.

George John Baum. Out of a life of fifty-five years George John
Baum has devoted forty-three to business in Cleveland. In all that time
he has served just two of the large mercantile houses of the city, and
is now buyer for Halle Brothers & Company.

Mr. Baum, who is also prominent in the civic and public life of
Lakewood, his home town, was born in Cleveland, March 17, 1868, son
of John J. and Margaret (Foltz) Baum. His parents were born in
Germany, married there, and with one child, then a year old, came to
this country in 1863. They located at Cleveland, where John J. Baum
for many years engaged in the meat business, and was active in that
line until his death.

As a boy in Cleveland, George J. Baum attended public schools, reach-
ing the eighth grade. At the age of twelve, leaving school in 1880, he
began his career as a wage earner. His first service, and one that con-
tinued with increasing promotions and responsibilities, was with the old
dry goods house of Hower & Higbee, which later became the Higbee
Company. He was with that firm forty-one years, beginning as cash
boy, and for a number of years was buyer for the concern. He resigned
August 1, 1921, and after a few weeks of rest and recuperation he became
associated, on October 1, 1921, as buyer with Halle Brothers & Company,
one of Cleveland's largest and most important department stores.

Mr. Baum became a pioneer of Lakewood. He took up his residence
there when its population did not exceed 3,000. For twenty-five years he
has been active in its affairs, and whatever has been deemed for the com-
munity's best advantage has completely enlisted Mr. Baum's enthusiasm
and cooperation. He served as a member for five years of Lakewood's
first board of health, a member of the board of education for three and
one-half years, and was a member of the charter commission. He is
a charter member of Lakewood Chamber of Commerce, and twice a mem-
ber of its board of directors, and is a charter rhember and director of the
Lakewood Savings & Loan Company. He has served as an elder in
the Lakewood Presbyterian Church, and is a member of the Lakewood
lodge of Masons.

Mr. Baum married Miss Lena Brandt, daughter of Frederick Brandt, of
Cleveland. They have two daughters, Margaret and Dorothy, both gradu-
ates of the Lakewood High School. Margaret was a teacher in the kinder-
garten department of the Lakewood public schools until her marriage to
Mr. Arthur E. Meeker, of an old and prominent Cleveland family.

Lawrence Alonzo Subers, organizer, inventor, scientist and busi-
ness man, is a Cleveland citizen who has added to the permanent assets
of civilization and has done something to increase the control of man
over the processes of nature. His is the creative mind, without which
mankind could never have risen above the stage of barbarism.

Mr. Subers v^as born at Beach Haven, New Jersey, July 20, 1866,
son of Thomas P. and Nettie M. (Dean) Subers. He was educated in
public and private schools, and at an early age became interested in the
development of mechanical devices and new inventions. He took out

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his first patent in 1886, and suljsequently studied corporate and patent
law as an aid to his work in establishing' industrial cf^rpfjrations, and also
to protect his inventions. He served as a special expert at the World's
Fair at Chicago in 1893.

For many years he has been interested in various corixjrations, and
early began an intensive study of rubber products wherein cotton is used
as a basic element in conjunction with adhesive substances, and conceived
the idea that the extensibility or movement of certain rubber products
could and should be predetermined and controllable under pressure for
the purpose for which it may be used, thereby equalizing its strength in
all directions, and on this theory designed and perfected what is known
as the L. C. L tubular fabric. It has been demonstrated that this tubular
fabric has a greater resistance to atmospheric conditions, and practically
eliminates the separation of the various plies of fabric when under pres-
sure or stress, due to the Subers L. C. I. method of construction, thereby
eliminating extreme elongation, contortion, twist and expansion. It has
been proven that such products, subjected to the usual mechanical tests,
have passed all previous records for strength, wear, long life, and general
utility. Also by this process many operations are eliminated which are
necessary in the manufacture of the regular line of similar products.

During the many years required in the development and perfection
of the L. C. I. tubular fabric and the processes, devices and machines for
the manufacture of a certain line of mechanical rubber products there-
from, a most valuable discovery was brought about, namely, that the
L. C. I. principle of compiling fibrous material with adhesive compounds
was adaptable for use in the manufacture of automobile tires, which
was being earnestly contemplated and sought by Mr. Subers when the
inception of the principle involved for mechanical goods was first con-
ceived in his mind. It has been positively demonstrated by actual tests
that for tire construction, the L. C. I. method is superior to any other
known principle in the manufacture of tires, giving greater resiliency and
mileage.

To give the public the benefit of these improvements, Mr. Subers in
December, 1921, organized the Subers Rubber Products Company under
the laws of Ohio, for the purpose of controlling the manufacture and
distribution of the products develoi>ed under his patents, and became the
president of this corporation. It is the opinion of those well versed in
the rubber industry that the patents covering the products have unlim-
ited possibilities, and the success of the company is based upon the
intrinsic commercial value of the L. C. I. products.

Mr. Subers for many years has been active in civic, commercial and
social organizations of 'Cleveland, including the Chamber of Commerce,
Credit Men's Association, and the Automobile Club. He married, Decem-
ber 14, 1893, Miss Blanche P. Dorris, of Massachusetts.

To conclude a brief sketch of one of the most interesting men in
Cleveland's industrial affairs something should be said of his personality
as viewed by a friend of long standing, who says : *T have never known
a man who maintained so high a moral, not to say Christian level, day in
and day out. I have seen him in circumstances where most men would
have gone to pieces, as calm and steady as though children were plav-ing
at his knee. I have seen him in the midst of financial strain and stress

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maintain a cheerfulness and exhibit a hope that was more than remarkable.
In the long, hard struggle he has had to bring to success a really valuable
contribution to the world's progress, he has had my unflagging interest
and my prayers."

Horace Ervin Mitchell, M. D., who is established in the successful
general practice of his profession at Lakewood, was born in the City
of Muncie, Indiana, February 25, 1888, a son of Darius C. and Elmira
(Newcomb) Mitchell. Though the doctor thus claims the Hoosier State
as the place of his nativity, he is a representative of one of the old and
honored families of Ohio, his father having been born at New Carlisle,
Clark County, this state, a son of Joseph R. Mitchell, who was born in
Miami County, Ohio. His great-grandfather was Samuel Mitchell, a
pioneer settler in that county, to which he came from Pennsylvania. He
was a gallant soldier in the War of the Revolution, in which he served
on the staff of General Washington.

Joseph R. Mitchell was reared and educated in Ohio, and prior to
the Civil war he established his residence in Muncie, Indiana, which
state he represented as a valiant soldier of the Union in the Civil war.
The mother of Doctor Mitchell was born in Delaware County, Indiana,
a daughter of Lyons P. Newcomb, who came from Clinton County, Ohio,
and became an early settler in Delaware County.

Darius C. Mitchell was a boy at the time of the family removal to
Muncie, Indiana, where he was reared and educated and where heJ
eventually became a successful construction engineer, a profession and
business which he there followed many years — until his retirement from
active business, he being still a resident of Muncie and being in his
seventy-third year at the time of this writing, while his wife is in her
seventy-second year.

In the public schools of his native city Doctor Mitchell continued his
studies until his graduation from the Muncie High School as a member of
the class of 1906. Thereafter he devoted one year to newspaper .work at
Muncie, and he then entered historic old Jefferson Medical College, in
the City of Philadelphia, in which great institution he was graduated
in 1912. After thus receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine he passed
two years in hospital work in various hospitals, and further fortified
himself by six months of effective post-graduate work in Europe. In
1914 he established himself in practice at Lakewood, Ohio, and his
unequivocal success here offers the best voucher for his professional
ability and personal popularity. The doctor applied for enlistment in
the Medical Corps of the United States Army when the nation became
involved in the World war, but minor physical ineligibility led to his
rejection. He is a member of the official staff of Lakewood Public Hos-
pital and also of the Lutheran Hospital in the City of Cleveland. He
is actively identified with the Cleveland Academy of Medicine, the Ohio
State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. The
Doctor is affiliated with Gaston G. Allen Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted
Masons ; Cunningham Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; Holy Grail Com-
mandery of Knights Templar and Al Koran Shrine. He married,
November 10, 1915, Miss Marcia Sommers, of Lakewood.

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Jerry R. Zmunt. In the years of his professional activity as a
member of the Cleveland bar Mr. Zmunt has gained the success and
prestige that offer distinct evidence of ability and also of well earned
claim upon popular confidence and esteem. He is now serving as a
member of the board of county commissioners of Cuyahoga County, and
through this and other ofiiicial and civic mediums he has given definite
expression to his loyalty and stewardship as a progressive and liberal
citizen of the Ohio metropolis. Mr. Zmunt has here been active and
influential in the local camp and campaign manoeuvers of the republican
party, and in 1918 he was his party's candidate for representative of the
Twentieth Ohio District in the United States Congress. He has devel-
oped a substantial and representative law business, and maintains his
offices in the Engineers Building.

Mr. Zmunt claims the Hawkeye State as the place of his nativity, his
birth having occurred at Mitchell, Iowa, January 21, 1871. He is a
son of Vincent and Mary (Zvoboda) Zmunt, both of whom were born
and reared in Austria, where their marriage was solemnized and where
their first child was born. In his native land Vincent Zmunt served a
thorough apprenticeship to the trade of shoemaking, at a period when all
shoes and boots were manufactured by hand and when exceptional skill
was demanded of artisans in this line. Thus he fortified himself for the
making of the highest grade of footwear, and his technical skill proved
adequate reinforcement when he initiated his career in the United States,
he having come with his wife and their one child, Frank, to this country
in the year 1864, the other children, Vincent, Mary, Jerry R., Julius
and Oscar, having been born after the family home had been established
in the United States. Julius and Oscar are deceased. After living for
a time in the city of New York, Vincent Zmunt moved with his family
to the West and resided for an interval in the City of Chicago. He
then established his residence at Mitchell, Iowa, where he thus gained
a measure of pioneer prestige, and there he engaged in the boot and
shoe business. In connection with his retail shoe business he maintained
a department for the manufacturing of custom-made shoes, and this
department became one of such importance as to require the employment
of three or four skilled workmen. Mr. Zmunt built up a substantial and
prosperous business at Mitchell, and was one of the honored citizens and
representative business men of that place at the time when he left
Mitchell and moved with his family to Iowa City, in order to give to his
children the advantages of the University of Iowa. In Iowa City he
engaged in the grocery business, in which he continued until his death.
His widow came to Cleveland and made her home with her daughter until
her death.

In the public schools of his native place Jerry R. Zmunt continued his
studies until his graduation from high school, and thereafter he made
a record of four years of effective service as a teacher in the public
schools, his pedagogic work having been done in Iowa and Minnesota. In
the meanwhile he formulated definite plans for his future career, and
in harmony with these plans he finally came to Cleveland. Ohio, and
entered the law department of Western Reserve University, working his
way through by doing janitor's work at the university. In this institu-
tion he was graduated as a member of the class of 1896. and his reception

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of the degree of Bachelor of Laws was almost immediately followed
by his admission to the Ohio bar. He has since been continuously and
successfully engaged in the practice of his profession in Cleveland, and
since 1899 has been eligible for practice in the Federal Courts of the
Northern District of Ohio. He has proved his powers as a resourceful
trial lawyer and able counselor, and has made the passing years count
in ever broadening command of the intricacies of the involved science of
jurisprudence, which ever challenges the ambitious student, no matter
how broad has been his practical experience along professional lines.

In 1916 Mr. Zmunt was elected to the Cleveland City Council, as
representative from the Seventh Ward, and in this office he continued
his service until 1922. He was a member of the council during the
period of American participation in the World war, when this and all
other governmental bodies were called upon to assume far greater responsi-
bilities and more exacting service, and he did his part in making the work
of the municipal government efficient during this climateric period, besides
being otherwise active and influential in the advancing of local patriotic
service. In the council he was assigned to the streets, finance, the appro-
priations and the judiciary committees. The estimate placed upon his
service in this connection was shown in the loyal support of his con-
stituents, and as a member of the board of county commissioners of
Cuyahoga County, to which office he was elected in 1920, he finds oppor-
tunity for further service of most loyal and appreciable order. As
previously stated, Mr. Zmunt was a republican candidate for representative
in Congress in the year 1918, and the general trend of political exigencies
at the time compassed his defeat.

In the time-honored Masonic fraternity the basic affiliation of
Mr. Zmunt is with Halcyon Lodge No. 498, Ancient Free and Accepted
Masons, and his maximum York Rite affiliation is with Forest City
Commandery No. 40, Knights Templar. His Masonic alliances are
extended to Lake Erie Consistory of the Scottish Rite, Al Koran Temple
of the Mystic Shrine, and Al Sirat Grotto. He is identified also with
various social, professional and civic organizations of representative char-
acter in his home city.

Mr. Zmunt married Miss Mary Schovanek in 1893 and the children
of this union were four in number: Esther, Vera (who died in 1907, aged
five and one-half years), Vernon J. and Althea N. Esther is the wife
of Walter Breymaier, a World's war soldier, and they have a son, Robert
Walter.

Thomas Joseph Carlin, who for the past twenty years has been
in the paint and varnish business, is a native of Cleveland, and his
varied interests and activities make him one of the substantial men of
the city.

He was born in Cleveland August 15, 1863, son of Eugene and Mary
(Osborne) Carlin. His father was born in Ireland in 1823, and as a
young man came to the United States and to Cleveland. In St. John's
Cathedral at Cleveland he married Mary Osborne, also a native of
Ireland, who came to this country when a young woman. Their marriage
ceremony was performed by the late Bishop Rapp. Eugene Carlin for
many years followed the trade of iron moulder. He died here in 1905

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and his wife in 1895. The deed to their old home at 1511 Oregon
Avenue, dated in 1859, is still carefully preserved in the family. There
were four children: Maggie, wife of A. C. Bard, now a resident of
Los Angeles, California; Thomas J.; Rose, wife of Terrence Gilbride, an
accountant with the New York Central Railway ; and Nellie, wife of
John Mack, buyer for the William Taylor & Sons Company of Cleveland.

Thomas J. Carlin was an honor graduate of St. John's parochial
school, and in 1876, at the age of thirteen, began an apprenticeship in
the mechanical department of the New York Central Railway. To fit
him for further promotion he also attended a drafting school two years
and took up the study of mechanical engineering, receiving high marks in
all his engineering courses. Mr. Carlin followed the machinist's trade
until 1892. In that year, during the administration of Mayor Rose, he
became a member of the police department, and was identified with that
branch of the city government twelve years. Six years of this time he
was on detailed special work.

On leaving the police department in 1904 Mr. Carlin became a trav-
eling salesman for a paint and varnish house. While still with that
house in 1917 he made a record in competition with 131 other salesmen
of the company, giving him the first prize offered by the company, seventy-
five dollars. In the contest he led his nearest competitor by thirty-three
points. Mr. Carlin is now associated with the Standard Paint & Lead
Works of Cleveland. He is a stockholder in several banks and saving
and loan companies.

Mr. Carlin enjoys a large friendship and membership in some of
the leading clubs of the city. He is a director of the Tippecanoe Club,
has been a delegate to the League of Republican Clubs, has served as
director and vice president of the Western Reserve Club, and is a member
of St. John's Cathedral Parish. Over a long period of years he has
devoted much of his leisure to the study of good literature, and is thor-
oughly well informed on current events. While a repubhcan, he has
never consented to be a candidate for office of any kind.

Henry Andrew Herkner, M. D., was a child of three years at
the time when the family home was established in Cleveland, here he
was reared to manhood, here he received his early education, and here
he has worked out his own career and gained place as one of the repre-
sentative physicians and surgeons of the Ohio metropolis. The last
clause of the foregoing statement has special significance, in view of the
fact that the doctor became virtually dependent upon his own resources
when he was a lad of but fourteen years. His energy and resourceful-
ness were on a parity with his ambition, and he permitted nothing to
turn him aside from that worthy ambition which was to fit himself for
the profession in which he is now giving good account of himself.

Doctor Herkner was born in Hessen, Germany, on the ISth of April,
1879, and is a son of George and Martha (Schlichter) Herkner. both
likewise natives of Hessen. where the former was born in 1845 and the
latter in 1846, the year 1881 having marked the coming of the family to
the United States and the first two years having been passed in New
York City. George Herkner, a skilled machinist, then came with his

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family to Cleveland, and here he and his wife still maintain their home,
he being now retired from active business.

In the public schools of Cleveland Doctor Herkner gained his early
education, his high school course having here been taken in Central
Institute. He has provided for his own maintenance since he was four-
teen years of age, and defrayed the expenses incidental to his more
advanced academic education as well as for his course in medical col-
lege. F"inally he so guided his affairs as to be able to enter the Cleve-
land College of Physicians and Surgeons, and in this excellent institution
he was graduated as a member of the class of 1906. After receiving
his degree of Doctor of Medicine he was for sixteen months an interne
in St. Vincent's Charity Hospital, where he gained most varied and
valuable clinical experience. Since 1907 he has been established in
.general practice in the Seventy-ninth Street and St. Clair Avenue district
of Cleveland, with offices at 928 East Seventy-fifth Street. The doctor,
through his fine professional stewardship and personal popularity, has built
up a large practice, and he gives special attention to X-ray work, his
well-equipped laboratory for this service being of much value to him
in his own practice, besides affording facilities for other physicians and
surgeons who have requirement for its services. Doctor Herkner is a
member of the staff of Glenville Hospital and also of that of the Florence
Crittenden Home. He has active membership in the Cleveland Academy
of Medicine, the Ohio State Medical Society, and the American Medical
Association. In the World war period he gave effective service in the
examining of recruited men, as an assistant to Dr. J. E. Tucker, exec-
utive head of the local board of medical examiners in this branch of
war service.

Doctor Herkner wedded Miss Martha Behnke, who was born and
reared in Cleveland, and who is a daughter of Carl and Regina Behnke.
Doctor and Mrs. Herkner have two children : Edith Alice, who was born
February 21, 1908, and Henry Andrew, Jr., who was born June 10, 1913.

George Baird Johnson, one of the vice presidents of the Guardian
Savings & Trust Company, established the bond department of that
Cleveland institution and has managed it from the beginning.

Mr. Johnson was born at Erie. Pennsylvania, January 10, 1877, son of
James C. and Susan Campbell (Baird) Johnson. His father was also a
native of Erie, Pennsylvania, while his mother was born at Washington, in
Washington County, that state. George B. Johnson was reared in the
cities of Erie and Pittsburgh and completed his preparatory education at
the Park Institute in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. He has made a successful
business career without the aid of a college education.

For five years Mr. Johnson was in the fire insurance business at
Erie, and for another period of five years represented the New York
Life Insurance Company in the cities of Erie, Toledo, Saginaw and
Cleveland.

Mr. Johnson entered the bond business about nineteen years ago. At
first he was a salesman for the firm of W. J. Hayes & Son of Cleveland,
and later represented the international banking house of William Salomon
& Company, with headquarters in Cleveland. He opened the bond depart-
•ment of the Guardian Saving & Trust Company in 1915. His title then

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was manager of the bond department, and he has been at the head of this
department ever since. In 1^20 he received the additional title of vice-
president.

Mr. Johnson is a republican, and is a member of the Union Club,
Canterbury Golf Club, Bankers Club and the Cleveland Chamber of
Commerce. He and his family are members of St. Paul's Episcopal Church
at East Cleveland.

He married at East Cleveland, February 10, 1906, Miss Edith Ketchum,
daughter of James D. and Mary (Morgan) Ketchum. They have three
children: Baird Johnson, Harriet Ely Johnson and Elizabeth Johnson.

Ralph Hecker. The Hecker family has been identified with Cuya-
hoga County for over ninety years. A well-known representative in the
present generation is Mr. Ralph Hecker, who was born at the old home-
stead on what is now Addison Road in Cleveland.

Peter Hecker, his father, was born in Alsace-Lorraine in 1811, of
French ancestry. His father accompanied his two sons and one daughter
to America in 1832, spending the rest of his days in Cleveland. The
Hecker family came to America in a sailing vessel, whose destination was
New Orleans, but adverse winds drove the ship from its course and
after several weeks it landed in New York. The Heckers came on west
by the Hudson River and the Erie Canal to Buffalo, and thence by ox
team transportation to Cleveland. Cleveland was then a very small city,
and nearly all the surrounding country was covered with heavy forests.
Peter Hecker acquired thirty acres of land, facing on what is now
Addison Road and Wade Park Avenue. Its improvements included a
log house and a small clearing and the planting of some apple trees.
Peter Hecker at once began to clear up the rest of the land, and in a
few years was a prosperous truck gardener, finding a ready market
for his produce in the city. He made a famous brand of sauer kraut,
which he shipped to other lake ports. He and his wife were both
associated in marketing the produce. With the extension of the city his
farm was platted and about half of it sold for lots. The old family
home of round logs was replaced by a substantial hewn log house and
this in time by a commodious frame house. The ground surrounding
the house was well cared for and presented an attractive appearance.
Peter Hecker was a man of abstemious habits, never intemperate in any
sense, and a man of fine influence and character. He died in January. 1899.

Peter Hecker married Caroline Cross, a native of Germany, who came
to America with her parents, the family joining Cleveland as pioneers.
She died in 1908, and her children were Peter ]., Louise. Charles, Julia,
Sarah, Edna and Ralph.

Ralph Hecker was educated in the public schools on Addison Road.
He married in 1905 Sarah B. Baird, daughter of John and Catherine
(Montgomery) Baird. They have two children, Waldo B. and Louise
Isabelle.

Otto M. Schade, who served with the rank of major in the Spanish-
American war, and for many years was actively indentified with the famous
Cleveland Grays, is a member of a well known family of Cuyahoga County.
His father, Carl Schade, was born in Dresden, Germany, and came to

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America in 1860. He was a tailor by trade,and in Cleveland did a prosperous
business as a merchant tailor on Woodland Avenue. He finally retired, and
died at the age of seventy-tv^o years. He married Henrietta Folgrabe, vi^ho
was born in Germany, and died at the age of eighty-eight years. Their
children were Charles A., Laura C. and Otto M.

Otto M. Schade was one year old when brought to America. He
received his early education in the Mayflower School in Cleveland, attended
the Spencerian Business College, and for a number of years was engaged in
the crockery and glassware business. In April, 1898, he entered the federal
service as a major of the Tenth Ohio Volunteers, receiving his honorable
discharge in 1899.

Major Schade married in, 1893 Mary C. Roth, who was born in Cleve-
land, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Roth, who came from Germany.

Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. Co-operative National
Bank of Cleveland. While organized labor for some years has been
engaged in cooperative buying, manufacturing and other lines of ordinary
commerce, no one enterprise in America has attracted so much attention as
the establishment of the first Cooperative National Bank, promoted and
organized by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.

Such a bank was authorized by a resolution passed in the 1915 con-
vention of the locomotive engineers, but due to the unsettled conditions
of the World war no action was taken until October, 1919, beyond
gathering necessary information and laying tentative plans. A federal
charter was secured, property purchased at the corner of St. Clair and
Ontario streets in Cleveland, and after the building was properly equipped
the bank was opened to the public November 1, 1920. Starting with
resources of approximately $650,000, these resources have grown at the
rate of $750,000 a month, passing the twenty three million dollar mark on
June 1, 1923.

As a national bank this differs from other banks under a federal charter
in the fact that it is cooperative. The engineer stockholders are limited in
any year to not more than ten per cent dividend on the stock. This bank
paid its stockholders six per cent in 1921 and eight per cent in 1922,
establishing another record which no national bank has made. The stock
is sold only to members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers in
good standing. It was oversubscribed some $378,000 before the bank
opened, and many engineers are today on the waiting list to obtain stock
when there is opportunity.

The unprecedented growth of the bank is due to the great organization
behind it, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, which in sixty years
has handled its financial afifairs without a single failure. The growth of
the bank was such as to warrant seeking a location in the central district
of Cleveland. The committee in September, 1922, purchased the fourteen
story office building at 308 Euclid Avenue. This has a thoroughly equipped
banking room, and the first six floors are of^ces and workrooms for use
in connection with the bank. A branch of^ce was opened there October 2,
1922. At this writing plans are drawn for a twenty-one story building to
occupy the entire half block originally purchased by the Brotherhood at the
corner of St. Clair and Ontario streets. The plans provide for one of the
finest banking rooms to be found any where in the United States.

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The Engineers also purchased controlHng interest in the Nottingham
State Bank at 187th and St. Clair, have a large interest in the Empire Trust
Company of New York City, and contemplate opening two or three co-
operative banks in New York City. They have a controlling interest in
the Transportation Brotherhood's National Bank of Minneapolis, the
Federated Trust Company of Birmingham, Alabama, and the Hammond
Indiana State Bank.

The Brotherhood Investment Company, recently capitalized at ten
million dollars, deals in all safe securities to be sold to members of the
Brotherhood and to other union men. It buys issues of government, state,
municipal and other bonds and resells to the public. The Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers as an organization holds fifty-one per cent of the
stock of this company, as is also true of the bank.

James Thomas Nolan, deputy county treasurer of Cuyahoga County,
a well known and popular public official, has spent most of his Hfe in
Cleveland. He was one of the pioneer newspaper illustrators in Cleveland,
and won many unusual honors as an artist before he retired from that
profession.

He was born in Cleveland, April 6, 1878, son of the late James and
Margaret (Ferguson) Nolan. His father was born in 1833 in County
Monaghan, Ireland, son of Patrick Nolan, who spent all his life in Ireland.
Patrick was a descendant of the old O. Nolans of that country. James
Nolan as a young man came to the United States, and in Cleveland joined
his brother John, who had preceded him several years. Subsequently they
sent for their two sisters, one of whom died shortly after reaching Cleve-
land. The other sister then took charge of the household of the two
brothers who went to live in a double log house on Chestnut Street,
opposite what is now Dodge Court. This was the first house built on
Chestnut Street, in a locality that is now in the heart of the downtown
district of Cleveland. James Nolan was for many years a vegetable gardener.
growing vegetables not only in the summer but also under glass in the
winter seasons. He died in 1910. His wife. Margaret Ferguson, who
died in 1908, was born in County Fermanagh, Ireland, in 1843, daughter of
Thomas Ferguson, who brought his family to America, first settling in
Cobourg, Ontario, Canada, moving from there to Lockport, New York,
in 1861, and later establishing a home in Cleveland.

James Thomas Nolan as a youth attended the old St. Clair public school.
He is a graduate of the Cleveland School of Art. As a boy he showed
unusual skill in drawing, and subsequently found favor and employment
as an illustrator with newspapers, being one of the first men regularly
employed for that work in Cleveland. This was before the days of the
modern art of half tone reproduction of photographs, the common method
of illustrating newspapers. The newspaper artists of that time when
commissioned to illustrate any scene or event went out and with pen and
ink made drawings on the spot. Mr. Nolan has the distinction of having
been the first artist on the stafif of the Plain Dealer, and subsequently drew
cartoons of the old world. He gave up newspaper work to accept service
in another branch of his art. The Western Reserve University ]\Iedical
School employed him as its medical artist, a position he held for sixteen
years, and during that time he was himself a student of anatomy and sur-

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gery as an aid to his artistic work. On leaving Western Reserve Medical
School he accepted a similar position at MagiU University at Montreal,
Canada. During the two years he spent at that famous school he came in
contact with a number of the celebrated surgeons of America. He did work
for JJr. (jeorge J. Adama, tne great patlioiogist, and for rroiessor l^reden:k
Osier, and positions were offered him by such men as the Doctors Mayo
of Minnesota, Dr. Hunter Robb and Doctor Murphy of Chicago.

Mr. Nolan finally gave up his art work to engage in the real estate
business at Cleveland. In September, 1922, he accepted appointment as
deputy in the office of County Treasurer Ralph C. McBride, in whose favor
he had withdrawn from the primaries of that year. Mr. Nolan is a
member of the Tippecanoe Club and the Eighth Ward Republican Club, the
Wampanoag Indians, the Moose and the Eagles. He married Miss Sade
V. Kane, a native of Cleveland and daughter of Patrick and Sarah (Master-
son) Kane.

Augustine Russell Treadway was one of that generation of enter-
prising men who developed Cleveland as a great center of commerce and
industry. His name was particularly associated with the hardware business,
though he had numerous connections with the steel and iron trade and other
lines.

He was of old Connecticut Colonial stock, his ancestry on both sides
having settled in that portion of New England long before the Revolution.
He was born in New Haven, Connecticut, ni 1836, son of Russell and Mary
(Willcox) Treadway. He was educated in the public schools of New
Haven, attended the Episcopal Academy at Cheshire, Connecticut, for three
years, and soon after leaving school went to work in the employ of an
uncle, Lyman Treadway, who conducted a stove and furnace business in
New Haven. Later he was in a hardware store at Hartford, and continued
his development in the hardware business as clerk in a wholesale house at
Philadelphia. In 1857 he established a business of his own, handling stoves
and furnaces at New Haven, later forming a partnership with his uncle
under the name of L. & A. R. Treadway, which continued until the former's
death, after the removal to Cleveland. During this time also he was a
partner in the boot and shoe business under the name of Foote, Stevens and
Treadway, and later he was treasurer and manager of the Aetna Nut
Company in Southington, Connecticut.

In the early seventies he was captain of the New Haven Blues, infantry.

Mr. Treadway came to Cleveland in 1879 and organized a partnership
under the name of Willcox, Treadway & Company to manufacture general
hardware and tools. In 1882 this firm was one of a number of concerns
engaged in similar lines of production that consolidated under the name
of Peck, Stow & Willcox Company, with general headquarters in South-
ington, Connecticut, with manufacturing plants in Cleveland and in South-
ington, Berlin, Plantsville, Cheshire and Birmingham, Connecticut, and a
store in New York City for the export trade. Mr. Treadway later became
vice president of the corporation, and in 1895 its president, serving in that
capacity until 1911, when he resigned, a few months before his death, and
was succeeded by his son, the late Lyman H. Treadway.

Mr. Treadway at the time of his death was a director of the Union
Rolling Mill Company, the State Banking & Trust Company, the Cleveland

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National Bank and the Union Savings & Loan Company, all of Cleveland.
Both his private and public spirited enterprise in business contributed to
making Cleveland a center of iron and steel manufacture, and he was
intimately associated with such pioneers of the iron industry as S. A. Fuller,
I. P. Lamson, A. S. Upsom and S. W. Sessions. He had served as a
director of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, and was associated with
many purely civic movements.

Augustme Kussell 1 rcadway died at his Cleveland home October 16,
1911, at the age of seventy-five. He married in 1859 Sarah E. Hambright
of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, who was mother of Lyman H. Treadway,
deceased. She died early in 1865. October 3, 1866, he married Mary L.
Mansfield, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Bradley) Mansfield, of an
old New England family, descended from Richard Mansfield, who settled
in Connecticut in 1636. Mrs. Treadway survived her husband ten years,
passing away September 29, 1921. She was the mother of two sons and
one daughter : 1^ rancis Willcox ; Charles Frederick, now residing in New
Haven ; and Mary Elizabeth, wife of James Mathers.

William Otto Ziemer, ]\L D. A graduate in medicine from Western
Reserve University, with also an extended training in hospital work. Doctor
Ziemer has been steadily engaged in a growing private practice as a
physician and surgeon of the South Side for seventeen years.

Doctor Ziemer was born in Brooklyn Village, now a part of the
City of Cleveland, April 19, 1882, son of Robert and Ottilie (Strandt)
Ziemer. Both his parents were born in Germany, his father in 1851 and his
mother in 1852. They were married in the old country, but soon after-
ward they came to the United States and located at Brooklyn Village.
Robert Ziemer, while in Germany, completed an apprenticeship at the
blacksmith's trade. He worked as a journeyman for several years in
Cleveland, and then opened a shop of his own on the South Side. He was
one of the active men in that section of the city until his death in August,
1918. His widow survives him. Both became members many years ago
of the Reformed Church at Woodbridge and West Thirty-second Street.

William Otto Ziemer acquired his early education in the Sackett Public
School, for two years w^as a student in Adelbert College of Western
Reserve University, and was graduated from the Western Reserve Uni-
versity School of Medicine in 1904. His further training before taking
up private practice was acquired in Lakeside Hospital, where he served
a year and one-half as an interne, and for a time he was an interne in the
Cleveland City Hospital. Doctor Ziemer opened his first private oftice in
1906 at the family home at 2716 Woodbridge Street. Later he had an
oftice at the corner of Trowbridge and West Twenty-fifth streets and since
1916 has been located at 3459 West Twenty-fifth Street.

Doctor Ziemer is a member of the various medical societies and was on
one of the examining boards during the World war. He is aftiliated with
Concordia Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, Hillman Chapter. Royal
Arch Mason, Riverside Lodge, Knights of Pythias, and the Woodmen of
the World.

He married Miss Anna B. Cleves. She was born in Cleveland, daughter
of William H. Cleves. They have one daughter, Ethel Gertrude, born in
1908.

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Francis Willcox Treadway. As a practicing attorney of the Cleve-
land bar for over thirty years, formerly lieutenant governor of Ohio, and
for years closely associated with the most prominent leaders of the
republican party in the state, Francis Willcox Treadway has been one of the
outstanding citizens of Cleveland in his generation.

He was born in New Haven, Connecticut, January 7, 1869, son of the
late Augustine Russell Treadway, whose career is given in the preceding
sketch. He lived in New Haven until he was ten years of age, began
his public school education there, and subsequently, in 1886, graduated
from the Cleveland West High School. He then attended Worcester
Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, where he received the Bachelor of
Science degree in 1890, and of which institution he was elected trustee
in 1924. This was followed by two years in the Yale Law School, where
he received his Bachelor of Laws degree in 1892, winning the Munson
prize for the best thesis on graduation. Returning to. Ohio, he was
admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court of Columbus in October, 1892,
and stood first in the class then admitted. Mr. Treadway began the
practice of law at Cleveland in 1892, associated with the law firm of
Williamson & Cushing, but eight months later he and William H. Mar-
latt formed the firm of Treadway & Marlatt. This firm has been in
continuous existence for thirty-two years, and is the oldest legal part-
nership in the city, without change in that period. *

While most of his time has been taken up with the practice of his law
firm, Mr. Treadway has many services of a public nature to his credit. He
was appointed United States commissioner of Cleveland in 1902, but
resigned in 1903 when elected a member of the House of Representatives
of Ohio. In the Seventy-sixth General Assembly he made the nominating
speech for Marcus A. Hanna, who that year was republican candidate before
the Ohio Legislature for election to the United States Senate. He was
leader of the fight in the House for what is known as the Cleveland
School Bill, a measure providing for the organization of small school
boards throughout the state, and for a business administration of the
public schools. As first chairman of the House Committee on Banks
and Banking, newly created that year, he was leader of the reform
movement for the examination of state banks and the creation of a state
banking department. His proposed measure was defeated at that session,
but in the Seventy-seventh General Assembly, as counsel for the Ohio
Bankers Association, Mr. Treadway was largely instrumental in securing
the enactment of a similar measure, known as the Thomas Act, which
created a state banking department and required regular inspection and
examination of state banks. In 1918 he was retained to revise and codify
the bank laws of the state, which was done and the same enacted into
law in 1919, known as the Graham Banking Act.

In 1905 Mr. Treadway was nominated for vice mayor of Cleveland,
the republican municipal ticket being headed by Theodore E. Burton
for mayor. In 1908 he was elected as a republican to the office of
lieutenant-governor of Ohio on the ticket with Governor Andrew L. Har-
ris, who was unfortunately defeated, the democratic candidate for gov-
ernor, Judson T. Harmon, being elected. In 1910 he was renominated
for lieutenant-governor, the republican candidate for governor that year
being Warren G. Harding, but the entire state republican ticket was

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defeated. Mr. Treadway both before that and afterwards was associ-
ated on terms of unusual intimacy with the late Mr. Harding. They were
warm personal friends, and Mr. Treadway esteemed beyond measure the
personality and character of the late president.

During the great war he was a member of the executive committee,
Cleveland War Board.

As counsel Mr, Treadway is a director in a number of business cor-
porations, and also has many executive responsibilities. He is president
of the Baker R & L Company, president of the Cleveland Paper Manu-
facturing Company, secretary of the Ferris Shoe Company of Cleve-
land and Philadelphia, is a director and member of the executive
committee of the Guardian Savings & Trust Company, a director of the
Cleveland Metal Products Company and the Peck, Stow & Willcox
Company of Cleveland and Southington, Connecticut, and a trustee of
Pilgrim Church and Jones Home for Friendless Children. For two years
he was a director, 1911-1913, of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce.
He is a member of the American, Cleveland and Ohio Bar associations.
Phi Delta Phi law fraternity, the Tippecanoe Republican Club, Western
Reserve Historical Society, and since 1912 has been a trustee of the
Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society. He is a member
of the Union, Clifton, Mayfield, Westwood and Mid-Day clubs, the
Columbus Club of Columbus, and of the Sons of the American Revo-
lution. He has been president of the Tippecanoe, Clifton and Westwood
clubs.

Mr. Treadway married, January 5, 1897, Esther Sutliff Frisbie, who
was born at Southington, Connecticut, daughter of William J. and Anna
Sutliff Frisbie. They have two children, Frances Sessions and Augustine
Russell, graduates of Smith and Dartmouth colleges.

William Cletus Graves, a Cleveland attorney with offices in the
Hanna Building, is a native of this city, and has an interesting ancestry
containing a number of well-known figures in the pioneer life of the
far West.

Mr. Graves was born in Cleveland. His father. Michael Charles
Graves, was born in this city in 1863. His grandfather, a native of
Dublin, Ireland, came to America a young man, and arrived in Cleveland
when it was a comparatively small city. He lived here the rest of his
life. He married in Cleveland, Elizabeth Murphy, of Irish ancestr}-.
They reared a family of twelve children.

Michael Charles Graves learned the plumber's trade, and has been in
that business for forty years or more. He married Antoinette McXamara.
She was born in San Francisco, California. Her father, William McXam-
ara, was born in County Limerick, Ireland. Her grandfather. John
McNamara, was an architect in the service of the British Government, and
he planned and constructed a large number of portable iron houses.
Several of these houses were shipped to the United States, and were
among the first buildings of the kind ever put up in this country. One
of these old buildings is still standing in San Francisco. John McNamara
came to the United States about I860, lived for a time in Cleveland, and
was a building contractor there. He did work at other points in the
Middle West and erected the Cathedral that stands at the comer of

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Superior and Ninth Street. William McNamara, father of Antoinette
MciNamara, married a daughter of Francis X. Benitz. The latter was
born in Baden, Germany. His brother, Anthony Benitz, settled in Pitts-
burgh and established a brewery that was first in the United States to
brew beer on a commercial scaie. inancis X. l^enitz was a man ut great
energy, and on coming to America lived for a time in Pittsburgh and
removed to Cleveland, and still later went out to California, crossing
the plains with teams. He first located at Fort Russ, on Russia River
in California, where he was engaged in grain and live stock raising.
Moving to San Francisco, he invested heavily in real estate, and he
platted some property and gave to one of the streets the name Haight, in
honor of his wife. After a successful career he removed to South
America and settled near Buenos Aires, where he acquired large tracts
of land and where many of his descendants still live. His wife was
Margaret Haight.

Michael Lliarles Graves and wife reared two sons, named Benitz
Abbott and William Cletus. William Cletus Graves attended the Case
and Wilson public schools, graduated from the Standard School and the
High School of Commerce, and studied law in Baldwin-Wallace Uni-
versity. He was graduated with the Bachelor of Laws degree in 1916,
and since being admitted to the bar has engaged in practice, confining his
attention to civil practice. Mr. Graves is a member of the Cleveland
Bar Association, the City Club, the Lake Forest Country Club, and is
a member of the Cleveland Yacht Club. He belongs to the Delta Theta
Phi fraternity and the Grand Fraternity and Swastika. He is an Elk,,
and a republican in politics.

J. Paul Thompson was born at Cadiz, county seat of Harrison
County, Ohio, January 13, 1880, son of Harvey L. and Maria (Sham-
baugh) Thompson. More extended reference to his parents is made in
later paragraphs. J. Paul Thompson was reared on a farm, attended
public school and graduated from high school in 1896. Then for several
years he taught, and entering Ohio Wesleyan University completed his
course and graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1904. In
the same year he entered the law department of Western Reserve
University, and completed a three years' course in two, so that he was
given a diploma with the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1906. In
June of that year he was admitted to the Ohio bar, and at once engaged
in general practice in Cleveland. He was admitted to the bar of the
United States District Court of the Northern District of Ohio in 1908, and
later to the bar of the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Thompson
has formed no partnership, and has relied on his individual abilities to
bring him the splendid volume of general practice that now requires
his undivided time and attention. He is a member of the Cuyahoga
County, Ohio State and American Bar associations.

He has other interests and diversions, represented by his membership
in the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, the University Club, the Cas-
talia Trout Club, the Alpha Tau Omega and Phi Alpha Delta college
fraternities. He is very fond of outdoor life, and his favorite recreations
are fishing, camping and exploring in the wilds.

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On June 17, 1914, Mr. Thompson married Miss Georgella Ikirt, of
East Liverpool, Ohio, daughter of Dr. George P. and Mary (ll(jlnies)
Ikirt. Her father in addition to earning a high place in his profession, has
been a leader in public affairs and politics, and he had the honor of
being elected a member of Congress, defeating the late Colonel Mfjrgan,
noted engineer and manufacturer of Alliance, Ohio. Colonel Morgan
was given the nomination by the republican party at the personal solici-
tation of the late President William McKinley. Mrs. Thompson was
educated in the Woman's College of Baltimore, Maryland, and graduated
with the Bachelor of Laws degree from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1906.

The father of the Cleveland attorney, Harvey L. Thompson, was born
in Perry Township, Carroll County, Ohio, June 7, 1842, son of Gabriel
and Elizabeth (Allen) Thompson. His father was born in Harford
County, Maryland, and his mother in Carroll County, Ohio. Elizabeth
Allen's father, Joseph Allen, and her mother, Sarah Allen, were both
born in Otsego County, New York.

Harvey L. Thompson grew up on a farm in Carroll County, received
his early advantages in the common schools, and attended several higher
schools, including an institution at New Rumley in Harrison County,
where he was a schoolmate of Gen. George Custer, the noted soldier and
Indian fighter. On August 13, 1862, Harvey L. Thompson enlisted in
Company A of the One Hundred Twenty-sixth Ohio Infantry and
was promoted to corporal and sergeant, and was a participant in many
engagements of the war, including the battles of Harper's Ferry, Second
Bull Run, Spotsylvania, Petersburg and Cedar Creek. He was wounded
at the battle of the Wilderness on May 6, 1864, and received his honorable
discharge in 1865.

Following the close of his military service Harv^ey L. Thompson
attended Hopedale Normal College and Scio College in Harrison County,
Ohio, was a teacher for several winters, and at Conotton, Ohio, engaged
in the general merchandising business. In 1874 he was elected county
treasurer of Harrison County, was reelected n 1876, and after completing
his second term in office engaged in merchandising at Cadiz. Finally
he retired to a fine farm, where he supervised the growing of field crops
and wool and sheep growing, and continued so until his death on February
3,1907.

Harvey L. Thompson married, August 3, 1871, ]\Iiss Maria Sham-
baugh, who was born at New Rumley, Harrison County, August 22,
1844, daughter of Michael and Hettie (Hazlett) Shambaugh. Her
parents were born in Pennsylvania. Mrs. Harvey L. Thompson was a
woman of unusual breadth of culture and refinement. She attended
Otterbein College at Westerville, Ohio, for several years, and was
intensely interested in good literature. She was also an active worker in
church and foreign missionary societies. Her death occurred at the old
Thompson homestead, February 14, 1922.

Charles B. Stannard, sheriff of Cuyahoga County, was a well-known
figure in insurance circles in the city for a number of years, and ren-
dered important service to the cause of good government while a member

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of the city council, resigning from that body when he took up his present
duties as sheriff.

Mr. Stannard was born at Huron, Ohio, March 21, 1876, son of
Allen A. and Julia (Martin) Stannard. His father died in 1881 and
his mother in 1920. Charles B. Stannard was reared at Huron, where
he attended the public schools, and in 1895, at the age of nineteen, came
to Cleveland. His first employment here was with the wholesale grocery
house of Babcock, Hurd & Company. He was purchasing agent for this
firm, and subsequently for two years was on the road as traveling salesman
for the Kinney & Levan Company, wholesale and retail china and crockery
merchants. On leaving the road Mr. Stannard engaged in the insurance
business with the firm of Olmstead Brothers & Company, located in
the Williamson Building at Cleveland. He is still connected with this
old established insurance agency, though he has not been active since
January 1, 1921.

His leadership in city and county politics and public affairs covers a
period of several years. He is a republican, and was elected to repre-
sent the Twentieth Ward in the city council, his service in that body
covering the years of 1916 to 1920. He was president of the council in
1920. He has the distinction of being the only man ever elected president
of the council without opposition of any kind, even from the opposing
party. On the republican county ticket Mr. Stannard was elected sheriff
in 1920, and resigned from the city council December 31, 1920, to assume
his present duties the first of the following year.

Mr. Stannard is a past master of Woodward Lodge No. 508, Free
and Accepted Masons ; a member of McKinley Chapter, Royal Arch
Masons ; Oriental Commandery, Knights Templar, and Al Sirat Grotto.
He also belongs to the Acacia Club, with a membership limited to 1,000,
eligibility being based upon affiliation with the Masonic fraternity. He
is a member of Halcyon Lodge No. 488, Knights of Pythias, and the
Woodmen of the World and the Kiwanis Club.

Mr. Stannard married Miss Annette Scrivens of Ashtabula, Ohio. They
have two sons, Neal, who married Jean Cunningham of Cleveland, and
Paul.

Carlisle Harrison Snell, M. D. One of the younger members
of the medical profession at Cleveland is Dr. Carlisle Harrison Snell, gen-
eral practitioner, with offices and residence at 4746 Lorain Avenue. Doctor
Snell is a physician and surgeon by choice and heritage, his family name
being well known in medical circles in several states.

Coming from an old Colonial family of Tennessee, Doctor Snell was
born in the historic City of Knoxville, that state, on June 8, 1890, and
is a son of Dr. Albert Freeman and Ida Caroline (Ricketts) Snell.
Dr. Albert F. Snell was born in Bedford County, Tennessee, was gen-
erously reared and liberally educated, completed his medical course in
Vanderbilt University, at Nashville, and then entered upon the practice
of medicine at Chattanooga, Tennessee. Later he removed to Knoxville,
and late in 1890 came to Ohio and established himself at Cincinnati, where
he has become very prominent in his profession. He was married to
Ida Caroline Ricketts, who was born at Portsmouth, Ohio, and is descended

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from the old and distinguished Edgar family of this state. Two sons
of the family followed in their father's professional footsteps: Albert
F., Jr., and Carlisle Harrison. The former was graduated from the
Eclectic Medical College, Cincinnati, in 1914, and for a time afterward
was an instructor in that college. Later he entered on military service
in the World war, was commissioned first lieutenant at Camp Merritt,
New Jersey, where he fell ill, and his death occurred in 1920, bringing
to a close a promising career.

Carlisle Harrison Snell was an infant when the family came to Cin-
cinnati. He attended the public schools of that city and following his
graduation from the high school, read medicine in his father's office
until 1914, when he entered the Eclectic Medical College, from which
he was graduated with his medical degree in 1918. After spending one
year as an interne in the Metropolitan Hospital, New York City, and
six months at the Lying-in Hospital of that city, he entered into practice
at West Farmington, Trumbull County, Ohio, a few months later coming
to Cleveland, where he has found ready professional recognition and sub-
stantial encouragement.

Doctor Snell was married to Miss Harriet Tucker in 1921, a graduate
nurse, who was born at Canton, Pennsylvania. They have one daughter,
Caroline Tucker, who was born in September, 1922.

Doctor Snell is a member of Pleasant Ridge Lodge No. 288, Free
and Accepted Masons, of Cincinnati ; is a Knight Templar and thirty-
second degree Mason, and a member of the Eastern Star. He belongs
also to Amazon Lodge No. 567, Odd Fellows, of Cleveland, and to the
Lake wood Country Club and the Cleveland Automobile Club.

Alva R. Dittrick, a county commissioner of Cuyahoga County, is
a native of Cleveland, and has been a well-known citizen for many years.
Most of his business life has been spent in the electrical industry.

He was born at the family home on Euclid Avenue, Lakeview Park,
from Roscoe District, grandson of Alva Dittrick, and a descendant in the
fifth generation from a pioneer who came from Holland and settled in
Colonial days in the Mohawk Valley of New York, where his descendants
of the later days were identified with the name "Mohawk Dutch." One
branch of the family moving out of New York established a home in
Ontario, Canada, but the grandfather, Alva Dittrick, and also the son,
Roscoe Dittrick, his son, were born in St. Catherine's in Ontario. Alva
Dittrick owned a large body of land there, was a contractor of public
works, and built some of the early locks on canals in Canada. On
coming to Ohio, he was a contractor during the construction of some of
the pioneer railroads of this state. He lived for a time in Aschula, and
then in Cleveland, where he died. He married a member of the Campbell
family, one of the pioneer families of Ashtabula County. The Dittrick
family, after coming to Cleveland, lived on Ninth Street. Roscoe Dit-
trick was a youth when the family came to the United States. He
hved in Ashtabula County for several years and became associated with
his father in the contracting business. Subsequently he was an inde-
pendent contractor on public works, and during the later years of his
life was connected with the street railway of Cleveland. He died at

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the age of seventy-one. Roscoe Dittrick married Fannie Ross, a native
of Ashtabula County, where her parents were pioneers. She died at
the early age of thirty years, leaving three children, named Alonzo, Charles
and Alva. A sister of the mother of these children became the second
wife of Roscoe Dittrick, and by that marriage there was a son Bert.

Alva R. Dittrick was reared in Cleveland, attended the public schools,
also at business college, and followed several lines of employment, but
eventually took up an industry that was then in its infancy and experi-
mental stage, electrical work, and he has followed the business ever since.
In 1898 Mr. Dittrick married Miss Helen Naveille, a native of Cleveland,
daughter of William and Annabelle Naveille. They have three children:
Alonzo, Charles and Alva. Mr. Dittrick was elected a member of the
Cleveland city council in 1910, and by reelection held that office for a period
of ten years, including the time of the World war. He was elected a member
of the county board of commissioners in 1922. Fraternally he is affiliated
with the Masonic lodge, the Royal Arch chapter, the Holyrood comman-
dery of the Knights Templar, the Lake Erie consistory of the Scottish
Rite, Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine, the Masonic Grotto, and
the Red Cross lodge of Knights of Pythias.

William Elgin Ambler. Successful alike as lawyer and business
man, William Elgin Ambler, of the dependable realty firm operating under
the name of the Ambler Realty Company, is one of the representative
men of Cleveland, but his record of achievements is written in the history
of other cities as well. His firm has been connected with some of the
most important real estate transfers in this region, and a number of
the most desirable residence sections have been developed through the
medium of its elTorts.

William Elgin Ambler was born at Medina, Ohio, December 18, 1845,
a son of Chester C. Ambler, a native of Vermont, who lived to reach
the extreme old age of ninety years, and Margaret Elgin, who was born
in England and came over in a sailing vessel when sixteen years old. For
a number of years he was engaged in the mercantile business at Spencer,
Ohio, about forty miles from Cleveland, and used to ship produce in
carload lots to the latter city. William Elgin Ambler remembers being
brought to Cleveland when a child of ten years, and his awe-struck
impressions of what was to him the magnificent depot of the Lake Shore
& Michigan Central Railroad which he was certain was the grandest
building in the world. For that period, of course, it was an imposing
structure, but the contrast between it and the present buildings of Cleve-
land is amusing, as well as indicative of the remarkable progress made
by the city. Chester C. Ambler continued actively engaged in mercantile
pursuits until late in life. Of his four children, two survive, and William
Elgin Ambler is the second in order of birth.

After he had completed his studies at Hillsdale College. William Elgin
Ambler attended All:)ion College, from which he was graduated with
the degree of Bachelor of Science. His legal training was secured at
Union College Law School of Albany, New York, from which he was
graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Laws, and was admitted to
the bar. He then attended Adrian College, from which he was graduated

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with the degree of Bachelor of Arts and he secured the degree of Master
of Arts from both Hillsdale and Adrian colleges. F(jr the past forty-six
years he has been chairman of the board of trustees of Hillsdale College,
and is its oldest trustee, although when he was elected to the board he
was the youngest member.

In 1869 Mr. Ambler went to Minneapolis, Minnesota, and lived there
about a year, leaving that city for Pentwater, Michigan, which continuerl
to be the scene of his professional activities for twenty years, during
which period he was in active practice and served as probate judge of
Oceana County for three years. While in Michigan he was elected State
Senator in 1878, and was reelected in 1880. During his second term he
was chairman of the committee on appropriations and finance, and was
president pro tem of the Senate.

In 1891 Mr. Ambler came to Cleveland, which has since continued
to be his home, and embarked in the real estate business, forming a
partnership with J. M. Curtiss, an old resident of the city. For some
years the main business of the partners was allotments, platting and
selling lots. At that time the usual practice was to sell a lot on time
and after it was paid for, to finance the building oj^erations. That
method continued for several years. Then the method changed to build-
ing a home on a lot and selling it to the purchaser on a monthly payment
plan, which is still continued wtih most satisfactory results. One of
the most successful of their ventures was the Circus Ground Allotment
located south of Cedar Avenue, and east of Seventy-ninth Street. In
selling this allotment a unique method was followed. In every adver-
tisement a cut of some feature of a circus and animal from the menagerie
was used. Everyone knew where the allotment was located and the
pictures and jungles were exceedingly attractive. The total investment
of houses aggregated about $700,000. For some years, however, they
have widened the scope of their business and now include operations
in business and manufacturing sites and long leases, together with their
allotment development work. For a long j^eriod the partners have been
operating under their present name of the Ambler Realty Company and
they have always maintained their offices in the Arcade. Mr. Ambler
belongs to the Chamber of Commerce and the Cleveland Athletic Club,
and is an honored member of both organizations.

Mr. Ambler was married to Miss Flora E. Lewis of Lyons, Mich-
igan, and they have four children, all living, namely: I. C. Ambler, who
is a realtor of Arcadia, Florida ; William Ambler, who is manager of the
Ambler Realty Company; Angell, who is the wife of Dr. S. M. Weaver,
of Cleveland. Ohio; and Faye, who is the wife of H. H. Hampton, a
realtor of Cleveland, Ohio. During the years he has been connected
with the realty market of Cleveland. Mr. Ambler has been privileged to
witness many changes, and to take a determining part in many of them.
He is proud of the city and its progress, and of the fact that he and
his company have accomplished so much in the way of providing com-
fortable homes for thrifty people, in this way leading them to become
permanent residents of the community, and through these means securing
their interest in the further development of the city. Any man who

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helps to develop interested citizens is performing" a valuable and con-
structive work and deserves great credit and material rewards.

In 1924 he received the degree of Doctor of Laws from Hillsdale
College.

William Brownell Sanders. Nearly a century ago. Judge Sanders
initiated the practice of law in his native City of Cleveland, and in addition
to having a high place as one of the representative members of the bar of
the Ohio metropolis, he has served on the bench of the Court of Common
Pleas for Cuyahoga County. Both his paternal and maternal ancestors
were pioneer settlers in the Buckeye State and the Sanders family was
founded in America in the Colonial period of our national history. Thus
there is much of interest in both the family record and personal achieve-
ment of Judge Sanders, especially as touching the History of Ohio.

In a house that stood on the site of the present Federal Reserve Bank
Building in the City of Cleveland, Judge William Bromnell Sanders was
born, son of Rev. William David Sanders, D. D., and Cornelia Ruth
(Smith) Sanders, both natives of Peru, Huron County, Ohio, and rep-
resentatives of honored pioneer families of that section of the historic old
Western Reserve.

Dr. William David Sanders was born October 2. 1821, a son of Dr.
Closes Chapin Sanders, who was born at Milford, Massachusetts, May 27,
1789, and whose father, John Sanders, was born in that same community,
September 27, 1759. John Sanders was a son of Robert and Sarah
( Cheney) Sanders, who, so far as available data indicate, are supposed
to have passed their entire lives in that part of the old Bay State. From
^Massachusetts, John Sanders moved to Saratoga County, New York,
where he established a home for his family and where, so far as known, he
])assed the remainder of his life. His wife, whose maiden name was
Elizabeth Chapin. was a daughter of Sergt. Moses Chapin, who was a
patriot soldier in the War of the Revolution, in which he participated in
the historic battle of Lexington.

Dr. Moses Chapin Sanders received good educational advantages and
prepared himself for the medical profession. .He was for a time engaged
in the practice of his profession at Manchester near Canandaigua, New
^"ork, and in 1818 he made the overland journey with team and wagon to
( )hio, the beautiful and opulent Western Reserve having been at that time
little more than a forest wilderness where Indians still disputed dominion
with the wild beasts and where civilization yet maintained a somewhat
]>recarious foothold. Doctor Sanders became a pioneer physician in Huron
County, established his home at Peru, then a frontier hamlet and was
faithful and unselfish in his professional stewardship which involved many
hardships. In his humane ministrations he traveled about on horseback,
over roads that hardly deserved the name, in summer heat and winter cold
with his saddleljags for the transporting of his medicines and other pro-
fessional accessories. It is interesting to record that his saddlebags are
])reserved as a family heirloom and are now in the keeping of his grandson,
Franklyn Sanders. Doctor Sanders continued in the active practice of his
profession in Huron County until his death which occurred in May, 1856.
He wedded ^Tiss Harriet Maria Thompson, who was born in Saratoga

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County, New York, January 24, 1798, her father having been a prominent
physician at Ballston Spa of that state. Mrs. Sanders survived her hus-
band a few years. They reared to maturity three of their children, William
David, John Chapin and Elizabeth Chapin.

After a preliminary education along academic lines, Dr. William David
Sanders entered the theological seminary or department of Western Reserve
University, then established at Hudson, Ohio. He was grarluated in this
institution and was ordained a clergyman of the Presbyterian Church. His
first pastoral charge was at Ravenna, Ohio, and eventually he removed with
his family to Jacksonville, Illinois, where he became a member of the
faculty of Illinois College. In this institution which was founded in 1830
under the auspices of the Congregational Church, he continued his efifective
services during the remainder of his active career, and after his retirement
he continued to maintain his home at Jacksonville until his death. His
wife was a daughter of Ezra Smith, Jr., who was born January 30, 1805,
a son of Ezra Smith, Sr., who was born January 13, 1754. Ezra Smith, Jr.,
who was but thirty-four years of age at the time of his death, December 20.
1840, was a pioneer of Peru, Huron County. He became a successful
merchant and miller, and though he died when still a young man, he had
accumulated a substantial fortune as gauged by the standards of the
locality and period. The maiden name of his mother was Phoebe Wolcott.
Ezra Smith, Jr., married Miss Amy Gronnell Brownell, who was born
March 17, 1807, and who survived her husband a term of years. They
reared three daughters, Cornelia Ruth, Albina Gertrude and Mary Ermina.

Doctor and Mrs. William David Sanders became the parents of five
children, namely : Cornelia, William Brownell, Charles, now deceased,
Mary, who died in childhood, and Clarence. Cornelia is the wife of Frank
Elliott, a prominent banker at Jacksonville, Illinois.

Judge William B. Sanders was afforded the advantages of Whipple's
Academy at Jacksonville, Illinois, and thereafter continued his studies in
the Illinois College of which faculty his father was a member as previously
noted. From this institution he received the degrees of both Bachelor and
Master of Arts, and the college subsequently conferred upon him the
degree of Doctor of Laws. After his graduation from the Illinois College,
Judge Sanders entered the Albany Law School in ths capital city of New
York State and in this celebrated school he was graduated as a member
of the class of 1875 with the degree Bachelor of Laws. In the same year
he was admitted to the bar of his native state. Ohio, and in the summer
of 1875 he initiated the practice of his profession in the City of Cleveland
where he has remained during the long intervening years, and where the
records of jurisprudence give evidence of his large and worthy achieve-
ment in his profession. Here he continued in general practice until the
year 1888, when Governor Foraker appointed him to fill a vacancy on the
bench of the Court of Common Pleas for Cuyahoga County. In the same
year he was duly elected to this judical office of which he continued the
incumbent until 1890, in January of which year he resigned to resume the
active practice of his profession. He has since continued a member of the
representative law firm of Squire, Sanders & Company, which controls a
large and important law business and has high rank at the Ohio bar.

Judge Sanders is a loyal and liberal citizen who takes lively interest in

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all that touches the welfare of his native city and state, and is identified
with various civic organizations of representative character. His political
allegiance is given to the republican party and he is an active member of
the Cleveland Bar Association. He holds memberships in the Union Club,
'the University Club, the Kirtland Country Club and the Mayfield Club, all
of Cleveland, and in the City of New York, he has membership in the'
University Club and the Down Town Association. In Cleveland he has
served as vice president of the Society for Savings, and a director of
each the Guardian Trust Company and the National Commercial Bank,
besides which he has become a stockholder in various industrial corpora-
tions of local order. Judge Sanders and his family have an attractive
summer home at Kennebunkport, Maine, and his New England holdings
include also a fine stock farm near Woodstock, Vermont, where are to
be found the best types of fine Guernsey cattle and Morgan horses.

In the year 1884 was solemnized the marriage of Judge Sanders and
Miss Annie E. Otis, who was born and reared in Cleveland, and who is
a daughter of the late Charles A. and Eliza (Shepherd) Otis. Judge and
Mrs. Sanders have one daughter, Mary Erminie,- who is the wife of Harold
T. Clark of Cleveland, their children being five in number, namely : David
Sanders, Mary Erminie, John Terry, William Sanders and Annie Otis.

Sydney Levin, M. D. One of the highly qualified young physicians
and surgeons of the South End of Cleveland, Doctor Levin was born in
this city, and through his mother is descended from one of the pioneer
Jewish families, one which had much to do in early days with the welfare of
the people.

Doctor Levin was born in Cleveland, June 5, 1898. His father," Jacob
Levin, was born in Russia, and was nine years of age when brought to the
United States and to Cleveland. Here he married Sarah Copperman, a
native of Cleveland. Her father, Isaac R. Copperman, was born in Russia,
and came to the United States a short time before the outbreak of the Civil
war. Landing at New York he struck out for the West on foot. For a
brief time he was at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, being there when John
Brown the abolitionist was under arrest awaiting execution for his raid.
Not long afterward the war broke out, and while Harpers Ferry he found
a confederate $100 bill, which at that time had full market value. With
the proceeds of the find he arrived in Cleveland, and established himself
in business as a bottle exchange broker. He became very successful and
used his prosj^erity in many ways for the benefaction of his people. Jacob
Levin, father of Doctor Levin, has been an oil salesman for many years
and at present is traveling representative for the Warren Refining Company
in West Virginia and Pennsylvania.

A year after the birth of Doctor Levin his parents removed to Wheeling,
West Virginia, where he first attended public school, later the family lived
at Fairmont, in the same state, where Doctor Levin finished his high school
course. He then entered West Virginia University at Morgantown, and
was graduated Bachelor of Science in 1920. He did his medical work in
the University of Cincinnati, graduating Doctor of Medicine in 1922.
After a year's interneship in the Mount Sinai Hospital of Cleveland,

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Doctor Levin engaged in ])rivate practice as a jjhysician and surgeon with
offices in the Union Trust Ccjmpany's branch Ijank on liuckeye Road.

He is a member of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine, the'Cjhio State
and American Medical associations, and belongs to the Sigma Lambda Pi
college fraternity.

PL A. RiTTER. The vi'onderful success that has attended the activities
of H. A. Ritter, of the Ritter Commercial Trust, Cleveland, would seem
by the magnitude of his operations to have come about through some happy
chance or fortuitous circumstance. On the contrary it has been attained
through the possession of foresight and al)ility and the capacity for taking
full advantage of business opportunities.

Mr. Ritter was born at UpjDer Sandusky, Wyandot Countv, Ohio,
February 18, 1888, and is a son of F. C. and Elizabeth (Koppe) Ritter.
His father, who was of Swiss ancestry, was also born at Upj^er Sandusky,
where he was engaged in the furniture business for thirty years, and was
a man of ability and energy, whose integrity made him highly esteemed by
the people of his community. He is now living in retirement at Upper
Sandusky, where resides also Mrs. Ritter, whose father was from Germany
while her mouther came from Holland. Mr. and Mrs. Ritter has one son
and one daughter, the former the elder.

H. A. Ritter attended the graded and high schools of Muncie. Indi-
ana, and after taking a commercial course in a business college began
the study of law in an attorney's office. He gave up that profession,
however, to become a salesman of securities, a line in which he con-
tinued until 1915, in that year embarking in business on his own account
under the firm style of H. A. Ritter Company. In 1916 he incor{X)rated
the business for $6,000, and in the following year the capital was
increased. In 1918 the business was turned over to the Ritter Com-
mercial Trust, and the present paid-up capital is over $1,000,000. The
Ritter Commercial Trust is now a holding companv. but operates from
its offices the following: the Metropolitan Securities Company, one of
the largest and oldest companies in the world devoting its activities solely
to handling automobile loans and discounts ; the Metroix)litan Motor
Insurance Company, an Ohio corporation which is licensed to furnish
all forms of automobile insurance, and writes a standard stock companv
form of policy, being the only company of its kind at Cleveland ; the
Ritter Commercial Company, dealing in investment securities, and the
Cleveland Credit Company, wdiich furnishes credit rejwrts and renders
a collection service for banks, business houses and professional men. The
organization occupies about 8,000 square feet of space in its Cleveland
office, at 423 Euclid Avenue, and also maintains I)ranch offices in the
Haberich Building. Akron, Ohio; the Wick Building. Youngstown. Ohio;
the Crosby Building. Buffalo. New York; and at 185 Devonshire Street.
Boston. Massachusetts. About 100 people are given employment. In
the building up of this great organization Mr. Ritter has made use of
his inherent abilitv and of the opportunities which have come to hand, and
has established the enterprise on a solid foundation, its operations being
carried on along legitimate channels of trade.

Mr. Ritter is a member of the Chamber of Commerce of Cleveland.

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and is a thirty-second degree and Knight Templar Mason, belonging
also to Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He likewise holds
membership in the Cleveland Grays, the Cleveland Athletic Club; the
Boston City Club of Boston, Massachusetts ; the National Republican
Club of New York City, and the Acacia Country Club of Cleveland.

George W. Link, who is an expert accountant and who as such is
employed in his native City of Cleveland, is a representative of the
third generation of the Link family in Cuyahoga County. Mr. Link
was born in the family home, then on Swan Street, Cleveland, and is
a son of August and Wilhelmina (Puklowski) Link, both natives of
Prussia, where the former was born in Libenau and the latter in Sal-
field, her parents having passed their entire lives in that district of
Prussia, she having come to Cleveland to join her sister Louisa, who is
now the widow of Fred Kallanbach. Christian Link, grandfather of
the subject of this sketch, eventually, as the only son, inherited the old
homestead farm which his father owned and operated in Prussia, and
there he continued his activities until the spring of 1873, when, with his
family, he set forth to establish a home in the United States. Upon
arriving at the port of Bremen his wife was attacked with a severe
illness, and it was not deemed best for her to attempt the voyage across
the Atlantic under such conditions. She remained at Bremen, therefore,
in the care of her son August, while the other members of the family
embarked, on the 3d of April, for the voyage to America. They landed
in the port of New York City and thence came to Cleveland, where
Christian Link passed the remainder of his life and where his death
occurred in the year 188L His wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth
Scholke, succumbed to the illness that had attacked her at Bremen, and
in that city her death occurred April 9, 1873, her son August, who had
remained with her, having attended to her burial and having then on
the 19th of the same month, set sail to join the other members of the
family in the United States. After a tempestuous voyage he landed in
New York City on the 19th of June, and thence he came forthwith to
Cleveland. On the 6th of August he here entered the employ of the
city, and since the 16th of July, 1883, he has retained a permanent
position in the service of the city government. He received his early
education in his native land, and is a member of a family of five chil-
dren, Louisa, Mary, August, Gottfried and Herman, all of whom came
to the United States. Louisa became the wife of Christian Jornbefski
and Mary became the wife of Gottfried Kujem. December 23, 1873,
recorded the marriage of August Link to Miss Wilhelmina Puklowski, and
the children of this union are five in number: Mary A. is the wife of
Rudolph Gilbert and they have one son, Ray; Herman was the next in
order of birth, Henry is the next younger, George W. is the immediate
subject of this review, and Ruth is the wife of John W. Woodburn,
their one child being a son, John W., Jr. The religious faith of the
family is that of the Catholic Church.

The preliminary education of George W. Link was acquired in a
parochial school in Cleveland, and thereafter he continued his studies
by attending the Dykes School, which was then one of the excellent

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educational institutions of his native city. Upon leaving school he found
clerical employment, and he has made a record of success in his work as
a skilled accountant. He has continued an enthusiastic student and reader,
and in his attractive suite of bachelor rooms, on the second floor of the
fine new residence erected by his father in 1890, for the family home, at
7611 Decker Avenue, he maintains a comprehensive and well selected
private library, which he puts to use most effectively in his otherwise
leisure hours. He has shown exceptional taste in the selection of the
various appointments of his rooms, notably in providing effective repro-
ductions of paintings by old masters and various other artists. He delights
in extending to his many friends the hospitality of his individual suite
and of the parental home as a whole.

Christopher B. Wilhelmy. The Wilhelmy family has been identified
with the florist and nursery business in Cleveland for two generations.
The active head and owner of the business today is Christopher B. Wil-
helmy, whose training in that line dates back to early boyhood. He is
a thorough business man, has built up one of the largest enterprises of
the kind in Northern Ohio, and is a thoroughly public spirited citizen
as well.

Mr. Wilhelmy was born in Cleveland, September 22, 1874, son of
Mathias A. and Catherine (Weigle) Wilhelmy. His parents were both
born in Germany, but were brought to the United States when children.
Mathias Wilhelmy was born in 1852, and in 1855 his father, Peter Wil-
helmy, brought the family to the United States and settled on a farm
at Avon in Lorain County, Ohio. Peter Wilhelmy lived out his years
on that farm. Mathias came to Cleveland at the age of fifteen, and
found his first employment in a hardware store. In 1872 he married,
and soon went to work for his father-in-law, Christopher Weigle, who
at that time had charge as manager of the old Case Nurseries. These
nurseries, well known to the older generation of citizens, extended from
St. Clair Street between what is now Thirtieth and Fortieth streets, to
the lake front. Subsequently Mr. Weigle bought land on old Doan Street,
now 105th Street, and Superior Avenue, and there developed extensive
nurseries of his own. This continued to be a flourishing business for
a number of years. A short time after his marriage Mathias Wilhelmy
and J. M. Curtis established what was known as the Forest City Nursery
Company on the old Columbia Road, now West Twenty-fifth Street.
While still in business with Mr. Curtis, he also established a floral shop
on the corner of West Twenty-fifth and Dover streets, and conducted
a branch nursery there. Mathias Wilhelmy was in business at that
location until his death in 1902. His wife died in 1900.

Christopher B. Wilhelmy acquired his education in the parish schools
and in St. Ignatius College. He graduated from college in 1890. Already
he had devoted several years during holidays, vacations and after school
hours to learning all the details of the nursery and floral business, from
work in the greenhouses to looking after the sales end. and after his
school days ended he was actively associated and had increasing responsi-
bilities until he was practically manager at the time of his father's death.
Later he acquired the ownership, steadily year after year has expanded

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the volume of business and increased its facilities until his is one of the
most successful industries of the kind in the city.

Mr. Wilhelmy is a member of the Society of American Florists, of
America, and the Cleveland Florists' Association. He belongs to the
Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, is a fourth degree Knight of Columbus,
being a member of Gilmore Council, and is a communicant of Blessed
Sacrament Catholic Parish.

He married Margaret Aspell. daughter of Patrick and Margaret Aspell
of Cleveland. Their family consists of three daughters and one son:
Margaret, Christopher B., Jr., Catherine and Dorothy.

Joseph E. Kreft is secretary and manager of the Oak-Homes Realty
Company, a subsidiary of the United States Mortgage Company of
Cleveland.

Mr. Kreft vi^as born in Toledo, Ohio, December 12, 1893, and is a
son of the late Ignatius Kreft, who was born in Germany, and who was for
twenty-five years successfully engaged in the dry goods and notions business
in the City of Toledo, he having been one of the substantial and highly
respected citizens and business men of Toledo at the time of his death,
March 20, 1920. Of the family of six sons and two daughters, all survive
the father except one son, the subject of this sketch having been the third
child in order of birth.

In the public schools of his native city, Joseph E. Kreft continued his
studies until he had duly profited by the advantages of the high school, and
thereafter he took a thorough course in a leading Toledo business college.
As a youth he took a position in the Ohio Savings Bank & Trust Company
in Toledo, and with this institution he continued his connection seven
years. When the nation became involved in the World war Mr. Kreft
enlisted for military service, and in the same he continued nine months,
or until the war came to a close. After receiving his honorable discharge
he held for one year a position in the Probate Court at Cleveland, and for
the ensuing period of two and one-half years he held the position of teller
in the offices of the Union Trust Company of this city. Since severing
his connection with this banking corporation he has been associated with
the real estate department of the United States Mortgage Company, with
which he became salesmanager oi the Oak-Homes Realty Company on the
15th of November, 1921, he being now secretary and manager of this
important subsidiary company, the offices of which are in the Hickox
Building. Mr. Kreft is loyally aligned in the ranks of the republican party,
and his religious faith is that of the Catholic Church, in which he is a
zealous communicant.

The United States Mortgage Company. So broad, varied, benig-
nant and valuable is the influence of this important Cleveland corporation
that this publication may consistently accord to it specific recognition by
incorporating, with minor elimination and paraphrase, a review that
appeared in a recent edition of the Cleveland Legal News.

One of the notable organizations of Cleveland, and one which is inher-
ently sound and gives every evidence of becoming increasingly valuable
and successful, is the United States Mortgage Company, the' offices of
which are in the Hickox Building, which was established in 1921 and has
an authorized capital of $250,000. Its plans and methods are distinctive.

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Realizing that continued success over a h>n^ period of time comes only as a
result of effective service rendered to those with whom it drx;s business,
the United States Mortgage Company has developed cin organization and a
plan of operation that represent the greatest jjossible advantages to both
stockholders and clients.

The comi>any's plan is to handle worth-while developments in and
around Cleveland. It specializes in individual homes and small housing
projects, believing that such enterprises are the m(;st favorable to the
community and the soundest basis for mortgage investments. The com-
pany's service to clients comprehensively includes everything incidental to
the development of such properties. The real estate department assists
in the selection of building sites, carefully analyzing the comjjarative
values of different localities ; the architectural department prepares plans
for buildings, and these are not only well adapted to the sites chosen but
also combine the maximum facilities and space which may be obtained
for any given investment. The construction department of the company,
known as the N. P. McCallum Engineering & Construction Company,
is a subsidiary of the United States Mortgage Company. It handles con-
struction work at actual cost to clients. Under its direction the best
materials for the purpose are purchased in the open market for cash, thus
assuring minimum cost. All subcontracts are handled by a carefully
selected corps of concerns, each of the subcontractors being a stockholder
in the United States Mortgage Company, and all of them being consequently
interested in the success of the company and the qualitv of its service.

D. A. Dyche, president of the United States Mortgage Company, has
been active in construction and mortgage lines virtually all his life. He
has had comprehensive experience and has made a substantial success.
R. R. Lane, vice president and secretary of the company, is president of
the Lane School at Euclid Avenue and East Fifty-seventh Street. He
has made a real success in his line, and is well and favorably known.
Frank P. Gaffney, the company's treasurer, is now a merchant in Cleveland
and was in the city treasurer's of^ce under the administration of Mayor
Tom Johnson. W. W. Card, a director of the company, gives much of his
time to its interests. He was for twenty-five years in the banking business
in Columbus and Newark, and is highly respected in the financial circles
of the state. Mrs. Mary E. Leibel. of Conneaut. Ohio, is likewise a
director and was selected for this position as the choice of a large number
of the company's stockholders in her home locality. Albert Strauch,
assistant secretary of the company, was for some time assistant secretary
and treasurer of the National Steel & Tube Company.

J. E. Kreft. secretary and manager of the subsidiary organization known
as the Oak-Homes Realty Company, is individually mentioned in the
preceding sketch. N. P. McCallum, head of the construction dei:>artment
and a member of the Board of Directors, has had a long and successful
experience. He is a graduate of Penn State College, and was for some
time in the bridge, engineering and construction department of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad. In connection w'ith the engineering department of the
City of Los Angeles he was there associated with harbor development, ar\(i
in the World war period he was chief cost engineer of the United States
Housing Corporation at Washington.

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Arthur H. Clark, now perhaps recognized as the leading publisher
of documentary source works in history and economics in the United
States, was born in England. He was educated chiefly in the private
schools of London. He entered the University of Oxford, but was
compelled to leave at the end of a year and a half owing to financial
reverses which overtook his father. For several years he was associated
with Henry Sotheran & Company, one of the oldest and most prominent
pul)lishing and Ijookselling houses of London. During these years in
I.ondon, he had the pleasure of meeting many men prominent in English
literature, among these ])eing Lord Tennyson, .Sir William Herschel,
Thomas Carlvle, John Ruskin, Rol)ert Louis Stevenson, and manv
others. On many occasions he was entertained at the homes of some
of these men, and through these bookish associations with them accu-
mulated many facts regarding their lives and peculiarities that are
intensely interesting. During a visit at the home of R. D. Blackmore.
the author of "Lorna Doone,"' about a year after Mrs. Blackmore had
passed away, Mr. Blackmore opened his heart to him, telling him many
incidents in regard to Mrs. Blackmore. He showed to Mr. Clark the
room in which Mrs. Blackmore died and over the threshold of which
no foot had passed since the day she was removed therefrom. On
another occasion he spent a week on a fishing expedition to Yorkshire
with Mr. Blackmore, during which trip Mr. Blackmore narrated the
great difficulties he had exfjerienced in securing the publication of "Lorna
Doone," now one of the most celebrated novels in English literature. It
seems that this manuscript was presented to one English publisher after
another and declined, in many instances on account of its size and in
others on account of its not being in harmony with the then current
literature of the day. The story goes that on a fishing trip with Mr. E. B.
Marston, of Messrs. Sampson. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington,
Mr. Blackmore took the manuscript along and read the manuscript
to Mr. Marston as they rested at noon beside the Yorkshire River.
Mr. Marston became intensely interested, so much so that the fishing
trip ended before the manuscript was completed. Mr. Marston sat up
the remainder of that last night to complete the manuscript, and in the
morning advised Mr. Blackmore that they would undertake the publi-
cation. These and many similar experiences with literary men are among
Mr. Clark's cherished recollections.

In London on several occasions Mr. Clark had met Gen. A. C.
McClurg, president and founder of the A. C. McClurg & Company of
Chicago. In 1890, Mr. Clark left England for Chicago, associating
himself with A. C. McClurg & Company. Again ensued pleasant and
personal associations with authors for whom Messrs. A. C. McClurg &
Company were the publishers, among these being Eugene Field, one of
the most charming and kindly humorists in American literature ; Frank
Gunsaulus, and others.

Early in 1894, Mr. Clark left Chicago for Cleveland to become a
director of The Burrows Brothers Company, and to establish for them
a publishing and rare book department. During this period several
notable series of books were published, among them the Jesuit Relations
& Allied Documents, in 73 volumes, the basic work of historical reference
for the Central \\'est for the period from 1600 to 1750.

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In January, 1902, he organized and int(>ri;(jratcd The Arthur il. Clark
Company. y\ssociated with him in this new company were the
Hon. Willis Vickery, now judge of the Court of Appeals; the Hon. New-
ton D. Baker, Secretary of War under i^resident \\'ilson ; Fred C. Howe.
former commissioner of immigration; and a numher fjf (»ther men
prominent in puhlic afifairs and in the realm of literature.

The puhlishing of reference hooks of jjermanent value, and the
love of books in general has been the hobby of his life. It has Ijrought
him into touch with many men, not only prominent in literature but in
the public life of our country, among such being Theodore l<oo.sevelt.
Woodrow Wilson, Rufus C. Dawes, Premier Laurier (jf Canada. Daniel
Carter Beard, Seton-Thompson, and many others, ilis catalogue of jmb-
lications includes some (jf the most important source ccjntributions to
the history of North .America — basic works u\)ou which the future history
of the Middle and Far West must be written. Through his house were
issued all of the important historical works of the late Dr. Reuben
G. Thwaites. for many years the recognized authority on the history
of the Central and Far West. The series entitled "The Philippine Islands.
1493 to 1898," in 55 volumes, edited by Blair and Roliertson, is the
foundation source for the history of the Philippines from their discovery
until they passed under the control of the United States. It is a series
much sought by the larger college and reference liljraries of the world.
It passed out of print and is now very difficult to secure. "The Docu-
mentary History of American Industrial Society," edited by Richard
T. Ely, John R. Commons, John B. Clark, and other noted economists.
is without doubt the basic work upon which the history of the com-
mercial, economic and industrial life of the United States for the period
of 1649 to 1880 must be based. It forms the background for the pro-
gressive policy of Roosevelt, is the only adequate history of the labor
movement of the United States, the land policy, and the trend of
American democracy. In this sketch mention is made of only a few
of the many publications of this company, now numbering a total in
excess of 180.

During his later years, Mr. Clark has become interested in other helds
of commercial life, in nearly all of which he is either at the head or
prominently identified therewith. Among these are the Cle\eland Worm
& Gear Company, the first manufacturers of worm-gearing in this
countrv and still the recognized leaders in this industry. These worms
and wheels used for the transmission of power have lieen largely adopted
in the automotive industry, and are extensively used in manufacturing
and industrial plants, and for service in the turrets of battleships. Of
this company, Mr. Clark is both president and treasurer. He is alsi»
president of Knollwood Cemetery Company, one of the most beautiful
cemeteries in Cleveland. Likewise of the Bedford Savings & Loan
Company. He is a director of the Cleveland Laboratory Company, the
American Commercial Company, the Cleveland Law School, the Cle\e-
land Chandler Minnesota Company, and others.

He is a progressive republican in politics, a Protestant in religion, and
a Mason. He is a member of the Hakluyt Society of London. ^of the
American Historical Society, of the Western Reserve Historical Society,
of the American Oriental. Anglo-Russian Literary, and the American

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Geograplrical societies, lie is a member of the Cleveland Chamber of
Commerce, the Bedford Chamber of Commerce, the Cleveland Athletic
Club, the Rowfant Club, and the Rotary Club. For seven years he
served as president of the Bedford Board of Education.

Mr. Clark is the son of Joseph and Sophia (Hart) Clark, of English
and Scotch ancestry, respectively. He married Fannie Z. Bell, of Brecks-
ville, Ohio, and to this union three children were born: Mary Agnes,
Arthur H., Jr., and Wallace I'eecher.

Albert Edward McClure, of Lakewood, Ohio, one of the most
successful medical and surgical practitioners of this section of the state,
is a native of Canada, his Ijirth occurring at Brampton, Ontario, on the
14th of March, 1870. His parents were Patrick and Margaret (Blackstock)
McClure, both of whom were natives of County Antrim, Ireland, and
came to the Province of Canada in very early days and located in Toronto,
which at that time was rudely known as the "Muddy York," but did not
deserve such a misnomer. The father and mother lived to be eighty-eight
and eighty-four years respectively, and became the parents of nine children
five of whom are still living. Upon their arrival in Canada they began the
work of general farming and stock raising, and became prosperous and
prominent at Brampton. They lived together in happy married life for
sixty-two years, until called by death.

Their son, Albert Edward, was reared on the farm of his parents, and
in youth become familiar with the surroundings and environments of farm
life. His early education was secured at the common schools and latei
m the high school of Brampton. In early manhood he determined to leave
the farm and seek some other profitable occupation. Accordingly, believing
that he would have a better opportunity in the United States, he crossed
the border in 1887 and came to Ohio, where, at Sandusky, he secured
employment as clerk in a drug store for two years. He then determined
on what his future occupation should be. The two years in the drug store
gave him the right impulse and incentive, and he therefore entered the
Cleveland Medical School, now the Medical Department of the State
University, took the full course and in due time was graduated with the
class of 1892 and was granted the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Soon
afterward he was given employment as interne in the Cleveland City
Hospital, but in 1893 began general practice on his own responsibility in
Lakewood, which then was a village of only about 600 people. It may be
correctly stated that he is one of the pioneer practitioners in this wide-
awake city of today, and that he has built up not only a satisfactory practice,
but has won the confidence and esteem of the residents.

For more than twenty years he served as one of the city's health officers,
his salary for the first year amounting to only $25. For several years he
has served, and is now still serving, as physician of Cuyahoga County
His practice is general, covering both medicine and surgery, and his
mastery of this difficult art is pronounced and self-evident.

He is a member of Lakewood Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted
Masons, of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of the Kiwanis
Club and of the Yacht Club. Like all useful and prominent citizens, he
takes great interest in everything that is likely to contribute to the welfare
and development of this swiftly moving city.

THE CITY CJF CLEVELAXD :U7

The doctor's wife was formerly Miss Ethel Hall, who was born on
the old Hall farm which is now covered with the residences of the [x;ople
of Lakewood. She is a descendant of the old pioneer family of Halls
who located here when the land was wild and unoccupied and became
renowned for their sound citizenship and their hij^h morals and superior
culture. Doctor and Mrs. McClure have two children: Margaret, whfj
became the wife of David Hershey Filbert, of Pittsburf,'h, Pennsylvania,
and they have one daughter, Eleanor; and Albert Edward II.

The grandfather of Ethel Hall was Joseph Hall, who with his wife,
Sarah, settled on what is now the City of Lakewood in 1837, when this
part of the state was wild and unix)pulated in general, though here and
there were pioneer families struggling to make a living in the woods, the
swamps or the timber openings. Both Joseph and Sarah were natives of
England, the Hall family seat having been at St. Ives. Sarah was a member
of the Curtis family, which lived in the same locality as did the Halls. In
that locality they met and married, and became the parents of four children
there and of three others after their arrival in this part of the state. All
are now deceased.

After they had reached what is now Lakewood and had become perma-
nently located they managed to sell their lands in England and realized
therefor an unusually large sum, owing to the fact that it was taken by the
authorities for railroad purposes. When the money from this sale reached
them they were able to purchase four large farms in what is now Lakewood.
two on each side of what is now Detroit Avenue, aggregating about 350
acres. They also bought a farm in Dover and two others at Stringsville.
all three in the present Cuyahoga County. At a later date these farms were
divided among the Hall children, and the Lakewood tract was later turned
over to the children in parcels or allotments. The Halls were everywhere
known as rich people.

Mathew Hall, son of Joseph and father of Mrs. McClure. was born in
England. To him was given the farm on the north side of Detroit
Avenue. On this tract stood the old Hall residence, and now stands the
McClure home, one of the finest in Lakewood. Mathew married Margaret
Curtis, a native of England, and to them two children were born : Ethel
and Edward, the latter dying at the age of twenty-six years. Mathew was
prominent in public affairs. He occupied many positions of trust and
responsibility, and invariably served his constituents with credit to himself
and satisfaction to them. At one time he was president of the old and
historic Plank Road Company, which in early times was a blessing to the
travelers in this portion of the state, and ever sinci has been the boast
and pride of the people.

Frank B. Mellen dmnng his younger years was identified with some
of Cleveland's banking institutions, and has since engaged in business
for himself as a financial broker, with oftices in the Bangor Building.

Mr. Mellen was born May 25, 1889. in Medina County. Ohio, son of
Dr. Bernard and Julia (Bower) Mellen. His father was born in Xew
York, and the family came at an early date to Cleveland. Dr. Bernard
Mellen was a graduate of medicine from W^estern Reserve L^niversity.
practiced for a few years in Medina County and then located on the East

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Side in Cleveland, where he was a busy and useful worker in his pro-
fession the rest of his life. He died November 18, 1920. He was an active
democrat in politics, and a member of the CathoHc Church. His brother
and two sisters are still living in Cleveland.

Frank B. Mellen was the fifth and youngest in his father's family, all
sons, and he was reared and educated in Cleveland, attending the public
and parochial schools. When eighteen years of age he became a clerk
in the Cleveland Trust Company, and after a short time went with the
Garfield Bank, where he spent six years as teller. He filled a similar
position with the Union National Bank for five years, and then engaged
in business as a financial broker. He is a dealer in mortgages, handles
bond issues, and also does much financing for large contracts. While an
employe of the Garfield Bank he became a member of the American
Institute of Engineering, served three years on its Board of Governors, was
elected vice president, and at the convention in Denver was elected president
of the national body.

June 5, 1917, Mr. Mellen married Miss Dorothy Flanigan, of an old
Cleveland family. They have one son, now four years old.

Charles J. Gould, a prominent and reputable citizen of Bedford, is
the son of Otis H. Gould, one of the pioneers of Cuyahoga County.
Otis H. Gould was born on November 15, 1815, at Ware, Hampshire
County, Massachusetts, and was the son of Daniel and Mary (Snell) Gould.
The ancestors of Daniel Gould came to Massachusetts in 1636. Daniel Gould
and family migrated to Southern Ohio in the early part of the nineteenth
century, where they remained for a time. In the fall of 1825 the family
moved to Twinsburg, Summit County, Ohio, and in the spring of 1826
they moved to Bedford, occupying a log house located on the easterly side
of Broadway, about three hundred feet north of Columbus Street. There
were only a few families in Bedford at that time. The land was heavily
wooded and no roads had been established and opened for travel. Blazed
trees indicated the route to Cleveland over which the pioneers occasionally
traveled to get salt, flour and other supplies. Deer and wild turkeys were
plentiful and furnished the principal supply of meat. There was an
abundance of small fur bearing animals such as mink, fox, opossum,
skunk and raccoon. Daniel Gould was a large man and in point of courage
and strength had few equals and no superiors. He was a splendid type
of our forefathers who took the first essential steps to make the United
States what it is now, the leading nation of the whole world. He was a
member of the Bedford Disciples Church. Daniel and Mary Gould had
four sons and one daughter, as follows : Otis H. Gould ; Orris P. Gould,
a bachelor, who died in 1904; Charles L. Gould, a doctor, who died in
early manhood ; and Ralph Gould, who died at the age of seven.

Otis H. Gould was reared on the farm and received a common school
education. He was a farmer during the greater portion of his life. For
many years he served as justice of the peace and township assessor. Like
his father, he possessed great physical strength. He was a member of the
Disciples Church and was a fluent public speaker. His first wife was of
the Prestage family, and she bore him three children and then died, as did
also her three children. His second wife was Margaret Whiteside. She

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was born in Ireland. Six children were born of this union, as follows:
Mary E. Gould, a high school teacher; Charles J. Gould; Annie L. CjouUl,
who for many years was a professor in Hiram College; Lewis D. Gould;
Harriet B. Gould, who married Frank R. Lee ; and Otis E. Gould.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank R. Lee have a daughter, Margaret Lee. Otis H. Gould
purchased a farm ©n North Street in 1840, on which he resided from the
date of its purchase until the date of his death in July, 1901. He left
surviving him his widow, Margaret W. Gould, and the six children, all of
which are still living.

Charles J. Gould was born October 1, 1873, at Bedford, on the North
Street farm. The farm remained in the family until 1920, when it was
sold and allotted. Charles J. Gould was educated in the public schools of
Bedford, in Hiram College and at Western Reserve University, where he
completed a full course and was graduated in 1896 with the degree of
Bachelor of Law. He passed the Ohio State bar examination and was
admitted to practice law. He was engaged in farming from 1896 until 1902.
On October 1, 1902, he was vmited in marriage with Miss Lottie M. Flick.
Two children were born of this marriage, Howard J. Gould, born Decem-
ber 13, 1903, now a senior in the class of 1925 at Western Reserve
University, and Lorna M. Gould, born April 9. 1908, and now a junior
in the Bedford High School. The entire family are active members in
the Church of Christ of Bedford, also known as the Disciples Church.
C. J. Gould has since 1902 been engaged in the practice of law and as a
dealer in real estate.

Judge Stanley L. Orr, judge of the Cleveland IMum'cipal Court, is
one of the prominent younger men in the legal profession in this city.
He had been in practice only a short time when he entered military service,
first on the Mexican border and later in the World war, and most of his
record as a member of the bar has been achieved since he returned from
overseas.

Judge Orr was born at Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio. August 5. 1890.
and represents a family that has been in Ross County for more than a
century, becoming identified with the region around Chillicothe, the first
state capital before Ohio wa,s admitted to the Union. Judge Orr's grand-
father, Jeremiah Orr, was a native of Ross County, was of Scotch-Irish
ancestry, and served as a soldier in an Ohio regiment in the Civil war.
Welden K. Orr, father of Judge Orr, was born on the Orr farm near
Chillicothe in 1863, and has spent his active career as a farmer. He married
Elizabeth Lutz, who was born near Chillicothe, daughter of Col. Isaac Lutz,
a well known citizen of that county and a colonel in the Ohio Militia.
Welden K. Orr and wife had eight children: Stanley L. ; Florence, wife
of E. P. Maxwell, of Columbus, Ohio; Helen H. : Irene; Loren W. K..
who died in 1916; Fred B. ; Elizabeth, and Virginia Lee.

Stanley L. Orr grew up in a rural district of Ross County, attending
public school at Kingston. He was graduated from high school in 1908
and then entered Western Reserve University at Cleveland, taking the
classical course and graduating Bachelor of Arts in 1912. He completed
the law course in 1914, when he was awarded the Bachelor of Laws degree.

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Admitted to the bar in June, 1914, he was associated in practice for a time
with the well known Cleveland law firm of Thompson, Hine & Flora.

He soon joined a national guard company, and when the trouble with
Mexico reached a critical stage he went to the border with Troop A of the
First Ohio Cavalry. He served as second lieutenant. After the National
Guard troops returned in 1917 and America entered the- World war he
was promoted to first lieutenant of Headquarters Company of the One
Hundred and Thirty-fifth Regiment of Field Artillery. This regiment
was made up largely of Cleveland and Toledo men. It was organized in
Cleveland, and was sent for training to Camp Sheridan, Alabama. From
there the regiment was sent to port of embarkation at New York. After
leaving the harbor the Ship Horatio, on which Judge Orr sailed, being a
slow boat and unable to keep up with its convoy, put into the harbor of
Halifax, and subsequently sailed with another and slower convoy. He
landed at Liverpool, and from South Hampton crossed the channel to
LaHavre, and after a week spent in a small village near Bordeaux, entered
an artillery training camp at LaSarge. The regiment was held in reserve
at that point, close to the Argonne battle front, and it was in the Marche
sector, a part of the St. Mihiel front, when the armistice was signed.
In the meantime Judge Orr had three weeks of intensive training in the
Second Colonial Army Corps of the French Army, studying artillery prac-
tice. After the armistice he returned to the United States, being mustered
out at Camp Sherman April 11, 1919.

On leaving the army Judge Orr resumed his law work at Cleveland
with the old firm. On November 6, 1923, he was elected judge of the
Municipal Court for a term of four years. He went on the bench Janu-
ary 1, 1924. Judge Orr is a member of the Cleveland Bar Association.
By virtue of his ancestry he is a member of the Sons of the American
Revolution, and also belongs to the Military Order of Foreign Wars and
the American Legion. Fraternally he is a thirty-second degree Scottish
Rite Mason and a member of the college fraternities Beta Theta Pi and
Phi Delta. Judge Orr married Miss Catherine E. Murray, who was born
at Cleveland, daughter of J. N. and Mary Constance (Poe) Murray.
Mrs. Orr is a direct descendant of Mayflower stock and one of her ancestors
was Stephen Hopkins, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Judge
and Mrs. Orr have one daughter, Mary Constance, born August 14, 1922.

William R. Coates. The publishers of this history are constrained
to include a brief biography of the author, who has been a lifelong resi-
dent of Cuyahoga County, and for over thirty years a resident of the City
of Cleveland, and who is familiar with many of the scenes recounted and
characters of whom he writes.

He was born in Royalton, Cuyahoga County, November 17, 1851,
being the son of John and Lucy Weld Coates. He first saw the light in
a log house built by his great-grandfather, John Coates, who was a native
of Cleveland, England. Cleveland is the north riding of York and is the
native ]>lace of the ancestors of Moses Cleaveland. John Coates came to
America with his son John Coates and their families, which included a
grandson, John Coates, the father of the subject of this sketch, .^fter
a stay in Geneseo, New York, the family came to the Western Reserve,

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and settled in Royalton, selecting a site for a dwelling at what is now
known as Walling's Corners. The first John Coates, as recounted in a
family history by Jane Elliott Snow, sympathized with the American
colonies in their long struggle for independence, was a great admirer of
George Washington, and having at some time offered a toast to that
American hero, he was socially ostracised by some of his friends. He
thereupon said he would not live where he could not honor so good a man
as Washington and sailed for America.

Col. John Coates, who was John Coates Hi, the father of William R.
Coates, moved to Brecksville after the death of his wife, which occurred
shortly after the birth of this son. He obtained his military title from
commanding a battalion of Cuyahoga County militia. The mother, Lucy
Weld before her marriage, was a native of Guilford, Connecticut.

William R. Coates was educated in the district schools of Brecksville
and at Oberlin College. At the age of seventeen he began teaching district
school in the Township of Brecksville, and so continued for several years
in connection with the management of a farm. He afterwards taught high
school at Independence. He was a member of the Board of Education of
Brecksville, and a member and clerk of the Board of Education of Brook-
lyn, was twice president of the Cuyahoga County Teachers' Institute and
advocated reforms in the administration of educational boards that were
finally adopted.

In 1884 he accepted appointment as deputy clerk under Dr. Henry W.
Kitchen, and continued in the county clerk's office as a deputy until 1899,
when he was elected to succeed Harry L. Vail as clerk. He was elected
to the Lower House of the General Assembly of Ohio in the '80s. Of this
Legislature, known as the Sixty-seventh General Assembly, he was secre-
tary of the joint House and Senate delegation from Cuyahoga County.

In 1894 he was elected mayor of the Village of Brooklyn on a platform
advocating the annexation of the village to the City of Cleveland, and
served until the village became a part of Greater Cleveland. He was twice
president of the Tippecanoe Club of Cleveland, a republican organization
that began as a whig campaign club in 1840, and is now secretary of that
body.

His literary work has consisted of fugitive articles published in the
newspapers and magazines, a history of the Tippecanoe Club and a history
of Brecksville Township. He is secretary of the Early Settlers Association
of Cleveland and the Western Reser\-e, founded by Harvey Rice, and of
which body Judge Alexander Hadden is president.

Mr. Coates married in 1872 Miss Lettie White, daughter of Julius and
Harriet (Stone) White, of Brecksville. They have three children: Herbert
J. Coates, assistant trust officer of the Guardian Savings and Trust Com-
pany; Mary Weld Coates. teacher of Spanish in the Lakewood High
School ; and Mildred A. Coates. the youngest, who after engaging in
Government work at Washington during the World war. and studying at
the University of California at Berkeley, is now making her home in
Cleveland.

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