(RETURN TO THE TITLE PAGE) 150 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND profession, her ability enabling her to make continued advancement. She was district physician of Cleveland for two years, from 1900 until 1902, and for the past five years she has been assistant in neurology at the Western Reserve University Medical College and also in the Lakeside Hospital Dispensary. She is an examiner for the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company and is a member of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. She has written several articles for medical and other periodicals and is a woman of broad general culture as well as professional knowledge. Dr. Hutchins belongs to the Pilgrim Congregational church, and for many years she has resided at the Goodrich Social settlement, in which work she has much interest, taking a most active and helpful part in the settlement work of the city and through her practical labors contributing to the solution of complex sociological problems. She is a woman of keen sympathy, interested in any movement for the amelioration of hard conditions of life for the unfortunate and in any movement which tends to uplift and benefit mankind. ROBERT C. WRIGHT. On the roster of officials in Cuyahoga county appears the name of Robert C. Wright, who since 1901 has filled the position of county auditor, the eight years of his service being characterized by a most public-spirited and capable administration of the duties of the office. He was born in Motherwell, County Lanark, Scotland, April 30, 1861, his parents being Robert and Jessie (Currie) Wright, the latter a daughter of Robert Currie. His father, Robert Wright, was born in Scotland in 1835 and came to America in 1876, settling in Columbus, where he resided until called to his final rest in 1901. Robert C. Wright of this review was educated in the parish schools of Dalziel, where he studied the common branches of English learning. On putting aside his text-books he became a telegraph clerk for the Caledonia Railway, being employed in Glasgow and in Edinburgh. He thus continued in railway service until coming to America in 1881, at which time he took up his abode in Cleveland and again sought employment in railway circles. After a few months he secured a situation as railway clerk, incidentally learned telegraphy, and was appointed station agent and operator at Glenville, Ohio, in 1882. There he remained until 1893 and while acting in that capacity was elected clerk of the town of Glenville. The same year he was appointed deputy auditor of Cuyahoga county and served continuously in that capacity until 1899. In 1898 he was elected mayor of Glenville and filled the office for two terms of two years each, giving to the town a public-spirited and beneficial administration characterized by many needed reforms and improvements. He reentered business life in 1899 as the secretary and treasurer of the Hough Avenue Savings & Banking Company and in 1901 once more took up official service following his election to the position of auditor of Cuyahoga county. In 1904 he was reelected, his term continuing until October, 1909. He has been most faithful in office, carefully systematizing the work of his department and neglectful at no time of the duties which devolve upon him in this connection. In politics he has always been a stalwart democrat and in 1900 served as chairman of the democratic county central committee. On the ,9th of July, 1888, Mr. Wright was married to Miss Sarah O'Neil, a daughter of George O'Neil. Their three children are : Agnes and Norma, who are graduates of the Glenville high school and are now attending Vassar College, and Helen, a student in the Glenville high school. Mr. Wright finds his chief recreations in boating and walking, being well known as a pedestrian. He belongs to the Cleveland Athletic Club and in his religious views is an agnostic. HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 151 The family home is located at No. 736 East One hundred and third street, and the social relations of the family indicate their prominence. Mr. Wright is recognized as one of the political leaders of the county and in addition to business ability and executive force possesses that tact which is always an essential to successful political leadership. ROBERT EVERETT GOOCH. Robert Everett Gooch, founder and promoter of the Western Reserve Insurance Company, now recognized as one of the strong and growing fire insurance companies, was born June 3, 1864, at Louisville, Kentucky, the youngest of the three sons of Thomas Claiborne and M. Flora (Harris) Gooch. He is also a direct descendant of Sir William Gooch, who was appointed lieutenant governor of Virginia by King George and was expatriated when he joined the American forces at the outbreak of the Revolutionary war. His property and titles were bestowed upon his brother Sir Thomas, whose descendants now occupy the ancestral home in England. Robert E. Gooch came to Cleveland in 1896 as state agent and adjuster for the Liverpool & London & Globe Insurance Company. In 1903 he was largely interested in organizing the Western Reserve Insurance Company and has from the beginning been its active underwriter with the offices of secretary and treasurer. In 1889 Mr. Gooch married Miss Frances Pusey, the youngest daughter of Dr. Henry K. Pusey, the eminent alienist of Louisville. Mrs. Gooch is deeply interested in literary pursuits and has contributed numerous articles to current magazines and has written several novels, which have demonstrated her superior literary ability. There is one son, Everett Pusey Gooch, eighteen years of age, now in the senior class of the Shaw high school, preparing for Cornell and a course in mechanical engineering. The daughter, Thelma, aged fourteen years, is attending the Hathaway-Brown school, and her tastes and talents seem decidedly in the hne of artistic drawing. Mr. Gooch and his family attend St. Paul's Episcopal church. They are prominent socially and have won many warm friends in the city during the thirteen years of their residence here. Mr. Gooch has made an enviable reputation in business circles and enjoys the high regard and confidence of his colleagues and associates. He forms his plans readily, is determined in their execution, and his progress has been made along lines where sound judgment and rare discrimination have led the way. GEORGE SAMUEL KING. George Samuel King, an architect of Cleveland, belongs to one of the prominent pioneer families of this city, where representatives of the name have since taken an active and helpful part in the work of general development. His great- grandfather arrived here during the days of Cleveland's early history, coming from Canada. The maternal grandfather was Samuel Donley, who was born in Cleveland and became one of the most prominent and wealthy business men. Frank X. King, the father of our subject, was born in Paris, France, in 1833 and when a young man arrived in Cleveland. For a long period he was associated with railroad interests, being for many years general yard master on various railroads at this point. He was widely and favorably known in railroad circles throughout the United States, and his death, which occurred in 1890, was the occasion of deep regret to many who knew him. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Caroline S. Donley, was a native of Cleveland, where her people had 152 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND lived from early times, her father becoming well known as a vessel owner, ship chandler and land owner. Mrs. King still survives and yet makes her home in this city. George S. King was educated in the public schools of Cleveland and attended Sayers College of this city. He also spent three years in the study of architecture in an office in NewYork city, adding to his theoretical training the experience of practical work. Returning to Cleveland he here entered the office of Ora W. Williams, with whom he completed his studies, but in 1900 he began the practice of his profession on his own account, winning immediate success. In the intervening years he has built many apartment houses, business blocks, residences and terraces in Cleveland and in many other cities. His business in designing and erecting apartments and terraces in Cleveland is perhaps larger than that of any other architect here. He now has a large project under way-the erection of a two hundred room hotel in Wisconsin, about ninety miles from Chicago, together with a dancing pavilion and theater. This is a very large undertaking, but Mr. King's professional skill and ability and long experience well qualify him for the work. In January, 1904, occurred the marriage of Mr. King to Miss Frances M. Cooksey, of Washington, D. C. Mr. King is a member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, the Woodmen of the World and the United Commercial Travelers. In politics he is a stalwart republican, giving stanch support to the party and at one time was a candidate for county commissioner but otherwise has not sought nor desired office, although he labors earnestly and effectively to secure the success 0f his party, believing that its principles contain the best elements of good government. He is fond of outdoor sports and athletic interests but never allows anything to interfere with the faithful performance of his duties in the execution of contracts which are awarded him. The secret of his success lies in hard work and earnest application, combined with thorough training, and many fine structures stand as monuments to his skill and ability. MATHIAS BORTS, M. D. Dr. Mathias Borts engages in the general practice of medicine, specializing somewhat in the treatment of diseases of the nose and throat. His birth occurred in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, September 7, 1852. His parents, John and Agnes (McLaren) Borts, also natives of the Keyst0ne state, are still living within its borders, and the father follows the occupation of farming. In his native county Dr. Borts spent his boyhood and youth and is indebted to the public-school system for the educational opportunities that were afforded him. When eighteen years of age he began teaching, foll0wing the profession for several years, after which he came to Cleveland in the fall of 1879, and with purpose to become a member of the medical profession he began preparation therefor in his matriculation in the medical department of the University of Wooster, from which he was graduated in 1881 with the M. D. degree. Immediately he entered upon general practice in Cleveland and fifteen months later was appointed to a position on the staff of Dr. Jamin Strong, then superintendent of the Northern Ohio State Hospital. He served in that capacity for three years, after which he returned to his present location at No. 2584 East Fifty- fifth street, where he has since engaged in general practice. He devoted the winter of 1894 to post-graduate work in New York, and his pr0fessional reading has covered a wide range, keeping him abreast with the advanced thought 0f the profession. He has the patronage of many of the best families of his section of the city and devotes his time and energies to a general practice, although he specializes to some extent to the treatment of diseases of the nose and throat. HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 155 For some years before the introduction of anti-toxine he did a great deal of intubation work for the profession, having spent some months as a private student of the late Dr. Dillon Brown, of New York, the noted specialist in that line. His membership in professional societies connects him with the Cleveland Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. On the 26th of November, 1890, Dr. Borts was married to Miss Minnie Weidenkopf, a daughter of Frederick Weidenkopf, of Cleveland, and they reside at Fifty-fifth street and Woodland avenue. They hold membership in the Woodland Avenue Presbyterian church, in which Dr. Borts is serving as elder, and he is, moreover, a member of the Municipal Association. These connections indicate his deep interest in all that pertains to the public welfare and to the moral progress of the race. DAVIS HAWLEY. Davis Hawley, president of the Cuyahoga Savings & Loan Company, and for many years prior to 1901 one of the proprietors of the famous Hawley House, is numbered among the best known citizens of Cleveland. He was born September 18, 1850, near Hamilton, Ontario, a son of Davis and Sabra Amelia (Lake) Hawley, who were farming people. The father died in 1861, while the mother's death occurred in 1868. Davis Hawley spent his youthful days on his father's farm, and his education was acquired in the district schools. He left home at the age of fourteen years and went to Detroit, Michigan, where he was employed two years, or until 1866, when he came to Cleveland. At that time he became cigar boy at the Weddell House, conducted by Kirkwood Brothers, and after remaining there for three years he entered the shops of the White Sewing Machine Company, where he continued for three and a half years. At that time his elder brother, David R. Hawley, was proprietor of the Clinton House, and Davis Hawley became a clerk in that hotel and later, in 1878, when David R. Hawley was also conducting the City Hotel and Hotel Streibinger, he placed the management of the Clinton Hotel in the hands of Davis Hawley, who continued in charge until 1882. In that year in company with David R. Hawley and John Langton, he erected the now famous Hawley House, one of the finest and best in the city. The partnership of these three gentlemen continued until the death of Mr. Langton in 189o, after which the brothers conducted it alone until February I, 1901, when Davis Hawley disposed of his interests to his brother, since which time he has devoted his attention to the interests of the Cuyahoga Savings & Loan Company as its president and also to his personal real-estate investments, which are extensive. These include a large apartment house recently completed. In 1906 he completed a handsome home on Roxbury road in East Cleveland, one of the finest suburban towns in the vicinity of the Forest city. Mr. Hawley was one of the leading factors in the organization of the Cuyahoga Savings & Loan Company, which was organized in 1893. He became its first vice president and served as such until 1896. He was a member of the board of directors and also a member of the executive and appraisal committee. In 1898 upon the death of the late Colonel Arthur McAllister, he was chosen president of the organization. He is a man of keen business discernment, whose judgment is rarely if ever at fault, and his enterprise and energy have carried him into important relations and brought him a substantial reward for his labor. Mr. Hawley was one of the organizers and for a number of years, until 1892, was secretary of the Cleveland Baseball Club of the National League, his associate officers being the late Frank DeHass Robinson, who was the president, and George H. Howe, treasurer. Mr. Hawley was also one of the organizers and a director 156 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND of the Cleveland Athletic Club and has ever been a lover of good, clean sport. Fraternally he is a veteran in the Masonic order, being a member of Cleveland City Lodge, No. 15, A. F. & A. M.; Webb Chapter, No. 14, R. A. M.; Cleveland Council, No. 32, R. & S. M.; Oriental Commandery, K. T.; and Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine. In November, 1873, Mr. Hawley was united in marriage to Miss Mary Switz, of Cleveland, and they have one son, Davis Hawley, Jr., born October 5, 1878. He completed his education in Cleveland at Rockwell University School with the class of 1896 and entered Cornell University, from which he was graduated in law in 1wo. He is now a practicing attorney of Cleveland, being admitted to the bar of Ohio in 1901. In 1908 he married Miss Ellen Harshaw, of Cleveland. Mr. Hawley enjoys the well earned distinction of what the public calls a self- made man. He has made steady progress in his business career through adaptation to the needs and conditions of the situation and through unfaltering industry became recognized as one of the leading hotel men of Cleveland, and is today prominently known in real-estate circles, controlling and owning large interests. He has ever been loyal to the welfare of the city and its substantial progress, and his efforts in behalf of public improvement have not been without result. L. LOUIS MALM. L. Louis Malm, the Swedish vice consul at Cleveland, was born in Umea, Sweden, December 15, 1850. His father, John August Malm, was a son of Edward Theodore Maim. The former was a mining engineer and became extensively engaged in the lumber business, displaying notable discernment and enterprise in the conduct of his affairs. He was born in 1813 and died in 1868. The family came of Finnish ancestry. The mother of our subject, who bore the maiden name of Augusta Sophia Wahlin, died in 1887. In the government school and college of his native city L. Louis Malm pursued his education and after leaving school went to sea as an apprenticed seaman. His ability won him rapid advancement through various promotions to the rank of second mate, and while in the marine service he visited the various important ports of the world, spending three and a half years on the water. He also made a short stay in America but returned to Sweden, where he was engaged in the ship-chandler business for a year. However, having been impressed by the exceptional opportunities offered in the new world, he again came to the United States, arriving on the 15th of June, 1872. Locating in Pennsylvania, he was connected with the Titusville Gas & Water Company and remained in that place until 1874, when he was chosen superintendent of the company and as such managed its affairs until 1884. In that year he was elected treasurer of the Danvers (Mass.) Gas & Electric Light Company, with which he was associated until June, 1889, when he was appointed superintendent of construction of the Cleveland Arcade Company. Thus serving, he had charge of The Arcade, and on its completion he assumed the management of the building and still retains his official connection therewith. On the 24th of June, 1895, Mr. Malm was appointed vice consul for Sweden and Norway, this being the first consular service in the city. When the countries were divided he retained the Swedish consulate, which position he still occupies, Since 1903 he has been director of Augustana College and Theological Seminary at Rock Island, Illinois, and is a director of the Gustavus Adolphus Orphanage at Jamestown, New York. These associations indicate that his nature is not self-centered, for his interests reach out to, lines beneficial to humanity at large. Mr. Malm is also a member of the Swedish-American Historical Society. He belongs to the Swedish Chamber of Commerce and to the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, while his religious faith is manifest in his membership in the Swedish HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 157 Lutheran church. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, but outside of his present office he has never sought or desired political preferment. On the 15th of December, 1874, Mr, Malm was married to Miss Wilhelmina Peterson, daughter of C. and Emma Peterson. Mrs. Maim is very active in church and charitable work, doing much to further the interests of the church in various lines. The children of this marriage are eight in number : John Lawrence, a mining engineer, who is a graduate of the Case School of Applied Science and is now located in Denver, Colorado; Helen, the wife of W. G. Oswald, of Cleveland ; Rudolph A., who is with the Cleveland Trust Company; William E., a metallurgist of Denver, Colorado ; Herald A., a student in the State School of Mines at Golden, Colorado ; Royal A., who is attending the Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland; and Irma and Douglas, who are pupils in the Rosedale school. The family reside at No. 1448 East One Hundred and Fifteenth street. Mr. Malm is a Royal Arch Mason, belonging to Webb Chapter, and he is a member of the Scandinavian Brotherhood of American. The nature of his pastimes is indicated in the fact that he belongs to the Cleveland Yacht Club. He is particularly fond of boating and is one of the oldest members of that organization. He is never too busy to be social or too social to be busy. The interests of his life are well balanced forces, and his success is due to his ability to grasp opportunities as they have presented themselves. He has traveled very extensively in all parts of the world and is a gentleman possessing that broad culture and knowledge such as only travel can bring. NICOLA CERRI, M. D. Dr. Nicola Cerri, Italian consul at Cleveland, where for some years he also successfully engaged in the practice of medicine, was born in Avezzano, Abruzzi, Italy, March 30, 1875. His paternal grandfather, Giovanni Domenico Cerri, was an attorney at law, and the family were prominent in bringing about the unity of Italy and the overthrow of the Bourbon rule. Dr. Antonio Cerri, the father, was a physician of Avezzano, where he is still living, although he has retired from practice. He wedded Marianna Ietti, a native of Aquila, Italy, and a daughter of Baroness Alferi Osorio Branconio. Dr. Cerri pursued his education at Vittorio Emanele II, College, at Naples, completing his course there in 1892. He then entered the University of Rome, from which he was graduated on the completion of the six years' course in 1898, receiving the degree of Medico Chirurgo, equivalent to that of M. D. in this country. He then entered upon the practice of his profession at Rome, where he remained for a year, when he heard and heeded the call of the western world, arriving in America in December, 1899. He located for practice in Cleveland where he opened an office and soon established himself in a good business. In June, 1900, he was appointed as the representative of [he Italian government for the northern district of Ohio. The duties of the office have greatly increased until he has been obliged gradually to drop his practice and during the past two years has confined his attention almost exclusively to his governmental work. In consideration of the services rendered the crown in this capacity he was knighted by King Victor Emanuel III, on the 14th of March, 1903. Dr. Cerri still retains his membership in the Ohio State Medical Society and in the Academy of Medicine in Cleveland. In December, 1903, in Washington, D. C., Dr. Cerri was married to Miss Josephine Grace Rittman, a daughter of the Hon. Frederick E. Rittman, a former banker of Cleveland and auditor of the war department. Mrs. Cerri is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and a direct descendant of General Anthony Wayne. She is an accomplished musician, having studied in Dresden and in Paris and is active and prominent in the musical and social circles 158 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND of Cleveland. The family reside at No. 1929 East Ninetieth street. Dr. Cerri is a great lover of painting and sculpturing, and the various forms of art in these and musical lines find expression in his home. A cultured Italian gentleman, refined, courteous, modest and unassuming, he has gained the high regard of all who know him in the adopted city of his residence. ABRAHAM H. SHUNK. When the record of one's good deeds, noble purposes and generous and helpful spirit remains for years in the memory of those with whom they were associated while active factors in the affairs of life, it cannot be said that they lived in vain. Indeed their work is an impetus in the world's progress, especially toward reaching that ideal condition where the spirit of mutual helpfulness instead of that of selfishness prevails. There has been no citizen of Cleveland who has won a warmer hold on the affections of those who knew them than did Abraham H. Shunk, for thirty-four years the superintendent of the Cleveland Protestant Orphan Asylum. He was born in Knox county, Ohio, on the 24th of October, 1834, his birthplace being in the village of Fredericktown. His father, John Shunk, came to Ohio from Maryland during the pioneer epoch in the history of this state and was at one time sheriff of Knox county. He was deeply interested in railroad building, realizing the value and worth of such to the community at large and was largely instrumental in securing the building of the railroad to Cardington. He was a contemporary of Amassa Stone and other distinguished men of Ohio. In the place of his nativity Abraham H. Shunk spent his early life and then started out to earn his own living. For seventeen years he had charge of the railroad station at Cardington, Morrow county, Ohio, where his unfailing courtesy, spirit of gentle helpfulness and unqualified faithfulness won him the kindly regard of the general public and the unfaltering confidence of the company which he represented. Because of failing he at length left his position and went to central Kansas, where for nearly four years he was interested in a stock ranch. He then returned to Ohio, taking up his abode in Cleveland in 1874. Here he married Miss Julia Warren, a daughter of Daniel Warren, who was an early resident of Warrensville, in whose honor the township was named. From that time Mr. Shunk was superintendent of the Cleveland Protestant Orphan Asylum for thirty-four years, or until a short time prior to his death. His kindly spirit, his deep interest in his fellowmen and his desire to aid the unfortunate, especially the little ones who were thrown upon the world's cold mercies, constituted an excellent foundation for faithful service. The asylum indeed lost a faithful friend when he was called away. He proved a most efficient and capable superintendent in the management of the business affairs of the institution as well as in his influence over the children who came under his care and guidance. His wife acted as matron of the institution, and they gave themselves unreservedly to its best interests, nothing ever being allowed to interfere in the slightest degree with its usefulness. The management of the house, the conduct of its business affairs, the accurate and orderly methods of records, the monthly and annual reports all evince his masterful grasp of the situation. Fellow workers along similar lines held him in highest esteem for his good judgment and wise methods in caring for destitute children, and one of them wrote of the organization under his care as "a pioneer in the new order of orphan asylums," and of Mr. Shunk personally as one to whom "the world owes far more than the mere matter of carrying on a good institution all these years." It was to his character and ability in the management of children that the highest measure of praise was due. The number of orphans annually placed in homes for many years averaged at least one hundred, besides nearly as many others temporarily cared for and returned to friends. HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 161 With those who were true wards of the asylum he kept in touch, so that many hundreds must have had his personal knowledge. Multitudes of letters were continually received expressing personal love and gratitude to him for his kindliness and helpfulness. From homes where these otherwise homeless little ones have gone come many words from foster parents telling of their enjoyment in having had the children sent to be their "very own" and thanking Mr. Shunk for his kind offices in selecting and sending them. The children of the institution regarded him as a father, and to him they came with the tales of their sorrows and their joys. He was always tender and kind to them, tactful in his dealings, wise in government, and regarded his trust as sacred and his work as true missionary effort. Those who were associated with him in the various capacities in the household ever found in him a friend and an adviser, while the trustees and ladies of the board of managers reposed entire confidence in his judgment and held him in highest esteem. There was great sorrow at the institution when in June, 1907, he resigned his position because of failing health. Mr. Shunk at that time went to the home of his niece, Miss Julia Beebe, at No. 2117 East Twenty-second street and there passed away March 27, 1908. In recognition of his faithfulness and tirelessness in the work, which he regarded as a mission and a trust, the management of the orphanage requested that his funeral be held in the asylum building, which was done. He had long been a devoted member and an elder in the Eells Memorial church, and his funeral services were conducted by its pastor, Rev. Leonard A. Barrett, who said : "Chapters of the biography of our friend here are written in the living hearts of nearly four thousand children, whom he loved and influenced for good." Seated in the audience were middle-aged men and women, some with grown children of their own, who as helpless little ones had found a father's love and protection in the man then lying dead before them. Said one who knew him well, "I never once saw him out of patience and I was a frequent visitor at the orphanage." One had to but gaze into his face to know something of the character of the titian. Kindliness and geniality beamed from his eye, and his great warm heart took into its embrace all of the children of the institution with their multiplicity of childish joys and sorrows, while at all times he sought out their best good in temporal and spiritual lines. The child at once and instinctively recognized in him a friend, and in all of his work Mrs. Shunk shared, being equally interested in the little ones who came under her motherly care as matron of the institution. How much better is such a record than that of him of whom it can only be said "he achieved success in business." A. H. Shunk left the impress of his individuality upon the hearts of hundreds of little ones, while his words of kindly advice and wisdom sank deep into their minds to remain as influencing factors for good throughout their entire lives. FREDERICK N. HAIT. Railway interests of this section of the country largely center in Cleveland, which is headquarters of various trunk lines with their subsidiary interests. Active in control of important business relative to the management and operation of the railways are men whose ability has placed them prominent in business circles here. To this class belongs Frederick N. Hait, freight agent for the Lake Shore and the Lehigh Valley Railway Companies. He is the son of Israel and Mary M. (Webster) Hait, natives of Onondaga county, New York. His birth occurred at Skaneateles in that county, December 19, 1872, and in the public schools of Jordan, New York, he pursued his education until he reached the age of fourteen when he accompanied his parents on their removal to Ohio, the family home being established at Mansfield. Three years later he went to Lorain, this state, and became assistant timekeeper for the United Brass Company. He has 162 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND since continuously remained in railway service and his broadening experience, his careful and systematic manner of discharging his duties and his capability in readily understanding the requirements that have been made upon him in different positions have led to his promotion from time to time. In 1889 he came to Cleveland and was appointed clerk at the Wasson Street depot. He was for four years with the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad Company and eventually was promoted to the position of cashier at the freight station. He then went to the Union Pacific Railroad Company as soliciting freight agent for a year and afterward spent two years in a similar service with the West Shore Railroad, On the expiration of that period he was sent to Milwaukee as assistant city passenger agent for the Northwestern but a year later returned to Cleveland and became traveling freight agent for the Chicago & Northwestern Railway for four years. Then he became connected with the Lake Shore & Lehigh Valley Route as agent. He has been a potent force in only not managing the freight interests of the company but in enlarging the business 0f his department and enjoys in full measure the trust and confidence of th0se whom he represents. Mr. Hait's social relations have to some extent been in connection with societies formed among the railway men in his branch of the service. He belongs to the National Association of Freight Traffic Agents, of which he was honored with the presidency and he also holds membership with the Cleveland division of the Traffic Club. For a number of years he has been a loyal and exemplary representative of the Masonic lodge and is a member of the Masonic Club, of which he served as vice president for one year and as president for a year. His political endorsement is given to the republican party when the names of candidates for national offices head the ticket but at city elections, where no political issue is involved, he considers only the capability of the candidate and the measures to be supported. In 1895 he married Miss Marietta Lamb, a daughter of Andrew Lamb, of Cleveland, and in this city they have many friends, their circle of acquaintances constantly increasing in the years 0f their residence here. WILLIS EMERSON WHITE. Willis Emerson White, who since the 1st of March, 1905, has been a member of the firm of Griswold & White, and in his practice makes a specialty of probate law, was born in Cleveland, January 3, 1878. His father, Henry C. White, was a native of Newburgh, Ohio, born February 23, 1830. The White family came 0riginally from Scotland. The paternal grandfather, Wateman White, was born in Lenox, Massachusetts, and at a very early epoch in the development of Ohio came to this state. He was a bridge builder and contractor and built the first bridge across the Cuyahoga river. His death occurred in 1842. His son, Henry C. White, who for a number of years gave hip attention to the practice 0f law, in 1887 was elected probate judge of Cuyahoga county and the capability of his service is indicated in the fact that he was five times reelected to the office, being a candidate of the republican party, the principles of which he stanchly advocated. His death occurred January 15, 1905, and the county thereby lost one of its most trustworthy and loyal officials and citizens. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Sabrina Capron, was born in Geauga county, Ohio, May 15, 1840, and is still living in Cleveland. She is well known socially here and is a member of the local chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Her father, Henry Capron, was born in Connecticut in 1814, was a farmer by occupation and died in 1862. In the public schools of Cleveland Willis Emerson White pursued his education until he was graduated from the Central high school with the class of 1897. He afterward took special work in Adelbert College and also attended the Franklin T. Backus Law School and the Western Reserve University, from which HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 163 he graduated on the completion of a law course in 1901 with the LL. B. degree. He at once began practice in Cleveland and was alone until the 1st of March, 1905, when the present partnership was formed, and the firm of Griswold & White has since enjoyed a large practice. Mr. White has made a specialty of probate law, in which he is thoroughly versed. He is also president of the Public Hand Laundry Company and thus from industrial as well as professional lines draws his income. On the 1st of January, 1902, Mr. White was united in marriage to Miss Gertrude F. Taylor, a daughter of William G. and Belle F. (Ferre) Taylor, of Cleveland. Her father is a real-estate broker of this city. They have three children : Florence F., Henry C. and Jeanette H. Mr. White belongs to the Beta Theta Pi and the Phi Delta Phi, fraternities of the Western Reserve University. His political allegiance has always been given to the republican party, of which he is an active supporter. He has frequently been a delegate to many county conventions and also attended the last state convention. He belongs to the Euclid Avenue Christian church and formerly served on its official board. Although a young man he has made substantial progress in his profession, winning success that many an older practitioner might well envy. MORRIS ANISFIELD. Morris Anisfield was one of Cleveland's citizens of foreign birth who had no occasion to regret his determination to seek a home in America, for in this land of opportunity he prospered and became recognized as one of the leading business men of his race in Cleveland. He was born in Krakau, Austria, and died March 24, 1907. His parents were Israel and Amelia (Geldwerth) Anisfield, also natives of Austria. The son attended school in his native town and also in the vicinity of Vienna until fifteen years of age, when he determined to seek a home in America and began making preparations toward that end. The following year saw the consummation of his cherished plan. He arrived in the United States in 1886 and made his way at once to Cleveland, here becoming connected with his brother, John Anisfield, who had crossed the Atlantic in 1876 and was engaged in a manufacturing enterprise here. Morris Anisfield worked in the factory for about a year, in order to become thoroughly acquainted with business methods and at the same time gain a knowledge of the English language. He then went upon the road as a traveling salesman for the firm, when seventeen years of age, and so continued for fifteen years. In 1902 he became a half partner in the Silver & Gross Company, now Gross, Dallas & Company, with which he was connected for two years. He also became an equal partner in the Feigenbaum Trunk Company at at the same time retained an interest in the John Anisfield Company. In 1904 he left the road and assumed the management of the Feigenbaum Trunk Company, being thus actively associated with the business until his death. Morris Anisfield was married March 27, 1904, in Seattle, Washington, to Miss Ruby Kreidel, a daughter of Samuel Kreidel of Krakau, Austria, and of Pauline Harris Kreidel of San Francisco, California. Her father was one of Seattle's pioneer merchants, conducting a department store in that city for many years. The business developed along substantial lines and for a considerable period was the largest establishment of its kind in Seattle. Mr, Kreidel is now engaged in business at Ellensburg, Washington. For a short time before going to Seattle he was also connected with mercantile interests in San Francisco, and his labors have been a potent element in the commercial development of the Pacific coast. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Anisfield were born two children : Montross and Amelia. 164 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND Mr. Anisfield was a Mason of high standing and belonged also to the Commercial Travelers' Association. A self-made man and largely self-educated, he was just attaining substantial success and fame when death overtook him. He was very well known in Jewish circles, being a member of the Willson Avenue Temple and also of the B'nai B'rith. His political allegiance was given to the republican party, but he never sought nor desired office, preferring to concentrate his energies upon his business affairs, which were carefully conducted and brought to him a very gratifying financial return. Mrs. Anisfield is well known for her charitable acts and assists many poor and needy families in the city. She, too, is well known in Jewish circles and has many friends here who entertain for her warm regard and friendship. WILL E. RUPLE. One does not think of agriculture in connection with city life, and yet more and more city men are recognizing how valuable and productive an investment is the ownership of farm land. Will E. Ruple is numbered among Cleveland's residents who derive their income from agricultural interests, owning and operating valuable property in this district. He was born January 14, 1853, in the same house in which his father, James W. Ruple, first opened his eyes to the light of day. The mother, who in her maidenhood was Susan M. Derby, was a native of the Empire state. Spending his boyhood (lays in his father's home, Will E. Ruple pursued his education in East Cleveland and on leaving school took up the occupation of farming, working with his father until the latter's death on the 2d of May, 1884, when he became proprietor of the farm which he still owns and carries on. This is a tract of rich and productive land, that responds readily to the care and labor that is bestowed upon it and the modern and enterprising methods which Mr. Ruple employs have made it a source of gratifying annual profit. In his political views Mr. Ruple is a democrat but without ambition for office. He owns the home where he lives and concentrates his energies upon his agricultural interests. J. C. BEARDSLEY. J. C. Beardsley, a civil engineer residing in Cleveland, is the western representative of the Thomson Meter Company of Brooklyn, New York. He was born in this city on the 1st of March, 1863, a son of Eri S. and Sarah A. (Peck) Beardsley. The father, whose birth occurred in New York on the 9th of November, 1825, made his way to Summit county, Ohio, in early life. For a great many years he remained in the service of the Adams Express Company at Cleveland, Ohio, and Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, proving a most capable and trusted employe. 'The last few years of his life were spent in honorable retirement from labor, and his demise occurred in 1907. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Sarah A. Peck and who was born in Massachusetts on the 7th of August, 1829, was brought to Summit county, Ohio, when but four years of age. The year 1850 witnessed her arrival in Cleveland, and she has since remained a resident of this city, having won an extensive circle of warm friends here in the intervening period. In his youthful days J. C, Beardsley attended the public schools in the acquirement of an education and subsequently spent a short time as a student in the Case School of Applied Science. After leaving that institution he was engaged in the profession of engineering for three or four years and in 1885 enlisted in HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 167 the regular army for a five years' term. On the 6th of February, 1888, however, he received a commission as second lieutenant and remained in the service until he resigned in July, 1893, doing duty on the frontier during the entire period. At the time of the Spanish-American war he served as captain of Company B, Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was mustered out in November, 1898. From 1893 until 1904 he acted as assistant engineer m the city water-works department and afterward successfully followed the profession of civil engineering in a private capacity for a number of years. He is now the western representative of the Thomson Meter Company of Brooklyn, New York, and m this responsible position is daily proving his thoroughness and proficiency in the line of his chosen vocation. In 1897 Mr. Beardsley was united in marriage to Miss Inez E. Porter, of Dalton, Ohio, by whom he has two daughters, Dorothy and Virginia. Politically Mr Beardsley is a man of liberal tendencies, always taking into consideration the capability of a candidate rather than his party affiliation. Fraternally he is identified with the Masons, being a worthy exemplar of the beneficent teachings of the craft. For the past seven years he has served as the secretary of the Cleveland Engineering Society, and for the past twenty years he has been a member of the Military Service Association, a national organization of the United States army. A resident of Cleveland throughout his entire life, he has a large circle of friends, including many who have known him from boyhood and who recognize him as one worthy of their high personal regard. CHARLES C. DEWSTOE. Charles C. Dewstoe, whose life has been largely devoted to public service in military and political lines, in which connection he has ever borne himself with signal dignity and honor, is now postmaster of Cleveland and is also well known in business circles as the president of the Dewstoe & Brainard Company, plumbing and heating. A native of West Bloomfield, Ontario county, New York, he was born May Jo, 1841, and when a young man removed to Michigan. At the outbreak of the Civil war he enlisted at Fort Wayne, in Detroit, on the 25th of May, 1861, becoming a private of Company F, Second Regiment of Michigan Volunteers. He participated in the first battle of this regiment at Blackburn's Ford and three days later in the first battle of Bull Run. On the 18th of December, 1861, he was transferred to the signal service and was made sergeant in June, 1863. While in this department he engaged in military operations along the Chickahominy river and participated in the engagements of Fredericksville, Mary's Heights and in all engagements of the Army of the Potomac, with the exception of the second battle of Bull Run. After the war he went to Little Rock, Arkansas, where for a year he remained in the quartermaster's department. On the severance of his connection with military affairs Mr. Dewstoe pursued a course in the National Business College at Poughkeepsie, New York, and in May, 1866, came to Cleveland, where he established himself in the plumbing business, in which he is still interested. His enterprise has enjoyed a continuous growth and he is now at the head of an extensive plumbing and heating business as president of the Dewstoe & Brainard Company. Close application, intelligently directed effort and unquestioned probity have been salient features in his business career, winning him well merited success. Mr. Dewstoe has on several occasions been called to public office, and in all his various connections with the public welfare his course has been characterized by a devotion to the general good that has won him high commendation. In 1882 he was elected on the city board of health and was reelected in 1884. The same year he was chosen sheriff of Cuyahoga county, in which position he served for two years. On the 15th of July, 1899, he was appointed postmaster to fill 168 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND out an unexpired term and on the 19th of December 0f that year was regularly appointed for the four years' term and by reappointment has been continued in the position t0 the present time, covering an entire decade. His administration of the office has been notably satisfactory, owing to his promptness and accuracy in handling all mail and his careful systematizati0n 0f the business. In politics he has ever been a stalwart republican, active and helpful in promoting the interests of the party. He is also prominent in Grand Army circles, was formerly c0mmander of Post No. 141, of Cleveland, and now holds membership in the Army and Navy P0st, No. 187, G. A. R., of which he is a past commander. While dignified in manner, he is always courteous and genial, and his friends, who are many, recognize in him a social gentleman, highly appreciative of the, pleasures that come through comradeship. In every relation of life he has stood for high ideals, and his public service has been characterized by the same loyalty that marked his course as a soldier of the Civil war, when he faced the enemy's bullets that the Union might be preserved intact. In all of his official relations he has placed the public welfare before partisanship and the capable discharge of duty before self-aggrandizement. JOHN STANTON FISH. To all interested in historical research concerning the people and events that have left their impress upon the annals of Cleveland and Cuyahoga county the name of Fish is familiar, for the family was 0ne of the first established in this section of the state. The branch of the family to which John Stanton Fish belonged made a wearisome journey across the country from Connecticut to Cleveland about 1818 or 1820 and settled in that section of the city which was formerly the village of Brooklyn. There the parents, Ebenezer and Joanna Fish, established their home, the former purchasing a large tract of land, in the development and improvement of which he became known as 0ne 0f the leading and successful farmers of this part of the state. He was also prominently connected with many events that were features in the history of Cleveland. He gave the land and contributed a large sum of money toward the erection of the first Methodist Episcopal church in Brooklyn, in which he served as an officer, and in different ways he aided in the work of public progress along material, social, intellectual and moral lines. In his later years he retired from active business and enjoyed a well earned rest. His father, Ebenezer Fish, had served as a soldier in the Revolutionary war. John Stanton Fish was born March 26, 1830, at the family home in the village of Brooklyn, on the site of the present new Methodist Episcopal church of Cleveland. For seventy-three years he lived to witness the changes and development of the city as its boundaries were extended and its industrial and commercial interests augmented, transforming it from a comparatively small town to one of the largest and most important cities of the country. In his youthful days he attended school on the west side and also continued his course as a high-school student. He afterward went east and took up the study of law, one of his schoolmates at that time being Judge Prentice. He was a man of broad, liberal education and became well versed in legal principles, but never engaged in the active practice of law. Returning to Cleveland he entered the dry-goods and notion business on Pearl street, now West Twenty-fifth street, where he continued for about ten years, conducting a growing and profitable business. He then sold out and purchased a part of his father's farm, which was bordered by Pearl street and Forestdale avenue. Noting the growth of the city he entered the real-estate field by platting his land into lots and erecting many h0uses thereon. He also opened up and named Forest street, now Forestdale avenue, before that section was included within the corporation limits of Cleveland. Mr. Fish never sold HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 169 his real estate but retained possession of all and from his improved property derived a very substantial rental that made his annual income a most gratifying one. He also organized the company that built the first opera house on the west side and became its president and chief stockholder. His business judgment was of a keen and discriminating character and was seldom, if ever, at fault so that his labors brought substantial return and the years chronicled his success as one of the representative business men of the city. Mr. Fish gave his political allegiance to the republican party and such was his standing among his fellow townsmen that he was reelected again and again to the office of mayor of Brooklyn, in which position he served for many years. He also did effective work in the interest of public education as a member of the school board. He was a member of the Early Settlers Association and also a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal church, which his father founded. John Stanton Fish gave liberally to the support of this organization, participated in its various activities and conformed his life to its teachings. On the 6th of April, 1851. he laid the foundation for a pleasant home life in his marriage to Miss Chloe Clark, and unto them was born a daughter, Clara, whose birth occurred in 1874 and who died in 1856. The wife and mother passed away in 1874, and on the 16th of May, 1883, Mr. Fish was married to Miss Jennie M. Turner, a daughter of Asa M. and Nancy (Wilson) Turner. Her grandfather, Conrad Turner, was the third son of Sir Charles Llewellyn Turner, of England, who located in Connecticut about 1800 and in 1808 became a resident of that section of the state now included in Mahoning and Medina counties, Ohio. It was in that district that Asa Turner was born. He was a college man and for many years engaged in teaching in Youngstown, Ohio, but in 1885 removed to Cleveland, where he lived retired. By the second marriage of Mr. Fish there were two children: Mary Stanton, who was born July 22, 1896 and Karl Turner, born February TO, 1898. The death of Mr. Fish occurred September 20, 1903. In the later years of his life he lived retired at his home on Forestdale avenue, his previous business activity and his wise investments supplying him with financial resources that placed him among the men of affluence in the city. At all times he manifested the qualities of honorable manhood and progressive citizenship, which made him a valued factor in the community. Over his official record there fell no shadow of wrong or suspicion of evil, and the same high standard of honor was maintained in all of his business affairs and in his social relations so that wherever known he enjoyed the confidence, good will and high esteem of those with whom he came in contact. DAVID COURTNEY WESTENHAVER. Earnest effort, close application and the exercise of his native talents have won David Courtney Westenhaver prestige as a lawyer at the bar, which has numbered many prominent representatives. He was born in Berkeley county, West Virginia, January 13, 1865. His father, David Westenhaver, who is of Dutch lineage, was a farmer of that county and is still living there, retired, at the age of seventy-seven years. He married Harriet Turner, a representative of an old Virginia family of English origin. Her death occurred July 26, 1886. David C. Westenhaver was the fifth in order of birth in a family of eight children, seven of whom are yet living. He pursued his education in public and private schools, spending some time as a student in Georgetown College at Georgetown, D. C. Before completing his classical course he took up the study of law in that institution and was graduated therefrom in 1885, with the degree of Bachelor of Law. Admitted to the bar at Martinsburg, West Virginia,. he immediately entered upon practice there, and his natural ability, earnest effort and close application, combined with his thorough preparation of cases, soon 170 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND brought him a good legal business. While residing at Martinsburg, he served as a member of the city council and at the age of twenty-one was appointed prosecuting attorney for his county to serve out an unexpired term, at the end of which he was nominated for the office but was defeated with the others on the ticket. He continued in the private practice of law in Matrinsburg and for a brief time was alone but later became a partner of W. H. H. Flick, a prominent lawyer, under the firm style of Flick & Westenhaver. The relation was maintained until a short time prior to his removal to this city, and to his partner Mr. Westenhaver credits a large amount of his practical technical training. Upon coming to Cleveland in the fall of 1903 Mr. Westenhaver entered the firm of Garfield, Howe & Westenhaver, previously composed of Harry A. and James R. Garfield and Frederick C. Howe. The first two severed their active connection at that time and in 1906 M. Howe withdrew, leaving Mr. Westenhaver at the head of the firm. His associates are W. H. Boyd, James C. Brooks and Max J. Rudolph, and the firm name is Westenhaver, Rudolph & Brooks. They engage in general practice, and Mr. Westenhaver has avoided commercial attachments in order to confine his attention entirely to his profession. He has made some investments in other business interests, but his energies are chiefly devoted to the practice of law, in which connection his ability has carried him into important relations. He is a safe counselor and a strong advocate, his arguments being characterized by perspicuity and force, based upon a thorough understanding of legal principles and a correct application thereof to the points in litigation. He is a member of various bar associations, and his standing in the profession is indicated by the fact that when chosen to the presidency of the State Bar Association of West Virginia, he was the youngest presiding officer that organization has ever had. Mr. Westenhaver was married at Martinsburg, West Virginia, in June, 1888, to Miss Mary C. Paull, a daughter of Henry W. Paull of that place. They now have one son, Edward P., who at the age of nineteen years, is a student in Princeton University. The family residence is at No. 1944 East Ninety-third street. In early life Mr. Westenhaver was what might be termed a philosophic democrat but for many years has been independent in politics. Though his practice has allied him closely with political issues and measures at different times, he avoids political activity and public service. He has for many years been a member of the American Economical Association and the American Academy of Political & Social Science. He was president of the Cleveland Council of Sociology in 1906-07, and his reading has covered a wide range in the sociological and economical fields and in all those lines of thought which are of vital moment to the statesman and the man of affairs. He holds membership with the Nisi Prius Club, the famous local legal club, which is a very exclusive organization. He also belongs to the Cleveland Athletic Club and the University Club of this city and to the Columbus Club of the capital city. He has been an occasional contributor to legal and economical publications, and his writings are at once clear and concise, bearing the impress of the legal mind. SAMUEL MANSFIELD EDDY. Samuel Mansfield Eddy, characterized by the public press, as by all who knew him, as an eminent lawyer of Cleveland, equally well remembered and honored because of his generous spirit and kindheartedness, passed away October 5, 1891. He was born at Perington, Monroe county, New York, October 25, 1840, and traced his ancestry back through several generations to the Rev. William Eddy, of Cranbrook, England, whose son Samuel with his brother John sailed from London in the ship Handmaid on the loth of August, 1630, and landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts, October 29, 1630. His son, Samuel Eddy, was the repre- HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 173 sentative of this branch of the family in the second generation, and the Christian name has figured to a considerable extent among the Eddys. George Eddy, the father, was born at Great Bend, Pennsylvania, and in Geneva, New York, was married on Christmas day of 1833 to Miss Temperance Hedges Cook, a native of Albany, New York. Several of her ancestors were soldiers of the Revolutionary war. In 1852 George Eddy removed with his family from the Empire state to Ohio, taking up his abode at Milan where he followed the occupation of farming. Samuel Mansfield Eddy, at that time a youth of twelve years, supplemented his public-school education by study in the Milan Academy at Milan, Ohio, the Western Reserve Academy, and the Western Reserve College in Hudson, Ohio. He was graduated from college in 1864 as a member of a class that numbered many prominent Cleveland men, including Judge Samuel E. Williamson, Edward P. Williams, William H. Gaylord, Charles L. Cutter, and others. Soon after his graduation Mr. Eddy came to Cleveland and entered the law office of Backus & Estep as a student. Following his admission to the bar he formed a law partnership with William H. Gaylord under the firm name of Eddy & Gaylord, and thus practiced until 1873, when he was appointed assistant prosecuting attorney,' acting in that capacity until 1877 when he was elected prosecuting attorney for the county. Throughout his entire connection with the Cleveland bar he enjoyed the highest respect of his colleagues and contemporaries because of his close conformity to a high standard of professional ethics. He possessed much natural ability but was withal a hard student and was never contented until he had mastered every detail of his cases. He was never surprised by some unexpected discovery by an opposing lawyer, for in his mind he weighted every point and fortifid himself as well for defense as for attack. Whatever he did was for the best interests of his clients and for the honor of his profession, and no man gave to either a more unqualified allegiance or a riper ability. He had already attained prominence throughout Ohio as a criminal lawyer when he was called upon to defend in the common pleas court of Portage county one of the most notorious criminals of recent years in the annals of the state—Blinky Morgan. Mr. Eddy did in truth "well and truly try the issues" of that famous murder case and only failed to save Blinky from the gallows for the reason that no one could have done it with the case that the state had against him and the state of public feeling at the time. Through his connection with that trial Mr. Eddy became known in his profession throughout the United States. Only a few months later he was called upon to try for the state in this county a case that created, because of its unusual character, widespread attention everywhere. Mr, and Mrs. L. A. Breck were put on trial before Judge Lamson in the spring of 1888 for forging the will of Mrs. Martha Hall MacDonald. The case was almost unprecedented and had to be made against the defendants by expert testimony and circumstantial evidence. The Brecks were defended by Hon. Virgil P. Kline and two associate counsel and the trial occupied six weeks, lapping over from the January to the April term of court. At this critical time Alexander Hadden, the then prosecuting attorney of the county, was taken sick. The importance and magnitude of the case led Mr. C. W. Collister, Mr. Hadden's assistant, to believe that he ought to have assistance in its prosecution. The court upon his application appointed S. M. Eddy special prosecuting attorney to try the case. For the entire six weeks Mr. Eddy conscientiously and painstakingly wound the coils of conviction around the Brecks until there was no chance of escape, and his cross examination of Mrs. Breck was so clever that out of her own mouth she was condemned, and it was her own testimony that insured the final verdict of "guilty as charged." It was in cross examination that Mr. Eddy achieved his great success There was nothing of the bulldozing, insulting kind in his questions. He was wont to begin with a show of candor and fairness that impressed the witness he was talking to his best friend, and the first that witness knew he was fully committed 174 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND to a damaging admission. Neither would Eddy let a witness get away from the point he wanted to evade. The witness who tried that fright for a moment imagine he was succeeding, but in a minute or so he would hear that question repeated in the blandest tone imaginable. Mr. Eddy never talked fast even in cross-examining witnesses. His every move in life was deliberate. The military chapter in the history of Samuel M. Eddy was an interesting one, for in his college days, in connection with many other students, 0f the Western Reserve University, he enlisted in May, 1862, as a member of the Eighty-fifth Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry, the officers of the company being members of the college faculty, The company served until September of that year, and at the close of the period Mr. Eddy was second sergeant of Company B. He was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi, a college fraternity. He became a member of the college church at Hudson, Ohio, but during the latter years of his hfe attended St. Paul's Episcopal church in East Cleveland. He was in thorough sympathy with its different lines of church and charitable work. On the 27th of October, 1870, Mr. Eddy was married to Miss Sarah L, Smyth, a daughter of the Rev. Anson and Caroline (Fitch) Smyth. They became parents of three children who died in infancy, Constance, Samuel M. and Robert. Their living children are Carroll William Eddy, who married May Elizabeth Graham, of East Cleveland; Ethel R., the wife of Carlos A. Chapman, an attorney of Cleveland; and Harold Mansfield, of East Cleveland. The death of Mr. Eddy occurred October 5, 1891. He was a man whose life was characterized by great generosity and unfailing kindness to all with whom he came in contact, and few men have shared so largely in the love and esteem 0f their fellows. He was always a man of unfailing cheerfulness and exemplary habits, having attained an eminence in his profession that would have brought wealth to most men he died with a comparatively small competence, because of the fact that the poor were never turned away, and many were the occasions when he improved his opportunity to bestow a worthy charity. His home relations were largely ideal, and he represented in his life the highest type of manhood and citizenship in his relations to his family, his friends, his profession and the city of his residence. JAMES M. WILLIAMS. James M. Williams, for many years well known in the political and legal circles of Cleveland and the representative of his district m the state senate, where he served as president pro tem, departed this life May 22, 1909. A feeling of profound regret spread throughout the c0mmunity when the news of his sudden demise was received, for his many substantial qualities had gained him warm friendship and kindly regard. He was born in Plainfield, Cosh0cton county, Ohio, July 22, 1850, and represented one of the old families of this state. The family had its origin in England, whence representatives of the name sailed for the western world, settling in Virginia. Richard Williams, the great-great-grandfather, and David Williams, the great-grandfather, were both soldiers in the American army during the war for independence and were with General Washington's troops at the time of the surrender of Yorktown. His grandfather, Levi Williams, was a native of Staunton, Virginia, and came to Ohio with General Wayne's army at the time of the establishment of the Greenville treaty line. He was a captain in the service, and on their march west the army encamped on the site of the public square of Cleveland. The father of James M. Williams was Dr. Heslip Williams. a leading physician of Coshocton county, who was born in Ohio and spent his entire life in this state. He not only gained distinction in his profession but was also a recognized leader in public circles and represented his state in the general assembly in 1845 and 1846 and in 1854 and HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 175 1855 was elected from his district to the state senate. He married Charlotte Miskimen also a native of Ohio and a daughter of James Miskimen, who came to this state in 1803, from Washington county, Maryland. James M. Williams was largely educated in the public schools of his native county and in the high school of New Comerstown, Ohio. Later he entered Allegheny College at Meadville, Pennsylvania, where he was graduated with the class of 1873, and his law studies were pursued in the office of Judge J. C. Pornerene, of Coshocton. Following his admission to the bar in September, 1875, he located for practice in Coshocton, where he continued until 1888, when he removed to Cleveland. He enlisted as a private soldier in Company C, Third United States Cavalry, during the Civil war, when but thirteen years of age, and took part in the campaigns in Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas. His public work was of a valuable nature. In 1883 Mr. Williams edited the Revised Statutes of Ohio, in three volumes, which were afterward adopted by the general assembly and furnished to the judiciary and all other state and county officers. In 1885 he was elected a member of the house of representatives of this state, as a democrat, serving for two years. While in the legislature he was a member of the committees on judiciary, revision of the laws and public works, and was chairman of the special committee which prepared a code of parliamentary law for the Ohio house of representatives. He drafted the statute passed in 1885, providing for the organization and jurisdiction of the circuit courts of the state and the constitutional amendment adopted in the same year changing the time of holding the state elections from October to November ; also the proposed constitutional amendments submitted in 1889, providing for biennial elections and for single legislative districts. He is the author of the laws, passed in 1887, defining the rights and liabilities of husband and wife; how a married person may sue and be sued in courts of record; and exempting every honorably discharged soldier from the two days' labor, then required, on the public highways. Mr. Williams was well known as a practitioner before the supreme court of Ohio, having appeared frequently before that court in causes involving important constitutional questions. His arguments were always characterized by clear and forcible statement, searching analysis and great argumentative power. In the notable case of Cope vs. Foraker, governor, the issue was the adoption or rejection of the biennial elections amendment to the constitution ; and the plaintiff applied for a writ of mandamus to compel the governor to declare by proclamation the amendment adopted, because it received a majority of the votes cast directly on the question though not a majority of all the votes cast at the election. The utmost interest was felt in the decision, and a few abler and more ingenious arguments were ever made before the supreme court of Ohio than that of Mr. Williams in behalf of the adoption of the amendment. Equal praise was elicited by his argument before that court in the application for a mandamus in State vs. Sawyer, sheriff of Cuyahoga county. The points made by Mr. Williams in a masterly argument were sustained, and the unanimous decision of the court vas that proclamation must issue and four judges of the common pleas court be elected for Cuyahoga county with the other county officials in November, 1889, instead of 1890. In 1888 and again in 1894 Mr. Williams was the candidate of his party for judge of the common pleas court. In November, 1905, he was elected to the state senate from the Cleveland district, and on the organization of the general assembly he was unanimously chosen president pro tempore of the senate. On the death of Governor Pattison and the succession of Lieutenant Governor Harris as the chief executive of the state Mr. Williams became lieutenant governor and president of the senate. Beside his duties as president he was chairman of the committees on commercial corporations and rules, and also a member, of the committees on judiciary, taxation, county affairs and fees and salaries. He showed a masterful grasp of every problem presented for solution, his keen analytical mind being brought to bear in the settlement of affairs of the state. 176 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND In 1879 Mr. Williams was married to Miss Mary S. Brockway, the only daughter 0f Hon. Charles B. Brockway of Ripley, Chautauqua county, New York, Mrs. Williams died in 1897, leaving a daughter, Lois B. Williams. The death of Mr. Williams came very suddenly, and thus he continued an active factor in life's work almost to the closing hour of his career. He has left the impress of his individuality upon the public and legal history of the state and of his personality upon the friends with whom he came in contact, all of wh0m entertained for him the highest honor and regard. WILLIAM H. EVERS. William H. Evers, a civil engineer and president of The William H. Evers Engineering Company, has become well known in connection with landscape and structural engineering work, making a specialty of the planning and embellishment of private grounds, parks and cemeteries. He has also done much work on the construction of electric railways, bridges, buildings, roads, pavements, sewers and water systems, and thus his lines of life are cast in busy places. He was born in Cleveland November 18, 1871, and was educated in the local public schools and in the Lutheran parochial school, being graduated with honors and awarded a scholarship to the Case School of Applied Science. He continued his studies in higher mathematics and engineering and served for over five years as deputy county surveyor in Cuyahoga county. On the 17th of October, 1895, Mr. Evers wedded Miss Ottilie H. Niemann, daughter of the Rev. J. H. Niemann, of the German Lutheran church. In 1899 Mr. Evers was appointed county surveyor of Cuyahoga county by the judges of the common pleas court and in November of that year was elected to the office by a republican majority of over seventeen thousand. In June, 1902, he organized and incorporated The William H. Evers Engineering Company, and in November of the same year he was elected to the office of county engineer, being one of the few republican candidates elected in the face of the democratic landslide. In November, 1995, he was unanimously nominated the republican candidate for the board of public service in Cleveland, but the democratic majority defeated the entire republican ticket. Continuing in the private practice of his profession Mr. Evers has made steady advance. The growth of Cleveland naturally is an extension and development of its suburbs. Necessarily improvements are carried on under the plans and supervision of a civil engineer. The volume of work passing through the departments of a municipal engineering office, such as The William H. Evers Engineering Company, gives astonishing and convincing figures of the rapid growth of Greater Cleveland. During the last few years this company has surveyed and improved one hundred and forty different subdivisions, aggregating twelve thousand sub-lots, which afforded home sites for sixty thousand people. In the grading of allotments and highways, new streets, etc., the work under their supervision cost over three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and over five hundred thousand dollars was spent for the construction of new bridges. The total expenditure in the installation of sewer and water systems exceeded one million, six, hundred thousand dollars. Moreover, some of the finest thoroughfares in Cuyahoga county have been planned and built by this company. The largest of such improvements are the Mayfield road, three and a half miles long, of Telford macadam; the Kinsman road, four miles long, using bitulithic ; Clifton boulevard, three and a half miles long, of asphalt ; Euclid road, three miles long, of brick. The total expenditure for pavements under the control of this engineering company is as follows : Asphalt pavements, four hundred thousand dollars ; bitulithic pavement, three hundred and forty thousand dollars ; macadam pavement, five hundred and sixty thousand dollars; and brick pavement, one million, eight hun- HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 179 dred thousand dollars, making a total of three million, one hundred thousand dollars. The work of The William H. Evers Engineering Company is furthermore seen in the character, design and appearance of the Lutheran cemetery, of South Brooklyn, the West Park cemetery, of Linndale, the Calvary cemetery, of Newburgh, the Mayfield cemetery of Cleveland Heights, and the Calvary cemetery of Lorain, Ohio. In addition to this local work the company has done extensive work for the Illinois Central Electric Railway Company, the Peninsular Railway Company and on the canal system of the Inland Transportation & Lumber Company of Florida. Mr. Evers is a member of the Lutheran church, the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, Builders' Exchange, Ohio Engineering Society and the Civil Engineers' Club of Cleveland. His family numbers three children, namely : Julie Elizabeth, aged twelve years; Esther Ottilie, aged seven years ; and William H., Jr., aged five years. SAMUEL LOUIS BERNSTEIN, M. D. Among the citizens that Germany has furnished to professional ranks in Cleveland is Dr. Samuel Louis Bernstein, who was born m Vandsburg, Prussia, Germany, October I, 1872. His father, Moritz Bernstein, came to America in 1880 and soon afterward took up his abode in Cleveland, first visiting the city to ascertain the proficiency of the schools, as the welfare of his children was always uppermost in his thought and ambition. Establishing his home here he was identified with commercial and manufacturing pursuits until his death, which occurred in 1905 when he was fifty-six years of age. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Rosalia Arndt, was a native of the same town as her husband and is still living. Dr. Bernstein was a youth of nine years at the time the family came to the new world, and in the public schools of this city he continued his education until he reached the age of fifteen years when he started out m the business world as an employe in the drug store of William F. Spieth, a prominent and long established druggist of Cleveland. His interest awakened concerning that business he entered the Cleveland College of Pharmacy, from which he was graduated in the class of 1891 and was registered as a pharmacist by examination in the state of Ohio. His interest in medicine followed as a logical sequence, and in 1891 he matriculated in the medical department of Wooster University, where he studied under the preceptorship of Dr. Marcus Rosenwasser. He was graduated in 1895 with the M. D. degree and afterward spent seventeen months as house physician in the Cleveland City Hospital, subsequent to which time he entered upon the practice of medicine, to which he has since devoted his time and energies. He has always kept abreast with the trend of modern professional thought and in 1905 went to Berlin where he pursued post-graduate work in the diseases of children, to which he has since given special attention in his daily practice. For about four years he was assistant in obstetrics in the Cleveland College of Physicians & Surgeons, but resigned to go to Europe. He is now paediastrist in chief to Mount Sinai Hospital and has been visiting physician to the Jewish Infant Orphans' Home. His membership relations in professional lines extend to the Cleveland Academy of Medicine, the Cleveland Medical Library Association, the Ohio State Medical Society, the American Medical Association, the Anglo-American Medical Society of Berlin and the Mississippi Valley Medical Association. In other than professional lines Dr. Bernstein is known as a Mason and is trustee of Scovil Avenue Temple. He is not married and resides at the family home at No. 11604 Euclid avenue. He is a member of the Business Men's Club, from which he derives his principal recreation in gymnastics. He is always a 180 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND genial, c0urteous gentleman, generous in disposition, and has many friends throughout the city. His attention is chiefly concentrated upon his profession, and he is conscientious in the performance of all of his duties. He has contributed occasional articles to the current literature 0f the profession, has given much time to the study of the extinction of tuberculosis and has been a lecturer for the Anti Tuberculosis League, or which he is a member. WILLIAM N. GUTHRIE. One of the secrets of success of any large business is that the one who is most active in control has the ability of surrounding himself with an able corps of assistants who add t0 their capability and business enterprise unfaltering loyalty to the firm. Such a 0ne was found by the William Taylor's Sons Company of Cleveland in William N. Guthrie, now manager of the linen and white-goods department. He was born at Letterkenny, County Donegal, Ireland, on the 29th of June, 1849, and is a son of Robert and Mary (Nelson) Guthrie, of Letterkenny, Ireland. His education was acquired in the public and private schools in a land whose history has ever been one of thrilling interest, constituting one of the most picturesque and fascinating chapters in the annals of the world. He continued a resident of the Emerald isle until nineteen years of age, when he bade adieu to friends and native country and sailed for the United States, landing at New York. He at once sought employment in the metropolis and for ten years was in the service of Charles Scott, his long retention in Mr. Scott's employ being unmistakable evidence of the value of his services and his trustworthiness. He afterward spent some years with the E. S. Jaffray C0mpany and for some years was linen buyer for them. This gave him experience with the trade that well qualified him for his present position, when in 1895 he came to Cleveland as manager of the linen and white-goods department for the William Taylor's Sons Company. At the same time he became a director in the firm, and now for fourteen years he has been closely associated with what is one of Cleveland's largest department stores and most important mercantile enterprises. In 1872 Mr. Guthrie was united in marriage to Miss Eliza A. Long, a daughter of John Long, of Brooklyn, New York, and they now have a son and daughter : George, wh0 is located in New York city, and Margaret E., the well known contralto singer in the Unity church of Cleveland. Mr. Guthrie belongs to Fort Greene Council, of the Royal Arcanum at Brooklyn, New York, and gives his political allegiance to the republican party. He has never had occasion to regret his determinati0n to come to the United States for in the western world he found the opportunities which he sought and by their improvement has steadily worked his way upward until his position today is a prominent and very lucrative one. Throughout the period of his residence in this country he has been connected with the dry-goods trade m capacities which have made him well known as a power in the linen market. WILFRID PHILIP DITTOE. Wilfrid Philip Dittoe, purchasing agent for the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Company, is a descendant of one of the pioneer families of Perry county, Ohio, where he was born at Somerset, December 25, 1855. In February, 1864, he removed with his parents to Vineland, New Jersey, where his father engaged in farming. Three years later the family returned to the west, settling in Covington, Kentucky, and some years afterward removing t0 Newp0rt, the same state. HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 181 While living in New Jersey, W. P. Dittoe assisted his father on the farm, attending the district school in the winter months. While residing in Covington he was a pupil in the pubhc and Catholic schools but gave up school when thirteen years old, entering the dry goods store of C. W. Deland in Cincinnati as a cash boy. His next position was messenger boy with the Western Union Telegraph Company, also in Cincinnati. Having a liking for drawing and mathematics, he decided to make civil engineering his profession, and on April 1, 1872, he entered the office of Joseph Earnshaw, civil engineer and surveyor, at Cincinnati. While with Mr. Earnshaw he applied himself diligently to the study of mathematics and attended night classes at the McMicken University and the Ohio Mechanics Institute to learn drawing. In the latter institution he studied mechanical drawing during the term of 1877-78 and free-hand drawing during the term of 1878-9. In both terms he was awarded the highest honors, receiving each term the first degree of merit in the first class and the highest prize, a silver medal. When the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railway was being constructed, Mr. Dittoe resigined his position with Mr. Earnshaw, and on April r, 1881, he entered the employ of Brown, Howard & Company, contractors, who were building the railway, as a draftsman in the office of J. A. Latcha, chief engineer at Cleveland, Ohio. When the contractors turned the railway over to the operating company in 1882 Mr. Dittoe was retained by the latter company in its engineering department under the various titles of draftsman, engineer and inspector, and while in this department he designed some of the company's original bridges and buildings. The maps and plans which he made in those days are models of accuracy and good workmanship. Upon the resignation of Mr. M. M. Rogers as purchasing agent for the railroad company, Mr. Dittoe was selected to fill that important position, receiving his appointment from Mr. W. H. Canniff, president, September 12, 1899. At Buffalo, New York, September 9, 1880, Mr. Dittoe married Isabella Bryans, daughter of Thomas and Jane (Graham) Bryans. Mr. Bryans was born in Glasgow, Scotland, April 1, 1829, and died at Buffalo, November 8, 1886. Thomas Bryans' father's name was William, and his mother was Euphemia (Carr) Bryans. Thomas Bryans came to America with his parents in 1846, settling on a farm near Arthur Village, Wellington county, Canada West, where Mrs. Dittoe was born August 30, 1859. Mrs. Dittoe's mother, Jane Graham, was the daughter of Archibald Graham and Jan (Fair) Graham, and was born in County Cavin, Ireland, Archibald Graham was a linen draper in Perth, Scotland, the place of his nativity. Jacob Dittoe, the great-grandfather of Wilfrid P. Dittoe, was a prominent figure in the early history of the Catholic church in Ohio. He donated three hundred and twenty acres of land, near Somerset, Perry county, to Bishop Fenwick for the purpose of establishing a Dominican convent. His son Peter superintended the building of a church thereon, it being the first Catholic church in the state. Jacob Dittoe was the son of Joseph Dittoe, who came from Alsace when that province was a part of France and where the name was spelled De Toe. Peter Dittoe, son of Jacob Dittoe, was born in Frederick, Maryland, July 18, 1793, and died at Somerset, Ohio, July 30, 1868. He came with his parents to Ohio in 1862, was a volunteer soldier in the war of 1812, serving under General Harrison. He was a recorder of the county and postmaster under John Quincy Adams, Jackson and Van Buren. He married Ann Spurk, daughter of Peter Spurk of Chillicothe, Ohio, July 4, 1817. There were born to them a family of eight children : Elizabeth, Cecelia, Francis R., Lewis H., George M., William T., Gertrude and Peter J. Peter Spurk learned the trade of watchmaker in Paris, France, and came to America in 1792. George M. Dittoe, father of Wilfrid P., was born at Somerset, Ohio, May 2f, 1830. He completed the literary course at St. Joseph's College, which was then in existence near Somerset, studied law and was admitted to the bar but never practiced. Taking up newspaper work he became editor and proprietor of 182 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND the Democratic Union, published at Somerset and conducted that paper successfully during the period of the Civil war, in which connection he gained a wide reputation by his fearless, able and stalwart advocacy of democratic principles, He devoted almost his entire life to journalism and for many years edited the Kentucky State Journal in Newport, Kentucky, a paper celebrated for its wit and humor. Mr. Dittoe retired from newspaper work in 1890 and now lives in retirement with his beloved wife at Winton place, Cincinnati, Ohio. On November 28, 1854, he wedded Martha Victoria Elder, daughter of Charles and Elizabeth (Lynch) Elder, of Somerset, Ohio. Seven children were born of this marriage: Wilf rid P., Herman A., one child that died in infancy, Augusta C., Ralph E., Eugene C. and Louis G. The mother of this family was born at Somerset, .Ohio, July 26, 1834. Charles Elder, her father, was born in Emmitsburg, Maryland, in January, 1793, and died at Lancaster, Ohio, December 8, 187o. His ancestors were among the first Catholic families to settle on Maryland soil, having come over as members of Lord Baltimore's colony in 1634. Charles Elder removed to Ohio in 1814 but did not settle in Somerset until 1823, where he married Elizabeth Lynch, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Ledwidge) Lynch, of Zanesville, Ohio. He was postmaster under Pierce and Buchanan. Charles Elder was a relative of Archbishop Elder. The maternal great-grandparents of our subject were James and Catherine (Hughes) Elder. Catherine Hughes was a relative of Archbishop Hughes of New York. Wilfrid P. Dittoe and his wife Isabella are the parents of ten children: Gertrude Agnes, Florence, deceased; Wilfrid Charles; George Howard, Isabel Constance; Gerald Clayton; Ralph Edward; Josephine Marie; Paul; and Virginia. The family residence is at No. 1918 East Eighty-first street. Mr. Dittoe and his family are communicants of St. Agnes Catholic church. Mr. Dittoe is extremely domestic in his tastes and belongs to no clubs. He is, however, a member of Gilmour Council, Knights of Columbus, and of the Veteran Association of the Nickel Plate Railroad. In politics he is a democrat but has never taken an active part in the councils of his party. G. FRED WILLIAMS. G. Fred Williams, secretary and treasurer of the Cleveland Bakers & Confectioners Supply Company, was born at Hamilton, Canada, December 15, 1877. In the public schools there he pursued his education, while spending his youthful days in the home of his parents, John and Harriet (Mathews) Williams, who were natives of Cardiff, Wales, leaving that little rock-ribbed country to seek the broader opportunities of the great western world. The son continued his studies to the age of fourteen and m 1892 came with his parents to Cleveland. In this city he made his start in the business world as an employe of the Bruce & West Manufacturing Company. He entered their service as general utility boy and won promotion from time to time until he became traveling salesman. For fourteen years he remained with that house, a fact which stands as incontrovertible evidence of his loyalty and his rapidly developing business powers. At length he resigned his position and in 1906 in connection with Charles A. Frode, who up to that time had been the leading chemist with the firm of Bruce & West, began business for himself. They organized the present company under the name of the Cleveland Bakers & Confectioners Supply Company with office at No. 512 Huron road. There they remained until their establishment was destroyed by fire on the 6th of February, 1908, and new quarters were found at No. 403 Prospect avenue, northwest. They manufacture and handle various kinds of extracts and soda-fountain supplies, making a specialty of the latter, which they ship to all parts of the country. Although their business has been in existence for only about four years it has become an enterprise of considerable importance HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 185 in Cleveland, the trade constantly increasing, for the output of the house is entirely satisfactory to the patrons, and the business methods of the firm commend them to a liberal and growing trade. In 1903 Mr. Williams was united in marriage to Miss Ella Maude Mears, a daughter of William and Ella Mears, and they have one child, Marjorie. They belong to the Methodist Episcopal church and are well known socially in the city, having many friends here. From the age of fourteen years Mr. Williams has been dependent entirely upon his own resources, working for the success and the opportunities which he has enjoyed. In the utilization of the latter he has found a path that has led to continuous advancement in business circles, and he now has a large trade which he not only holds but also increases through his reliable methods. JOSEPH H. CHAMP. Joseph H. Champ, vice president and general manager of the Bishop & Babcock Company, manufacturers of air pumps, brass goods, tacks and nails, is a well known business man of Cleveland and one who has made steady progress, being both the architect and builder of his own fortunes. Throughout his entire career he has retained the high regard of a wide circle of friends, a fact indicative that his pronounced traits of character are those which everywhere command confidence and trust. While he is connected in an executive capacity with the Bishop & Babcock Company he also has many other business interests which are proof of the wisdom that he displays in investment and in the control of industrial and commercial affairs. Cleveland numbers Mr. Champ among her native sons and is proud of the record that he has made. He was born October 1, 1857, of the marriage of Charles Champ and Sarah Barnard, both of whom were natives of England. The father resided in England for a number of years and then passed from this life but the mother is still living, her home now being in Dover, Ohio. Joseph H. Champ is indebted to the public schools of Cleveland for the educational privileges which he enjoyed. It was in 1873, when he was sixteen years of age, that he began learning the plumbing trade which he followed until 1879. In that year he entered the employ of Bishop & Babcock and by faithful and meritorious service won promotion and was eventually admitted to a partnership in the business in 1890, at which time he became general superintendent of the company. He continued in that capacity until 1895 when he was elected to his present position of vice president and general manager. In this connection he displays a thorough, intimate and accurate knowledge of the business in its various phases and sound judgment and keen discernment in its control. He also has numerous other interests for in 1902 he became president of the Julier Baking Company and so remained until 1906 when because of the demands of his other interests he resigned his position, remaining, however, as a director of the corporation. He organized the Cleveland Savings Bank Company, of which he was president for one year when the bank was sold. He is now a director in the Standard Welding Company and is interested in other corporations. Mr. Champ was married in Cleveland to Miss Lena Baisch, of this city and their children are : Stella M., now the wife of Edgar Parker, of Cleveland ; Lena, the wife of Harry M. Diemer, of Cleveland ; Willard J.; Gardner ; Kenneth B.; and Lois. In 1901 Mr. Champ erected his home on East Eighty-ninth street, which has since been the family residence. Mr. Champ is a member of Iris Lodge, No. 229, F. & A. M.; Webb Chapter, R. A. M.; Cleveland Council, R. & S. M.; Holyrood Commandery, K. T.; and to all of the Scottish Rite bodies up to and including the thirty-second degree. 186 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND He has also crossed the sands of the desert with the Nobles of Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine. Socially he is connected with the Union, Colonial and Euclid Clubs. He is likewise a member of the Rushmere Club, at St. Clair Flats, Michigan. He has been president of the board of trustees of the St. Clair Hospital for the last six years and his broad humanitarianism is one of the salient features in his life. As a member of the Chamber of Commerce he takes an active interest in everything pertaining to general progress and improvement in the city. He is liberal, kind hearted and a public-spirited citizen, a genial and approachable gentleman and one who enjoys the well earned distinction of being what the world terms a self-made man. ENOCH THOMAS. Enoch Thomas, an honorable, upright man, interested in all that was for the good of Cleveland, where he lived for many years, was born in Gloucestershire, England, August 17, 1837. The years of his boyhood were passed in his native country, and at the age of nineteen he crossed the Atlantic to America. For a few years he lived in Buffalo, New York, but in 1862 removed from that city to Cleveland, and after a brief period he here established an insurance and real-estate business, writing all kinds of insurance and also buying and selling real estate. He likewise erected many buildings on the west side and thus contributed in substantial manner to the improvement and progress of that section of this city. Both branches of his business grew rapidly, proving remunerative. He thoroughly informed himself concerning realty values, knew the property that was on the market and was thus enabled to assist his clients in making judicious purchases and profitable sales. He was equally conversant with the insurance business, and in both lines he met with that success which is the goal for which all men are striving. Ere removing to Cleveland Mr. Thomas was married in Buffalo, in 1860, to Miss Eliza Cannon, who was also a native of England but was brought to America when a little maiden of twelve years. She grew to womanhood in Buffalo and there gave her hand in marriage to Mr. Thomas. Unto them were born four children. Anna, the eldest, is now the wife of John McGean, who was born in Cleveland and was a member of the firm of Upson, Walton & Company for some time. At length he severed his connection with that firm in order to go to New York as president of the American Linseed Company. He is thus the chief executive officer in one of the most extensive and important interests in the country, being active in the management of its affairs in the eastern metropolis. He makes his home at Montclair, New Jersey. Fred P., the second member of the family, is extensively engaged in the insurance business here. Nellie R. is at home with her mother. William E., who was also connected with insurance business, died in June, 1908. Mr. Thomas was greatly interested in everything pertaining to Cleveland's growth and substantial improvement, whenever possible cooperating in movements for the general good. If all men held to as high standards of citizenship and as fully met the obligations that devolve upon one in that connection, there would be no talk of mismanagement in public affairs nor any necessity for the restrictive and regulative legislation that is now demanded by the conditions at the present time. Mr. Thomas was also greatly interested in church work. He belonged to the Methodist church and was very active in promoting its growth and development in many lines. He was domestic in his taste, interested in anything pertaining to the welfare of his home and family and most of his leisure time outside of his business hours was spent at his own fireside. He was not unmindful, however, of the joys and pleasures of friendship and won the kindly regard of his colleagues in business, while those who met him in social relations HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 187 found him a congenial and ever courteous gentleman. He died December 11, 1906, and his death was the occasion of deep and widespread regret. For himself he held rigidly to the highest standards, yet he did not manifest a spirit of severe criticism or hasty judgment in his opinion of others. There was nothing narrow nor restricted in his views, but on the contrary he looked at life from the standpoint of a broad-minded man who realizes that only in strict adherence tc the laws of righteousness and honorable manhood is the greatest liberty found. WILLIAM MACK PETTET. William Mack Pettet, whose family have been residents of Cleveland since 1865, was born at Earl Soham, Suffolk county, England, on the 6th of June, 1837, and died in Ohio on the 28th of February, 1863. His parents were Thomas & Sophia (Crick) Pettet, who were natives of the same locality, the father there conducting business as a farmer and gardener. In the common schools of his native land William Mack Pettet pursued his education to the age of sixteen years, when he put aside his text-books and afterward engaged in clerking in England for two years. He then bade adieu to friends and native country and with the hope of bettering his financial condition in the new world came to America in 1855, settling first at Boston, where he made his home for five years, during which period he was engaged as clerk in a dry-goods store. In 1860 he came to Oberlin, Ohio, where he purchased a farm, and throughout his remaining days his attention was given to its development and improvement. He passed away in 1863 in his twenty-eighth year, and following his demise his widow sold the farm and came to Cleveland in 1865 with her small daughter. On the 2d of September, 1861, in Boston, Massachusetts, Mr. Brooks was united in marriage to Miss Rebecca Thompson, a daughter of George and Sarah (Wolff) Thompson, also of Boston, where her father conducted a coopering business. Mr. Pettet was survived by one daughter, who is now the widow of Captain C. T. Morley, who was a well known lake captain of Cleveland. In his political views Mr. Pettet was a republican. He held membership in the Episcopal church and always sang in the choir, for he possessed superior musical talent and ability. His life was in harmony with his professions as a member of the church, and those who knew him yet remember him as a young man of enterprise and of sterling worth, esteemed by all for his many good qualities. Mrs. Pettet has been a resident of Cleveland for forty-six years and is a member of the Old Settlers' Association. She has many friends in this city, where she has so long resided, and her substantial qualities of heart and mind have gained for her affectionate regard. WILL F. MAURER. Will F. Maurer, a member of the firm of Higley, Maurer & Dautel, is now giving special attention in his law practice to brewery law, and the firm with which he is connected has the largest clientage of this character in Cleveland. This is his native city, his birth having here occurred May 21, 1873. As the name indicates, the family is of German origin and was founded in America by his grandfather, Andrew Maurer, who was born in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, and after coming to the United States engaged for some time in the wholesale liquor business, but retired a number of years prior to his demise. His son, Leonard Maurer, was born in Hesse-Darmstadt, in 1843, and he and his father came together to the new world, he being a young man at the time. They both 188 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND entered the wholesale liquor field, in which Leonard continued until his death in 1885. His wife, Elizabeth Lehr, was also a native of Hesse-Darmstadt, and died in 1878. Her brother, William Lehr, entered the Union army from Ohio at the time of the Civil war and lost a leg in battle. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Maurer were born three sons, the brothers of our subject being Andrew L., assistant manager and bookkeeper of the Cleveland & Sandusky Brewing Company, and Fred J., who is engaged in the laundry business in Texas. The only daughter of the family, Susan, is the wife of Fred H. Leick, manager of the Cleveland & Sandusky Brewing Company of this city. In the public schools Will F. Maurer pursued his studies until he was graduated from the West high school with the class of 1891. He then attended the Harvard Law School and was graduated in 1895 with the LL.B. degree. In October of that year he commenced law practice in Cleveland and was alone until 1898, when he became associated with John A. Zangerle, although they practiced under their individual names for a year. In 1899 the firm of Zangenle, Higley & Maurer was formed, they being joined by Charles Higley, which association was maintained until 1902, when Mr. Zangerle retired and the firm remained Higley & Maurer until January I, 1909, when Carl Dautel was admitted under the present firm style. Mr. Maurer is engaged in general practice. Mr. Maurer is independent in politics, nor does he seek recognition or preferment along political lines. He belongs to the Socialier Turnverein and to the Cleveland Gesangverein. On the 28th of June, 1898, he was married to Martha Grothe, a daughter of William and Anna Grothe, of Cleveland. The father is superintendent of the White Sewing Machine Company. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Maurer have been born three children: Elva F., Norbert W. and Walter Carl. CORNELIUS C. YOUNG. Cornelius C. Young, for twenty-five years a representative of the Cleveland bar, practicing at the present writing—1910—as a member of the firm of Carpenter, Young & Stocker, was born in Upshur county, Virginia, now West Virginia, on the 28th of February, 1858. His father, Earl E. Young, born in 1822, devoted his life to agricultural pursuits in West Virginia, where he died October 17, 1874. He wedded Mary E. Clark, whose birth occurred in 1827, while in 1886 she was called to the home beyond. Cornelius C. Young began his education in the public schools of his native state and afterward entered Wittenberg College at Springfield, Ohio, from which he was graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree in the class of 1881. He received his Master of Arts degree from the same college and in 1884 was graduated from the Law School of Cincinnati College with the Bachelor of Law degree. At Wittenberg he had been first honor man and at the law school he passed the examination with the highest standing in a class of sixty-five. Broad literary knowledge and thorough understanding of the principles of law thus qualified him for his chosen life work, which he entered upon in the office of A. G. Carpenter, in October, 1884. For six months he filled a clerical position and on the expiration of that period was admitted to partnership, since which time he has been continuously connected with Mr. Carpenter, while the third member has been added to the firm under the style of Carpenter, Young & Stocker. They engage in general practice but specialize to some extent in commercial and corporation law and are retained on many important cases. The same thoroughness and careful preparation that was manifest in his college days characterizes Mr. Young's law practice, and he has made steady progress during the twenty- five years of his connection with the Cleveland bar. On the 17th of November, 1892, Mr. Young was married to Miss Ella C. Benham, a daughter of O. J. and Elizabeth A. (Coburn) Benham, of Cleveland. HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 191 They have three children : George Benham, Wallace Clark and Charlotte Elizabeth, the first named being now a high-school pupil. Mr. Young takes an active interest in the Chamber of Commerce and as one of its leading members is now serving on its committee on sanitation. He belongs to the Cuyahoga County Bar Association and to the Euclid Avenue Presbyterian church, in which he has served as a trustee for several years. His salient qualities of character aside from his professional relations commend him to the confidence and good will of his fellowmen, and his circle of friends has been a constantly increasing one. FRANZ CHILDS WARNER. Cleveland, the Forest city, is widely known for its fine business blocks, its beautiful residences, its splendid thoroughfares and park ways. The most casual observer becomes at once aware that its citizenship contains many architects of ability for the buildings throughout Cleveland are evidences of this fact. It is to this profession that Franz Childs Warner is devoting his energies and many buildings of a public and private nature are the visible evidence of his handiwork and his skill. Born in Painesville, Ohio, September 6, 1876, he is a representative of one of the oldest families of the state established here more than a century ago. His great-grandfather was Daniel Warner, who came to Painesville from Connecticut in 1796. He was a farmer and pioneer of that locality. It was not until several years later that the state was admitted to the Union and only here and there had a town been built to indicate that the seeds of civilization had been planted in this part of the country, Daniel Warner bore his full share in reclaiming the wild region and making it a habitable district for the white man. His son, Field D. Warner, was born near Painesville and became a prominent business man and financier. He was also equally well known as a public-spirited citizen and his enterprise proved an important factor for Ohio's development along substantial lines. F. G. L. Warner, the father of our subject, was also a native of Painesville and for many years has been connected with merchandising there. The extent and importance of his business affairs have made him prominently, widely and favorably known and he is yet numbered among the valued residents of his native city. He married Isabelle Childs, a native of Ashtabula, Ohio, who is still hving. Franz Childs Warner was educated in the public schools, passing through consecutive grades until he was graduated from the high school with the class of 1896. He then attended the Case School of Applied Sciences in Cleveland in order to acquaint himself with the architect's profession, finishing his course there with the class of 1900. He entered upon his professional career in connection with Frank L. Packard of Columbus. In 1905 he came to Cleveland to open up an office for the individual practice of his profession and has succeeded beyond his expectation here. He built the Club House for the Wholesale Lumber Dealers Association, in Cleveland. He erected the City Hall and the Fire Department Police Station of Painesville and also the high-school buildings of that place. He has erected numerous apartment houses in Cleveland and has also done considerable work on other residences. He is now erecting the church for the Christian Scientists at Painesville and he devotes his undivided attention to his profession, in which he has come to be recognized as a man of worth, thoroughly conversant with the scientific principles which underlie his labors as well as that of the practical phases of the business. He is a member of the Institute of American Architects and his fellow members of the profession recognize his worth in this field of labor, while the confidence of the public is manifest in the liberal support that is given him. 192 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND On the 12th of July, 1904, Mr. Warner was married to Miss Hazel Virginia Ward of Youngstown, Ohio. He is fond of motoring and all outdoor sports nor is he neglectful of the social amenities 0f life. He belongs to the Beta Theta Pi, a college fraternity and in matters of friendship he is always loyal while in business circles he sustains an unassailable reputation for his reliability. SHANDOR HARRY MONSON, M. D. Dr. Shandor Harry Monson, physician and surgeon of Cleveland, his native city, was born May 29, 1880. Though his years are comparatively few, they do not seem any bar to his success, for he has made rapid strides in his profession. His parents were L. H. and Annie ( Janowitz) Solomonson, natives of Hungaria and Bohemia, respectively. The father came to America as a young man, locating in Cleveland, where he engaged in the optical business until his death, which occurred in 1888. His widow came to America in her childhood and lived in Cleveland until her death. in 1909. Dr. Monson, entering the public schools at the usual age, pursued his studies through consecutive grades until he was graduated from the Central high school with the class of 1897. He then entered the Case School of Applied Science and pursued a four years' scientific course, being graduated in 1901 with the Bachelor of Science degree. His literary and scientific training constituted an excellent foundation upon which to build the superstructure of professional knowledge, and he entered the medical department of Western Reserve University, from which he was graduated in 1905 with the M. D. degree. He then spent a year and a half as interne at Charity Hospital and later pursued a post-graduate course in Philadelphia Polyclinic and Wills Eye Hospital of Philadelphia. He then went abroad and spent several months in study at the General Hospital in Vienna and in the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital of London. His study and investigation in European centers greatly increased his knowledge and promoted his efficiency and well equipped him for strenuous and difficult professional service, when he resumed his chosen life w0rk in Cleveland. Upon his return to this city in September, 1907, Dr. Monson engaged in private practice as a specialist in the treatment of diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. He is now assistant ophthalmologist to the Lakeside Hospital dispensary and assistant in ear, nose and throat diseases to Charity Hospital. He is also ophthalmologist to Mt. Sinai Hospital and consulting eye, ear nose and throat specialist to the Jewish Infant Orphans' Home. He belongs to the Cleveland Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State Medical Society, the American Medical Association, the German Medical Society of Cleveland, the Cleveland Medical Library Association and the various hospital organizations. He is also a member of Tau Beta Pi of the Case School and m more strictly social lines is connected with Excelsior Club. He is well known m social circles and has many friends through0ut the city, in which his entire life has been passed. THOMAS URBANSKY. There are many notable instances in American history of men who, born across the water, have come t0 this country empty-handed and in straitened financial circumstances, have for a considerable peri0d met the duties and experiences of life but eventually have wrought fortunes fr0m the hands of fate. Such has been the record of Thomas Urbansky who in 1882 arrived in Cleveland and made a most unpretentious start in the business life of the city. Today he is a prosperous leather merchant at No. 2364 Ontario street, enjoying a large and growing pat- HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 193 ronage. He was born December 11, 1858, in Hungary, which was also the birthplace of his parents, John and Mary (Guyasky) Urbansky. He began his education in the public schools, but his opportunities were very limited as he had to work hard, assisting his father on the home farm until thirteen years of age. He then began learning the shoemaker's trade and this left him no opportunity for the improvement of his education. The more valuable lessons of life he has learned in the school of experience whereby he has become a far-sighted business man, also well informed on many lines of general interest. After learning the shoemaker's trade he was employed as a journeyman in his native country until twenty-two years of age, and in 1882 he completed his arrangements whereby he sailed for the United States. Having bade adieu to friends, home and native country, he took passage on a westward bound sailing vessel and eventually landed at New York city, where he remained for eight months. He was there employed as a candymaker, after which he came to Cleveland, believing that there were better opportunities in this city than in the overcrowded marts of trade of the eastern metropolis. Here he was employed as a laborer for a time but eventually secured a position in a blast furnace. In 1883 Mr. Urbansky was married in this city to Miss Bertha Gerbory, a native of Hungary, and unto them have been born two sons, Thomas and John. They began their domestic life in Cleveland, where they remained until 1886 when they went west to Butte, Montana, and Mr. Urbansky was employed as furnace man at a copper smelter for three years. On the expiration of that period he returned to Cleveland and secured a situation in the Cleveland blast furnace where he remained for some time. All through the years subsequent to his arrival in the United States he has made good use of his opportunities and has won advancement by reason of his willingness to work, the efficiency of his labor and his trustworthiness. He carefully saved his earnings until, as the result of his economy, his financial resources permitted him to embark in business on his own account, which he did, as a dealer in leather and shoe findings, at No. 2364 Ontario street. Here he has worked up a large and profitable business as a leather merchant, and his trade is continually increasing. He seldom loses a patron and often gains many new ones, who find in his reliable business methods and the excellent quality of the goods which he handles an incentive to continue their patronage. Mr. Urbansky belongs to the National Leather & Shoe Finders' Association. His life is a notable example of what may be accomplished by the young men of foreign birth who are willing and determined, for in this land where effort is unhampered by caste or class the rewards of labor are sure and certain. JOHN COLAHAN. John Colahan, for sixty-nine years a resident of Cleveland, was born in this city in 1840 and has spent his entire life here. His father, Samuel Colahan, was born in Quebec, Canada, in 1808, and came to Cleveland in 1813, being one of the pioneer residents of the Forest city. It was a mere hamlet at the time and more than a decade later its population numbered only a thousand. But Samuel Colahan believed that he saw possibilities for future growth and development and thus cast in his lot with its early settlers. He first engaged in the printing business here and when Cleveland was a town of about three thousand inhabitants he engaged in general merchandising. One of the earliest directories has him designated as a merchant at what was known as Cleveland Center. About 1838 he turned his attention to real-estate operations, which business he followed for almost a half century, or until his death in 1886. He married Harriet Hedges of Circleville, Ohio, and unto them were born five children. The mother survived her husband for about two years, passing away in 1888, when she was laid to rest by his side in the Monroe cemetery. 194 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND John Colahan is a graduate of the old Cleveland Institute and his first business enterprise was the establishment and conduct of a grocery, in which line he continued for twelve years. From that time afterward he has largely dealt in real estate, handling mostly his own investments, and he now has extensive holdings on the west side and is one of the most substantial citizens of Cleveland. He made many investments in an earlier day when property was at a comparatively low figure. Moreover, his sound judgment enables him yet to make judicious investments, for he determines with accuracy the possible rise or diminution in price. His acquaintance with the pioneers of Cleveland was very extensive. He was personally acquainted with James S. Clark, of whom it is said that he did more in building up Cleveland in the early days than any other man. After Mr. Clark left Cleveland the correspondence was continued between him and Mr, Colahan until the former's death, which occurred in 1857. Mr. Colahan was united in marriage with Miss Celia De Long, a native of this city. They have been life-long residents of Cleveland and have a circle of friends almost coextensive with the circle of their acquaintance. Mr. Colahan has been an interested witness of the growth and development of the city through almost the Psalmist's allotted span of life of three score years and ten. At all times he has rejoiced in the work of public progress and has cooperated therein to a large degree. His influence has always been found on the side of upbuilding and improvement and in many tangible ways from which the general public has benefited he has furthered the interests of the city. His reminiscences concerning the early days are entertaining for he speaks with authority upon many events which have long since become matters of history, but of which he was an eye witness. CHARLES WADDELL CHESNUTT. Charles Waddell Chesnutt, author and attorney at law, is one of Cleveland's native sons, of whom she has every reason to be proud. M0reover, there is always an element of interest in the record of him who portrays and interprets life through the medium of authorship, a fascination in the contemplation of that imagination which enables the individual to look beyond and above the things of this workaday world and recognize in results the motive springs of human conduct and the possibilities of other effects if temperament, conditions and environment were other than as they are. It is through his writings that Mr. Chesnutt has become best known to the general public and the recital of his own life history is therefore a matter of widespread interest. His birth occurred in Cleveland June 20, 1858, and he comes of southern ancestry. His parents, Andrew J. and Maria Chesnutt, removed to this city in 1856, and in the schools of Cleveland he acquired his early education, which he continued in Fayetteville, North Carolina, whither his parents removed after the close of the Civil war. Through private instruction and study he largely broadened his knowledge and took his place among the scholarly men of the county. At the age of sixteen years he began teaching and for nine years was thus connected with the public schools of North Carolina, being appointed principal of the State Normal School at Fayetteville when but twenty-three years of age. He made continuous progress in those lines of life demanding strong intellectuality and in 1884 spent some months as a newspaper writer in New York. He began his business life in Cleveland as a shorthand reporter, in which capacity he has been employed in connection with most of the important litigation in the Cleveland courts for many years. He prepared for admission to the bar in the office of the late Samuel E. Williamson and was commissioned upon passing the required examination in Ohio in 1887. He has since been a member of the legal fraternity of Cleveland, among whom he is held in high esteem. HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 197 While Mr. Chesnutt is well known in his native city as an attorney, he is perhaps more widely known throughout the country as an author, for his published volumes have been widely read. His early experience as a teacher developed in him an understanding of the individual and the power of human analysis that have constituted valuable forces in his authorship. Moreover, he has always been a keen and interested observer of men, recognizing the picturesque and the forceful of an incident which to others seems but commonplace. His published volumes include: The Conjure Woman, 1899; The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories, 1889; Life of Frederick Douglass in Beacon Biographies, 1889; The House Behind the Cedars, 1900; The Marrow of Tradition, 1901; and the Colonel’s Dream, 1903. His writings indicate not only a fine play of the imagination but a comprehensive understanding of the problems 0f life and a clear analysis of the motive springs of human conduct. CHARLES P. GILCHRIST. Charles P. Gilchrist, vessel owner and agent, who since 1893 has been identified with shipping interests in Cleveland, was born at Newport, now Marine City, Michigan, September 8, 1852. His father, Alexander Gilchrist, was a native of New Hampshire and was of Scotch-Irish descent. Removing to the west, he became well known as a lumberman and vessel owner, continuing in active connection with business affairs until almost the close of his life. He died in December, 1902, at the advanced age of eighty-two years. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Betsy Ruth Clough, was also a representative 0f an old New Hampshire family. Charles P. Gilchrist pursued his education in the schools of Marine City to the age of seventeen years, when he accompanied the family on their removal to Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he attended the high school and later the University of Michigan, completing the classical course by graduation in 1875, when he won the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He then took up the study of law in the state university and won the Bachelor of Law degree in 1877. The same year he was admitted to the bar and located for practice at Port Huron, Michigan, where he remained for three years. He then abandoned the profession to become connected with the lumber trade at Vermilion, Ohio, and through gradual processes of development in his business career he turned his attention to shipping interests and in 1893 removed to Cleveland, where he took up the business in which he is now engaged, being well known as vessel owner and agent. He was a member of the old firm of Moore, Bartlow & Gilchrist for several years, and upon the dissolution of that firm he organized the firm of C. P. Gilchrist & Company, his associate being Captain C. E. Benham. He is now a stockholder in the Gilchrist Transportation Company, with which he has been connected since his identification with shipping interests. He has also extended his investments and his efforts to various other lines and enterprises, has been connected with a number of banking institutions and is now largely interested in mining. His investments are most judiciously made and indicates the sound judgment and keen business wisdom which characterize all 0f his business transactions. In early manhood Mr. Gilchrist was married to Miss Harriett Ives, of Grosse Ile, Michigan. They have three sons and three daughters, and the family residence is a beautiful home on East Ninety-seventh street. Mr. Gilchrist gives his political allegiance to the republican party and, while never a politician in the sense of office seeking, keeps well informed on the issues that divide the two great parties. He belongs to the Masonic fraternity and religiously is of the Episcopalian faith. For many years he was identified with St. John's Episcopal church and served as one of its vestrymen. He is also a member of a society 198 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND which has for its 0bject the study of literature and takes great interest in the events of the day. His reading is broad and varied, indicating his scholarly tastes and at the same time he is a splendid type of the American business man —alert, energetic and determined—carrying forward to successful completion whatever he undertakes. F. L. FELCH. F. L. Felch, engaged in the real-estate business in Cleveland and also officially and financially associated with various corporations, is a native of Ann Arbor, Michigan. There at the usual age he entered the public schools and was graduated from the Ann Arbor high school with the class of 1872. Stimulated to further intellectual activity in that center of learning, he was graduated from the University of Michigan with the class of 1876. He afterward turned his attention t0 manufacturing interests in Sandusky, Ohio, where he remained for ten years, during which time he became one of the organizers of the Sandusky Savings Bank and was its cashier for ten years. This gave him comprehensive understanding of investments and commercial paper and for several years thereafter he was engaged in the investment, stocks and bonds and brokerage business. Having made investments in real estate in Cleveland in 1892, in that year he came to this city, making it his home, and has since been interested in real-estate allotments not only in Cleveland but in different cities and states from coast to coast, His purchases have been judiciously made, and awaiting the time for profitable sale he has made considerable money in his operations on the real-estate market. He has also extended his efforts to other lines and is now the president of the National Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of plumbers' supplies, and als0 making a specialty of wrought iron pipe hangers. Mr. Felch belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order 0f Elks and in politics is somewhat independent, seeking the good of the city and country rather than the promotion of partisan measures. ROBERT FAIRWEATHER MACKENZIE. Robert F. Mackenzie, president and general manager of the Robert F. Mackenzie Company, belongs to that class of business men who quickly discriminate between the essential and the non-essential and in the timely recognition of opportunity find the path to success. Without special advantages at the outset of his career he has wrought along modern business lines, and, utilizing every legitimate advantage that has come to hand, he stands now among the prosperous business men of Cleveland. He was born July 4, 1860, in Kirriemuir, Scotland, his parents being Alexander and Catherine (Fairweather) Mackenzie. The father was a farmer and stock dealer. Spending his boyhood days under the parental roof, Robert F. Mackenzie acquired his education in the common schools of his native village and soon after putting aside his text-books entered business life in connection with the hardware trade, with which he was associated for three years. He then went t0 the. West Indies, where for four years he was engaged in the sugar business, being located most of the time on the island of St. Vincent. He then made his way northward to New York, and his initial step in business circles in the United States was made as a traveling salesman for a confectionery supply house of that city. He met with gratifying success in the undertaking, thoroughly acquainted himself with the trade and its demands and when he came to Cleveland in 1892 he became associated in business with the late John Wuest, a well known manufacturer HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 199 and confectioner. Since that time he has been a representative of this line of commerce and in 1893, when the business was incorporated as the Wuest Mackenzie Company, he became vice president and general manager. Continuing in that capacity for about six years, he then organized the Robert F. Mackenzie Company and erected the present plant on Woodland avenue. The business is a prosperous and growing one, Mr. Mackenzie being the leading spirit in its management. His previous broad experience along this line has been of substantial benefit to him, and, with keen discernment into the possibilities and opportunities of trade, he is so directing his energies that his labors are now being attended with gratifying prosperity, He has won for himself an enviable position in business circles and, in connection with his manufacturing interests, is a director of the German-American Savings Bank and a director of the Western Reserve Insurance Company. He likewise belongs to the Confectioners' National Association and has a wide and favorable acquaintance in the branch of business represented thereby. Mr. Mackenzie was married in Pictou, Nova Scotia, to Miss Mary E. Morrison, and they have one son and one daughter, Jean and Robert L. The latter was graduated in 1908 from the Kiskiminetis Springs School at Salisbury, Pennsylvania, and is now connected with the Robert F. Mackenzie Company. Mr. Mackenzie is independent politically. His fraternal relations are with Airlie Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of Kirriemuir, Scotland, and Washington Lodge No. t0, K. P., in Cleveland. He finds social interest and recreation through his membership in the Roadside, Colonial and Cleveland Athletic Clubs, and his favorite pastime is suggested by the fact that he is a member of the Rockwell Springs Fishing Club. The spirit which prompted him in early manhood to leave home and seek more advantageous fields for business activity has been manifest throughout his entire life and has carried him into important relations. He has known the pleasure of success, not simply in the pecuniary reward that has come to him, but also in that enjoyment which comes in the accomplishment of what one undertakes. He has ever persevered in the pursuit of a persistent purpose and is now numbered among those who are the factors in Cleveland's material upbuilding. THOMAS HINCKLEY STETSON. Thomas H. Stetson, who in the course of a long and active business career became recognized as one of the leading representatives of the lumber trade in Cleveland, came to this city immediately after the war and here resided until his death He was born at Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and, thus reared in a seafaring community, he became a good sailor, as were his people before him, many of them being more or less identified with navigation at that point. His father, .Calvin Stetson, however, was an undertaker and cabinetmaker at Cape Cod, devoting his life to those lines of business. Thomas H. Stetson was a self-made man, who from early life depended upon his own resources for the advantages and opportunities which he enjoyed. 'le was reared on Cape Cod and pursued his education there in the pubic He was born November 24, 1845, and came to Cleveland immedately after the war. For twenty years he was connected with the Woods, Perry Company and subsequently became associated with D. A. Shepherd as manager of his lumberyard, continuing in that capacity for five years. During those years he became thoroughly acquainted with the lumber trade in principle and detail, understanding the business in every particular, and, carefully saving his earnings, he was at length enabled to engage in business on his own account. He then organized the firm of Thomas H. Stetson & Company and opened a lumberyard. Subsequently he organized the Lake Erie Lumber Company,