200 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS serving for two terms. He then returned to Ohio and in 1897 located in Sandusky, where he devoted his attention to practice until 1899, when Governor Bushnell appointed him judge of the common pleas court. His first salary was twenty-five hundred dollars per year and in covering his district he had to pay his own expenses. For eleven years he ably presided over that court, having jurisdiction over five counties, and dispensed justice with an even hand. He remained on the bench until 1911, when he resigned, and has since engaged in private practice in Cleveland, winning prestige as a corporation lawyer. In former years he was the senior member of the firm of Reed, Russell & Eichelberger, which afterward became Reed, Meals & Eichelberger, and subsequently Reed, Meals, Orgill & Maschke. Mr. Reed is now practicing alone, with offices in the Union Trust building, and is attorney for a number of large corporations, rendering to his clients the services of an expert. While living in Fredonia, Mr. Reed married Miss Nellie Baughman and three children were born to them. Alto L., the eldest, who is assistant manager at Philadelphia for the Continental Fire Insurance Company, married Miss Helen Kennedy and they are the parents of three children. Dorothy is the wife of Raymond West and the mother of two children. Charles S. (II) was graduated with honors from the University School in Cleveland and after attending the Harvard Medical School for two years enrolled in Western Reserve University, of which he is an alumnus. For a number of years he has engaged in consular service for the United States government, his duties in that connection taking him to Japan and other parts of the orient. Charles S. Reed, Sr., is a member of the Union, Mid-Day and Country Clubs. He enjoys the social side of life but his interest centers in legal work and the course which he has followed as a jurist and as a practitioner is one that reflects credit and honor upon his profession. LEONARD SCHLATHER In every line of endeavor there are found men who by force of character and intellect rise above their fellows and draw to themselves the deference and admiration which the world yields to superior ability. Of this type was the late Leonard Schlather, long a commanding figure in business circles of Cleveland and the foremost representative of its brewing interests. Success and honors were his, each worthily won, and his career affords a striking example of well defined purpose with the ability to make that purpose subserve not only his own ends, but the good of his fellowmen as well. For sixty-two years he was a resident of this city, whose development and progress he furthered to a notable extent. Mr. Schlather was born in Jebenhausen, Wurttemberg, Germany, June 20, 1834, a son of Adam and Rosa (Vollmer) Schlather, and represented one of the ancient families of that country. Adam Schlather, a brick manufacturer of Jebenhausen, Germany, was also the owner of a farm and had several sons and daughters, all of whom were reared on the home place. Leonard Schlather was the fourth son of this large family. In 1853 two of his elder brothers, Frederick and Christian, decided to come to the United States but at the last moment the latter was unable to leave home, and as all sailing arrangements had been made, it was hurriedly decided that Leonard should take the place of his brother Christian, so at the age of nineteen he made the voyage to the new world. Locating in Altoona, Pennsylvania, where some members - 203 - 204 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS of his mother's family were then living, Mr. Schlather at once secured employment with the Vollmer Brewing Company. He continued with the concern for three years, becoming conversant with brewing methods during that time. He came to Cleveland and secured employment in Hughes' brewery for several years, then with a partner entered the business and a few years later bought out his partner for $100. He added to the building from time to time, even cutting some of the timber himself at Rocky River and hauling it with his horse and wagon to his brewery. But the time came for permanent improvement and he obtained a loan of ten thousand dollars from his brother Frederick, and with this capital started his brick building at Carroll avenue and York street. From this small beginning he developed the largest brewery in Cleveland, a plant that finally covered more than an entire city block, the last addition being made in 1885. In his chosen field of labor Mr. Schlather achieved a measure of success that few attain, and his eminent standing among leading business men was duly recognized and appreciated not only in the Forest city but throughout the United States. For forty-five years he remained at the head of the business which he founded, retiring in 1901, when the Leonard Schlather Brewery was sold to the Cleveland-Sandusky Brewing Company. While actively identified with the industry he served for a time as president of the Ohio Brewers Association and also belonged to the National Association of Brewers. After disposing of his business he was chiefly occupied with financial affairs and served for several years as vice president of the People's Bank. He was a director of the Union Bank of Cleveland, was also connected with the Society for Savings, and in former years had been a large stockholder in the old Sheriff Street Market. At the time of his death he was the last member of the original board of directors of the Union Bank of Cleveland, later known as the Union Trust Company. In 1881 Mr. Schlather built a residence at 1900 West THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 205 Twenty-eighth street, and later he purchased one acre on a bluff at Rocky River on Wooster road, a short distance from the central section of Rocky River, a suburb of Cleveland. That was his summer home for many years, and as opportunity offered, he purchased adjoining tracts until the Schlather estate comprised ninety-seven acres, with several residences thereon for the family, all in the valuable Rocky River section. Mr. Schlather was twice married. His first wife was Catherine Beckes, of Cleveland, and they had five daughters. Rosa, now deceased, married Mars E. Wagar, a member of a pioneer family of Lakewood, and three children were born to them : Leona Serena, the wife of Grover Cleveland Hasford and the mother of one child, Leona Serena; Mars F. J. and Leonard. Catherine and Emelia Schlather died in young womanhood. The fourth child, Anna, now deceased, was married in Cleveland to Dr. J. F. Hobson, who has also passed away, and their daughter, Helen Emily became the wife of Harry T. Hatcher and the mother of a daughter, Barbara Hatcher. Lena Schlather, the fifth in order of birth, is the widow of Dr. Charles B. Parker, of Cleveland, and her daughter Louise is the wife of Dwight P. Joyse and mother of three children, Emily Lou, Charles and David. On October 7, 1897, Mr. Schlather married Anna Catherine Sophia Schwarz, who was born in Wheeling, West Virginia, June 27, 1864, a daughter of Henry and Theresa (Luedeke) Schwarz and a granddaughter of Daniel Schwarz, a landowner and innkeeper of Fulda, Hessen, Germany. Henry Schwarz, a native of Hessen, emigrated from Germany to the United States and for many years was connected with the Nail City Brewery of Wheeling, West Virginia. The family patronymic of Schwarz is of ancient Teutonic origin and is spelled in various ways, as Schwarz, Schwartz and Schwarze. Early representatives of the family have resided in the different principalities, provinces and states of southern Germany. A number of early representatives of this 206 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS family were men of high educational attainment, and noted scholars. Christoph Schwarz, a noted German painter, was born in the town of Ingolstadt, on the Danube river, in Upper Bavaria, in 1550. Much of his work was executed in the city of Munich, kingdom of Bavaria, and he died in 1594. Another distinguished representative of this family, Berthold Schwarz, was a noted German chemist and Franciscan monk, born in the city of Freiburg, in the grand duchy of Baden, Germany, and early tradition states that he invented gunpowder about 1330. A monument to his memory was erected at Freiburg, in the grand duchy of Baden, in 1853. Christian Gottlieb Schwarz, a learned German writer and bibliographer, was born in the town of Misnis in 1675. For a number of years he was professor of eloquence in the university at Altdorf, grand duchy of Baden, Germany. He died in 1751. Frederick Heinrich Christian Schwarz, a later distinguished scion of this family, was professor of theology in the university at Heidelberg, and published several educational works. He was born in the city of Geisson in 1766 and died in 1837. The branch of this noted line of special interest in this record was for many generations resident in Nuremberg, Germany, and there its members practiced the virtues and sturdy qualities that have been the priceless heritage of later years. Mrs. Sophia (Schwarz) Schlather survives her husband, and shortly after being widowed she sold the city home on Twenty-eighth street, Cleveland, taking up her permanent abode in the beautiful residence at Rocky River, her home situated on the Schlather estate. Notwithstanding their disparity in age, Mr. and Mrs. Schlather were in hearty sympathy in their life aims and were in close accord in charitable and patriotic work. Mrs. Schlather continues her activities for the needy and is one of Cleveland's foremost workers for charity. With Mr. Schlather and Dr. and Mrs. Charles B. Parker, she circled the globe in 1901, devoting a year to a THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 207 tour of the orient and occident. Mr. and Mrs. Schlather made many trips to Europe, also visiting South America, Africa, the West Indies and Panama, and were likewise familiar with the places of scenic and historic interest in the United States. Mr. Schlather loved his beautiful estate at Rocky River, and there spent the sunset period of his life in happiness and contentment. His kindly, studious nature delighted in books, music and art, and he indulged his tastes freely. He was most friendly and hospitable, making many friends and always retaining them. He cast his ballot for the candidates of the republican party but never sought political office, preferring to remain in the background. However, he was always found in the vanguard of movements for the advancement and betterment of his city and for years was an active member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. He generously contributed to every cause which appealed to his sense of justice and right, and to him and E. J. Siller, president of Weidman & Company, Cleveland owes the beautiful Schiller-Goethe monument now in the German Cultural Garden on East boulevard but formerly in Wade park, their joint gift. Mr. Schlather also gave to the city the Richard Wagner monument and was one of the founders of and largest donors to the Cleveland General Hospital, located at Carnegie avenue and Sixty-seventh street and now known as St. Luke's Hospital. In 1917 and 1918, during the World war period, he and his wife gave liberally to the Red Cross and the Young Men's Christian Association calls, and were large purchasers of Liberty bonds and War Savings stamps. Mr. Schlather was a life member of the Western Reserve Historical Society, and in No. 100, Transactions and Annual Reports of the society, is published a review of his long, upright and serviceable career. Death summoned Mr. Schlather on the 19th of April, 1918, when he was eighty-two years of age, and he was laid to rest in Riverside Cemetery. He passed through the portal 208 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS of the Great Beyond as he had lived—peacefully and courageously. He left a name fragrant with good deeds and his memory is enshrined in the hearts of all who were brought within the sphere of his influence. Among the many tributes to his worth was the following, which appeared in the Encyclopedia of American Biography, published under the direction of The American Historical Society, Inc., in 1923: "Mr. Schlather belonged to the class of men, who, in days gone by, added to the growth and importance of his adopted city, and who became prominent by the force of his own individual personality. But few men have lived in the city of Cleveland, Ohio, who have left a brighter record for every trait of character that constituted real greatness, and Mr. Schlather's life is well worth preserving in such volumes as this, to furnish instruction for the generations to come. His name ever stood as a synonym for all that was enterprising in business and progressive in citizenship, and his industry and energy, his courage and fidelity to principle, were illustrated in his career. His personal qualities were highly commendable and he was truly a man of unusual strength of purpose and business ability. He was most kindly and companionable, made friends easily, and possessed the rare faculty of keeping those friends." In the 1924 History of Cuyahoga County and the City of Cleveland it was written of Mr. Schlather : "In addition to his long and creditable career in the business world, he also proved himself an honorable member of the body politic, rising in the confidence and esteem of the public. In every relation of life he never fell below the dignity of true manhood nor in any way resorted to wiles or methods that invited criticism. He was essentially a man among men, ever moving in a way that commanded respect, and by innate force and superior ability won his way to the front—a place that was his by every right. His course was ever above criticism, and those who were favored with his intimate acquaintance were ever profuse in their praise of THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 209 his manly virtues and upright character, that of a true gentleman. "Living unostentatiously, Mr. Schlather was rich in the possession of a noble character which endeared him to his intimates and drew down upon him the universal emotions of genuine sorrow and keen personal loss. In all expressions of his friends and associates there is a unity of thought, especially on one phase of Mr. Schlather's makeup, namely, his persistent stand for the highest ideals which were to him of far greater importance than any other consideration that might be involved. This was true not alone in his business undertakings, but in everything with which he was in any way connected. He was clean of habit and mind, and in every endeavor he was conscientious and painstaking." CARL M. YODER Carl M. Yoder occupies an outstanding position in Cleveland's industrial circles as president and general manager of The Yoder Company. He was born on a farm near Jefferson, Ashtabula county, Ohio, July 4, 1885, his parents being Owen and Sevillie B. (Minter) Yoder, natives of Ohio and Maryland, respectively. He represents an old and honored family of Pennsylvania, where his paternal grandfather engaged in agricultural pursuits, and in fact nearly a 11 of his forbears in the paternal line were either farmers or merchants. Owen Yoder, the father of Carl M. Yoder, cultivated a farm in Ashtabula county, Ohio, throughout his active life and there passed away in 1886. Four years later, in 1889, his widow became the wife of Robert Williams, who died at the end of a year. Mr. and Mrs. Owen Yoder were the parents of four children, as follows : Manford H., a professor in the Collingwood high school of Cleveland; Clinton, who died in 1903; Pearl, who married Harry Stainfield and who passed away in 1919, leaving four children; and Carl M., of this review. The last named acquired his early education in a country school in his native county and attended the night classes at the Young Men's Christian Association. He also pursued an engineering course with the International Correspondence Schools of Scranton, Pennsylvania, and became proficient in wood pattern-making. His first position was with the Buckeye Engineering Company of Salem, Ohio, while subsequently he was connected with the Morgan Engineering Company of Alliance, Ohio. Following his arrival in Cleveland, in 1907, he spent three years in the employ of others. It was in 1909-1910 that he perfected and - 211 - 212 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS built the first cold rolling and bending machine, now used throughout the industrial world. In the latter year was incorporated The C. M. Yoder Company, builders of special machinery, of which Carl M. Yoder has been president and general manager throughout the intervening period of more than two decades. The history of the company is printed in another part of this publication. On October 17, 1907, Mr. Yoder was united in marriage to Miss Bertha Cobbs, who was born on a farm near Salem, Ohio, where she was graduated from the grammar and high schools. Her parents were William H. and Rosella (Elliott) Cobbs, the latter now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Yoder are the pa rents of two children; Mildred Lucille, born in Cleveland, September 28, 1912, is a graduate of the Lakewood high school and is now an honor student at Ohio Wesleyan University of Delaware. Douglas Owen, also born in Cleveland, March 18, 1918, is a student in the Junior high school at Lakewood and is a Boy Scout leader. Mr. Yoder is a member of the board of managers of the Boy Scouts and the Lakewood Young Men's Christian Association and West Side Branch Y. M. C. A. He also has membership in the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce and the Lakewood Country Club, while in Masonry he has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, belonging to the following bodies : Lakewood Lodge, F. and A. M.; Cleveland Chapter, R. A. M.; Holy Grail Commandery, K. T. ; Lake Erie Consistory, A. A. S. R. ; and Al Koran Temple, A. A. 0. N. M. S., of Cleveland. Mrs. Yoder is a member of Oriental Shrine and the Order of the Eastern Star. The religious faith of the family is indicated by their membership in the Methodist Church, in the work of which they take an active and helpful part. In 1925 Mr. Yoder erected a fine home for his family at 14914 Edgewater drive, Lakewood. His hobby is taking pictures and traveling. THOMAS MACBETH Industrial affairs have long occupied the attention of Thomas Macbeth, who has been associated with the Macbeth interests for fifty-two years and is now the president of the Bruce-Macbeth Engine Company, with offices at 2111 Center street, Cleveland. For more than six decades the Macbeth family have been connected with this concern and its predecessors. Thomas Macbeth, the present president of this corporation, was born in Berea, Cuyahoga county, October 22, 1857, a son of John Macbeth, who was born near Glasgow, Scotland, May 4, 1828. The grandfather, Thomas Macbeth, emigrated from Scotland to America about 1838, taking up his abode in Brooklyn, New York, but after a few years went to Richmond Hill, in the province of Ontario, Canada, where he spent the remainder of his life. John Macbeth acquired his early education in his native land and when a lad of about ten years came with the family to the new world. In Canada he served a full apprenticeship as a carpanter and joiner and about 1850 came to Cleveland. Here he secured work at this trade and later was with the Lake Shore Railroad, building stations. He subsequently was one of three partners who established the business of which his son, Thomas Macbeth, is president. John Macbeth disposed of his holdings in the concern when he had attained the age of sixty-two years and thereafter lived retired until his death in 1899. His wife, Catherine (Proudfoot) Macbeth, was born at Dumfriesshire, in the south of Scotland, February 14, 1830, and passed away in 1894. Early in the decade of the '30s her father, Joseph Proudfoot, emigrated to the United - 213 - 214 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS States with his family, proceeding first to Nelsonville, in the coal region of southern Ohio, and about 1836 came by canal boat to Cleveland, where he followed the occupation of a house painter. His daughter, Mrs. John Macbeth, was the mother of four sons : Thomas, of this review; Joseph P., deceased, was a member of the firm until 1897, when he established the Champion Spring Company, with which he was connected until his death in 1920; John (II) , who died in young manhood; and Andrew D., who assisted in building up the company's business until 1904, and was a member of the board of directors of the Bruce-Macbeth Engine Company until 1931. He is living retired in Lakewood, Ohio. Leaving high school at the close of his freshman year, Thomas Macbeth started out for himself and was in the employ of a Cleveland coal company before entering his father's foundry in 1880. He was then a young man of twenty-two and started in a humble capacity, learning the business from the ground up. In 1886 he acquired the stock of Robert Chambers, his father's partner, and four years later John Macbeth sold his interest to his two younger sons, Joseph P. and Andrew D., and Charles W. Kelly, who was connected with the company until his death in 1927. Thomas Macbeth succeeded his father as the directing head of Macbeth and Company, continuing his association through the various changes in the business until 1901, when he was made president of the Macbeth Iron Company, which manufactured blast furnace engines and heavy machinery. When the business was consolidated with the Bruce-Merriam-Abbott Company in 1909 the name was changed to the Bruce-Macbeth Engine Company and now manufactures exclusively gas engines. More extended mention is made of this corporation on another page of this history. Thomas Macbeth instituted well devised plans for the growth and success of this concern while steadfastly adhering to the high standards set up by its founders. On the 19th of February, 1903, Mr. Macbeth was married to Miss Emily Davies, who was born in the village of Yscei- THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 215 flog, near Chester, in Flintshire, situated in the northern part of Wales, a daughter of William and Elinor (Edwards) Davies, who were also natives of that locality, the former born December 15, 1831, and the latter on March 8 of the same year. With their family they sailed for Canada in 1882, settling near Hamilton, in the province of Ontario, where the father engaged in farming until his death in 1885. In that year the mother brought her children to Cleveland and here spent her remaining years, passing away in 1891. She had a family of two sons and four daughters: Mary and Robert, who are now deceased; William H., who still lives at Hamilton, Ontario; Margaret Elinor, who is Mrs. Bertram Relph, of East Cleveland; Mabella Anne, the wife of Norman A. Tanner, of Arcadia, California; and Emily, the wife of Thomas Macbeth. Mr. and Mrs. Macbeth are the parents of two children. The son, Donald Davies Macbeth, born in Rocky River, December 3, 1903, pursued his advanced studies in Cornell University at Ithaca, New York, and is with the Central United National Bank of Cleveland. He married Miss Ada Miller, a native of St. Augustine, Florida, and they have a son, Donald M., born May 6, 1928. The daughter, Catherine Proudfoot Macbeth, born in Rocky River, September 15, 1909, received the Bachelor of Arts degree from Ohio Wesleyan College and is now with the Associated Charities of Cleveland. An Episcopalian in religious belief, Mrs. Macbeth worships in the Church of the Ascension. She was one of the organizers of and since its organization has been president of Rocky River Public Library board. Mr. Macbeth is a progressive business man whose record sustains the high reputation that has ever been borne by the representatives of this old and prominent family. GEORGE DECAMP George DeCamp is chairman of the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland and nationally known by reason of his achievements in the field of finance. He was born in Downington, Ohio, February 20, 1869, a son of John Milton and Phoebe Jane (Downing) DeCamp, whose ancestors served in the Revolutionary war. The DeCamps were Huguenots and the family was established in America by three brothers, who came to this country from France in 1728, one of them settling in Pennsylvania. John Milton DeCamp was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1834 and in early life came with his parets, Mr. and Mrs. Zenas DeCamp, to Ohio. He was a farmer and stock raiser of the progressive, self-reliant type and prospered by reason of his energetic, well directed efforts, neither seeking nor requiring government aid. His wife was a daughter of George Downing, whose English forbears came to America before the Revolutionary war. Mr. Downing made the journey from Maine to Ohio in 1809, settling in the district which was afterward named Downington in his honor, and served as the first postmaster of that village. He married Harriet Chase, who was also of colonial ancestry. George DeCamp supplemented his public school education by attendance at Ohio University at Athens and then engaged in teaching, devoting five years to that profession. In the First National Bank at Athens, Ohio, he gained his initial experience in financial affairs and was next employed in the Athens National Bank. His ability won for him the appointment of national bank examiner in 1909 and in that capacity - 217 - 218 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS he acted for nine years, resigning January 1, 1918, to organize the Pittsburgh branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. On the 1st of January, 1926, he came to this city as chairman of the board and Federal reserve agent of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, which is situated in district No. 4 of the Federal reserve system, and has occupied the office for six years. Endowed with ability of a high order, he has rendered to the institution service of great value and has long been accorded a place of leadership in banking circles of this country. On the 22nd of June, 1905, was solemnized the marriage of George DeCamp and Ellen Jane Ryan, of Athens, Ohio. Mr. DeCamp has a life membership in the Cincinnati Club and also belongs to the Du Quesne Club of Pittsburgh, and to the City Club, the Mayfield Country Club, the Advertisers Club and the Union Club, all of Cleveland. He is a trustee of Grace Hospital and of Rio Grande College. Formerly he was vice president and director of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, serving on the transportation and public utilities committees of that civic body. In the affairs of the American Institute of Banking he also figures prominently and likewise has membership in the Ohio Society of New York City, and is a director of the National Association of Credit Men and of the Ohio State Chamber of Commerce. Fraternally he is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite and Knight Templar York Rite Mason. CHARLES L. HUTCHINSON Charles L. Hutchinson, who became a sailor on his father's lake boats when a youth of sixteen years, established the firm of Hutchinson & Company and has since remained the executive head of what is the oldest steamship organization in Cleveland. He was born in this city on the 25th of January, 1862, his parents being John T. and Emma (Camp) Hutchinson, the latter also a native of Cleveland, Ohio. They also had a daughter, Hattie May Hutchinson. Charles L. Camp, the maternal grandfather of Charles L. Hutchinson, was a pioneer of Cleveland who on the 17th of May, 1845, aided in the organization of the City Bank of Cleveland, occupying the presidency of the institution to the time of his death. It took out its charter as a national bank in 1865 and has since been known as the National City Bank. John T. Hutchinson, the father of C. L. Hutchinson, was one of the pioneer operators of sailing vessels on the Great Lakes, subsequently becoming the owner of steamships. Charles L. Hutchinson acquired his education in the public schools of Cleveland and at the age of sixteen years began his career as a sailor on his father's boats, being made captain of a sailing vessel when he had attained the age of twenty. He sailed the old "Butcher Boy" in the lumber trade and later the "Emma C. Hutchinson," which was named for his mother and which he commanded for three years. Next he was captain of the "Queen of the West" for one and one-half years and then for three years commanded the iron-ore boat "Rube Richards," while for a similar period he was captain of the "Germanic," an ore boat. Thereafter he was employed in the - 219 - 220 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS brokerage office of Palmer & Company for several years, after which he embarked in business on his own account, organizing the firm of Hutchinson & Company for the chartering and insuring of vessels. Mr. Hutchinson is also manager of various fleets, including the nineteen boats of the Pioneer Steamship Company and the three boats of the Inland Steamship Company. Aside from his activities as president of the firm of Hutchinson & Company, he is a director of the American Shipbuilding Company, the Great Lakes Towing Company, the Inland Steamship Company, the Buckeye Steamship Company, the Central National Bank and the Cleveland Mortgage Company, and he has long enjoyed an enviable reputation among Cleveland's business men of sound judgment and marked ability. On the 18th of September, 1886, in Cleveland, Mr. Hutchinson was united in marriage to Miss Jean Creech Smith and to them were born six children, two of whom died in infancy. The others were as follows : John T., who is president of the Buckeye Steamship Company of Cleveland ; Charles L., Jr., who passed away at the age of fourteen years; William S., whose death occurred in 1930; and Gene C., manager of the Rud Machine Company of Cleveland. The family residence is at 13800 Lake avenue, Cleveland. Mr. Hutchinson has many warm friends among his fellow members of the Union, Westwood Country, Pepper Pike and La Carp Shooting Clubs of Cleveland and the Midwick Club of Pasadena, California. His favorite forms of recreation have been golf and hunting. SAMUEL WALTER KELLEY, M. D., F. A. C. S. Among the men whose lives and personal exertions have been serviceable factors in the advancement of medical science the late Dr. Samuel Walter Kelley, of Cleveland, was preeminent. A pediatrist of national repute, he was the first American surgeon to write a treatise on the surgical diseases of children, and disseminated knowledge of vital worth to the profession. Ever a true friend of the poor, the sick and the unfortunate, he performed many unrecorded acts of kindness and charity, and will long be gratefully remembered for his altruistic work, as well as for his accomplishments and endowments, which were exceptional. Born in Adamsville, Muskingum county, Ohio, September 15, 1855, he was a son of Walter and Selina Catherine (Kaemmerer) Kelley, the former the son of an Irish-born father and an American mother and the latter a member of a German family that was established in this country before the Revolutionary war, a family from which has come a long line of ministers through succeeding generations. Dr. Kelley was indebted to the public school systems of Zanesville, Ohio, and St. Joseph, Michigan, for his early educational advantages, and in preparation for the vocation of his choice enrolled in the medical department of Western Reserve University, which awarded him the M. D. degree in 1884. Afterward he went abroad for post-graduate work in the leading hospitals of London. In his youth and early manhood he had been variously occupied as a farmer and market gardener, a sailor, and as a cowboy in the southwest he drove cattle over the trails leading from Texas up to Kansas and - 221 - 222 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS the northwest. He had many experiences similar to those described by Emerson Hough, Andy Adams, Owen Wister and others in their writings about the range and trail days of the empire of the west. Dr. Kelley was about twenty-nine years of age when he began the practice of medicine and surgery in Cleveland, which city remained the scene of his professional labors for four and one-half decades. He was a pioneer in the study and treatment of diseases of children and devoted himself with singular fidelity to the demands of his profession. With the passing years these steadily increased, and in addition to caring for a large private practice he had official connections with a number of hospitals, institutions devoted to medical education, and professional organizations. He was chief of the department of diseases of children in the polyclinic of Western Reserve University from 1886 to 1893; professor of diseases of children at the Cleveland College of Physicians and Surgeons, the medical department of Ohio Wesleyan University, from 1893 to 1910; surgeon to the children of St. Luke's Hospital, senior staff; secretary of the medical staff of the Cleveland City Hospital from 1891 to 1899, and its president from 1899 to 1902; pediatrist at the City Hospital from 1893 to 1910; and from 1927 until his death on the 20th of April, 1929, was chief surgeon of St. Luke's Hospital, with which he was connected in a professional capacity for many years. Dr. Kelley was editor of the Cleveland Medical Gazette from 1885 to 1901; president of the Ohio State Pediatric Society during 1896 and 1897; chairman of the section on diseases of children of the American Medical Association in 1900 and 1901; and president of the Association of American Teachers of Diseases of Children in 1907 and 1908. He was also a member of the Ohio State Medical Society and the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States and a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. At the time of the Spanish-American war, Dr. Kelley entered the service as a civilian surgeon, was recommended for THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 223 "efficiency in the field under the most trying circumstances," and was commissioned a brigade surgeon of volunteers, with the rank of major, August 17, 1898. He advocated the early entrance of this country into the World war, seeing that such a step was inevitable. In lectures and in individual arguments he urged prompt and forceful action in that crisis. Although disqualified by age for admission into the United States Army, he joined the French forces and was with the Red Cross for eight months. He was among the first Americans at the front and there cared for our transport troops, while he also established first line hospitals for France. Dr. Kelly's contributions to medical science were notable and his books have been widely read and quoted by members of the profession. His monograph on "The Surgical Diseases of Children," the first treatise on the subject written by an American surgeon, was published in 1909 and in 1914 a second edition was issued, while a third appeared in 1929. "About Children," another scientific work prepared by Dr. Kelley, appeared in 1897. A gifted writer, he was the author of a number of original articles and essays on medical and other subjects, and also enjoyed an enviable reputation as a lecturer. In the field of imaginative literature he was well known as the author of a small volume entitled "The Witchery o' the Moon, and Other Poems," published in 1919 a medico-historical novel, "In the Year 1800," published in 1904, a book that pictures the state of medical science and practice as well as customs and conditions of that day; and "Lo Studente," issued in 1925. In 1931 a second volume of his lyrics was published by Mrs. Kelley and her daughter, Mrs. Katherine Taylor. The Doctor was the inventor of several surgical instruments, used to further his work among children. He was serving as president of the Cleveland Medical Library Association at the time of his death. He had under preparation treatises on children's surgical diseases by foreign surgeons, together with biographies and portraits of the authors. These may be found in the medical library building, where 224 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS there is a room dedicated to Dr. Kelley for furthering the study of the surgical diseases of children, the work that was always closest to his heart. On the 2nd of July, 1884, at Wooster, Ohio, Dr. Kelley was married to Miss Amelia Kemmerlein, a daughter of George and Johanna (Hartz) Kemmerlein, who were natives of Wittenburg, Germany. Mrs. Kelley was born in Wooster and there obtained her public school education. She resides in Cleveland, making her home at 1806 Wilton road. Dr. and Mrs. Kelley were the parents of a son and a daughter : Walter Paul, who died in infancy; and Katherine Mildred, now the wife of William Reed Taylor, of Cleveland, and the mother of three children, Katherine, William Reed, Jr., and Samuel Kelley Taylor. Dr. Kelley was a man of high ideals, a man of action as well as a philosopher. His political views were in accord with the tenets of the republican party. Typical of his interest in the welfare of the people, he served on the Cleveland milk commission for a period of forty years, remaining a member of that civic body until his death, and at that time was writing articles for the Gorgas Memorial. His sympathies were ever with the poor and suffering, to whom he gave generously of his time and talents. A distinguished exponent of a noble calling, he never made it his purpose to win that success which has a monetary measurement, but rather sought achievement in the field of scientific accomplishment and of service to humanity and therefore his labors were beneficially resultant. Dr. Kelley loved his profession for the good which it enabled him to do, and of him it may well be said : "His life was gentle, and the elements So mixed in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man.' " WILLIAM H. BOTTEN William H. Botten, a forceful executive of broad experience and keen discernment, is successfully controlling the affairs of the Owen Bucket Company of Cleveland, a manufacturing enterprise closely allied with contracting and the sand and gravel business. He was born in this city October 15, 1864, a son of Henry Botten, who was a native of England, born near the site of the Crystal Palace in London. In infancy the father was brought to Cleveland, arriving here about the year 1836, and remained in the city until his death in 1924. In his youth he learned the trade of a machinist and for many years had charge of the pumps in the Insane Asylum at Newburg. Later he had supervision of the waterworks plant in Cleveland, remaining on active duty until within a short time of his death. His wife, Mary (Quayle) Botten, also a member of one of the pioneer families of Cleveland, was born on the old Quayle farm, located near what is now East One Hundred and Sixteenth street. To Mr. and Mrs. Henry Botten were born seven children: Edward C., a journalist long connected with the Cleveland Leader; William H.; Mrs. Alice Stoffer, a resident of this city; H. H., a prominent dentist of Cleveland; Lucy, the widow of Thomas C. Willard; Richard P. Botten, who is living retired in Cleveland; and a son who died in infancy. William H. Botten pursued his education in Cleveland until graduated from the Central high school and then became an apprentice in the Long street plant of the F. & H. Born Company, with whom he learned the trade of a tinsmith. Later he gained valuable experience while working - 225 - 226 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS for Robert E. Green, a plumber and tinsmith who had a shop on Detroit avenue, and in 1901 established a business of his own, opening a hardware store and tinsmith's shop on St. Clair avenue, between Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh streets. He prospered in the venture and remained the proprietor of the establishment for a period of fourteen years. While thus engaged he embarked in the sand and gravel business in partnership with M. A. Callahan, whose interest in the concern he acquired soon afterward. Later he sold the hardware store and tinsmith's shop to Herman Zirn in order to concentrate his attention upon the sand and gravel business and subsequently became interested in the manufacture and sale of the Owen clamshell bucket. Eventually he sold the sand and gravel business, acquiring all of the stock in the Owen Bucket Company, and has since reserved all of his energies for the administration of its affairs. The company has an interesting history, which is published elsewhere in this work. In 1888 Mr. Botten married Miss Margaret Beavis, who was a native of Glasgow, Scotland, and a daughter of John and Margaret (Love) Beavis. The father was noted for his mechanical skill and ingenuity and perfected a number of inventions, which were patented and are now used in the large steel mills of the country. Mrs. Botten passed away in May, 1929. She had become the mother of three sons, all of whom are natives of the city and high school graduates. Henry W., the eldest, has been connected with the Owen Bucket Company since 1915 and is its treasurer and manager. In his leisure hours a devotee of golf, he usually plays on the links of the Acacia Country Club, to which he belongs, and is also a member of the Cleveland Athletic Club. Fraternally he is a Mason, identified with Lakewood Lodge, No. 601, F. & A. M. In 1918 he married Miss Edna Cornell, who was also born, reared and educated in Cleveland, and they have a daughter, Ruth. John B. Botten, vice president of the Owen Bucket Company, holds membership in the Wood- THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 227 ward Lodge, No. 508, F. & A. M., and in the Grotto. He married Miss Gertrude Cook, and they have a son James. Edward W. Botten, secretary and sales manager of the Owen Bucket Company, belongs to Pentalpha Lodge, No. 636, F. & A. M., and he married Katherine Plantinga, by whom he has two sons, William H. (III) and John. Mr. Botten is the owner of a beautiful home on Shaker Heights and his business address is 6001 Breakwater avenue. He is connected with the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, the Rotary Club, the Cleveland Athletic Club, the Shaker Heights Country Club and the Acacia Club, being a life member of the last named. In Masonic circles he figures prominently as a member of Pentalpha Lodge, No. 636, F. & A. M.; Windermere Chapter, R. A. M.; Woodward Council, R. & S. M.; Oriental Commandery, K. T.; Lake Erie Consistory, A. A. S. R.; Al Koran Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. and Royal Order of Jesters, Court No. 14. Industrious and purposeful, Mr. Botten has made each day in his business career count for the utmost and his prosperity is well deserved for it has been honorably won. ELVADORE R. FANCHER Since its organization in November, 1914, Elvadore R. Fancher has been governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland in the Fourth Federal Reserve District. He was born at Bloomer Center, Montcalm county, Michigan, on October 17, 1864, and has had connection with financial affairs in the Forest City since 1885. His father, T. W. Fancher, was born in Huron county, Ohio, in 1839, and was a son of William Fancher, who came from Poughkeepsie, New York, with his parents in 1820, and they settled in Greenwich township, Huron county, Ohio, and were among the early pioneers of that section of the state. William Fancher was then a lad of eight years and he grew up among pioneer conditions, married and reared his family on a farm. Later in life he went to Michigan and died there about 1870. T. W. Fancher was reared to farm life, attended the district school near his home and later Oberlin College. He went to Michigan and settled on a tract of undeveloped timberland from which he cleared a tract and farmed and taught school during his residence in that state. In 1873 he returned to Ohio and settled in Lorain, where he engaged in the contracting business for a time and later in the hardware business. He was appointed postmaster of Lorain and served for several terms. He died there in 1925, followed within two months by his wife, who died that same year aged eighty-two. Elvadore R. Fancher was nine years of age when his parents moved to Lorain and he there finished his grammar school studies and was graduated from high school with the class of 1879. He found employment with First National - 229 - 230 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS Bank in 1882, and in 1885 came to Cleveland and entered the service of the Union National Bank as bookkeeper. In 1896 he became assistant cashier, and in 1904 was advanced to be cashier, serving until 1909, when he was made vice president, and he served in that capacity until October 1, 1914, when he was elected president. Upon the organization of the Federal Reserve Bank that year he severed his connection with the Union National to become governor of the newly organized federal bank and since that date has wisely administered its affairs. He is one of three men who have served continuously as a governor of a Federal Reserve Bank since they were organized. His familiarity with financial affairs in this district enables him to speak with authority upon all matters pertaining thereto. On February 16, 1893, Mr. Fancher was united in marriage in Chicago, to Miss Harriet S. Schroder, who was born in that city. They reside at 13901 Shaker boulevard, Shaker Heights. In politics Mr. Fancher is a republican. He is a member of the Union Club and the Mayfield Club, both of Cleveland. He has made his influence felt in his adopted city through his connection with various business interests and has always shown his public spirit for the best interests of Cleveland. THE F. HOHLFELDER COMPANY The F. Hohlfelder Company has developed a country-wide business in the manufacture of ferrules, chaplets, stove trimming, stovepipe and elbows and metal stampings, operating a large and modern plant at 1197 West Sixty-seventh street in Cleveland. The business was originally established in 1885, by Frederick Hohlfelder and J. Knight, both expert machinists. They leased a small factory on the flats on Columbus road and Merwin street and began operations under the firm name of the Forest City Machine Works. About a year later Mr. Hohlfelder purchased the interest of his partner and in 1890 he started the Cleveland Chaplet & Manufacturing Company. In 1892 he organized the Cleveland Copper Ferrule Company, and that same year bought out the Cleveland Nickel Works and added it to his other manufacturing interests. He enlarged his factory to meet the demands of his trade and in 1896 added the business of the Forest City Bedstead Company to his plant. In 1903 he became interested in the Globe Electric Manufacturing Company, which he later purchased. In the meantime he had removed to the present location. In July, 1904 the plant was destroyed by fire with an estimated loss of one hundred thousand dollars, and with but very little insurance. However, he began at once to rebuild on more modern lines and in September of that same year he acquired the business of the Cleveland Brass & Iron Bedstead Company. His factory had become one of the largest in West Cleveland, with over seventy-five thousand square feet of floor space and employing about three hundred workmen. Mr. Hohlfelder continued to operate all branches of his concern under the one roof of his - 231 - 232 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS plant on West Sixty-seventh street, and remained the active head of the company until his death on August 18, 1905, at the peak of a successful business career. Upon his death A. W. Ellenberger was appointed administrator in charge of the estate and to carry on the operation of the plant. On October 18, 1905, the business was incorporated under the name of The F. Hohlfelder Company, the various other names having since been used as trade terms. In 1905 the corporation sold the Globe Electric Manufacturing Company to the Trolley Supply Company of Canton, Ohio. At the time of the incorporation the following were the officers : A. W. Ellenberger, president; J. R. Kraus, vice president; A. J. Kroenke, secretary and general manager; and Maurice Schwartz, treasurer. In 1926 the Hohlfelder family purchased all the interests in the business which had been held outside of their immediate family. The present officers of the corporation are : Harvey F. Hohlfelder, president and treasurer; Alfred L. Hohlfelder, vice president; Frederick M. Hohlfelder, secretary. These three brothers are members of the board of directors and the others are : Mrs. Julia Hohlfelder, Dr. F. C. Oldenburg, Mrs. Florence Oldenburg, a sister; and Jerry Sullivan, the only one outside of the family connected with the company. During the period of the World war The F. Hohlfelder Company did a large amount of copper ferrule work for the United States government. The company discontinued the product of the Forest City Bedstead Company in 1917, but at this time have four different manufacturing branches. The business of the Cleveland Elbow Company was acquired in 1925, thus adding stovepipe and elbows to their output, and in 1931 the manufacture of metal stampings was undertaken. The F. Hohlfelder Company is the world's largest producer of chaplets and copper ferrules for boiler flues and their business covers the entire United States. EMIL JOSEPH Emil Joseph has been a member of the Cleveland bar for more than a half century, engaged in an extensive law practice, with affiliated business interests, and has been one of the leaders in civic and philanthropic projects of the city. He is the successor of A. A. Stearns in the presidency of the Cleveland Public Library board, of which he has been a member for twenty years. Born in New York city, September 5, 1857, he is a son of Moritz and Jette (Selig) Joseph, natives of Germany. Moritz Joseph, who brought his family from New York city to Cleveland in 1873, was for many years a prominent clothing manufacturer, being one of the founders of the Joseph & Feiss Company. In addition to his prominence in a business way he was active in civic and benevolent affairs, particularly those originating in and affecting the interests of Jewish people. Hundreds of friends revere his memory and his good deeds. He died in June, 1917, and his wife passed away in March, 1918. Both were over three score and ten. Emil Joseph was a youth of fifteen years when the family came to Cleveland, and this city has been his home throughout the intervening period of nearly six decades. He had attended the public schools of his native city, graduated from the Central high school of Cleveland in 1875, and then returned to the eastern metropolis to complete his higher education in Columbia University. He received the Bachelor of Arts degree there in 1879 and that of Bachelor of Laws from the Columbia University Law School in 1881. The same year he was admitted to the bars of New York and - 233 - 234 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS Ohio, and at once began general law practice in Cleveland. During the first two years of his professional career he was associated with N. A. Gilbert and General Edward S. Meyer, the latter resigning the office of United States district attorney to become a member of the firm. Since the dissolution of this partnership Mr. Joseph has practiced independently and has long enjoyed an enviable reputation as a corporation attorney as well as in the handling of estates. His first corporation work had to do with the organization of the old Cleveland Transfer Company, and the story of his experience in this connection is a very interesting one. Aside from his professional activities he is identified with various business and financial interests, being one of the directors of the Union Trust Company, one of the most important financial organizations in Cleveland. On the 8th of December, 1891, Mr. Joseph was united in marriage to Miss Fannie Dryfoos, of Cleveland, who was a native of Fremont, Ohio, and passed away on July 20, 1930, leaving a family of three children. Alice, who finished her education at Vassar College, is the wife of a well known Cleveland broker, Adrian Ettinger, and is the mother of four children. The second daughter, Lucy, completed her education in Smith College and is the wife of Louis S. Bing, Jr., and the mother of two children. The son is Frank E. Joseph, who was graduated from Columbia University with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1925 and two years later received the Bachelor of Laws degree from the same institution. He is engaged in law practice in Cleveland in association with the firm of Tolles, Hogsett & Ginn. Frank E. Joseph married Adele Unterberg who died leaving one son, Frank E., Jr. Mr. Joseph's time, energies and means have been freely at the disposal of those public interests represented in worthy civic and philanthropic movements. He became one of the first members of what is now the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce in 1890. For twenty years, as above stated, he has THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 235 been a member of the library board and in the spring of 1932 was chosen president to succeed A. A. Stearns, whose death occurred January 24, 1932. Mr. Joseph was chairman of the local board of the Jewish Orphan Home, and is a member of the Oakwood Country Club, Tippecanoe Club, Cleveland Bar Association, State Bar Association, American Bar Association, Columbia University Club of New York, and the Cleveland Alumni Association of Columbia University, of which he is president. On June 1, 1932, he was awarded the Columbia Medal for service. A contemporary biographer wrote : "He has also found time to develop many intellectual and artistic interests. An interesting hobby has been the collection of engravings, etchings and portraits of men and women distinguished throughout the world, including one of the largest collections of Washingtons and Lincolns. His private library contains over five thousand volumes." JULIUS POLLACK Julius Pollack, president of the Pollack-Altman Company of Cleveland, manufacturers of women's cloaks and suits, is at the head of the second largest business of the kind in this city. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on May 20, 1880, a son of Maurice and Helen Pollack, both of whom are deceased, the former passing away in 1903 and the latter in 1911. Julius Pollack acquired a common school education in his native city and was a young man of about twenty years when he obtained a position in the stock department of one of the largest cloak manufacturing concerns of Cleveland, now out of existence. He later became connected with the sales end of the business and remained with the company until 1920, when he embarked upon an independent venture under the name of the Mutual Cloak & Suit Company. With twelve employes he began operations on a small scale at 1220 West Sixth street, where he continued for eight years, manufacturing women's cloaks of high quality exclusively. In 1928 he moved to his present quarters on the four floor of the building at 2101 Superior avenue, Northeast, where he utilizes about twelve thousand square feet of floor space. The enterprise was incorporated as the Pollack-Altman Company in 1929 and the business increased to such an extent that it became necessary to contract for the manufacture of goods outside of its own establishment. Troublesome labor conditions in 1930 led to the erection of the company's plant at Ravenna, Ohio, where are manufactured three times as many units as in the Cleveland factory, which furnishes employment to sixty people. The Ravenna plant has one hundred - 237 - 238 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS and sixty-five employes, all American workers, and has never experienced labor difficulties. The Pollack-Altman Company does its own selling and designing. Mr. Pollack, the president, formerly supervised the sales but now devotes the greater part of his time to the manufacturing end of the business. The product of about two hundred and fifty units per day is sold to the better and bigger department stores throughout the United States, including the May Company of Cleveland, Marshall Field & Company of Chicago and the J. L. Hudson Company of Detroit. The official personnel of the Pollack-Altman Company is as follows : Julius Pollack, president; A. G. Talisman, vice president; and William E. Altman, secretary and treasurer. Mr. Pollack is a member of the Cleveland Garment Manufacturers Association and the Ohio Chamber of Commerce. In 1912, Mr. Pollack was married in Cleveland to Miss Julia Greenwald, a native of Cambridge, Ohio, and they are the parents of two sons : Marvin, a student at Western Reserve University; and Robert, who is attending the Heights high school. The family resides at 2821 Avondale avenue, Cleveland Heights. WILLARD F. WALKER Willard F. Walker is well known as president and manager of The Cleveland Container Company, manufacturers of paper tube products for the construction industry and one of the largest industrial enterprises of this character in the United States. He was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, July 2, 1889, his parents being Arthur W. and Mary F. (Foster) Walker, both of whom are deceased. The father was a coal merchant in New Hampshire for many years. Willard F. Walker attended St. Paul's School of Concord, New Hampshire, and continued his studies at Yale University, from which he was graduated in 1911. Thereafter he entered the employ of the O'Rourke Construction Company of New York and followed that line of business until the United States entered the World war, when he enlisted, and in December, 1917, went overseas with the One Hundred and Forty-sixth Field Artillery. He was commissioned first lieutenant and served with the Army of Occupation in Germany for six months prior to coming back to the United States in June, 1919. At that date he took up his abode in Cleveland and was here active in construction work until he organized The Cleveland Container Company, of which he has been the executive head to the present time and which has prospered steadily under his capable management. The history of The Cleveland Container Company appears in another part of this work. In 1920, in Cleveland, Mr. Walker was united in marriage to Miss Mariette Chandler, who was born and educated - 239 - 240 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS in this city and represents a pioneer family of Cleveland. Mr. and Mrs. Walker are the parents of two children, Willard F., Jr., and Mariette R. Mr. Walker is a member of the Yale Club of New York, the Tavern Club of Cleveland and the Kirtland Country Club of Cleveland. HUDSON ELLIOTT WILLARD H. E. Willard, Cleveland capitalist, is a worthy representative of a family which took an active part in the early development of this region, being a grandson of John Oliver Willard, one of the first settlers in the Western Reserve. His ancestors in both the paternal and maternal lines fought in the Revolutionary war. Mr. Willard was born on the northwest corner of Euclid avenue and Fifty-fifth street in Cleveland, October 18, 1860, a son of Elliott S. and Ruth Delphia (Hudson) Willard, who were married by Lathrop Cooley. The American progenitor of the family was Eli Willard, who in 1634 left England for the new world in a ship which he hired. He was a lineal descendant of the Willard named in the Doomsday Book as Willard Gentleman, who owned the estate of Hors Mondon where the old church still stands. Eli Willard located in Massachusetts. His name is first on the list of founders of Harvard University, of which institution his sons and nephews became regents and presidents. John Oliver Willard, grandfather of H. E. Willard, was a native of Burlington, Vermont; who came to Cleveland in 1813 and purchased and cleared a tract of land comprising one hundred acres and extending north from the Buffalo road and west as far as East Fortieth street. His death occurred in 1824. Prior to his removal westward John Oliver Willard had married Salinda Lamb, a sister of the chief justice of Vermont. Elliott S. Willard, father of H. E. Willard, was born in Cleveland,- March 7, 1823. He was one of the original stockholders of the company that built the first street railroad in - 243 - 244 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS Cleveland. For fourteen years, probably from 1856 to 1870, he was a member of the city council, and was otherwise actively identified with the city government. He served as chairman of the committee that built the first market house and also as chairman of the committee that bought the first Silsby fire engine. His brother, Rufus L. Willard, was president of the school board for many years. Elliott S. Willard organized the Ohio Horticultural Society and served as its president for many years. Throughout his life he devoted his attention largely to the introduction of vegetables and various plants in this state. He was a well known naturalist and in association with such noted scientists as Dr. Jared P. Kirtland and Dr. T. D. Garlick, who were his warm friends, he classified the various species of fish in the lakes. He also developed many new fruits. Elliott S. Willard died March 4, 1877, and for more than four decades was survived by his wife, who passed away in 1918, when eighty-eight years of age. Both were charter members of the Euclid Avenue Christian Church, Mrs. E. S. Willard being the last of the charter members to be called to the home beyond. It was in 1848 that Elliott S. Willard married Ruth Delphia Hudson, who was born in Cleveland in 1829, a daughter of William and Delphia (Sherwin) Hudson. Her grandfather, who was of Dutch lineage, descended from the family of Hendrik Hudson. William Hudson came to Cleveland from New York city in 1830 and purchased a farm on the present site of the Fairmont waterworks. Mrs. Delphia (Sherwin) Hudson, the mother of Mrs. Ruth Delphia (Hudson) Willard, reached the advanced age of ninety-two years. H. E. Willard was reared on the old home place and in the acquirement of an education attended the Cleveland public schools, Brooks School and Oberlin College. After putting aside his textbooks he entered the employ of William Bingham & Company, wholesale dealers in hardware, with whom he remained for eight or nine years. In 1886 he established the New Philadelphia Pipe Works at New Philadelphia, Ohio, THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 245 which he operated for four years as president and owner. Next he spent a few years traveling in company with his mother and subsequently became a partner in the firm of A. C. Saunders & Company, handling coal and iron ore for a period of four years. In 1900 he formed a partnership with M. A. Bradley and Robert R. Rhodes, which resulted in the organization of the United States Coal Company. This company purchased eighteen thousand acres of coal land in Jeferson county, Ohio, built the Dillonvale & Smithfield Railroad and established the Ohio towns of Bradley, Rhodesdale and Crow Hollow No. 2. Mr. Willard surveyed the land, built the mines and remained as general manager of the United States Coal Company until 1925, when he turned over the management of the coal properties to his son, Elliott Sherrill Willard, who still operates them. Mr. Willard has retired from active business save for the supervision of his private interests. Outside of his business Mr. Willard's chief pleasure has been with his family and his library. On the 11th of July, 1891, Mr. Willard was united in marriage to Miss Edith Smith, who was born in New Philadelphia, Ohio. They are the parents of three children, namely : Marie, born June 11, 1894; Elliott Sherrill, born June 12, 1898; and Priscilla, born December 5, 1903. Of the above named, Marie was a student of Bryn Mawr College of Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, and is the wife of Harlan H. Newell, a graduate of the Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland, Ohio, who is vice president of the Society for Savings. Mr. and Mrs. Newell are the parents of two children, Harlan Willard and Mary Louise Newell. Elliott Sherrill, a graduate of Western Reserve University, has succeeded his father as manager of the coal properties of the United States Coal Company and the Dillonvale & Smithfield Railway. Priscilla, a graduate of the Baldwin School of Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, is the wife of Grover C. Good, president of the Globe Knitting Works of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Mr. Willard is a highly esteemed member of the Union 246 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS Club and the Westwood Country Club of Cleveland. His residence at the corner of Detroit avenue and Bunts road is the former home of Dr. Jared P. Kirtland and is one of the oldest in the Western Reserve. The name of Dr. Kirtland, distinguished naturalist, teacher and physician and correspondent of Charles Darwin, is perpetuated on the pages of history as one of the world's greatest scientists. He found the first dinosauer remains discovered in America in the Rocky river, and he made the collection of fresh-water shells now on exhibition in the Smithsonian Institution. ALLARD SMITH As an executive of the Bell Telephone Company, Allard Smith became a factor in the business life of Cleveland in 1914 and in financial circles he now figures prominently as executive. vice president of the Union Trust Company. Since locating here Mr. Smith has accomplished much as a civic worker and is always found in the vanguard of movements looking toward the accomplishment of real and practical good. He was born in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, June 23, 1876, a son of William H. and Catherine (Fox) Smith, who there resided for more than sixty years but had formerly lived in the northern part of Maine. The Smith family was founded in this country in colonial times and the great-grandfather of Allard Smith fought in the Revolutionary war, serving as a captain under General Washington. Mr. and Mrs. William H. Smith were the parents of five children, of whom Allard Smith was the fourth in order of birth and the only member of the family to locate in Ohio. He pursued his education in his native city until the completion of his high school course in 1894 and was next a student in the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where he received the degree of Electrical Engineer in 1898, also taking a business course in that institution. After his graduation he went to Chicago, where he entered the employ of the Bell Telephone Company, and was first assigned to night duty in the switchboard department. Steadily advancing, he became superintendent of construction at Chicago, and from 1911 to the end of 1913 was construction engineer of the Bell Telephone System in Chicago and in the five central states of - 247 - 248 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin. His position was one of large responsibility and he also had executive connection with the financial end of the business. In 1913 he was sent to Ohio to rebuild the telephone property damaged throughout the state by the flood of that year and in March, 1914, came to Cleveland as general manager of the Bell Telephone Company in this city and in the northern district. For twenty-two years he remained with the one organization, rendering to it the services of an expert, and at the close of the year 1919 severed his connection with the Bell Telephone Company to enter the field of finance. On the 1st of January, 1920, he became vice president of the Citizens Savings & Trust Company, which bank later became a part of the Union Trust Company, one of the outstanding financial concerns of the country. As executive vice president Mr. Smith is closely and prominently identified with the management and control of this large institution and systematically and efficiently performs the work in his department. He is also a director of the Union Trust Company and his name likewise appears on the directorates of the Ohio Bell Telephone Company, the Morris Plan Bank, the Chagrin Falls Banking Company and the Buffalo Transit Company. At Viroqua, Wisconsin, on the 30th of June, 1901, Mr. Smith was married to Miss Margaret Elizabeth Butt, a native of that town and a daughter of Colonel C. M. Butt. After her graduation from the Viroqua high school Mrs. Smith enrolled as a student in the University of Wisconsin and was a member of the class of 1899. When a young man of twenty Mr. Smith gained his first military experience as a member of the Wisconsin National Guard, with which he was identified from 1896 to 1899. At the time of the Spanish-American war he became an ensign in the navy but did not reach the front, as the conflict ended soon afterward, while he was stationed at Old Point Comfort. During the World war he organized the industrial division, which sold Liberty bonds to employees of factories and stores, THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 249 and he also acted as chairman of that division in all of the Liberty Loan campaigns. When the Cleveland Community Fund was established Mr. Smith was made chairman of the industrial division, thus continuing for three years, after which he was chairman of division "A", composed of the business men's teams, for seven years. He is a strong advocate of all that he deems vital to the welfare and advancement of his city, which he has served with untiring zeal and devotion, and his well directed efforts have been manifestly resultant and beneficial. He reorganized the industrial development committee of the Chamber of Commerce, serving as its chairman for three years, during which time, among other things, this committee sponsored and held the great Industrial Exposition. It was a pronounced success in every respect—as regards profits, attendance and the character and quality of the numerous exhibits, the proceeds being used for the further activities of the industrial development committee. On May 1, 1930, Mr. Smith completed two terms as president of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce and made this a notable era in its history. Another civic achievement which redounds greatly to his credit was performed as chairman of the committee which guaranteed the opening of Cleveland's large public auditorium and has advised regarding the management and operations of the auditorium since that time. This committee created the opera committee, which has rendered to the music-loving residents of this city a service of particular value by bringing members of the Metropolitan Grand Opera Company to Cleveland for a period of five years. Mr. Smith also served on the executive committee of the Civic League and Association to Promote Criminal Justice, on the Cleveland regional plan committee and has taken a prominent part in the work of other civic bodies. He is now a director and the chairman of the industrial committee of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, a member of the executive committee of th Cleveland Community Fund and chairman of the federal county highway