300 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS igan Southern Railroad Company, but was told that he was too young for the work. For a year or so he was a sailor on the Great Lakes and then he decided to become a machinist. He went into the plant of Werswick & Lewis, later with the Telegraphy Supply Company, which merged with the Brush Electric Company, spending sixteen years in that plant, six of which were with the General Electric Company after they took over the Brush Electric Company's business. Repeated promotions brought him to the position of general shop foreman, which he filled for several years, directing the labors of six hundred men. His next position was with the Browning Engineering Company of Cleveland, acting as foreman of their shops for one year. On April 3, 1893, Mr. Maskell entered the industrial field independently, forming the J. H. Maskell Machine and Manufacturing Company, of which he has since been the sole owner and the administrative head. Starting in business at 3918 Superior street, he soon became well known as a designer and manufacturer of special machinery for factory use. He has built special machines for many of Cleveland's leading manufacturers and among his patrons here is one for whom he has done work of this character for more than thirty years. He has a number of customers in Detroit, Michigan, and orders for machines come to him from as far west as Oklahoma. He employs expert mechanics, some of whom have remained with him from fifteen to twenty years. In 1912 he moved his factory from Superior street to 1419 East Fortieth street, less than two blocks from his former location, and has conducted business in this part of the city for nearly forty years. He has perfected a highly efficient organization, noted for work of superior quality, as well as for honorable, straightforward dealing, and the prestige enjoyed by the company is denoted by the extent and importance of its trade. In 1886 Mr. Maskell married Miss Mary Young, who died two years later, leaving a daughter, Mabel Harriet, who THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 301 is the wife of E. L. Brown of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and the mother of a son, Maskell Brown. He is a sergeant with the United States troops at Fort Amador in the Panama canal zone. On October 10, 1893, Mr. Maskell married Emilie M. Becker, who was born, reared and educated in Cleveland, and their daughter, La Verne Edna, is now the wife of John R. Short, secretary of the Hill Clutch Manufacturing Company of Cleveland. Mr. Maskell has a desirable home at 15417 Edgewater drive. With his wife he attends the Lakewood Presbyterian Church and contributes liberally to its support. His Masonic affiliations are with Woodward Lodge, No. 508, F. & A. M., in which he has had membership since 1884 ; Cleveland Chapter, R. A. M.; Holyrood Commandery, K. T.; Lake Erie Consistory, A. & A. S. R. ; and Al Koran Shrine and Al Sirab Grotto. He is an exemplary representative of the craft, and the strength that he manifests in business affairs has its root in those qualities which command for a man the respect and confidence of his fellows. FRANK H. HOBSON The traits of industry and honesty have predominated in the career of Frank H. Hobson, who has risen from a humble position to that of executive vice president of Cleveland Trust Company, one of the strong financial institutions of this part of the country. He was born in Flushing, Ohio, June 30, 1889, a son of Edward L. and Alice (Mills) Hobson, who were also natives of the Buckeye state, and both are now deceased. In colonial times the family was established in Virginia and some of its representatives served under General Washington in the Revolutionary war. Frank H. Hobson spent his early life on his father's farm and was accorded the advantages of a high school and business college education. In 1906, when seventeen years of age, he came to the Forest city and entered the employ of the Cleveland Trust Company, starting as a messenger at a salary of twenty dollars per month. He progressed through the various departments, his keen mind enabling him to readily assimilate the details of the work, and at length was made assistant treasurer. Later he became treasurer, then assistant to the president, and in 1918 was elected executive vice president. This office he has occupied for thirteen years, performing his important duties with marked ability and thus furthering the growth and success of the large institution which he represents. He is also a director of the Goodrich Tire & Rubber Company, the Republic Iron & Steel Company, the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company, the National Acme Company and other widely known corporations. - 303 - 304 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS In May, 1918, Mr. Hobson was married to Miss Julia Powers, of Cleveland, and both are prominent in the social life of the city. For recreation Mr. Hobson turns to golf and horseback riding. He belongs to the Summit Hunt, Mayfield, Pepper Pike, Union and Bankers Clubs. His political support is given to the Republican party and his civic spirit is manifest through his connection with the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. FORBES VARNISH COMPANY The Forbes Varnish Company was incorporated in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1907, the original incorporators being C. J. Forbes, Edwin S. Reed, C. E. Baumheckel, H. P. Ellis and W. D. George. The company purchased a seven-acre tract of land on West 143d street, near Lorain avenue, and erected the first unit of its plant in 1907. Additions were built from time to time, as the business grew, until the buildings now cover three acres. They are of modern mill-type construction, and in the newer additions a sprinkler system has been installed for fire protection. The Forbes Varnish Company manufactures a complete line of paints, varnishes, lacquers and enamels, specializing in industrial paints and automobile lacquers. It maintains its own sales organization. The company has a well equipped laboratory in which a corps of expert chemists are constantly employed, testing new formulas and improving old ones. The Forbes Company is one of several concerns in Cleveland specializing in the same line of products and has built up an enviable reputation for the high quality of its output. The official personnel of the company at the present time is as follows : C. E. Baumheckel, of Detroit, Michigan, president; Charles H. Reed, vice president and general manager; B. T. Kiddie, treasurer; and Oscar Horne, secretary. The directors, in addition to the above named, are Scott Hudson, of Atlanta, Georgia ; Robert Tyre Jones, Jr., of Atlanta, Georgia; and Hanly Bohon, of Harrodsburg, Kentucky. - 305 - RAYMOND J. JEFFREYS Raymond J. Jeffreys, one of Cleveland's most successful and enterprising young business men, is president of R. J. Jeffreys & Company, the Allied Holding Company, the Berkshire Corporation and the Sweet-Kiss Toothpaste Company, and is practically the sole owner of all four firms. He was born in Columbiana, Ohio, January 23, 1896, his parents being J. R. and Margaret (Watts) Jeffreys, the former deceased and the latter still a resident of Columbiana. Following the completion of a public school course in his native city, Raymond J. Jeffreys entered Mount Union College of Alliance, Ohio, which institution he left in the spring of 1918 to join the air service of the United States Army. He was sent overseas within three weeks and received some training in England but was trained principally at Tours, France. He did aerial photographic work, observation and bombing, with the Second Day Bombardment Group, and served on the Meuse-Argonne, St. Mihiel and Toul fronts, remaining overseas for eighten months. After the signing of the armistice he spent considerable time in Germany, and following his return to the United States in the fall of 1919 he was mustered out with the rank of sergeant. He reenlisted in the same branch of service in the Reserve Corps and was commissioned first lieutenant, which rank he now holds. At present he gives much time to his work as staff specialist on the Reserve Corps staff, and he attends camp each year. In the fall of 1919, Lieutenant Jeffreys resumed his inter- - 307 - 308 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS rupted studies at Mount Union College, where he specialized in journalism and was graduated in 1920. Thereafter he engaged in newspaper work as a writer of feature stories, while for six months he served as city editor of the Alliance Review. Subsequently he bought and operated a chain of newspapers in Columbiana county, Ohio, which his brother took over in 1922. Mr. Jeffreys then started on a two-year trip around the world by automobile, visiting twenty-eight countries and writing articles and feature stories for a newspaper syndicate. In 1924 he began the publication of a motor magazine called "Luck o' the Road" in St. Louis, Missouri, but sold this at the end of about a year. During the succeeding two years he devoted his attention to Lyceum and Chautauqua work, delivering highly interesting lectures relating to his war experiences and his world trip. In this connection he went first to the south, then through Mexico and through California, while the remainder of the time was spent in the middle western states. He came to Cleveland in 1925 and in the following year organized the firm of R. J. Jeffreys & Company for the conduct of a real estate, building and contracting business, principally in residence properties. Later he formed the Allied Holding Company and the Berkshire Corporation, both real estate holding companies. In 1931 Mr. Jeffreys organized the Sweet-Kiss Toothpaste Company, manufacturers of toothpaste and mouth wash. He is president and practically sole owner of the four above named enterprises and has become widely recognized as a business man of pronounced ability and sound judgment. The Sweet-Kiss Toothpaste Company maintains branch offices in the large cities and its products are now sold throughout the country; an expansion program is under full swing. The company owns the Laird racing plane, which was awarded the Thompson trophy in 1930 and won third place in 1931 despite a crack-up and several unforeseen accidents. Mr. Jeffreys travels extensively, using an airplane whenever pos- THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 309 sible. He is a member of the American Legion and of the Masonic fraternity. In 1926, in Cleveland, Mr. Jeffreys was united in marriage to Mrs. Ann (Price) Macdonald, a native of Hubbard, Ohio. They have a daughter, Ann Ellen, and reside at 109 East Two Hundred and Ninth street in Cleveland. EDWIN L. MASON Entering the employ of The Cleveland Trust Company soon after its organization, Edwin L. Mason has devoted his life to the service of the one institution and his is the record of a steady progression that has brought him from the position of messenger to the office of vice president. He was born in this city November 8, 1877, a son of Orville L. and Esther (Briggs) Mason, the latter a native of Oswego, New York. The Mason family were among the early settlers of Elyria, Ohio, where Orville L. Mason and his father, Stephen A. Mason, were born, reared and educated. As a young man Orville L. Mason removed to Cleveland, becaming associated with the Higbee Company, and was with that concern for a number of years. After attending the grammar and high schools of this city Edwin L. Mason started out in life for himself. The story of his rise in the financial world is an interesting one, and is best told by the editor of The Cleveland Banker, who said in a recent issue of that publication: "Thirty-five years ago last January a young man walked into the office of The Cleveland Trust Company with an unusual proposition. He wasn't looking for a job. He had one. He was to start in as messenger at the Wick Bank the following week. What he did want was a week's experience, the chance to live in and breathe bank atmosphere before he launched on his financial career. Money as yet was no object to him. Willingness to perform odd jobs without pay was his offer in trade for the privilege of spending a week in the bank. The bank accepted his proposition. One couldn't refuse a young fellow with so - 311 - 312 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS determined an attitude toward his future work. Under such queer circumstances did Edwin L. Mason make his first contact with The Cleveland Trust Company. "The bank, organized only four months before, had modest quarters in the basement of the Garfield building at the corner of East Sixth and Euclid avenue, now occupied by the National City Bank. Five employes handled the business. As far as young Mason was concerned, his initial contract with The Cleveland Trust Company called for something more than just keeping his eyes and ears open. He came to work. The interest and zeal that this young 'visitor' displayed toward every job assigned to him was unusual. Young Edwin made an impression and, as a result, the bank asked him to stay on as a regular messenger boy. He accepted, and today we find him vice president of The Cleveland Trust Company, chairman of the expense and vice chairman of the officers committee. "The case of Mr. Mason is just another one of a deserving and hard working young man who has grown up with his bank. While Mr. Mason was moving up from messenger to teller, to chief clerk, to assistant treasurer, in 1914 to assistant secretary, and in 1918 to vice president, the bank was continually enjoying phenomenal growth. The meager resources of the infant institution of thirty-five years ago have grown to over three hundrd million dollars. Where a basement office with five employes once handled the bank's clientele, today a force of fifteen hundred is required to care for the business of the bank's fifty-eight offices. The bank that was seeking Cleveland recognition in the late '90s is today known nationally as the bank with more accounts in one city than any other bank in the country.' "The rise of Mr. Mason was not over night. It was almost nine years before he graduated from messenger and utility clerk to teller. His path was not strewn with roses. Hard work and a determination to get ahead were carrying him forward. Constant study and preparation fitted him for THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 313 each new position—each added responsibility. Every job assigned to him was done as well as he could do it. "Mr. Mason has had some interesting experiences in his long line of service. 'I will never forget,' he says, the time back in my teller days when I was off one thousand dollars in my balance and it took me three weeks to find it. I lost a lot of sleep and seven pounds of weight before the item finally showed up in footing a payroll requisition. I smile about it now, but I didn't then. A thing like that of course couldn't happen today in this era of mechanical efficiency, constant audits and other safeguards that tend to minimize errors.' "One accomplishment of which Mr. Mason can well be proud is the success of the bank's drive for new business back in 1923. Under his direction the officers and employes brought in close to ten thousand accounts for a total close to three million, eight hundred thousand dollars in this campaign." In addition to his banking activities he is a director of the National Refining Company and also of the ColliverMiller Company. On the 27th of May, 1914, Mr. Mason was married in Cleveland to Miss Gretchen Lamprecht and they have two children, Julius L. and Katherine, the former fourteen and the latter ten years of age. In 1930 the son won a gold medal for being champion all 'round athlete of the intermediate class at the University school and the daughter is attending the Laurel school. Mr. Mason is a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce and also belongs to the Summit Hunt, Cleveland Country, Pepper Pike, Mayfield, Hermit and Union Clubs. WASHINGTON S. TYLER Ohio has been especially honored in the character and career of her men of industry. In different sections have been found men born to leadership in the various vocations, men who have dominated because of their superior intelligence, natural endowments and force of character. It is always profitable to study such lives, weigh their motives, and hold up their achievements as incentives to greater activity and higher excellence on the part of others. These reflections are suggested by the career of the late Washington S. Tyler, founder and president of the widely known W. S. Tyler Company of Cleveland, who forged his way to the front ranks of the favored few, and who, by a strong inherent force and rare business ability, directed and controlled by keen intelligence and judgment of a high order, ranked for more than half a century as one of the leading manufacturers of the great Buckeye Commonwealth, and few business men of Cleveland, where he spent his long and remarkable life, were better known and more highly esteemed. He lived to see the little frontier lake port grow into one of the world's greatest centers of commerce and teeming with over a million inhabitants. He played well his part in this magnificent development. He had the sagacity to foresee the great future of the city of his nativity and wisely decided to remain in his home community. Mr. Tyler was born in Ohio City, now the west side of Cleveland, April 12, 1835. His parents came from old Connecticut families, and his father, Royal W. Tyler, a well-to-do farmer, owned considerable property in northeastern Ohio, known as the Western Reserve, and he became a resident of - 315 - 316 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS this state early in the nineteenth century. The family returned to New England early in Mr. Tyler's boyhood and he was educated in the early schools of Connecticut, finishing at Bacon Academy, Colchester, Connecticut. His first business experience was in a dry goods store in Hartford, Connecticut, where he remained for three years. He then returned to Cleveland and entered the dry goods store of E. I. Baldwin & Company, where he worked his way up to a partnership. After a temporary retirement he reentered business in September, 1872, by founding the W. S. Tyler Company, then under the name of the Cleveland Wire Works, W. S. Tyler, proprietor. Some idea of the growth of this industry may be gained by the fact that from a humble two-story frame structure, the first home of the plant, it now covers nearly eight acres, or a tract equal to sixty-two feet wide and one mile long, and now occupies some thirty-four permanent and substantial modern buildings, most of them four stories in height, including a magnificent new office building. During its continuous and wonderful growth of forty-five years, under the management of the subject of this memoir, the employes of the plant have been increased from less than one dozen to over eleven hundred men, most of them highly skilled artisans. For some time the little factory had only a local reputation, but its prestige has grown with advancing years until it is now nation-wide and has extended to many foreign countries, where its products find a very ready market owing to their superior qualities. No ordinary man could have done all this. It took a genius. That Mr. Tyler was such a person all will readily agree who knew him intimately. He weathered successfully the financial depression of 1873, when so many similar concerns were forced to close down, but his force was reduced to but three men. It is an interesting fact to record here that three of the original employes in the first year of the history of the W. S. Tyler Company are still actively employed in its plant. The records also indicate that nearly all of the THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 317 working force is comparatively permanent; that most of those now employed have come into the plant as boys or very young men, perfected themselves in their work, and have remained. This would indicate that Mr. Tyler was always fair, tolerant and sympathetic with his employes, and it is safe to say that no large employer in the country was ever more sincerely beloved by his men than the subject of this memoir. He mingled with them and their families freely, never regarding himself as a superior. His acts of kindness and charity toward them and others rendered him one of the foremost philanthropists of Cleveland. But, although he was very liberal with his means in worthy causes, he always gave out of the fullness of his heart and never to gain the admiring plaudits of men. A modest unassuming gentleman, with a desire only to be a good and useful citizen, he avoided the limelight and positions of political and public significance. He gave his employes every chance to advance themselves, and all the present executive officers of the company have come up from the ranks. He took a great pride in starting promising young men out in life and many, indeed, are they who owe their rise in the world, especially in industrial lines, to his aid and advice. The W. S. Tyler Company was a pioneer in the production of wire specialities from steel wire and soon became famous in this line. Now a long list of work of this nature is produced by this plant, and from time to time special modern equipment has been installed, and it is one of the finest plants of its kind in the world. In the matter of all employes the company has a profit-sharing policy. This company was one of the first in the country to take organized precautions against personal injury to its workmen. It has been the purpose of the company from the beginning to build an institution—to put a fortune into the institution rather than draw one out. It has been the policy to give the most to its customers rather than the least, and developing an institution efficient to this end, was unique and founded on rare advanced vision. 318 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS All through the history of the W. S. Tyler Company, the products of the plant, the permanent character of the buildings, the innovations in its machinery equipment, its efficient systems, the personality of its human organization, the attitude of its executives toward the workers, its new products, and its educational campaign for the use and best use of these products, and the fact that its accomplishments have been without the aid of outside capital, are all evidence that the original ideals of its founder have been realized. Mr. Tyler was a trustee of the Children's Aid Society, Lakeside Hospital, and a member of the governing boards of Western Reserve University, Hiram House, Old Stone Church, Adelbert College, and the Workingmen's Loan Association. He was also a director of the National Commercial Bank, and also a director in several manufacturing concerns. He was a member of the Union, Clifton, Roadside, Country, Mayfield and the Chagrin Valley Hunt Clubs. Mr. Tyler was married in the year 1869 to Marion A. Clark, native of Cleveland and a daughter of James F. and Eliza Ann Clark. Besides his wife Mr. Tyler leaves a daughter, Mrs. Elisabeth C. T. Miller, and her two sons, Otto and W. S. Tyler, the latter Mr. Tyler's namesake. Washington S. Tyler was called to his eternal rest suddenly on May 27, 1917, at the advanced age of eighty-two years, his life being well rounded in its protracted career of usefulness, success and honor, like a sheaf fully ripened. ROY B. ROBINETTE Like many of Cleveland's men of large affairs, Roy B. Robinette had no special advantages at the beginning of his career and owes his progress and success to his own exertions. As a manufacturer of paint, oil and varnish he is widely known throughout the country and is the vice president and treasurer of the Tropical Paint & Oil Co. A native of the Buckeye state, he was born on a farm in Bedford township, Cuyahoga county, January 16, 1878, and is justly proud of his descent from a colonial family that contributed several soldiers to the Revolutionary war. His early forbears were Huguenots, who emigrated from France to Holland and eventually established homes in the New World. Allen Robinet, as the name was then spelled, was the progenitor of the family in America. He came to this country from "County of Palatine of Chester," (Cheshire) England, in 1682, as one of the "first purchasers and adventurers from old England into Pennsylvania" and received from William Penn a deed to two hundred and fifty acres of undesignated land in Pennsylvania. This deed is dated 1681, and is in the Pennsylvania Historical Society. There was an old family bible, dated 1653, that was in the Pennsylvania Historical Museum for many years, and was an heirloom of the family. Allen Robinet, as the name was then spelled, the great-grandfather of Roy B. Robinette, settled in York Springs, Adams county, Pennsylvania, and there he lived with his family until 1806, when he moved across the border and bought eight hundred acres of land in the County of Peel, sixteen miles from Toronto, province of Ontario, Canada. He died - 319 - 320 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS in 1813. He had a son, also named Allen Robinet, who was born at York Springs, Adams county, and went with the family to Canada, and there he grew up to manhood. He joined the militia and was active in public affairs, and he also worked as a surveyor and operated a tannery in Toronto. He evidently suffered some reverses for he disposed of his holdings there and with his worldly possessions in a carpetbag made the journey to the states on foot. He settled near Bedford, Ohio, in 1834, and here spent the remainder of his life as a farmer and nurseryman, dying in 1866. He had married Janet Moore in young manhood and one of their children was William Penn Robinette, father of Roy B., and was born September 12, 1828. He was also a farmer. He married Adelaide A. Ruggles and they had three children : Roy B., of this review; Clyde B., of Cleveland; and Wilma Penn, now the wife of Louis D. Cull, also of Cleveland. William P. Robinette died on November 5, 1885, and his widow passed away in 1897. Roy B. Robinette attended the Miles Park school in Cleveland and at the age of fifteen laid aside his textbooks to begin making his own living. His father had died when he was but seven years old and being the eldest of the family he ventured out into the world quite young. His first job was as an office boy in the printing department of the Standard Oil Company, and so well did he do the work imposed upon him that two years later he was made a clerk in the lubricating department and he remained there until 1896. He was gradually laying the foundation for his future and next joined the clerical force of the Atlantic Refining Company, spending six years in their employ and gaining additional experience in the oil industry. In the spring of 1902 he entered the employ of the Lake Carriers Oil Company, having charge of their office at their Coraopolis refinery in Alleghany county, Pennsylvania, until the fall of that year, when he returned to Cleveland and became associated with the Fred G. Clark Company, dealers in oil and heavy chemicals, re- THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 321 maining until December 1, 1903. He had been planning to engage in his chosen line of business at the first opportunity and therefore resigned his clerkship and with George C. Hascall, purchased the business of the Tropical Oil Company. This remained on a partnership basis until 1906, when it was incorporated, Mr. Robinette becoming secretary and treasurer. In 1914 the name was changed to the Tropical Paint & Oil Company, of which he is vice president and treasurer. His experience and ability have been potent factors in the success of the organization. Mr. Robinette is also vice president and treasurer of the Hascall Paint Company. Few men in this part of Ohio have a more comprehensive knowledge of the paint and oil business than Mr. Robinette, for it has constituted his life work. He is a past president of the Cleveland Paint, Oil & Varnish Club, and also of the National Paint, Oil & Varnish Association, of which he is a member and now identified with its educational bureau. Mr. Robinette was married August 11, 1909, to Miss Grace Dawn Waldeck, daughter of Charles. A. and Eunice E. (Barker) Waldeck, of Cleveland, and their children are : Roy B., Jr., Carl W. and William Penn (II). Mr. Robinette is a member of the Church of Christ, and his politics are republican, though not an aspirant for official honors. He is greatly interested in the work of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, was an influential factor in its affairs and served as second vice president, later became first vice president, and served as president for one year. It was in April, 1930, that he was elected president, serving for one year, and served this period and one year more as a director, making all told five years continuous service as a director. A strong advocate of education he was made president of the Lakewood school board and has been on the board for thirteen years. He is also a member of the Citizens League, and of the council and executive committee of the Community Fund. During the World war he took an active part in all Liberty Loan and War Savings Stamp drives. He is a vice president 322 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS and a director of National Air Races, which conducts the air races at the Cleveland Airport. Genial and companionable by nature Mr. Robinette enjoys the social side of life and is a member of the Westwood Country, the Clifton, the Union, and Cleveland Athletic Clubs, and he is also a member and a past president of the Cleveland Rotary Club. Mr. Robinette's life has been spent in Cleveland and his success has been a gradual advancement and he enjoys the confidence and esteem of a wide circle of friends throughout northern Ohio. FERBERT-SCHORNDORFER COMPANY The Ferbert-Schorndorfer Company was organized in 1921 for the purpose of manufacturing paints and varnishes and began business in a small way. A tract of land was purchased on the Berea road industrial switch of the New York Central Railroad, conveniently situated within the five-mile radius of the public square. The officials of the corporation selected this location after months of investigation, during which time almost every available factory site in the city and suburbs was under consideration. They finally chose this location, feeling that the west side of the river afforded better opportunities for future development. In 1921 the first unit of the factory was constructed, and as the business grew more land was purchased and additions were made to the plant. The company now own three and one-quarter acres of ground and theirs is one of the finest and most modern institutions of the kind in the city. The factory buildings afford sixty-two thousand, seven hundred square feet of floor space and are equipped to manufacture not only the best but the most economical products known to the paint and varnish industry. In 1929 the company erected a two-story brick office building, which is well lighted, ventilated and furnished. They also have one of the best equipped laboratories of its size in the country. In this department skilled chemists are constantly at work, developing and improving the products of the company, which has for its slogan, "Quality First." The Ferbert-Schorndorfer paints are known from coast to coast and the trade relations of the house extend throughout the country. There is a steadily - 323 - 324 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS increasing demand for their products, which are used principally by the factory, railroad, industrial and marine trade. This company was the first in Cleveland to install fuel oil burners in its factory and the second in the United States to make this innovation. During the eleven years of its existence the company has forged rapidly to the fore under the expert guidance of its president, Albert J. Ferbert, who has a highly specialized knowledge of the business in which he is engaged, for it has constituted his life work. Mr. Ferbert places great confidence in his sales organization, which is composed of men who have had many years of selling experience in the paint and varnish line. S. C. Schorndorfer, vice president of the company and superintendent of the plant, served for many years as general superintendent of The Glidden Company and is considered one of the best manufacturing men in the paint and varnish business. He is perhaps acquainted with more painters and finishers than any other man in this line. The other officers of the Ferbert-Schorndorfer Company are: W. E. Gillette, treasurer; and C. J. Weber, secretary. ALFRED REUEL HORR Alfred R. Horr is one of the vice presidents of the Cleveland Trust Company and a director of many large corporations. He was born in Wellington, Ohio, July 14, 1875, a son of Charles W. and Esther A. (Lang) Horr, and there pursued his education until graduated from high school with the class of 1891. He received the degree of Bachelor of Letters from Cornell University in 1895 and then took up the study of law. In 1897 he was admitted to the Ohio bar and practiced in Cleveland for two years. He was made claim agent for the Erie Railroad Company in 1899, resigning in 1900 to become manager of the Walker-Gordon Laboratory, and a year later joined the executive force of the Western Reserve Trust Company, of which he was assistant secretary from 1901 to 1903. Upon the consolidation with the Cleveland Trust Company he remained as assistant secretary, soon afterward becoming secretary, and from 1907 to 1913 was vice president of the bank. He resigned to accept the post of treasurer, tendered him by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, going to New York city at that time, and later was elected vice president of the society, with which he was associated until 1922. In 1923 he returned to the Cleveland Trust Company as executive vice president and has continuously occupied the office, figuring conspicuously in the affairs of this great banking institution. Important business concerns have also benefited by his sagacity and experience. He is a director of the Cleveland Railway Company, the Monarch Fire Insurance Company, the Erie City Iron Works, the Electric Smelting & - 325 - 326 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS Aluminum Company, the Horr-Warner Company, the Troxel Manufacturing Company, the Buckeye Aluminum Company, the Aintree Park Company, and the Miller Company of Meriden, Connecticut. On the 31st of December, 1901, Mr. Horr was married to Miss Charlotte L. Clement, of Cleveland, and they reside in the suburb of Aintree Park. Mr. Horr is a trustee of Oberlin College and a director and first vice president of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. He belongs to the Delta Upsilon fraternity and to the Cleveland Athletic, Pepper Pike Golf, Mayfield Country, Aintree, University and Union Clubs of this city, also to the Union League of New York city. He owns an island in Lake Temagami in Temagami forest reserve in Canada. RAY E. MUNN Nationally known in connection with the manufacture and sale of dental supplies, Ray E. Munn occupies an enviable place in business circles of Cleveland as president of the Ransom Si Randolph Company and is largely responsible for the notable progress made by this pioneer corporation, which he has served for a period of thirty-five years. He was born on October 11, 1881, in Michigan, and soon after leaving school secured employment as a clerk in the Toledo office of the Ransom Si Randolph Company in 1897 and later was transferred to the sales department. Steadily advancing as he became familiar with the business he was chosen to represent the wholesale department of the firm as a salesman on the road. In 1908 he was intrusted with executive responsibilities, when he was made vice president. In 1909 he came to Cleveland and here opened the first office which the house established outside of Toledo. Their business in the Forest city grew rapidly and the Cleveland branch is now the sales center of the concern. Since 1930 Mr. Munn has been president of the company; his brother, Paul H. Munn, is vice president; M. H. McFellin is secretary-treasurer; and F. G. Crandell is chairman of the board. The Ransom & Randolph Company was established in 1872 at Toledo, to handle supplies used by dentists and is one of the oldest organizations of the kind in this part of the country, with a record of sixty years of usefulness and service. Throughout this period the house has never deviated from the high standards set up by its founders, who are now deceased. The company handles everything in the line of - 327 - 328 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS dental supplies, from tooth fillers to chair equipment, and gold and platinum constitute a large item in their stock. At all times they carry tens of thousands of items in stock and a supply of several million artificial teeth for plates, etc. Dental burrs comprise the major item in the list of their own manufactured products. The manufacturing end of the business is at Toledo and in connection with their large factory they maintain a research department and laboratory. Through their sales organization they sell supplies direct to dentists and also wholesale to dealers. Year by year the business has grown until the Ransom & Randolph Company is now operating on an extensive scale, having branches in fourteen cities located in the central states of the Union. They are part owners of the Cleveland Dental Manufacturing Company, which company enjoys the distinction of being the largest manufacturer of dental hand instruments in the United States, and they also make other appliances used by dentists. Mr. Munn is also secretary of this company, which has been in existence for about thirty years. His life has been devoted to the mastery of the one line of business and few men in this country have so accurate and intimate a knowledge of matters relative to the manufacture of dental supplies. Mr. Munn was married in Toledo to Miss Myrtle Broer, by whom he has a son and three daughters : Ruth, William, Phyllis and Martha. Mr. Munn is a director of the Rotary Club of Cleveland and a member of the Cleveland Athletic Club, the Pine Ridge Golf & Country Club and the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. Starting in a humble capacity, he has advanced far in his chosen field and has been honored with the chairmanship of the board of the American Dental Dealers Association, in which capacity he is now serving. ROBERT RAYMOND NEWELL The Cleveland interests of the John A. Roebling's Sons Company are capably directed by Robert R. Newell, an experienced, energetic business man, who has devoted thirty years to the service of this large corporation. He was born in Trenton, New Jersey, November 19, 1876, a son of Judson J. and Frances (Warren) Newell. The father, who engaged in the manufacture of automobiles, is now deceased and the mother has also passed away. In the public schools of his native city Robert R. Newell obtained his early education, which was supplemented by attendance at Princeton University. Afterward he spent several years in New York city and during that period was engaged in general contracting and sales work. In 1902 he entered the employ of the John A. Roebling's Sons Company, working first in the main office and plant at Trenton, New Jersey, and next at San Francisco, while later he was transferred to Chicago as assistant manager. In January, 1911, he was sent to Cleveland and here he has represented the John A. Roebling's Sons Company for twenty-one years, performing the duties of manager with thoroughness and efficiency. The company has long engaged in the manufacture of wire rope and conducts a business of national scope and importance. On the 5th of June, 1902, Mr. Newell was married in Trenton, New Jersey, to Miss Mary Esther Leigh, by whom he has a son and a daughter : Myra A., who graduated from the Hathaway-Brown School for Girls at Cleveland and from the Finch School of New York and is at home; and Robert, a student at Yale University. - 329 - 330 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS Mr. Newell belongs to the Cleveland Athletic, Country, Mid-Day and Union Clubs of this city and also to the Toledo Club of Toledo, Ohio. He is a trustee of the central branch of the Young Men's Christian Association and lends the weight of his support to those movements which make for civic growth and progress and for the betterment of the individual. Throughout his business career he has been an earnest, systematic, conscientious worker and his is a record of steady progress and successful achievement. JOHN CARLOS TALCOTT An able attorney and a safe counselor, John Carlos Talcott was accounted a leader of the Cleveland bar and although many years have elapsed since his death, his memory is still fresh in the hearts of those who knew him, for his personal qualities were such as make for strong and enduring regard. Born in Jefferson, Ashtabula county, Ohio, March 8, 1857, he was a son of Henry and Cordelia J. (Pritchard) Talcott and an elder brother of Albert Lewis and William Ellsworth Talcott, whose biographical records appear elsewhere in this work. In Jefferson, John C. Talcott attended the public schools and the Spencerian Business College of Cleveland; from which he was graduated in 1874. His classical education was acquired in Mount Union College at Alliance, Ohio, where he received his A. B. degree in 1876. Afterward he was a student at Yale University, from which he won the Bachelor of Laws degree in 1878 and that of Master of Laws in 1881, and on completing his course in that institution stood fourth in his class. Admitted to the bar of Ohio in the fall of 1879, he began his legal career in his native village and in the same year was elected justice of the peace for Jefferson township. In 1878 he had assumed the duties of cashier of Talcott's Deposit Bank of Jefferson, established in 1874 by his father, and occupied the office for twelve years. Meanwhile he continued his legal work and from 1880 to 1890 was associated with his younger brother, Albert L., in the law firm of Talcott Brothers. In 1894 John C. Talcott came to Cleveland and here followed his profession until his death on. Decem- - 331 - 332 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS ber 17, 1904, enjoying a large general practice. His knowledge of the law was comprehensive and exact and in forensic combat his oratorical powers and keen mind made him a formidable adversary. A judge of the common pleas court, before whom he had argued an important case shortly before his death, pronounced Mr. Talcott's plea the best he had ever heard in his court. In politics he took a keen interest and during his earlier career was chairman of the republican county central committee of Ashtabula county. As a citizen he was progressive and public-spirited and served on the Glenville board of education as long as his health would permit. He belonged to the Tippecanoe Club and the Cleveland Whist Club and his college fraternity was Delta Tau Delta, which he joined while attending Mount Union College. For years he made his home with his mother, and at his death his remains were interred in the old family burying ground at Jefferson. Although called from this life before he had reached the zenith of his career, Mr. Talcott advanced far in his profession and his strict observance of its high ethical standards won for him the respect and esteem of his fellow practitioners and the general public as well. FRED P. AUXER Bending his energies to administrative direction and executive control, Fred P. Auxer is controlling the activities of The National Telephone Supply Company and is president of the Hatter Manufacturing Company—which feature in the industrial life of Cleveland, his native city. He was born March 6, 1876, a son of Perry Henry Auxer, who was born near Chardon in Geauga county, Ohio, in 1850, and was of French descent. The grandfather, Adrian Auxer, a native of Connecticut, left that state early in the decade of the '30s in company with other adventurous spirits who sought homes in the Western Reserve, traveling by boat from Buffalo, New York, to Cleveland, which was then a village. In quest of a locality better adapted to agricultural pursuits, Adrian Auxer journeyed to Geauga county, purchasing a tract of wild land near Chardon, and there built a log house for his family. Through arduous labor he hewed a farm out of the wilderness and cultivated the place for many years. Following his retirement he went to South Dakota to reside with one of his sons and spent the remainder of his life in that state. His son, Perry Henry Auxer, attended a district school near the home place and at Chardon was trained in harness making. About 1870 he removed to Cleveland and opened a harness shop, of which he was the proprietor for a number of years. In 1876, when a young man of twenty-six, he became connected with the fire department of Cleveland and later was placed in charge of the harness shop and made buyer of supplies. He retired from the fire department in 1909, after serving for more than thirty years, and then be- - 335 - 336 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS came associated with his son Fred in business, having charge of a department of the National Telephone Supply Company until shortly before his death in 1921. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Alice Costello, was born in the north of Ireland in 1855 and died in 1891 at the comparatively early age of thirty-six years. They had two children : Fred P.; and Mabel, the wife of William A. Minor, of Cleveland. Energetic and self-reliant, the son had a newspaper route while in high school and when his studies were completed he secured a situation as clerk in the store of the McIntosh-Huntington Hardware Company, working in their establishment from 1894 until 1900. A year later he began the manufacture of telephone supplies, starting on a partnership basis and so continuing until 1910, when the business was incorported. Since then he has owned practically all of the stock in The National Telephone Supply Company, perfecting an organization of large proportions and international repute. A sketch of the company is given elsewhere in this work. Mr. Auxer's well directed efforts have been equally a factor in the development of the business of the Hatter Manufacturing Company, of which he is also the president. He is a director of the American Box Company, the Security Savings & Loan Company and the Citizens Budget Company, all of Cleveland. In 1904 Mr. Auxer married Miss Elizabeth F. Tucker, who was also born, reared and educated in the Forest city. Their daughter, Alice Jeanette, likewise a native of Cleveland, was graduated from Hathaway-Brown school and from Pine Manor at Wellesley, Massachusetts, and resides at home. Life in the open appeals to Mr. Auxer, who keeps physically fit by playing golf. He belongs to the Manakiki Country, Cleveland Athletic, Mid-Day and Rotary Clubs, while Mrs. Auxer is a member of the Woman's Club of Cleveland. A Mason, Mr. Auxer is a member of Woodward Lodge, No. 508, F. & A. M. ; McKinley Chapter, R. A. M. ; Oriental Commandery, K. T. ; Cleveland Consistory, A. A. S. R. ; and Al THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 337 Koran Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. He is also affiliated with the Royal Order of Jesters and the National Sojourners, while his public spirit is expressed through his membership in the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. Early recognizing the fact that industry constitutes the basis of advancement in all walks of life, Mr. Auxer has ever been an earnest, untiring worker and may well be proud of his record of achievement, for his prosperity has been won by honorable methods which neither seek nor require disguise. ISADORE FRED FREIBERGER As one of the vice presidents of the Cleveland Trust Company, Isadore F. Freiberger has long exercised a potent influence in banking circles of the city and is also a director of many large business corporations as well as a forceful factor in civic affairs. He was born in New York city, December 12, 1879, and as a child of three years came to Cleveland with his parents, Samuel and Esther Freiberger. Here he completed a course in the Central high school in 1897 and next attended the Western Reserve University, which awarded him the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1901. Following this he was a law student at the Baldwin-Wallace College of Berea, Ohio, where he won the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1903. Although he has never practiced, his knowledge of the law has been used advantageously in the banking business—a field of activity well suited to his capacities and powers. As a member of the clerical force of the Cleveland Trust Company, Mr. Freiberger entered upon his financial career in 1901. Advancing through the various departments as he gave proof of his ability and devotion to the interests of the company, he became assistant trust officer in 1903, trust officer in 1907, assistant secretary in 1910, and since 1915 has occupied the office of vice president. Specializing in the work of the trust department, which has to do with the administration of estates, he capably directs that branch of the business, and it is largely through his untiring efforts that the company leads all others in Cleveland in this particular field of fiduciary service. Mr. Freiberger's foresight, experience and sagacity have also been of value to many business organizations and he is well known as a director of the Bailey - 339 - 340 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS Wall Paper Company, The Boston-Panama Coconut Company, the By-Products Pocahontas Company, the Champion Realty Company, The F. D. Cummer & Son Company, the Cuyahoga Mortgage Company, The Fertel, Dangler, Wilson Company, the Federal Improvement Company, The Harbeth Land Company, The Haddam Building Company, The Williamson Company, Island Creek Coal Company, Island Railroad Company, The Mayfield Clubside Realty Company, The Morris Coal Company, The Morris Poston Coal Company, The New Amsterdam Company, The Plaindealer Publishing Company, Pond Creek Pocahontas Company, Queen City Coal Company and The White Sewing Machine Company. In Cleveland, Mr. Freiberger was married June 9, 1903, to Miss Fannie Fertel, by whom he has a son and a daughter, Lloyd Stanton and Ruth Mae, the former born in 1910 and the latter in 1914. They reside with their parents at 2784 Derbyshire Road, Cleveland Heights. Mr. Freiberger's office is at East Ninth street and Euclid avenue, Cleveland. He enjoys outdoor life and largely finds his recreation in golf. His clubs are the Bankers, Tippecanoe, Oakwood Country and Mid-Day. Of the last named he is a director and is serving as vice president of the Alumni Association of Adelbert College of Western Reserve University. In the activities of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce he is a leading spirit and in 1926 was elected treasurer of that civic body, becoming its president in 1927. Deeply interested in religious, educational, civic and welfare work, Mr. Freiberger is rendering effective service along those lines as a trustee of Cleveland College; a trustee and member of the Euclid Avenue Temple; a trustee of Mount Sinai Hospital; and president of the Goodrich Social Settlement. His activities have touched the general interests of society to their betterment and his personal qualities are such as command respect and inspire esteem and confidence. JOSEPH S. BURTON Bending his energies to the mastery of one line of work, Joseph S. Burton has become nationally known in his chosen field and conducts business under the name of Burton Explosives, Inc., of which he is the president, maintaining offices at 629 Euclid avenue, Cleveland. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1883, a son of Noah and Sarah (Patterson) Burton, the former a native of England and the latter of Irish descent. The father has reached the ripe age of eighty years but the mother is deceased. Joseph S. Burton acquired a public school education and at the age of fifteen made his initial step in the commercial world as an employee of the Arthur Kirk & Son Company, manufacturers of powder. He worked in various departments of the plant, becoming familiar with the methods used in making commercial explosives, and determined to devote his life to this line of business—a decision he has never had occasion to regret. When a young man of twenty he went with the Burton Powder Company, controlled by Job Burton, an uncle, and remained with that concern until 1917, when it was acquired by the Grasselli Chemical Company, of which Joseph S. Burton became president and general manager. At that time he came to Cleveland and remained at the head of the Grasselli Company until it passed into the hands of the du Pont Powder Company eleven years later. In 1930 he established a business of his own, which he has since controlled under the name of Burton Explosives, Inc., and in two and a half years has created one of the foremost institutions of the kind in this part of the country. A history of the corporation is given elsewhere in this work. - 341 - 342 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS In 1917 at Washington, Pennsylvania, Mr. Burton married Miss Mary D. Donaldson, by whom he has three children : Joseph S., Jr., born October 31, 1919. Edith T., born October 20, 1922, and Jay H., born May 9, 1924. The residence of the family is at 2319 St. James parkway, in the suburb of Cleveland Heights. Mr. Burton is a member of the Union Club, the Cleveland Athletic Club, the Shaker Heights Club, the Duquesne Club of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the Everglades Club of Palm Beach, Florida. His genial disposition and kindly nature have drawn to him a wide circle of loyal friends, while as a business man he manifests those qualities which make for leadership and inspire esteem and confidence. FRANKLIN B. MEADE Gifted with the ability to plan and create beautiful buildings, Franklin B. Meade has advanced far in his chosen field of usefulness and is justly accounted one of Cleveland's foremost architects. Because of his professional prestige he was selected as a member of the Group Plan Commission, making his services in that connection of lasting benefit to the city. Mr. Meade was born in Norwalk, Ohio, January 6, 1867, a son of Alfred N. and Mattie M. (Morse) Meade, the former also a native of the Buckeye state. The father, a graduate of the Wesleyan College, fought in the Civil war as a captain of the One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry. At the close of that conflict he came to Cleveland and embarked in the lumber business, which claimed his attention until his death in 1903 at the age of sixty-seven years. Born during a visit of his parents to Norwalk, Franklin, better known as "Frank" B. Meade, has spent practically his entire life in Cleveland, leaving the city only when business interests have taken him elsewhere, and has for it the affection of a native son. Following the completion of a course in the Central high school in 1884 he enrolled in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which numbers him among its alumni of 1888, and while pursuing his studies in Boston he became a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity. After his graduation he made practical use of his theoretical knowledge as an employe in the Chicago office of Jenney & Mundie, architects of office buildings, spending four years with that firm. In the fall of 1893 he began his career as an architect - 343 - 344 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS in Cleveland and has here practiced continuously for nearly forty years, designing many residences, clubhouses, factories and office buildings during that period. His high professional standing led to his appointment as secretary of the group plan commission to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of the noted John M. Carrere of New York city, Mr. Meade's associates in this important work being Frederick Law Olmsted of Boston, and Arnold Brunner, of New York. This plan had for its object the grouping of the public buildings, including the post office, library, courthouse, city hall, and Union depot on East Third street and separated by the parks and proposed sunken gardens. For many years Mr. Meade has had J. M. Hamilton as his partner and the firm of Meade & Hamilton specialize in fine residences and club houses. They pioneered Euclid Heights, designed homes for Euclid avenue, Shaker Heights and Wade Park. Among their hundreds of clients are found the names of H. P. Welch, Hermon A. Kelley, Myron T. Herrick, John Sherwin, C. E. Adams, Francis E. Drury, C. A. Grasselli, Joseph R. Kraus, E. R. Grasselli, A. A. Augustus, Justin Sholes and Emil Joseph. They have also erected a number of the finer homes on Lake Shore boulevard, at Clifton Park, at Willoughby, and their architectural work outside the Cleveland area is exemplified in numerous fine residences in Youngstown, Ohio, Detroit, Michigan, Buffalo, New York, and Erie, Pennsylvania. They drew the plans for the club houses of the Shaker Lakes Club at Shaker Heights, the Mayfield Club, the Erie Club, the Elks Club and the Kawkwa Club at Erie and also for the Carnegie Library at East Cleveland. Their work is the expression of a high and enduring art, manifesting splendid adaptation to specific needs, combined with beauty in form and design, and has won for them widespread prominence. Mr. Meade was married November 3, 1898, in Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland, to Miss Dora Rucker, an accomplished THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 345 musician and an outstanding figure in the social and cultural life of the city. They reside at 2057 East One Hundredth street and Mr. Meade's offices are in the Bulkley building. Liberal in his political views, he is a republican where national issues are involved but votes independently at municipal elections. Music constitutes one of the chief sources of his recreation and he plays the violin with considerable skill. He belongs to the Loyal Legion, the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, the Union, Kirtland and Hermit Clubs of Cleveland. He was one of the organizers of the Hermit Club and became its first president and still is occupying the office. Mr. Meade's professional associates honored him with the presidency of Cleveland Chapter of the American Institute of Architects and he has been accorded a fellowship in the national organization. SIDNEY S. WILSON With educational interests of the middle west Sidney S. Wilson is closely and prominently connected as secretary-treasurer of the Western Reserve University of Cleveland, and has also had a successful career as a merchant, financier and business promoter. He was born in Willoughby, Ohio, July 22, 1865, a son of the late Sidney V. Wilson, of whom extended mention is made elsewhere in this work. Reared in his native town, Sidney S. Wilson there pursued his education until graduated from high school in 1882, when seventeen years of age. In the following year he prepared for college at the Buchtel Academy in Akron, Ohio, and afterward matriculated in Western Reserve University, which numbers him among its alumni of 1888. That he was a brilliant student is shown in the fact that he was elected to the honorary scholarship fraternity of Phi Beta Kappa. For a year after his graduation he taught in the high school at Willoughby and in 1889 was admitted to a partnership in the mercantile firm of S. V. Wilson & Son. He was actively associated with his father until the latter's death in 1903. At Willoughby in 1904 he formed the Sidney S. Wilson Company, taking over the entire interests of the old firm and adding the purchased stock of two competitors, besides admitting to the firm several young men who had been identified with the business for a number of years. This organization gained more than local prominence, developing one of the best equipped and best managed general country stores in Ohio. About the same time Mr. Wilson formed the Willoughby Hotel Company, which took over and thoroughly - 347 - 348 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS refitted the old Gibbons House, transforming it into the Modern "Kingsley." Another organization in which Mr. Wilson participated was The Willoughby Banking Company, which subsequently became the second branch of the Cleveland Trust Company. He also acquired stock in several Cleveland industries. For several years he owned and managed the A. C. Rogers Printing Company and also edited and published School Topics, a monthly school journal. An executive of marked ability, Mr. Wilson has used this talent as effectively in public service as in the field of business and his efforts in behalf of various educational institutions have been manifestly resultant and beneficial. He was made general manager of the Andrews Institute for Girls at Willoughby, and for eighteen years was a member of the Willoughby board of education, serving as its president during part of that time. Elected secretary-treasurer of Western Reserve University in 1918, he has served in the dual capacity for thirteen years, greatly furthering its upbuilding, and has been very active in setting up the business and secretarial records of the institution. He was one of the organizers and for many years the president of the Ohio Association of College Treasurers and has placed the higher educational institutions of the state upon a business basis. A strong advocate of civic improvement, he was prevailed upon by his friends in the fall of 1909 to accept the nomination for mayor of Willoughby, and was elected without opposition on the municipal ticket. For two terms, from January 1, 1910, to January 1, 1914, he occupied the office, giving to the town a businesslike and progressive administration productive of much good. At Willoughby he organized the first street fair ever held on the Western Reserve and has ever been a leader in movements and projects for the general welfare. In June, 1891, Mr. Wilson married Miss Anna Clark Kingsley, whom he had known from childhood, and a daughter, Amo Louise, was born to them. She is the wife of Sher- THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 349 man S. Clark, of Beverly Hills, California, and their children are Amo June and Sidney Wilson Clark. Mr. Wilson was one of the first Boy Scout masters and has set aside a portion of his fine farm for their activities. His fraternal affiliations are with the Masons and Knights of Pythias. He belongs to the Alumni Association of Western Reserve University and to the Delta Tau Delta Greek Letter society. Long a trustee of the Western Reserve Historical Society, he was the first member of the board ever elected outside of Cleveland, the affairs of that society having always with this exception been intrusted to the management of Cleveland men. He became a charter member of the Willoughby Chamber of Commerce and later joined the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. During 1917-18 he was the war time president of the Cleveland Advertising Club, and served as vice president of the American Association of Advertisers for many years. The Willowick Country Club, now the Manikeeka Club, also numbered him among its charter members and for a considerable period he was its secretary. He likewise has membership in the Rotary Club, the Union Club of Cleveland, the Rowfant Club, the Hermit Club and the Philosophical Club. His outlook upon life has been broadened by reading and study and by travel throughout this country, Canada, Mexico and Europe. Greatly interested in North American Indians, Mr. Wilson motored over the continent many times, visiting nearly every tribe of redmen in the United States, and is widely known as a lecturer on Indians. His activities and interests have touched life at many points and, like his father, he has exemplified in his career all that is admirable in conduct and character.