850 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS style of Boyd, Cannon, Brooks & Wickham. Upon the death of Mr. Cannon in October, 1930, this was later replaced by the present form of Boyd, Brooks & Wickham, constituting one of the strongest legal combinations in the city. Establishing an enviable reputation as a corporation lawyer, Mr. Boyd was general counsel for the Van Sweringen interests for many years. His gifts were described as follows by an earlier biographer : "He possesses exceptional powers as an orator, both in court and in the public forum, and these qualities, combined with a broad knowledge of the law, have given him his numerous important relations with the legal profession of northern Ohio. By dint of long practice he has acquired the power of swiftly formulating his arguments and is at the same time one of the most concise and powerful pleaders before a court or jury. During the years he has practiced in Cleveland he has come to rank with the leaders of the bar and in the opinion of men well qualified to judge he ranks with hardly a superior as a trial lawyer between New York and Chicago." At Flushing, Ohio, September 7, 1892, Mr. Boyd married Miss Anna Maud Judkins, whose death occurred in Cleveland on the 23d of September, 1908. They were the parents of two children, of whom Mildred A. died January 22, 1911, and the surviving daughter, Mary G., is now the wife of R. E. LeLievre of Cleveland and mother of three children, Jean Ann, William B., and Robert E. A strong republican, Mr. Boyd has been very active in behalf of his party and his opinion carries considerable weight in its councils. He was a Roosevelt delegate to the republican state convention of Ohio in 1912 and was selected as one of the "Ohio Big Four" to represent the Buckeye state as Roosevelt delegates to the national convention of the party held at Chicago in that year. In 1920 he was a delegate at large to the republican national convention and in the same year was elector at large to and president of the Ohio elec-toral college. Other trusts of a public nature have also been THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 851 reposed in Mr. Boyd, who has capably and acceptably filled every office to which he has been called. While living in south-ern Ohio he served as clerk of Flushing township, in Belmont county, and as corporation clerk of the town of Flushing from 1888 to 1890. In July and August, 1891, he was acting police prosecutor in Cleveland during the absence of Mr. Fiedler, the regular prosecutor, and was assistant director of law for the city of Cleveland in 1897 and 1898. In 1905 he was the unsuccessful candidate of his party for mayor of the city, running against the late Tom L. Johnson, and their six joint debates were high lights in the latter's political career. Mr. Boyd has membership in the Epworth Euclid Methodist Episcopal Church, and his fraternal affiliations are with the Masons, the Elks and the Knights of Pythias. He belongs to the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce and to the Cleveland Athletic Club, the Tippecanoe Club and the Western Reserve Republican Club. Appreciative of his ability and worth, the members of the Cleveland Bar Association recently chose Mr. Boyd as their president, which office he has occupied since May 17, 1932, and is also identified with the Ohio State and American Bar Associations. A lawyer of pronounced ability, wide experience and strict integrity, Mr. Boyd upholds the dignity and honor of his calling and stands deservedly high in public esteem. GEORGE C. GROLL The well directed efforts of the late George C. Groll contributed in substantial measure to the development and expansion of the business of the Morgan Lithograph Company, a large and successful commercial enterprise of Cleveland, with which he was continuously connected for forty-four years and in the service of which he rose to the official position of vice president. He combined to a successful degree the ability of the practical business man with that of the artist, and this happy combination brought him to a place of prominence. George C. Groll was born in Cleveland, Ohio, August 2, 1861, his parents being John C. and Margaret (Shubert) Groll, the former a native of Bavaria, Germany. When a youth of eighteen J. C. Groll accompanied a naturalist on an excursion to Mexico, spending two years in the tropical regions, and then came to the United States and located in Cleveland. From this city he traveled as a commercial salesman for many years, and he died here about 1895. His wife survived him until 1910, when she, too, passed away. George C. Groll was a public school pupil in Cleveland until sixteen years of age, after which he went abroad and studied art in Paris and in Holland for about two years. On returning to Cleveland he entered upon what proved to be a lifetime of service with the Morgan Lithograph Company, of which he eventually became a stockholder. After thoroughly acquainting himself with the various departments of the work he was promoted to the position of superintendent and for a number of years prior to his death was vice president of the - 853 - 854 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS company, in the success of which his labors constituted an important factor. On the 25th of June, 1901, Mr. Groll was united in marriage to Miss Mabel Caroline Bell, daughter of Milton A. and Harriet (Foster) Bell. The father of Mrs. Groll was long active in the lumber business. By her marriage she became the mother of two children : George C., Jr., who is a graduate of Culver Military Academy of Indiana and attended Ohio State University and is now connected with the Morgan Lith-ograph Company ; and Ida May, who attended the Laurel School of Cleveland and Branksom Hall of Toronto, Canada, and in 1930, the Fontaine School in Cannes, France. Mr. Groll was an active republican in politics but never felt that his business would permit him to seek office, though he used his influence privately to promote the interests of good government. He was a worthy exemplar of the teachings and purposes of the Masonic fraternity, to which he belonged. For a number of years he was an instructor at the Cleveland Art Club, of which he was one of the founders, and many evidences of his artistic talent remain in the pictures which he painted at his home and sold to appreciative patrons. In his death, which occurred October 19, 1923, when he was sixty-two years of age, Cleveland sustained the loss of a worthy native son and successful business man, his associates a loyal friend and his family a devoted and loving husband and father. LEZIUS-HILES PRINTING COMPANY The Lezius-Hiles Printing Company of Cleveland had its inception nearly a half century ago with the establishment, in 1883, of the Hiles & Coggshall Company, which began the conduct of a general printing business on a small scale on Frankfort street. By 1919, the year prior to the company's consolidation with the Lezius Printing Company, the business amounted to one hundred and fifty thousand dollars annually. The Forest City Printing House, the predecessor of the Lezius Printing Company, was established in 1888 by Charles Lezius, a practical printer, who in the early days performed nearly all of the work in connection with the job printing business, which he began at the corner of West Third and Champagne streets with three employes. The business grad-ually grew and in 1914 was incorporated as the Lezius Printing Company, removal being made at that time to the present location at 1125 Rockwell avenue. The concern was started with a capital of six hundred dollars and continued without new financing until May, 1929, when a bond issue was put out for the purpose of securing new equipment and more working capital with which to pay off bank loans, etc. This was the first outside money in the business. In 1920 the Lezius Printing Company acquired the interests of the Hiles & Coggshall Company and the two concerns were reincorporated under the name of the Lezius-Hiles Printing Company. In recent years the character of the business has been changed from general printing to direct mail advertising or advertis-ing printing, bringing about the introduction of much color - 855 - 856 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS work as well as other special work. The company prepares this advertising material with its customers through the me-dium of the Sales Guild, with offices in New York city, which was formed by the pooling of the art and creative departments of some twenty printing concerns under one roof, thus enabling all to benefit by the employment of skilled artists, designers, etc. The Lezius-Hiles Printing Company now ranks among the first in Clevaland doing work of this character and draws its business from the territory within one hundred miles of the city. Its plant has thirty-six thousand square feet of floor space and about one hundred and forty people are employed therein. The official personnel of the company is as follows : Charles Lezius, president ; P. G. May, vice president; George W. Lezius, secretary and treasurer; and Carl F. Lezius, general manager. All of the above named are active in the conduct of the business with the exception of Charles Lezius, the president, who has retired, leaving its management to his two sons, George W. and Carl F. Lezius. The Lezius-Hiles Printing Company is built from a combination of mergers, thus eliminating a surplus of equipment and a duplication of departments and also eliminating much labor, overhead, etc. These mergers were accomplished by outright purchase, with the final result that only a small block of preferred stock is now in outside hands. The purchase of new equipment has been unnecessary, for the machinery and other outfittings of the amalgamated concerns have met all requirements. The Ohio Legal Blank Company and the National Bank Note Company are subsidiary concerns. FREDERICK CLAYTON WAITE, M. D., Ph. D. The prestige of Cleveland's medical fraternity is ably up-held by Dr. Frederick C. Waite, a man of advanced scientific attainments. He was born in Hudson, Ohio, May 24, 1870, a son of Nelson and Cynthia (Post) Waite, and is of colonial stock in both the paternal and maternal lines. The grandfather, Benjamin Waite, was a native of Hatfield, Massachusetts, and a descendant of Benjamin Waite, of Kent county, England, who settled in Massachusetts in 1642. The Waites fought valiantly for American independence, seven members of the family participating in the battle of Bunker Hill. Benjamin Waite, the great-grandfather of Dr. Frederick C. Waite, removed to Brecksville, Ohio, in 1804, settling on land which he purchased, and was the first man buried there. Benjamin Waite, the Doctor's grandfather, was a carpenter as well as a farmer and had a contract for building four locks in the Ohio canal. He married a daughter of Jacob Kent, who served in the Revolutionary war. Their son, Nelson Waite, was born in Summit county, Ohio, September 28, 1819, and learned the trade of a painter, serving an apprenticeship under John Brown, for whom he worked for about four years. He was in Cleveland in 1840 and did a job of painting. In payment he received an acre of ground at Ninth and Superior streets and in 1844 sold the property for three hundred dollars. He went to California during the gold rush of 1849 and was the first man to drive up the Sacramento valley. An expert shot, he became a pro-fessional hunter and was an Indian fighter in the early days. He spent most of his life in California, returning to Ohio at - 857 - 858 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS the age of eighty-four years, and died at Hudson in 1904. His wife was born in Hudson, March 22, 1829, and attained the advanced age of ninety-seven years, passing away April 13, 1926. She was a daughter of Zina Post and a descendant of Stephen Post, who once owned the site now occupied by Harvard University. Joshua Post, Mrs. Waite's grandfather, was a native of Saybrook, Connecticut, and served with the Continental troops at the time of the American revolution. His son, Zina Post, was born in Saybrook, April 14, 1774, and journeyed to Hudson, Ohio, in 1798. At one time he had a farm of one hundred and sixty acres at what is now Euclid avenue and Seventy-first street, Cleveland, trading it for land in Hudson township, and his grandson, Dr. Waite, now owns this property. Zina Post married Marina Kellogg, who was a niece of Dr. Moses Thompson, the first physician in the Western Reserve. Bradford Kellogg, the father of Marina (Kellogg) Post, served under General Washington in the Rev-olutionary war and came to Ohio as a pioneer. He was a direct descendant of William Bradford, who was the commander of the historic Mayflower and became governor of Plymouth colony in 1621. Mrs. Post was born in Goshen, Connecticut, in 1790 and died in 1877, when eighty-seven years of age. Her grandson, Dr. Frederick C. Waite, was graduated from the Western Reserve Academy in 1888 and won from the Western Reserve University the degree of Bachelor of Literature in 1892 and that of Master of Arts in 1894. Harvard University conferred upon him the Master of Arts degree in 1895 and the honorary degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1898. He was an assistant professor in biology at Western Reserve University from 1892 to 1895, a Morgan fellow in 1896-97, and demonstrator in zoology for a year thereafter. In 1898 he was made instructor in biology at Harvard University, thus continuing for two years, and in 1899 accepted a similar post in New York University. In 1900 he went to Chicago as assistant instructor in anatomy at Rush Medical THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 859 College, where he was assistant professor in histology and embryology from 1901 to 1904. In the latter year he returned to Western Reserve University as assistant professor, receiving a full professorship in 1906, and from 1907 to 1917 was secretary of the medical faculty of that institution. From January, 1918, until February, 1919, he served as a captain in the Sanitary Corps of the United States Army and now holds the rank of major in the Medical Reserve Corps. On the 24th of December, 1916, Dr. Waite was married to Mrs. Emily (Bacon) Fisher and they reside at Wade Park Manor, Cleveland. The Doctor's college fraternities are Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Omega Alpha. In a number of the scientific bodies with which he is identified he has occupied high offices, serving as vice president of the Society of American Medical Colleges during 1905 and 1906, as vice president of the American Microscopic Society in 1913 and as president of the Ohio Academy of Science in 1930. He has been ac-corded a fellowship in the American Academy of Science, an associate fellowship in the American Medical Association, and is a member of the council of the Association of American Anatomists. He also belongs to the Cleveland Academy of Medicine, the Boston Society of Natural History, the Ameri-can Society of Naturalists and the American Society of Zoologists. JOHN MORELAND HENDERSON John M. Henderson, senior member of the law firm of Henderson, Quail, McGraw & Barkley and dean of Cleveland's legal fraternity, has practiced continuously for sixty-seven years. Locating here during the period of the Civil war, he took his first fee as a young lawyer before the last battle over slavery had been fought and in the years that have since elapsed he has long enjoyed a place of eminence and dig-nified leadership at the Ohio bar. Mr. Henderson was born in Newville, Richland county, Ohio, April 14, 1840, a son of Dr. James Patterson Henderson, who represented a Scotch Presbyterian family that was established in America by a missionary sent out by the Presbytery of Fifeshire about the year 1753. Dr. Henderson was one of Ohio's pioneer physicians and stood high in his profession. He came to this state from Pennsylvania in 1833 and engaged in general practice until 1885. Called to public office, he took his seat in the Ohio house of representatives in 1838 and in 1850 was a member of the convention which prepared the constitution of the state. He married Ann Moreland, whose forbears came to this country from the north of Ireland and were early settlers in Pennsylvania. To Dr. James Patterson and Ann (Moreland) Henderson were born four children, of whom John M. Henderson was the only one to reach maturity. His early education was obtained in district schools and a nearby academy. For three years he attended the Kenyon Preparatory School and College, which he left in 1859, at the close of his freshman year, and then matriculated in Miami University at Oxford, Ohio, - 861 - 862 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS from which he received the Bachelor of Arts degree, and later that of Master of Arts. In preparation for the vocation of his choice, he read law for a time in the office of Judge Darius Dirlam at Mansfield, Ohio, and then enrolled as a student in the Cleveland Law School, graduating with the class of 1864. With his admission to the Ohio bar he entered upon his career as an attorney in the Forest city, forming a connection with John C. Grannis in 1865 and continuing with him for ten years. In July, 1875, he joined Virgil P. Kline, now, deceased, in the law firm of Henderson & Kline, which became Henderson, Kline & Tolles in October, 1882, when S. H. Tolles entered the organization. In 1895 Mr. Henderson withdrew from the firm to form a partnership with F. A. Quail, who became the junior member of the firm, which was later enlarged by the admission of George B. Siddall, now deceased, and subsequently they were joined by D. E. Morgan. Under the name of Henderson, Quail, Siddall & Morgan they oper-ated for a number of years, conducting a large law business in the Garfield building, and later changes in the personnel led to the adoption of the present form of Henderson, Quail, McGraw & Barkley. They occupy a suite of offices on the fifteenth floor of the Guardian building and the extent and importance of their clientele is indicative of their status as attorneys and counselors. Mr. Henderson continued in active practice until 1930. He has passed the ninety-second mile-stone on life's journey and is remarkably vigorous and energetic for one of his years. Time has ripened his ability and the exercise of effort has kept him alert. An earlier biographer said of Mr. Henderson : "He brought a vigorous mind, a well trained intellect, and a sense of conscientious and faithful performance to his work as a lawyer, and these qualifications brought him many years ago a distinctive place as a Cleveland lawyer. For many years past he has enjoyed an exceptionally large clientage and he has been in a position to practically choose his own business in the profession. He has never allowed any political or THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 863 other connections to interfere with his work as a lawyer or the obligations he feels toward his home and family. He had the character and attainments which would have graced the bench, but his friends could never prevail upon him to accept a nomination." In former years Mr. Henderson served as president of the Sheriff Street Market & Storage Company, which prospered under his administration, and was a director of several banks and commercial organizations, but is not active in business or financial affairs at the present time. Keenly interested in civic, philanthropic and educational projects, he became president of the board of the A. M. McGregor Home for the Aged, with which he was long connected as a trustee, and served as president of the board of the Case School of Applied Science for twenty-four years. At College Hill, Ohio, on the 20th of June, 1872, Mr. Henderson was married to Anna Ramsey Cary and they had seven children, a son and six daughters : William Cary, now deceased ; Grace M., who became Mrs. Charles Johnson ; Anna, who died in 1918 ; Rebecca Henderson Claflin, Janet Henderson Adams, Florence Henderson and Ruth Henderson. Mr. Henderson resides at 1980 Taylor road. He has lived to witness notable changes in the appearance of Cleveland and in the work of development and improvement has borne a helpful part. When he arrived here neither the public square nor Superior street had been opened through farther than Ninth, except by a narrow alley, and there were no high bridges. He had to do with the opening of Superior street by appropriating fourteen thousand dollars for the purchase of the May property. Suit was brought to confirm the opening of Superior and Ontario streets through the square, contested by the owners of residences on the north side of these thoroughfares. Mr. Henderson votes with the republican party and his public spirit is expressed through his identification with the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. He belongs to the Union 864 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS and University Clubs and his college fraternity is Phi Beta Kappa. An earnest, untiring student, he has constantly added to his store of legal knowledge and is the owner of one of the most complete law libraries in the state. Mr. Henderson enjoys the distinction of being the oldest living ex-president and surviving charter member of the Cleveland Bar Association and his professional colleagues unite in bearing testimony as to his high character and superior mind. HARRY FRANKLIN PAYER Making a brilliant record as a student, Harry F. Payer began his legal career under the most favorable auspices and with the passing years his steadily developing powers have placed him with the foremost representatives of his profession in Ohio. He has long engaged in practice in Cleveland and since 1929 has served as president of the Cuyahoga County Bar Association. A native of the Forest city, he was born July 3, 1875, and is a son of Frank and Mary (Cross) Payer. His father lived in Bohemia until 1868, when he sailed for America, and cast in his lot with the pioneer settlers of Cleveland. After his graduation from the Central high school of this city Harry F. Payer attended Adelbert College of Western Reserve University, which awarded him the A. B. degree in 1897 as well as the merited distinction of magna cum laude. This was followed by a two years' course in the law school of Baldwin University, where he also excelled in his studies, graduating with special honors in 1899, when he received the degree of LL. B. He was admitted to the Ohio bar and in 1901, at the age of twenty-five, was appointed assistant city solicitor of Cleveland under Newton D. Baker, later secretary of war. Mr. Payer's term of service covered six years and upon retiring from the office of assistant city solicitor in 1907 he engaged in private practice in Cleveland. For a number of years he was senior member of the law firm of Payer, Minshall, Karch & Kerr but is now alone and has by far the largest clientele of any attorney in this city. Widely known as a trial lawyer, he is at his best in the preparation of city - 865 - 866 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS legislation, the handling of tax and assessment suits, and par-ticularly in personal injury litigation. In legal combat he is a formidable adversary and it is said that his record of favor-able verdicts is the highest in the United States. Mr. Payer has written and spoken extensively on various aspects of legal reform and has given special attention to the application of psychiatry and its allied subjects to legal procedure. In a series of articles which appeared in the Cleveland News in 1929 under the caption of "Crime Germs—Are You Immune?" he advocated a modernization of our present day methods of dealing with criminals, expressing the view that the purpose of society should be to discover in what way a criminal is defective or at odds with his community and to prescribe a course of adjustment, rather than to imprison him for a stated length of time, during which no effort what-ever is made to understand his individual problem and at the end of which he is released without a means of support and with only his companions in crime for associates. In an article entitled "Keys to Justice" he makes an examination of English law procedure and advocates a reform similar to the English judicature act, by which the United States supreme court would be empowered by legislation to simplify court procedure. His lectures on legal reform were referred for study by Newton D. Baker to the national commission on law observance and enforcement. For four years, from 1921 until 1925, he was chairman of the committee on judicial and legal reform of the Cleveland Bar Association and advocated and secured the creation of a psychiatric clinic in connection with the common pleas court. The clinic was established in 1925 and attracted national attention. Through appoint-ment of the governor, Mr. Payer has served as a member of the Ohio judicial council since 1923. Before this body, pre-sided over by the chief justice of the Ohio supreme court, Mr. Payer has recommended a program of extension of psychi-atric clinics throughout the state, as well as reform measures in the administration of civil cases by unifying the courts, THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 867 simplifying procedure, and investing the courts with a plenary rule-making power. He is the author of the chief justice law of the common pleas court of Cuyahoga county, the purpose of which is to expedite cases by coordinating the work of the judges. This law was characterized by the American Judicature Society as the most efficient in the United States. He was also the originator of the three-fourths jury statute for civil cases, making. possible a three-fourths vote of the jury for a decision ; and a law providing for a thirteenth juror to avoid mistrials and retrials, and for reforms in jury selection. Outside the path of his profession Mr. Payer has also accomplished much work of importance along the line of public service. For fifteen years he represented the Royal Italian consulate in the states of Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. In 1921 he was chairman of the American relief com-mittee in Cleveland, formed to raise funds to provide for the children of Czechoslovakia. He was president of the Czechoslovak Chamber of Commerce during 1924 and 1925 and of the Czechoslovak Club of America in 1929. He is chairman of the Czechoslovak cooperating committee of the Young Men's Christian Association and a personal friend of Dr. Thomas G. Masaryk, president of Czechoslovakia. The late Tom Johnson was an intimate friend of Mr. Payer, whose manifold activities have brought him into close association with many men of note. He is identified with business interests of the city as a director of the Cleveland Real Estate Investment Company and a director of the Wilson Rubber Com-pany. In June, 1902, Mr. Payer was married in Cleveland to Miss Florence L. Graves, and a son, Franklin Lee Payer, was born to them. In April, 1929, the latter married Lida Flor-ence Creamer, of Los Angeles, California, and they now have a son, Franklin Lee, Jr. The residence of Harry F. Payer is at 2420 Derbyshire road, Cleveland, and his office is on the twentieth floor of the Guarantee Title building. In politics 868 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS he is a stalwart democrat and in 1900 was secretary of the state central committee of his party. He belongs to the Acacia Country and Cleveland Athletic Clubs; the Masonic order, in which he has taken the thirty-second degree; the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity; and is an ex-president of the Alumni Association of Adelbert College, having acted in that capacity in 1923 and 1924. His fellow practitioners gave substantial proof of their appreciation of his worth in May, 1931, when he was reelected for the third term as president of the Cuyahoga County Bar Association. As a member of the judiciary and legal reform committees he figures prominently in the affairs of the Cleveland Bar Association and is also a valued member of the Ohio State Bar Association and the American Bar Association. Throughout his career as a lawyer Mr. Payer has been an indefatigable student of legal science and has disseminated knowledge of vital worth to the profession. His is one of the finest private libraries in Cleveland and contains books of great value. He has also collected rare art objects, including some Bohemian ruby glass, which is said to be unequaled in the United States. Through healthful out-door exercise he maintains that physical well being so essen-tial to intense mental effort and derives enjoyment from golf and horseback riding. GEORGE ASHLEY TOMLINSON Among Cleveland's men of note is numbered George A. Tomlinson, one of the foremost representatives of shipping interests in this part of the country. Beginning life as a cowboy, he has had an interesting and picturesque career of varied experiences, and if he cared to write an autobiography, it would be novelesque in content no matter how factual its style might be. Of him James Oliver Curwood said : "He has developed from the typical adventurer of fortune into one of the great men of the lakes." Mr. Tomlinson was born in Lapeer, Michigan, January 26, 1866, a son of Samuel James and Abigail A. (Gage) Tomlinson, who were natives of Philadelphia and members of the Society of Friends. His father became a journalist and engaged in newspaper work in the Wolverine state for several years. He was a son of Alva Tomlinson, a Michigan pioneer, who was conversant with the language of the Indians in that region and acted as interpreter for the government in the early days. Leaving high school before the completion of his course, George A. Tomlinson sought and obtained work as a legislative messenger in Lansing, the state capital of Michigan. At the age of seventeen he went to Rawlins, Wyoming, where he realized his ambition of becoming a cowboy. He rode the range for two years and while in the west was captured and tortured by the Ute Indians. An expert horseman, he joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show as one of five rough riders and broncho busters, and among his prized possessions are several autographed letters from Colonel Cody. With his organiza- - 869 - 870 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS tion Mr. Tomlinson traveled throughout the United States and Europe and in London a private exhibition was given by the wild west performers for the entertainment of Queen Vic-toria and King Edward. Mr. Tomlinson left the show to take up newspaper work at the age of twenty-three and as a police court reporter he saw life unvarnished. Of his work in this connection a contemporary biographer said : "As a redheaded cub reporter he engineered an interview with the unapproachable Lewis Cass Ledyard, railroad magnate. Thus, by donning a frock suit, a slightly mussed silk hat and dashing past the colored guard, announcing imperiously, 'Mr. Ledyard is expecting me. I'm his nephew from New York.' When Ledyard turned a cold blue eye on the lad and said, 'Would you prefer to walk out or be thrown out,' Tomlinson never blinked, but kept on talking, and suggested to Ledyard that here was his opportunity to help a young fellow get on in the world. It worked, and soon our hero was smoking a Henry Clay cigar." While a special writer on the New York Sun, Mr. Tomlinson learned terseness under Charles A. Dana, later becoming night editor of the Detroit Tribune, and for a time was managing editor of the Detroit Times, a Scripps paper. Mr. Tomlinson reached the turning point in his career in 1892, when he went to Duluth, Minnesota, to enter the vessel brokerage business, and in this field his achievements have been notable. He built up a large fleet of steel ships, known as the Tomlinson fleet, which he has since operated, varying the number of vessels. In 1917 he established an office in Cleveland and here maintains his headquarters, but remains a citizen of Duluth. The Tomlinson Fleet Company, of which he is president, occupies a suite high in the Terminal Tower, one of Cleveland's tallest buildings. He is also president of the Cleveland Dry Dock Company, the Cleveland & Buffalo Transit Company and the Superior Ship Building Company ; vice president of the Great Lakes Towing Company; a member of the executive committees of the American Ship Build- THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 871 ing Company, the Great Lakes Transit Corporation and the Lake Carriers Association. Year by year he has expanded his interests until his name represents the largest independent ownership of freighters that sail the Great Lakes. His boats carry more than two million tons of ore each year and as one of the shipping magnates of the United States he has materially furthered the country's industrial growth and importance. In addition to his extensive shipping operations, Mr. Tomlinson is president of Wade Park Manor ; a member of the executive committees of the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company and the Goodyear Zeppelin Company ; and a director of the Midland Bank of Cleveland, the Texas & Pacific Railroad Company and the Buffalo Elevator Company. His clear, farseeing brain enables him to readily grasp every detail of a project, however great its magnitude. Moreover, he is capable of long application and concentration and after hours of strenuous work has ample reserve of strength for those critical emergencies which make the greatest demands upon the powers of apprehension and judgment. In 1893 Mr. Tomlinson was married to Miss Laura Isabel Davidson, a daughter of Captain James E. Davidson, a pioneer shipbuilder and operator. They made their home in Duluth until 1917, when they removed to Cleveland. In that year Mr. Tomlinson was appointed a member of the Inland Waterways Commission and did very important work in that connection. Afterward he became manager of the New York barge canal district and subsequently was director of all inland waterways in the United States. During the World war he was made a member of the board of railroad administration and so continued until March 1, 1920, when the government relinquished control of the roads. Mr. Tomlinson's social contacts are largely made through his connection with the Metropolitan, Grolier and India House Clubs of New York, and the Union, Terminal, Kirtland and Rowfant Clubs of Cleveland. Of the last named organization 872 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS he is a past president. An untiring worker, he often spends fourteen hours a day at his desk, and maintains that application is the secret of business success, believing that what one lacks in ability he can make up by assiduity. Rising each morning at five, he reads for an hour before going to the docks. He is thoroughly familiar with the contents of the books in his library, which contains some old and rare volumes. He enjoys travel and also finds time for the breeding of blooded horses. Baseball is his favorite sport and it is said that he keeps score with the meticuluousness of a statistician. In commenting upon his outstanding achievements a staff correspondent for a local paper wrote as follows: "President of numerous steamship companies and director of many banks, Mr. Tomlinson at sixty-two is a vital member of that group which made Cleveland one of the three largest inland ports in the world. Powerfully built, thick-chested and white-haired, with a stride that is almost elemental and a face that Rodin might have chiseled, Mr. Tomlinson resembles in mental aggressiveness and play of temperament the late John Pierpont Morgan. Like Morgan, he believes a man is loved as much for his infirmities as for his strength, and, like Morgan, he usually takes what he wants out of the grabbag of experience." THOMAS FERRY Thomas Ferry is a successful representative of industrial interests in Cleveland as president and general manager of the Ferry Cap & Set Screw Company, which he founded a quarter of a century ago. He was born at Cuyahoga Falls, Summit county, Ohio, October 15, 1870, his parents being Thomas and Isabella (Stewart) Ferry, well known and re-spected residents of that place. His grandparents in the maternal line, the Stewarts, were natives of Scotland, descended from one of the oldest and most prominent clans of that historic country. They emigrated to the United States in 1843 and settled on a farm in the vicinity of Hudson, Ohio, where they spent the remainder of their lives. The four surviving members of the family of Thomas and Isabella (Stewart) Ferry are as follows: Thomas, of this review ; William, a resident of Newark, New Jersey ; Joseph, of Burton, Ohio ; and Rachel, the wife of Harry Schafer, of Akron, Ohio. Thomas Ferry secured an excellent public school training and in 1886 was graduated from the Cuyahoga Falls high school. He early displayed an interest in machinery and considerable deftness with tools, and this determined his future when the time came for him to make choice of an occupation, and he entered upon an apprenticeship of three years with the Falls Rivet & Machine Company. Upon completing this apprenticeship he came to Cleveland and entered the employ of the National Screw & Tack Company as a toolmaker, working as such so expertly that his promotion to the office of foreman followed, and in that capacity he displayed so much executive ability that further advancement was only a matter - 873 - 874 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS of time. He became assistant superintendent, then superintendent, subsequently general superintendent and was filling this position with credit when he resigned in 1907. In order to embark in a business of his own and to make use of his patented processes for his own profit, Mr. Ferry severed his connection with the company with which he had been so long identified, although he had but limited capital and knew that he had strong competitors. A pleasant comparison may be made between conditions when Mr. Ferry in 1907 founded the Ferry Cap & Set Screw Company, which at present is located at No. 2151 Scranton road, and 1932. He started with nine thousand square feet of floor space and now has seventy-eight thousand, six hundred square feet. Seven men were employed in the works at first and in the first year between twenty and thirty tons of cap screws were turned out. Today seven hundred and fifty experienced men are on the payroll. The officers of the Ferry Cap & Set Screw Company are as follows : Thomas Ferry, president and general manager ; H. D. North, vice president and sales manager ; George M. North, treasurer; and Edward W. Ferry, secre-tary. The directors, in addition to the above named, are George Coulton, C. L. Bradley and Dr. Clyde Cummer. The plant manufactures a general line of cap screws, set screws and machine parts, and all their manufacturing is done under the Ferry process patent, which insures reliability and durability. The Ferry Company maintains its own sales organization and its products are sold throughout the United States and Canada. That Mr. Ferry has built up such an extensive business is creditable to him in every way, a testimonial to his energy and ability. At Cleveland, Ohio, on May 29, 1893, Mr. Ferry was united in marriage to Miss Katherine Dean, and they have two children, a son and a daughter, Edward W. and Margaret Isabel. The former graduated from the electrical engineering department of the Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland in 1918 and has since been associated with his THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 875 father in business, now holding the official position of secretary of the Ferry Cap & Set Screw Company. In 1922 he married Mrs. Margaret Lonergran, who was also born and educated in Cleveland, and they are now the parents of four sons : Thomas (II) , Edward, Robert and William. Margaret Isabel was graduated from the Women's College of Western Reserve University, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and in 1923 became the wife of L. C. Corcoran, by whom she has three children : William, Kathleen and Mary. An earlier biographer wrote : "Mr. Ferry has always supported the principles and policies of the republican party, but he is essentially a business man, and neither the honors nor emoluments of public office have ever claimed his interest. He is public spirited and interested in all that concerns the progress of the city and is an important factor in the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers." Mr. Ferry is also vice president of the Associated Industries and has membership in the Cleveland Athletic Club, while fraternally he is affiliated with the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias, of which he is a charter member. His life has ever been guided by honorable principles and his acts prompted by worthy motives and he stands as the highest type of American manhood and citizenship. WILLIAM ELGIN WICKENDEN, D. E., Sc. D., LL. D. William E. Wickenden, widely known as president of the Case School of Applied Science of the Western Reserve Uni-versity and as the author of books on education and engineer-ing, was born in Toledo, Ohio, December 24, 1882, a son of Thomas Rogers and Ida (Consaul) Wickenden. His advanced studies were pursued at Denison University, which awarded him the Bachelor of Science degree in 1904, and at the University of Wisconsin, which he attended from 1905 until 1907. He was also an instructor at the University of Wisconsin from 1905 to 1909, when he went to Boston as assistant professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and in 1914 was advanced to the status of a professor, remaining with that institution until 1918. For three years thereafter he was personnel manager of the Western Electric Company and in 1921 was made assistant vice president of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company. In 1923 he resigned to assume the duties of director of investigation of the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education, acting in that capacity until 1929, when he became president of the Case School of Applied Science, which has gained additional prestige under his able direction. His scholarly attainments won for him the honorary degree of Doctor of Engineering from Lafayette College at Easton, Pennsylvania, in 1926, the Worcester (Mass.) Polytechnic Institute in 1927 and the Case School of Applied Science in 1929 ; the honorary degree of Doctor of Science from Denison University in 1928 and from Bucknell University in 1930, and that of Doctor of Laws from Oberlin University in 1930. - 877 - 878 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS Dr. Wickenden was married September 2, 1908, to Mkss Marian Susan Lamb, of Toledo, and they have a son and a daughter : Elizabeth, who was graduated from Vassar College in June, 1931 : and William Clarence. The residence of the family is at 11125 Bellflower road, Cleveland. In 1918, during the World war, Dr. Wickenden was connected with the Students Army Training Corps, serving as regional supervisor of personnel methods. He is a trustee of Cleveland College and chairman of the school committee of the Cleveland Community Fund. In religious belief he is a Unitarian and his college fraternities are Sigma Chi, Sigma Xi and Phi Beta Kappa. He has been accorded a fellowship in the American Association for the Advancement of Science and is a member of the Society for the Promotion of Engi-neering, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. An earnest student, he has constantly added to his store of useful knowledge and has collaborated in the writing of various books and articles on engineering and education—subjects upon which he is thoroughly informed. He is the author of the following books: "Illumination and Photometry," which ap-peared in 1909; "A Comparative Study of Engineering Education in the United States and Europe," issued in 1929; and "A Study of Technical Institutes," published in 1931. Along social lines Dr. Wickenden has membership in the Canterbury Golf Club, the Union Club and the University Club. THE OTIS STEEL COMPANY The Otis Steel Company is not only one of the most important of Cleveland's major industrial establishments, but it has the distinction of being the oldest company in the country formed for the exclusive purpose of making open hearth steel. Its business history dates back to the days when steel making by any process was in its infancy and open hearth steel, now representing a very large proportion of all the steel made, was upon little more than an experimental basis. In addition to its own important contribution to Cleveland's industrial life, the Otis Steel Company can lay claim to direct descent from two of the city's oldest industrial enter-prises, conducted in former years by Charles A. Otis, founder of the present company, and William A. Otis, his pioneer father. It was William A. Otis who first stamped the name of Otis on iron and steel. Of Revolutionary parentage, he walked from Massachusetts to Pittsburgh in 1818, looking for a job. He found one in a primitive iron works and worked and saved and invested his spare money with the firm. When that failed he took to the high road again. Twenty years later he was a forwarding and commission merchant in Cleveland with a prosperous business, and the proprietor of a wholesale hardware house. In connection with the hardware trade he set up his own iron furnace, although its location and subsequent history are not known. Charles A. Otis, son of William A., was a young man when the first railroad was completed to Cleveland. He saw at once the opportunity in iron which the railroad would create - 879 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 881 Cleveland Furnace Company, was purchased. Here in 1914, shortly after the commencement of the World war, a plate mill and four jobbing mills were placed in operation. This became known as the Riverside plant. When the war ended and industry took a sudden slump, the British owners decided to sell and a group headed by John Sherwin, Cleveland financier, purchased the stock. Shortly after the Otis Steel Company had again become an American owned concern the adjoining Cleveland Furnace Company was purchased. Then the decision was reached to make the Riverside Works a completely integrated steel plant and in the property between the furnaces, where iron ore, unloaded directly from ore-carrying ships, was made into iron, four open hearth furnaces, a 40-inch blooming mill and a sheet bar mill were constructed. Hot and cold strip mills followed and in 1927 one, and in 1928 three more open hearth furnaces were added, giving the company eight modern basic open hearth furnaces at the Riverside plant, with an annual capacity of 720,000 tons of steel, in addition to five at the Lakeside works with a capacity of 170,000 tons annually, a total of 890,000 tons per year. The Lakeside works has also three acid open hearth furnaces. Its total furnace capacity is sufficient to supply the entire requirements of its finishing mills. From its beginning the Otis Steel Company has been largely concerned with transportation requirements. One of its first lines of manufacture was steel plates for locomotive and other boilers. A few years ago when the Southern Pacific Railway tore down a locomotive which had been shipped around Cape Horn before there were any transcontinental rail lines, the imprint of the Otis Steel Company was found on the fire box plates, in continuous service for fifty years. Plates for tanks and tank cars and many other uses were made, and when the modern form of automotive transportation entered the market the Otis Steel Company became a large maker of sheet and strip steel for its use. 882 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS But while transportation needs have always taken much of the Otis capacity, research has developed other markets in recent years and Otis steel products are found in metal fur-niture, building trim, household appliances and many other modern developments. The Lakeside works has also done extensive steel casting, some of the largest castings known to industry having been turned out there. During the depression years which followed the mighty expansion of the World war many of the steel companies suffered severe loss of earning power, and the Otis Steel Com-pany was no exception. In 1925 the company had a change of management, E. J. Kulas becoming president, with R. H. Clarke as vice president and chief assistant to Mr. Kulas. Under the new management the company's plant properties have been steadily improved, more than $15,000,000 having been expended out of earnings for this purpose prior to the inauguration of the most recent great expansion project. The productive capacity of 890,000 tons of ingot steel per year represents an increase from a capacity of 263,000 tons in 1924, while the plants now have a capacity of 10,000 tons of sheet metal per month as against 4,000 tons in 1924 and 20,500 tons of hot and cold rolled strip, which compares with 5,800 tons in 1924. The expansion program, put under way in 1931, is in keeping with the progressive spirit of its management. It involves the construction of a new continuous strip mill at a total expenditure of more than $5,000,000. Completion of the mill, together with other improvement plans, will keep the company at the forefront of important independent steel units of the country. FRANK F. GENTSCH Since 1898 Frank F. Gentsch has continuously engaged in the practice of his profession in Cleveland and is particularly well known as a corporation lawyer of high standing. With post-graduate experience in the school of politics, he has long been a power in the state councils of the democratic party and his influence is ever on the side of movements for reform, progress and improvement. He was born in New Philadelphia, Ohio, July 22, 1874, and is of Swiss lineage in the paternal line. His grandfather, John Conrad Gentsch, was a native of the canton of Thurgau and as a young man emigrated from Switzerland to the United States, settling in Cleveland, which was then a small town. Here he followed the trade of a shoemaker and his name appears in Cleveland's first directory, which was issued in 1837. Later he became the proprietor of a hotel in New Philadelphia, where he spent the remainder of his life. His son, Dr. Daniel C. Gentsch, the father of Frank F. Gentsch, was born in New Philadelphia, November 18, 1844, and after graduating from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy won the M. D. degree from Georgetown University. In the medical profession he gained success and prominence and enjoyed a large practice as a specialist in diseases of the eye, nose and throat. For a number of years he was active in the affairs of the medical societies of Ohio. From 1885 until 1889 he was chief of the special examination division of the pension department at Washington, D. C., and was its assistant medical referee from 1893 until 1898. At the time of the - 883 - 884 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS Civil war he espoused the cause of the Union, enlisting in the Eighty-eighth Ohio Infantry, and became ill about four months later. Disqualified for active duty, he afterward served as a civilian in the commissary department. He married Elizabeth Holly Powleson, who was born in New Philadelphia on Christmas day of 1847. She was a daughter of Richard and Celinda Powleson, the former a native of New York and the latter of German Valley, New Jersey. The mother of Mrs. Gentsch was a member of a German family whose name was changed from Nachbar to Neighbor after their emigration to the United States. Mrs. Gentsch passed away April 23, 1913, and her husband died May 30, 1914, as the Memorial day parade was passing. his home. Their son, Frank F. Gentsch, was a pupil in the public schools of Washington, D. C., for three years and in 1892 was graduated from the high school at New Philadelphia, afterward taking a three years' course in Georgetown University. With this preparation he entered the Columbian University Law School, from which he won the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1895 and that of Master of Laws in the following year. With his admission to the bar he took up work in the legal department of the United States pension bureau, having charge of the disbarment of attorneys and criminal prosecutions for violations of the pension laws. In 1896 he was transferred into the field as special examiner for the pension bureau at Lawrenceburg, Indiana, and also at Columbus, that state. In that capacity he continued until July 1, 1898, soon afterward locating in Cleveland, and here entered upon the practice of law in the office of L. A. Russell, with whom he remained until April 1, 1901. At that time he joined L. Q. Rawson, with whom he was engaged in general practice for several years under the style of Rawson & Gentsch, and was next a member of the firm of Collister, Gentsch & Kavanaugh. Later Mr. Rawson rejoined the organization, which then became known as Gentsch, Rawson, THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 885 Smith, Kavanaugh & Carpenter—a relationship that existed until 1927, when the present form of Gentsch & Long was adopted. They have long been classed with the leading exponents of legal interests in this city and enjoy an extensive practice. While well equipped to handle all kinds of litigation, Mr. Gentsch is at his best in the organization and reorganization of corporations, in devising plans to meet business needs, in rescuing business interests from disastrous conditions and in furnishing plans for rehabilitation. On the 11th of June, 1902, Mr. Gentsch was married to Miss Jane F. McClean, a daughter of Charles and Elizabeth (Fribley) McClean, of New Philadelphia, and two children were born to them : Elizabeth M., now the wife of B. P. James, of Toledo; and Frank F., Jr., who married Miss Martha McKee, of Cleveland. For recreation Mr. Gentsch turns to gardening, raising many beautiful flowers, and also enjoys motoring. Fraternally he is identified with the Knights of Pythias, the National Union, the Woodmen of the World, and the York and Scottish Rite bodies of Masons. In 1906 he was elected president of the county cabinet of the National Union, serving for a year. He belongs to the Automobile Club of Cleveland and to the Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio State and American Bar Associations. His professional colleagues showed their appreciation of his worth by choosing him to represent Cleveland in the national convention of the American Bar Association in May, 1931. The name of Frank F. Gentsch has long been prominently associated with the activities of the democratic party in Ohio. He has been a delegate to various state conventions and from 1900 until 1902 was a member of the state central committee. An ardent follower of William Jennings Bryan, he participated in the presidential campaigns of 1896 and 1900 and in the latter was particularly active, exerting all of his influence as a delegate to both the state and national conventions 886 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS in order to secure the renomination of "the peerless leader." Mr. Gentsch was a member of the board of elections from 1904 until 1908, serving as its president during the first two years of that period. In Cuyahoga county, during the days of the supremacy of the so-called "kid democracy," he was one of its leaders, "earning the reputation of being bold and fearless in a fight, a good counselor, and prizing above all an undeviating loyalty for his friends." In the councils of the party his opinions carry weight, for he is thoroughly conversant with the political situation and is constantly studying out new methods for the ultimate advancement of the principles in which he believes. He was the nominee of his party for congressman from the twenty-first district in 1910 and in 1928 was a wet candidate for the United States Senate, stating his position with reference to the Volstead act long before Al Smith announced his stand on prohibition. In 1928, during his candidacy for the long term of the United States senate, Mr. Gentsch said, in part : "With the nomination of Al Smith for the presidency on the democratic ticket, whether the politicians like it or not, the question as to whether the eighteenth amendment and the various enforcement acts have justified themselves or not, is bound to be a dominating issue. Every good citizen deplores the conditions growing out of the existence of the saloon, and all hoped that prohibition would prove the blessing that its proponents claimed it would be. No one but the most bigoted and narrow-minded today will claim that prohibition has been a success, or that it has been anything but a failure. For this reason, believing that the amendment is wrong in principle, I want to see it repealed, but much as I am opposed to the amendment, I am just as strongly opposed to a change which would mean the return of the saloon, or which would not materially better the conditions as we have them today. I believe that the liquor question can only be solved by education that means true temperance and by the adoption of a THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 887 plan by which the government not only supervises the manufacture of all liquors to insure, purity of product, but distributes it along the line of the Ontario plan. I believe that with the adoption of such a plan, conditions will steadily improve, restore respect for law and break up the unholy alli-ance between the Anti-Saloon League and the bootlegger. It will further relieve the tremendous burden of taxation which is now bearing upon everybody heavily, and especially the agricultural communities." GEORGE F. WALZER Through his own exertions George F. Walzer has attained a place of prominence in industrial circles of Cleveland, his native city, and is successfully administering the affairs of The Metal Equipment Company, bringing to the discharge of his duties as president the knowledge and wisdom resulting from many years of practical experience in this line of busi-ness. He was born in 1889, and was but nine months old when his father died. After taking a course in an old German military school of Cleveland, George F. Walzer studied drawing and drafting in the East Technical high school, which he attended at night, for he was employed during the day. When a lad of thirteen he started to work and at the age of sixteen entered the plant of the Ohio Blower Company as a helper. Readily mastering the tasks assigned him, Mr. Walzer was a full fledged mechanic at the age of nineteen and in charge of erection, with twelve men under him. A year later he was again promoted, becoming one of the traveling representatives of the Ohio Blower Company, and materially increased their sales in his territory. His position was that of sales supervisor for the states of Indiana and Ohio when he severed his connection with the Ohio Blower Company, which he served faithfully and capably for seventeen years. He resigned in 1922 to establish a business of his own in Cleveland and has since been president of the Metal Equipment Company, specializing in the manufacture of dust arrestors and sand blasting machines. Under his expert guidance the company has made notable progress within a period of ten years. More extended - 889 - 890 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS mention of the business is made elsewhere in this work. In addition Mr. Walzer is serving as president of the Parsons Engineering Corporation of Cleveland, vice president of the Berea Road Investment Company, and a director of the Steel-blast Abrasive Company of Cleveland. In 1915 Mr. Walzer married Miss Emma Schaeffer, who was also born, reared and educated in the Forest city, and they have four children : Jean Elizabeth, Emma Marie, Walter William and George F., Jr., aged respectively fifteen, fourteen, twelve and seven years. The two daughters are in high school. Mr. Walzer owns and occupies a desirable home at 1679 Parkwood road in the attractive suburb of Lakewood. He belongs to the Ohio Chamber of Commerce and also to the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. In Masonry he has connection with Woodward Lodge, No. 508, F. and A. M., and with the Grotto. He worships with his family in the Congregational Church and is a generous contributor to its support. He loyally cooperates in all well defined movements and projects for the advancement and betterment of his city and is a self-made man who well merits the respect that is uniformly accorded him. WILLIAM J. HAWORTH William J. Haworth, who has been actively identified with the marble business in Cleveland during the past thirty-five years, has developed an extensive and successful enterprise of this character as president and treasurer of the Haworth Marble Company, which he organized in 1919. He was born in this city on the 21st of July, 1873, his parents being Albert and Magdalene (McCutcheon) Haworth, natives of England and Canada, respectively, who came to Cleveland about 1870. Albert Haworth engaged in the hotel business here until his death, and his wife has also passed away. William J. Haworth was graduated from Kenyon College of Gambier, Ohio, in 1896 and spent the following year in the service of the United States government. In 1897 he entered the marble business with the firm of Norcross Brothers, continuing in this connection until 1911, when he organized the firm of Allen & Haworth. Eight years later, in 1919, he established the Haworth Marble Company, of which he has since remained at the head in the dual official capacity of president and treasurer. He has satisfactorily executed many important contracts, including the marble work for the Museum of Art, the Public Library, the Hanna building, the Bulkley building, the Plain Dealer building, the Halle Brothers store, the Terminal Tower building, the Medical Arts building and the new Higbee store, and has also done considerable work outside of Cleveland. In 1903 Mr. Haworth married Miss Anna Crocker, of Cleveland, and they are the parents of three children : Mar- - 891 - 892 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS tha, Miriam and Robert. Mr. Haworth has membership in the Union Club, the Cleveland Athletic Club and. the Shaker Heights Country Club and has long enjoyed high standing in both social and business circles of his native city. HAROLD J. MISKELL That Harold J. Miskell, of Cleveland, is a young man of exceptional attainments is shown in his noteworthy achievements in connection with organization management and publicity work, although he stands practically upon the threshold of his business career, for he is but thirty-two years of age. He was born in this city December 28, 1898, and is a son of John B. Miskell, a native of Upton, Massachusetts. The father came to Cleveland in 1895, and for many years was associated with the Comey & Johnson Company, but is now retired from business. The mother, who bore the maiden name of Gertrude Waddell, was born in Brooklyn, New York, and is now deceased. Harold J. Miskell supplemented his high school education by attendance at Adelbert College in Cleveland and after entering business life became assistant secretary of the Cleveland Advertising Club. He held the position for three years, resigning to assume the duties and responsibilities of public director of the Cleveland Orchestra. His success was so marked that he decided to concentrate his attention upon that line of work and in association with Donald C. Dougherty engaged in the business of organization management and publicity. Two years later this concern was enlarged, at which time the style of Dougherty, Miskell, Merriam & Sutton was adopted. Under this name the business was conducted until November, 1927, when there was another change in the personnel, and the present form of Miskell & Sutton was assumed. Mr. Miskell has since been head of the firm and Rodney C. Sutton is the junior member. They have a suite of - 893 - 894 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS offices on the seventh floor of the Bulkley building and represent the Metropolitan Opera Company, whose publicity work they have handled for five seasons; the University School; the Singers Club ; the Princeton Triangle News; the Yale Glee Club ; the Harvard Hasty Pudding show ; the Stadium Grand Opera Company ; the American Opera Company and other organizations of note. Their services have also been sought in connection with the management of the Catholic Charities campaign, the University of Akron campaign, bird lectures for the City Club, the Cleveland Spring Horse Show, the Cleveland Industrial Exposition and the National Polo Tournament. Every commission intrusted to Miskell & Sutton has been satisfactorily handled by the members of this well known firm, who are widely recognized as experts in their special field of service. In 1928 Mr. Miskell was married to Miss Eleanor Whitney of Cleveland and both are prominent in the social life of the city. Mr. Miskell is a member of the Cleveland Adver-tising Club and the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. He has progressed far in his chosen vocation and belongs to that class of men who never stop short of their objectives—the real leaders who are destined to excel in whatever they under-take. JOSEPH KENDRICK Industrial interests of Cleveland have a capable representative in Joseph Kendrick, president of the Austin Powder Company, extensively engaged in the manufacture of commercial explosives. He was born in this city, to which his parents, Joseph and Anna ( Talty) Kendrick, came as children from Scotland during the decade of the '30s. In the paternal line the grandfather and great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch were also named Joseph and for generations the man of the family followed the sea for a livelihood. The father was closely identified with marine interests of this part of the country as the owner of lake boats. Joseph Kendrick of this review pursued his education in the schools of his native city and early in his business career entered the employ of the Austin Powder Company, to which he has given the best energies of his life. This is the second oldest company in Cleveland and one of the oldest in the Buckeye state. The business was founded at Akron, Ohio, in 1833 by five Austin brothers, the last of whom died in 1887. The enterprise was maintained in Akron until 1865, when the Austin Powder Company transferred their activities to Cleveland and built a factory on the Ohio canal at five-mile lock. In 1907 they removed to Menlo, Ohio, where they erected a modern plant on a tract of one thousand acres, and from time to time have added to this other units until the buildings now cover five hundred acres. There they have a model institution, capable of producing fifty thousand pounds of commercial explosives per day, and their factory at McArthur, Ohio, also completely equipped, has a large daily capacity. - 895 - 896 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS The output comprises a full line of commercial explosives and has a wide sale. As previously stated, Mr. Kendrick is the chief executive officer of this large corporation and associated with him in its management are J. G. Murray, treasurer, and V. H. Moorehouse, secretary. In addition to serving as president of the Austin Powder Company, Mr. Kendrick is a director of the Kinney Steamship Company and the Central National Bank of Cleveland. His name appears on the membership rolls of the Union Club and the Cleveland Athletic Club. ADRIAN ETTINGER Adrian Ettinger is successfully engaged in the brokerage business as a member of the firm of Ettinger & Brand, with offices in the National City Bank building of Cleveland. He is a native of this city, born September 8, 1893, and a son of Charles and Jeanette (Goldsoll) Ettinger, who were also born in Cleveland, Ohio. Charles Ettinger, deceased, was a well known jeweler of the city, and his widow still makes her home here. Isaac Ettinger, the paternal grandfather of Adrian Ettinger, was a native of Germany who came to Cleveland in an early day and established himself in business as a tobacco manufacturer. Adrian Ettinger was graduated from Harvard University in 1915 and two years later, in 1917, completed a course in the law department of that institution. The United States having- become involved in the World war, he served with the Council of National Defense for nine months and was afterward in the air service as a second lieutenant until the signing of the armistice. With his return to civil life he began the practice of law in Cleveland, remaining a member of the bar here until 1924, when he became a partner of Samuel Ungerleider in the brokerage business. At the end of four years, in 1928, he organized the brokerage firm of Ettinger & Hirst, which in 1930 became Ettinger & Brand, his present associate being C. W. Brand. Mr. Ettinger is a member of the New York Stock Exchange, the Chicago Board of Trade, the Chicago Stock Exchange, the New York Cotton Exchange, the New York Rubber Exchange, the Cleveland Stock Ex-change, the Detroit Stock Exchange, the Milwaukee Stock and - 897 - 898 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS Grain Exchange, the Chicago Curb Association and the New York Curb Association. In 1920 Mr. Ettinger was united in marriage to Miss Alice Joseph, of Cleveland, daughter of Emil Joseph, whose biography appears on another page of this work. Mr. and Mrs. Ettinger are the parents of four children, namely : Robert, Ernest, Virginia and Adrian, Jr. Mr. Ettinger is a member of the American Legion, the Cleveland Aviation Club, the Mid-Day Club, the Oakwood Club and the Harvard Club of Cleveland and enjoys deserved popularity in social as well as business circles of the city. METAL EQUIPMENT COMPANY Incorporated in 1922, the Metal Equipment Company succeeded to the business of the old Ohio Blower Company, the first enterprise of its kind in Cleveland. The new corporation started operations in a factory on West One Hundred and Sixth street, purchasing the building. As the business grew more space was required and in 1929 they bought additional land adjoining and extending to One Hundred and Fifth street. On this property they built an addition to their plant, which is of modern mill construction, equipped with machinery of the latest and most improved type, and electrically operated. The company is engaged in the manufacture of dust collecting systems, blower and ventilating equipment, and welding, brazing and sheet metal construction, but specializes in dust arresters and sand blasting machines. Through its own sales force the firm markets its products and also has an efficient engineering staff, enabling it to satisfactorily handle erection work. Steadily expanding, the business has become national in its scope and the house has also established an export trade with Russia. The officers responsible for the success of the Metal Equipment Company are : George F. Walzer, president and manager ; William P. Morrissey, vice president ; Andrew R. Wohlman, treasurer ; and W. H. Wentzlaff, secretary. Associated with them on the board of directors are O. C. Sabin and George Mogg. - 899 - KERMODE FREDERIC GILL Kermode Frederic Gill figures prominently in building circles of Cleveland as president of John Gill & Sons, one of the oldest organizations of building contractors in the city, founded by his father, the late John Gill. In the words of an earlier biographer : "He practically grew up in the industry which has been his chief occupation through his active years, and is widely known in both the business and technical sides of the building trades industries throughout several states." Born in Cleveland, Ohio, April 12, 1866, K. F. Gill is a son of John and Margaret (Kermode) Gill. John Gill, who was born at Port Erin, Isle of Man, in March, 1830, acquired his education in public schools and in a college on his native island, and learned mason contracting with his father. In 1854 he emigrated to America and located in Cleveland, becoming one of the early mason contractors of the city. He did an immense volume of work, and perhaps the first large structure undertaken by him was the Northern Ohio Asylum. In 1881 he admitted his son, John T., as a partner, under the firm style of John Gill & Son, and in 1887 made his other son, K. F. Gill, a factor in the business, after which the name was changed to John Gill & Sons. John Gill continued active as a building. contractor of Cleveland for more than a half century or until his death, which occurred August 16, 1911. Kermode F. Gill attended the grammar and high schools of Cleveland until he was seventeen years of age, and then served an apprenticeship at the mason trade under his father. He worked with his father and at the age of twenty-three embarked on an independent business venture. A year later, - 901 - 902 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS however, he joined the family partnership under the name of John Gill & Sons, and when, a year after his father's death, the business was incorporated, Kermode F. Gill became pres-ident and general manager. The record of the organization is an unusual one, both because of the work carried on over a long period of years and the extent and importance of the contracts handled. Among the numerous contracts executed by John Gill & Sons may be mentioned the following : Washington (D. C.) post office ; Missouri state capitol ; Baltimore courthouse ; Cleveland post office (interior) ; Hudson County (N. J.) court house (interior) ; United States Naval Training station, Hampton Roads, Virginia ; Williamson building, Hanna building, Hanna Annex and Theater, Bulkley building, Allen Theater, Notre Dame Academy, Masonic Auditorium, Cowell-Hubbard building, Leader-News building, Guardian Trust Company building, Cleveland Trust Company building, Federal Reserve Bank, Wade Park Manor, Tifereth-Israel Temple, Fenway Hall, Catholic Charities "Parmadale Group," Notre Dame College building, Cleveland Union Terminal Tower, Lake Shore Hotel, and Lakeside Hospital group, all in Cleveland ; Benjamin Franklin Hotel of Philadelphia ; Liberty Bank, Shea's Theater and Buffalo General Electric building, all of Buffalo ; and the American Insurance Union Citadel, of Columbus, Ohio. Aside from his activities as president of John Gill & Sons, K. F. Gill occupies the presidency of the National Foundation and Engineering' Company and the Cleveland Co-Operative Stove Company. He is also chairman of the board of the Seaboard Terminal Company and the Baltimore Terminal Company and is a director of the Cleveland Railroad Company, the Guardian Trust Company, The Properties Company and the Bulkley Building Company. Moreover, he is a trustee of the Clevenand Museum of Natural History, the Cleveland School of Architecture and the Babies' Hospital. In August, 1894, Mr. Gill was united in marriage to Miss Dorothea A. Ambos, of Columbus, Ohio, daughter of H. P. THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 903 Ambos. They are the parents of three children, a daughter and two sons, John K. and William A., both of whom are associated with their father in business. Amelia Louise, the daughter, is a graduate of the Ogontz School for Young Ladies in Pennsylvania and is now the wife of Benjamin F. Manning, of Cleveland, and the mother of one child, Dorothea. Captain John K. Gill, who was educated in the well known and exclusive Tome School for Boys at Port Deposit, Maryland, is a flyer in the Reserve Corps. He married Elizabeth McIntyre and has a son, John K., Jr. William A. Gill was educated in the Asheville School for Boys at Asheville, North Carolina. Mr. Gill is a republican in politics, while his religious faith is that of the Episcopal Church. He was formerly a member of Troop A of the Ohio National Guard. Appreciative of the social amenities of life, he has membership in the Union, Tavern, Country, Mayfield, Pepper Pike, Kirtland and Mid-Day Clubs of Cleveland ; the New York and Union League Clubs of New York ; and the Racquet Clubs of Philadelphia and Washington. He is also a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Automobile Club, the National Institute of Social Sciences, the Cleveland Engineering Society, the Western Reserve Historical Society and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Fraternally he is affiliated with the following Masonic bodies : Forest City Lodge, F. & A. M. ; Cleveland Chapter, R. A. M. ; Oriental Commandery, K. T. ; Lake Erie Consistory, A. A. S. R. ; and Al Koran Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. He resides at 2178 Harcourt drive and maintains offices in the Bulkley building in Cleveland. EDWARD S. ROGERS, JR. Among the progressive young business men of Cleveland is numbered Edward S. Rogers, Jr., who is connected with the Standard Portland Cement Company. Born in this city November 29, 1904, he is a son of Edward S. and Frances (Mitchell) Rogers, the former a native of Memphis, Michigan, and the latter of Detroit, that state. Entering the textile industry, the father became president of the English Woolen Mills Company but is now retired, and has made his home in Cleveland for many years. Edward S. Rogers, Jr., supplemented his high school education, acquired in his native city, by the study of commerce and finance at the University of Pennsylvania and is numbered among its alumni of 1925. Following his graduation he returned to Cleveland to enter the employ of the Standard Cement Company and for a period of seven years has faithfully and capably served this large corporation, advancing to the post of his present responsibility. In June, 1925, Mr. Rogers was married to Miss Catherine Bradley, a daughter of Morris A. and Anna (Leiminger) Bradley of Cleveland, and they now have two children, Ann and Edward S. Rogers (III) . Mr. Rogers is a member of the Kirtland, Pepper Pike, Country, Hermit and Union Clubs of Cleveland. While he enjoys the social side of life, he reserves his best efforts for the important business interests intrusted to his charge and possesses those qualities which insure prog-ress and success. - 905 - JOHN ALOIS ZIMMER Starting as a messenger, John A. Zimmer rose to a place of prominence in financial circles of Cleveland but since 1927 his attention has been given to business affairs, and as pres-ident and manager of the Central Outdoor Advertising Com-pany he heads one of the foremost organizations of the kind in this part of the country. A native of Cleveland, he was born on the south side, in the family home at what is now Clark avenue and West Forty-eighth street, on the 8th of September, 1890, and is a son of John and Anna M. (Pfannes) Zimmer, who were born in Germany, the former in 1856 and the latter in 1860. As young people they came to the United States and were married in Cleveland. The father, now deceased, was here engaged in the dairy business but the mother still lives in Cleveland. John A. Zimmer attended St. Stephen's parochial school and left high school before he reached his fifteenth birthday to become a messenger in the Clark Avenue Savings Bank, with which he remained for two and a half years. He was next a bookkeeper for the State Banking & Trust Company and was with that corporation for five years, advancing to the position of paying teller. Afterward he was cashier of the Aluminum Castings Company for a year and on January 8, 1913, became a teller in the employ of the United Banking & Trust Company. In January, 1918, he was made assistant secretary of the same company, of which he was elected treasurer in May, 1921, and occupied the office for several years, materially influencing the progress and success of that large financial institution. He was also president of the Royal - 907 - 908 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS Mortgage Company and, secretary of the Liberty Gauge & Investment Company and had 'been one of the organizers of both corporations. Mr. Zimmer discontinued his banking activities July 1, 1927, to become associated with the H. H. Packer Company and its affiliations, and in June, 1929, they were consolidated with the General Outdoor Advertising Company, forming the Central Outdoor Advertising Company, of which he has since been the president and manager. His administrative power is manifest in the successful conduct of this large business, which covers northern Ohio, furnishing employment to about one hundred and fifty people, and he is also a director of the Central United National Bank and the Federal Knitting Mills Company of Cleveland. On the 12th of October, 1915, Mr. Zimmer was married to Miss Adelia E. Hemann, a native of Cleveland and a daughter of Henry C. and Catherine E. (Gettman) Hemann. To Mr. and Mrs. Zimmer were born two sons, Jack Henry and Robert H. A prominent Mason, Mr. Zimmer is identified with Halcyon Lodge, F. & A. M. ; Thatcher Chapter, R. A. M.; Holyrood Commandery, K. T.; Lake Erie Consistory, A. A. S. R., and Al Koran Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. He belongs to the Westwood Country, Mid-Day and Rotary Clubs and is one of the influential members of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. Dependable, energetic and self-reliant, he has converted his opportunities into tangible assets and is esteemed for the qualities to which he owes his progress and success. - INDEX -