(RETURN TO THE TITLE PAGE) HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 1001 upon as a leader in all movements which concerned the betterment of the condition of the state institutions for the care of the unfortunates. He was the champion of the bill in the senate for the establishment of the Soldiers' Home at Sandusky and has been equally effective in his labor to promote the interests of that institution in later days, serving as one of its trustees, a position which he now occupies. In 1887 President Cleveland appointed him national bank examiner for the state of Ohio and during the three years of his service, terminated by his resignation in 1890, he succeeded in bringing to justice some who were infringing upon the national banking laws of the country and in causing adherence to high standards those who were connected with the banking interests of Ohio. He was endorsed by the voters of Holmes county as its candidate for congress in the years 1882, 1886 and again in 1888. In April, 1889, a year prior to his retirement from office, Mr. Sullivan disposed of his business and property at Millersburg and removed to Cleveland. In March, 1890, he organized the Central National Bank and was chosen treasurer and managing director of that institution. He has had charge thereof since the bank opened its doors in May, 1890, holding successively the positions of cashier, vice president and president, his election to the, office of chief executive having occurred in April, 1900. This by no means represents the extent of his business associations, for in various connections he has demonstrated his ability to handle perplexing problems and to coordinate forces until the utmost possibility for success has been reached. In 1898, he purchased a controlling interest in the First National Bank of Canton, Ohio, and is president of that institution. In 1905 he was the leading spirit in the organization of the Superior Savings & Trust Company and was the unanimous choice of the directors for its president. Mr. Sullivan's splendid business and executive ability have been called forth in connection with the public service. He has been president of the Ohio State Bankers' Association and that he speaks authoritatively upon financial questions is indicated in the fact that he is often called upon to address bankers' conventions in various parts of the country. He has been a generous supporter and faithful member of the Merchant Marine League, being its treasurer since its organization, and has served as United States jury commissioner for the northern district of Ohio for more than twenty years. He was elected to the colonecy of the Fifth Regiment of the National Guards of Ohio in 1884 by unanimous vote. Mr, Sullivan is largely interested in lake shipping, being president of the Superior Steamship Company, president of the Ohio Steamship Company, vice president of the Pioneer Steamship Company. He has also been president of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce and president of the National Board of Trade. Pleasantly situated in his home life, Mr. Sullivan was married in 1873 to Miss Selina J. Brown, and unto them were born two daughters and a son. Mr. Sullivan finds pleasant association in his occasional visits to the Union, Country, Colonial, Roadside and Euclid Heights Clubs, of Cleveland, in all of which he holds membership. In manner he is a gentleman of the old school in that his courtesy is unfailing, but at the same time he is the alert, enterprising business man, a typical representative of the twentieth century spirit which formulates its plans and accomplishes its purposes along lines that demand the investment of millions. FRANK A. THORNTON. Every line of industrial activity is well represented m Cleveland by intelligent and progressive men who understand the demands of their trade and the exactions of their business. One of the oldest hardware stores of the city is that conducted under the name of Thornton & Broz Hardware Company, of which Frank A. Thornton is the senior member. He was born in Pennsylvania, April 1002 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND 21, 1864, a son of Thomas and Ann (Coats) Thornton, both natives of England, where they married. They came to the United States early in life and located in Erie county, Pennsylvania, where Mr. Thornton entered into the woolen mill business and continued in it until his death. Both the Thornton and Coats families belong to good English stock. After attending the public schools, Mr. Thornton took a business course at Oberlin College and then worked in a woolen mill. When twenty-two years old he started in his present business in Pennsylvania. For three years he and a brother continued together, but in 1887 Mr. Thornton sold and came to Cleveland, where he bought out J. H. Amos, and with a Mr. Herrick conducted it for three years. At the expiration of that time he bought out his partner, and continued alone for four years, when he incorporated under the present style with. Mr. Broz as his partner. The business is retail in character and there is a tinsmith shop in connection. In 1885 Mr. Thornton married Minnie Sherman, who was also born in Pennsylvania, and they have two children : Bonnie, with his father in the store ; and Florence, in school. Mr. Thornton is a member of the Cataract Lodge, 1. 0. 0. F., at Newburg. In politics he is a republican but has never held office, his business taking up all his time. It is a matter of pride with him that he has been in this line so long and that his house is one of the oldest of its kind in Cleveland. Some of the customers he won at first by his honest methods and the quailty of his goods and work remain with him still. EDWARD S. FORD. Cleveland is the home of numerous enterprises of stupendous magnitude, requiring a vast amount of capital and giving employment to thousands. The Triumph Electric Company is a corporation widely and favorably known, and the district manager of it is Edward S. Ford whose name heads this brief review. He was born in New York, October 8, 1863, a son of George A. and Martha Lauretta (Tracy) Ford. The father was also a native of New York state and came to Cleveland in 1872. He was the owner of a lake vessel and was also its captain, but later became president and general manager of Ford-Washburn-Storle Electric Company, continuing with that concern until his demise. His wife was also born in New York state and died here a number of years ago. The paternal grandfather made the original survey of Lake Ontario, and the maternal grandfather was Captain H. M. Tracy, commander of a United States revenue cutter. The Tracy family is an old one in the service of the government. Edward S. Ford was educated in the Cleveland schools and later took a business course. On leaving school he entered the Southworth Company as errand boy, and continued with the house for five years, working steadily upward until he was chief entry clerk when he left. He was then with the Everett & Weddell Banking Company for six years as discount teller, and upon making another change he went in with the Ford-Washburn-Storle Electric Company as secretary, holding that position for seven years. At the expiration of that time he was made district manager of the Triumph Electric Company, whose works are at Cincinnati. His district comprises northern Ohio. Mr. Ford is a member of the Cleveland Commercial Travelers Association, while fraternally he belongs to the Independent Order of Foresters. While a republican, he has not been active in local affairs. In 1893 Mr. Ford married Caroline Prentiss Smith, who was born in the west but was brought to Cleveland when young. One daughter has been born to them, Miss Florence P., now fourteen years old. Mr. Ford and his wife are members of Calvary Presbyterian church, of which he has been a member of HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 1003 the board of deacons for many years, and he is very active in religious work. While his wife is just as much interested, her ill health prevents her joining actively in church affairs, although she sympathizes with it all very thoroughly. J. WALTER WILLS. J. Walter Wills, of the firm of J. Walter Wills & Sons, one of Cleveland's undertaking establishments, is a man whose gift of assimilating and making his own all the latest and best ideas developed in his special field of endeavor has placed him among those figuring at the head of the business. His methods, distinctly modern and scientific as they are, have been made the subject of magazine articles and have received much favorable comment from the daily press. Mr. Wills was born in Yellow Springs, Greene county, Ohio, in June, 1874, his parents being Silas and Anna (Wilson) .Wills, both of whom came originally from Winchester, Kentucky. His early education was received in the public schools of his native town, and he then took advantage of the educational opportunities presented by Antioch College, an institution of higher learning situated there. He received his degree in 1899, and then came to Cleveland, where he gained his first actual experience in the business world, this being as an employe with the State Mutual Life Insurance Company, under Hubert H. Ward. In course of time he severed this association and went into the undertaking business, in which he has achieved such signal success. At one time he attended the law department of Baldwin University but did not finish the course. Mr. Wills was united in marriage to Miss Alberta Lee and two sons are growing up beneath their roof. Their residence is at 1873 Crawford Road, Northeast. In several fraternal associations Mr. Wills finds both pleasure and profit, being a member of Edwin Coles Lodge, No. 79, Knights of Pythias; the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Cuyahoga Lodge, No. 93; and the Western Reserve branch of the United Order of True Reformers, No. 1600. He gives his support to St. Andrews' Episcopal church and is prominent in its affairs, being choir director and a member of the vestry committee.. He is particularly well fitted for the former position, being an accomplished musician and teacher of vocal culture. Never content with mediocrity or half-measures either in the management of his business, the carrying out of his fraternal duties or the quality of the music he furnishes for the edification of the congregation of St. Andrews', Mr. Wills constitutes a valuable factor in those circles in which he plays a part. HORACE DUNN. Horace Dunn, who has risen to be a master mechanic of the great consolidated works of the American Steel & Wire Company through faithful attention to duty, was born in South Staffordshire, England, in 1862, a son of Henry and Maryan (Breakwell) Dunn. Both parents were born in South Staffordshire, where the father spent his entire life, engaged in carpentering and farming, having been reared on a country estate as were his parents before him. His death occurred in the latter part of 1862, but his widow survived him until 1903, having come to the United States to join her son Horace. After attending the local schools of South Staffordshire, Horace Dunn started to work in the flax and jute factory at Barrowin Furnace, England, where he remained for two years. He next entered a machine shop in England, there remaining until 1881, when he emigrated to the United States, locating in 1004 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND Detroit, where a brother was living. Soon the two went to northern Michigan in a lumber camp, where they worked for three months. The next change was made when they came to Cleveland, and Mr. Dunn entered the service of the Cleveland Rolling Mill Company. In 1885 he left the employ of this copany and engaged with the H. P. Nail Company, remaining there until February 1, 1909, and leaving as a master mechanic although he had started in as a machinist. He was then transferred to his present position, which is a gratifying recognition of his services. In 1893 Mr. Dunn married Eva A. Leighton, who was born in Cleveland, and they have three children : Henry R., born July 12, 1894; Horace, born December 23, 1897; and Richard Roy, born February 27, 1901. Mr. Dunn is a Mason, belonging to Woodward Lodge, Cleveland Chapter and Holyrood Commandery. He is also superintendent of the Foreman's Club, while politically he is a republican and active in its work. He is thoroughly conversant with his duties, understands every detail and is well fitted to direct men, gaining their friendship as well as controlling them, so that he is regarded as a very valuable employe and one who can always be depended upon. GEORGE MOUNTAIN EDMONDSON. George Mountain Edmondson, inheriting artistic taste from his father, began the study and practice of photography at the early age of fourteen. He is now recognized as the—leading portrait photographer of Cleveland, devoting his life to that profession which is not only a source of intense interest to him but has rewarded his perseverance and patience in following it onto its higher planes by marked material benefits. Mr. Edmondson was born in Norwalk, Ohio, August 23, 1866. His grandfather, George Edmondson, was the proprietor and president of Queenwood College in England. His son George W. Edmondson, father of George M. Edmondson, was born in that country and was educated in his father's college. In 1865 he came to America, settling in Norwalk, Ohio, where he became well known as a photographer. In 1889 he removed to Cleveland, where he is still engaged in business at the age of seventy-three years, doing excellent work in unexplored fields of the photographic profession. George M. Edmondson pursued his education in the public schools of Norwalk and at the age of fourteen took up the study of photography, to which he devoted his attention during the vacation periods. After leaving school he worked for his father for a short time and in 1887 came to Cleveland at the request of James F. Ryder to become assistant operator in the Superior street studio of that veteran of the profession. It was here that his knowledge of enlarging on the then new bromide paper won for Mr. Ryder several prizes in friendly rivalry with other brothers of the craft. After a year and a half Mr. Edmondson joined the forces at the old Decker & Wilbur studio in the Gaylord residence on Euclid avenue. After the firm dissolved partnership, Mr. Wilbur retiring, Mr. Edmondson remained with Mr. Decker, and after six years was taken into partnership, the business being conducted under the name of the Decker Studio. Six years later Mr. Edmondson succeeded to the business and soon afterward, enlarging his facilities, removed to No. 1822 Euclid avenue, his present quarters. This is a residence studio, the whole building being needed to accommodate his growing business. He has recently secured a studio in the residence section of Euclid avenue, No. 2362, into which he will move as soon as the extensive alterations necessary for his accommodation are completed. lIe has concentrated his attention chiefly on portrait photography, for which he has received numerous medals and awards, and has ever been in advance in introducing in his studio work the latest discoveries in his art. Especially noticeable HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 1007 was his demonstration in color photography and his wonderful success in the almost-science of home portraiture. He has been elected to the presidency of the Photographers Association of Ohio and in 1902 was chosen president of the Photographers Association of America. He is now secretary. and treasurer of the Professional Photographers Society of Ohio and is also a member of the Professional Photographers Society of New York. He belongs, moreover, to the Chamber of Commerce, to the Lakewood Yacht Club, the Cleveland Athletic Club and to the Unitarian church. He is a man of brodminded and liberal views on all questions. FREDERICK G. LOESCH. Since 1893 Frederick G. Loesch has held the position of secretary of the Herrman-McLean Company, located at 2538 Lorain avenue, who deal extensively in groceries, flour and feed. His parents, Frederick and Gertrude Loesch, were residents of Cleveland at the time of his birth, November 15, 1859. The father, born May 18, 1833, was a German, his early home being near the famous watering place of Baden-Baden. He was a confectioner, and upon coming to this country and locating in Cleveland, found employment in his special work for the following eighteen years. At last venturing to start in business for himself, he opened a shop at 129 Bridge street and enjoyed success until his retirement in 1892. Mr. Loesch, of this review, leaving school at the age of fourteen years, assisted his father in business for five years, and then entered the employ of H. Gehring, a grocer, as clerk and afterward becoming" Foreman. In five years he severed his connection with this house to enter the service of the Herrman-McLean Company as a clerk. When the firm was incorporated he was chosen secretary, and a share of the glory for the splendid growth of the company should doubtless be his. The Herrman-McLean Company own four stores in the city, employing eighty men and running fifteen wagons. On June 16, 1887, Miss Johanna Webber; of Cleveland, became the wife of Mr. Loesch. They have one son. Frederick. twenty years of age, who is also employed in the offices of the Herrman-McLean Company. The Loesch home is situated at 2217 West Thirty-Second street. Mr. Loesch is a Mason with membership in the blue lodge and chapter. He is a supporter of the republican party. In addition to his other interests, he is vice president of the Case Fish Company. He can be counted as a valuable citizen, one of that type which has brought Cleveland to be Ohio's greatest city and one of the most advanced in the United States. WILLIAM C. STORER. William C. Storer, now living retired in Cleveland, which has been the scene of his active life for many years and is now affording him a welcome refuge from the cares of business, was born November 5, 1832, in the old home built by his father, his parents being George and Sarah (Fleming) Storer. This house was erected in 1827 on the west side on a street that is now known as Denison and is still in an excellent condition, being used by Mr. Storer as a summer residence. His parents came to Cleveland in 1827 and here the father engaged in surveying and contracting. So successful was he that when he retired at the age of sixty years he was a wealthy man, and he was prominent as well. For thirty years more he lived in comfort and happiness, dying when ninety years old. The Storer family is a very old one in the history of this coun- 1008 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND try, dating back to 1629, when Beluman, Joseph and Ebenezer Storer came from the north of Ireland and located m Portland, Maine. Our subject's great-grandfather, Ebenezer Storer, was a lieutenant in the Continental army, being present at the capture of Quebec. He entered the army in 1776, was taken prisoner by the British in 1780 and died of smallpox on board the prison ship in New York harbor. William C. Storer received a common-school education in Cleveland and at the same time learned to be a draughtsman and contractor under̊ his father, being an expert in draughting. He became one of the most successful contractors in the city and pursued a profitable business until 1900, when he retired to private life. While a republican in politics, he has never taken an active part in public affairs. On December 18, 1856, Mr. Storer married Hannah Johnson, a daughter of John D. Johnson and Margaret (Robison) Johnson, of Canada. Mr. and Mrs. Storer celebrated their golden wedding nearly three years ago, on December 18, 1906, a most memorable occasion to all parties concerned. The children born to them are : Mrs. Josephine Collins, Mrs. Lydia Hatcher, Webster J. and Cornelia E. Mr. Storer is a member of the Old Settlers Association and is one of the best known among those belonging to pioneer families her:. Having spent his life in this city and assisted in the construction of some of its most imposing buildings, he has been a witness of and participant in its rapid and remarkable growth and enjoys nothing better than to recall the Cleveland of olden days to those interested in the subject. JAY J. PHELPS. Jay J. Phelps, president of the Phelps-Humphreys Company, manufacturers of cigars, located, at 2123 East Second street, is a native of the Buckeye state and for the past thirty years has made his home in the Forest city. The family has long been identified with the commercial life of Ohio, his father, Harlow B. Phelps, having been the first man who ever came west from New York with a sample case of dry goods. He spent his whole life as a traveling man, his death occurring May 27, 1907. He married Miss Julia Lampson, who is also deceased. The only other surviving member of the family is a sister, Mrs. Charles P. Leitch, of San Jose, California, but formerly of Niles, Ohio. The birth of Jay J. Phelps occurred in Orwell, Ashtabula county, Ohio, January 30, 1861. He attended the public schools of that village and then, having like Dickens' hero, Oliver Twist, a longing for "more," he supplemented this mental equipment by a course in the Grand River College at Austinburg, Ohio, from which in due course of time he was graduated. From college he came direct to Cleveland, where he sought employment and found it first in Barry's grocery store, where he filled the position of clerk for the space of six months. Following this he secured a position as traveling salesman for the Hanum & Spencer Company, dealers in tea and coffee. On September 3, 1882, Mr. Phelps formed a new association with Graham & Lang, a wholesale cigar house, engaging as their city salesman. Eight years later, having become firmly established in the confidence of the concern, the firm was changed to Lang & Phelps and remained under this name for another eight years. At the termination of this period Mr. Phelps withdrew and tried a new line of endeavor by going into the wholesale grocery business, becoming a member of the Ross, Sprague Company. He continued with them until April 1, 1904, when the company sold to the Eldridge & Higgins Company. On November 1, 1904, Mr. Phelps purchased an interest in the H. A. Boesger Cigar Company and reincorporated the same under the name of the Boesger-Phelps Cigar Com- HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 1009 pany. On July I, 1908, the corporate name was changed to the Phelps-Humphreys Company, Mr. Phelps purchasing Mr. Boesger's interest. These two gentlemen had for some time been associated in business, both with the Ross, Sprague Company and the Boesger-Phelps Company. On January 7, 1884, Mr. Phelps was united in marriage to Miss Emma A. Sherman, of Painesville, Ohio, her parents being Charles R. and Catherine. Sherman. They have one child, Ralph Green, thirteen years of age. The attractive family home is situated at 2884 West Fourteenth street, Southwest. In national politics Mr. Phelps pays fealty to the Republican party, but locally is inclined to give his support to whatever measure he believes will contribute to the best interests of the community, no matter from what party it emanates. He takes great pleasure in his fraternal affiliations, these extending to the Knights of Pythias Lodge, No. 586, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks Lodge, No. 18; and the Cleveland Commercial Travelers Club. The Pilgrim Congregational church enjoys the support and attendance of Mr. Phelps and his family, and he is by no means one to neglect the finer interests of life in the pursuit of more material benefits. CARL C. GERLACH. Among the mass of good business men who faithfully discharge their duties, there occasionally rises a man of unusual ability who advances steadily to important positions with some of the largest concerns in his community. Carl C. Gerlach is a remarkable instance of this class in Cleveland, having risen from office boy in one concern to general manager of the Pictet Ice Company. Mr. Gerlach was born in Cleveland, October 10, 1861, a son of John and Elizabeth Gerlach. Until he was eighteen Mr. Gerlach had the advantages offered by the Cleveland public schools and then began earning his own living as office boy with Coe & Harber, with whom he remained for two years. He then entered the employ of the Pictet Ice Company, as one of the ice sellers and so efficient did he prove that he was advanced step by step until in 1899 he was made general manager. In December, 1893, Mr. Gerlach was married in Cleveland to Miss Jennette Andrew, and they have three children: William, Carl, and Arthur, who are all attending the public schools. The family occupy a pleasant residence at No. 3903 Reservoir avenue, where genuine hospitality is shown the many friends who visit them. In politics Mr. Gerlach is independent, preferring to give his support to the candidates he believes will best advance the civic welfare, and he is a protestant in his religious faith. In every position he has held, he has been faithful in the discharge of his duties, and the success that has attended him is well merited. FREDERICK K. RAND. Frederick K. Rand, the superintendent of the National Acme Manufacturing Company of Cleveland, was born in Vermont on the 29th of May, 1858, his parents being Cornelius and Mary H. Rand. He attended the public schools until fifteen years of 'age and then made his way to Hartford, Connecticut, where-for eight years he remained in the employ of the Cushman & Chuck Company as a machinist. Subsequently he entered the service of the Pratt & Whitney Company in a similar capacity, remaining with the concern for four years, when he went to Elmira, New York, and held a position for two years. He then returned 1010 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND to Hartford, Connecticut, where for six years he acted as superintendent of the factory of the Pratt & Katty Company. Subsequently he was identified for two years with Pope & Company as assistant superintendent of their factory and then became connected with the Acme Machine Company, serving as superintendent until 1903. In that year the firm established its headquarters in Cleveland and changed its name to the National-Acme Manufacturing Company. Mr. Rand was appointed superintendent of the factory and his labors in this position of responsibility have proven highly satisfactory to all concerned. The National-Acme Manufacturing Company are makers of the Acme multiple spindle automatic screw machine and manufacturers of set screws, cap screws, machine screws, and special milled work turned from' steel, iron, zinc and brass. On the 25th of December, 1882, in Hartford, Connecticut, Mr. Rand was united in marriage to Miss Kilburn. They have one daughter, Emma, who is twenty-four years of age and is now Mrs. Quigley. Politically Mr. Rand is a stanch republican, while in religious faith he is a Protestant. Fraternally he is identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. His home is at No. 7520 Cedar avenue, and he enjoys the regard and esteem of an extensive circle of friends in this city. WILLIAM H. WATKINS. William H. Watkins, associated as an investor and officer with various leading business interests of Cleveland, is perhaps best known as the president of the W. J. Townsend Company, and president of the Davis Dry Goods Company and treasurer of the Ohio Gas Meter Company. He was born on Root street, on the west side of Cleveland, April 12, 1866. The city was then flourishing and yet had by no means entered upon that era of rapid and substantial growth which in recent years has made it one of the chief manufacturing and business centers of the entire country. His youthful days were spent in the home of his parents, Lewis J. and Agnes (Shanks) Watkins. The father was a native of Srevathan, Monmouthshire, Wales, born June 20, 1839, and the mother's birth occurred at Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, Scotland, July 24, 1844. Lewis J. Watkins came to America at the age of seventeen years, attracted by the broader business opportunities of the new world. He was a young man of twenty when he established his home in Cleveland and secured a position as roller in the steel mills. At the time of the Civil war he espoused the Union cause, enlisting in the Seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which he served throughout the period of hostilities. He died May 12, 1882. His wife came to this country when a little maiden of ten years and died July 3, 1877. William H. Watkins, reared in Cleveland, pursued his education in the public schools between the ages of six and eleven years. He then started out to make his own way in the world. The burden of self-support was a heavy one for young shoulders but he resolutely faced the conditions before him and secured employment in the old Union Iron Works, where he remained for six months. He next entered the employ of the Cleveland Rolling Mills Company and there continued for four years. While yet a young man he took a three years' course in mechanical engineering at the Young Men's Christian Association night school and also spent a year in a night course at Central Institute. His. efficiency increasing, he was promoted and on leaving the Cleveland Rolling Mills Company he entered the service of the Union Rolling Mills Company, where he gradually worked his way upward until he became boss roller. He has been associated with the business for twenty-eight years at this writing and continues as foreman of the rolling department. Thoroughly mastering every task assigned him Mr. Watkins gained comprehensive knowledge of the processes of iron and steel manufacture and is acknowledged an expert workman. As the HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 1013 years have gone on and he has won that success which all men regard as the reward of labor, he has made investment in other lines and is active in the management of various important business concerns. Of the W. J. Townsend Company he is now president and is also chief executive officer of the Davis Dry Goods Company of Cambridge, Ohio. He is treasurer of the Ohio Gas Meter Company and a stockholder and director of the Empire Rolling Mills Company of Cleveland. He likewise owns stock in the Columbia Bank, and the Phillemac Rolling Mills Company, of Glendale, Ohio. All these are dividend-bearing investments, contributing to the prosperity which Mr. Watkins is now enjoying and which he well merits, for his success is all self-earned. On the 13th of April, 1887, Mr. Watkins was married to Miss Emma L. Rhodes, a daughter of I. J. and Mary (Trudley) Rhodes, the former engaged in the grocery business. Mr. and Mrs. Watkins have become the parents of seven children : Hazel, who is a graduate of the South high school and completed a classical course in Wellesley College, near Boston ; Blanch, who is a graduate of the Central high school and is now a student in the Western Reserve University in Cleveland; Esther N., who is attending the Central high school; Grace L., also a high school pupil; Gladys, William H. and Myron H., who are pupils in the Woodland Hills school. In politics Mr. Watkins is a republican whose political views are the outcome of broad reading of the political situation and of the questions and issues of the day. In religious faith he is a Congregationalist and takes an active interest in the work of the Union Congregational church, serving for twelve years as church treasurer, while at the present time he is a deacon. For fifteen years he was superintendent of the Sunday school and he cooperates in other activities which are elements in the growth of the church and the extension of its influence. He is likewise a member of the board of managers of the Young Men's Christian Association. Fraternally he is a Mason, holding membership in Euclid Lodge. He has always been a man of temperate habits, free from excess in any direction, and thus the conservation of his physical and *mental forces have enabled him to accomplish what he has undertaken in the business world. He is honored by all who know him because of his close conformity to high principles and manly purposes, and in his social relations and in his church, as well as through business associations, he has won many friends. CARL S. JOHNSTONE. Some of the most responsible positions in the country are being filled by men of the younger generation, who, profiting by the experience of others, are rapidly forging to the front. Many of the big corporations prefer to place young men in charge of their affairs, believing that their energy and keen-sighted grasp of matters work out to the best interests of all concerned. Carl S. Johnstone, secretary and treasurer of The Paint Shop Company, is one of the most, progressive young business men of Cleveland. He was born m Port Huron, Michigan, July 3o, 1881, a son of John C. and Marian Johnstone. The father was born in Napier, Canada, October To, 1844, but removed to Port Huron, Michigan, in 1864 to engage in a grain elevator business. At the time of his death in 19o8 he was secretary and treasurer of the Grand Trunk Elevator Company. Until he was eighteen years old, Carl S. Johnstone attended school but he then entered his father's employ and had charge of the offrce of the Grand Trunk Elevator Company for two years, thus early entering upon the responsibilities of business life. When only twenty he went to Detroit, Michigan, to engage with the Michigan Paint Company as assistant manager, and after two years of faithful service was transferred to Cleveland to take charge of the branch here. This was conducted at Nos. 2434 to 2440 Superior Viaduct, Northwest, and he continued as manager until October, 1908, when the firm sold out 1014 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND to The Paint Shop Company, and Mr. Johnstone was elected secretary and treasurer. On February 18, 1902, in Port Huron, Michigan, Mr. Johnstone and Miss Catherine Kelly were married, and they now reside in their beautiful home at No. 3708 Clinton avenue with their eighteen months old daughter, Marian. The political affiliations of Mr. Johnstone have always been with the republican party. The influence of a career like Mr. Johnstone's is stimulating to those still battling for supremacy, for it demonstrates that any man can rise provided he possesses natural ability and a willingness to give his best efforts to any work with which he might be connected. JOHN S. McNAMARA. John S. McNamara, assistant city manager of the Ohio Quarries Company, is a native of Cleveland, his parents, James and Margaret McNamara, having been residents of the Forest city at the time of his birth, October 12, 1870. He left school at the early age of twelve years and his first position was as messenger boy with the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway. Being naturally apt, he soon mastered the details of telegraphy and for two years held a position as an operator. He then secured a position with the Cleveland Stone Company as telegraph operator and later was advanced to the important post of city sales manager in recognition of his value. The theory that his services were entirely satisfactory is amply justified by the fact that he continued with the Cleveland Stone Company for twenty years. In 1905 he severed his association with them to take the position of assistant sales manager with the Ohio Quarries Company, where, undoubtedly, he has contributed to the general success. In December, 1904, Mr. McNamara was united in marriage to Miss Stringhan, their union being celebrated in this city. Their place of residence is at 6304 Quinby avenue. Mr. McNamara is independent in politics, not pledging himself irrevocably to any one party. He is loyal to the teachings of the Catholic church and all in all a worthy and admirable citizen. T. EDWARD BURNS. T. Edward Burns, the president of the Clifford Iron Works, located at No. 1312 West Second street in Cleveland, was born at Woburn, Massachusetts, on the 8th of August, 1878, his parents being Francis and Sarah Burns. He attended the grammar and high schools of Templeton, Massachusetts, until fifteen years of age and during the following three years assisted his father in the work of the home farm. Subsequently he went to Wilmington, Delaware, where he was employed as draftsman by a bridge company until September, 1899, when he came to Cleveland and here worked in a similar capacity for the Brown Hoisting Machinery Company until June, 1903. At that time he removed to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, where he entered the service of Heyl & Patterson as squad foreman, remaining with that concern until December, 1906. Returning to Cleveland, he became identified with the Variety Iron & Steel Works Company in the capacity of chief draftsman, being thus engaged until June, 19o7. He then became a partner of Mr. Clifford in the Clifford. Iron Works and on the incorporation of the firm Mr. Burns was elected president, which has since remained his official connection therewith. They are manufacturers of architectural and structural iron work and conduct a most extensive and profitable business of this character. HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 1015 On the 15th of September, 19o3, in Wilmington, Delaware, Mr. Burns was united in marriage to Miss Katharine Bradford. They are now the parents of two children, David Bradford and Mary Rose, who are four and one and a half years of age respectively. The family residence is at No. 21 Penrose avenue, East Cleveland. Mr. Burns gives his political allegiance to the democracy, and in religious faith is a Catholic. He is a young man who has already gained an enviable place in business circles and his industry and determination—his dominant qualities—argue well for a successful future. REV. JOSEPH MARTIN TRAPP. Rev. Joseph Martin Trapp, assistant pastor of St. Stephen's church of Cleveland, was born in this city, November 4, 1880, and is one of the youngest priests of the city. He is a son of Frank and Barbara (Wiedenmann) Trapp, the former born in Baden, Malsch, Germany, February 6, 1842, and the latter born in the same place, February 12, 1851. They came to the United States in 1867 and located in Cleveland, where Mr. Trapp became a dyer. They had three sons, the two aside from Father Trapp being: Frank X., of Cleveland; and John S., a jeweler of this city. The father is prominent in the work of St. Michael's parish, although he never would consent to hold office. Father Trapp has two maternal cousins in the priesthood, one of whom was ordained in Germany in 1907 and one in the same place in 1908. Sister Eugene of the Charity Hospital of Cleveland is also a. cousin. Father Trapp was educated in St. Michael's parochial school, after which he entered St. Ignatius College, from which he was graduated in 1901 with the degree of B. A. He then took his theological course at St: Mary's Seminary of this city. On June 9, 1906, he was ordained priest by Bishop Horstmann, celebrating his first mass at St. Michael's church of Cleveland, June 17, 1906. He was appointed assistant priest at St. Stephen's church, where he has since remained. He is a very enthusiastic young priest, devoted to his work and possessed of more than ordinary ability. TRASSER W. BROWN. Trasser W. Brown, who has now retired from all active pursuits in the business world, rendered during the period of thirty-two years most efficient service to the city of Cleveland. At birth he received as his heritage the strong traits of the men and women who fought for the independence of the country and in the early days endured the hardships of pioneer life, for his paternal grandfather, Robert Brown, participated in the Revolutionary war and his own parents, Robert and Eliza Brown, were among the early settlers of Huron county, Ohio. They were natives of Connecticut, grew to maturity in that state, and were there married, coming to Ohio about 1837. They crossed the country with ox-teams and chose as the place for their future residence a tract of land in the heart of the wilderness. Before they could engage in the cultivation of the soil they had to clear it, but, having accomplished this difficult task, the father became one of the prominent farmers of his locality. Trasser W. Brown was born in Huron county, March 14, 1838, and attended the common schools, which, primitive as they were as compared to modern institutions of learning, afforded him a good practical education. Later he entered the Normal School at Lebanon, Ohio, from which he was graduated in 1860. He then engaged in teaching and was in the second year of his experience when 1016 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND he determined to give his support to the Union. Accordingly, he enlisted in Company D, Forty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and went to the front. He was wounded in the battle of Meadow Bluff, Virginia, but, although he was incapacitated for active participation in- the struggle thereafter, he served as a private in the quartermaster's department until the expiration of his three years' term of enlistment. On his return, in 1864, he married and shortly afterward moved to Cleveland, being appointed a member of the police force by Mayor Felton. Altogether he served the city thirty-two years, fourteen of which were in the police department and eighteen in the health department as assistant plumbing inspector. For six years during that time, however, from 1878 to 1884, he was engaged in the hardwood lumber business. In 1904 he retired from active life, being induced to take this step on account of his advancing years and the realization that they had been spent honorably and in behalf of his fellowmen. On the 21st of December, 1864, Mr. Brown was married to Miss Lucinda Matilda Sutton, like himself a native of Huron county and a descendant of pioneer settlers of that section of the state, her father being Henry Sutton. Three children were born to the couple but only one now survives, a daughter. Ada. Mr. Brown has been a stanch support of the principles of the republican party ever since its formation. While he has witnessed many phases of political life in this city, he has taken little part in it aside from using his influence for order and good government. P. J. McMYLER. P. J. McMyler, deceased, was for many years prominently and successfully identified with the business life of Cleveland. He was born in this city on the 4th of March, 1854, a son of John and Anna McMyler, who were pioneer settlers here. He completed the prescribed course of study in the grammar schools and attended several terms of night school, for when but twelve years of age he secured a position as clerk in a coal office and his time was thus occupied during the day. In 1878 he became interested in the coal business in connection with the firm of Foltz, McMyler & Company and six years later turned his attention to the oil trade. He was made treasurer of the National Refining Company and also became a director in the Northern Ohio Oil Company, the Globe Oil Company, the Plumo Specialty Manufacturing Company and the Atlas Oil Company. He was likewise one of the vice presidents of the Lakewood Savings Bank and acted as a member of its advisory board after it was consolidated with the Cleveland Trust Company, and his sound business judgment and keen insight proved an important factor in the success of this institution as well as of the other concerns with which he was connected in an official capacity. The Chamber of Commerce numbered him among its valued members and he was also on the board of trustees of Riverside cemetery. On the 2d of November, 1890, Mr. McMyler was united in marriage to Miss Bertha G. Aiken, whose birth occurred in Cleveland in 1855, her parents being Hiram and Lydia (Lindley) Aiken, natives of Connecticut. The father, a farmer by occupation, was numbered among the early settlers of this city, taking up his abode on the south side. Mrs. McMyler is a granddaughter of Seth Aiken and one of her ancestors, Joseph Triscott, was a prominent factor in the early history of Connecticut and Massachusetts. Mr. and Mrs. McMyler became the parents of four children, namely : Helen Gertrude, who was born November 2, 1891, and is now attending college ; Doris, whose natal day was September Jo, 1895 ; and Sterling C. and Aiken, both of whom are deceased. In his political views Mr. McMyler was a stanch republican but not actively interested in politics, preferring to concentrate his time and energies upon his business affairs. He attended religious services at the Unitarian church, and held member- HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 1019 ship relations with the Clifton Club. He found pleasure and recreation in music, and was also an ardent disciple of Izaak Walton and was very fond of travel, but was happiest at his own fireside in the companionship of his wife and children. He justly merited the proud American title of a self-made man, for an analyzation of his life record indicates clearly that his success was due to his utilization of opportunity and his strong and determined purpose to accomplish what he undertook. His death, which occurred on the 18th of April, 1908, when he had attained the age of fifty-four years, was the occasion of deep and widespread regret in both the business and social circles of the city in which his entire life had been spent. Mrs. McMyler has resided in Cleveland from her birth to the present time and is widely and favorably known here, having won the warm regard and esteem of all with whom she has come in contact. WILLIAM B. GLENDINNING, M. D. Dr. William B. Glendinning, one of the rising young physicians of Cleveland. was born in Troy, New York, May 11, 1876, a son of John E. and Sarah M. (Trimble) Glendinning. The father was born in Cookstown, Ireland, in 1841, of Scotch-Irish parentage. He was a linen merchant and manufacturer, following that business after he came to this country. He died in the spring of 1909. His wife was born in Troy, New York, in 1849, a daughter of William Trimble, a grocer and meat dealer of that city. She was a graduate of the Sarah Willard Seminary, which has the distinction of being the oldest girls' school of its kind in this country. Dr. Glendinning was a pupil in the common schools of Troy and Brooklyn, New York, in which he obtained the foundations of his education. Later, in 189o, when his parents went to Ireland, he accompanied them and entered the Rainey endowed school at Belfast. He then attended lectures in the literary course at Queens College, Belfast, attaining the Second Arts degree. In 1893 he returned to America and entered the Cleveland Medical College, from which he was graduated in 1898. He next became a student in the Cleveland College of Physicians and Surgeons, receiving his medical degree from this institution in 1902. The next year he spent as interne in the Huron Street Hospital, after which he engaged in general practice. In full command of all technicalities of his profession, he also possesses a keen and discriminating mind and, being gifted with a cheerful and sympathetic personality that makes him welcome in the sickroom, he has built up a large and lucrative practice. In October, 1900, Dr. Glendinning was united in marriage to Miss Margaret Masterson, of Cleveland, a daughter of John Masterson, now deceased. They are the parents of one daughter, Ruth, who is now seven years of age. Dr. Glendinning has always voted the straight republican ticket and has been very active in promoting the interests of his party in this city. He is a member of the Cleveland Athletic Club, being a very enthusiastic advocate of physical exercise in its many and various forms. The success of the few years he has been practicing in this city entitles him to be regarded as one of the rising young physicians. DANIEL J. METZGER. Daniel J. Metzger, the vice president of the Auer Register Company, is a native of this state, born in Tiffin, February 4, 1884, a son of Daniel and Mary E. Metzger. His paternal grandfather, who was also known as Daniel Metzger, came to America from Germany in 1779, locating in Pennsylvania, where he followed farming. In 1805 he came to Ohio, and his descendants have grown up 1020 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND with the country, participating in as well as witnessing its development. His son, Daniel Metzger, the father of our subject, was born in Circleville, Ohio, in 1818. He likewise was a farmer and a politician, prominent in the local affairs of the community in which he lived for upwards of a score of years, the incumbent of many public offices and in particular of that of county commissioner. His wife was born in Frederick county, Maryland, m 1857, and they were married in Seneca county, this state. Daniel J. Metzger obtained his early education in the public schools of Tiffin and then attended the high school of Toledo, after which he embarked upon his business career, although he continued his studies in the Melchor Business College of Toledo, which he attended in the evening after the day's work was over. He became advertising manager for the Toledo Critic, having previously gained some experience in that work while he was yet a pupil in school and in 1904 he became connected with the Auer Register Company, removing to Cleveland the following year. He advanced rapidly in the esteem of his employers and in 1907 was made vice president of the concern. They are the inventors of wall registers and of the modern methods of warm air heating, having patented means for decreasing the amount of fuel consumed while increasing the comfort. At the same time they have paid especial attention to the artistic quality of their product, making it an unobtrusive bit of the furnishing of a room, for their register is in fact a warm air grate, which has a front for use during the summer months. Pursuing progressive business methods and guided by men of pronounced ability, the firm has made a place for itself among the many prosperous enterprises of this manufacturing city. On the 7th of May, 1905; Mr. Metzger was married to Miss Mary Auer, a daughter of George S. Auer, the president of the Auer Register Company. Fraternally Mr. Metzger enjoys pleasant relations with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and belongs to the U. C. T. and to the Turnverein. He is a member of St. Agnes church, in whose support he is most liberal, and politically he affiliates with the democratic party. While a resident of Toledo he was a member of Battery D, Ohio National Guard, but with the increase of duties here he has been compelled to relinquish his connection with that organization. He is a young man of much ability, is endowed with sterling principles and is well deserving of the high regard and esteem in which he is held by those who know him either socially or through business intercourse. HENRY C. THOMAS, Henry C. Thomas, president of the Rogers, Thomas, Dodd Optical Company, of Cleveland, was born in London, England, August 14, 1866, a son of Frederick and Janet Thomas. When he was six months old, the family removed to Glasgow, Scotland, where twelve years were spent before a change was made to Liverpool. There they remained until August, 1883, when they came to the United States, locating m Philadelphia, where the father died in 1897, and the mother one year later. The education of Henry C. Thomas was received in the excellent schools of Glasgow and Liverpool, and he served an apprenticeship of two years to the optical trade under his father, who was an optician. When he arrived in Philadelphia, he found employment with J. W. Queen & Company, the oldest opticians in the country, remaining with them until 1888, when he went to Pittsburg and engaged with William E. Stieren & Company, this association continuing until 1890. In that year Mr. Thomas returned to Philadelphia and embarked in a business with his father, but after a year he entered the employ of J. F. Borsch, at the head of the leading prescription house of that city, remaining in Philadelphia until 1893. HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 1021 In that year Mr. Thomas came to Cleveland and established himself in business at No. 155 in the Arcade, in partnership with E. N. Davis, under the firm name of Davis & Thomas. This association continued until the outbreak of the Spanish-American war, when Mr. Thomas enlisted in troop A, First Ohio Volunteer Cavalry. The troop was not required, however, only reaching Lakeland. Florida, and returned the same year. Having proven his loyalty, Mr. Thomas reentered the optical business at the old stand, which had changed hands and continued there for six months. He then opened a store at 127 Colonial Arcade under the name of the H. C. Thomas & Company, remaining there until the organization of the present corporation in 19o7, of which he is president. Under his progressive methods, backed by his thoroughly practical knowledge of every detail of the business and his ripened experience, the house has rapidly advanced to a foremost position and is controlling an immense business. On October 26, 1899, Mr. Thomas married Florence E. Welch, of Cleveland. Still in the full flush of his business career, Mr. Thomas bears easily the load laid upon his shoulders and is full of plans for the future of his concern. He and his wife are pleasantly located at their beautiful home No. 10213 Hampden avenue, where they enjoy all the comforts of urban life with those connected with the nearby country. GEORGE WILLIAM PHYPERS. George William Phypers, the president of the Phypers Brothers Company, which is extensively engaged in the general insurance business, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on the 8th of April, 1873. The paternal grandfather, John Phypers, crossed the Atlantic from England to the United States in 1850, locating in Cleveland, Ohio, and for many years conducted a merchant tailoring business in the basement of the Lyceum theater. His demise occurred in this city in 1903, when he had attained the venerable age of eighty-eight years. George S. Phypers, the father of our subject, was born in England and was but a year old when brought to this country by his parents. For the past twenty years he has served as foreman of the Standard Sewing Machine Company and is well nown and highly esteemed as a most worthy and respected citizen. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Catherine Elizabeth Barker, is also a native of England and was brought to the United States in her infancy. George William Phypers attended the public schools of this city until fourteen years of age and then secured a position as messenger boy for the Postal Telegraph Company, while subsequently he spent five years in the office of the Lake Shore Railroad. When twenty years of age he became identified with the general insurance business as an employe of the firm of Olmstead, Thomas & Company, now the Fred P. Thomas Company. After three years had passed he made arrangements with his employers to work only a half day and attend the Western Reserve University during the other half of the day. At the end of a few weeks, however, he found that this plan was not feasible and was therefore obliged to leave college. He remained with Olmstead, Thomas & Company until 1900, when he entered the insurance business on his own account in association with his brother, Charles J. Phypers, and on the 1st of January, 1909, the concern was incorporated as the Phypers Brothers Company. That success has attended the enterprise is indicated by the fact that it is now the fifth largest out of about one hundred concerns of like character in Cleveland and is continually growing in volume and importance. On the 1st of September, 1900, in Cleveland, Mr. Phypers was united in marriage to Miss Maud P. Maynard, a stepdaughter of Thomas S. Farley, who was for many years city agent for the Travelers Insurance Company. Mrs. Phypers is a graduate of Miss Mittleberger's School at Cleveland and also attended 1022 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND Smith College of Northampton. She belongs to a family that has been represented in Boston for over three hundred years and is therefore one of the oldest in America. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Phypers have been born four children, as fol. lows : June, who is now eight years of age; Paul, a little lad of six ; Fordham, who is four years old ; and Thurlow, a year and a half old. The family residence is at Greenwood Farm in South Euclid, Ohio, where Mr. Phypers has a country home of eighteen acres. He belongs to the Chamber of Commerce, the Credit Men's Association, the Cleveland Athletic Club and the Masons. He is also a valued and prominent member of the East Cleveland Baptist church, being one of its three organizers. Motoring is one of his chief sources of recreation. He is widely and favorably known in the city where his entire life has been spent, for his many good qualities, his social manner, his genial disposition and his cordiality have made him popular with those with whom he has been brought in contact. FREDERICK PRATT THOMAS. Frederick Pratt Thomas, president of The Fred P. Thomas Company, and one of the prosperous business men of this city, and one who has accomplished much during his career, was born in Buffalo, December 9, 1866, being a son of Enoch Thomas. The latter was born in England in 1838, but came to this country when a young man. He located in Buffalo where he was a florist for years. Still later he came to Cleveland, where he was a real-estate dealer and insurance agent, and continued actively in business until his death which occurred in 19o7. His business career in this city extended from 1860 to 19o7, a period of forty-seven years. His wife bore the maiden name of Eliza L. Cannon, and she too was born in England, in August, 1838. About the same time as Mr. Thomas came to America, she came here, and they were married in Buffalo. She survives her husband. Frederick Pratt Thomas came to Cleveland in boyhood, and was here educated in the public schools. His first work was clerking in the insurance office of J. P. Standard, and after six years he was admitted to partnership. After the death of Mr. Standard, Mr. Thomas became the managing head of the concern. This business has developed wonderfully, and it is now the largest fire and casualty insurance agency in Ohio. His agency does a general insurance business, representing ten leading fire insurance companies, as follows : Fire Association, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; National Fire Insurance Company, of Hartford, Connecticut ; Security Insurance Company, of New Haven, Connecticut; Michigan Fire & Marine Insurance Company, of Detroit, Michigan ; Globe & Rutgers Fire Insurance Company, of New York city ; Nassau Fire Insurance Company, of New York city ; Granite State Insurance Company, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire; New England Underwriters, of Concord, New Hampshire; American Union Fire Insurance Company, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Camden Fire Insurance Association, of Camden, New Jersey. They are general agents for northern Ohio for the Maryland Casualty Company which writes all forms of casualty insurance. They also represent the Fireman's Fund Insurance Company of California for the automobile insurance department, the British & Foreign Marine Insurance Company of England and the American & Foreign Marine Insurance Company of New York as general agents of their Marine and Tourist Floater departments, also the Lloyds Plate Glass Insurance Company of New York. The business has grown to a point where it has become necessary to establish an eastern branch at No. 100 William Street, New York city. The company places insurance both at home and abroad, numbering among their clients several of the largest insurers in this country. HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 1025 Mr. Thomas has always been very prominent in the insurance business of Cleveland, and active in the Cleveland Fire Insurance Exchange. He served on its governing committee for several years and was its president for three successive years. He is also a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, and for two years was on its board of directors. In addition he has also served as second and first vice president of the Chamber. Always active in committee work, he has been for years one of the most valued members of the Chamber. In addition to his work in insurance circles, Mr. Thomas has been active in outside interests, being president of The Thomas Realty Company, vice president of The Pineland Orange Grove Company, secretary cif the Cleveland Bethel Union and a stockholder in several insurance companies and manufacturing enterprises. In October, 1899, Mr. Thomas was married to Susan Louise Sears, born at Saginaw, Michigan. They have two children : Eleanore Louise, attending school, and Howard E. Mrs. Thomas is very much interested in church work, belonging to the Windermere Presbyterian church, as does her husband. She is also prominent in social affairs, and their beautiful home on Euclid avenue is the scene of many pleasant gatherings. The handsome residence is surrounded by extensive grounds where Mr. Thomas indulges his fad for gardening. Socially Mr. Thomas is a member of the Union and Euclid Clubs, while fraternally he is a Knights Templar, being treasurer oaf Coeur de Leon Commandry. Mr. Thomas is an enthusiastic golf player and enjoys motoring, but outside of his business interests, his heart is centered on his home. He is a man of strong character and more than ordinary executive ability, and the remarkable growth of his business testifies to his right to be numbered among those whose business career has been unusually successful. A. E. FOSS. The name of Studebaker carries with it weight wherever found, and those connected with the company bearing this name consider themselves fortunate. A. E. Foss, garage manager of the Studebaker Automobile Company of Cleveland, is one of the representative men of this city. He was born in Rangeley, Maine, in 1862, and is an excellent example of the self-made man of the present day. He was educated in the common schools and the Hanover Preparatory School of Bates & Bowden. He is a practical mechanical engineer, having had charge of the outside construction of power houses as superintendent for the Boston branch of The Westinghouse and General Electric Company from 1886 until 1900. In the latter year Mr. Foss came to Cleveland to associate himself with L. P. Moore and Harry Savage in the motor car business. They founded The Peerless Motor Car Company, building under French license. Mr. Foss continued this connection until 1904, when he entered the Chisholm-Phillips garage, the first one built in the city, and had full charge of it until 1906, when he equipped a garage for The Reese Motor Car Company. The following year the Metropolitan Motor Car Company was formed with Mr. Foss as general superintendent, and they conducted a business as dealers, repairers and garage storage, building under the personal direction of Mr. Foss and according to his plans a garage with more floor space than any between New York and San Francisco. In November, 1908, the business was sold to the Studebaker Company, and they now use it for a garage and distributing point for Michigan, Ohio, West Virginia and western Pennsylvania, Mr. Foss having entire charge of the garage and supplies. In 1886 Mr. Foss married Elizabeth Martin, of Lenox, Massachusetts. They are members of the Baptist church, and he also belongs to the Cleveland Athletic, the Cleveland Automobile, the A. A. A. and the Gordon Park Motor Boat 1026 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND Clubs and enjoys his associations with them. Fraternally he belongs to Star Lodge, No. 30, A. F. & A. M., of Maine, and is also a member of the chapter; and to the Knights of Pythias lodge, No. 99, of Maine. He is a genial gentleman, pleasant and courteous to all with whom he is brought into contact, He understands every detail of his business with which he has been connected so long, and his value is appreciated not only by the patrons of the garage but by the Studebaker people who know his true worth. SAMUEL KELLER. Samuel Keller, a successful real-estate dealer of Cleveland, is numbered among the city's energetic and enterprising young business men and has already met with a gratifying measure of prosperity in the management of his property interests. His birth occurred at Antwerp, Ohio, on the 5th of August, 1885, his parents being Norman S. and Elizabeth Mary (Bradley) Keller, who established their home in East Cleveland in 1885. The father is a native of Pennsylvania and in 1875 married a daughter of Alva Bradley, the pioneer vessel owner of Cleveland and the founder of the Bradley estate. M. A. Bradley, a son of Alva Bradley, is one of the best known real-estate men and capitalists of Cleveland. In the acquirement of an education Samuel Keller attended the common and University schools of Cleveland and afterward devoted five years to a preparatory course of study at Hendershot's Academy. Subsequently he spent a year as a student in the Hudson Academy and then, having been well qualified by excellent educational advantages for the practical and responsible duties of a business career, he entered the real-estate field. In this connection he has since built up quite an extensive and profitable enterprise, handling business buildings and apartment houses as well as improving his real estate. In 1907 Mr. Keller was united in marriage to Miss Helen M. Russell of Cleveland, whose father, William Russell, is a native of Scotland and a graduate of the Sheffield (England) schools. He acted as general superintendent of the Payne avenue street car line when it was operated by cable. Mr. Keller is a well known and popular member of the Cleveland Athletic, Cleveland Automobile and Colonial Clubs. Genial and courteous in manner, he has a wide and favorable acquaintance throughout the city in which practically his entire life has been spent, and the creditable position which he has already attained in business circles augurs well for a successful future. GUSTAVE SCHARMANN. Gustave Scharmann, an architect of Aveland, has in recent years contributed in substantial measure to the architectural adornment and improvement of the city through erection of many of its residences, apartment houses and business blocks. He was born across the water and is a native of Hessen, Germany, where his birth occurred on the loth of May, 1883. The paternal great-grandfather emigrated to Brazil and in that country the grandfather was born. The latter was prominent politically and took an active part in public affairs. He eventually crossed the Atlantic to the United States and his son Theodore, the father of our subject, was born in New York city. When but three years of age Theodore Scharmann was taken to Germany by his parents and after he had attained his majority he served for three years in the German artillery. He has been successfully identified with general mercantile pursuits throughout his active business career. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Katrina Luley and was born in the fatherland, still survives. HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 1027 Gustave Scharmann obtained his education in the common and high schools at Hessen and afterward entered a polytechnic school at Darmstadt, where he completed a course in architecture in 1901. For a year following his graduation he was employed in the offices of architects at Frankfort-on-the-Main and Disseldorf, but in 1902 he came to the United States and made his way at once to Cleveland, Ohio. Here he worked for various architects until March, 1906, when, feeling that his experience justified him in embarking in business on his own account, he opened an office in the Schofield building. Many of the substantial and attractive structures of the city now stand as monuments to his labor and skill in the field of his chosen endeavor, for he has erected a large number of residences and apartment houses as well as some business blocks. In 1902 Mr. Scharmann was united in marriage to Miss Augusta Manss, of Frankfort, Germany. They now have a daughter, Brunhilda. Fraternally Mr. Scharmann is identified with the Woodmen of the World. He came to the new world when a young man of nineteen years and in the comparatively brief period which has since elapsed has won a creditable position in the business circles of his adopted city by reason of his unwearied industry, unfaltering perseverance and unabating energy. HARRY W. SANFORD. Harry W. Sanford, who has been closely identified with the building interests of Cleveland since 1892, is well known as an architect of marked skill and ability. He is a native of Clinton, New York, where his birth occurred in 1868. His father, William H. Sanford, who was born in Olio in 1837, was but seven years of age when he located in the state of New York. During the period of the Civil war he valiantly served for four years with the Twenty-sixth New York Light Artillery, holding the rank of first lieutenant. Throughout his active career he was successfully engaged in business as a dealer in iron ore. His demise occurred in 1901. In 1865 he had wedded Miss Katie B. Barker, whose birth occurred in New York in the year 1847. She was called to her final rest in 1884. Harry W. Sanford obtained his education in the public schools and after putting aside his text-books devoted his attention to the mastery of the carpenter's trade. When seventeen years of age he left Clinton and took up his abode in Rochester, New York, there remaining for a short time. He next came to Cleveland and here worked at his trade in the employ of others until 1892, when he embarked in business on his own account. He has erected many substantial and attractive structures in Cleveland and vicinity and has won a gratifying measure of prosperity in his operations as an architect and builder. Since age conferred upon him the right of franchise Mr. Sanford has cast his ballot in support of the men and measures of the republican party, believing that its principles are most conducive to good government. His interests Ad influence are always on the side of right, progress, justice and improvement and his position in regard to anything that affects good citizenship as well as individual progress is never an equivocal one. EDWARD L. FRANTZ. Edward L. Frantz, an enterprising and prosperous business man of Cleveland, is a jobber and dealer in brick of all kinds and other clay products. He was born in New Berlin, Ohio, on the 23d of November, 1883, a son of Frank and Jennie Frantz. He attended the public schools until sixteen years of age and then spent two years in a business college, being thus well qualified for the 1028 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND practical and responsible duties of life. Removing to Akron, Ohio, he there accepted a position as bookkeeper with the Frantz Body Manufacturing Company, of which his father was the proprietor. After spending five years in that employ Mr. Frantz came to Cleveland and for two years served the Warner & Swasey Company in the capacity of purchasing agent. Subsequently he entered the employ of the Frantz Carriage & Wagon Company on Prospect avenue and thus again served under his father for a year. On the expiration of that period he started out in business life on his own account as a jobber and dealer in bricks and has since had the general agency for northern Ohio for the National Glass Brick Manufacturing Company of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. He deals in face brick—pressed, wire cut and enameled—also hollow, shale, sewer, common, fire and paving brick and likewise sells cement, fire proofing, terra cotta and sewer pipe, hollow clay blocks, flue lining, partition tile, etc. His leading brand is the Bulldog brick. He has already built up an extensive and profitable business in his line and, although still a young man, has attained a measure of success which many a man of twice his years might well envy. In his political views Mr. Frantz is independent, always casting his ballot for the candidate whom he believes best qualified, regardless of his party affiliation. He is a faithful communicant of the Catholic church and fraternally is identified with the Knights of Columbus. His home is at No. 1725 East Eighty-ninth street, and his business address is 1006 Garfield building. RUSSELL HALL BIRGE, M. D. Energy and ability will eventually win and no other qualities enter into success in the profession where advancement must depend upon individual merit. Having studied broadly and read deeply, Dr. Birge has made his work of worth in the world and is, moreover, honored by reason of his close conformity to a high standard of professional ethics. He was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, December 11, 1872, and comes of an old family of English lineage, founded in America by his great-great-grandfather who came from England to the new world in 1636 and settled in Windsor Connecticut. His great-grandfather, Jonathan Birge, was a captain of the Revolutionary war and was killed at the battle of White Plains. Edward Birge, the father of the Doctor, was a well known manufacturer of Providence, Rhode Island, and died in 1903. He is still survived by his wife, who bore the maiden name of Cornelia Day and is a representative of an old New England family that was founded in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1640. Representatives of the name have since lived in New England and Mrs. Birge is now a resident of Boston. The youthful days of Dr. Birge were passed in Providence, Rhode Island, where he acquired his early education as a public-school student. He mastered the branches of learning taught in the. consecutive grades and eventually was graduated from the high school with the class of 1890. His collegiate course was pursued in Brown University, where he won the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1894 and then, determining upon the practice of medicine as a life work, he matriculated in the Harvard Medical School and was graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1898. While at Brown he became a member of the Phi Beta Kappa and the Delta Upsilon and was graduated cum laude at Harvard. Having qualified for the onerous duties of the profession, he acted as resident surgeon in the Boston City Hospital from 1898 until 1900 and in the latter year became resident surgeon at the Lakeside Hospital of Cleveland, where he remained for two years. He next entered upon the private practice of general surgery, in which he has since continued. He possesses not only broad knowledge of the scientific principles of his profession but also a delicacy and precision of touch that is an essential element in the work of the successful surgeon. HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 1031 He has been instructor in surgery at the Western Reserve University Medical School since 1902 and is now assisting visiting surgeon to the Lakeside Hospital, having acted in that capacity for three years. He has also been visiting surgeon to the Lakeside Hospital Dispensary from 1902 until the present time. He is likewise assistant visiting surgeon to the German Hospital and was visiting physician to Rainbow Cottage from 1900 until 1902. In his professional capacity he is a representative of the American Steel & Wire Company, is also surgeon for other corporations, chief examiner for the New York Life Insurance Company and alternate medical referee for the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York. He has been an occasional contributor to the current literature on surgery and is a member of the American Medical Association, the Ohio State Medical Society, the Cleveland Academy of Medicine and the Cleveland Medical Library Association. On the 16th of August, 1903, in Toronto, Canada, was celebrated the marriage of Dr. Birge and Miss Edith Clarke, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter 0. Clarke. Her father was then superintendent of the eastern division of the Grand Trunk Railway, but now retired. Her grandfather was manager of the London, Brighton South Coast Railway Company, with offices in London. Dr. and Mrs. Birge have two children : Russel C., now four years of age, and Margaret J., born May 24, 1909, who are with their parents at No. 1913 East Sixty-ninth street. Dr. Birge belongs to the University and Tavern Clubs and is popular with his fellow members of those organizations. In manner he is unassuming, in temperament genial but, while modestly inclined in all non-professional relations, his worth as a man and surgeon is widely recognized. In his chosen calling he has won well merited fame, standing as one of its leading representatives in Cleveland. H. LINDALE SMITH. H. Lindale Smith, a prominent attorney of Cleveland, who is influential in financial circles, being affiliated with a number of the foremost commercial enterprises, was born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, January 23, 1872, and is descended from a family in which have been many esteemed professional men. His paternal great-grandfather, S. Stuart Smith, was a native of Ireland and a local preacher, licensed by the famous John Wesley, but his principal vocation in life was school teaching. In early life he came to the United States and settled on the site of what subsequently became Fort Red Stone, Pennsylvania, ' that redoubt afterward taking the name of Fort Duquesne. The original farm taken up by him during pioneer days is still in possession of the family. Some of its members participated in the Indian wars during the early days, and he served as a soldier in the Colonial army during the struggle for American independence. Among his children was the Rev. Wesley Smith, the grandfather of the subject of this review, whose birth occurred in Virginia and who entered into his eternal rest in 1889. He was influential in church circles prior to the Civil war, being a strong factor on the abolitionist side, who spent much time traveling from place to place along the border country, preaching against the institution of slavery. His influence as an orator, particularly in upholding the high ideals of Christianity, gained for him a universal reputation as a man of unquestioned integrity. He spent much time in profound investigation of Biblical themes and became the author of Smith on Baptism, a work widely known and today highly valued as an authority on the scriptural meaning and significance of that rite,. In addition to this excellent production, which evidences the acme of scholastic attainments and as well evidences the superior logic and reasoning 1032 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND ability of its author, his name is also found on the title pages of a number of other literary works which are of like merit and value. During the Civil war he served as chaplain of a regiment from Pennsylvania, being in the military ranks for ninety days. Two paternal uncles of H. L. Smith also participated in the Civil war, Lee S. Smith, who enlisted from Pennsylvania, having been sergeant of artillery, while Rev. Charles W. Smith was chaplain of a regiment from that state. His father, Dr. Homer J. Smith, also a native of the Keystone state, was born in Fayette county, and is pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal church of Columbus, Ohio. He is widely known in church circles and one of the most influential men in his denomination. He is a scholar of great merit, having had the advantage of everything in higher educational lines and has been granted the degrees of Master of Arts, Doctor of Philosophy and Doctor of Divinity, from colleges of high standing. Among the pastorates which he formerly held are : the Scovill Avenue Methodist Episcopal church ; Second Street Methodist Episcopal church, of Zanesville, Ohio; St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal church, of Delaware, Ohio ; Spencer Street Methodist Episcopal church, of Trenton, Ohio ; all of which are large and influential organizations. Dr. Smith's activities reach throughout every department of religious and moral work, his ambition in life being to do all he can to promote the ethical life of the Christian system. He is a trustee of the Anti-Saloon League, chairman of the board of examiners of the Ohio conference and upon the whole is one of the most valuable and prominent characters in the ranks of the Methodist Episcopal denomination. His brothers, Bishop Charles W. Smith, is also a man whose activities have contributed much toward the betterment of humanity, and he is now at Portland, Oregon, having charge of the interests of the brotherhood throughout the west, while his brother-in-law, Dr. Allen H. Norcross, is presiding elder of Columbus and adjacent district. Dr. Smith has another brother, who is president of the Chamber of Commerce of Pittsburg, which position is considered one of the most responsible in the United States inasmuch as the business interests of that city are more extensive and of greater financial import than of any city in the country. Dr. Smith is prominent in fraternal organizations and is a thirty-second degree Mason, being also a member of Cleveland Consistory. His wife was Arcadia Lindale, whose birth occurred at Wyoming, Delaware, in 1852, death terminating her career on May 18, 1907. Her father, William Purnell Lindale, was born in 1827 and now resides in the last named city, his family being more or less related to a large percentage of the families in the state of Delaware. Both the Smith and Lindale families are largely represented throughout Pennsylvania and West Virginia. To Dr. and Mrs. Smith were born four daughters and one son, namely : Helen A., the wife l(:1 T. C. Morris, of Columbus, Ohio, where he is associated with the Central Ohio Paper Company, in which he is a heavy stockholder and also a director ; Bertha 0., the wife of Frank A. Miller, vice president of the Central Ohio Paper Company ; Mabel Edith, wife of Dr. J. C. Cooper, a specialist on epilepsy residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; Agnes Lee, the wife of Harold Tallmadge, who is engaged in the insurance business in Columbus and is a descendant of a very old family, for whom the city of Tallmadge, Ohio, was named ; and H. Lindale: Mr. The public schools of this city afforded H. Lindale Smith his preliminary course of training and after completing a course of study in the high school he spent three years in Mount Union College at Alliance, Ohio, being graduated in 1893 with the degree of Bachelor of Science. Later he attended the Ohio State University, where he studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1895. He began the practice of his profession in Cleveland and makes a specialty of corporation law, doing much work in this line, and has rendered legal services in incorporating many local commercial companies. At present he is president of the Cleveland Spark Plug Company, manufacturers of ignition specialties, and the Windermere Plumbing Company ; treasurer of the American Realty and HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 1033 of the A. C. Rogers Printing Company ; and he is also a director in a number of others, among the more important of which are the John C. Lowe Company, the Union Wire & Iron Company, the Engineers Review & Publishing Company, the Hollyrood Terrace Company, the Standard Graphite Company, the National Law Book Company and the Union Realty Company. Mr. Smith's extensive business relations require his entire time and attention and make him one of the most active men of the city. He has also been admitted to practice law in the patent office of Washington, D. C., and also in all of the state and federal courts. On May 30, 1893, he was united in marriage to Mattie M. Badgley, a daughter of Rev. Orlando and Malinda (McIntyre) Badgley, her father being pastor of the Brooklyn Methodist Episcopal church of this city. The couple have two children : Homer Badgley and Curtis Lee. Mr. Smith is a republican in politics, active in the affairs of his party, is secretary of the Scotch-American Republican Club and has been chosen as delegate to a number of county and state conventions. He belongs to the Masonic order and also to the Sigma Alpha Epsilon society, of Mount Union College, of which he is president, and took part in the initiation of the late President William McKinley and also of Senator P. C, Knox, secretary of state under President William H. Taft. Mr. Smith is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, belonging to the Windermere organization, and is a member of the official board and also secretary of the building committee. His excellent services and superior ability as attorney together with his noble purpose in life make him one of the representative citizens and valuable professional men of this city. CHARLES E. J. LANG. Charles E. J. Lang, secretary and treasurer of the Rauch & Lang Carriage Company, has been identified with the business since 1878 and his industry and energy —his dominant qualities--have been substantial forces in the successful control of the enterprise. Cleveland numbers him among her native sons, as his birth occurred here July 14, 1858. His father, Joseph Lang, was born in Germany in 1832 and in 1855 heard and heeded the call of the new world, coming to America in that year. He lived for a short time in Galena, Illinois, but in 1856 removed to Cleveland, where he was actively identified with business interests until 1899, when he retired. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Caroline Greiner, is also of German birth. Charles E. J. Lang was educated in the public schools of the west side and after completing his education was employed as bookkeeper by the firm bf Hermann & Pfarr for one year. In 1878 he became associated with Charles Rauch in the carriage Manufacturing business and in 1884 became a partner under the firm name of Rauch & Lang. In 1888, on the incorporation of the business under the name of the Rauch & Lang Carriage Company, he was chosen secretary and treasurer and now for almost a third of a century has been active in the development and control of this business. The company has for fifty years set the standard of excellence in fine carriage building in this part of the country and more recently has become extensively engaged in the building of automatic vehicles, the same expert craftsmanship that gave their carriages reputation throughout the United States being employed now in producing some of the most luxurious electric carriages to be found anywhere in the market. The trade of the house has reached large proportions and the extent of its annual output makes the business not only a source of gratifying income to the stockholders but also a factor in the commercial and industrial development of Cleveland. Mr. Lang is also known as secretary of the Lakewood Realty Company and is classed with the substantial business men of his native city. 1034 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND On the 17th of May, 1883, Mr. Lang was married to Miss Katherine E., a daughter of Fred and Katherine Schweitzer, of Cleveland. They had two children but the younger., Carl, died at the age of ten years. The surviving son is Elmer J., who, after being graduated from the West high school in 1904, entered the automobile business with the Rauch & Lang Carriage Company. Mrs. Lang is a member and active worker in the Second Church of Christ Science. The family residence is at No. 6520 Franklin avenue and is the abode of a warm-hearted hospitality. Mr. Lang is interested in municipal progress, which prompts his cooperation with the movements of the Chamber of Commerce and the Chamber of Industry, in both of which he holds membership. His appreciation for the social amenities is indicated in his connection with the Clifton, the Cleveland Athletic and the Cleveland Automobile Clubs, and he, likewise belongs to Halcyon Lodge, A. F. & A. M., the Commandery and the Mystic Shrine. Politically he is independent. He delights in motoring nor does he relegate driving to the past, for he is fond of horses and also greatly enjoys outdoor sports. WILLIAM STRANGWARD. William Strangward, president of the Forest City Foundry & Manufacturing Company, is numbered with those men who have given stability to business conditions in Cleveland, following in his active career such business principles and methods as constitute forceful and resultant factors in commercial and industrial circles. A son of a farmer in England, he was born in Northamptonshire, February 5, 1848. His father, John Strangward, died in England in 1890. He was only nine years of age when he lost his mother, and from early youth he has largely been dependent upon his own resources. He pursued his education in common and private schools, his periods of vacation and leisure hours being devoted to all kinds of farm work during his school days, while to similar tasks he continued to give his attention until twenty-one years of age. Mr. Strangward then sought a home in the new world and made his way direct to Cleveland. This was in 1869. Here he entered business life as a day laborer in the employ of the American Fence Company, with whom he continued for some time. Later, in order to better his condition, he learned the molder's trade with Craine & Gaylord. In 1876 he went to Detroit, where in connection with a Mr. Thompson he established a small foundry. The venture was not very successful, however, and Mr. Strangward returned to Cleveland. Here he worked at his trade as a molder for the Union Foundry Company until the last week in December, 1880, when he joined Anthony Carlen and John Ennis in establishing the Viaduct Foundry, which they conducted until 1888. In that year they were joined by John Stuber and established the Standard Foundry and the Standard bought out the Viaduct Foundry. Mr. Strangward became a director of the latter company and so continued until 1890, in which year he formed a partnership with Charles Selbach, and they organized the Forest City Foundry & Manufacturing Company, of which Mr. Strangward became president and general manager. In 1904 they took over the business and plant of the Walworth Run Foundry Company, have since greatly enlarged the plant, and of this company Mr. Strangward is also the president and manager. His practical experience in the iron trade well qualifies him for the careful management and control of the important and growing interests which are now under his direction. He has not confined his attention to the iron business entirely for he is the president of two incorporated agriculture companies, the Indiana and Sylvester Fruit Companies of Sylvester, Georgia, their combined HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 1037 acreage covering nearly two sections of land. This is devoted to the cultivation of cotton, cantaloupes and small fruits. While in Detroit, in 1878, Mr. Strangward was united in marriage to Miss Mary Reese, of Allegheny, Pennsylvania, and they have four sons : William James, who is associated with his father in business, being now superintendent of the Forest City Foundry & Manufacturing Company ; Charles William, who is also an associate of his father in business, acting as resident manager of both the Indiana and Sylvester Fruit Companies; P. J., who is timekeeper with the Forest City Foundry & Manufacturing Company ; and Thompson Wallace, who is furnace salesman for the company. Mr. Strangward is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and is interested in all its projects for the upbuilding of the city along business lines and also equally favors its projects for the city's adornment and improvement. He ranks high in Masonry, holding membership in Bigelow Lodge, F. & A. M.; Cleveland Chapter, R. A. M.; Holyrood Commandery, K. T.; Lake Erie Consistory, S. P. R. S. ; and Al Koran Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. Fearing not that close and laborious attention to business which is the foundation of all success, Mr. Strangward has worked his way upward, gaining the confidence and trust of his business associates and contemporaries through his reliability and honorable business methods and winning trade as the result of his enterprise and initiative labors. His record presents many creditable phases and is no less commendable because of its success than for the honorable, straightforward business policy he has ever followed. Mr. Strangward resides at 1105 East boulevard, in a beautiful and commodious residence. HARRY S. LE BARON. Harry S. LeBaron, a well known and successful architect of Cleveland, was born in this city on the 24th of September, 1872. He is a representative of an old titled family of France that at the time of the Revolution came to America, settling in Vermont. His father, Samuel T. LeBaron, whose birth occurred in Vermont on the 28th of January, 1835, made his way from the Green Mountain state to Cleveland and here give his attention to the real-estate business until called to his final rest in November, 1908. He resided in the state of Indiana during the period of the Civil war and was in the railway service as an employe of the Pittsburg & Fort Wayne Company. In Cleveland he wedded Miss Jennie McVean, who was born in Ohio on the loth of September, 1843. Her demise occurred in 1892. Harry S. LeBaron attended the public schools in the acquirement of an education and putting aside his text-books he became associated with his father in the real-estate business, being thus actively engaged until 1897. At that time he went south and for about three years was employed as draftsman by architectural firms in Atlanta, Georgia, and in North Carolina. On returning to Cleveland he secured a position with C. W. Hopkinson and after a short time entered the service of the machinery concern known as he Dyer Company, remaining with the firm for about three years. On the expiration of that period he embarked in business for himself as a partner of E. W. Gebhardt, organizing the firm of LeBaron & Gebhardt, architects and general contractors. This relation was maintained for four years, at the end of which time, in July, 1908, Mr. LeBaron severed his connection with the concern and has since been in business alone. Most of his work has been done in Cleveland and he has erected a large number of factories and apartment houses and also a few residences. His business is continually increasing in volume and importance, for in all of his affairs he has been found thoroughly reliable and upright, never being known to take advantage of the necessities of another in a trade transaction in even the slightest degree. 1038 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND In his political views Mr. LeBaron is a republican and keeps well informed on the questions and issues of the day but has never sought nor desired office, preferring to concentrate his energies upon his private interests. He is widely and favorably known in the city where nearly his entire life has been spent, the circle of his friends being almost coextensive with the circle of his acquaintances. HON. AUGUSTUS J. RICKS, LL. D. Hon. Augustus J. Ricks, who passed away on the 23d of December, 1906, was well known and highly respected not only in Cleveland but also throughout the entire state of Ohio. His birth occurred in Massillon, Ohio, on the loth of February, 1843, his parents being Charles F. and Regina Marguerite (La Pierre) Ricks. The father was of a good and esteemed Prussian family, while the mother was the daughter of a French officer. The paternal grandfather was a man of large means and engaged in the forwarding and commission business. He was the owner of a large number of horses and wagons for the transportation of goods from city to city, all of which Napoleon seized for the use of the French army in its German campaign of 1813. This seizure of his property came to him as a sudden and sweeping misfortune and, depriving him of his business and property, left his sons dependent upon their own exertions for the future. His eldest son remained in Prussia and, entering the army, served in the staff corps throughout the brilliant campaign against Austria in 1866, and during the last Franco-Prussian war he wad a general of the staff of the late Emperor Frederick. He now resides in Wiesbaden and is on the retired army list as "Wirklicher Geheimer Kriegsrath a D," being retired after an active service of over fifty years. Charles F. Ricks, the father of Augustus J. Ricks, followed the tide of immigration to America and, coming to Ohio, settled at Massillon—at that time one of the most important towns in the state. Of this town he became a leading business man and served as its postmaster for two terms. Augustus J. Ricks obtained his early scholastic training in the public schools and, having completed the prescribed course at the Massillon high school, entered Kenyon College in June, 1861, then the foremost college in the west. While an undergraduate he joined the Philomathesian Literary Society, a secret organization founded in 1827, and also the Iota Chapter of the Psi Upsilon fraternity, which had but a few years before granted its Iota. Chapter--the first chapter granted by it in any other than eastern states. He did not graduate at Kenyon College but left the institution in order to enter the Union army. Kenyon afterward conferred upon him the degree of LL. D. In the spring of 1862 Mr. Ricks was found with a commission from Governor Todd for the purpose of recruiting a company in Massillon for the One Hundred and Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was commissioned by Governor Tod as first lieutenant, and the captaincy of the company recruited was refused by him because of his youth and inexperience. He served throughout the war with honor and credit, being with General Burnside in east Tennessee at the capture of Cumberland Gap, at the siege of Knoxville and the operations of the army during the winter of 1863-4. In January, 1864, he was detailed as aid-de-camp on the staff of Brigadier General M. S. Hascall, commanding the Second Division of the Twenty-third Army Corps, and in this position he served throughout the Atlanta campaign. In June, 1865, he served as aid-de-camp with rank of captain on the staff of Major General J. D. Cox in North Carolina, and thus at the close of the war he was serving with the rank of captain. When hostilities had ceased Mr. Ricks returned to his home in Massillon and there began reading law. During the war he had become acquainted with East Tennessee and, having been favorably impressed with the city of Knoxville, took up his abode there in September, 1865. He entered the law office of the late Judge John Baxter, of the United States circuit court, and in the spring of 1866 became a HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 1039 member of the firm of Baxter, Champion & Ricks, which for years was one of the leading law firms in the state of Tennessee. In 1870 he was drawn into editorial work, rather against his inclinations, but to meet a supposed temporary emergency, without intending to interrupt his practice as a lawyer. He became the editor and one of the founders of the Knoxville Daily Chronicle, the only republican daily paper then published in the entire southern states outside of the city of Louisville. In September, 1875, Mr. Ricks disposed of his interest in the Chronicle to the well known "Parson" Brownlow and then returned to Massillon, Ohio, by reason of family and business considerations. At that place he entered into a partnership with Judge Anson Pease in the practice of their profession. In March, 1878, he was made clerk of the United States circuit court for the northern district of Ohio, receiving his appointment from Judge Baxter, his former partner, and in 1886 he was appointed clerk of the district court by Judge Martin Welker. From 1878 to 1889 Mr. Ricks acted as standing master in chancery for the northern district of Ohio, and during that time he decided many important cases arising out of the foreclosure of what was then known as the "Narrow-Gauge System" of railroads, connecting Cincinnati, Toledo and St. Louis, the Wabash and other railroads, involving large interests and new questions in marshaling, mortgage and other liens, and claims against railroads, and relating to the powers and authority of the United States courts in the operation of railroads through receivers. Many of his reports as master were reviewed in the supreme court and all were sustained. Upon the retirement of Judge Welker from the United States distrtict court for the northern Ohio district, in June of 1889, Captain Ricks was appointed judge of this district by President Harrison. In this office he displayed great ability, his decisions being noted for their breadth and accuracy. His decision in March, 1893, in what is commonly known as the Ann Arbor case, involving the rights of railroad employes to leave the service of their employers without reference to conditions or circumstances under which they attempt to leave such employment, attracted very general attention and has been followed and approved in several later and equally important cases. He long held a very high rank in his noble profession and as a jurist and judge he was profound and learned. As a politician Judge Ricks was ever a firm and stanch republican, but after accepting his last office the dignity, etiquette and usefulness of the same never permitted him to take that interest and active part in politics which he would have been inclined to take under other circumstanes. He always maintained an enthusiastic interest in Kenyon College, his alma mater, and delivered lectures in common law and code of pleading. His demise, which occurred on the 23d of December, 1906, was deeply mourned by all with whom he had come in contact throughout his active, honorable and useful life. ABRAHAM B. KATZ. Abraham B. Katz is numbered among the representative and successful business men of Cleveland, being the proprietor of the Acme Brass Works from Seventy-fifth to Seventy-sixth street—a concern engaged in the manufacture of plumbers' supplies and brass fittings. He was born in Russia on the 17th of August, 1869, a son of Isidor and Anna Katz. He obtained his education in the public schools and when eighteen years of age put aside his text-books and began providing for his own support through the sale of fish nets. Subsequently he was engaged in the. fish business for a period of seven years. In April, 1893, having determined to establish his home in the new world, he crossed the Atlantic to the United States and after landing on the shores of this country at once made his way to Cleveland, Ohio. For six years following his arrival here he peddled iron, brass and junk, and in 1899 established the Acme Brass Works for the manufacture of brass castings and plumbers' supplies. Mr. Katz furnishes the sup- 1040 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND plies for the city water works and was the first man to make first class supplies for that institution. He has won a gratifying measure of prosperity in the conduct of his business interests and the success which he now enjoys is all the more creditable by reason of the fact that it has come as the direct result of his untiring energy, sound judgment and capable management. In August, 1894, in Cleveland, Mr. Katz was united in marriage to Miss Rosa Katz and they now have four children, as follows : Blanche, thirteen years of age ; Willie, ten years old; Solomon, who is seven years old ; and Harry, a little lad of six. All are attending the public schools. The family residence is at No. 2733 East Fifty-first street. Politically Mr. Katz is a stanch republican and in religious faith an orthodox Jew. He is a trustee of the National Union. He has no occasion to regret his determination to seek a home in the new world. In fact he has always regarded it as one of the wisest steps he ever made, for in this country, where labor and ambition are not hampered by caste or class, he has worked his way steadily upward, winning success and at the same time gaining the good will of many friends in the city where he makes his home. ROBERT A. HAWLEY. Within recent years the farm department of the fire insurance companies all over the United States has shown a steady and remarkable growth. As the agriculturists have increased their investments in substantial buildings and valuable machinery they have been loath to leave them unprotected against incendiarism or accidental fires. Then too, they have awakened to the wisdom of insuring crops and cattle and consequently the handling of their risks forms a very heavy portion of the insurance business. Cleveland is the home of some very important agencies of representative insurance companies whose officials and connections make them reliable beyond any question. One of the best known state companies is the Ohio Farmers Insurance Company, whose able representative in this city, Robert A. Hawley, is the subject of this brief review. Mr. Hawley was born in Leroy, Ohio, August 16, 1877, being a son of Amos H. and Sarah E. (Philips) Hawley. Amos H. Hawley was born in 1849 and died in 1890. The Ohio Farmers Insurance Company was born the year before him and all of his business life he was connected with it. When but twenty-four years old he was made its secretary. His other son, Frank H. is now treasurer of the company. At the time of his death, Amos H. Hawley was secretary and treasurer. His wife was born in 1848 in Leroy, Ohio, and died in 1908. Both the Hawley and Philips families were among the early settlers of Leroy. Robert A. Hawley was educated in Leroy and at the University school of Cleveland, Oberlin Preparatory School and Williams College of Williamstown, Massachusetts, from which he was graduated in 1900. Owing to trouble with his eyes from study, Mr. Hawley was forced to remain inactive for a year, but recovering was sent to Elyria as the representative there of the company with which he is now connected, and for three years ably attended to its business at that point. In 1903 he came to Cleveland, buying the interests of M. A. King, since which time he has been the representative of the company here. In addition to Cleveland, the company operates throughout Ohio and has some risks on the farmers and merchants of Lincoln, Nebraska, as well as some minor agencies. Until recently the company handled only farm risks, but now accepts those on city property. All profits of the company go back into the surplus thus making the policy holders doubly safe. Mr. Hawley has a partner, his firm being Hawley & Reed. HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 1043 In 1904 Mr. Hawley married Edith Hay, born at Seville, Ohio. One daughter was born to them on April 5, 1906, Sarah Elizabeth. Mr. Hawley belongs to the Del Kappa Epsilon, a Greek letter fraternity, while his political affiliations are with the republican party. He is thoroughly abreast of his business and understands insurance in very branch. His business has shown a steady and healthy growth since the establishment and he is proud of his connection with it. Mr. Hawley is one of the energetic young business men of Cleveland who is reaching out for new territory although insisting upon the protection of his policy holders by adherence to the conservative methods which have resulted in the acquiring of the present position occupied by his house. PROFESSOR FREDERICK L. ODENBACH, S. J. Professor Frederick L. Odenbach, a teacher of religon and science in St. Ignatius College, was born in Rochester, New York, October 21, 1857, and is a son of John Odenbach, a native of Rein-Pflaz, Germany, who was a baby in arms when brought to the new world. He settled at Rochester, New York, where he later engaged in business as a fur and hat merchant. He married Elizabeth Minges, who was born in Rochester, New York, and both the father and mother have now passed away. The two daughters of the family, also deceased, were Emma and Lucy. The former was a professed nun of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, known by the name of Aloisianna. Lucy was about to enter a convent when taken ill, her death resulting soon afterward m 1883. Professor Frederick L. Odenbach was educated in the parish schools of Rochester, New York, and in the Collegiate Institute of that city, in which he spent two years. He was afterward a student for seven years in Canisius College at Buffalo, New York, where he remained for seven years, pursuing a classical and commercial course. He afterward studied for five years at Limburg, Holland, attending the Exaten, Wynandsrade and Blyenbec Universities. Four years more were devoted to study in England, three at Ditten Hall and one at Portico in Lancashire. His studies thus covered a wide range, making him a man of broad scholarly attainments. In 1893 the Rev. F. L. Odenbach returned to the United States and came to St. Ignatius College, where he has since remained. In that year he was made prefect general for the college and for ten years has taught physics and chemistry, having served as prefect general for only one year. From 1903 until 1908 he also taught Shakespeare fin the college and in 1908-9 has been teaching religion and science. His father was a great student of Shakespeare and the Rev. Odenbach had to read those plays to him in his youthful days. The father was an excellent scholar and in his library were four picture volumes on chemistry, physics and zoology. These drew the attention of his son in his boyhood days and he began reading and studying the books and they made an impress upon his mind that lasted through his life and has largely influenced his trend of thought and teaching. He is a man of comprehensive scientific knowledge and during his connection with St. Ignatius College has built up the meteorological observatory, doing work here that has attracted world-wide attention. Here on the 6th of December, 1901, he made observations of the Hevelian Halo, a rare phenomenon. The halo of ninety degrees, called the Hevelian Halo after Hevelius, its first discoverer, is very rare. It seems that only three or four observations of this phenomenon were on record before the director of the St. Ignatius observatory obtained probably the first glimpse of it in the twentieth century. Only three or four known observations of this halo have been made. Rev. Odenbach has also done notable work with the Secchi Meteorograph, built by the great astronomer and meteorologist about 1860. It is the property of the Smithsonian Institution and has been in use in the St. Ignatius observatory since 1897. It records wind direction and velocity, time and amount of rain, the moist- 1044 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND ure of the atmosphere and the pressure. He has also done notable work with the Ceraunograph, the more notable from the fact that reports from different parts of Europe concerning the forms of instrument used there are anything but satisfactory. With this instrument the observatory director at St. Ignatius is able to cut out the effects of trolley sparks, house bells or any other effects of that nature and still get the effects of thunderstorms from great distances. Sheet lightning on the horizon is also faithfully registered. Rev. Odenbach has done much original work in this connection and his labors have been a contribution to science. The latest and most important achievement is the organization of a seismological service throughout the United States, including sixteen Jesuit colleges each with a Wiechert seismograph. This, so far, is the only set of instruments which is able to furnish a set of earthquake grams which are comparable. FRANK SERVIS MASTEN. As a member of the law firm of Goulder, Holding & Masten, Frank Servis Masten needs no introduction to Cleveland for, as such, he is numbered with the distinguished lawyers of the city, the firm ranking among the foremost in ability and in the extent of its clientage. A native of Mahoning county, Ohio, he was born in Smith township, October 16, 1865. The family history can be traced back for three or four hundred years and a complete genealogy has been compiled. The grandfather was born in Mahoning county, near Salem, Ohio, where the family was among the first established there. He devoted his life to farming. His wife came from New Jersey to Ohio in 1802 and it was about the same time that the Masten family was established in this state, both families being here represented for more than a century. His father, Landon Masten, born in Mahoning county, Ohio, in 1830, died May 22, 1882. He was a farmer in early life, but later studied law, was admitted to the bar and practiced in Canfield, Ohio, for about ten years. He was associated with Judge Giles H. Van Hyning and Francis Servis in a partnership relation and gained an eminent position as a representative of the Ohio bar. In politics he was a republican until the Tilden campaign but was not active except in local politics, exerting his influence when possible among his neighbors and fellow townsmen, He married Harriet Santee, who was born in Smith township, Mahoning county, Ohio, October 13, 1831, and is still living in Cleveland. She is a daughter of William Santee, also a native of that county and a farmer by occupation. He was active in local political circles and a man of considerable influence in his community. He married a daughter of General William Blackburn, who was a soldier in the war of 1812, while his father served as a soldier of the Revolutionary war from Pennsylvania. In the public schools of Canfield, Ohio, Frank Servis Masten pursued his early education and was graduated from the Northeastern Ohio Normal College in 1885 with the Bachelor of Science degree, his alma mater conferring upon him the Master of Arts degree in 1906. He studied law in the legal department of the Big Four Railroad Company under the direction of H. H. Poppleton and S. H. Holding, the latter being one of his present partners. He was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1893 and remained in the office of the Big Four Railroad until the fall of 1893, when he entered the office of his present partners as law clerk, later being admitted to partnership with them, with offices in the Rockefeller building. There is perhaps no law firm in the state that has a larger or more important clientage. Their practice is largely confined to corporation, maritime and insurance law. Mr. Masten was admitted to practice in the supreme court of the United States in 1896 and has practiced in the first, second, sixth, seventh and eighth United States circuit courts of appeal. Much of his work has been before departments in Washington in connection with matters affecting shipping interests, requiring fre- HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 1045 quent trips to the capital city. An extraordinary fact in his professional career is that the first case which he ever argued was before the United States supreme court. In politics Mr. Masten has always been a republican, voting for the men and measures of the party, yet is not an active worker in the ranks. He was born in the Quaker faith, was reared as a Presbyterian and, marrying the daughter of a Methodist Episcopal minister, is now holding membership in the First Methodist Episcopal church of this city. He is connected with a number of prominent social organizations of Cleveland, including the Colonial and Rowfant Clubs, being one of the organizers of the latter, which is a leading literary club of the city. In Masonry he has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite and has crossed the sands of the desert with the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. On the 16th of October, 1889, Mr. Masten was married to Miss Blanche Copeland, a daughter of Anson and Minerva (Dutchen) Copeland, her father being a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church. She is a representative of one of the old New England families, the ancestry being traced back to John and Priscilla Alden. Their two children are : Van Wilber, born July 9, 1893 ; and Nellie Blanche, born June 21, 1896. HERMAN E. RACKLE. Herman E. Rackle, who is prominent among the sculptural, concrete and cement workers of Cleveland and is president and manager of The George Rackle & Sons Company, devoted to general building construction, was born here in 1876, his family being of German extraction, well known and influential in the fatherland. His maternal grandfather at one time was mayor of the city of Baden, while his father's side of the house contained many wealthy members, the family for many centuries having owned valuable stone quarries there. His father, George Rackle, was born in 1837 and came from his native land to the new world some time between the years 1855 and 186o. He was an artist, who acquired quite a reputation in sculptural work, being a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts at Munich, Germany, and he continued to follow his profession until about ten years ago, when he organized the company with which his son is affiliated. He later withdrew from active business and lived retired until his death in February, 1909. Prior to coming to this city, he resided for three years m Columbus, Ohio. He was united in marriage at Bucyrus, Ohio, to Mary Frey, a native of the fatherland, who was born in 1845 and came to America about the year 1850. They reared a family of eight children. The public schools of Cleveland afforded Herman E. Rackle his preliminary education and, after taking a special course of study in a private school of drafting and architecture, he became associated with his father in business and remained with him for about eight years, when the present company was formed with which he has since been identified. The business is gradually growing and they execute contracts for concrete and cement structural work throughout this and other states, paying particular attention to the art of embellishing and decorating. Some of the work which bears evidence of the artistic skill of Mr. Rackle is the Wade Park fountain, the dancing academy in St. Louis, which is considered one of the finest in the country, a large power plant in Gary, Indiana, and the building on the 0. C. Barber estate at Barberton, Ohio, and aside from these he has been engaged on many important church edifices throughout the city and country. A fine example of their work recently finished is the Monolithic water tower at Gary, Indiana, which attracted national attention. Mr. Rackle is prominent in Masonic circles, being a thirty-second degree Mason and a Shriner, and he also belongs to the local Builders Exchange and the Lakewood Yacht Club. He is a man whose character commends him to the respect 1046 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND and confidence of all with whom he comes into contact and, in his particular line of work being one of the most skilled, his prosperity and the enterprise which he conducts justly entitles him to a place among Cleveland's representative citizens. SAMUEL S. BERGER, M. D. Dr. Samuel S. Berger is one of the promising young physicians of Cleveland, where he has been engaged in practice for the past five years. He was born in Kis Dobra, Zemplen, Hungary, April 14, 1881, a son of Samuel and Rose (Goodman) Berger, both natives of Hungary. The father was an agriculturist and a dealer in lumber, who spent all of his life in the land of his birth, dying there in 1887. His widow is still living, making her home with her son Samuel, for she came to the United States in 1903. Dr. Berger attended the public schools of his birthplace and then went to the gymnasium, which corresponds to the high school and academy here, specializing in the classical departments. In 1896 he came to America, locating in Cleveland, and with that desire for thoroughness which has ever characterized his life, became a pupil in the first grade of the public school, as he was determined to become fully familiar with the English language. Because of his previous training in his native land, Dr. Berger made rapid progress and it was only four years after his arrival here, in 1900, that he was able to enter the medical department of the Western Reserve University„ from which he received his diploma in 1904. During the last year of his course, however, he was house physician of Mt. Sinai Hospital, being the first to occupy that position. It was in 1904 that Dr. Berger embarked in general practice in this city, and in the years that have passed by he has been successful beyond the average young man, who with determination and enthusiasm devotes himself to his profession. He has pleasant offices at 1946 St. Clair avenue, where he also resides. In addition to his private practice he discharges the duties of associate visiting physician at Mt. Sinai Hospital and of visiting physician at the Jewish Infant Orphans Home. Dr. Berger is independent of party allegiance in political matters, placing the greatest importance upon worthy men and progressive measures. He belongs to the national college fraternity of Alpha Omega Alpha, which is an honorary medical society ; The Cleveland Academy of Medicine; the German Medical Society ; the Ohio State Medical Association and the American Medical Association. He attends the religious services of the Scoville Avenue Temple, of which Rabbi Wolsey is at the head. A young man of much ability fully conversant with all phases of his profession, of high ideals of honor and integrity, he enjoys the respect not only of the members of his own race but of all who have come in contact with him throughout the city. REV. JAMES JOSEPH QUINN. Rev. James Joseph Quinn, pastor of St. Catherine's church of Cleveland and enthusiastic in his labors for Catholicism in this city, was born in Ballindine, a suburb of Tuam, Ireland, January 10, 1860. His father, Thomas Quinn, died in Ireland on the 5th of January, 1905, having survived his wife exactly one year. The family consisted of four sons and one daughter : Thomas F., rector of St. Mary's church at Clyde, Ohio ; John S., rector of St. Carthagh's church at Tweed, Ontario; one who is a bookkeeper in the city hall ; Father Quinn of this review ; and Mother Juliana, principal of the Ursuline Academy in Father Quinn's parish. A niece, Mary Catherine, is one of Father Quinn's teachers. He has many other HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 1049 relatives-cousins, nieces and nephews—who are priests or sisters, the family having contributed many priests and faithful workers to the church for centuries. After acquiring his preliminary education in the parochial schools Rev. James Joseph Quinn entered St. Jarlath's College at Tuam, from which he was graduated in 1877, and from there went to Paris to pursue a theological course in the Irish college of that city. In time he was graduated from that institution and through the succeeding two years was a professor in the college, teaching classics, French and history. On the loth of August, 1882, he was ordained at Tuam by Archbishop McEvilly and said his first mass August 27, 1882, in his native parish in St. Joseph's church, after which he was made curate at Clifden in County Galway, there remaining for three years. The succeeding two years were spent at Clare island, and in 1888 he came to the United States on the invitation of Bishop Gilmour, under whom he was an assistant priest at the cathedral. Within three months, or in September, 1888, he was assigned to St. Columba's, at Youngstown, Ohio, as assistant priest, remaining there until August 20, 1891, At that date he was sent to St. Mary's church at Wakeman, Ohio, and continued in charge until November 12, 1893. He was next assistant priest at the church of the Immaculate Conception of Cleveland until September 16, 1897, when he was transferred to St. Mary's church at Norwalk, Ohio, and there remained until January 7, 1900. In that year Father Quinn organized his present parish. The land had been purchased and the church built, and there, was a debt of fourteen thousand five hundred dollars on the property, nor were there any city improvements on the property. The church is a frame structure and has seating capacity for five hundred. A schoolhouse was built by Father Quinn in the summer of 1900 and is a four-room frame structure, while a hall with a seating capacity of four hundred and fifty is attached to the school. The school was opened September 1, 1900. The parish house is of pressed brick with sandstone finish. The grounds surrounding the church property are graded and the buildings are in good condition. There are two hundred and twenty families in the parish and two hundred and forty pupils attend school under the care of four teachers. All of this work has been accomplished by Father Quinn, who not only carefully lays his plans but has the ability to see that they are faithfully carried out. He is noted for his powers of organization : while at Clare he built three schools ; at Wakeman he rebuilt the church ; at Norwalk he reorganized the parish and considerably reduced the debt ; and while with the Church of the Immaculate Conception he was largely instrumental in having the debt reduced one half. Whatever he undertakes he does thoroughly. If the building lots belonging to St. Catherine's church, which now have all city improvements and are almost all paid for, were disposed of, the parish property would be practically out of debt. RALPH E. FISHER, M. D. Dr. Ralph E. Fisher, a promising young physician and surgeon of Cleveland, is one of Ohio's native sons, having been born in Mansfield, September 10, 1879, a son of Edward S. and Arabelle (Van Nest) Fisher. His paternal grandfather, Philip Fisher, came to America from Germany at the age of sixteen years and located in Wooster, Ohio. He became prominent in the affairs of that village, and was the sexton of the Wooster cemetery, which was noted as one of the most beautiful in the state, largely as the result of Mr. Fisher's labors. His maternal grandfather, John Van Nest, Esq.. of Rowsburg, Ashland county, Ohio, was born in Dillstown, Pennsylvania, December 1, 1814, and came to Rowsburg in 1839, where he organized the First Lutheran church. He and his estimable wife, Sarah (Weiler) Van Nest, were constant members of same until removed by death, she at the age of seventy-seven years and he at the age of eighty-eight years and six