(RETURN TO THE TITLE PAGE) 450 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND any concerns as he and in different countries and has never failed in any of them but carried them to success, he has done something of which he and his family have every reason to be proud. CHARLES B. SMITH. Charles B. Smith, for six years resident manager of the Cincinnati Railway Supply Company with headquarters at 1111 Superior avenue viaduct, was born in New York city, March 11, 1851, his parents being Harvey W. and Cornelia. His grandfather, Walter Smith, was of that sturdy New England stock of which America is justly proud. He was born in Connecticut and entered the Congregational ministry. He finally removed to Mt. Vernon, Ohio, bringing his family with him. Our subject's father was born in Litchfield county, Connecticut, and was a graduate of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York city. Having removed to Mt. Vernon, he practiced his profession there from 1871 to 1874, when his death occurred. Mr. Smith attended the New York public schools until his tenth year and finished his education in the Mt. Vernon schools at the age of seventeen. He evidently cherished a latent fondness for the city of his birth, for soon after the completion of his schooling, he returned and spent the next six years as errand boy and later as salesman for the Thomas J. Pope & Brother, a metal concern. Becoming thus familiar with the metal trade, Mr. Smith came to Cleveland and embarked in that business independently. At the end of three years he gave this up to become salesman for Tuttle, Masters & Company, dealers in pig iron, iron ore and metals, remaining with them two years. We find him during the next twenty years in various similar capacities, spending seven years with Masters & Company, eight years with the E. C. Pope and four years with The Gibson & Price Company. That he is thoroughly fitted by long experience to hold his present responsible position is easily apparent. Mr. Smith's wife was before her marriage Miss Mary Ritezel, of Warren, Ohio, their wedding being celebrated June 28, 1877. They have two daughters, both married : Mrs. A. G. Cole and Mrs. Frank H. Dodge, both living in Cleveland. Mr. and Mrs. Smith live at 1969 East Seventieth street. He is an adherent of the republican party and a member of the Episcopal church. He en- joys the esteem of all those with whom he comes in contact, both in business and social circles. HAROLD EDWARD PARSONS. The Parsons family had its origin in England but representatives of the name removed thence to the Emerald Isle, and Robert Parsons, the great-grandfather, was born and died in Ireland. His son, Richard Parsons, whose birth occurred in Ireland in 1810, came to the United States in 1848. He was the father of Richard Parsons, who was born in Parsonstown, in the county of West Meath, Ireland, June 25, 1847, and was only a year old when brought by his parents to the western world. Liberally educated, he became professor of Greek in the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, and has continuously filled that position since 1871. The degrees of Master of Arts and Doctor of Divinity have been conferred upon him. He devoted one year to post-graduate work in Munich, but took no degree there. He is the author of several Greek text-books and has written numerous articles on archaeological subjects, which have been published in various magazines. He is a member of the Archaeological Society of America and has attended the Archaeological School at Athens, Greece. His wide re- HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 453 search and investigation along that line have gained him preeminence in scientific circles and his companionship is sought and enjoyed by eminent men of learning. He wedded Eusebia M. Larason, who was born in Utica, Ohio, and was graduated from the Female Seminary, now the Ohio Wesleyan University, with the class of 1869. She is descended from a line of American ancestry dating their advent on this continent from 1681. Unto Professor and Mrs. Parsons were born three sons: Arthur J. is professor of English in the high school at Freeport, Illinois. He was graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan University with the A. B. degree in 1899 and also studied in the University of Chicago and in Columbia University in New York city. Robert L. Parsons, who was a student in the Ohio Wesleyan University, is now a civil engineer of Delaware, Ohio. Harold Edward Parsons, the eldest son of the family, attended the public schools, pursued the study of French and German under private instruction, was a high school pupil in Delaware, Ohio, and afterward attended the Ohio Wesleyan Academy and the Ohio Wesleyan University, from which he graduated with the Bachelor of Science degree in 1897 The following year he took post-graduate work there and studied law in the same university, being admitted to the bar in 1899. He entered the office of the attorney general at Columbus, Ohio, in 1898, spending two years there, during which time he pursued his law studies. He entered upon active practice in Cleveland in January, 1901, and without specializing in any department has met with success in general practice, his ability being evidenced in the excellent work which he has done in the courts, whereby he has won many notable forensic victories. In his political views Mr. Parsons is a republican who, alive to the situation and interest of the country, gives active support to the party. He has frequently been a delegate to county and state conventions and is a member of the Tippecanoe Club, a republican organization, and of the Western Reserve Club. He likewise belongs to the Phi Kappa Psi, to the Theta Nu Epsilon and to the Delta Omecron Alpha fraternities, with which he became connected in his college days. ARTHUR G. McKEE. Arthur G. McKee is a consulting engineer, who has acquired an enviable reputation as a specialist in the design and construction of blast furnaces and other large manufacturing projects of a similar nature. He was born at State College, Pennsylvania, in 1871, a son of Professor James Y. and Margaret Glenn McKee, the former having been born near Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1836. Professor James Y. McKee, was educated in Jefferson University and was for twenty-five years the vice president of the Pennsylvania State College and professor of ancient languages and English literature, becoming very prominent as an educator. His death occurred m December, 1901. Arthur G. McKee attended the private schools of his native place and then entered the Pennsylvania State College, from which he was graduated at the age of twenty years in the department of mechanical engineering. Following this he went to Chicago, where he was in the engineering department of the General Electric Company for one year, after which he took a post-graduate course in electrical engineering at his alma mater. Much better equipped, Mr. McKee engaged as a mechanical engineer for the Henry C. Frick Coke Company, and remained with them for one year. He was then with the Carnegie Steel Company at their Duquesne and Edgar Thompson plants for two years, and with the Ohio Steel Company at Youngstown, Ohio, for two years as assistant chief draftsman. Julian Kennedy, engineer, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, then made him one of his engineers, putting him in charge of blast furnace work. 'After eighteen months in that position he came to Cleveland in January, 1901, as district engineer for the American Steel 454 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND & Wire Company, with whom he remained until November, 1905, when he-opened an office in the Rockefeller building, as a consulting engineer. Since establishing himself here, he has, among other things, done the following work : rebuilt furnaces Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4 for the American Steel & Wire Company, with complete dock and ore handling machinery ; built the No. 2 furnace of the Cleveland Furnace Company, with its entire equipment ; also the furnace plants of the Inland Steel Company at Chicago, Illinois ; Perry Iron Company, Erie, Pennsylvania; the Struthers furnace of the Struthers Furnace Company, Youngstown, Ohio. He is now building the second furnace of the Detroit Iron & Steel Company, at Detroit, Michigan, as well as the second furnace for the Wickwire Steel Company, at Buffalo, New York. In April, 1899, Mr. McKee married Miss Marion Deane, of Pittsburg, and they have two children. The family residence is at 1654 East One Hundred and Fifteenth street. Mr. McKee had the degree of Mechanical Engineer conferred by his college and belongs to the Union and Civil Engineers' Clubs, of Cleveland and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He is a republican, politically, while his religious affiliations are with the Presbyterian church. WILLIAM C. FISCHER. William C. Fisher, manager of the purchasing department for the firm of Rauch & Lang, builders of motor vehicles, is one whose life-long connection with Cleveland makes his history familiar to his fellow citizens, who recognize in him that worth which comes from the development of one's native powers and talents in the school of business experience. Born in this city July 25, 1869, he is a son of Henry Fischer, a native of Evarstadt, Germany, who came to America in 1842 and settled in Cleveland, where he engaged in the grocery business. He was also one of the city's pioneer teaming contractors and in this connection was for several years associated with the Standard Oil Company and the Weidman Company. He was also prominent among the German-American residents of Cleveland in church and social circles, being recognized as a leader among people of his own nationality. He died in 1876 at the comparatively early age of forty-five years. His wife, wild bore the maiden name of Elizabeth Heckler, was a daughter of George Heckler, a native of Zwingenberg, Germany, and for many years has been prominent in church and charitable work in this city. She has served as secretary of the Altenheim since its founding and is one of its most liberal supporters. She has also been treasurer of the Women's Society of the German Evangelical church for an extended period and is yet associated with philanthropic and benevolent interests although she has attained the age of seventy-six years. William C. Fischer was educated in the public schools of Cleveland and the Spencerian Business College. After completing the course in the latter institution he entered the employ of Rauch & Lang, carriage builders, as office assistant and served in all the various positions up to and including that of head bookkeeper. Subsequently he took up the practical features of the business and advanced through the various departments of the factory to the superintendency of the manufacturing department. When the company engaged on an extensive scale in the building of motor vehicles he was appointed to the present position of purchasing department manager. On the 14th of November, 1907, Mr. Fischer was married to Miss Amelia Tanner, a daughter of Jacob J. Tanner, a prominent retired merchant of Memphis, Tennessee. They reside at No. 1275 West One Hundred and Twelfth street. Mr. Fischer is a member of the Elks and Knights of Pythias lodges and the Cleveland Athletic Club. His wife is promment in musical and literary circles, being a leading member of the Sorosis Society. Prompted by a laudable HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 455 ambition, his labors at all times being characterized by thoroughness and a complete mastery of the tasks undertaken, Mr. Fischer has made continuous and creditable advance in business circles and is accorded recognition by leading business men as one who deserves classification in their ranks. GEORGE NORRIS. In the business circles of Cleveland the name of George Norris was a familiar and honored one for many years. He was at diffierent times connected with various enterprises but through much of his life concentrated his energies upon the lumber trade and in that field of commercial activity developed an extensive and profitable enterprise. He was born in Danbury, Connecticut, November 11, 1830, and pursued his education in the common schools. Coming to Cleveland at the age of twenty-one years he engaged in the bottlmg business for a time and subsequently conducted a tannery for a short period. He then established the Norris Lumber Company, beginning business on a limited scale, but in the course of years built up a large and successful enterprise, devoting his attention and energies to the management of a business which, owing to his keen discernment and capable control, grew to be one of large proportions. He continued actively in this line until his death, which occurred October 25, 1896. Mr. Norris was married in Lakewood to Miss Libby A. Hurd, a daughter of Thomas Hurd, a pioneer who came from England to Tioga county at an early day, probably about the year 1821. He bought a farm in what is now Lakewood and there he passed the remainder of his life, clearing his land which he continued to cultivate for many years and then subdivided it into city lots. A part of this is now included in the finest resident section of Lakewood. He was married in this county, March 31, 1832, to Miss Hope R. Lord, a lady of many splendid and lovable qualities who lived to a very ripe old age. They were the parents of six children, four of whom are yet living: Mrs. Frances Burrows Hurd, of Nottingham ; Mrs. Norris ; Urban B., of Cleveland; and Mrs. Mary L. Lapham. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Norris were born four children : George Gilbert, Mrs. Carrie Wiggins, Mrs. May Prescott and Charles. The son is still conducting the business which was founded and conducted by his father. Mrs. Norris has always been a resident of Cleveland and has resided in her present home for forty-six years. She has ever presided with gracious hospitality over the household and her many friends are always sure of a warm welcome there. Mr. Norris belonged to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and was a member and deacon in the old Third Street church. He had a sympathetic nature, quickly touched by a tale of sorrow or distress and was a very charitable man, freely dividing his means with the needy. In all the relations of citizenship he was honorable and upright, and in his home life manifested many of the sterling characteristics of the ideal husband and father. ALBERT PANEK. Albert Panek, who has been manager of the Forest City Brewing Company of Cleveland since January, 1909, was born in Vys Myta, Bohemia, on the 11th of November, 1871, his parents being John and Anna Panek. The paternal grandfather, John Panek, likewise a native of Vys Myta, Bohemia, was successfully identified with general agricultural pursuits throughout his active business career and passed away in the year 1880. The father of our subject, John Panek, who was also born in Vys Myta, Bohemia, was a farmer by occu- 456 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND pation. He capably served as mayor of his native city for nine years, and was called to his final rest in 1897. Albert Panek attended the common and high schools of his native country until thirteen years of age and then spent a year in a business college. Entering business life, he was connected with the wholesale grocery trade for a period of eight years and then, having determined to establish his home in the new world, crossed the Atlantic to the United States. From New York he made his way to Cleveland, Ohio, and here secured employment as a machine hand with the National Woolen Company, remaining with that concern for a year. Subsequently he was engaged in the conduct of a grocery store on Sackett avenue for four years, and afterward acted as agent for the C. O. Everett Fire Insurance Company until 1909. During the following eight years he served m the capacity of collector and solicitor for the Pilsener Brewing Company. He was then appointed manager of the Forest City Brewing Company by the board of directors and entered upon his duties in this connection in January, 1909. He is a man of keen discrimination and sound judgment, and his executive ability and excellent management have contributed in large measure to the success of the enterprise. The company employs a force of twenty-eight men, has seven wagons and turns out fifty thousand barrels of beer annually. On the 1st of May, 1893, in Cleveland, Mr. Panek was united in marriage to Miss Katie Hulec, by whom he has four children, as follows : Jaro, fourteen years of age; John, who is twelve years old ; Albert, a lad of ten years ; and Viola, who is four years of age. The three oldest are now attending the public schools. The family residence is at No. 3626 Mapledale avenue. Mr. Panek exercises his right of franchise in support of the men and measures of the democracy. Fraternally he is identified with the C. S. P. S. and the C. S. P. B. J., in both of which organizations he is acting as treasurer. He likewise has membership relations with the Bohemian Turners. The hope that led him to leave his native land and seek a home in America has been more than realized. He found the opportunities he sought—which, by the way, are always open to the ambitious, energetic man-and making the best of these he has steadily worked his way upward until he is now numbered among the substantial and enterprising business men of this city. FRANK KRATOCHVIL. Frank Kratochvil, one of the worthy native sons and representative business men of Cleveland, has for the past five years served as the secretary of the Pilsener Brewing Company, which is located at the corner of Sixty-fifth street and Clark avenue. He was born in this city, on the 4th of October, 1878, a son of John and Mary Kratochvil. The father, whose birth occurred in Bohemia on the 1st of March, 1839, crossed the Atlantic to the United States in 1872 and made his way direct from New York to Cleveland, Ohio. During the early period of his residence in this city he was engaged in the retail butchering business and subsequently became identified with the Pilsener Brewing Company, of which he acted as president until the time of his death in December, 1902. His widow still survives and makes her home with her son Frank at Parmo, Ohio. Frank Kratochvil pursued his studies in the Cleveland public schools until fourteen years of age and then became associated with his father in the meat business, at the same time also attending the Spencerian Business College during a period of three years. He afterward entered the employ of the Pilsener Brewing Company in the capacity of clerk and was thus engaged until 1903, when he was made secretary of the company. The plant has a capacity of one hundred thousand barrels of beer annually, while seventy men and twenty-two HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 459 wagons are employed in the conduct of the business. Mr. Kratochvil is a young man of energy, enterprise and determination and his efforts have contributed in large measure to the success of the concern with which he is officially connected. Since age conferred upon him the right of franchise Mr. Kratochvil has cast his ballot in support of the men and measures of the democracy. He belongs to the Bohemian Benevolent Protective Society and also to the Bohemian Turners. A resident of Cleveland from his birth to the present time, he is widely and favorably known here and has an extensive circle of friends who entertain for him warm regard. FRED BECKER. Fred Becker has for the past fourteen years been the president of the Pfaffman Egg Noodle Company of Cleveland, the business being conducted in a fine three-story brick building at No. 6919 Lorain avenue. His birth occurred in Rhein-Pfalz, Germany, on the 24th of October, 1864, his parents being Fred and Zoller Becker. Michael Becker, the paternal grandfather, who was likewise a native of Rhein-Pfalz, Germany, was successfully engaged in the wholesale liquor business throughout his active career. His demise occurred in 1883. Fred Becker, the father of our subject, was born in Rhein-Pfalz, Germany, in 1835, obtained his education in the public schools and later succeeded his father in the liquor business, with which he is still actively identified. His wife was called to her final rest in 1904. Fred Becker pursued his education in the common and high schools of his native land until fifteen years of age and then became identified with the liquor business, working as an apprentice until he had attained his majority. He then served his country as a soldier for two years and after returning from the army remained at home for another year, being engaged in business with his father. Having determined to establish his home in the new world, he then crossed the Atlantic to the United States and after arriving in this country was engaged in the wine business at New York for a year. On the expiration of that period he came to Cleveland, Ohio, and entered the employ of A. G. Pfaffman, remaining with the concern for a year. Returning to Germany, he there spent eight months and after once more crossing the Atlantic to this country in 1892, became a factor in the business circles of Cleveland as a partner of George A. Pfaffman. Three years later he purchased the latter's interest in the enter-- prise and has since served as the president of the concern, which was incorporated as the Pfaffman Egg Noodle Company. In 1904 Mr. Becker erected a handsome three-story brick building at No. 6919 Lorain avenue, where the business has since been conducted most successfully. Employment is furnished to a force of eighty people and seven wagons are utilized for delivery purposes. Some idea of the steady and substantial growth of the business may be gained from that fact that in 1892 they manufactured on an average of three hundred pounds of noodles daily, while at the present time their output amounts to twenty thousand pounds per day. They are manufacturers of egg noodles and macaroni and the "Climax" is their leading brand. Mr. Becker also publishes a paper in the interests of his business. In October, 1892, in Cleveland, Mr. Becker was joined in wedlock to Miss Mary Eckerman, by whom he has two children : Ruth, a high school student ; and Fred, who is thirteen years of age and attends the public schools. The family residence is at No. 7001 Lorain avenue. At the polls Mr. Becker casts his ballot in support of the men and measures of the republican party, and in religious faith is a Protestant. He is also a member of the Chamber of Commerce. He started out empty handed in a 460 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND strange land and whatever success he has achieved or enjoyed is attributable entirely to his own perseverance and capable control of business affairs. His life record in many respects may well serve to encourage and inspire others, showing what may be achieved when one has the will to dare and to do. LEANDER McBRIDE. Leander McBride was entitled to threefold prominence. The wide range of his business interests, his unstinted philanthropy and his political activity all served to place him in a position of distinction in the pubilc life of Cleveland and the salient qualities which he displayed in these various relations were such as caused his memory to be revered and cherished by all who knew him. Death came to him on the 20th of April, 1909, thus terminating a life of activity and usefulness, which covered seventy-one years. Mr. McBride was born at Lowellville, Ohio, on the 18th of December, 1837, and was one of the two sons of Samuel H. and Phoebe (Harris) McBride. The father, a native of Mercer county, Pennsylvania, devoted his life to merchandising. Removing to Ohio, he continued in business in Lowellville for forty-seven years, being regarded as one of the foremost merchants of that city. In 1835 he wedded Phoebe Harris, a native of Ohio. Both the McBride and Harris families were old settlers of Mahoning county, being of that band of Scotch-Irish colonists who settled in the wilderness and bore a conspicuous part in the reclamation of that section of Ohio for the purposes of civilization. The death of Samuel H. McBride occurred in 1884, while his wife passed away in 1891. Leander McBride began his education in the schools of Lowellville and for two years was a student in Westminster College at Wilmington, Ohio. In the meantime he acted as a clerk in his father's store, there receiving his preliminary training for business life. Following his graduation from college at the age of twenty years, he came to Cleveland in 1857 and immediately entered the employ of Morgan, Root & Company, at that time proprietors of the "Old City Mill store" on East Fourth street and Superior avenue, Northeast. He entered their service as clerk and so continued for four years, when his ability and fidelity won recognition in his admission to the firm as junior partner. He immediately set about improving and enlarging the business, and his efforts were attended with large success. Four years after Mr. McBride had been taken into the firm, Mr. Morgan, the senior member, retired, and in 1884 John H. McBride, a brother of our subject, was admitted to the partnership. Ten years later the business was incorporated as the Root & McBride Company and Leander McBride was chosen president of the new organization. In 1884 the business was removed to its present location and throughout the intervening years the house has enjoyed a steady growth in its trade, being now one of the largest enterprises of the kind in the state. During this time Mr. McBride had been, constantly widening the field of his commercial activities. His intelligent appreciation and utilization of opportunity had brought him into prominent relations with the commercial, industrial and financial interests of Cleveland. He was also the president of the Cleveland Hardware Company, purchasing an interest therein when it was a small concern. For many years Mr. McBride served on the board of directors of the Cleveland Telephone Company. In 1884 in connection with M. A. Hanna, who was his close personal friend, and others, he became one of the organizers of the Union National Bank and was one of its board of directors up to the time of his death, while from 1890 until his demise he served as its vice president. Mr. McBride was married in 1863 to Miss Harriet E. Wright. a native of Ohio. the wedding ceremony being performed in the Old Stone church of Cleveland. They occupied a prominent position in the social circles of the city and Mr. HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 461 McBride was a member of the Union, Euclid, Country, Roadside and Castalia Clubs. During his later years he spent most of the summer on his farm in West Virginia but the winter months were passed in Cleveland and he never ceased to feel the keenest interest in all that pertained to the various phases of city life that had to do with its social, aesthetic, intellectual, political, material and moral progress. He was at one time a member of the Cleveland Grays, an organization drawing its membership from the aristocracy of the city. Moreover, Mr. McBride regarded it as the duty as well as the privilege of every true American citizen to advocate and support the political principles which he deemed conducive to good government and was himself an active republican, serving as president of the first board of aldermen of Cleveland. He did not desire to continue his political career, however, although strongly urged to do so, saying that his private business demanded his entire attention. He continued, however, to take keen interest in civic affairs and was one of the main promoters of the Lakeside Hospital, which institution was finally established largely through his efforts. He served as one of its trustees, was also a trustee of the Jones Home and of the Calvary Presbyterian church, of which he was a prominent and active member. Various philanthropic and benevolent movements received his assistance for as his wealth grew his benevolences were proportionately increased, a generous spirit prompting him to share with others the prosperity with which he was blessed. Coming to Cleveland a young man comparatively unknown, he lived to attain a position of distinction, his name being prominently identified with the growth and improvement of the city for a long period. While he received in generous measure from the world as a reward for his business ability and concentrated energy, he gave as liberally as he received, his success having no narrowing effect upon his nature but rather bringing with it a breadth of view and a scope of interest which brought him in his later manhood into close touch with the world's work in the various phases which have been evolved through the present condition of society. HARRY E. GRILL. Harry E. Grill, mechanical engineer for the Kilby Manufacturing Company of Cleveland, was born at Millport, Ohio, on the 17th of October, 1877. His parents. Levi and Irena (Hawk) Grill, are likewise natives of this state, the former's birth having ̊centred at Barberton. Their marriage was celebrated at Clinton, Ohio, but Levi Grill has spent the greater part of his life in Cleveland and is now the vice president of the Union Engineering Company, mechanical engineers. Harry E. Grill obtained his education in the schools of Cleveland, having been brought to this city by his parents in early life. He likewise pursued a course of study in the Spencerian Commercial School and afterward became familiar with the profession of mechanical engineering through the medium of a correspondence school. After putting aside his text-books he devoted his attention to electrical work for a short time and in 1896 entered the service of the Kilby Manufacturing Company, being employed in the drafting room until 1900. He then spent a year in San Francisco, acting as draftsman for the Risdon Iron Works, and subsequently made his way to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, where he was employed in a similar capacity by the firm of Hyle & Patterson for about a year. On the expiration of that period he returned to Cleveland and secured a position with the Wellman-Seaver-Morgan Company, remaining with that concern for two and a half years. He was next identified with the Bates Valve Bag Company for a year and a half and afterward spent about eight months with the Union Engineering Company. In 1907 he entered upon the duties of his present position as mechanical engineer for the Kilby Manufacturing Company 462 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND and has since had charge of drafting. He is likewise the treasurer of the Union Engineering Company and is well known throughout the city as a successful and proficient representative of his profession. In June, 1908, Mr. Grill was united in marriage to Miss Edith Schultz, a native of Doylestown, Ohio. Since age conferred upon him the right of franchise he has supported the men and measures of the republican party, believing that its principles are most conducive to good government. His manner is one of frank cordiality and geniality and his unfailing courtesy and loyalty to those with whom he is associated in business or social relations has made him very popular. HARRY D. HILEMAN. Harry D. Hileman, who as treasurer and manager of the Sterling Mining Company, holds an enviable position among the business men of Cleveland, was born in Washingtonville, Ohio, November 26, 1870, his parents being John and Marguerite A. Hileman, both of whom are living in Leetonia, Ohio. They were of American birth but of German descent, and Mr. Hileman, Sr., has charge of the mining company's interests m Leetonia. Harry D. Hileman attended the public schools of his birthplace, but at the age of thirteen began his business career. At the age of seventeen he found work as shipping clerk at a mine at Cannelton, Pennsylvania, and two years and a half later went to Leetonia, Ohio, where he was employed in a general store for a year and a half. Subsequently he went to Lisbon, Ohio, and finally, in February, 1893, became associated with the Sterling Mining Company. In that year he moved to Cleveland, was made secretary of the firm, and in December, 1906, was elected treasurer and general manager the position he holds at present. The concern has offices at 313 Williamson building, and is rapidly increasing the scope of its usefulness. Mr. Hileman has found exercise for the executive qualities he possesses in marked degree and which have won for him the confidence of his associates and the esteem of those who, coming in contact with him, have found in him a man of high principles as well as of ability. In addition to being connected with this concern, he holds a position of equal importance with the Ohio Coal & Clay Company and with the Delmore Coal Company. In Cleveland, August 30, 1904, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Hileman and Miss Grace B. Shanabrook. The marriage has been blessed with one son, Paul D., who is now four years of age. Since he has been able to participate in public affairs, Mr. Hileman has given stalwart support to the republican candidate, for he has firm faith in the value and worth of the party principles. However, aside from casting his ballot, with intelligent discrimination, he has taken little part in municipal affairs. Fraternally he is connected with the Masons and has always done his share toward furthering the cause of the craft. GEORGE LEZIUS. George Lezius has for the past eighteen years acted as brew master of the Cleveland Brewing Company, a branch of the Cleveland & Sandusky Brewing Company. He was born in Cincinnati on the 15th of June, 1865, a son of Lewis and Dora Lezius. The father, whose birth occurred in Neuenburg, Germany, on the 30th of March, 1833, attended the public schools of his native land until fourteen years of age. Subsequently he became head waiter in one of the largest hotels of Neuenburg, acting in that capacity until twenty-one years of age. When he had attained his majority Lewis Lezius crossed the Atlantic to the United States HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 465 and after landing in New York made his way to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he secured employment in the brewing establishment of his uncle, J. G. Sohns & Company, working as an assistant for five years. He next became brew master of the Brinckman Brewing Company, later acted in that capacity for the Sanliver Brewing Company and subsequently was engaged as brew master with the Schlather Brewing Company of Cleveland for a period of five years. He then started out as a brewer on his own account in association with August Uhlin, under the firm style of Lezius & Uhlin, but the venture did not prove very successful and they sold out at the end 0f five years. For two more years Mr. Lezius was connected with brewing interests as the sole proprietor of an enterprise of this character and then retired from active business life, spending his remaining days in well earned ease. His demise, which occurred on the 20th of February, 1909, was deeply mourned by all who knew him, for he was widely recognized as an upright citizen and enterprising business man. George Lezius, whose name initiates this review, pursued his studies in the public schools of Cleveland until thirteen years of age and then attended the Spencerian Business College for a year. Subsequently he was employed as shipping clerk by the Oppmann Brewing Company for two years and then worked under the direction of his father for a period of seven years or until the latter's retirement, thus becoming thoroughly familiar with the brewing business in its various departments. He next entered the service of the Schlather Brewing Company, with which concern he remained for a year, when he went to New York and became enrolled as a student in the New York Brewing Academy, being graduated from that institution after a four months' scientific course. Returning to Cleveland, he accepted the position of brew master with the Cleveland Brewing Company, in which connection he has ably represented the concern for the past eighteen years, his services proving highly satisfactory to his employers. The plant has a capacity of one hundred thousand barrels of beer annually and furnishes employment to a force of forty men, while ten wagons are utilized for delivery purposes. Politically Mr. Lezius is a stalwart democrat, while his religious faith is indicated by his membership in the Evangelical Protestant church. He also belongs to the Bavarian Society, and resides at No. 1572 Ansel road. He has made his home in this city throughout practically his entire life and that his career has ever been upright and honorable is indicated by the fact that the associates of his boyhood and youth are still numbered among his stanchest friends. SAMUEL N. PENTECOST. Samuel N. Pentecost, a well known and enterprising resident of Cleveland, has been successfully engaged in business as a florist since 1893. He was born in this city in 1866, a son of Mathew G. and Caroline D. (Nichols) Pentecost. The father, whose birth occurred in England in 1832, came to the United States in 1856 and for a number of years resided in different localities but eventually, in 1864, took up his abode in Cleveland, Ohio. He was a miller by occupation but after coming to this city he turned his attention to the business of market gardening and was thus actively engaged until the time of his demise in 1883. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Caroline D. Nichols, was born in Cleveland on the 5th of February, 1837. Her parents were among the pioneer residents of this city, coming here in 1820 and taking up their abode in a log cabin which the father erected. The death of Mrs. Pentecost occurred in 1897 and was the occasion of deep and widespread regret, for she had gained an extensive circle of friends during her life-long residence here. Samuel N. Pentecost obtained a good practical education in the public schools of his native city and after putting aside his text-books started out in business 466 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND life as a gardener, being associated in the venture with his mother. In 1893 he opend a florist's establishment and has since conducted an enterprise 0f this character, having won a gratifying and well merited measure of prosperity in his undertakings. His trade is confined principally to Cleveland. In 1900 Mr. Pentecost was united in marriage to Miss Emma H. Davis, a native of Pennsylvania. His political allegiance is given to the republican party and he has attained high rank in fraternal circles, being a thirty-second degree Mason and a member of the Mystic Shrine. He is now past master of W0odward Lodge, F. & A. M., of Cleveland. A resident of Cleveland throughout his entire life, he has a very wide acquaintance here and many good qualities have gained for him the regard and esteem of all with whom he has been brought in contact. OWEN N. WILCOX. Owen N. Wilcox is a representative of one of the pioneer families of Ohio and the family is traced back to William Wilcockson, who was born in England in 1601. The family name has been spelled in various ways. The original orthography was Wilcockson, or Willcoxen, but the last syllable was dropped in Killingworth about one hundred years after the family was established in America. Then it was spelled Willcox, which in time was shortened to the present form. William Wilcockson, born in Hertfordshire, England, came to America in the ship Planter in 1635. He resided for a time at Concord, Massachusetts, and later became one of the founders of Stratford, Connecticut. Joseph Wilcox, of the second generation, was born in 1638 and his son, John Wilcox, was born in 1675. Silas Wilcox of the succeeding generation was born at Killingworth, Connecticut, February 20, 1719, or 1720, and was the father of Josiah Wilcox, whose birth occurred at Killingworth, September 17, 1753. He was a private soldier in the Continental army during the Revolutionary war and in the military records his name is given as "Josiah Willcocks, a private of Captain Abel Dinsmore's Company, Colonel Ruggles Woodbridge's Regiment." He enlisted first on the 26th of August, 1777, and served a number of enlistments, taking part in the battle of Bemis Heights. In 1832 he obtained a pension as a Revolutionary soldier. His son, Ambrose Wilcox, was born in Hawley, Massachusetts, and was the father of Stephen Miller Wilcox. born in Brecksville, Ohio, January 12, 1818. His son, Frank N. Wilcox, born June 17, 1855, became one of the most widely known attorneys of Cleveland, to which city he removed about 1877, and practiced as partner in the firm of Wilcox, Collister, Hadden & Parks. Of this firm the second partner is now on the common pleas bench, while the third is probate judge. Frank N. Wilcox was recognized as a very prominent attorney and corporation lawyer and was the legal representative of interurban electric lines here. His standing among the legal profession is indicated by the fact that he was serving as president of the bar association at the time of his death, which occurred September 20, 1904. He was a popular and prominent member of the Rowfant Club and was a man of strong intelligence and notable literary taste, with whom association meant expansion and elevation. When young he did considerable dramatic writing, producing plays which were acted by both amateurs and professionals. This included "The Countersign" and "The Blind Goddess." His poetical authorship included lyrical compositions and cantatas, among which are "The World's Congress of Fun" and an opera called "The Wizard of Waldeck." He spent some time on "Paetus & A rria," a tragedy which he considered his best work but did not live to finish it. Moreover he possessed a wide reputation as a public speaker and a number of his addresses, lyrics, essays and dramatic criticisms have been published in a royal octavo volume of one hundred and forty pages. He was widely known as a popular and fluent speaker, having HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 467 always on hand a ready word for the opportune moment. He married Jessie Fremont Snow, who was born in Brecksville, June 5, 1857. She, too, was descended from one of the original settlers of New England—Richard Snow, of Woburn, Massachusetts, who was born in England and became a landed proprietor of Woburn in 1645. He died there May 5, 1677. The line of descent comes down through John Snow, who was born prior to 1645 ; John Snow, born May 13, 1668, in Woburn; Joseph Snow, born May 6, 1697, in Woburn ; Henry Snow, born November 17, 1725, in Dunstable, Massachusetts ; Benjamin, who was born December 15, 1754, at Plymouth, New Hampshire ; Russ Snow, born at Plymouth, May 21, 1789; and Henry Holland Snow, who was born March 31, 1827, at Atkinson, Maine. He was the grandfather of Owen N. Wilcox, and became one of the early settlers of Ohio, where he followed farming. His father, Russ Snow, brought the family to Cuyahoga county m pioneer times. Benjamin Snow, who was born in 1754, died in 1817. He was a graduate of Dartmouth College and was commissioned an ensign in the Continental service m 1776. He is supposed to have been with Washington when he crossed the Delaware, and also at Valley Forge. Coming from ancestry honorable and distinguished, Owen N. Wilcox has shaped his course in harmony therewith, He passed through consecutive grades in the Cleveland public schools to his graduation from Central high school with the class of 1898, and completed a course in Adelbert College in 1902 with the B. L. degree. He then matriculated in the Western Reserve University law school where he won his professional degree in 1905, and the same year was admitted to the bar and entered upon his chosen life work. While he has continued in the general practice of law he has made a specialty of probate law and is also president of the Gates Legal Publishing Company, publishers of briefs and records for other lawyers for use in supreme court practice. In politics he is an independent republican, the demands of his profession leaving him little leisure time for political work even if he desired to become a leader in party ranks. On the 14th of October, 1905, Mr. Wilcox was married to Miss Margaret Knowlton, a daughter of Dr. William A. and Fannie (Snow) Knowlton, the former a practicing physician and surgeon of this city. Mr. and Mrs. Wilcox have one child, William Knowlton, born April 9, 1908. In his college days Mr. Wilcox became a member of the Delta Tau Delta, the Phi Delta Phi and the Phi Beta Kappa, all of the Western Reserve University. He is likewise a member of the Odd Fellows lodge and his interest in affairs relating to the city is indicated by his membership in the Chamber of Commerce. His broad general knowledge, his social nature and his consideration for the rights and privileges of others are qualities which have made him popular and gained him a circle of friends almost coextensive with the circle of his acquaintance. FRANK D. LAWRENCE. For a number of years Frank D. Lawrence has been auditor of the National Carbon Company of Cleveland. He was born in this city, December 1, 1864, his father being Orin C. Lawrence, a native of Marietta, Ohio, who removed to Olmsted, Cuyahoga county, when seven years of age. There he received his education and when he reached man's estate became associated with his brother Sidney Lawrence in operating a sawmill on Rocky river. Later he conducted a general store in Olmsted township, near the place where his parents resided. Eight years later, in April, 1864, he came to Cleveland, engaging in the grocery business until 1870. He then entered the oil business, .remaining connected with that field of occupation until he retired about 1901. He died in this city in 1904. His wife, who was Miss Jane Danald in her maidenhood, was a daughter of Sam- 468 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND uel Danald, of Olmsted township, and passed away in Cleveland in February, 1868. After completing the course of the grammar school of Cleveland, Frank D. Lawrence entered the high school, in which he remained for two years. At the age of seventeen he put aside his text-books and began his business career. First he went to work in his father's office, the latter being at that time engaged in the oil business, and a year later went on the road as a salesman for his father. At the expiration of two years he and his brother Fred W. Lawrence joined forces and engaged in the oil business for themselves, continuing in partnership for a number of years. In 1892 Frank D. Lawrence accepted a position as clerk with the National Carbon Company. His paternal uncle, Washington H. Lawrence, was one of the organizers of this concern and was practically at its head until his death, which occurred about eight years ago. About five years after our subject became connected with the firm he was made traffic manager and after serving efficiently in that capacity for eight years was appointed auditor, a p0siti0n he now holds. He is a man of proved integrity and high principles, which qualities united with his devotion to his employers have gained for him their great esteem. In October, 1888, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Lawrence to Miss Florence F. Prince, in Cleveland, a daughter of E. W. Prince, who was prominent as a marine engineer upon the lakes. Unt0 the couple have been born four children : Herbert P., who is twenty years of age; Raymond E., eighteen ; Ruth A., eleven ; and Frank D., nine. The oldest is now connected with an automobile concern, and Raymond has entered University School. The other two children are also in school. Mr. Lawrence and his family reside at 11207 Detroit avenue, Cleveland, and there a gracious hospitality is extended to the numerous friends he has made in this city. The worthy descendant of a very old and respected English family, by his life he is well entitled to the high regard of his associates in both business and private life. ALBERT W. JOHNSTON. Albert W. Johnston, general manager at Cleveland for the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, March 4, 1853. His father, Thomas H. Johnston, was a native of England and crossed the Atlantic in 1840, locating at Boston where he engaged in importing and retailing tea until his death, which occurred in 1884. His wife, in her maidenhood Ann Metcalf, died in 1892. Albert W. Johnston was the third in a family of six children, of whom four are living, two having died in youth. In the pursuit of his education he attended the Elliot grammar school, the English high school and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, now known as the Boston Institute 0f Technology, from which he was graduated in 1873 as a civil engineer. At that time he took up the work 0f the profession, being connected principally with railroad interests in that line for several years. In 1875 he entered the services of the old Panhandle Railroad, now a part of the Pittsburg, Chicago, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railway, as supply clerk in the office of the general superintendent at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, where he remained for three years, after which he became assistant to the chief engineer of that road. Early in 1880 he was in charge of the resurvey of the Jeffersonville, Madison & Indianapolis road, and later in the same year left the railroad service, going to Arizona as engineer and superintendent of a Boston corporation having to do with the development of a water system for the city of Tombstone, Arizona. At that point he continued for two years and in 1882 returned to Ohio as chief engineer for the Toledo, Delphos & Burlington Railroad, while later in the year he went to Kansas HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 471 as superintendent of construction on the Leavenworth, Topeka & Southwestern Railway. When the road was absorbed by the Union Pacific and Santa Fe Roads he severed his connection therewith in the summer of 1883 and spent a portion of that year in Oregon. On the 1st of April, 1884, he assumed the duties of division engineer with the eastern division of the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad, becoming superintendent of the same division in January, 1889, general superintendent of the road on the 1st of October, 1893, and genaral manager in February, 1906. Almost every position which he has held has marked a progressive step in his career, bringing him wider opportunities and an enviable reputation, leading in turn to further advancement. Mr. Johnston has been active in the work of the American Railway Association and of the American Railway Engineering & Maintenance of Way Association, having been a director and officer of the latter for several years, while in 1907-8 he was honored with its presidency. He also belongs to the American Society of Civil Engineers and in more specifically social lines maintains membership with the Union Club. His summer home is at Blue Hill, Maine, where his annual sojourns bring him needed recreation from strenuous business cares, there indulging largely in sailing of which he is very fond. ROBERT E. RUEDY, M. D. Robert E. Ruedy, physician and surgeon of Cleveland, his native city, was born July 31, 1868. His father, John J. Ruedy, was a member of the old firm of Benedict & Ruedy, well known dealers in hats and furs. He was born in Switzerland and came to America in the early '50s. Immediately afterward he secured a position with Levi Benedict, by whom he was later admitted to a partnership, continuing in the business until his death, which occurred in 1895, when he was sixty-one years of age. At the time of the Civil war he espoused the cause of the Union and joined the One Hundred and Fiftieth Regiment of Ohio Volunteers. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Verena Voegely, was also a native of Switzerland and came to America before her marriage. She survived her husband for about eight years and passed away in 1903. There were two daughters in the family, Mrs. A. F. May and Mrs. J. F. Corlett, both of Cleveland. Dr. Ruedy, the only son, acquired his early education in the public schools, being graduated from the Central high school with the class of 1886. He attended Adelbert College of the Western Reserve University, where he won the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1890, later receiving the Master of Arts degree from the same institution. In 1893 he was graduated from the medical department of the Western Reserve University, which conferred upon him his professional degree, and subsequently he spent a year and a half as house physician in Lakeside Hospital. In the fall of 1894 he went to Europe, where he devoted a year and a half to post-graduate work in Frankfort, Strassburg and Vienna, specializing in the study of nervous diseases. In recognition of this work Western Reserve University conferred upon him the Master of Arts degree. Upon his return to America in 1896, Dr. Ruedy entered upon the private practice of medicine and in the spring of 1898 was appointed assistant physician and pathologist to the Columbus State Hospital for the Insane, acting in that capacity until the fall of 1900. He then returned to Cleveland to resume private practice and has made a specialty of nervous and mental diseases. Shortly after leaving the Columbus State Hospital re was requested by Dr. Carlos F. MacDonald, the first president of the New York State Commission in Lunacy and a leading alienist of that state, to take charge of his private sanitarium at Pleasantville, West Chester county, New York. He spent about a year there and gained thereby valuable knowledge concerning the conduct of high class private sanitariums, this being one of the most exclusive in the country. He then resigned 472 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND to return to private practice here and established an exclusive sanitarium for a few selected cases of mental diseases conducted on similar lines to that of Dr. MacDonald in the east. This was opened in the fall of 1902 on Noble Road in Cleveland Heights, where he has five acres of land and an excellently equipped institution, accommodating six patients. He has come to be widely recognized in Cleveland and by the profession throughout the country as one of the most eminent and capable physicians in the treatment of mental and nervous diseases. On the 31st of October, 1900, at Ironton, Ohio, Dr. Ruedy was married to Miss Bertha Wilson, a daughter of the Hon. E. S. Wilson, n0w editor of the Ohio State Journal. She is a graduate of Lake Erie College at Painesville and the Women's Medical College at Philadelphia. She served three years as assistant physician to the Columbus State Hospital for the Insane, has given much study to mental diseases and has proven an able and enthusiastic assistant to Dr. Ruedy in his work, both at the New York institution and his sanitarium here, where she is continually in charge. Unto Dr. and Mrs. Ruedy have been born two sons, Wilson and John Edward, aged respectively eight and six years. The parents are members of the Episcopal church and the Doctor belongs to the Delta Tau Delta fraternity. In professional lines his connection includes the Cleveland Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State Medical Society, the American Medical Association and the Cleveland Medical Library Association. He has been an occasional contributor to the current literature of his profession, was lecturer on nervous and mental diseases at the Ohio Medical University at Columbus for three years and at the Cleveland College of Physicians & Surgeons for two years. In 1904 he was appointed to the United States board of pension examining surgeons, of which he is secretary, and still holds that position. FREDERICK COLES HERRICK, M. D. Dr. Frederick C. Herrick, who by thorough study at home and abroad has become splendidly equipped for the practice of medicine, winning a gratifying patronage in Cleveland, while to the profession he has become widely known by his contributions of a number of valuable articles to medical literature, was born in this city, October 31, 1872. His father, Henry J. Herrick, was a native of Aurora, Portage county, Ohio, born in 1833. He was graduated from Rush Medical College with the class of 1860 and about 1865 located in Cleveland, where he opened an office and continued in the practice of medicine and surgery until his death, which occurred in 1901 when he was sixty-eight years of age. He was a. prominent member of the medical fraternity and was very active in college, hospital and society work, being one of the founders and a professor in the Charity Hospital Medical College, also holding a professorship in the Western Reserve Medical College, while of both the Cleveland and Ohio Medical Societies he was president. His ability placed him in a foremost rank among the representatives of the profession in this state. He wedded Mary Brooks, a native of Kaskaskia, Illinois, who died August 14, 1909. Dr. Frederick C. Herrick pursued his early education in the Central high school, from which he was graduated with the class of 1890. He c0mpleted the course in Amherst (Mass.) College with the class of 1894, winning the degree of Bachelor of Arts, while in 1897 the M. D. degree was conferred upon him in the medical department of the Western Reserve University. He afterward spent one year in post-graduate work in the University of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, and subsequently matriculated in the University of Gottingen, Germany, where he spent the larger part of the years 1899 and m00. He then returned to Cleveland and entered upon the private practice of general medicine, in which he continued for five years, or until 1905, when he again went abroad, spending that and the succeeding year in the London General Hospital, doing special work in abdom- HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 473 inal diseases, to which he has confined his practice since he returned. He has been connected with the Western Reserve University Medical School since his return, first as demonstrator and now as instructor in surgery. He is associate visiting surgeon to Charity Hospital and has charge of the surgical dispensary, having been connected therewith in that capacity for the past eight years. Dr. Herrick has also done considerable original work and has been an occasional contributor to the medical journals and pamphlets, his more valuable articles including those on obstruction of the common bile duct ; contribution to the technique of the eck fistula ; experimental study into the cause of the increased portal pressure im portal cirrhosis; a study of one hundred cases of gastric ulcer, and a new field latrine which has been accepted by state troops in small camps. He is a member of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine ; the State Medical Society ; the American Medical Society ; and the Cleveland Medical Library Association. He is also surgeon of Troop A of this city and examiner for the National Life Insurance Company of Vermont and the Prudential Insurance Company. On the 22d of July, 1908, in Paris, France, Dr. Herrick was married to Miss Anne Bayard Crowell, a daughter of Henry B. Crowell, of Chicago. They reside at No. 1906 East Eighty-fourth street. He finds his chief sources of recreation in tennis and horseback riding and also in the social relations with the University and Union Clubs. He likewise belongs to the Delta Tau Delta and is a member of the Third Presbyterian church. A man of scholarly attainments, his researches and investigations have been carried on along constantly broadening lines and added to his comprehensive knowledge is the keen discrimination, and unfailing tact which the successful surgeon must always possess. EDWARD AUGUSTUS FOOTE. Edward Augutus Foote, attorney at law of the firm of Cook, McGowan & Foote, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, January 1, 1869, and represents an old family of this state. His grandfather was Ezra Foote, while his father was Edward A. Foote, Sr., who was born at Middle Haddam, Connecticut, in 1822 and died in Cincinnati in 1876. He was well known in the financial circles of that city as assistant cashier of the Commercial Bank. His wife bore the maiden name of Sarah A. Bowler. In the public schools Edward A. Foote of this review pursued his education to the age of thirteen years, after which he devoted thirteen years to service in railway offices and thereby gained comprehensive knowledge of railway interests which has proven of untold value to him in the conduct of legal interests in later years. Having studied law, he was admitted to the bar in 1894 and entered upon active practice in Cincinnati, occupying a clerical position in a law office for eighteen months. He was then connected with the legal department of the Big Four Railroad at Indianapolis for three years, acting as claim agent and trial lawyer in the investigation of accidents. Mr. Foote came alone to Cleveland and for four or five years was connected with the firm of Kline, Tolles & Goff. ,In 1907 he entered upon his present partnership relations as member of the firm of Cook, McGowan & Foote. While he engages in general practice he yet gives much of his attention to railway law and is well versed in that department of jurisprudence, his previous service as a railway employe proving of worth to him in the conduct of railway litigation. The firm with which he is now associated is regarded as one of the most important in the city and Mr. Foote has been fortunate throughout the entire period of his residence in Cleveland in being connected with lawyers of well known reputation and of marked ability so that he has gained comprehensive knowledge of the methods pursued by them in the conduct of court work or the management of legal interests through advice and counsel. 474 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND On the 9th of April, 1904, Mr. Foote was married to Miss Mary L. Hills, a daughter of Lucien and Mary (Andrew) Hills and a granddaughter of Addison Hills. They have two children : Edward Addison, who was born March 19, 1905; and Mary Hills, born April 4, 1909. Mr. Foote belongs to the Union, Country and Tavern Clubs, to the C0unty Bar Association, and the Nisi Prius Club, an organization of attorneys. He likewise belongs to the Trinity Episcopal church and to the Chamber of Commerce. Endowed by nature with keen intellectual force, he is recognized as a lawyer of astute mind, who is continually promoting his knowledge through reading and investigation, not only of legal principles but of subjects of general interest which give him an insight into the motives and purposes of men, constituting thereby a valuable element in the conduct of litigation. HAMILTON L. LINDSAY. Hamilton L. Lindsay, president and manager of the Lindsay Wire Weaving Company, is a native of Scotland, his birth having 0ccurred October 14, 1866, in the city of Glasgow. Having secured his education in the schools of his native place, he came to the United States in 1883, when a youth about seventeen years of age, and for a short time lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Upon coming to Cleveland he secured employment with the John Walker Manufacturing Company, his association with them being of some duration. In 1892 he removed to Painesville, Ohio, and took the superintendency of the Paige Machine Company, which he held for two years. At the end of this time he returned to the Forest city and was engaged first with the Kilby Machinery Company and then for one year wth Columbia Elevator Company. Mr. Lindsay next accepted a position with the W. S. Tyler Wire Works Company, the charge of the broad loam department being placed in his hands, and with this important concern he remained for seven years. While thus identified he patented a machine for weaving wire cloth, and not being able to make satisfactory terms for the use of his machine with the W. S. Tyler Company, he resigned his position and in 1904 organized the Lindsay Wire Weaving Company, Mr. Lindsay taking the position of president and manager. The company engages in the pr0duction of various wire products, making a specialty of wire cloth for paper mills. Its growth has been most gratifying and three years after its inauguration it was found necessary to enlarge the plant to three times its original capacity. The dimensions of the old factory were f0rty by one hundred and ninety-five feet and it was but one story in height. The addition is 0f brick, is two stories high and seventy by one hundred and eighty-five feet in dimension. The employes are particularly fortunate in that it is equipped with all the modern conveniences for their use. The Lindsay Wire Weaving Company is the only 0ne in the world using Mr. Lindsay's patented wire weaving machine, which is a tremendous labor-saving factor, the same work being done with only one third of the labor necessitated by the old method. The company has twenty-five large power looms in continual operation. While still a young corporation it is an important one and bids fair to one day lead the world in its product. Its sound and steady growth is due largely to Mr. Lindsay's patented machine; which the c0mpany controls. In 1892 Mr. Lindsay was united in marriage to Miss Lillie Buell, a native of Cleveland, and they have one daughter, Mary Evelyn, who attended Glenville high school until her junior year and is at present a student in Scio College in, Scio, Ohio. Notwithstanding the great inroads made upon his time by business duties, Mr. Lindsay finds occasion for the enjoyment of fraternal relations, these extending to the Masons, with membership in Forest City Lodge, No. 28, and Cleve- HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 477 land Chapter, and to the Independent Order of Foresters. He and his family are members of the Parkwood Methodist Episcopal church and give their sympathy and support to its campaigns for the accomplishment of good. Mr. Lindsay has the advantage of a knowledge of his business acquired in the school of actual experience, for beginning in this line when a youth he has served in every capacity from the lowliest to the highest. And when with this is coupled the gift of initiative and a remarkable inventive capacity, together with irreproachable ethics and a fine consideration for his employes, the secret of his success becomes an open one. REV. HUMBERT ROCCHI. The Rev. Humbert Rocchi, pastor of St. Anthony of Padua church, was born near Rome, Italy, May 23, 1869, a son of Camillo and Sestilia (Provveduti) Rocchi. The father was born near Rome in 1844, being a landowner and actively engaged in business. He was a son of Edward Rocchi, who also owned land and was a business man. The birth of the latter occurred in 1824 and he passed away in 1894. The mother of our subject was born in 1843 and died in 1903. She was a daughter of Dr. Francis Provveduti, a physician. A cousin 0f the Rev. Humbert Rocchi, Philip Rocchi, also entered the priesthood and is now secretary to Cardinal Rampolli at Rome. A maternal uncle, Gustavo Provveduti, is rector of the Leonian College at Rome and he too is a monsignor. There were three sons in the family in addition to Father Rocchi, the others being : Xavier, who is with his father at Rome and is a landowner; Caesar, who is with the Washburn-Crosby Company at Cleveland ; and William, a bookkeeper, who lives in New York. The family is a very old one in Italy. Antonio Rocchi belonged in 1430 to the city council of Olevano Romano, a famous place for tourists at present. An American college for artists is now located there and during the summer it is a great resort. Father Rocchi was educated at Rome in the Capranipa College, being ordained December 21, 1891, by Cardinal Parocchi. He celebrated his first mass the same day at St. Sylvestor's church in Rome. For several years Father Rocchi's work consisted in holding missions in different Italian places until 1898, when he was sent to the United States and for five years worked m the missions of Brooklyn. In 1903 he was sent to Cleveland and was stationed at his present church. The parish is an Italian one, containing five hundred families, and is in a prosperous condition. The brick church edifice, which has a capacity of one thousand people, was built by Father Rocchi in 1904. Owing to his influence over his people and his comprehension of matters concerning them, he is often called upon to address them upon various occasions. He has their confidence and they feel they can rely upon him for sympathetic appreciation of their needs. JOHN I. SAXER. John I. Saxer, the general manager of the Climax Cleaner and Cleveland Paste Company, was born in this city on the 25th of September, 1868, his parents being Jacob and Frances Saxer. The father, whose birth occurred in Switzerland in 1831, crossed the Atlantic to the United States in 1845 and took up his abode in Cleveland, Ohio. He first worked as a painter in the employ of the Big Four Railroad Company and later embarked in the wall paper and paint business on his own account, doing contract work until the time of his demise in 1899. John I. Saxer attended the Catholic school until fourteen years of age and then entered St. Mary's College at Dayton, Ohio, where he continued his studies 478 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND for four years. On returning to Cleveland he became a partner in this father’s business and was thus actively engaged until 1898, when he organized the Climax Cleaning Company, continuing the paint business as a department there of until 1901, in which war they sold out that branch of the business. In 1905 the Climax Cleaner & Cleveland Paste Company was incorporated and the following officers were selected : Alois Saxer, president ; L. F. Riott, vice president ; R. M. Saxer, secretary ; A. J. Saxer, treasurer ; and John I. Saxer, general manager. The main office of the Climax Cleaner and Cleveland Paste Company is located at the corner of Lorain avenue and Columbus road, and they are the manufacturers of the celebrated Climax wall paper cleaner, Climax dry paste and Cleveland steam paste. They are the largest manufacturers of wall paper cleaner in the world and their plant is the only one of its kind in America. The Climax wall paper cleaner is used in millions of homes and the products of the company are sold in all parts of the United States. As the general manager of this important enterprise Mr. Saxer of this review has proven himself a man of resourceful business ability, who carefully formulates his plans and is determined and resolute in their execution. His methods will bear the closest scrutiny and investigation and his well known business probity has gained for him the respect of all. On the 26th of June, 1898, in Cleveland, Mr. Saxer wedded Miss Elizabeth Pierce, by whom he has two children, Irene and Raymond, who are eleven and nine years of age respectively. They are now attending the Catholic school. In his religious belief he is a Catholic, and he is also a member of various local fraternal organizations. His home is at No. 2905 Jay avenue, and in the city where practically his entire life has been spent he has a host of friends. GEORGE DWIGHT UPSON, M. D. Dr. George Dwight Upson, a physician of Cleveland, was born at Tallmadge, Summit county, Ohio, July 23, 1866. His father, James W. Upson, was born in Worthington, Ohio, and engaged in the coal business with his father, Dr. Daniel Upson, whose birth occurred in Southington, Connecticut, in 1786. He was a descendant of Stephen Upson, who as a passenger of the sailing vessel "Increase" made the voyage from London, England, to the new world in 1635 and landed at Boston. Daniel Upson removed from New England to this state in 1805, settling at Worthington. He was the first to introduce coal for fuel in Cleveland, making shipments here by way of the canal in 1837 from the mines of Tallmadge, Summit county, to which place he had removed in 1809. He was also one of the pioneer physicians of that section and likewise engaged in the coal business to a large extent, continuing his operations in The coal fields of the state until his death, which occurred in 1863, when he was seventy-seven years of age. In 1857 Tallmadge held its semi-centennial celebration on the site of Dr. Daniel Upson's farm. In developing and operating the coal fields of Ohio, James W. Upson was engaged throughout his entire life, carrying on business 0n an extensive scale first in Summit county and later in Perry county. He died in 1906 at the age of seventy-nine years, while his wife survived until 1907, passing away at the age of seventy-eight years. She was in her maidenhood Clarmda D. Fenn, a daughter of Joseph Fenn, who was born in Connecticut in 1802 and was one of the early settlers of Tallmadge. Dr. Upson spent his early boyhood in the place of his nativity and when twelve years of age became a resident of Cleveland, where he continued his studies until he was graduated from the Central high school with the class of 1885. He afterward pursued a course of chemistry at the Case School of Applied Science and later took the full chemistry course at Adelbert College of the Western Reserve University. This proved an excellent preparation for his medical studies, which HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 479 were pursued in the Western Reserve University until he had completed the regular course with the class of 1889, receiving his M. D. degree. He afterward had the benefit of broad practical experience and training in St. Bartholomew Hospital in London, England, and in the General Hospital at Vienna. Upon his return in 1892 he entered upon the private practice of medicine, giving special attention to surgery, and in a calling where advancement depends entirely upon individual merit he has won a gratifying position as a leading representative of the medical fraternity. He is now visiting surgeon and president of the staff of the Cleveland City Hospital, having been connected with that institution since its establishment in 1892. He is likewise chief medical examiner of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of New York. On the 1st of March, 1910, he was appointed surgeon for the Cleveland Street Railway Company, taking effect since its reorganization. He belongs to the Cleveland Medical Library Association, to the Cleveland Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. On the 29th of June, 1893, Dr. Upson was married in Cleveland to Miss Florence Wick Judd, a native of Michigan and a daughter of Frederick W. Judd, and they now have two children: Henrietta, born in 1897; and Florence Judd, born in 1900. They reside at 2100 East Fortieth street, which residence was erected by Dr. Upson in 1902. Republican in his political views, he takes no active part in the work of the party, yet is keenly interested in the public ,welfare. He belongs to the Zeta Psi, a college fraternity, and to the Union and Euclid Clubs, while he is also a member of the Case Avenue Presbyterian church. He is a man of commanding presence, dignified but courteous and approachable to all and at all times signally modest and unassuming. He enjoys a large practice and high standing in his profession, his ability being recognized by the medical fraternity as well as by the laity. CHARLES P. SCOVILL. Charles P. Scovill as paying teller for the Society for Savings and as a representative of one of the oldest Cleveland families, needs no introduction to the readers of this volume. He was born September 24, 1854, a son of Oliver Comstock and Adaline (Clarke) Scovill. He is descended from Revolutionary stock and from one of Ohio's pioneer families. His father was born on Superior street in this city in 1823, was here reared, and at the age of nineteen being fond of travel and adventure sailed around Cape Horn on a sailing vessel. He also went to California in 1849, following the discovery of gold on the Pacific coast, and opened the first printing establishment in San Francisco. He had previously been a member of the Leland band, of Cleveland, in 1843, and atone time was cemetery trustee of this city. He married Adaline Clarke and they became parents of four children : Caroline, now the wife of George J. Gibson ; Kate, the wife of C. S. Cornig; and Josephine, who died at the age of nineteen years. The only son is Charles P. Scovill, who acquired his early education in the public schools of Cleveland and afterward entered West Point Military Academy, where he pursued his studies to the age of twenty-one years. He then returned to Cleveland and entered the First National Bank, of which his grandfather was the founder. He became paying teller in that institution where he remained for fifteen years and then accepted the position of paying teller in the Society for Savings, with which he has since been associated. His entire business career has been devoted to banking and he is a well known figure in financial circles. He is also a stockholder in the Haserot Canneries Company. In 1884 Mr. Scovill was married to Miss Ella Rees, a daughter of John H. and Elvira (Warner) Rees. Her father was a member of Battery K of the Ohio 480 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND Artillery during the Civil war and died shortly after the cessation of hostilities. Her maternal grandfather, W. J. Warner, was a prominent early resident of Cleveland and built the postoffice here in 1854. Mr. and Mrs. Scovill have two children, Olive M. and Catherine, who were graduated from the Hathaway-Brown School. Mr. Scovill is a republican in his political views and is interested in all projects and movements for the city's welfare, cooperating to a considerable extent in many measures for the public good. Fond of hunting and fishing, he spends his vacation periods in Canada, indulging his love of those sports. His life has been quietly passed but he is recognized moreover as a worthy representative of one of the old families that from pioneer times has upheld the legal and political status of the city. JAMES B. SHIELDS. James B. Shields, president of the Shields Wertheim Company, cigarmakers, is numbered among the progressive men of Cleveland and one who has done much to elevate the condition of his employes, having worked out some very original plans with regard to them. He was born in New Castle, Pennsylvania, November I, 1873, being a son of Louis and Lena Shields. His great-grandmother, Mary Ginther, was born in New Castle, in 1779, and died in 1883 at the remarkable age of one hundred and four years. His maternal grandfather, David Winternitz, was born in 1817 and became a farmer in New Castle, Pennsylvania, but later was connected with a grocery business, controlling a large wholesale trade. His death occurred in 1887. On the paternal side our subject's grandfather was Benjamin Shields, who was born in Korback, Germany, in 1817. For many years he was very prominent, being a banker, then mayor until his appointment as judge in 1878, which office he held at the time of his demise in 1898. Louis Shields, father of our subject, was born in Korback, Germany, in January, 1848, and was educated in Leipsic University, and later was graduated from Heidelberg University when only twenty years old, commg afterward to New Castle, Pennsylvania, where he engaged in the oil business. Later he was a jobber in cigars, coming to Cleveland in 1890, where he c0ntinued in that business until 1893, when he began manufacturing them with his son James under the name of J. B. Shields & Company. In 1904 the present company was incorporated and he was made vice president of the corporation as it now exists. Until he was seventeen years old, James B. Shields attended school in New Castle and after his graduation he went to New Willington College for a year. Following this the y0ung man came to Cleveland and learned the cigar arid tobacco business, later forming a partnership with his father. Upon the organization of the present company he was elected its president. They have a five-story brick building, modern in every respect and strictly sanitary. This is the largest plant west of New York and employment is given to three hundred and fifty people, the greater number of whom the company have brought direct from Cuba. At first Mr. Shields found difficulty to induce the Cubans to come to Cleveland but now there is a good settlement of them and they do not feel so lonely. The company own four plantations on which their tobacco is grown in Cuba, and they manufacture one brand of cigar, in forty-two different styles, the output for 1908 having been fifteen million cigars. One feature of the work in this plant is that the workers are read to in both Spanish and English. This is a custom that prevails in Cuba, and the natives of that island when they come here insist upon its being done. Mr. Shields is much in favor of this for he believes it educates the employes and gives them s0mething to think about while their fingers fly in their skilled work. Some of the authors chosen by them are Victor Hugo, Balzac, Dickens, American history and Don Quix0te. The present HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 483 modern factory bears but little resemblance to the modest one m which this company had its beginning, but the same spirit has always existed and it accounts for the remarkable success which has been attained. Mr. Shields and his father worked from the beginning to give the public a good article, exactly as represented, and at the same time to treat those under them with consideration. As a result the product of this factory is eagerly sought the country over, and business is constantly increasing with steady and healthy strides. The main office and factory are at Nos. 2480 to 2490 East Twenty-second street, and the officers are James B. Shields, president ; Louis B. Shields, vice president ; A. C. Wertheim, secretary and treasurer ; and J. C. Leverance, second vice president. Mr. Shields is also president of the Southern Coal Mining Company. On March 5, 1902, Mr. Shields was married m Cleveland to Miss Fanny Meissel, and they have two sons : Earl, aged three years ; and James B. Jr., born July 31, 1909. The family residence is at No. 2066 East One Hundred and Second street. Mr. Shields is a member of the Wilson Avenue Temple and the order of B`nair B`rith, and belongs to the Chamber of Commerce. He is an Elk, a member of the Western Reserve Club and of the Cleveland Travelers Association. Politically he is a republican. He is a shrewd, keen business man and one who understands thoroughly every detail of the work. His energy, experience and ability have proven important factors in his ultimate success. CHARLES W. SOMERS. Charles W. Somers, president of the Roby Coal Company, one of the founders and ever since a leading factor in the firm of J. H. Sqmers & Company, is one of the best known in their line of industry of any of the younger business men of Cleveland. Mr. Somers is the third generation in direct line to maintain a prominent identification with the bituminous coal trade of this section of the country. His grandfather was one of the pioneer coal operators of Ohio, while his father, J. H. Somers, was one of the best known men of his time as a mine owner and shipper. A sketch of him will be found elsewhere in this work. Charles W. Somers was born in Newark, Ohio, October 13, 1868, a son of J. H. and Philema (McCrum) Somers. He was but a child when his parents removed to Columbus, Ohio, where he pursued his education in the public schools until 1883, when the family removed to Cleveland. In this city his schooling was completed. Selecting a business rather than a professional career, he took a course in a commercial college and almost immediately afterward entered into the active business field with his father. He early showed adaptation and from the beginning displayed business capacity that rendered him a valuable lieutenant. Mr. Somers was always a student of conditions and imbued with a progressive spirit that brought a familiarity and knowledge of the business that contributed materially to its success. In 1896 he became an active member of the firm whose business his labors have been largely instrumental in building up. Mr. Somers took a prominent part in the management and supervision of his father's interests for a number of years prior to the latter's death. While comparatively a young man, not yet in his period of acquisition, he has taken rank with the leaders in his field of endeavor. He is now actively associated with the Somers Mining Company, the Massillon & Run Coal Company, the Massillon Navarre Coal Company and the firm of J. H. Somers & Company. Thus he is closely associated with important coal interests in the marketing of the bituminous product offered by the mines of this part of the state. Mr. Somers devotes the greater part of his time and attention to the upbuilding of his business, yet he has various other interests that indicate his well rounded nature. 484 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND From boyhood a lover of outdoor sports, prominent among which has been the great national game, he was one of the founders of the American League of Baseball Clubs in 1901, when it became a major organization, of which he is vice president and was one of the prime factors in securing in that organization the Cleveland franchise, of which he is also vice president. Mr. Somers is a member of the Cleveland Athletic Club, also of the Masonic fraternity. He delights in motoring and is connected with interests which contribute to pleasure rather than to financial success, but at no time is he neglectful of his business interests, which under his guidance have grown in volume and importance. In all of his business career he has wrought along lines leading to success and his prosperous achievement represents not only the fit utilization of his innate talents but his ability to foresee and take advantage of opportunities. CHARLES TILLES. Charles Tilles, who derives his income from well managed real-estate operations and from the rental of property which he now owns, was born in eastern Austria in 1862 and his life is an excellent illustration of the possibilities of the new world that lie before the youth of foreign birth who, coming to America, adapts himself readily to altered conditions and wins the prosperity that follows earnest and persistent effort. M r. Tilles, educated in the public schools of his native country, was a young mart of twenty years when he came to the United States in 1882. He located in Newark, New Jersey, where for five years he was employed in a tannery and in 1887 arrived in Cleveland. Here he learned the barber's trade, which he followed for three years, or until 1890, when he abandoned that pursuit and established a cigar store on Lorain avenue where he remained for two years. While in the cigar business he became interested in real estate, making some very wise and profitable investments and has since been engaged in buying and selling property. He owns today some excellent business property on Lorain avenue, including an apartment house and residence. By his foresight, honesty and energy he has become a most substantial citizen. In 1892 Mr. Tilles was married to Miss Rose Heller, a native of Cleveland They have two children, Samuel B., a youth of sixteen being now a junior in the West high school, and Anna, twelve years of age, who is still in the grammar school. Mr. Tilles belongs to Cleveland City Lodge, No. 15, F. & A. M., Webb Chapter, No. 14, R. A. M., and Washington Lodge, No. to, Knights of Pythias, which organizations find in him an exemplary representative. He came to this country a poor boy, but the opportunities of the new world pointed to him the way of success, wherein he has since walked until he has advanced far toward the goal of substantial prosperity. SAMUEL REID HARRISON. Samuel Reid Harrison, purchasing agent and one of the directors of The Grasselli Chemical Company, was born in Cleveland on the 15th of April, 1860. He is a son of William and Abigail (Reid) Harrison, of Scotch-Irish descent and long residents of the Forest city. As a public-school student Samuel Reid Harrison mastered the branches of learning which usually constitute the curriculum, while later he attended the Spencerian Business College. He has been continuously connected with The Grasselli Chemical Company since 1880, or for thirty years, being first employed as assistant bookkeeper, in which position he demonstrated his ability and thereby won promotion to the position of private bookkeeper, thus serving for eight years. He was afterward advanced through inter- HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 485 mediate positions from time to time until in 1890 he became purchasing agent and he has also been elected one of the directors of the company. In all these years there have been comparatively few leisure hours. Labor—earnest, persistent, self-denying labor has constituted the foundation upon which he has built the success which he now enjoys. His position is one of responsibility in connection with one of the most important enterprises of the city. In 1884 Mr. Harrison was married to Miss Ada Jessie Stephens, a daughter of Edward Stephens of this city. They have eight children, two sons and six daughters. Mr. Harrison is a man of modest demeanor, display and ostentation being utterly foreign to his nature, while indolence as well has no part in his make-up. On the contrary he is a man of diligence and his unabating energy has carried him to the position which he now occupies. LOUIS NAPOLEON WEBER. Louis Napoleon Weber is the president of the Weber, Lind & Hall Company, art decorators and furnishers, in which connection he has gained success and prominence as a representative of this department of mercantile activity. He was born at Keokuk, Iowa, October 26, 1854, a son of Frank Anthony and Jennie (Wiggins) Weber. In 1861 the parents removed to Cleveland and in the public schools of this city Louis N. Weber pursued his studies for a brief period but at the age of nine years was employed by William E. Tascott, a decorator of Cleveland, remaining in his and others' employ for ten years. At nineteen years of age he entered business on his own account under the name of Lind & Weber, his associate being Martin Lind, the father of his present partner. He was quite young to establish an enterprise of this character but had already had ten years' experience in this field of labor and the knowledge that he had gained thereby, combined with his firm determination to succeed, made the new enterprise a profitable and growing one. The first place of business was on the present site of the Society for Savings, while subsequently a removal was made to the present site of the Williamson building. Mr. Weber continued actively and successfully in business until 1880, when on account of his wife's health he disposed of his interests in Cleveland and removed to Denver, Colorado, where he established a decorating business under the name of Willmore & Weber, which he carried on in a prosperous way for three years. His wife's recovery then enabled him to return to Cleveland and disposing of his western interests he again established business in the Forest city in 1883, being joined by Andrew Lind, under the firm name of Weber & Lind, with the store on the public square. Later William Lind was admitted to the partnership and Charles G. Hall, now deceased, also became a member of the firm. In 1894 they erected a building known as the Pythian Temple on East Ninth street and Huron road, and the business was there installed and conducted until 1902, when they sold the building. They then erected the Merchants building on East Ninth street, remaining there until 1907, when they again sold their building and at that date removed to their present quarters at Nos. 1612-14 Euclid avenue. The company today enjoys the largest business of the kind in Cleveland and theirs is a standard in art decoration and furnishmgs here. They also handle a large line of draperies and all those things which are needed for the adornment of the home. Mr. Weber has himself made a close study of all that produces the finest factors in interior decoration and artistic furnishing and that splendid results have been achieved is proven in some of the most beautiful homes of Cleveland. Year by year the patronage of the company has increased until it exceeds that of any other house of this character in the Forest city and is yet growing. Mr. Weber is also the president of the Cleveland Leasing & Investment Company, owning valuable real estate in different parts of Cleveland, and the president of the Cleveland Leasing & Construction Company, 486 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND thus being identified with the city's improvement along architectural lines. The company now has one hundred employes and secures its stock from the art centers of the world, handling the finest imported and domestic products of art decorations and house furnishings. In 1876 was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Weber and Miss Addie M. Thomas, who was born in Warren, Ohio, in 1857, and is a daughter of Rufus and Ruth (Fowler) Thomas. Their children are : Gertrude, now Mrs. Lee E. Wyman, of Cleveland ; Adelaide Louise, the wife of James Cleland, of this city ; and Chesney L., of Denver, Colorado. Mr. Weber is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, is a public-spirited citizen whose interest in the welfare and progress of Cleveland is evidenced in many tangible ways, especially in his generous support of all those projects which work for its material, intellectual, social and moral advancement. He is a recognized local leader in the republican party and for four years served as a member of the county central committee, while for two years he was a member of the city committee. He has attained high rank in Masonry, belonging to Iris Lodge, F. & A. M., Webb Chapter, R. A. M., Cleveland Council, R. & S. M., Holyrood Commandery, K. T., and the Scottish Rite consistory, in which he has attained the thirty-second degree. He is also a noble of the Mystic Shrine and at one time was president of the Masonic Club. He is in hearty sympathy with the basic principles of this organization, based upon mutual helpfulness and brotherly kindness. EUGENE C. PECK. Eugene C. Peck, general superintendent of the Cleveland Twist Drill Company, with offices and factory in Cleveland and branch salesrooms in New York and Chicago, is one of the active and keen-sighted business men of this city and a native of the state, having been born in Akron, December 20, 1867, a son of Hubert C. and Lydia Peck. Mr. Peck attended school until he was seventeen, but smce then has been dependent upon his own efforts for his support. After leaving school he engaged with the Akron Iron Company as an apprentice machinist and spent four years learning his trade. Following this he worked as a machinist and later took charge of the machine shops of Whitman, Barnes & Company, and operated them for five years. Realizing, however, the necessity for better technical knowledge, he studied mechanical engineering for two years, taking a special course in the Stevens Institute. With the further advantage of the knowledge thus gained, he went to Danbury, Connecticut, to take charge of the shops of the T. & B. Tool Company, but after two years moved to New Bedford, Massachusetts, where he put a plant into operation, which took him six months. For the following year he had charge of S. W. Cards Tap and Die Works. Severing his connection with this firm, he came to Cleveland to become the mechanical engineer of the Cleveland Twist Drill Company, and so satisfactory was his work and so keen his interest in it that in 1904 his zeal was rewarded by his appointment as general superintendent. On May 1, 1899, Mr. Peck was married in Akron, Ohio, to Ivy Kessler, and they have one son : Lionel S., nineteen years old, who is attending high school. The home of the family is pleasantly located at No. 6719 Euclid avenue. Mr. Peck has been very prominent as a Mason, belonging to Union Lodge No. 40, Danbury, Connecticut ; Eureka Chapter No. 23 of the same place ; Oriental Commandery, No. 12, K. T.; and Al Sirat Grotto No. 17, M. 0. V. P. R. He belongs to the Chamber of Commerce, the Cleveland Engineers Society, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and takes a prominent part in all. His political ideas make him support the republican party but he has been too busy to look for office. While not connected with any church, Mr. Peck is a HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 489 protestant in religious belief. He is a man who can always be depended upon to carry out his promises to the letter, and while looking after the interests of his company to the utmost he has the welfare of his men at heart and is regarded by them as a friend of labor. DICKRAN ASADORIAN. Dickran Asadorian was born in Armedan, Armenia, on the 6th of September, 1879, a son of Bagdasar Asadorian, who was an oriental merchant, dealing extensively in grain, wool and rugs. The son acquired his education in the schools of his native country and was associated with his father in business until 1896, when he came to America, settling first in Detroit, Michigan, where he remained for a few months, and then came to Cleveland. Here he soon established himself in the oriental rug and carpet business, becoming the pioneer merchant in this city in that field of commerce. He deals exclusively in those lines and his expert knowledge of oriental carpets, combined with splendid business ability and clear discriminati0n, have made his venture a success from the beginning and constituted his investment a profitable one. His reputation as a connoisseur has made his establishment at 1244 Euclid avenue the headquarters for Cleveland's discriminating rug collectors. He has with the utmost facility assimilated American ideas and is a most loyal citizen of that country in which he has found greater freedom, independence and opportunity than his native country afforded him. On the 5th of February, 1907, Mr. Asadorian was married to Miss Brownie Vliet, a daughter of Peter and Sarah (Hansel) Vliet, of Canton, Ohio. They now have one child, Adeline Belle. The family residence is at No. 10621 Detroit avenue, with a country home at Myers Lake near Canton, Ohio. Mr. Asadorian is a member of the Episcopal church. He finds recreation in fishing and boating and is a congenial, affable man who by reason of his enterprise, perseverance and business capacity has taken a prominent place among Cleveland's successful adopted sons. REV. STEPHEN SOLTESZ. Rev. Stephen Soltesz, pastor of St. Emeric's church of Cleveland, was born in Hungary, January 12, 1880, a son of Frank and Katherine (Kardos) Soltesz. The former was born in Hungary, May 15, 1840, and died in 1908. He was a landowner and very successful business man, as was his father, who also bore the name of Frank and in early life was a school teacher. The mother was born in Hungary in 1857 and passed away in 1896. Father Soltesz has a brother, Frank, who is in business at Chicago, Illinois. The education of Father Soltesz was begun in the parochial schools and was continued by the Jesuit and Premonstreuses Fathers at their gymnasium and academy in Hungary. He then went to the Kassa and Budapest Seminaries for his philosophical and theol0gical courses, coming to the United States on February 1, 1904, at the request of the Archbishop of New York for he needed Hungarian priests here. Father Soltesz was ordained to the priesthood at Rochester, New York, May 11, 1904, by Bishop Kane at St. Bernard's cathedral. He said his first mass at St. Elizabeth's church in Cleveland, May 18, 1904, and was appointed assistant priest of that church, October 24, 1904. Since then he organized his present parish, built a frame church with a seating capacity of five hundred people. which was finished January 22, 1905. He also built a school home for his four teachers, three of whom are English, and they have two hundred pupils under them. There are twelve hundred families in the parish and all have come 490 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND from Hungary. There are about eight thousand souls in the charge of Father Soltesz, who understands the needs 0f his people thoroughly and is constantly striving to improve their condition. He has several societies and organizations which have for their object the advancement and education of the members. Father Soltesz also has societies for the benefit of the sick. Although his parish is a new one, Father Soltesz has it firmly established and is beloved by the people among whom his life is spent. Hi is also the editor of a Hungarian Catholic newspaper called the "Haladas." REV. LADISLAS NECID. Rev. Ladislas Necid, pastor of St. Ladislas church of Cleveland, was born in Franco-Zhorec, Moravia, December 17, 1875, a son of Anton and Mary (Bradac) Necid, farming people in Moravia. Father Necid was educated at the gymnasium of Trebic and the Brunn Seminary (Alumnat), being ordained July 26, 1899, at the seminary by Bishop Dr. Francis Bauer. He celebrated his first mass August 6, 1899, in Exaltatio S. Crucis church at Uhrinov. He was then appointed assistant priest in the parish of St. Laurentii in Bystric Pernstyn, remaining there for five years. At the expiration of that time Father Necid came, in 1904, to the United States, direct to Cleveland. Upon his arrival m this city he was assigned to the Nativity church and was there from November, 1904, to November, 1907, when he was placed in charge of his present parish. He has four hundred families under him and there are three hundred children in the school who are taught by five teachers. The church edifice has a seating capacity of nine hundred people. The parish church schoolhouse is built of wood and contains five rooms. The parish house is a good one and there is a house for the use of the Sisters. Father Necid uses the old church as a hall for services not of a sacred nature. Young, enthusiastic, imbued with a love for his people and a thorough comprehension of their wants, Father Necid has been able to effect many desirable changes and to bring his parish to an excellent condition. The people are all hard working but he never finds any difficulty in obtaining the money necessary to carry on the work he deems best and as a consequence he is recognized as a good organizer and faithful executive who not only can plan but follow up his ideas to a successful termination. JAMES S. SMITH. Among the young men wh0 are occupying notable positions of executive control in connection with important business concerns of Cleveland is James S. Smith, the secretary and treasurer of The J. D. Smith Foundry Supply Company. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, December 24, 1882, and is a son of James D. Smith, who twenty years ago organized The J. D, Smith Foundry Supply Company, which has had a continuous and prosperous existence to the present time. During his youthful days, spent in his parents' home, he pursued his education in the public schools of Cincinnati, graduating from the high school with the class of 1901. He then entered mercantile circles in Cleveland in connection with the hardware enterprise, but soon afterward became associated with his father's business. He had been with the company for two years when his father died and the son was then elected his successor in the office of secretary and treasurer, in which capacity he has since served. The business has been one of the growing productive industries of the state and has assumed mammoth proportions. It was formerly carried on in Cincinnati under the name of The HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 491 Fitzmaurice & Smith Foundry Facing and Supply Company, which later was changed to The J. D. Smith Foundry Supply Company. In 1900 the Cincinnati plant was destroyed by fire and rather than rebuild in Cincinnati, Cleveland was chosen as a more centrally located city for the business and one with a much larger local field. The original intention was to construct a plant here, but a combination between the Cleveland Facing Mill Company and The J. D. Smith Foundry Supply Company took place, whereby the interests of the two concerns were joined and the business was continued under the style of The J. D. Smith Foundry Supply Company. Rapid progress was made and the firm broadened out in the line of manufacture undertaking several new lines, including the construction of foundries and the building of foundry equipment for iron, steel, malleable brass and aluminum foundries. Each forward step has been carefully planned and systematically executed and the business is conducted with no loss of time, labor or material, so that substantial and gratifying results are achieved. F. H, Chamberlin continued in the presidency until 1908, when upon his death he was succeeded by F. A. Coleman, who has since remained in the position with James S. Smith as secretary and treasurer. The company started with a capital stock of twenty-five thousand dollars, which sum has been increased until the capitalization is now one hundred thousand dollars. The company makes a specialty of equipping foundries with modern core room equipment and has built core ovens for some of the largest foundries in the country. The enterprise now occupies the original plant of the Variety Iron Works and is well equipped with the latest improved machinery with which to carry on the line which constitutes the output of the enterprise. Mr. Smith is well known in Masonic circles as a member of Iris Lodge, No. 229, F. & A. M., and Webb Chapter, No. 14, R. A. M. He also belongs to the Cleveland Athletic Club and is interested in all manly outdoor sports. He was one of the organizers of the Foundry and Manufacturers Supply Association, which annually holds an exhibit, displaying all modern foundry machinery. This association originally had a membership of fifteen firms while today it has been increased by over one hundred concerns, the membership including some of the most prominent supply houses connected with the trade. That the association is one of recognized value is shown in the fact that the attendance at these conventions has increased from a few hundred to twenty-five hundred at the last meeting. Mr. Smith is now a director of the association and has been most active in promoting its interests, realizing the value and importance of such an organization. WILBUR H. HYDE. The institution, development and conduct of substantial industrial and commercial enterprises constitute the basis of city growth and building. In this connection Wilbur H. Hyde deserves mention in that he is secretary-treasurer of The Abner Royce Company, one of the city's staple industries. A native of Cleveland, he was born October 30, 1872, and secured his education in the public schools of Willoughby, Ohio, and later at Caton's Business College of this city ; thus coming to the starting point of his business career well equipped for practical and responsible duties. Securing a position with The Cleveland Rubber Company, he remained in that service for a year, after which he entered the general offices of the Erie Railroad Company. Resigning from this position in 1892, he entered the employ of Abner Royce, a manufacturer of pure fruit flavors, perfumes and toilet requisites, and ten years later, when the business was incorporated, became its secretary-treasurer. The business of the company is unique in that its immense output of nearly two hundred preparations is placed in the hands of the consumer through its 492 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND thousands of direct representatives who operate throughout the entire country. From Mr. Hyde's earliest association with his company, he has been at the head of its sales department, during which period he has successfully extended the local fame of Royce's Good Goods into practically every state and city of the Union. Mr. Hyde is a member of Forest City Lodge, F. & A. M.; Webb Chapter, R. A. M.; and Cleveland Council, R. & S. M.; as well as Euclid Council, No. 181, Royal League, of which he has been treasurer for years. His interest in municipal affairs is manifest in his membership in the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, Cleveland Sociological Council, as well as the republican county committee. A further indication of his interest and associations is furnished by his membership in the Cleveland Athletic and the Tippecanoe Clubs. Mr. and Mrs. Hyde, with their daughter, Frances Louise, aged six, reside at 32 Cadwell avenue, Cleveland Heights. THOMAS G. MOUAT. Thomas G. Mouat is well known in business circles of Cleveland as the president of the Mouat-Squires Company, steam fitters and heating and ventilating engineers. He was born at Edinburg, Scotland, in 1867, his parents being Thomas and Mary Ann (Goudie) Mouat. The father, who was likewise a native of the land of hills and heather, passed away in Australia in 1867, when about forty years of age. He was connected with the custom house service near Melbourne, Australia. His widow, whose birth occurred in the year 1847, still survives and makes her home with her son Thomas in Cleveland. Thomas G. Mouat crossed the Atlantic to the United States in 1882 and took up his abode at Detroit, where he spent about eight years and learned the trade of a steam fitter. Subsequently he came to Cleveland and entered the service of E. H. Jones & Company in the capacity of superintendent, being thus employed for eight years. After severing his connection with that concern he embarked in business on his own account. organizing the firm of Mouat & Hill, which relation was maintained for about a year. The business was then conducted under the name of the T. G. Mouat Company for about three years, at the end of which time Mr. Mouat became associated with C. E. Squires, the Mouat-Squires Company being incorporated in October, Ig01. In 1905 Mr. Mouat purchased his partner's interest but still retains the old firm name. The present officers of the company are as follows : Thomas G. Mouat, president ; M. J. Kelley, vice president ; T. W. Hill, treasurer ; and C. J. Deex, secretary. They conduct an extensive business as steam fitters and heating and ventilating engineers and their operations are confined principally to Cleveland and its vicinity. Among the many important structures which they have equipped in this connection may be mentioned the following: the Rockefeller and Whitney buildings ; St. Luke's Hospital ; the plants of the Warner & Swasey Company, the Standard Welding Company, the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the White Automobile Company ; and some of Cleveland's finest residences. Mr. Mouat is the inventor and patentee of the Mouat vapor heating system, with which many of the best buildings in Cleveland are equipped. In his political views Mr. Mouat is a stanch republican, while fraternally he is identified with the Masons. He also belongs to the Chamber of Commerce, the Builders' Exchange and the Cleveland Engineering Society. Starting out at the outset of his career with laudable ambition and looking at life from an unprejudiced standpoint, he soon came to the conclusion that all desirable success comes as the result of well directed energy, and that advancement or failure in the business world depended upon the individual rather than upon the circumstances. Never losing sight of the fact throughout his entire life that he, and not HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 495 others, nor environments, was responsible for his success or failure he has gradually progressed until he occupies a most creditable position as one of the prominent citizens of Cleveland, with a business that has long since enabled him to leave the ranks of the many and stand among the prosperous few. WILLIAM BOSTWICK WHITING. William B. Whiting is an active factor in the working force of the law firm of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey. He was born in Vincennes, Indiana, January 16, 1866, the son of Samuel Cowles Whiting and Emily (Caddington) Whiting. He was educated in the public schools of La Porte, Indiana, and Cleveland, Ohio. He left school at the age of eighteen years, studied shorthand and was a court reporter for three years. He afterward became associated with Estep, Dickey & Squire, attorneys of Cleveland, and when the present firm was formed, in 1890, he entered their employ and is still with them. He studied law in the office and was admitted to the bar in 1894. In his practice he has made a specialty of corporation law. On the 25th of September, 1889, Mr. Whiting was married to Miss Gertrude M. Dewstoe, a daughter of Colonel C. C. Dewstoe, now (1910) postmaster of Cleveland, and Gertrude (McNitt) Dewstoe. By her marriage Mrs. Whiting has become the mother of two children : Samuel Charles, born November 24, 1890, and now a senior in the East high school ; and Dorothea, who died in infancy. Mr. Whiting is a republican in politics and is identified with various social organizations, belonging to the Union and Hermit Clubs, the Oho State Archaeological Society, the Indiana Society of Ohio, and the Nisi Prius Club. GEORGE RANDERSON. George Randerson, superintendent of the city market houses, has been engaged in the meat business for thirty years, beginning in that field of labor when but twenty years of age. He was born in Cleveland in 1860 and pursued his education in the common schools and the West high school in which he spent a year, after which he engaged in business with his father in 1880. They conducted a meat market, sellmg largely to those who were connected with marine interests. On the 1st of January, 1910, Mr. Randerson entered upon the duties of superintendent of the city market houses tinder appointment of Mayor Baehr. His father, George Randerson, Sr., had been the first superintendent of markets in Cleveland, receiving his appointment in 1866 from Mayor Stephen Buhrer. He was also prominent and influential in other connections. He belonged to the Volunteer Firemen's Association of which he was one of the original members, retaining his connection therewith until his death which occurred in 1908. He was also one of the city's pioneer business men and supplied meat for the government camp which was located near Cleveland during the war. He gave his political allegiance to the democratic party but his son George is an advocate of republican principles-the first of the family to become allied with the "grand old party." In January, 1889, Mr. Randerson was married to Miss Mary Bailey, of Vermilion, Ohio, and unto them was born a daughter, Edith, who is a graduate of the Hathaway-Brown school and also of the West high school. She was married in 1908 to Harry Duracher, a prominent young business man of the west side. Mr. Randerson obtains his recreation in outdoor sports, the nature of his interests being indicated in the fact that he is a member of the Carp Hunting Club, 496 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND the Cleveland Athletic Club and the Clifton Club. He also belongs to Cleveland Lodge, No. 18, B. P. O. E., to Edgewater Camp of the National Union and to the Chamber of Industry. The years of his business career have been marked by steady advance and his long experience in the one line 0f trade well qualifies him for the duties that devolve upon him in his present official relation. ARCHIBALD McKEE. Archibald McKee, secretary, treasurer and general manager of the P0mpeian Massage Cream Company, was born in 1855 on a farm which is now almost entirely within the corporate limits of Dennison, Tuscarawas county, Ohio. He supplemented his literary education by the study of law and was admitted to the bar by the district court in the city of Cleveland in March, 1878. He then engaged in practice in Kansas for three years but, as he expresses it, "the grasshoppers preempted his claim" and he removed to Kansas City. His previous experiences rendered his financial resources of but small moment and to meet present expenses he accepted a position in a wholesale hardware house, where the duties were so strenuous that Blackstone was cr0wded out and commercialism took the lead. After five years with the hardware house he entered the employ of the Deering Harvester Company, of Chicago, and was soon manager of their branch house at Minneapolis, Minnesota. He spent twelve years in their service, at the end of which time he associated himself with the business of manufacturing and selling Pompeian Massage Cream. About eight months after the first of the product was marketed the business was incorporated, he was elected secretary and treasurer and appointed general manager, which positions he still fills. The product has been thoroughly advertised and its excellence finds it a ready sale on the market so that the business is one of continually growing proportions In 1891 Mr. McKee was married to Miss Jennie M. Dixon, of New Philadelphia, Ohio, a daughter of Thomas Dixon, a prominent manufacturer of harvesting machinery and a public-spirited citizen. They have one son, Archibald, who is of the fourth generation that bears that name and is now a student in the Warren Road school in Lakewood. Mr. McKee is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and is identified with other interests of the city. His advancement is due to the fact that he has always taken advantage of the business opportunities that have been offered and each forward step in his career has brought him a wider outlook and greater advantages. ALVA B. JONES. In the year 1804 Benjamin Jones removed from New Jersey to the Western Reserve and since that time through five generations the family has been represented here, taking active part throughout the ensuing years in all the projects which have worked for good citizenship and substantial upbuilding of this section of the state. Benjamin Jones became the owner of many hundred acres of land on the site of the present cities of Forest Hill and East Cleveland, becoming the possessor of this property when it was covered with the native timber, no previous title of ownership being held by any individual. Joel Jones, son of Benjamin and the grandfather of Alva B. Jones, was only four years of age at the time of the removal of the family to what was then the western frontier. Reared amid the environment and usual conditions of pioneer life, he here attained manhood and through his marriage became iden- HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 497 tified with another pioneer family, wedding Miss Brainard, whose parents were among the first settlers of this section. He died in 1882 at the age of eighty- two years. He had been a playmate and companion of Abner Mcllrath, the famous hunter of the Western Reserve, and in a more quiet way his wife was as closely associated with pioneer life in this community. Their son Alva Jones, today one of the oldest living settlers of Cleveland in years of continuous residence here, was born in what is now East Cleveland September 1, 1824. He married Miss Sarah M. Motts, of this city, and devoted his attention to farming and to dealing in farm lands. Mr. Jones is still living at the advanced age of eighty-six years, while his wife passed away March 14, 1900. He is still a hale and hearty man, with keen memory of pioneer times and, yet, unlike many of advanced years, he does not live wholly in the past, yet maintaining a deep and unabating interest in the affairs of the present He has always been a public-spirited citizen but has never sought or desired office. A member of the Disciple's church, he has lived the life of a consistent Christian gentleman, commanding at all times the respect and honor of his fellowmen. Alva B. Jones was born in Cleveland in 1863 and, after pursuing his preliminary studies in the public schools, he entered Shaw Academy, from which he was graduated with the class of 1882. Throughout his life he has engaged in farming and in real-estate dealing, largely handling his own property. At the present time he is developing a fifteen-acre allotment to East Cleveland, bordering Euclid avenue. It has building restrictions that will tend to make it the finest residence district of that section of the city. Mr. Jones has been very successful in his real-estate transactions, has made judicious investments and profitable sales and has comprehensive knowledge of property values. Moreover, his efforts have been largely of a character that have indicated recognition of the needs of the city and the opportunities for its improvement and adornment. In 1887 Alva B. Jones was married to Miss Minnie G. Rand, of East Cleveland, and they have a son and daughter. The former, Alva R. Jones, born in 1888, was a pupil in the grammar schools and afterward a student in Gambier Military Academy until it was destroyed by fire. He then pursued a course in the Spencerian College, after which he became a bookkeeper in the Garfield Bank and later was with the Society for Savings for three years. At the present time he is associated with his father in the real-estate business. The daughter, Gertrude S., is a very enthusiastic and proficient pupil in music in Oberlin College. Mr. and Mrs. Jones hold membership in the Congregational church, in the work of which they are interested, and Mrs. Jones is serving as treasurer of the Ladies Aid Society. Mr. Jones is a great hunter and holds membership in the Cleveland Gun Club. His record has been in harmony with that of an honored ancestry, and the family well deserve mention among those who have been active in building the destinies of the city and upholding its political, legal and moral status. CHARLES H. BRANDT. To every youth comes the dream of the future. To most boys, especially those who are reared in homes where financial resources are limited, such a dream usually takes the character of success in business in later life, and the management and control of extensive commercial, industrial or professional interests. In time such a dream may become a dominating influence, the source of ambition which carries the lad to the goal of prosperity in subsequent years. Left fatherless at an early age, Charles H. Brandt is truly a self-made man, shaping his own career without the advice, influence or assistance of a father. 498 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND Mr. Brandt was born in Cleveland in 1864 and was educated in the public and in the Lutheran parochial schools. He then faced the necessity of providing for his own support and on putting aside his text-books began learning the brass molder's trade. His close and unremitting attention to every task assigned him and the adaptability which he displayed enabled him to work his way upward until in time he became superintendent of the brass foundry of the American Ship Building Company, in which position he remained for four years and then joined with some of his associates in that business in organizing and incorporating the National Iron & Wire Company, of which Mr. Brandt became a director on its organization in 1891. He was also made head of the contracting department and bent every energy toward the upbuilding of the business and the extension of its trade interests. In 1903 he was elected vice president, which is still his official connection and since that time he has had active voice in the management of the business, while to the present time he has continued in charge of the contracting department. The company has made substantial advance, progressing with such rapidity that the business is now one of the important representatives of the iron and steel trade of the city, a fact which is due to capable management combined with thorough understanding of the processes of manufacture and of the market. In 1898 Mr. Brandt was married to Miss Mary Crennell, a native of Cleveland and they have two children, Charles C. and Louise M., aged respectively eleven and seven years, and now pupils in the public schools. Mr. Brandt and his family reside on the west side and he takes a public-spirited interest in everything pertaining to the city's growth and development. He is identified with the Chamber of Industry, is a director of the Builders Exchange, and, extending his activities to political fields, is a member of the First Ward Republican Club, serving at the present time on its advisory board. He is also affiliated with Tippecanoe Club and with Cleveland Lodge, No. 18, B. P. O. E. His interests touch those things which are essential and valued factors in the life of every community and everything with which he is connected feels the stimulus of the progressive spirit which has actuated him in his business career. TITUS N. BRAINARD. For more than eighty-four years a resident of Cleveland, Titus N. Brainard was born in this city, July 15, 1825, and is therefore one of the oldest pioneers still living here. For a long period he was active in business affairs but is now retired, spending the evening of his life in the enjoyment of well earned rest. His father, Marvin Brainard', was born February 9, 1799, while his mother, Mrs. Betsey Brainard, was born January 9, 1802. The former came to Cleveland with his father, Asa Brainard, in 1814, making the trip across the country from Connecticut with ox-teams, two yoke being hitched to one wagon, while another yoke with a horse in the lead drew the second wagon. They were forty days on the journey from New England, traveling at times over almost impassable roads, their way being occasionally scarcely more than a forest trail. Streams had to be forded and at times the party camped out along the way at night. At length, however, they reached their destination, Asa Brainard settling in what is now the west side, purchasing a farm which mcluded the present site of the Riverside cemetery and also the site of the present residence of Titus N. Brainard. With characteristic energy he began farming and aided in the cultivation of wild land. His son, Marvin, also carried on general farming and both were active in pioneer times in reclaiming the region for the purposes of civilization. Asa Brainard died when seventy-four years of age, while Marvin Brainard passed away in 1853. Titus N. Brainard was born in a log house within a stone's throw of his present home and was about three years of age when the present residence was built