(RETURN TO THE TITLE PAGE) 350 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND sons and one daughter, and the six surviving sons are all now identified with the business and professional life of Cleveland. Michael A. Albl obtained his education in the public schools of his native city and after completing the course in the Central high school entered the Cleveland School of Pharmacy in 1887, there pursuing his studies for two years. Subsequently he was engaged in the drug business for a period of one year and three months and at the end of that time entered the medical department of the Western Reserve University, which in 1892 conferred upon him the degree of M. D. Having thus quailfied for his chosen vocation, he immediately opened an office and in the intervening years has gained a very large general practice here. For the past eighteen years he has also been on the consulting staff of St. Alexis Hospital. He is a member of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine, the Cleveland Medical Library Association, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association, thus keeping in close touch with the advancement made by the profession. On the 25th of August, 1892, in Cleveland, Dr. Albl was united in marriage to Miss Frances Stadnik, a daughter of Frank and Anna Stadnik, of this city. Unto them have been born two children, namely : Frances, fifteen years of age, who is a student in the South high school ; and Oswald, ten years old, who is attending the Fowler school. The family residence is at No. 5074 Broadway. Dr. Albl is identified through membership relations with the Masonic fraternity, the Knights of Pythias, the C. S. P. S., a Bohemian organization, the Quinnebog Fishing Club, the Norton B. Fishing Club and the Forest City Hunting Club. Hunting and fishing are his principal sources of recreation, and he makes yearly fishing trips to Canada, while each fall he goes to Maine on a hunting trip, bringing home various trophies as evidence of his skill in this direction. He enjoys the full respect and confidence of all who know him and has many warm friends in the city where his entire life has been spent. EZRA NICHOLSON. Ezra Nicholson has been a witness of Cleveland's' growth and development through seventy-five years and has also participated in many public events which have left their impress upon the history of the city. His birthplace, which was his father's farm comprising several hundred acres, now constitutes the present site of Lakewood. He was there born in 1835, a son of James Nicholson, who was one of the pioneer settlers on the west side of the Cuyahoga river, only two other houses being on that side of the river at the time of his arrival, one of these being at Rocky river while the other was the property of the ferryman. James Nicholson settled there about 1812. He was born in Chatham, Massachusetts, in 1783, of good old Puritan stock, and having arrived at years of maturity married Betsey Bartholmew of Waterbury, Connecticut. There was a tiny village on the site of Ohio's present metropolis at the time of his removal to the west. There was little lake navigation and the era of railroad travel through the western forests had not been dreamed of. The only way of crossing the river in those days was by ferry, Mr. Carter operating a ferry boat at the little village. Mr. Nicholson, of this review, remembers of his father telling him of the first high pressure steamboat on the great lakes. It was called "Walk on the Water" and ran between Buffalo, Cleveland and Detroit. James Nicholson was a man of remarkable vitality and devoted his life to general agricultural pursuits, owning and cultivating an excellent farm of several hundred acres, to which he devoted his energies until his death in 1859. His wid0w survived him for many years and died in 1886, in her eighty-sixth year. She left three children, Delia, Louis and Ezra. HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 353 In his boyhood days Ezra Nicholson attended the district and city schools and afterward became a pupil in the Urbana University. After his college days were over he assisted his father with the farm work for several years. Following the father's death, Ezra Nicholson divided the property and leased it to different parties but still lived in the homestead which he yet occupies. It is one of the old landmarks of the city and an interesting reminder of the past, although it is kept in such excellent state of preservation as to seem much like the more modern dwellings. In 1885 Mr. Nicholson became interested with the firm 0f Johnson & Palmer in the ownership of lake vessels, which at that time was a very profitable business. He had lived to witness the remarkable development of lake transportation. He remembers the steamboats Bunker Hill, Commerce, Julia Palmer and Empire, all of which, with the exception of the last named, were of the high pressure type and sailed the lakes in the '40s. Gradually the tonnage of all lake steamers has been increased until today there are upon the waters of Erie and the other great lakes fine floating palaces, supplied with every modern convenience. In 1893 Mr. Nicholson laid out what is known as the Nicholson allotment in Lakewood. The cross streets-Grace avenue and Clarence avenue—were the first streets west of Kentucky to be paved and were supplied with all modern improvements. These streets were named after his children, and the deeds to the property were given to Mr. Nicholson's father by the state treasurer of Connecticut, for in the early days this land was owned by the state of Connecticut and for a time was termed Connecticut before the name of Western Reserve was adopted. Not only has Mr. Nicholson operated largely in vessel owning and real estate but is also an inventor of some note, inventing the Nicholson Recording Ship Log, an instrument for recording the speed of a vessel. This instrument, a product of the Nicholson Ship Log Company, manufacturers, is the only log of its kind in the world and is controlled entirely by this company, with patents for the United States and all maritime countries of Europe and Asia. It is in use on twenty-eight battleships, three cruisers, torpedo and gunboats and colliers of the United States Navy. This company also manufactures the Nicholson distance and range finder, an invention of Mr. Nicholson's which is of great value in coast navigation. The Nicholson Company, of which he is the head, his associates being his two sons, has been in business in its present quarters in the Beckman building on, Superior avenue for about seven years and is a very promising manufacturing enterprise. In 1863 Mr. Nicholson was married to Miss Alice Fowles, a native of Wisconsin: who removed to Cleveland in 1862. There were born unto Mr. and Mrs. Nicholson six children, of whom only three are living, one daughter and two sons. These are: Grace E., Ezra Louis and Clarence Percy, all of whom attended the public schools of Cleveland. Mr. Nicholson belongs to New Jerusalem church of Lakewood, has always been an enthusiastic republican and was the first clerk of the hamlet of Lakewood. He is perhaps better informed concerning the history of this section of the city than any one man and his activity in business has constituted a force for general development as well as a source of individual profit. COLONEL FREDERICK H. FLICK. The qualities which make for popularity were salient characteristics in the life of Colonel Frederick H. Flick, whose courtesy, geniality and kindly spirit were evenly balanced with his business ability, firm determination and loyalty to whatever he believed to be right. For years he occupied a conspicuous position in the business, military and political circles of Cleveland. He was born in this city June 6, 1847, a son of Nathan and Helen M. (Wahl) Flick. His grandfather, Nathan Flick, Sr., was a native of Germany, who on coming to America took up 354 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND his abode in Liverpool, Medina county, Ohio, at an early period in the development of that section of the state. Ere his emigration to the new world he had served in the Napoleonic wars. His son, Nathan Flick, Jr., removed from Liverpool, Ohio, to Cleveland in 1832, and was a prominent meat dealer in the early days. Spending his entire life in this city, Colonel Flick was an interested witness of its substantial growth and development and played not an inconspicuous part in the promotion of its interests, which have given to the city high standing in business and military circles. He attended the grammar schools until fifteen years of age. Soon after the Civil war was inaugurated, he made every effort to get to the front, but because of his youth his services were not accepted until two years had passed away, when he was finally allowed to enlist, joining Battery B, of the First Ohio Light Artillery, which at that time was commanded by Captain Standard and later by Captain Baldwin, while the regiment was under the command of General James Barnett. Mr. Flick was mustered out in 1865 after having taken part in the most important of the later engagements. Although a youth in years, his valor and loyalty were no less pronounced than those of many a veteran of twice his age. Throughout his life he maintained an interest in military affairs and gained a substantial and prominent position in connection with the Ohio National Guard. Shortly after his discharge from the army he, in association with Colonel Louis Smithnight, organized the Cleveland Light Artillery, which is known in military circles as the crack organization of the state. He was elected to a lieutenancy, which rank he held for several years and was then chosen to the position of colonel of the Fifth Infantry Regiment of the Dhio National Guard, continuing in command of that organization for five years. His business record was equally creditable. Soon after leaving the army Colonel Flick entered the employ of the Atlantic & Great Western Railroad Company, and during the early part of i868 was made superintendent of the docks )f the Cleveland and Pittsburg Company. He continued in the employ of this :ompany for a term of more than twenty-five years and was well known among :he workingmen of Cleveland and employed thousands during his long term of service with the railroad. Workmen looked upon him as a friend and one who lad their interests at heart. Many times he was called upon to settle party grievances, and it is said that through his mediation many strikes were averted. In [890 he accepted the city agency of the Equitable Life Insurance Company and continued in that position until his life's labors were ended in death. The home life of Colonel Flick was a manifestation 0f many of the most admirable traits of his character. He was twice married. In November, 1866, he wedded Helen M. Stewart, of this city, and unto them were born three children, Guy A., Cora V. and Fred H., but the first named is the only one now living. Hie mother passed away in 1885, and on the 15th of June, 1887, Colonel Flick married Miss Mary W. Russell, of Mount Vernon, Ohio. She is a daughter of Dr. John W. and Anna S. (McBride) Russell, the former a prominent physician )f Mount Vernon, Ohio. Her grandfather, Dr. John W. Russell, Sr., came to Ohio in 1828 and was one of the most distinguished physicians and citizens of the state at an early day. He was born in Litchfield county, Connecticut, January 28, 804, and was a graduate of Jefferson College, of Philadelphia, with the class of 827. He became a physician of international reputation, occupying an eminent position as a foremost leader in the medical fraternity, and died at the advanced ge of eighty-three years at his home in Mount Vernon, Ohio. Unto the second narriage of Colonel Flick was born one son, Harold R., who with the mother urvives the husband and father. The death of Colonel Flick occurred June 18, 1901, at his home on Hillsdale Lvenue in the city where his entire life had been passed. In addition to those qualities which gained him prominence in political, military and business circles le had other well pronounced traits which were equally commendable and made him a man of broad and liberal culture- He was a collector of art, an excellent HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 355 critic of both art and music and was a great lover of books. Along these lines of liberal culture his advancement was pronounced. The opportunities of his life were those which he won for himself, and his advancement was the logical sequence of his own merit. He was a member of the Ascension Episcopal church of Lakewood and was also connected with the Grand Army of the Republic, with the Knight Templar Masons and the Cleveland Grays. He never entered any organization for what he could get out of it, but for the higher purpose of being of service therein. His political activity was the expression of a firm belief in the principles of the repubhcan party as elements in good government. He stood always for what he beheved to be right, and his position at no time upon any important question was an equivocal one. The honesty of his opinions was unquestioned, and the soundness of his views made him a leader in party councils, in military organizations, and in social life. ALBERT K. QUAYLE. Cleveland is indebted to Albert K. Quayle for what he did for the architectural improvement of the city. He was for a long period one of the leading contractors here, and in all of his work he was actuated by a desire to add to the attractive appearance of the city as well as to win the success which is the legitimate reward of earnest and capably directed labor. His life record began at Newburg, Ohio, on the 8th of May, 1841. His father, John Quayle, had settled there in early life and was a brother of Thomas Quayle, a member of the leading and well known firm of Quayle & Martin, who for years were noted shipbuilders of Cleveland. In the family of John Quayle were six children but only two are now having, Mrs. Bolton, of Lakewood, and Mrs. George Canfield of this city. The youthful days of Albert K. Quayle were spent in Newburg, where he acquired his education in the public schools. He was a carpenter by trade, learning that business in early manhood and following it continuously until after the outbreak of the Civil war, when, feeling that his first duty was to his country, he put aside all business and personal considerations and donned the blue uniform of the nation. He went to the front with Company B, One Hundred and Third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which he served creditably for three years. Following the close of hostilities he returned home with a most creditable military record, and soon afterward he came to Cleveland, where he took up the business of contracting and building, in which he continued until about a year prior to his death. Gradually he worked his way upward in that field of activity until he was in control of a business of large proportions. He erected many of the finest homes on Euclid avenue, devoting most of his attention to the construction of residences. He studied out many new plans and methods to improve his homes in the line of originality, of attractive design and of utility, and many of the palatial residences on the various fine thoroughfares stand as monuments to his enterprise and ability. Pleasantly situated in his home life Mr. Quayle was married January 7, 1868, to Miss Amarillo G. Compton, a native of Cleveland and a daughter of Charles Compton. Her paternal grandfather was Jacob Compton, who married a Miss Phelps. He came to Ohio from New Jersey in 1815 and purchased a farm on what is now Euclid Heights. There the birth of Charles Compton occurred in 18t7, and through the period of his manhood he followed farming on the old homestead, being busily employed in the work of the fields until his death in 1868. Two of his children, Mrs. Quayle and her sister, Mrs. Wilcox, inherited the greater part of the home place, which they held for a number of years. Mrs. Quayle, however, sold her interests about four years ago, and the old farm has now been divided into building lots and constitutes one of the finest residence sections of the city. The wife of Charles Compton bore the maiden name of Amanda 356 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND G. Compton. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Quayle was blessed with two children : Leon C., who is a graduate of the Case School of Applied Science and is now a civil engineer; and Wendell H., who died at the age of three years. Mrs. Quayle died September 6, 1909. Mr. Quayle was a very active man in affairs relating to public interests and was the champion of every measure that was a matter of civic virtue and civic pride. He gave generously of his means to assist in the work of public improvement, and his opinions were at all times practical and helpful. In politics he was a stanch republican, and his religious faith was manifest in his membership in the Christian church, in which he held the office of deacon. His actions found their motive spring in principles which neither sought nor required disguise. It was not a matter of policy with him that caused him to be just in his business dealings and loyal in his friendships : he followed the former course because he believed it to be right and the latter because he had high appreciation for the companionship of his fellowmen and never sought to disregard his obligations nor duties to society in general. LEWIS H. KITTREDGE. The name of Lewis H. Kittredge is widely known in trade circles throughout the country for, although a young man, he has attained to a position of eminence in manufacturing circles as the president of the Peerless Motor Car Company of Cleveland, manufacturer of one of the most superior and finished products of this character in America. Setting for himself high standards in business, manifesting intelligent appreciation 0f opportunity and wisely utilizing every means at hand, he has reached a most enviable position as the head of an enterprise that is showing marked growth annually. A native of New Hampshire, Mr. Kittredge was born in Harrisville, June 18, 1871, and after attending the high school in Keene, New Hampshire, he continued his studies in the New Hampshire State College at Durham, being there graduated in 1896 with the degree of Bachelor of Science. He was thus well equipped by liberal mental training for any duty that might devolve upon him in the business world. He made his initial step in commercial circles in connection with the New York Belting & Packing Company of Passaic, New Jersey. In 1897 he came to Cleveland to associate himself with the Peerless Manufacturing Company. In the twelve years which have since elapsed his has been a notable record, marking an entire transformation in the business in the character of its 0utput and showing as well the clearly defined methods which Mr. Kittredge has followed in attaining to the position which he now occupies. He made his service of value to the company which he represented, regarding no detail as too unimportant, to to claim his attention, nor fearing to give service for which he did not receive immediate adequate return. His capability, his energy and fidelity, however, won recognition in successive promotions. In 1899 he was made secretary and general manager of the company and in 1901 the office of treasurer was added to his duties. The following year the firm name was changed to the Peerless Motor Car Company and in 1904 he was elected to the vice presidency, while in 1906 he was chosen for the presidency and has since remained the chief executive officer. Mr. Kittredge is also president of the Peerless Motor Car Company of New York and the Peerless Motor Car Company of New England, is secretary of the Association 0f Licensed Automobile Manufacturers and is financially interested in other corporations. The growth of the Peerless Motor Car Company is noteworthy, considering the fact that through the process of growth of the last six years it has gradually and consistently risen from a very small beginning to one of the leading companies in the automobile industry. The start of this remarkable business was made in HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 359 a small factory located on Lisbon street, adjoining the Cleveland & Pittsburg tracks in a building with scarcely ten thousand square feet of available floor space and equipped with machinery originally intended for utterly different uses. The year 1900 marks the beginning of this business in the form of manufacturing automobile parts. In 1902 the company was incorporated under its present title and the manufacture of complete motor cars was begun. Since then an organization has been formed, composed of able and progressive men, who imbued with the idea of improving and perfecting the product have worked together towards that end, always demanding the best from each subordinate and at the same time quick to recognize and reward superior merit wherever found. This spirit of loyalty prevailing in the organization has made it possible to transform step by step the motorette, manufactured eight years ago and then regarded as a curiosity of experimental value only, to the present high-power touring car that is acknowledged to rank among America's best product. In 1904 ground was broken for a new factory on East Ninety-third street and Quincy avenue and each succeeding year has seen new factory buildings constructed until this year, at the beginning of the 1910 selling season, will see the present tract of land, comprising about six acres, entirely taken up with buildings of this company. The group consists of twelve factory buildings two and three stories in height, with a handsome four story offrce building. The company also has fourteen acres adjoining and contracts have been let for the erection thereon of several large factory buildings. Under the present organization nearly two thousand families receive an income each week from the business. The increased output each year indicates more than anything else growing favor towards the Peerless cars and with the increased facilities over seven million dollars of product will be manufactured during the next selling season. In the fall of 1907, at the time of the panic, the Peerless Motor Car Company maintained seventy-five per cent of its force and employed on longer hours than any one other individual factory representing a large industry in the city. The sale of the product is distributed through branch houses in New York and Boston and likewise through representative dealers in every large city in the United States and Canada. Cleveland may be taken as a barometer of sales and it may be of interest to note that the demand for the Peerless product in 1908 showed an increase of forty per cent over 1907. The selling season of 1909 which is now closed shows an increase of fifty per cent over the sales made in Cleveland during 1908. Mr. Kittredge by no means takes unto himself entire credit for the development of the business. He has surrounded himself with a corps of able assistants and colleagues of whose work he is thoroughly appreciative, knowing that they have rendered signal service in the building up of this mammoth industry. Mr. Kittredge is a member of Unity church and his name is on the membership rolls of the Mayfield Country, Euclid, Union, Clifton, Cleveland Athletic and Automobile Clubs, of Cleveland, and of the Automobile Club of America, of New York city. One cannot meet him without being impressed with his alert manner and spirit of enterprise and, yet, he is never t00 busy to be cordial and courteous for he has keen appreciation for companionship and the social amenities of life. FRANK DE HASS ROBISON. The character of an individual is perhaps best determined by the feeling of regret which is caused by his death. The most kindly regard was felt for Mr. Robison by all who knew him, and when he passed from this life the news of his sudden demise caused deep sorrow wherever he was known. He had figured prominently in connection with traction interests throughout the entire country, had been even more widely known as a baseball magnate, but it was his personal traits of char- 360 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND acter as manifested in many kindly ways, in ready sympathy and generous benevolence, that gave him his firm hold on the friendship and love of those with whom he was brought in contact. The birds and squirrels upon his estate knew him for a friend, and he was the companion of children and the benefactor of the poor. He died September 25, 1908, at the age of fifty-six years. Mr. Robison was of Scotch parentage, his father, Martin Stanfort Robison, having emigrated from Scotland and settled in Pennsylvania, and it was in Pittsburg that Frank D. H. Robison was born in 1852, but his youthful days were spent in Dubuque, Iowa, and his early education was supplemented by study in the Ohio Wesleyan University, of Deleware, this state. Mr. Robison started in business when eighteen years of age. He was married m Philadelphia at the age of twenty-three to Miss Sarah C. Hathaway, a daughter of Charles Hathaway, of that city, who was a builder of street railroads and found an active partner and able assistant in his son-in-law. In the year 1877 the firm of Hathaway & Robison was organized, and the field of the firm's activities extended rapidly over the United States from New Orleans on the south to Fargo, North Dakota on the north, and from Maine in the east to California in the west. In Canada the firm's interests extended into all the principal cities with the exception of Quebec. The first street railway building of the firm in Canada was at Hamilton, and in a few years Hathaway & Robison had practically no competition in the Canadian field. Mr. Robison personally undertook the construction of the cable lines in Cleveland and was the president and principal owner of the Superior avenue, Payne avenue and St. Clair avenue lines. It was his plan to have equipped the St. Clair avenue line with cable, but the idea was abandoned when he consolidated his properties with those controlled by M. A. Hanna, which included the Woodland avenue and west side lines. The cable lines as constructed by Mr. Robison were conceded to be the most perfect in detail in the country. Twenty-four miles of road in Cleveland were operated from a single power house, and had the St. Clair avenue line been completed twelve miles more would have been added, making thirty-six m all. In connection with Mr. Hathaway Mr. Robison, as director and operator, had been financially interested in more than one-third of all the roads constructed by the firm, and up to the time that electricity came in to use as a motive power their operati0ns gave continual employment to thousands of men. Mr. Robison became even better known in connection with baseball interests. In the winter of 1886 James Williams, who had managed the Columbus Club in the American association that year, persuaded Mr. Robison that it would pay to build a ball park on the Payne avenue line. He studied the situation with the result that a company was organized of which he was president, the other directors being George Howe and Davis Hawley. Cleveland remained in the American association for 1887-88 and then entered the National League. In 1898, the patronage being considered too small for an expensive club, Mr. Robison bought the St. Louis National franchise and the following year sold out his Cleveland baseball interests to Messrs. Somers and Kilfoyl. Mr. Robison was himself an enthusiastic supporter and admirer of the game and on the day prior to his death witnessed the one which was played in Cleveland. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Robison were born three daughters, but Marie, the eldest, and Hortense, the youngest, are now deceased. The surviving daughter is Helene, the wife of Schuyler P. Britton, by whom she has two children, De Hass R. and Marie R. Mr. Robison erected a fine residence on the Lake Shore boulevard, overlooking the lake, and there entertained royally. He was a most hospitable man and delighted in gathering his friends about him. He was, always greatly interested in athletics and was president of the first athletic club of Cleveland, which had eleven hundred members. He also belonged to the Country, Union, Roadside and Detroit Clubs and to the Lambs Club, of New York, and to the Missouri Athletic Club, St. Louis. He was likewise the first president of the Cleveland Kennel Club. Very active in Masonry he attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish rite and the Knight Templar degree in the York rite. His citizenship was marked HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 361 by a public spirit that gave ready response whenever a call was made for cooperation in matters relative to the general welfare. He was, moreover, a man of benevolent spirit, and his charities were almost numberless. It is said that during the days when he was operating largely in street railways his personal expenses were not less than one hundred dollars a day. At that time no one applied to him in vain for assistance, and one of his former secretaries said that on the removal from his office in the Cuyahoga building notes and other promissory papers were burned to the amount of fifteen thousand dollars, Mr. Robison giving out at least ten thousand of this amount with the absolute certainty that he would never be repaid a penny. Some one has said that the best test of a man is his treatment of his inferiors, and Mr. Robison may be judged by the words of his coachman, who for seven years was in his employ and who said, "No other coachman ever had such a good job as I had." He displayed great love for nature in various phases, especially of animate nature, and each day would rise early and feed the birds upon his estate, for which he had put up many bird houses. There were also at least two dozen squirrels there that would eat from his hands, and he would never countenance the least show of cruelty to any animal. One of the beautiful phases of his life was his companionship with his little grandson, Frank Britton. The two might be seen every day having a game of baseball together, and the little lad always escorted his grandfather to the street-car line half a mile from his home. In business affairs he displayed the keenest discernment and at all times sought justice at the hands of others nor ever failed to give equivalent for service rendered him. He set the deepest imprint of his life on the country at large through his activity in traction development, his work in that direction being of he utmost benefit to more than one hundred cities of the United States and Canada. Mrs. Robison still makes her home in Cleveland, and her many admirable traits and social qualities have made her a favorite among her many friends. MOSES L. ALLEN, M.D. Dr. Moses L. Allen, practicing in Cleveland throughout the years of his connection with the medical profession and leaving behind him many friends at the time of his death, was born in Hancock county, Ohio, July 12, 1853. His father was David Allen, who was born near Steubenville, Ohio, and his mother, who bore the maiden name of Mary McCandless, was a native of Pennsylvania. In the early '50s the parents settled in Hancock county near McComb, where the father followed the occupation of farming. The removal of the family to Jefferson county caused Dr. Allen to pursue his early education in the district schools there, while later he attended commercial college at Harlem Springs, Ohio. He also spent two years in Hopedale College, and then with broad literary and business training to serve as a foundation for his preparation for a professional career he came to Cleveland and attended the medical college of the Western Reserve University for three years, being graduated with the class of 1888. Immediately afterward he began practice, opening an office at what was then 525 Pearl street but is now 1882 West Twenty-fifth street. There he remained until his death and enjoyed a large and liberal practice, his support being indicative of the confidence and trust reposed in him by his many patrons. He attained prominence and influence, and his practice gradually increased as there came to him the recognition of his ability, which was being continuously augmented by his reading and research. For many years he had charge of the Cleveland Christian Orphanage. On the 3d of October, 1889, Dr. Allen was married in Bergholz, Ohio, to Miss Eva McIntyre, a daughter of Peter and Martha (Armstrong) McIntyre, of Jefferson county, Ohio, who were prominent farming people there. Mrs. Allen was born in Jefferson county and has been a resident of Cleveland since 1889. 362 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND Dr. Allen was a republican but never cared for political office. He held membership in Halcyon Lodge, F. & A. M., and in Forest City Commandery, K.T., and was also identified with the Knights of the Maccabees. In early life he was a member of the Presbyterian church and in later years belonged to the old Stone church. He was a great Bible student and devoted a portion of each Sunday to Bible study as a member of a class of over two hundred. He p0ssessed strongly marked literary tastes and was the owner of a fine library with the contents of which he was largely familiar. A few years before his death he contracted cancer of the stomach and spent a year and a half in the west seeking relief, but he could find none and returned home. Here he passed away June 3, 1909, and is sorely missed in many a household to which he held the relation of a loved family physician. N. D. FISHER. While N. D. Fisher was well known as one of the prosperous representatives of the lumber trade in Cleveland, his social qualities won for him an equally wide and favorable acquaintance and his broad information and ready expression led him frequently to be called upon to address public gatherings, on which occasions his remarks were always of a most well chosen nature. The breadth of his information, his appreciation for and understanding of the deeper experiences of life and the wise use which he made of opportunities, combined to make him a man among men, honored and respected wherever known and most highly esteemed where best known. The birth of Mr. Fisher occurred in Wellington, Ohio, and he was always proud of the thought that he was a native of the state for which he ever had a most loyal attachment. He was descended from New England ancestry, his father having come from Connecticut to Ohio, here establishing his home within thirty miles of Cleveland. Reared under the parental roof, N. D. Fisher supplemented his public-school education by a college preparatory course, which he left unfinished that he might join Company H of the Second Ohio Cavalry in defense of the Union cause, enlisting when he was but eighteen years of age. He at once became popular among his comrades and promotions followed at every available opportunity until he became captain of the company. There were hundreds who entered the service, yet boys in their understanding of life, who came out men not in years alone but in all of those experiences which ripen and season manhood, causing the individual to understand the value of daily experiences and opportunities. A self-reliant character developed in Captain Fisher, together with the ability to maintain discipline among his men, while at the same time he enjoyed their fullest regard, having great appreciation for the comradeship that grew up among the soldiers and in many instances endured while life lasted. His experiences in the line of his military duty were many and varied and with a most creditable war record he returned to his home. Entering business life, Captain Fisher's record in commercial circles never at any step manifested retrogression. On the contrary he so combined and manipulated his forces as to become recognized as one of the most prominent lumbermen of Cleveland. He was widely known as president of the Fisher & Wilson Company, his associates in his later years being his cousin, E. L. Fisher, who was vice president and treasurer of the company, and A. M. Allyn, secretary. This company was organized in 1884 after the death of H. V. Wilson, of the firm of Fisher, Wilson & Company, in which concern N. D. Fisher had become interested in 1878. He was, however, associated with the lumber trade of Cleveland from 1866, at which time he entered the employ of Bottsford & Potter, wholesale lumber dealers of this city. Until within a few years of his death he remained one of the most active, aggressive and foremost lumber operators on Lake Erie. He HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 365 was always very successful in his undertakings in that direction, his company be- coming large distributers of hardw00d lumber, the trade extending over a wide territory. He was very prominent and popular among lumber men of this section of the country and was several times president of the Cleveland Lumbermen's Board, and in that position reflected those sterling qualities which brought him to a leading place among the business men of the Forest city. When he presided at the banquets or other social functions of the board, his abilities and character were evident to and honored by all present. His marked traits were energy coupled with deliberation, keenness of discernment with soundness of judgment, amiability reinforced with indomitable perseverance. In Battle Creek, Michigan, in 1868, Mr. Fisher was married to Miss Imogene Telford, who was born in the state of New York but was at that time residing in Michigan. They became the parents of six children, but only Iwo are living: Lee B., of this city, and L. Blanche, at home with her mother. Mr. Fisher was devoted to his family and his wealth perhaps gave him no greater pleasure than from the fact that it enabled him to provide a luxurious home for his wife and children. As a friend expressed it, "He was of frugal mind and yet no inherent frugality prompted him to unwisely moderate his charities nor restrain his benefactions to his fellowmen." He gave freely of his means to every good cause. He held membership in the Disciples church and his connection therewith was a bond of sympathy between him and President Garfield, of whom he had long been a valued friend, for the latter also held membership with the same church. He displayed excellent abilities as presiding officer and was a most entertaining and at times brilliant after-dinner speaker. He could be called upon on almost any occasion and would respond readily and to the point. It has been said that he was never known to write out a speech, although he was many times called upon to employ his talents in that direction. His interest in public affairs and the welfare of the state was indicated by his attendance at political meetings and his efforts to nominate his friends for office, yet at no time was he an aspirant for political preferment. His recreation came through his annual summer vacations in Wisconsin, which were usually spent at Ashland, that state, although he frequently took a fishing trip up the Brule river. He was also fond of fine horses and usually kept an excellent driving team. He passed away November 17, 1893, after an illness of several years, to which his intellect and buoyant dispositi0n never succumbed. When he was laid to rest, the funeral services being conducted by Rev. S. L. Darsie, pastor of Franklin Circle Disciples church, many friends of the family, together with his late associates in the lumber trade and the members of the Grand Army of the Republic, assembled to pay their last tribute of respect to one whose spendid qualities made his friendship valued and will cause his memory to be cherished for years to come. Since 1888 the family home has been at what is now 1620 Prospect street. PIERCE HART LONERGAN. While the trend of emigration has always been westward there are yet many who have traveled toward the rising instead of the setting sun to find suitable business opportunities that point to the goal of success. Among this number is Pierce Hart Lonergan, the secretary of the Lake Erie Ore Company. He was born in Sacramento, California, May 27, 1876, and is a son of James F. Lonergan, whose parents were Pierce and Mary (Tobin) Lonergan. The mother of our subject bore the maiden name of Anna Hart and was a daughter of Thomas Hart. While born on the Pacific coast, Pierce H. Lonergan acquired his education in the east, attending the public schools of Philadelphia and also St. Joseph's College of that city. For two years after leaving college he was associated with 366 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND his father in connection with the brass and iron foundry business. In 1895 he came t0 Cleveland and entered the service 0f the Standard Lighting Company. Subsequently he was with the Winton Bicycle Company and afterward with Drake, Bartow & Company. In 1905 he took active part in the organization of the Lake Erie Ore Company and was chosen as secretary and one of the directors of that corporation. He has since been largely instrumental in placing the company prominently among the representatives of large ore interests of this city. Its volume of trade is annually represented by a high figure, and the house has won an unassailable reputation in those trade circles to which its business connections have extended. On the 15th of February, 1904, Mr. Lonergan was united in marriage to Miss Olive Ratliff, a daughter of General Robert R. and Jane (Tod) Ratliff, of Warren, Ohio. They have one child, John Bartow, living with his parents at Ravenna, Ohio. Mr. Lonergan belongs t0 the Hermit, Euclid and Cleveland Athletic Clubs, takes his recreation in golf, horseback riding and other outdoor sports, gives his political allegiance to the republican party and manifests his interest in community affairs by active cooperation in movements for municipal progress or in matters which are fact0rs in civic virtue and civic pride. During the years of his residence in Cleveland he has won for himself a high and creditable position in business, club and social circles. JONATHAN PRESCOTT BURTON. Jonathan Prescott Burton, among the college bred men who are well trained to mental alertness and to a ready recognition of opportunities that are presented, is now proving his worth as a factor in the business world in discharging the duties of the presidency of the Kennon Coal & Mining Company and of the Ridgway-Burton Company. A native of Massillon, Ohio, he was born January 12, 1876, a son of Jonathan P. Burton, Sr., who was a native of Penns Manor, Pennsylvania, and came to Ohio in the '60s. Locating at Massillon he there engaged in the operation of an iron furnace and in mining coal until his death, which occurred in 1899, when he was seventy-nine years of age. He was thus prominently associated with the development of the coal and iron industries of the state, utilizing the natural resources there offered in the conduct and expansion of an important business. He wedded Mary E. Zerbe, a native of Massillon and a representative of a prominent family of that place. She is still living there. The family of Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Prescott Burton, Sr., numbered four children, all of whom survive, the younger brother, Courtney Burton, Being associated with the subject of this review, who is the third in order of birth. In the public schools of Massillon Jonathan Prescott Burton pursued his early education and afterward attended the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, from which he was graduated in 1896 with the Bachelor of Philosophy degree. He largely studied along the line of civil engineering but following his graduation entered actively upon the work of mining engineering in connection with the Ridgway-Burton Company, with which he was associated until 1898. In that year he became secretary of the Burton, Beidler & Phillips Company and in 1899 was elected to the presidency of that firm, having now remained as its chief executive officer for a decade. He is also the president of the Kennon Coal & Mining Company and of the Ridgway-Burton Company, miners of bituminous coal, and of the Trevorton Coal Land Company, operating an anthracite colliery in Pennsylvania. He is thus engaged in mining both anthracite and bituminous coal, the former in Pennsylvania and the latter in Ohio. His operations in this direction are now extensive, for the companies with which he is associated handle large quantities of coal. He is also interested in and is a director of several other corporations. HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 367 On the 8th of January, 1903, in Cleveland, Mr. Burton was married to Miss Kate Winston Burnham of this city and they have two children, Winston Prescott, four years of age, and Katherine Burnham, two years old. Mr. Burton belongs to the Chamber of Commerce, and his pleasure in the social amenities of life is indicated in his membership in the Union, Country and Tavern Clubs. His political support is given to the republican party. While widely recognized as one of the prominent young business men of the city, in manner he is modest and retired and of a genial, pleasant disposition, which „ins him friends wherever he goes, among the young and old, rich and poor. HON. JOSEPH T. LOGUE. Hon. Joseph T. Logue, whose name occupies a conspicuous position in the judicial records of Cleveland, acted as police judge and also as judge of the common pleas court, being incumbent in the latter position at the time of his death. Born in Summit county, Ohio, July 9, 1849, he was a son of Rev. James W. Logue, D.D., a minister of the United Presbyterian faith and the founder of the first church of that denomination in Cleveland. His birth occurred in York, Pennsylvania, in 1812, and he prepared for the ministry in Albany, New York, being graduated from Union College of that city. In 1843 he arrived in Cleveland and throughout his entire life was very active in church work, his intelligently directed efforts and zeal constituting a forceful factor in the growth of the denomination in this section of the state. His wife bore the maiden name of Mary Jane Cooper. Hon. Joseph T. Logue, one of five children, pursued his preliminary studies in the district sch00ls of Northfield, Ohio, and took up the study of languages under the direction of his father. At nineteen years of age he entered the business field as proprietor of a grocery and general mercantile store, which he conducted for four years. But in the meantime he determined to study law and entered upon a course of reading under the direction of the firm of Emerson & Wildes, of Akron, Ohio. He completed his studies with Brinsmade & Stone, of Cleveland, and was admitted to the bar April 20, 1876. Mr. Logue then opened an office in this city and practiced continually until 1891, making substantial advance in his profession as year by year he demonstrated his power to successfully cope with the intricate problems of the law. He also advanced in political activity and distinction and was first called to office in 1887, when he was elected councilman from the nineteenth ward. The capability of his service received endorsement in reelection in 1889, so that his incumbency continued until 1891. He was also a member of the board of improvements and chairman of the judiciary committee. In 1891 he was named as candidate for police judge and elected by a majority of twenty-two hundred votes. Again the worth of his first term's service caused his reelection in 1893, and at his retirement from the office in 1895 he was elected judge of the common pleas court. Again he was chosen for a second term when in 1897 he was once more elected common pleas judge, presiding over that court until his death, which occurred November 11, 1899. His decisions were strictly fair and impartial, being based upon comprehensive knowledge of the law, upon thorough understanding of the facts and appreciation for the equity of the case. On the 30th of August, 1881, Judge Logue was married to Miss Nellie Green, a daughter of Eli C. and Jane M. (Booth) Green, who removed from Utica, New York, to Cleveland, in 1867, the father becoming a leading real-estate dealer of this city. Unto Judge and Mrs. Logue were born two sons : Raymond G., now a business man of Seattle, Washington, and James C., a Cleveland attorney. Judge Logue was a home man, finding his most congenial companionship at his own fireside. However, he delighted in extending the hospitality of his home to 368 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND his friends, who constituted a large proportion of Cleveland's citizenship. He belonged to Tippecanoe Club and was a devoted member of the First United Presbyterian church, serving as a trustee in the church and as a teacher in the Sunday school for many years. His political allegiance was given to the republican party and on all questions of vital importance he took a firm stand, advocating political integrity and loyalty as well as professional and individual honor. He measured up to the full standard of upright manhood and is remembered no less for his individual worth than for his professional ability. JOHN HUNTINGTON. As the day with its morning of hope and promise, its noontide of activity, its evening of complete and successful effort ending in the grateful rest and quiet of the night, so was the life of John Huntington, a man esteemed and honored wherever known and most of all where best known. He figures on the pages of history as a capitalist but more than that as a benefactor whose interests and sympathies went out at all times toward the unfortunate in a tangible manifestation of a spirit of helpfulness. While he has passed from life his good deeds remain and are yet factors in much of the city's charitable and benevolent work. Mr. Huntington was born in Preston, England, March 8, 1832, a son of Hugh Huntington, who was professor of mathematics at Onuskirk in Lancashire and one of the founders of the Trinity school at Preston. After acquiring a good education in his native land John Huntington sailed to America in 1852 and the same year came to Cleveland, establishing himself in the roofing business. In this industry he met with success and he also became interested in oil in an early day. It was in 1863 that he took up the business 0f refining oil with Clark, Payne & Company and his knowledge of mechanics and his understanding of the needs in the line of his business enabled him to invent many valuable improvements in the methods of refining oil, which inventions he patented. He also made improvements on the furnaces and on the machinery used in the manufacture of oil barrels. So great were the advantages resulting from the use of his inventions that the business of Clark, Payne & Company rapidly outstripped all competitors and finally they united with several of the chief refiners of this section of the country to form the Standard Oil Company. Mr. Huntington acquired a handsome fortune but, never hoarding his gains for selfish purposes, he gave freely in charitable and benevolent lines and also became interested in other business enterprises which were of substantial benefit in upbuilding the city. In 1886 he engaged successfully in lake shipping and became part owner of a large fleet of vessels. He was also extensively interested in the Cleveland Stone Company and became its vice president. Unlike the great majority of the prominent and successful business men of the present day, he did not regard participation in the p0litical interests of his city as beneath him but on the contrary regarded it as a duty as well as the privilege of every American citizen to share in the work of promoting the welfare of city, state and country through the avenue of politics. He became actively interested in municipal affairs and at an early day entered the city council, where by reelection he was retained for many years and was connected with the inception and carrying out of the plans for many of the public works of Cleveland. He was always a firm believer in a brilliant future for the city and his labors at all times looked to the growth and development of Cleveland while also promoting practical reform. In 1872 he introduced the resolution in the city council for the appointment of a committee to take into consideration the construction of a bridge across the river at Superior street. The resolution was adopted and he was appointed to serve on the committee having in charge the construction of the bridge. He continued in the council for thirteen years, beginning in 1862, and always stood HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 371 for substantial improvements such as paving streets, developing the sewer system, building bridges, advancing the water supply and introducing steam fire engines. He was also one of the promoters of the Lake View park and the Superior street viaduct. His labors were at all times practical and he was ever a man of action rather than of theory, accomplishing results while others were still forming plans. In 1852 Mr. Huntington was united in marriage to Miss Jane Beck, of Preston, England, and that year they sailed for the new world. As the years passed four children were added to the family : Mrs. A. C. Hord, William R., Mrs. H. P. Smith and Mrs. E. A. Merritt, all of Cleveland. Following the death of his first wife Mr. Huntington wedded Mrs. Mariet L. Goodwin, a daughter of Talmage W. Leek, of Cleveland. The death of Mr. Huntington occurred in London, England, January 10, 1893. Four years before in 1889 he established a permanent fund to be known as the John Huntington Benevolent Trust and placed the sum of two hundred thousand dollars in the hands of a committee, which he selected. The income was to be divided between nineteen public institutions of charitable and educational character, and today no less than forty diffrent charities of the city are benefitted yearly through the Huntington Benevoplent Trust. He also gave a certain per cent of the income from his estate during the life time of his children and at their death a definite amount of property for an art gallery and an evening polytechnic schools. He foresaw the needs of the city along these as well as many other lines and made provision therefor. His residence in America covered almost fifty years and during that period he made substantial progress. He wisely chose as the place of his residence a land where history is making, a country whose natural resources have not been developed to their full extent, as is the case in many districts of the old world, but where the wealth of its advantages is hardly yet realized. He took his part in shaping the destiny of the city with which he became identified, utilized his opportunities for the development of natural resources and as the years passed, in the control of his business interests, reached a place among the millionaire residents of Cleveland and won a firm hold on the affection of his fellow townsmen by reason of the many generous deeds which he did for the benefit of those needing his assistance. Thus among the names of the most honored dead of Cleveland is inscribed that of John Huntington. JOHN MATTHEW CHAPMAN. John Matthew Chapman, general manager at Cleveland of the Crandall Packing Company of Palmyra, New York, was both November 25, 1858, in Macedon, Wayne county, New York, his parents being Robert and Anna (Wigglesworth) Chapman. At the usual age he began his education as a district. school pupil and was employed about home until twenty years of age, when he started out to make his own way in the world, going to St. Louis, Missouri, where he spent five years in the employ of Cox & Gordon as clerk and foreman. On the expiration of that period he continued his westward journey to Leadville, Colorado, and became chainman and levelman on the construction of the Colorado Midland Railway. He remained for three years and then returned to Palmyra, New York, where he acted as salesman for the Garlock Packing Company. For fifteen years he continued there, working his way upward to the position of traveling salesman, and from 1898 until 1906 he was manager of the Cleveland branch of the business. In the latter year he resigned to become manager for the Crandall Packing Company at Cleveland and is occupying that position at the present writing. It is one of responsibility, involving keen foresight and careful management, and the house numbers him among its most worthy and capable representatives. 372 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND In 1894 Mr. Chapman led to the marriage altar Miss Anna E. Cunningham, a native of Sodus, New York, and of English descent. Mr. Chapman belongs to the Masonic lodge at Palmyra, New York, has also taken the degrees of capitular, cryptic and chivalric Masonry, and is a member of the Knights of Maccabees. His political endorsement is given to the republicans and, while he neither seeks nor desires office as a reward for party fealty, he keeps well informed on the questions and issues of the day and at all times is a public-spirited citizen, interested in the general welfare and especially in that of the city in which he makes his home. His business record had a humble beginning, and placing his dependence on no 0utside aid or influence he has worked upward through his ability and enterprise until he has become well known in the business circles of Cleveland. HERMAN FRIEDMAN. In contemplating the life history of such a man as Herman Friedman, one is reminded of the words of Charles Sumner, who said, "Peace bath her victories no less renowned than war." In an active business career Herman Friedman has steadily worked his way upward and has come up conqueror in the strife, whenever he has had to contend with competition, hardships and difficulties which seemed to block his path. He is today the president of the Friedman, Blau & Farber Company, conducting the most extensive knitting business in Cleveland and the largest 0f its class in the United States. Four hundred and fifty people find employment in his factories, while his goods are shipped to all parts of the country. Mr. Friedman was born in Hungary, May 17, 1855, and is the son of Simon and Marie Friedman, both of whom are deceased. Their family numbered five sons : Nathan, a resident of St. Louis ; Jacob, who is living m New York ; Henry, who is living in Sioux City, Iowa ; David, a retired manufacturer of Cleveland; and Herman. The last named was educated in the schools of Hungary to his seventeenth year, when in 1872 he bade adieu to friends and native country and sailed for the United States, attracted by the opportunities of the new world. Having resolved to seek a home and fortune on the western continent, he located at Elkhart, Indiana, and there completed his education, after which he went to Coldwater. Michigan, in 1874, and engaged in the dry-goods business as a clerk. He was faithful and diligent and also economical so that he soon became proprietor of the business, which under his capable guidance steadily increased in volume and importance until he sold out in March, 1883. At that time he sought the broader opportunities of the city and came to Cleveland, where he established a knitting factory under the firm name of H. Friedman & Company. The beginning was small, for he had but two rooms in a building at St. Clair and Bank streets, The enterprise proved a growing one from the beginning, and he found at the end of the year that quarters were too small and removed to St. Clair street near Bank, where he used two entire floors and one-half of another to accommodate the growing business. In 1887 he removed to a building erected for the company by General Barnett on Bank street, and there continuous development of the trade made it necessary for him to add another building at a later date. There they continued until 1903, when they removed to their present modern factory at Perkins and East Thirty-seventh streets. Theirs was the first fancy knitting mill west of Philadelphia and today does the largest knitting business in Cleveland and is the largest of this class in the United States. Something of the growth of the business is indicated in the fact that four hundred and fifty operatives are now employed in the factory, while a large selling force is maintained in this city and on the road. The excellence of the output, the reasonable prices and the HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 373 reliability of the trade relations have been the chief forces in the success of the house, which is now one of the leading productive industries of Cleveland and has largely set the standard for enterprises of this character in the United States. Mr. Friedman also has various outside interests. He is a director of the American Lace Company at Elyria, Ohio, and is financially represented in many corporations. On the 10th of July, 1893, Mr. Friedman was married to Miss Lena Blau, the daughter of Samuel and Katherine Blau. Mrs. Friedman was born December 6, 1862, and died June 27, 1908, leaving two children : Sidney S., who was educated in the Central high school and the Western Reserve University and is now associated with his father in business, and Rema M., who attended the Central high school and Wellesley College, near Boston, Massachusetts. The family residence is at No. 2417 East Fortieth street. Mr. Friedman manifests his appreciation of the social amenities of life in his membership in the Excelsior and Oakw00d Clubs. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, and he belongs to Willson Avenue Temple church and to various Masonic bodies. His leisure hours are largely devoted to motoring and fishing, and he also is fond of good literature, having a large library, which contains many choice volumes. In his life continuous activity has been accorded due recognition, and his intelligently directed labor has placed him in a notable position in commercial circles in Cleveland. THOMAS ALBERT TARBET. Thomas Albert Tarbet, whose labors as a plaster contractor largely set the standard for work of that character in Cleveland, was born at Teele on the Isle of Man, July 22, 1848. He was a son of John Tarbet, who was a plasterer, and instructed his son in that work. He learned plain and ornamental plastering under his father at the age of fourteen years and afterward went to Liverpool, England, where he completed his trade, attaining a high degree of skill in that line of work. He was twenty-one years of age when he arrived in Cleveland, and with the business interests of the city he was thereafter closely associated. He worked at his trade in the employ of others for about five years and then commenced business for himself. As the result of his perseverance, energy and capability as the years passed he became one of the largest contractors in his line in the country, doing work in many of the finest buildings in this and other cities. Under contract he did the plastering and interior finishing in the Lakeside Hospital, the Williamson, Electric and Hickok buildings, also in the buildings of the Society for Savings, the American Trust Company building, the Petty Payne building, the Osborn and Lennon buildings, the Colonial Arcade, the Hollenden Hotel, St. Francis and St. Columbkills churches in Cleveland and two other large churches at McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania. He also had the plastering contract for many other churches and buildings throughout the state. He completed the Erie County Bank at Buffalo, the Newburg Asylum and the Warrensville buildings for the city of Cleveland. He enjoyed an especially high reputation in connection with his work in churches, and thus his services were in continual demand, calling him to various sections of the country. On the 18th of May, 1875, Mr. Tarbet was united in marriage to Miss Emma Sayles, also a native of the Isle of Man, and they became the parents of six children: Gertrude, now the wife of Frank Faber ; Emma, the wife of Ira S. Gifford ; Douglas ; Alice, the wife of W. W. Corlett ; Estelle ; and one who is deceased. Mr. Tarbet was a very prominent member of the Builders Exchange. He gave his political allegiance to the republican party and fraternally was connected with the Masons. He was also a member of the Monas Relief Society, providing for its own poor people. He was a most charitable man, his benevolent spirit prompting 374 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND his generous assistance to those in need, and at all times he was ready to extend a helping hand. He was also public spirited, and his endorsement was given to the various measures for the welfare and progress of Cleveland. He died very suddenly on the 7th of April, 1909, and his death was the occasion of deep regret not only to his own household but in business circles and in various associations which have numbered him as a member. Mrs. Tarbet is still living in Cleveland and for a number of years has been a very active and prominent w0rker in the Willson Avenue Presbyterian church. JASON A. BIDWELL. Prominent along the lines of manufacturing that are a phase of the iron industry and have contributed largely to Cleveland's industrial growth for more than a third of a century is the business of screw manufacturing, and to no individual is there so much credit due for the establishment and development of this industry as to the gentleman whose name heads this review—Jason A. Bidwell, who may justly be termed the father of this industry in Cleveland. He was born December 17, 1830, in the town of Landaff, New Hampshire, a son 0f Jason and Sally (Peck) Bidwell. The father was born in Lebanon, New Hampshire, March 3, 1782, a son of Nathaniel Bidwell, whose wife was a Miss Bigsby. Nathaniel Bidwell was descended from John Bidwell, one of the early settlers and a landholder of Hartford, Connecticut, in 1639. It is believed that nearly all bearing the name of Bidwell in this country are descendants of this John. The family is one of high standing and is connected by marriage with many eminent families, among whom may be mentioned that of President Stiles, of Yale University. The mother of Jason A. Bidwell was a daughter of Truman Peck, a soldier of the Revolution. The marriage of James Bidwell and Sally Peck was celebrated at Grafton, New Hampshire, in 1807, and the following July they started with an 0x-team and their household effects for Littleton, New Hampshire, a town then but recently granted to new settlers. At that time it was a wilderness of pine forest, including the finest specimens of that kind of timber to be found in America, many of the trees being five feet in diameter and reaching a height of one hundred to one hundred and fifty feet before there was a knot or limb. There the Bidwell family lived for sixteen years, undergoing the hardships and privations incident to pioneer life and forming habits of industry, frugality and uprightness which made marked impression on their posterity. In 1823 they removed t0 Landaff, where Jason A. Bidwell was born. In 1835 he accompanied his parents to. Frartconia, where he resided until fourteen years of age, when he left home and entered the business field, wherein he has since labored with ceaseless activity, usefulness and credit. Although his pecuniary aid was decidedly limited, but few men have met with more success in their undertakings. In 1844, with the enthusiasm common to youth and with the determination and courage rarely met with in one so young, and with intelligent ideas and possibilities of life, he laid the foundation for his later success by becoming an apprentice to the E. & T. Fairbanks Company of St. Johnsbury, Vermont. There. working fourteen hours a day, he learned the blacksmith's trade, his compensation being a Yankee shilling equivalent to sixteen and two-thirds cents as a day's wage. This barely enabled him to meet the necessities of life but the boy was possessed of a firm determination to master the trade in all its details and make his life one of usefulness. He eagerly improved his opportunities, receiving his instruction from a master workman. At that time the Fairbanks Company was just beginning the manufacture of scales, which required large amounts of screws which were imported from England, received at Boston and transferred to St. Johnsbury, about four weeks being required to make the round trip from Boston to St. Johns- HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 377 bury. This was tedious and expensive and the firm determined upon manufacturing to own screws. Mr. Bidwell was set to work in that department where he had to cut the wire, heat one end in a common blacksmith fire, upset the head, trim off the burrs and cut the slot and the thread, all by hand—work that is entirely done by machinery today. His apprenticeship covered seven years, after which he engaged himself to the firm for another year as a journeyman, receiving one dollar per day for his services. At the end of that time, in 1852, he went to Providence, Rhode Island, in which busy manufacturing city, guided by men of experience, his active brain and natural adaptability to mechanical pursuits enabled him to stand well to the front with the best mechanics and artisans of that time. The opportunity was his and he eagerly embraced it, his inventive genius and abilities finding full scope in his connection with the screw business, then in its infancy. The development of the screw industry is an interesting chapter in the history of invention and manufacture in America. All the screws that are now made in America, and in the old world also, are made on machinery invented by American mechanics. No one man, however, can lay claim to all the inventions which have taken this industry out of the realm of hand-labor and given it over into the tireless hand of the steam engine. At the present day all the operations of manufacturing wood and machine screws are performed by automatic machines ; that is, the coil of wire is placed upon a reel and is automatically manipulated by three distinct machines, until it is delivered by the last machine a perfect screw. The machines are: first, heading; second, shaving and cutting the slot ; third, forming the thread. With much of this machinery Mr. Bidwell has been identified, either as inventor or in making important improvements, as the records of the patent office at Washington will show. The date of screw manufacturing in this country may be fixed as 1798, when David Wilkinson, of Providence, Rhode Island, and Thomas W. Harvey, of Ramapo, New York, invented their process. Previous to this other mechanics had, from time to time, made attempts to lift the business from hand to an automatic standard, but failed. Not until 1837 (lid the effort bear fruit, and not until 1849 was success achieved in the manufacture of what is now known as the gimlet-pointed wood-screws. Up to this time all, or nearly all, the screws made had the blunt point, and were only in part made by machinery, some of the operations requiring hand-labor. In 1852 the first automatic machine that has proven an entire success was started and has completely revolutionized the manufacture of wood-screws of the world. Screw machinery, like everything else, has had to grow and that, too, from a very small and imperfect beginning. Soon after going to Providence in 1852 Mr. Bidwell became connected with the Eagle Screw Company, manufacturers of wood and machine screws. In 1862 when that concern united with the New England to form the American Screw Company, Mr. Bidwell went to Boston in the employ of the Spencer Rifle Company, having charge of the screw department which was one of the most important positions in the plant. In 1864, when the Boston Screw Company was organized, Mr. Bidwell superintended the work for about a year and then returned to the American Screw Company with which he remained until 1872. He had witnessed a wonderful development in the business of screw manufacturing through the introduction of improved machinery from time to time, also recognizing that a great advantage would be gained for the profits of the business if a location could be obtained nearer coal and iron centers. Accordingly in 1871 he made quite an extended trip to various places in the south and west, returning by way of Cleveland. After looking the ground over thoroughly it became evident to his mind that Cleveland was the most desirable point at which to establish the manufacture of a great industry, and in December, 1871, he entered into the project with all the energy and enthusiasm of his nature. A company was organized under the name of the Union Steel Screw Company, comprised of some of the very strongest men of this city in business and financial circles. It is doubtful if any industrial concern was ever organized in Cleveland with a more able board 378 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND of directors : Stillman Witt, president ; William Chisholm, vice president; J, A. Bidwell, architect, engineer and general superintendent ; Henry Chisholm, H. C. Payne, J. H. Wade, Sr., Fayette Brown and Robert Hanna. Mr. Bidwell took up his residence in Cleveland in 1872, the year the Union Steel Screw Company began business, and through the following thirty-four years, or until 1906, the history of that concern is the record of the business activity of Jason A. Bidwell. It was he who planned and carried into execution; he was the "main girder" in the structure, the moving power, who gave to the business in all its branches guidance, direction, life and energy. The important position he held in a large industrial plant required tact, ability, skill, judgment and decision of the very highest order. That he met fully and completely all demands of this character is best shown by the following: "On motion of Mr. H. B. Payne : Resolved, That the Board desire to place on record their appreciation of the intelligence, skill, diligence and fidelity which have characterized the services of J. A. Bidwell, during the time he has been in its employ ; as also their entire satisfaction and approval of results of his labors which have thus far justified and fulfilled all the expectations and promises made by him at the commencement of the enterprise." This was entered upon the records of the Union Screw Company, June 6, 1874. For a number of years prior to his retirement from active business in 1906 Mr. Bidwell had been recognized as one of the most widely informed men in America in his line of business. Despite his years of intense activity he is a remarkably well preserved man, active in mind and body, a man of attractive address, a superior conversationalist, genial and social in nature and worthy of the highest esteem. His friends are numbered among the most prominent citizens of Cleveland. The acquaintance which he formed in this city was the cause of his portrait being painted and placed in the rooms of the Western Reserve Historical Society in recognition of his worth as a citizen. At Warren, Rhode Island, in 1858, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Bidwell and Miss Harriett N. Simmons, a daughter of Jonathan R. Simmons, a carriage manufacturer of that town. One son, Oria N., has been born t0 them. Following in his father's footsteps he has also engaged in the manufacture of screws. He married Miss Lucella Randall, of Providence, Rhode Island, and they have one daughter, Hope, who is fifteen years of age. Mr. Bidwell is a member of the Engineers Club, which he helped t0 organize, while fraternally he is a Knight Templar, belonging to St. John's Commandery, No. 1, of Providence, Rhode Island. While still an apprentice at school and but fifteen years of age, he joined the Sons of Temperance and has ever been a strict observer of his pledge given then. Politically he is independent of party allegiance taking an active interest in public affairs and voting for men or measures as he believes best for the commonwealth. Such in general outline is the history of Jason A. Bidwell, a man whose activities have wrought for good not only to his own benefit but also to the welfare of the public. He has been a champion of progressive measures which have been the motive force of Cleveland's industrial and business development, and since his retirement has applied his energy and working power to wider and more impersonal interests bearing upon phases of municipal progress and philanthropic activity. WILLIAM HENRY LAMPRECHT. William Henry Lamprecht, holding a position of distinctive precedence as a financier of Cleveland, has throughout his long connection with banking interests stood as an honored representative of a department of activity that has ever been a most important factor in conserving the business development and progress of every community. While today at the head of the banking house of Lamprecht HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 379 Brothers & Company, he is through investment and official service also connected with many other leading business concerns of the city that are substantial forces in its industrial and commercial growth. Ohio numbers him among her native sons. his birth having occurred at Cardington, Morrow county, January I, 1851. He comes of German ancestry prominently represented through several generations in the Lutheran ministry. His father, William Frederick Lamprecht, was born in the city of Pforzheim, in Baden, Germany, in 1825. Holding political views in accordance with those of the monarchical party in the revolutionary times of 1848, he determined to seek a home in the new world and sailed for America in 1849, He was married a year later to Charlotte Kelley, of York county, Pennsylvania, who was of German and Scotch descent. In the early period of their married life they removed to Cardington, Ohio, where for many years the father conducted a profitable business. William H. Lamprecht, the eldest of four sons, spent his youthful days in his native town and mastered the branches of learning taught in the public schools there, manifesting special aptitude in his studies. He left the high school at the age of fifteen years to make his initial step in the business world, and throughout his entire career he has been connected with banking. His first employment was in the First National Bank of Cardington, where he remained until the fall of 1867, when he felt that his capital, saved from his earnings, was sufficient to justify him in his long cherished hope of pursuing a college course. Accordingly he entered Oberlin College but later was persuaded to return temporarily to the Cardington Bank in the capacity of assistant cashier. He had thus served for a year, when he resigned and became a student in the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, where he continued until he had almost completed the course, having in the meantime, however, devoted some months to teaching in the grammar school of his native town. The persistency of purpose which Mr. Lamprecht displayed in pursuing college course has characterized his business career as well and has carried him into important commercial and financial relations. He had almost completed his college work when a favorable opening in business led him to put aside his text-books and enter mercantile circles in Cardington, Ohio, as proprietor of a hardware store. After conducting business there for two years he continued in the same line of trade at Mount Gilead, Ohio, and then came to Cleveland in 1874 to accept the position of cashier with the South Cleveland Banking Company, since which time he has been a resident of this city, his developing business powers and constantly expanding financial interests bringing him to a position of distinction in financial circles of the city. On the incorporation of the South Cleveland Banking Company in 1874 he became a director, secretary and treasurer, remaining in those capacities until the year 1882, his varied and broadening experience well equipping him for the step which he next took in organizing the private banking firm of Lamprecht, Hayes & Company. Through the succeeding years the firm conducted an ex- tensive and important business, the success being attributable in large measure to the keen discernment, indefatigable energy and resolute purpose of Mr. Lamprecht. In January, 1886, he withdrew from that connection and became associated with a brother and an uncle in organizing the banking house of Lamprecht Brothers & Company. He has since remained at the head of this institution, controlling its affairs with signal ability and unusual success. His judgment has come to be regarded as practically infallible concerning the complex problems of banking and finance, for his progressiveness is tempered by a safe conservatism and based upon a thorough understanding of the conditions of the money market and the business principles involved. As the years have passed Mr. Lamprecht has extended his efforts into other lines which have benefitted by the stimulus of his activity and enterprise and profited by his clear discernment. He is the vice president of the National Refining Company, president of the Conneaut Water Company, a director of the South Cleveland Banking Company, the Cleveland & Southwestern Traction Company, the 380 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND East Ohio Traction Company, the Cleveland, Youngstown & Eastern Railway Company, the Oberlin Gas & Electric Company and the Northern Oil Company. He is also a member of the Cleveland stock exchange and of the New York stock exchange. Since 1873 Mr. Lamprecht has been identified with Masonry and has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite. He is one of the charter members of Baker Chapter, R. A. M., and for a long period was chairman of the finance committee of Oriental Commandery, K. T. He is independent m his religious views, holding largely to the ideas of the Emersonian school. His political faith is that of the republican party and, unlike many men who are prominent in business life, he has never been neglectful of the duties and obligation of citizenship but on the contrary has put forth effective and earnest service in both an official and private capacity for the welfare of the community and the advancement of municipal interests. In 1880 he was elected a member of the city council and during his service acted as chairman of the committee on street railways and a member of the finance committee. A contemporary biographer has said of him: "Mr. Lamprecht possesses strong mental attributes and a philosophical cast of mind, enriched by liberal education and close habits of study and research. He reads and speaks the German language with fluency and is a recognized authority on the classic literature of that country, while his naturally refined tastes bear the impress of the culture of the student and thinker." JAY P. DAWLEY. Jay P. Dawley, of equal fame in criminal and civil law, having devoted the earlier years of his practice to the former department of jurisprudence and later years to the latter, was born in Ravenna, Portage county, Ohio, March 7, 1847. His father, Perry P. Dawley, is also a native of Ravenna, born in 1823, and comes of an old family that for generations has been represented in America but is originally of Scotch and English lineage, one of the Dawleys having been a chieftain of a Scotch clan. For a considerable period the family was represented in New England, the birth of Daniel Dawley, the grandfather, occurring in Vermont. He was a farmer by occupation and, leaving New England, removed to Ravenna, Ohio, being one of its earliest settlers. There Perry P. Dawley was reared and became a farmer of Portage county, devoting his life to agricultural pursuits. He also filled the position of county commissioner for many years and was a man of considerable local prominence. He wedded Rebecca Clements, who was born about 1820 and died in 1850. She, too, belonged to an old New England family that for generations was represented in Massachusetts and Connecticut. Jay P. Dawley was educated in the Union school at Ravenna, Ohio, and in the Western Reserve College at Hudson, Ohio, and in September, 1873, was admitted to the bar on passing an examination before a committee that was appointed by the circuit court, as was the custom in those days. He at once entered upon the active practice of law, forming a partnership with Silas M. Stone, under the firm style •of Dawley & Stone. For three years this relation was maintained, after which Mr. Stone went to New York and Mr. Dawley subsequently joined Judge J. K. and A. C. Hord in the firm of Hord, Dawley & Hord. This continued until 1882, when the firm of Foran & Dawley was formed, the partnership existing for twelve years, or until 1894. Mr. Dawley was afterward for a short period in partnership with ex-Mayor MCKisson, since which time he has been alone. He has ranked as one of the foremost criminal lawyers at the Cleveland bar and of late years has enjoyed a large practice in civil law. His early reputation, however, was made in the branch of criminal law and he advises young men to follow the same course that he pursued, believing that the defense of the liberties of the citizen well qualifies one to understand the best methods of defending HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 383 the property rights. It is more difficult to practice criminal than civil law, for in the former one must be constantly on the alert and on his guard all the time. Many cases with which he has been connected have attracted widespread attention and he has probably acted for the defense in more murder cases than any other lawyer of Cleveland and has been very successful in his practice. He was the principal counsel in the Cassie Chadwick case, being attorney for Mrs. Chadwick and was also one of the leading attorneys in the case of determining the constitutionality of the liquor laws of Ohio in 1884. He acted for the defense in the Moran murder case, Moran being accused of the murder of Fox and Blakesley on Christmas eve of 1891. He was convicted of murder in the second degree but was afterward pardoned. In later years Mr. Dawley has withdrawn somewhat from the department of criminal law practice and has given his attention more to corporation law and the trial of important civil cases. For a number of years he has been one of the attorneys of the Cleveland Electric Railway Company and was one of the counsel for Olga Nethersole in her libel case against the Cleveland Leader. These are but a few of many important cases with which he has been and is now connected. He does all his own briefing and prepares his cases himself, employing no assistants in the office and therefore going to the trial thoroughly prepared with comprehensive personal understanding of every point bearing upon the cause. He has endeavored in recent years to retire somewhat from active practice but finds it difficult to do so because of the persistent demands of would-be clients for his services. He is a member of the Cleveland Bar Association and the profession as well as the general public accord him high rank as one of the most prominent representatives of the legal fraternity of Cleveland. Mr. Dawley is entitled to wear the Grand Army button from the fact that on the 19th of May, 1864, when but seventeen years of age, he offered his services to the government and became a private of Company C, Eleventh Ohio Infantry. He acted as an orderly on the staff of General Jefferson C. Davis, who was a cousin of Jefferson Davis of the southern Confederacy. He remained with the army for a year, taking part in the Atlanta campaign, the march to the sea under Sherman and the battle of Goldsboro. He was mustered out in May, 1865, and participated in the grand review, the most celebrated military pageant ever seen on the western hemisphere. He has always been active in support of measures pertaining to the municipal welfare but is a lawyer and not a politician, never seeking nor desiring the rewards of office for his political allegiance, which is unfalteringly given to the republican party. He has, however, done valuable service for the city in various ways, including four years as a member of the board of education and also as a member of the library board. These offices, however, are not of a political character and in many other tangible ways has he given proof of his public spirit. On the 12th of September, 1873, Mr. Dawley was united in marriage to Miss Iva G. Canfreld, a daughter of Harrison and Lydia (Frarey) Canfield, of Corry, Pennsylvania. Unto them have been born four children. Frances C., a graduate of Miss Middleberg's Seminary of Cleveland and educated in music and modern languages in Germany and France, is now the wife of Harry L. Shafer, of Los Angeles, California, and has one child, Lee. William J., a graduate of the Harvard Law School of 1908, is now assisting his father in practice. Arthur A., is a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy of Massachusetts and is now a senior of Adelbert College of Ohio. Ruby Louise, was educated in Mary Baldwin Seminary of Virginia. The wife and mother, who was born in October, 1850, died October 6, 1900. Mr. Dawley is a member of the Cleveland Yacht Club and of the Masonic fraternity, and his son William is the youngest thirty-second degree Mason in the state. He is the possessor of one of the finest private libraries m Cleveland of a general character, embracing science, biography and general literature and he also has a fine law library. His leisure hours are largely devoted to reading and he is particularly fond of writers of standard fiction, his favorite author being 384 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND Dickens. He greatly enjoys the interpretation of character as presented by the leading authors of ancient and modern times and his reading along scientific lines has been equally broad and varied. He is a man of broad general culture as well as marked ability in the profession of law and finds his friends in those social circles where intellectuality is a necessary attribute to congeniality. ULYSSES G. WALKER. It seems a long step ahead from the position of messenger and office boy to that of bank president, but such is the course which Ulysses G. Walker has followed in an active busmess career which has eventually brought him to a position of distinction in financial circles as the chief executive 0fficer 0f the South Cleveland Banking Company. His record is one entirely creditable t0 this, his native city. He was born February 23, 1865, and is of Scotch lineage, His paternal grandparents were James and Agnes Walker. His father, James Walker, was a native of Scotland, born February 29, 1828, and coming to America in 1848 he was for a time engaged on the construction of the national capitol at Washington, D. C. The year 1857 witnessed his arrival in Cleveland, where he engaged in the stone-contracting business and eventually became an extensive land 0wner, for as he prospered in his undertakings he made judici0us investment in real estate. His fellow townsmen, recognizing his worth and ability, also called him to public office. He served as clerk and treasurer of Newburg township, and such was his capability and fidelity that he was reelected again and again by the combined vote of both parties. At length he turned his attention to the banking busmess and became one of the founders of the South Cleveland Banking Company, having as associates Joseph Turney, Captain C. P. Jewett, Judge E. T. Hamilton and 1. J. Hamilton. For many years prior to his death James Walker served as treasurer and vice president of the company and on the 27th of January, 1897, passed away, honored and respected by all who knew him, for his life had ever been in conformity with the highest standards of upright manhood. His wife, Miriam J. Walker, was born December 28, 1832, and died November 5, 1905. She was the daughter of Spencer J. and Sarah Cullver Warner. Her father settled in Newburg in 1816, was a farmer by occupation and 0ne of the most prominent men of the locality in the early days. Ulysses G. Walker pursued his studies in the old Walnut Street school and in the Central high school but discontinued his course before graduation to enter the service of the South Cleveland Banking Company as messenger and office b0y. He applied himself diligently to the mastery of the tasks assigned him and to the work of familiarizing himself with every phase of the banking business that came in his department, and thus he worked his way upward through all of the subsequent positions, until in 1890 he was appointed assistant treasurer. For nine years he acted in that capacity, was chosen treasurer in 1897 and in 1901 was elected to the presidency, since which time he has remained as the chief executive officer of what is one of the strongest financial institutions m that part of the city. He has completed his thirtieth year in continuous connection with the bank, and his faithful service has been a forceful element in its success, indicating as well his potentiality as a business man. His fertility of resource has led to his active connection with other business interests, and he is now treasurer of the Provident Building & Loan Association, which position he has occupied since its organization in 1893, is a director in the Union National Bank and a director of the National Refining Company. That he is interested in the concerted effort to promote Cleveland's growth along lines of industrial and commercial development and for its improvement and adornment as well is indicated in the fact that he belongs to the Chamber of Commerce. His political support is given to the republican party, but his allegiance thereto does not extend to local elections, HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 385 where no issue is involved. On such occasions he votes independently, regarding the capability of the candidate as the paramount issue. On the 6th of February, 1890, Mr. Walker was united in marriage to Miss Cloe Howe, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Howe, and with their two children, Russell Howe and Margaret, they reside at No. 2034 East Eighty-first street. He is identified with Newburg Lodge A. F. & A. M. of which he is a past master and also associated with the commandery and the consistory and with the Mystic Shrine, while a fine library in his home indicates his literary taste, for therein he finds his chief source of recreation, spending many of his happiest hours in the companionship of the master minds of all ages. JULIUS TIMENDORFER. Julius Timendorfer, a well known representative of real-estate and insurance interests in Cleveland, was born at Rosdin, Silesia, Germany, September 7, 1856, His father, M. Timendorfer, was a teacher in the high school there and later a merchant. He married Henrietta Fischer, who died September 2, 1870, while the father's death occurred in Berlin in 1898. Julius Timendorfer was educated in the pubhc and manual training schools of his native city and Berlin, his parents removing to the German capital when he was twelve years of age. When a youth of fifteen he entered upon an apprenticeship in a small department store, where he served for three years without pay in 0rder to learn the business. He was afterward employed in the same establishment as a clerk for a year and later accepted a clerkship in a silk house at Koenigsburg, where he continued for a year. He next entered into the coal and lumber business with his father in Berlin as city salesman, but he heard the call of the new world, and it proved irresistible. Concluding his arrangements for a trip to the United States, he landed at New York, January 28, 1877, when twenty-one years of age, and first secured employment as a laborer in a coal yard. After ten days he started westward and arrived at Cleveland with but ten cents in his pocket. He then went to work for Lloyd Fisher, a farmer, with whom he remained for three months, after which he spent four months in the Cleveland Rolling Mill. He next became a porter in the employ of Strauss, Miller and Orth but after ten days was promoted to a position of salesman in the calico department, and thirty days later he was advanced to salesman in the dress-goods department, while after ninety elays he took charge of the black goods, silk and cloak departments. His history is another illustration of the fact that true worth and ability will win recognition and secure promotion. He remained with that house for about ten years, or until the fall of 1887, his wages and his responsibilities being proportionately increased from time to time as promotion came to him. When a decade had passed, however, on account of ill health he went west to Onaga, Kansas, where he continued for a year and a half, and then returned to Cleveland. On again locating in this city Mr. Timendorfer opened a grocery store at the corner of Scoville and Kennard streets, where he remained for a year and a half, when he sold out and went into the real-estate business, opening a real-estate and insurance office. He has clone a large brokerage business and has been extensively connected with the erection of many of the extensive business blocks of the city. He was the first broker to operate on Erie street and has made fifty per cent of the sales on that street in the last fifteen years. He has also organized about fourteen corporations in real-estate and manufacturing lines, with some of which he is still connected. Nearly all have proven very successful and are the visible indications of his executive power and careful direction. He is now secretary and manager of the Euclid Building Company, secretary and manager of the Boardman Realty Company, secretary and manager of the Wilson Improvement Company, president, treasurer and manager of the Trio Im- 386 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND provement Company, and director of the Acme Improvement Company, and financially interested in others. He is also president of the Cleveland Real Estate Board. On the 4th of October, 1886, in Cleveland, Mr. Timendorfer was married to Miss Anna Rosenthal, a daughter of Rev. I. Rosenthal, of Stuttgart, Wurtemberg, Germany. They have two daughters, Florence and Irma, aged respectively seventeen and fourteen years. Mr. Timendorfer is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Credit Men's Association and the Business Men's Club, all of which are factors in the city's substantial progress and development. He is likewise connected with the Cleveland Gesangverein, the Masons, the Knights of Pythias, and the Royal Arcanum. His political allegiance is given to the republican party at the polls but otherwise he is not active in its ranks. He is a member of Scoville Avenue Congregational church, is one of the trustees and chairman of the building committee. Since coming t0 America he has advanced steadily step by step in fields of activity, bringing him into prominence in business circles, while his labors, too, have largely been of a character that have promoted public prosperity as well as individual success. SAMUEL ELADSIT WILLIAMSON. Samuel Eladsit Williamson, who stood as a man among men, his splendid intellect and powers as an attorney being well balanced by his literary attainments, his love of all that is beautiful in art and nature and his splendid Christian character, came to be uniformly loved and admired not only in Cleveland, the city of his residence, but throughout the state and in all parts of the country where he was known. His life seemed to be a personification of the qualities which inspired trust, owing to the combination of his spiritual and intellectual gifts and the remarkable purity of his character. His freedom from ostentation or display was the very essence of simplicity but the honor and prominence which he did not demand for himself came to him as the freewill offering of those among whom he lived and labored. A native of Cleveland, Judge Williamson was born April 19, 1844, and was a scion of that fine New England stock which has impressed itself on the entire state of Ohio. Those who knew his honored father and mother could not have been surprised at his successful and useful career, since the qualities that made him what he was he inherited from them. It has been said that some men, perhaps most, create their own 0pportunities while others seem born to them, but in either event opportunity to make a career is all that one's friends can give him ; the rest must be done by himself. Therefore, while Judge Williamson had back of him an ancestry honored and distinguished, it was the simple weight of his own character and ability that carried him through important relations. His estimate of his father, Samuel Williamson, indicates not only the true character of his sire but also the filial devotion and respect entertained for him by Judge Williamson, who, in an introductory note to a memorial volume, said: "Samuel Williamson was so long a resident of Cleveland, he was known to so many people, so many public and private trusts had been committed to his faithful care, he had given freely so much needed counsel and help, he was so universally regarded as a model of uprightness, and so many men and women looked up to him with loving reverence, that it has been thought worth while to preserve for others as well as for his own family some of the words that were written and spoken of him in the clays following his death. It must not be forgotten, however, that language befitting a public occasion, or the newspaper, could not tell what he was in his own home and to those who lived in his love." It was in association with and under the guidance 0f such a man that Judge Williams0n spent his y0uthful days and, having attended the public schools until HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 389 sixteen years of age, he then entered Western Reserve College, at which institution he studied until 1864, when he was graduated with honors. After the completion of his college course he read law under the direction of his father for about a year and a half and then matriculated in Harvard Law School. A year's study enabled him to complete the prescribed course, after which he was admitted to the bar in the same year—1866. With a mind naturally analytical, logical and inductive and early imbued with the ambition to become a successful lawyer, he entered upon active practice in connection with his father in February, 1867. The partnership between them was maintained until 1869, when the son became professionally associated with T. K. Bolton under the firm style of Williamson & Bolton. That partnership was terminated in 1874 and for six years thereafter Judge Williamson practiced as a partner of Judge J. E. Ingersoll, this relation being severed when Mr. Williamson was elected to the common pleas bench in 1880. He presided as judge over the court until September, 1882, when he resigned from the bench to become general counsel for the Nickel Plate Railroad. For years he held that position, during which time his ability as a lawyer became widely recognized in railroad circles. His comprehensive knowledge of corporation law and especially of that relating to railway interests led to his selection as the legal representative of the Vanderbilt system of railroads and he became associated therewith as general counsel. At the time of his demise, when the bar association of Cleveland met to take action concerning his death, Hon. John C. Hale said: "He came to the bar in 1867, thoroughly equipped by his intellectual endowment and his accurate knowledge of the law. His first work at the bar was that of a general practitioner in this city, where he soon attained a marked success. His professional work during the first years of his practice was such as to place him in the ranks of the good lawyers of the state. His unswerving integrity, his power of analysis, with the intuitive ability to judge the character of men, and the confidence he always inspired in both court and jury, made him a formidable trial lawyer, and as a safe and wise counselor he had no superior. The details of his work cannot be here recited ; it was efficient and effective. No client's cause was ever neglected by him or poorly represented. It was my pleasure on many occasions to listen to his arguments in cases involving important questions of law, and observe his methods and his power. After more than ten years at the bar he was selected as one of the judges of the court of common pleas of this county. No better man ever occupied the bench of that court. His knowledge of law, his logical and discriminating mind, his innate love of justice fitted him for, and he was in fact, an ideal judge. At the close of two years he left the bench to assume other and very important duties which were to be entrusted to him. Increasing demands upon his professional services followed. Although much of his time was employed in his duties as general counsel for one of the great railroads of the country, he still found time for the general practice and was of ten engaged in important litigation ; and more than that, he took the time to advise, counsel and assist, without compensation, many who turned to him in their troubles for aid. Step by step he advanced in his professional work, until during the last four years of his life he held and, except when disabled by sickness, fully performed the duties of a position second in importance to none in the county in the line of his profession. His entire professional work was performed with credit to himself and profit to his clients. He was self-reliant, and to this much of his success is clue. He had, with entirely good reason, confidence in his own judgment. He reached conclusions by methods which rarely led him astray, and when his judgment was once formed he had no hesitation in following it. This is characteristic of great men, a class to which he belonged." Hon. Carlos M. Stone, judge of the common pleas court, added the further testimony.: "His election to the common pleas bench of this county, in 1880, met with universal aproval and satisfaction, for his eminent fitness and high integrity were recognized and appreciated by all. His career upon the bench was brief, for at the end of about two years of distinguished service rendered to the people 390 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND of this judicial district, he resigned his position to accept the general counselship of one of the great railway lines of the country. While his judicial career was short, it was characterized by an intense desire to arrive at the truth and entirely satisfy the great ends of justice, united with firmness and courage under all emergencies to do the right as it was given him to perceive it. "His mind, as it appeared to me, accomplished its labors with an ease that appeared like repose, and great burdens borne by him seemed light. He was deliberate and calm in forming opinions. Patient and untiring in research, he weighed every consideration and aimed only at the truth. Like most strong natures, he was simple and direct. I have seen no judge whose intellectual processes were more utterly free from the influence of personal passi0ns and sentiments." "As a trial judge," said John G. White, "he was one of the best whom I have known. Business was closed up ; questions were decided promptly ; and although himself one of the best triers of fact whom I have ever known upon the bench, he did not usurp the province of the jury. He recognized that the unanimous opinion of twelve men, even though singly they might be far inferior in judgment to the court, was worthy of consideration, even from the highest. Though well equipped, though learned and acute, he recognized that counsel who had studied a case, though inferi0r in ability, might still have something to say which the most able judge might profit by. When he went off the bench to assume imp0rtant professional duties, he still continued to grow in professional attainments and in general estimation. No 0ne would say of him that he was a great advocate. He had not the tricks of elocution nor the graces of rhetoric, and yet in the trial of a case to a jury he carried unusual weight ; the candor of his speech, the care and precision with which he never overstated his case, the weight of his character, carried force and conviction to the mind of every man upon the jury. In addressing courts, discussing questions of law, nobody who has spoken here today has spoken too highly of the clearness, of the knowledge, with which he made evident to the court his conclusions, the reasons why the court should coincide with him." Judge Williamson's home life was largely the embodiment of that which was most ideal in such relations. He was twice married, having in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1878, wedded Miss Mary P. Marsh, a sister of the late Professor 0. C. Marsh, a distinguished instructor in geology at Yale University. They became parents of two daughters, Mary Peabody and Ethel Marsh. The mother died in 1881 and in 1884 Judge Williamson married Miss Harriet W. Brown, of East Windsor, Connecticut. They had one son, Samuel Bartlett Williamson. During his youthful days the Williamson home was located on the present site of the Williamson building on the public square and throughout his entire life Judge Williamson continued a resident of Cleveland, his last days being spent at the family home on the lake front in Glenville, where a commodious and tasteful residence stands in the midst of a wide- lawn adorned with stately trees, beautiful winding walks and numerous beds of flowers. Judge William B. Sanders said of him: "To no man was home more dear, and in the delights of home and family found he the greatest joy. He was a lover of nature and never happier than when amid the rocks and crags of Alpine scenery, expressive of that which is grand and strong, or amid the softness and quiet of mellow landscape, expressive of that which is gentle and lovable in nature's household. "He was possessed of mice literary taste, and found pleasure and recreation in the delightful atmosphere of his well selected library. In him the art of the musician, the painter and the sculptor found intelligent response, and at home and abroad he had cultivated acquaintance with all which is best m art." The cause of education at all times commanded the active, helpful support of Judge Williamson. A graduate of Adelbert College, he never suffered the tie that bound him to his alma mater to be loosened but soon after his graduation was elected a member of its board of trustees and so continued until his death, evincing to the very last a keen interest in its welfare. At the time of the discussion of the HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 391 question of the removal of the school from Hudson to Cleveland that it might enter into a larger life, he strongly advocated the removal and gave time, energy and wise counsel toward securing its success. He also advocated sanely and cogently the wisdom of separating the two sexes and establishing a college for women as a part of the university, allowing each college to work out its future in its own unhampered way. The growth of each college since that time testifies to the soundness of his reasoning. In each and every educational or administrative problem that was met with, his colleagues on the board of trustees seemed instinctively and naturally to turn to Judge Williamson for advice and his clearness of vision and wise judgment never failed to point out the way in which his associates were glad to follow him. He became one of the prime movers in the organization of the University School in 1890 and from that time until his demise acted as president of the board of trustees. He watched with interest its gradual development and lent his generous assistance to raise it to the highest standard. In the duties of citizenship Judge Williamson was at all times alert and active in the advocacy of that which he judged best in civic life. He was, moreover, a liberal-minded man of affairs—in touch with varied lines of industry and commercial activity. He acted on the directorate of the Merchants Bank of Ohio, as the successor of his father, who in turn had been preceded in the directorate by the grandfather of Judge Williamson at a time when the institution was known as the Commercial Bank of Lake Erie. He would have stood in the foremost rank in any business calling as easily as he became primate among his associates at the bar. He was also a member of the board of trustees of the Society for Savings in Cleveland and he was likewise identified with various corporate interests. He became a director and vice president of several of the corporations connected with the New York Central's system of railroads and he was also a director of the Western Reserve Trust Company. Judge Williamson long held membership in the Presbyterian church and in his faithful adherence thereto was found the real motive spring of his character and his conduct. He was the president of the First Presbyterian Society of Cleveland, and to the church of his chosen allegiance he was for years a pillar of strength for all which made for her success in good works. He took an active interest in the various movements which have their rise in the Christian religion and its teachings concerning humanity. He was one of the trustees and a liberal donor to the Lakeside hospital, giving generously thereto of his time and money. His name is associated with the beautiful park and boulevard system of Cleveland as one of its most energetic projectors and friends. The place which he held in the community is perhaps not better illustrated than by his repeated selection as a testamentary executor or trustee. Estates, great and small, were for years, with striking frequency, left to his keeping. He was named in the Huntington will as one of the executors and trustees of the munificent sum which was left-for charity and art in this city. Judge Williamson was also truly appreciative of the social amenities of life. He found pleasant association in the Union Club, Country, Golf and Castalia Clubs of Cleveland, in the Metropolitan, the University and Transportation Clubs of New York and in St. Andrews Golf Club of Westchester county, New York. He was also a member of the American, Ohio State and the Cleveland Bar Associations and the Association of the Bar of New York. He was also a member of the Eastern Railroad Association and served on its executive committee and when he was called from this life the association placed upon its records a minute that was a fitting memorial to his business ability and his worth as a man. There was in Judge Williamson not only great ability but a peculiar fineness of moral fiber, utter abhorrence of all sham and wrong doing, a Christian faith that deepened with the years and was the secret of all that he was and did ; and a strength of affection that was the marvel while it was the most precious possession of the inner circle of his friends and more especially of his own family. His broadness of vision on all matters was often remarked upon by men high in pro- 392 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND fessional life. High above all intellectual capacities and legal attainments there towered in him a singular power of character. Able as he was and equal to every position of life in which he was placed, his character seemed as simple and transparent as a child's. With him everything was open, direct, unaffected. "We honor his memory," said one of his associates, "for his integrity, for his faithfulness, for the kindly gentleness of his great heart. There was no disguise, no guile in him. He gladdened all by the sunshine of his disposition ; and the sweetness of his manner, the purity of his private life, the integrity of his public career are examples for us to praise and to emulate." Following his death Arthur G. Eddy, of Chicago, between whom and Judge Williamson there existed a warm friendship, wrote concerning him : "To be respected for one's attainments is much, to be loved for one's qualities is more, to be respected and loved by one's fellowmen is about the best this practical life can give and this was his in overflowing measure." NATHANIEL SCHNEIDER, M. D. Dr. Nathaniel Schneider, who up to the time of his death, which occurred February 4, 1895, was one of the best known and most highly esteemed physicians and surgeons of Cleveland, was born near Hamilton, Canada, November 1, 1839, a son of John Henry and Rhoda (Churchill) Schneider. His early education was acquired in the public and grammar schools of Hamilton and at the age of eighteen years he came t0 the United States, since which time he was dependent upon his own resources. The Doctor attended Baldwin University at Berea, Ohio, and after leaving college began the study of medicine under the direction of Dr. S. R. Beckwith, of Cleveland. Later he entered the Cleveland Homeopathic Hospital College, from which he was graduated in March, 1884. During the vacation periods he had worked diligently and persistently in order to pay his way through college and had also taught during his college days. From early boyhood he was ambitious to become a surgeon and ever manifested great interest in surgical work, becoming in the course of years recognized as an authority on that branch of the profession among the members of the medical fraternity of Cleveland. He began practice in association with Dr. S. H. Coburn, of Akron, where he remained for eleven months, after which he returned to this city and formed a partnership with his former preceptor, Dr. Beckwith, the business relation between them being maintained for two years. Dr. Schneider afterward became a partner of Dr. H. F. Biggar, with whom he was associated until 1874. In the latter part of 1873 he went to Europe for a year's study, which he pursued under the direction of some of the most eminent physicians and surgeons of the old world, and ten years later he repeated this visit. In 1874 he entered into partnership with Dr. S. A. Boynton, with whom he continued until 1878. He was also connected for a time with Dr. T. C. Martin. In 1882 he removed to 3125 Prospect avenue, where he remained until his death, occupying the home that is still the residence of Mrs. Schneider. His ability increased with the passing years as the result of his comprehensive and thorough study, research and investigation. In 1867 he became professor of surgery in the Cleveland Homeopathic Hospital College and for sixteen years was dean of the faculty, beginning in 1870. He was prominent among the medical educators of the city, always having the attention of his classes, to whom he imparted knowledge in clear and cogent manner, awakening the interests of his students by his able exposition of facts and his own enthusiastic zeal concerning the purposes and opportunities of the medical profession. His love for his chosen calling was so great that he counted no effort or sacrifice on his part too strenuous if it would promote the interest of the profession at large. He hesitated not to HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 395 loan his instruments to his students or to give of his time for their further instruction and benefit. It was often his expressed desire that he might live to see the wonderful progress that was being made in surgery, for he noted the advance that is characteristic of the age and rejoiced in every onward movement for promoting the efficiency of the surgeon. In 1867 he was appointed surgeon of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company, acting in that capacity for sixteen years. He was a member of the American Institute of Homeopathy and that he was honored by the profession throughout the entire country is indicated in the fact that he was twice elected its vice president. He also belonged to the State Medical Society, which honored him with the presidency, and both as an official and as a member of that organization he did much to further the interests of the medical profession in Ohio. He was deeply interested in the Huron Street Hospital from its inception, giving liberally of his time, his service and his means for its promotion. Through his instrumentality the Michigan Southern Railway supported from eight to ten beds in the hospital. He was surgeon for several years of the First Cleveland Troop and each year he went to New York for further study and research. In 1867 Dr. Schneider was married to Miss Elizabeth A. Myers, a daughter of R. P. Myers, of Cleveland, and a lady of culture, much beloved in this city. Dr. Schneider held membership in the Country and Union Clubs, and he belonged to the Methodist Episcopal church, but was a generous supporter of all religious work as an organized effort for the moral progress of the community. He was intensely interested in republican politics and all movements for the betterment of mankind or for upholding the political, legal and moral status of the country found in him a stanch advocate. It has been said that no biographer could do full justice to the memory of Dr. Schneider, neither as a physician nor as a citizen. He was recognized as an ideal follower of his calling, a man who never lowered his standard but sought to utilize every opportunity not 0nly for the advancement of his own skill but for general progress in the field of surgical and medical practice. Among his friends he numbered many of the most eminent physicians and surgeons of the country, who recognized him not only as a contemporary but as a peer. Such was the regard and esteem for him personally that his friendship was prized by all who knew him and most of all by the men of strong intelligence and broad outlook who are the best judges of life values. EUGENE E. NEALE. Eugene E. Neale, who has been identified with the insurance business in Cleveland for about eighteen years, has for the past ten years conducted his interests in this connection as a member of the firm of Neale Brothers & Schryver. He was born at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, on the 31st of March, 1865, a son of Richard W. and Emma B. (Lenox) Neale. The father is deceased, but the mother still survives and makes her home in Cleveland. Eugene E. Neale, who was brought to this city by his parents when but four months old, entered the public schools at the usual age and continued his studies until a boy of fourteen. He then secured a position in a broker's office and later was employed in a wholesale notion house. Subsequently he spent six years in the general freight department of the Lake Shore Railroad and afterward acted as commercial agent for the Vandalia Line. For the past eighteen years, however, he has devoted his attention almost exclusively to the insurance business, his brother, A. W. Neale, having been associated with him during the past fourteen years. About ten years ago the brothers admitted Mr. Schryver to a partnership, and the business has since been conducted under the name of Neale Brothers & Schryver. Mr. Neale of this review has thoroughly acquamted himself with the 396 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND insurance business in principle and detail, understanding fully its advantages and merits, and the firm of which he is a member enjoys a very gratifying clientage. On the 16th of April, 1890, in Cleveland, Mr. Neale married Miss Lucy W. Hubbell, a daughter 0f Z. M. Hubbell, of this city. She died on the 6th of April, 1903, leaving three children, namely ; Harold H., eighteen years of age ; Robert Dudley, who is now thirteen years old ; and Eugene E., ten years of age. On the 21st of November, 1905, Mr. Neale was again married, his second union being with Miss Elizabeth L. Hubbell, a sister of his first wife. Since age conferred upon him the right of franchise Mr. Neale has given his political allegiance to the republican party, while his religious faith is indicated by his membership in the Willson Avenue Baptist church. He has been connected with the Cleveland Grays since 1886 and was acting as battalion adjutant when he resigned active membership. He belongs to the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, the Fire Insurance Exchange, the Euclid Club and the Cleveland Athletic Club. Trustworthy and faithful in business, progressive in citizenship and loyal to the claims of friendship, he has thus displayed many good qualities which have gained him high regard. JAY C. MORSE. In the history of American progress the name of Jay C. Morse figures as that of one whose efforts were ever of a constructive character whereby were builded gigantic enterprises of far-reaching effect on the trade interests of the country. His initial experiences in the business world were of an obscure character in that they had effect only on local interests, but with the passing years the constantly broadening activities brought him t0 a place which makes his record notable even in this age when captains of industry are organizing, promoting and controlling mammoth concerns. His death removed one of the most representative citizens of Cleveland—a pioneer in the iron-ore trade, who became as well one of the foremost steel manufacturers of the middle west. Ohio claims him as one of her native sons, his birth having occurred in Painesville, in April, 1838. His father, Collins Morse, was a farmer, and in his youth the son had no unusual educational advantages, while his boyhood was spent after the manner of the average lad of that. period in a small village. His remarkable career resulted perhaps not so much from the possession of unusual qualities or talents but in their harmonious union, in his intelligent appreciation of opportunities and in his wise use of the advantages which came to him. His commercial career began early, for while he was in his teens he accepted a clerkship in a hardware store in his native .city. Mastery of every task that devolved upon him characterized his entire life and was manifest at the outset of his career, bringing him a broad and thorough knowledge of business principles and methods which were then in vogue in the conduct of commercial interests at that period. The broader opportunities of city life attracted him, however, and when twenty years of age he removed to Cleveland, where he secured employment in the freight office of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company. After a brief period he left that position to enter the employ of the Cleveland Iron Mining Company as its agent in the Marquette ore district. This gave to him the opportunity which led him to a commanding position as a representative of the iron industry of America. Going to his new duties, he studied closely the situation of the country, its possibilities for the production of ore and the question of the conversion of the products into a marketable material, utilizing every means that would promote his knowledge of the business which now claimed his time and energies. He remained in the Marquette district until 1882, when he returned to Cleveland to accept the vice presidency which was proffered him by the officers of the company, who recognized the value of his services and HISTORY OF CLEVELAND - 397 his capacity for more important duties. Later, in connection with Colonel James Pickands and Samuel Mather, he organized the well known firm of Pickands, Mather & Company. Mr. Morse took no part in the local management, but the other members of the firm attributed much of the early success of the enterprise to his sound judgment and the keen discrimination he manifested in the solution of the complex problems that arose. In 1885 he became the president of the Union Iron Company, of Chicago, which afterward consolidated with the North Chicago Rolling Mills Company and the Joliet Steel Company, becoming the Illinois Steel Company. Mr. Morse was chosen to the presidency and served for several years, being succeeded by John W. Gates upon his retirement. He also became the president of the Minnesota Iron Company about the same time and likewise assisted in the organization of the Minnesota Steamship Company, a subsidiary interest which provided shipping facilities for the former corporation, Thus from the outset of his career he mastered the lessons of life day by day until his postgraduate work in the school of experience placed him with the men of eminent ability, and for many years his labors were accepted as a standard of what might be accomplished by the individual and of the purposes and projects that might be wrought in the special line to which he directed his efforts. He remained at the head of the three companies mentioned until 1895, when, because of failing health, he requested that he might be permitted to serve only on their boards of directors Thereafter he continued as chairman of the various directorates for several years but finally resigned. The later years of his life were divided between Thomasville, Georgia, Chicago and Cleveland, maintaining a residence in each city. In early manhood Mr. Morse was united in marriage to Miss Mary Outhwaite, a daughter of John Outhwaite, of Cleveland, who died leaving one child, now Mrs. C. Morse Ely, of Wheaton, Illinois. Mr. Morse afterward married Mrs. Seville Pickands, the widow of Colonel James Pickands, and a sister of Hon. Marcus A. Hanna. The simplicity and beauty of his daily life as seen in his home and family relations constituted an even balance to his splendid business ability, resulting in the establishment of some of the largest commercial enterprises of the country. He held membership in the Union Club of Cleveland from its organization and was also a member of the Union Club of New York, the Chicago Club, the Country and Roadside Clubs of Cleveland and the Castalia Sporting Club. He had genuine appreciation for the social interests of life, and his friends found him an entertaining and genial companion. His benevolent spirit found generous expression in the support of institutions for the relief of the sick, and he gave many evidences of his friendship and care for those upon whom ill health had laid its hand. Of the highest type of the self-made man, dependent upon his own resources from early boyhood, he enjoyed in the fullest measure the respect and confidence of his colleagues and associates in the business world. Throughout his career he was a builder and never a wrecker. His course was ever of a constructive character, and his own advancement was not measured by the failure of others. For some years prior to his death he was in ill health and passed away at his home on the Lake Shore boulevard, August 22, 1906, while his remains were interred in Lake View Cemetery. Under the caption of A Builder of Great Things the Cleveland Leader at the time of his demise said editorially : "A long and active life and a remarkably productive career were brought to an end yesterday morning by the death of Jay C. Morse. Though he was not known to the general public in Cleveland, his enterprises elsewhere demanding much of his attention, he was essentially a Cleveland man. And the work of his life was the building up of important interests which have been great factors in making this city what it is. Mr. Morse was one of the strong, resolute men who early appreciated and developed the immense iron deposits of northern Michigan. They uncovered the ore, built steamships to carry it to Lake Erie and established blast furnaces and iron and steel mills. They were the men who gave to the lake marine the impetus which 398 - HISTORY OF CLEVELAND caused it to reach its present proportions. They first took hold of the small beginnings of the iron and steel industry. The prosperity of Cleveland and its neighboring ports is largely founded on their efforts. In a direct and important Nay, therefore, the life of Mr. Morse has been a part of the life and progress of Cleveland. Of him it can be said in the broadest sense that he did much for his fellowmen." There are men whose place of residence is but a feature of their career, while he station of their business activities does not even localize them. There are nen of the world in the broadest sense of the term in that their interests are mporant elements in the world's work and advancement. Such a man was Jay C. Morse, in whose life there was no esoteric phase, whose success was the expression of his ability and whose social prominence was the appreciation of personal traits which made his companionship a valued possessi0n to those who enjoyed his friendship. THOMAS R. MORGAN. Although a native of South Wales, his birth having there occurred February 7, 1859, Thomas R. Morgan was but six years of age when he came to the United States and in spirit and interests was always a loyal American. The family home was established in Pennsylvania and his father, Thomas R. Morgan, Sr., organized the Pittsburg Steam Hammer Works in the early '70s. The son, who obtained his education in the public schools, was also trained to the iron business in his youthful days. The family removed from Pennsylvania to Alliance, Ohio, and the Morgan Engineering Company was organized. Thomas R. Morgan completed his studies in Mount Union College. He entered his father's employ at an early age and learned the details of the business so that at eighteen years of age he was general manager of a plant employing six hundred men. He added to the knowledge of the iron trade which he had already obtained by practical and extended experience, which acquainted him with all parts of the business both in principle and detail. His thoroughness and capability enabled him to make steady progress and later the duties of secretary of the company were also entrusted to him. The extent and importance of his connections as a representative of the iron industry made him well known, while his keen business discernment and unfaltering diligence brought to him a substantial measure of success. In 1897 he became associated with the Wellman-Seaver Engineering Company, as it was then known, and in 1902 he was elected its secretary and made manager of the works. In that year the business was reorganized under the name of the Wellman, Seaver & Morgan Engineering Company, and the corporation has since enjoyed a world-wide reputation. Its ramifying trade interests have reached out to various portions of, the civilized country, where its products have been utilized and its manufactured output has largely set the standard for this branch of the iron trade. Pleasantly situated in his home life, Mr. Morgan was married in Alliance, Ohio, October 7, 1883, to Miss Anna Schilling, daughter of Lewis Schilling, of Salem, Ohio, a prominent merchant, and unto them were born three children: Helen. the wife of William Andrews, a resident of Youngstown, Ohio; Elizabeth, the wife of Walter C. Runyon, of Cleveland ; and Lewis. Mr. Morgan purchased a beautiful home for his family in Clifton Park and found his greatest happiness in providing for the welfare and interests of his wife and children. He was a popular and prominent member of the Hermit, the Century, the Union, and the Clifton Clubs and attained high rank in Masonry, becoming a Knight Templar and a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. While in Alliance he took active part in politics and was always thoroughly conversant with the leading questions and issues of the day and the attitude of the two parties on all essential