200 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS Doubtless his talents at salesmanship were first discovered when he went with the Oliver Typewriter Company as a salesman. After one year with that company he became sales agent at New York City for the National Cash Register Company. He sold cash registers in New York three years, and at that point in his career transferred his services to the American Multigraph Sales Company of Cleveland. He was salesman at their Philadelphia branch, of which he was later manager for six months, and then was called West and made division manager at Detroit for a year. In 1909 Mr. Boughton was appointed division manager at Cleveland and has under his jurisdiction this city and twenty-eight Northeastern Ohio counties. Since 1908 the sales made through his office have increased three-fold and he now has fourteen persons connected with his headquarters, which are in the Belmont Building. Mr. Boughton is well known in Cleveland commercial circles, is a director of the Cleveland Advertising Club, a member of the Sales Managers Club, the Cleveland Athletic Club, Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, the Automobile Club, Rotary Club, the Lakewood Chamber of Commerce, Westwood Country Club, Cleveland Yacht Club. and is affiliated with Franklin Lodge, No. 216, Free and Accepted Masons, and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is a member of the Court of Honor of Cleveland Council, Boy Smuts of America, and also a member of the Fifth Infantry of the Ohio National Guard. At this time (1918) Mr. Boughton is devoting most of his time to patriotic Government service, serving on fourteen different active committees. Politically he votes as a republican and is a member of the Baptist Church. On September 24, 1902, at New York City, he married Miss Melissa Evans, of Baltimore. Their one child, Frank E., is a student in the Lakewood High School and is a member of the local Boy Scout organization. REV. FRANK WELLINGTON LUCE. D. D. Few of the ministers of the Methodist Episcopal Church have had longer or more creditable records than has Rev. Frank Wellington Luce, D. D., who since 1881 has been uninterruptedly engaged in his ministerial labors, and who is now superintendent of the Cleveland district. He was born in Jones County, Iowa, in 1858, and is of English-German-French and Scotch-English ancestry, but his parents, grandparents and some great-grandparents were born in the United States, and his father was a soldier of the Union during the Civil war. Reverend Luce was educated in the public schools of Anamosa, Iowa, and at Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa, and in order to pay his school expenses, taught school and worked on a farm, carrying on his studies at the same time. He also studied two years with a private teacher, Charles Prescott Mather, A. M., Ph. D., D. D., and early formed habits of systematic study to broaden his scholarship, these firm habits having remained with him throughout his life. His education has also been furthered by extensive travel, both in his own and other countries. In 1897 the Upper Iowa University conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity. Reverend Luce was but sixteen years of age when he joined the Methodist Episcopal Church, and when he was nineteen years old was licensed to preach. In 1881 he united with the Northwest Iowa Conference, ten years later transferred to the Upper Iowa Conference, to the St. Louis Conference in 1902, and to the East Ohio Conference in 1905; and then became a charter member of the Northeast Ohio Conference. His pastorates since uniting with the Northwest Iowa Conference on trial have been as follows: Battle Creek, Correctionville, Sheldon, Clear Lake, Hampton, First Church, Davenport, Marion and First Church, Cedar Falls, all in Iowa; Maple Avenue, St. Louis, St. Louis Conference. Missouri ; First Church, Akron, First Church, Cleveland, Ohio; and superintendent of the Cleveland district. His average pastorate. was three years, the shortest being at Sheldon, Iowa, where he remained one year, and the longest at the First Church, Cleveland, where he was in charge six years, and in addition he had one pastorate of four years and another of five years. Doctor Luce is possessed of much literary ability, and is the author of two books which have been favorably received by the public and as favorably commented upon by the press. One, a sermon story, "The Wages of Sin Is Death," two editions being exhausted, is now out of print ; the other, "The King's Conquest," a book of sermons. addresses and prayers, is published by the Methodist Book Concern. In addition to these, he has written numerous magazine articles and pamphlets of sermons and addresses. Some of his more widely known lectures are: "The Man for the Times," "Napoleon and Waterloo," "David Livingstone," "The CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 201 March of Democracy," "Jean Valjean," "Joan of Arc" and "The Patriotism of Abraham Lincoln." Doctor Luce was married August 11. 1878, at Anamosa, Iowa. to Mary E. Snyder, a native of that state, and they have two daughters: Amy Althea, the wife of Albert C. Hartman, who is connected with the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, of Cleveland and Lillian Alberta, who lives with her parents. Doctor Lure is a Mason and a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. IIe represented the Methodist Episcopal Church in the general conference in May, 1916, held at Saratoga Springs, New York. In 1918 Doctor Luce was elected president of the International Association of District Superintendents. FRANK J. VLCHEK. One of Cleveland's most interesting industries, illustrating as it does the possibilities of growth and development from the enterprise and genius of one man, is the Vlchek Tool Company at 10709 Quincy Avenue. An expert toolmaker and blacksmith, Frank J. Vlchek, who had been reared and given his preliminary training in Bohemia, established a shop of his own on Central Avenue in Cleveland in 1892 and was a general blacksmith for seventeen years. In 1909 he organized a stock company for manufacturing automobile tools of all kinds and description. His helpers and associates at the beginning numbered only six men, but in less than ten years the business has grown, with expansion of facilities and buildings, until now over 350 employes are on the payroll. The officers of the company are: Frank J. Vlchek. president and general manager; William Hunkian, vice president; and Frank S. Macourek, secretary. Frank J. Vlchek was born in Bohemia January 4. 1871. His father, John Vlchek, was born in the same country in 1821 and snent his life there as a farmer. He died in 1893. The maiden name of his wife was Anna Hlaciek. who was born in Bohemia in 1827 and died there in 1895. They were the parents of eight children. Frank J. being the youngest. Jacob, Joseph. Mary and Katie, the four oldest, are all living in Bohemia. Anna, living on East Forty-ninth Street, in Cleveland. is the widow of Charles Honsa. a Cleveland carpenter. Agnes is also in Bohemia. Theresa is the wife of Frank Flucek. a contractor and carpenter living on Quebec Street in Cleveland. With such education as the public schools of Bohemia supplied, Frank J. Vlchek at the age of twelve became an apprentice to learn the blacksmith's trade. He worked at that until he was fourteen and a half years old, and then went to Austria and learned the trade of manufacturing surgical instruments, becoming very skilled in that higher branch of mechanics. In 1889, at the age of eighteen, he came to America and located at Cleveland, where he followed his trade of blacksmith until 1892, and then went into business for himself as above noted. Mr. Vlchek has acquired numerous business connections in Cleveland, being treasurer of the Rapid Transit Land Company, a director of the Atlas Building and Loan Association and of the Oul Building and Loan Association, and is president of the Gravity Carburetor Company. In politics he is independent, is a member of the Catholic Church and is affiliated with Gilmore Council of the Knights of Columbus and the Cleveland Athletic Club and Rotary Club. One of the finest homes in Cleveland was erected by Mr. Vlchek in 1918 at Larchmere Boulevard and Endicott Road. It is a completely modern residence, with a garage in the rear. Mr. Vlchek married, in Cleveland, July 3, 1893, Miss Mary Birhanzl. She is a native of Bohemia, daughter of Joseph and Mary Birhanzl, her mother still living with Mr. and Mrs. Vlchek. Her father, deceased, was a mechanic. Mr. and Mrs. Vlchek have an interesting family of children. Henry, who is a graduate of the East Technical High School of Cleveland, served his time as an apprentice and has a diploma as mechanical engineer. He is now with the United States army as sergeant in the ordnance department. Mary, the second of the three children, is a graduate of Ursuline Academy and took a business course in the same institution, and is now the wife of Edward Koster. living on. East One Hundred and Thirtieth Street. Mr. Koster is superintendent of the Vlchek Tool Company and is a mechanical engineer by profession. Valerian Frank, the youngest of the family, completed a business course in the Speneerian College and is now employed by the New York Central Railroad Company. HON. DAVID MORISON. When an individual has been intimately connected with the business and public interests of a community for nearly a half a century, it would be an 202 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS anomaly were he not well known to the citizens of that place. In the progressive, seething life of a constantly growing city, the individual who shows himself helpfully interested in the advancement of the public weal is more or less in the public eye, and if that eye is not capable of discovering any blemish upon his record then indeed he may be considered a representative of the best things that his city can produce. For fifty years the record of the late Hon. David Morison stood inviolate; he was one of the moat important factors in building up his city from a business standpoint, and his public honors came to him in the many positions to which he had been elected by those who, themselves actively and keenly public-spirited, recognized in him a kindred spirit. He worked his own way up ; step by step he brought himself into the front ranks, and through his own sheer, indomitable courage made real men recognize him as one among them. Hon. David Morison was born in 1848, at Cleveland, to which then small town his father, David Morison, had come from Scotland seven years before. His mother, Charlotte Bidwell (Hill) Morison, born in Connecticut, came to this city in 1831. Both are now deceased. The early education of David Morison was secured in the public schools of Cleveland, and during the period of the Civil war he attended the Homesteads Institute, a military school located on University Heights. When still a young man he displayed the foresight that characterized his entire life, by investing his earnings in real estate, handling his own property, and thus started upon a career that was almost without a parallel in this city. A large part of his work was done in the way of allotments, of which he laid out twenty-six, and in addition he was heavily engaged in handling coal and iron properties in Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia. His holdings were extensive, among them being 7,600 acres in the Kentucky oil district, containing vast quantities of iron, coal and asphalt, and 2,000 acres in the northwestern part of the same state. He was acting president of the Stark Electric Railroad, owned one-half of the Superior-Dean Realty Company, and was the owner of the Stark Realty Company, the Bidwell Realty Company, the Sprankle Realty Company and the Morison Realty Company. This last named company is now developing what is called the Park View allotment, lots in which are being sold under the restriction that no house worth less than $5,000 shall be erected. It is probable that no man did more for Cleveland than Sir. Morison, as can be readily seen from his remarkable record, and it is small wonder that he was regarded as one of Forest City's most distinguished citizens. his sound judgment, wise methods and long experience caused him to be looked upon as a safe adviser and as one of the highest authorities upon financial, commercial and municipal affairs. One of his most interesting and important achievements was the building of the Cleveland Hippodrome, a splendid and costly structure located in the heart of the city and the center of enormous activities of various kinds. This is one of the greatest office and theatre buildings in the United States, and for its description the writer is indebted to the Commercial and Financial World. That portion of the structure fronting on Euclid Avenue is eleven stories high, while the Prospect Avenue building is seven stories in height. Situated between these skyscrapers is a grand auditorium, one of the largest and most magnificent theatres in the country. There are six spacious stores. Four of these are located in the Euclid Avenue building—two on either side of a large, brilliant entrance built of heavy marble and studded with numerous incandescent lights. There are two similar stores in the Prospect Avenue building. The construction of the building is steel, reinforced with concrete, forming a durable framework for the Hippodrome. The entire building is constructed of indestructible materials which assure its successful resistance against an attack of fire. Every product entering into the construction of the Hippodrome was subjected, before being used, to a rigid test—from foundation to roof only materials of the most durable and lasting nature were used. Cement, steel, brick, 'terra cotta, and marble form the chief constituents. The building is equipped with its own serviceable electric lighting plant, sprinkling system, mail chutes, hot and cold water, ice cooled drinking water, steam heat, large plate glass windows, and all other modern conveniences, etc., including a sanitary ventilating system. In architectural and engineering design the exterior, as well as the interior, are superior to any building in the Central West. Occupying a site lying between the Euclid Avenue and Prospect Avenue buildings, which otherwise might have been vacant, stands the Hippodrome auditorium. Besides providing Cleveland with a modern theatre, such as, through civic pride, has long been desired, this auditorium affords a means of providing to the theatre going public larger and grander entertainments than were formerly possible. Perfect protection against fire or other dangerous elements is one of the salient characteristics of the auditorium. The established efficiency and durability of materials; the mode of construction and the arrangement of the playhouse proper fairly seem to defy. possible accident. The Hippodrome stage is an example of completeness in every particular. In brief, the Hippodrome is an unusual building, modern, convenient and attractive. As may be supposed, Mr. Morison was an exceedingly busy man, but he systematized his work in such a fashion as to be able to accomplish as much in a given time as a dozen ordinary men. In public matters he had long been favorably in the public eye. Classed as a republican, he was very active, representing the party in innumerable county and state conventions, serving on the state and county executive committees, and being chairman of the republican county committee from 1877 until 1889. He served as a member of the City Council of Cleveland for eight years, from 1877 until 1885, and was then for four years a member of the board of city improvement. In 1887 he was elected state senator and reelected in 1891, in his last senatorial election leading his ticket by 5,000 votes. During his senatorial terms he put through the Federal Plan Law, assisted by Senator Taylor of Bedford, as well as the Public Fund Deposit Law, by which public funds for deposit were advertised and deposited with the bank offering the best rate of interest. The city is still working tinder this law and has turned a vast amount of money into the city treasury as a result thereof. During his second term he had this law amended and straightened out to meet all emergencies. During his second term he resigned to accept the position of director of Charities and Correction in Mayor Rose's cabinet, under the then new plan of municipal government. In all, Mr. Morison served two years as director of Charities and Correction, and his discharge of the duties of that offiCe won for him the high commendation of men of all political parties. Indeed, there was scarcely an office within the gift of the electors of Cleveland that Mr. Morison did not have to refuse again and again. He was often asked to take the nomination for the mayoralty, but always declined. As a fraternalist, Mr. Morison belongs to Forest City Lodge No. 388, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, in which he was senior war den, but held no other offices because his senatorial duties at the time demanded all of his attention. He joined Webb Chapter No. 14, Royal Arch Masons, July 20, 1876, and was a member of Oriental Commandery No. 12, Knights Templar. Mr. Morison belonged also to the Roadside Club, to the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce and to the Cleveland Real Estate Board. His religious connection was with the Second Presbyterian Church. he was unmarried. Mr. Morison was the architect of his own fortunes. In his youth he had the requisites of a successful business man ; his later experiences taught him much; his inherent business sense gave him something that be did not need to learn; his ambition furnished him with the incentive, and his energetic nature has made him a foe to be reckoned with the men whom he has met in the line of his business activities. Always his dealings and transactions have been legitimate and straightforward, and there are none today who may truthfully say that he never took other than a fair advantage. Mr. Morison passed away on September 11, 1917. PHILIP J. PROBECK, president of the P. J. Probeck Company, butchers' and packers' supplies, began his active career when a boy in Cleveland as a butcher's apprentice, and his commendable success in the world is due to concentration of his energies largely along one line. For a number of years ho was traveling representative for a butchers' supply house, and finally established a business of that kind at Cleveland, and has made it one of the most substantial concerns of its kind in Northern Ohio. Mr. Probeck was born at Cleveland, February 23, 1857. His father, George J. Probeck, born on the River Rhine in the German Empire in 1829, was reared and married in his native locality, and soon after his marriage came to the United States in 1854, locating the same year at Cleveland. He was one of the pioneer florists of this city. The first place of business was at 10027 St. Clair Avenue, opposite the Protestant Orphan Asylum, hut later he bought a corner at St. Clair Avenue and Kirtland Street, and was in active business there until his death in 1894. After getting his papers as an American citizen he consistently voted with the republican party. He married Mary M. Deisinger. who was born in Reichenbach, Germany, in 1823, and died in Cleveland in 1905, at the age of eighty-two. They had five children : Peter J., who lives 204 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS on Decker Avenue and is in the electric welding business at the Superior Viaduct; Julia, who married Joseph Hale, is matron at the Altenheim on Detroit Avenue; Philip J.; Mary, wife of Frank Knobloch, who lives on Quimby Avenue and employed by the Root-McBride Company; and George J., Jr., who lives on Detroit Avenue at the corner of West Sixty-Fourth Street, and is in the electric welding business with his brother Peter. Philip J. Probeck had only a common school education. In 1871, at the age of fourteen, he left school to begin work in a meat market and he was connected with various local meat shops until 1884. He then went on the road for six years, traveling for a butcher supply house in Chicago and covering the territory of Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky and Indiana. With this thorough experience and with an extensive personal acquaintance over the territory where he traveled, he embarked in business for himself in January, 1890, establishing the firm of the P. J. Probeck Company, located at 2339 East Fourth Street. The business was incorporated in 1912 and the officers are : Ph. J. Probeck, president and treasurer; Peter J. Probeck, vice president; and F. C. Probeck, secretary. The company now maintains two traveling men to cover the trade territory, which extends over a radius of a hundred miles around Cleveland. Mr. Probeck is a republican and is affiliated with Concordia Lodge No. 345, Free and Accepted Masons; Hillman Chapter No. 166, Royal Arch Masons; Holyrood Commandery No. 32, Knights Templar; Lake Erie Consistory of the Scottish Rite, and Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is also a member of the Past Masters Association, having been master of his lodge in 1905. He was formerly affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Mr. Probeck is a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. His home is at 1477 Robinwood Avenue. He sold his former residence at 13228 Detroit Avenue in 1916. He married at Cleveland in 1879 Miss Emma C. Gaeckley, daughter of Eugene C. and Frederika C. Gaeckley, the latter living with Mr. and Mrs. Probeck. Her father, deceased, was one of the early machinists in Cleveland. Mr. and Mrs. Probeck have five children and also have some grandchildren. The oldest, Josephine, is a graduate of the West Side High School and assists her father in the business. Gertrude, a graduate of the West Side High School, is employed at the Altenheim. Eugenia, who also finished her education in the West Side High School, is the wife of Chester Reynolds, who is connected with Brooks & Company, printers and stationers, and they reside at 1591 Orchard Grove, Lakewood. F. C. Probeck, the fourth child and older son, has already been named as secretary of the P. J. Probeck Company. He graduated from the West Side High School and also from the Miami Military Institute at Miami, Ohio, and has his honorable discharge with the rank of second lieutenant. He married Hattie Kleinmeier, a native of Cleveland and daughter of Henry and Adelia Kleinmeier, who still live in this city. Her father is a brick mason. Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Probeck have three children : Phyllis, Gertrude, and F. C., Jr. The other son of Mr. and Mrs. Probeck is Arthur O., who resides at Orth Place in Brooklyn, Cleveland, and is connected with the Gates Elevator Company. Ile had the same education as his brother, and while in military school attained the rank of corporal. He married Gertrude Keller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Keller of Cleveland, her father chief engineer at the Cleveland & Sandusky Brewing Company. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Probeck have one child, Jewell. FRANCOIS RICHARD, president and general manager and founder of the Richard Auto Manufacturing Company, is one of the veteran designers and manufacturers of automobiles and automobile equipment in the world. He had over ten years of experience with the highly technical industries in France before coming to America, and is a graduate of the best technical schools of France. In addition he has an inherited mechanical ability, developed by a long course of successful experience. It is not too much to claim that Mr. Richard is one of the best known men in the automobile world both in America and France. Most of the results and products of his long experience, study and experimentation are found exemplified in the Ri-Chard car, which in the last year or so has been gaining enormously in esteem and popularity among high class cars of American manufacture. Mr. Richard was born at Nimes in Southern France, February 12, 1875. His father, Augustus Richard, spent all his life at Nimes, where he was born in 1834 and died in 1902. He was a contractor and erected a number of large steel furnace plants. Politically he was identified with the party known as the CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 205 radical democrats, and for twenty years served on the Municipal Council. He was also a soldier, and was in.the War of 1859 with Napoleon HI. His valor displayed in difficult and trying circumstances won him four medals. His wife bore the maiden name of Antoinette Vertu, whe was born in 1834 and is still living at Nimes. They had three children: Ferdinand, the oldest, who died at Paris in February, 1918, was a chemist and a manufacturer of photographic paper. Francois is the second of the family. Louis is a gold worker in the mint at Nimes, France. Francois Richard was educated in the public schools of his native town, and also in the technical school known as the Central School of Paris, from which he graduated in 1894 with the degree Mechanical Engineer. He also received many high honors of scholarship. Prior to his graduation he did general machine work in practical lines, and after leaving school he was for ten years a designer and manufacturer of a varied line of electrical appliances, especially as applied to telephone and automobile construction. Mr. Richard has the distinction of having constructed the first two-cycle engine built in France, which he exhibited at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1900 and which won for him a gold medal. After that he turned his attention to the construction of a gasolene and kerosene carburetor, which was awarded a gold medal at St. Louis in 1904. Mr. Ricshard came to the United States in 1905, and was located at New York City as an automobile designer and manufacturer until he removed to Cleveland in 1914. In that year, with F. M. Brady, he incorporated the Richard Auto Manufacturing Company, and the business was established at 7800 Finney Avenue in the following year. Mr. Richard is president and general manager and F. M. Brady is secretary and treasurer of the company. The plant now comprises several complete modern factories, erected of brick, concrete and steel. About seventy-five expert and skilled workmen are employed and the output is the Ri-Chard car, which in every detail is a product of the experience and ability of Mr. Richard as a designer and builder. The automobile world is perhaps familiar with some of his distinctive achievements. One was the construction of a successful eight-cylinder 250-horse power car, which he built in the record breaking time of two months and twenty-six days, making all drawings and personally superintending all the pattern work, casting and machining. He also designed and built a one-cylinder car with 51-inch bore by 10-inch stoke, which attained a speed of eighty-two miles an hour and averaged forty-two miles to one gallon of gasolene. This car after four years of service showed no sign of wear in any part of the machinery. He next constructed a four-cylinder 4 1/4 by 7 7/8 horse power motor that developed ninety horse power and guaranteed to run seventy-five miles per hour and thirty miles to a gallon of gasolene. The car tested the third day out of the shop ninety-eight miles per hour and twenty-six miles to one gallon of gasolene. One of the distinctive features of the RiChard car is the Ri-Chard carburetor, covered by Mr. Richard's patent. It is practically three carburetors in one, affording double power and flexibility at half the expense for gasolene. The Ri-Chard Magnetic car was built and has demonstrated its success as a flexible car with such control that it can be operated with little mechanical knowledge, wihout any trouble, without clutch and without shifting a gear. It has performed perfectly under every test and condition of flexibility, at minimum and highest speeds, up grade, under heavy, traffic conditions, and has well fulfilled the expectations of the manufacturers who desired a car of such type that the only requirement for the driver is "to steer the car." Mr. Richard, who is unmarried, is a man of extremely versatile abilities. and charming personality. He is one of the best linguists in Cleveland, and has a knowledge of the classic Latin and Greek, and also the modern languages Spanish, Italian, French, Flemish and English. As an American citizen he votes as a democrat. His home is at 1972 East Seventieth Street. THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSE. On the natal day of American independence, July 4, 1874, the Catholic Universe, founded by Rt. Rev. Bishop Richard Gilmour, made its first appearance. The Rt. Rev. Bishop had lately assumed the pastoral charge of the diocese of Cleveland. He was a publicist, a controversialist, a man strong to fight at a time when the need of battle was great. He was the man of and for the hour. The first motto of this publication, "A bold, fearless advocacy of Catholic rights and principles," was characteristic of its founder. Its first editor was the Rev. Thomas P. Thorpe. 206 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS To glance at the first number after forty-four years is both interesting and suggestive. The titles of the editorials would be as timely in 1918 as in 1874—"The Labor Question," "The School Question," "The Citizen," etc. The entire contents serve to prove how little the world's currents of thought change from generation to generation, how the interests of men swing backward and forward, year after year, almost with the unvarying precision of a pendulum. Monsignor Thorpe resigned the active editorship of the Universe in 1877 and was succeeded by Manly Tello. The third editor was Thomas Connelly, who succeeded Mr. Tello in 1892. In the six months' interval between the retirement of Mr. Tello and the engagement of Mr. Connelly, Rev. William McMahon, at the request of the administrators of Bishop Gilmour's will, assumed the management of the paper, pending the advent of Bishop Gilmour's successor. In 1899 Mr. Connelly went to San Francisco to assume the editorship of the Monitor and Rev. William McMahon, then manager of the Catholic Universe Publishing Company, became editor-in-chief. For three years Father McMahon had associated with him in the editorship of the Universe, the Revs. Gilbert J. Jennings. I.L. D., pastor of Saint Agnes Church. Cleveland, and Mgr. J. T. O'Connell, of Toledo, both very able and trenchant writers. Father McMahon served as editor from 1899 until his death, December 22, 1915, and was succeeded by the present editor, William A. McKearney. The mechanical equipment of the Universe has, naturally, kept pace with its progress in other lines. The circulation and advertising departments share in the progress. It may be said with truth that the Universe has never been in more satisfactory condition than in this, the forty-fourth year of its existence, It has fought many battles and escaped not without sears: it has battled always for the truth as it saw the truth, and in whatever else it may have failed, in judgment, or in ability, or in pleasing the public fancy, the present is able to say of the past, what the future will bring or will be able to say of the present, that it has never failed in courage in defending Catholic principles, or in fidelity to conscience at any sacrifice of self interest, or in loyal allegiance to the church and those in authority who represent it. The mission of a Catholic paper is manifold. It needs the brains and experience and breadth of outlook, the sanity and poise of mind, which are necessary in the conduct of any newspaper; but it needs more than this. It must be more than entertaining, more even than informational. Its mission is spiritual as well as intellectual. JOE LOW WADSWOWTH, treasurer of the State Banking and Trust Company of Cleveland, has been a resident of Cleveland twenty years, and has had a varied and successful experience in general business and financial affairs. He was formerly a state bank examiner. The State Banking and Trust Company of Cleveland, with which he has been identified for the past four years, is one of the largest savings banks in the city. Its total resources at the close of 1917 aggregated. over $5,000,000. The capital stock is $250,000 and besides the surplus of $50,000 required by law an additional surplus of $75,000 is maintained. The deposits aggregate $4,800,000. It is a highly prosperous institution and its officers and directors are all among the substantial and conservative business men of Cleveland. The officers are: D. R. James, chairman of the board; Charles R. Dodge, president ; C. H. Beardslee, vice president; F. H. Rose, vice president ; John Jaster, secretary; and J. L. Wadsworth, treasurer. Mr. Wadsworth was born in Portage County, Ohio, August 31, 1879. His paternal ancestors came out of England and were colonial settlers in Massachusetts. His grandparents were Harvey A. and Caroline Wadsworth. The former was born in 1828 at Harbor Creek, Pennsylvania, and in early life removed to Ohio. He was a blacksmith by trade and for many 'years conducted a shop at Hudson, Ohio. He was there when the old Cleveland & Pittsburg Railway was being constructed. He died at Windham, Ohio, in 1908. Harry A. Wadsworth, father of the Cleveland banker, was born at Hudson, Ohio, in 1854, was roared at Burton, Ohio, and• immediately after his marriage located at Windham. He was a tinner by trade and at one time he developed an extensive hardware, furniture and undertaking business, was postmaster in the village, and was rightly regarded as the leading and most substantial citizen of that community. In 1900 he removed to Garrettsville, where he is still living. He conducted a furniture and undertaking business there until 1908, when he retired from active business. He is a democrat, a member of the Masonic fraternity, his affili- CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 207 ations including the Royal Arch Chapter, the Knights Templar Commandery and the Scottish Rite Consistory. He els.̊ belongs to the Royal Arcanum and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Harry A. Wadsworth married Etta C. Miller. She was born at Ravenna, Ohio, where they were married, and she died at Garrettsville in 1907. J. L. Wadsworth was the only son. His sister and the younger child is Bessie, wife of A. M. Cline, a resident of Lakewood, Ohio. Mr. Cline is connected with the United Banking and Savings Company of Cleveland on the West Side. Joe L. Wadsworth grew up and was educated at Windham, Ohio, graduating from high school there in 1897. The following year he attended the high school at Garrettsville, Ohio, and was graduated there in June. 1898. In October, 1898, he arrived in Cleveland and during the next five years was connected with The Lockwood Taylor Hardware Company. That company first honored him with a position in the capacity of order boy, and on his merit promoted himself until he was traveling salesman and covering an important territory in Central New York State. In 1903 Mr. Wadsworth went with the Cleveland Gas Light & Coke Company, remained there a year, and then for three and a half years was circulation manager and in charge of the subscription list of all the publications of the Penton Publishing Company. His next position was an accountant for three years with the Audit Company of Cleveland, following which for two and a half years he was an examiner in the state department of banks and banking. On July 1, 1914, he formed his present alliance as treasurer of the State Banking & Trust Company. Mr. Wadsworth is a democratic voter. He is affiliated with Gaston G. Allen Lodge No. 629, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, at Lakewood, Webb Chapter No. 14, Royal Arch Masons, Flolyrood Commandery, No. 32, Knights Templar, Lake Erie Consistory of the Scottish Rite, and Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine. His home is at 1212 Ramona Avenue in Lakewood. Mr. Wadsworth at Pittsburg. Pennsylvania, in 1910 married Miss Florence H. Keller, daughter of Charles A. and Ellen (Palmer) Keller. Her mother is deceased. Her father who lives on Wade Park Avenue in Cleveland, was a soldier of the Union army during the war and is still active in service and one of the oldest employees of the Cleveland postoffice. Mr. and Vol. III-14 Mrs. Wadsworth have one daughter, Ellen Charlotte, born August 17, 1913. SAMUEL W. MANHEIM was born at Cleveland, March 29, 1893. He has not yet attained the dignity of his twenty-fifth birthday, and when his youth is considered in connection with the business interests he has handled and still maintains, his career is a remarkable instance of success and individual talent. At the outset it should, be mentioned that he is not the son of wealthy parents and started life as close to the bottom as any business man in Cleveland. His father, William Manheim, was born near the border line of Germany and Poland, came to Cleveland many years ago, and is now living in the city, a retired merchant. The mother was born in Germany and died in 1901, when Samuel was eight years of age. At the death of his mother, he was placed in the Cleveland Jewish Orphan Asylum, where he remained until graduating in 1910. Being thrown on his own resources, he worked for several years in different lines, barely making a living, but in 1913 entered the field where his success has been achieved. This was handling business investments, and since then he has been buying and selling and acting as broker for a number of established business houses. Mr. Manheim makes a specialty of amusement enterprises. During the.past four years he has negotiated and built seven different theaters and has acted as broker for at least 150 theaters, involving lease and investment values from $1,500 to $50,000. These theaters have been located all over the State of Ohio. One of the most important of these transactions was the negotiating, building and leasing of the Wind A Mere Theater at Lake Front in East Cleveland. The grounds and building involved an expenditure of $500.000. The building, besides furnishing quarters for theater and dance hall, has twenty stores. Mr. Manheim negotiated and sold the lease of the Olympia Theater at Fifty-fifth and Broadway for $50,000, and also handled the lease of the Alhambra Theater at 150 Euclid Avenue, for ten years at $15,000 a year. In 1918 he sold the Priscilla vaudeville house. East Ninth and Walnut streets, for $40,000. In January, 1918, Mr. Manheim organized the Manheim - Wolcott Amusement Company, which now own and control four theaters, the Milo Theater, 800 seating capacity, at Miles 208 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS Avenue and East One Hundredth Street; Iris Theater, 1885 West Twenty-fifth Street ; IJno Theater, West One Hundred and Twenty-fourth and West Madison Avenue; and Liberty Theater, at Geneva, Ohio. Mr. Manheim is president of the corporation. In July, 1918, he organized the Morison, East One Hundred and Fifth Street Garage Company, taking over the garage of the same name, with capacity of 100 cars, the second largest garage in the East End. Mr. Manheim is president of this corporation. Mr. Manheim is affiliated with Cleveland Lodge, No. 18, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and Civic League and in politics is strictly nonpartisan. MARTIN L. WRIGHT. Two generations of Ohio people have utilized and appreciated the services of Dr. Martin L. Wright as a dentist, and he is almost the dean of profession at Cleveland, where today he is still carrying the burdens and responsibilities of professional work with offices in the People's Bank Building on West Twenty-Fifth Street. He comes of a professional family. His father was both a physician and a dentist, and one of the very first to devote all his energies to the practice of dentistry in Cleveland. Representing the third generation, Doctor Wright has several sons who are dentists, one of them associated with him in partnership. A native of Cleveland, Dr. Martin L. Wright was born November 19, 1846. His father also bore the name of Martin L. and was born in the north of Ireland in 1806 and was brought in infancy to the United States by his parents, who first located in Massachusetts. Ile came as a pioneer to Northern Ohio, married in Huron, Ohio, and was one of the early graduates with the degree of Doctor of Medicine from Western Reserve University. He practiced Medicine in Huron for several years, and in 1842 located at Cleveland, where he was almost exclusively a dentist. Dr. Wright, Sr., died at Ripon, Wisconsin, in 1863. He was a democrat in politics. The maiden name of his wife was Maria Remington, who was born in Vermont in 1815, and during the greater part of her life lived in Cleveland, dying while on a visit at Paynesville, Ohio, in 1882. She was the mother of five children : Jennie M., who married Chester Stoddard, a lake engineer, and both are now deceased; Mary, who married Lansing Ford, a locomotive engineer, and both of whom died in Cleveland; Dr. Martin L.; Maria, who died in Cleveland. the wife of John Mullen, an undertaker; Nellie, who lives on East Seventy-Ninth Street in Cleveland, wife of Henry Kein, a hardware merchant. Martin L. Wright, Jr., was educated in the Cleveland public schools, graduating from high school, and in that early and interesting period of his youth many of his thoughts naturally turned upon the great struggle than engaging the North and South. In 1863, at the age of seventeen, he enlisted in the Cleveland Grays, and in 1864 was called into the National service with the One Hundred and Fiftieth Ohio Infantry for a hundred days. The regiment. was sent to Washington and did its duty in repelling Early's attack on the defenses at Washington. After the war Doctor Wright returned to Cleveland and for two seasons enacted with some success the role of an actor with John A. Ellsler. He then zealously applied himself to the study of dentistry and has now practiced that profession for almost half a century. He was located at Paynesville and at Chardon, Ohio, but in 1890 returned to Cleveland and has had all the patronage he could well attend to. Doctor Wright is a democrat in politics. He usually supported the party organization in state and local affairs, but several times has exercised his decided independence when national problems were at stake. Thus he voted for Grant and many years later was a Roosevelt supporter. Doctor Wright is a member of the Christian Science Church and his fraternal affiliations are with Halycon Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Thatcher Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, Forest City Commandery, Knights Templar, Wellington Lodge of Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Wellington, Ohio, Red Cross Lodge of the Knights of Pythias, and he is a member of Memorial Post of the Grand Army of the Republic. Dr. Wright owns a modern home at 1376 Cook Avenue in Lakewood. He has an interesting family. In 1868 he married Miss Elvena Rogers, who was born in Ohio and died at Cleveland in 1893. She was a granddaughter of Eber D. Howe, founder of the Cleveland Herald in 1819, the first newspaper published at Cleveland. Dr. Wright by his first wife has four children : Harry, a dentist practicing with his father; Alta, wife of Dr. John B. Gillette, a Cleveland dentist ; Mabel, who married Walter Walsh, a salesman living at Los Angeles, California; and Dr. W. W., who is a CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 209 graduate of Western Reserve University and is also a practicing dentist at Cleveland. In 1894 Dr. Wright married for his second wife, Lucy Purdee, a native of Ohio. She died at Cleveland in 1895, the mother of one son, Richard W., who is now a first lieutenant in the aviation corps with the United States forces in France. In 1896 Dr. Wright married for his present wife Miss Nellie Bruce, daughter of Charles and Mary (Whitworth) Bruce, both now deceased. Her father was a railroad man. Dr. and Mrs. Wright have two sons, Bruce and Mark, the former, who was a student of Case School of Applied Science, joined the Naval Reserves in the spring of 1918, and the latter is a student at Lakewood High School. MAX LEVI is an honored veteran of Cleveland business life and affairs, and in August, 1918, will have rounded out thirty-two years of consecutive service with the German-American Savings Bank Company. Mr. Levi helped organize this bank, which was incorporated in 1887 and has been continuously in business and service on Ontario Street. The bank is not one of the largest in Cleveland in point of resources, there are banks which are much older in point of time of existence, but in the entire Cleveland financial district there is no institution that has paid larger dividends to its stockholders. This bank has set the high record of an annual dividend of 18 per cent. Its principal officers are: William M. Reynolds, president ; Dr. A. F. Meyer, first vice president ; Simon Skall, second vice president ; Max Levi, secretary and treasurer ; and L. H. Nienhuser, assistant secretary and treasurer. The German-American Savings Bank Company at the end of the year 1917 had total resources of nearly $2,500,000. Its condition is especially favorable from many standpoints. It has $50,000 of paid up capital, surplus of $140,000, and out of total deposits of more than $2,250,000, over two-thirds of the amount are represented by savings deposits. Mr. Max Levi's first recollections are of Cleveland as a home. He was born in Lautenberg Germany, January 1, 1857, and came with his parents to the United States and to Cleveland in 1860. His father, Isaac Levi, who was born at Lautenberg, Germany, in 1839, was reared and married in his native city and was a merchant tailor there, was one of the early men in that business to establish themselves in Cleveland. He was a democrat and a member of the Huron Street Temple, and died in Cleveland. in 1906. The maiden name of his wife was Rosalie Herman, who was born in Lautenberg in 1833 and died in Cleveland in 1917. Their children were: Max ; Rickey, Fannie and Harry, all deceased; Joseph, in the wholesale cigar business at Cleveland; Edward, a wholesale cap manufacturer and head of the firm of Edward Levi & Company. Max Levi received his early education in the Cleveland public schools. The first school he attended stood where the Bradley Furniture Company is now located opposite the Colonial Hotel. That school trained many boys who subsequently became prominent in Cleveland business affairs, its most famous pupil, no doubt, having been John D. Rockefeller, who at one time was one of its students. Max Levi left school at the age of fifteen and his career since then has been largely a matter of self-achievement. For a year he worked with the old established De Forest Dry Goods Company, and then found employment in the Ma-honing Division offices of the Atlantic & Great Western Railway, now the Erie. Two years later he took up an employment that promised greater permanence and promotion. This was with D. Black & Company, wholesale notion merchants on Water Street. About the time he entered its service the company branched out into the wholesale cloak business. being the first cloak house in Cleveland. Mr. Levi went to work for Black & Company as an entry clerk. he was promoted to bookkeeper and cashier, and rose steadily in the confidence of his superiors and in proficiency. He was with the firm eight years, when it was dissolved, and he then allied himself with M. T. Silver & Company, a new partnership in the cloak business, located on Superior Avenue, corner of East Twenty-Third Street. Mr. Levi remained with this firm as bookkeeper and cashier until 1887, when he entered upon his duties with the German-American Savings Bank Company. While the administration and direction of the affairs of this hank have brought him all the duties and responsibilities which are a sufficiency for one man's time and energies. Mr. Levi has responded to various other calls upon his means and capacity. He is president of the C. C. Shanklin Company, underwriters and insurers. he is treasurer of the Hebrew Relief Society, which disburses to the poor of Cleveland more than $45,000 every year, and treasurer and a director of the Jewish Orphan Home at East Fortieth Street. In the Hebrew Temple at Sco- 210 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS vill Avenue and Fifty-fifth Street he has served as director and as a member of the finance committee. Mr. Levi is a republican voter. In 1915 he built a modern home at 2064 Abobington Road. Mr. Levi has a splendid family and has a number of grandchildren, in whom he takes the keenest pleasure. In 1883, at Honesdale, Pennsylvania, he married Miss Tillie Freeman, daughter of Jacob and Rachel (Levi) Freeman. Her mother is still living in Honesdale, and her father, deceased, was for fifty years a clothing merchant and merchant tailor at Honesdale, Pennsylvania, and was a pioneer business man who made his personality and his goods known out over every railroad and canal that led from Honesdale in every direction. Mr. and Mrs. Levi have five children : Milton, the oldest, is a graduate of the Cleveland High School, lives at home and is a traveling salesman for the R. F. Mackenzie Company; Rena R., the second child, married Edward Katz, of the Katz Underwear Company of Honesdale, Pennsylvania, where they reside. Mr. and Mrs. Katz have three children : Catherine, Marjorie and Robert. Linda the second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Levi, is the wife of A. A. Ronsheim, member of the firm Rauh-Mack Shirt Company of Cincinnati. Their children are two in number, named Maria and Catherine. Stella, the third daughter, is the wife of Max N. Unger, a traveling salesman for the Prince-Biederman Cloak Company of Cleveland. Mr. and Mrs. Unger live on East One Hundred and First Street in• Cleveland and have one child, Maxine. James, the youngest child and son of Mr. Levi, lives at home and is connected with the C. C. Shanklin Company. EDWARD A. OVERBEKE. With few exceptions the best achievements in business are those represented by long and persistent experience along one line. It is this type of success that Edward A. Overheke exemplifies. Mr. Overbeke is secretary of the Lattin-Bloomfield Company, one of the largest skirt manufacturing concerns of Cleveland. Mr. Overbeke is a native of Cleveland. horn September 17, 1868. His father. John Overbeke, was born in Holland in 1833. but lived in his native land only to the age of sixteen, when he came to the United States and located in Cleveland in 1849. He was here before the railroads began radiating from this city as a center. By trade he was a merchant tailor, was one of the pioneers of that business in Cleveland, and followed it the rest of his life. He died at Cleveland in 1898. Politically he always supported the republican ticket. John Overbeke married Petronella DeMooy, who was born in Holland in 1838 and died at Cleveland in 1913. Their family consisted of seven children. Edward A. Overbeke while growing up and spending his boyhood in Cleveland attended the public schools, and at the age of eighteen went to work for his father as a clerk. He remained with his father four years and then formed his first connection with a cloak manufacturing industry as an employee of M. T. Silver & Co. In 1906 he was one of the men who organized and established the Lattin-Bloomfield Company. This company's first place of business was on Prospect Street, later the plant and offices were at West Forty-Seventh and Ravine, but in 1917 they moved to ample new quarters occupying all the three lower floors of the building at West Ninth. Street, corner of Lakeside Avenue. The officers of the company are: H. A. Lattin, president; S. Bloomfield, vice president and treasurer and Edward A. Overbeke, secretary. Mr. Overbeke is well known in Masonic circles and various clubs and other organizations at Cleveland. He is affiliated with Forest City Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, Webb Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Oriental Cornmandery, Knights Templar; Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine ; Lake Erie Consistory of the Scottish Rite. He is a member of the Cleveland Yacht Club and the Lakewood Chamber of Commerce. and in politics is a republican. In 1912 Mr. Overbeke built a modern home at 14708 Clifton Boulevard in Lakewood. He has a wife and three children. He married at Cleveland, in 1909, Miss Anna Robison. daughter of A. and Rose Robison, who are living retired in this city. The three children are : Edna, horn July 5. 1911; Ruth, born November 16, 1912; and Robert Edward, born October 28, 1917. EGBERT N. FAIRCHILD before coming to Cleveland was a Minneapolis man, and had risen to one of the chief executive positions in the great Pillsbury flour industry. It was as a representative of important flour milling interests in the Northwest that he came to Cleveland. and has been the active man here in the development of the Cleveland Milling Company, controlling one of the biggest flour mills around the entire chain of Great Lakes. Mr. Fairchild has also made himself a factor in the good citizenship of Cleveland. He CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 211 is credited with having conceived the idea and first brought the plan to public notice which resulted in Cleveland a few years ago adopting the "daylight saving" program, involving a change from Central to Eastern time. The columns of the Cleveland press recently told about Mr. Fairchild's connection with the movement. It seems that he and his wife, soon after their removal from Minneapolis to Cleveland, were oppressed by the darkness and gloom of the city, and their discussion of the matter led Mr. Fairchild into a train of thought which brought about the idea which he first presented to the public in January, 1910. The idea of setting the clocks ahead one hour was generally canvassed and discussed all over the city, until the Council, the Chamber of Commerce and other organizations became interested, and finally four years later, on May 1, 1914, Cleveland began getting up and going to work one hour earlier than formerly and the plan is now permanently adopted and probably no one would think of going back to Central time. Thus Cleveland was a pioneer in a movement which was to be adopted eventually all over the country just as the custom has been inaugurated in all European countries since the beginning of the World war. Mr. Fairchild is a native of New York City, born there September 28, 1868, a son of Egbert H. and Mary (Seymour) Fairchild. His father, a native of Ogdensburg, New York, was a graduate of Williams College and became a building contractor. He lived in New York City for several years and while there constructed the old New York reservoir. Later he moved to Peekskill, New York, and in 1881 went to St. Paul, Minnesota, and in that city and in Minneapolis followed his business as a contractor until his death in August, 1902, Egbert N. Fairchild was educated in the grammar and high schools of Peekskill, New York, and after the family moved to St. Paul he was a pupil in the high school of that city for one year. From school he entered the employ of the Pillsbury Flour Mills Company as an office boy at four dollars a week. He had in him the capacity to make good in this industry, and notwithstanding his humble start he was soon in the way of promotion, was made a clerk, went through various departments to traffic manager, assistant general manager, and finally as general manager and director of one of the greatest institutions in America. In 1909 Mr. Fairchild resigned and came to Cleveland for the purpose of taking over the Cleveland Milling Company. With some associates of the Northwestern country, he reorganized the'business, and has kept its affairs growing and prospering every year. In 1909 the Cleveland Milling Company manufactured 160,000 barrels of flour. In 1917 the output was 300,000 barrels and the mills, elevators, warehouses and other quarters of the company are now a prominent feature of the Cleveland industrial district. From sixty to seventy people are employed and the leading brand of flour sent out is known as the Fairchild. Mr. Fairchild has been president of the company from the beginning, and the other executive officers were Jacob Theobald, vice president and treasurer, and George 0. Groll, secretary. In 1910 Mr. Fairchild assumed the dual office of president and treasurer, with J. C. Abel, vice president, and Charles E. Heath, secretary. Most of the flour manufactured by the Cleveland Milling Company is from the No. 1 hard wheat grown on the prairies of the Northwestern states and Western Canada. This wheat is transported, to the amount of about 2,000,000 bushels annually, around the Great Lakes, coming chiefly from Duluth and from Manitoba, Canada. Mr. Fairchild is a member of the Chamber of Industry, the Chamber of Commerce, is president of the Dover Bay Country Club, member of the Country Club, the Cleveland Ad Club, Automobile Club, and in politics is an independent. His favorite recreation is golf. At Buffalo, New York, October 4, 1893, he married Miss Gertrude Kenny, daughter of Peter Kenny. They have two children, Catherine and Mary, the latter a student in the Laurel School. Catherine is the wife of Frederick H. Cummer, president of the Cummer Drying Machine Company of Cleveland. Mr. Fairchild is a member of the War Industries Commission, being executive chairman of the food department. He is also a member of the local Food Administration, of which Doctor Bishop is chairman, and the company of which Mr. Fairchild is president is a member of the United States Food Administration, with Herbert Hoover as president. THOMAS D. MORROW, is assistant transit manager of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. He is one of the younger men in Cleveland's financial circles and has been identified with some of the local banks practically ever since leaving school. His grandfather, Rev. Richard Morrow, who 212 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS died in Cleveland in 1901, was one of the well known ministers of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the conferences of Northern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania. He was born in Belmont County, West Virginia, in 1829, and in early life joined the Pittsburg Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He continued active to the end, preaching at Cleveland and elsewhere. For many years he lived on his property at the corner of Woodland Avenue and Woodland Hills, where he had a small farm and vineyard. His wife was Nancy E. Dallas, who was born in Belmont County, West Virginia, and died in Cleveland. Frank D. Morrow, father of Thomas D., was born in Pennsylvania in 1856 and died in Cleveland in 1908. he spent his early years in Pennsylvania, was graduated from the law department of the University of Pennsylvania, and as a lawyer he practiced at Cleveland from 1890. He was also a member of the Methodist Church and was affiliated with the Knights of the Maccabees. Frank D. Morrow married Cora Patterson, who was born in Pittsburg in 1862 and is still living at Cleveland. Their five children are : Richard H., who is manager of the Faultless Engraving Company of Cleveland and lives in Lakewood; Virginia, wife of H. J. Green, living in East Cleveland, Mr. Green being a Government employee; Thomas D.; Frances, a trained nurse living with her mother; Grace, a student in the Central High Sehoil. Thomas D. Morrow was born at Cleveland December 13, 1891, was educated in the public schools, attended Central High School and graduated in 1910 from the East Technical High School. While in school he was employed in a clerical capacity at the Chamber of Commerce. For one year he was a student in Allegheny College at Meadville, Pennsylvania, and on returning to Cleveland in 1911 took a minor clerical position in the State Bank & Trust Company. His abilities gained him promotion and favor and in a few years he was made cashier of the branch office of the State Bank & Trust Company at Five Points. He resigned that position in July, 1917, to enter the Federal Reserve Bank on the public square as assistant transit manager. Mr. Morrow also has financial interests in the Faultless Engraving Company, of which his brother is manager. He is an independent voter, active in the Euclid Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, a member of its official board and a teacher in the Sunday school. His home is at 2473 Overlook Road in Cleve land Heights. Mr. Morrow married in 1911, in Cleveland, Miss Irene Heasley, daughter of Samuel R. and Anna (Cashel) IIeasley, the latter a resident of Cleveland. Her father, deceased, was assistant superintendent of the Adams-Bagnall Electric Company. Mr. and Mrs. Morrow have one daughter, Charlotte, born May 27, 1912. DAVID C. HABER is president of a Cleveland concern whose products go all over the United States and even to foreign countries but which is perhaps not as well known as it should. be. This is the United Knit Goods Company, manufacturers of knit gloves and mittens, and said to be the largest concern of its kind in the United States. Mr. Haber has been a worker in Cleveland business life since early boyhood. He was born at Zanesville, Ohio, December 2, 1874. His father, Jonas Haber, was born at Cracow, Galicia, Poland, over which the contending armies in the present war have fought so strenuously. He was born there in 1846, but was reared and married in Austria Hungary, where he followed the business of merchant. In 1870 he brought his family to the United States, was a merchant at Zanesville, Ohio, for a number of years, and in 1884 came to Cleveland establishing a store on St. Clair Avenue. He retired from business in 1911 and is now living on Linwood Avenue in Cleveland. He is a thorough American in spirit as well as adoption, votes the republican ticket, and is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias. In Hungary he married Nina Neuman, who was born in Austria Hungary, in 1848. This fine old couple celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1916. Eight children were born to their marriage. David C. Haber was ten years old when the family came to Cleveland and the education which he had begun in the common schools at Zanesville was completed here. He managed to acquire a good education but most it out of school. When only thirteen years of age he was self supporting and earning his own way either as a newsboy or as a messenger. For ten years he was employed as a cigar clerk and then continued in the cigar business for himself until 1903. He left the cigar business to become a traveling representative for the United Knitting Company, under the old organization, and sold its goods until 1908. In that year a reorganization was effected and Mr. Haber was CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 213 one of those who established the United Knit Goods Company under its present corporate form. He served as secretary of the company until 1914, when he was elected president. The officers of this corporation are: David C. Haber, president, M. L. Goldstein, vice president and treasurer, and Fred Desberg, secretary. The plant and offices are at 1248 West Fourth Street. While their goods have gone all over the United States for a number of years, during the present war the company has filled a number of important contracts for the foreign trade. Mr. Haber is also treasurer for the Ideal Printing Company, is a director of the Woven Right Knitting Company and a director of the Cuyahoga Mortgage Company. He is one of the well known members of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, the Cleveland Automobile Club, Cleveland Lodge No. 18, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and the H. B. & S. W. Club. In March, 1901, at Cleveland, he married Miss Kittie Selman, daughter of G. and Florence Selman, the latter now deceased and the former a resident of Cleveland, a retired wine manufacturer. Mr. and Mrs. Haber have two daughters and one son: Florence, born February 4, 1902, Dorothy born March 30, 1904, and Arthur, born July 19. 1909. THOMAS FERRY. In the manufacturing interests of a community largely rest its solid prosperity, hence the importance accorded manufacturing enterprises all over the country if they are organized and conducted by competent and experienced men and are of such a nature as to add to the nation's prestige and wealth. The scope of manufacturing is vast, seemingly covering at the present time every imaginable article in the line of mechanical devices, but each year sees improvements, as trained machinists test and test again their complicated machinery, and thus comes often on the market a new form of an old device or tool that may displace its predecessor because of better methods of making. This may apply to the unexcelled products now turned out by the Ferry Cap and Screw Company of Cleveland. Ohio, of which Thomas Ferry is president. Thomas Ferry was born at Cuyahoga Falls, Summit County, Ohio, October 15, 1870. His parents were Thomas and Isabella (Stewart) Ferry, well known and respected residents of that place. Mr. Ferry secured an excellent public school training and in 1886 was graduated from the Cuyahoga Falls High School. He early displayed an interest in machinery and considerable deftness with tools, and this determined his future when the time came for him to make choice of an occupation, and he entered upon an apprenticeship of three years with the Falls Rivet & Machine Company. Upon completing this apprenticeship he came to Cleveland and entered the employ of the National Screw and Tack Company as a toolmaker, working as such so expertly that his promotion to the office of foreman followed, and in that capacity he displayed so much executive ability that further advancement was only a matter of time. He became assistant superintendent, then superintendent, subsequently general superintendent and was filling this position with credit when he resigned in 1907. In order to embark in a business of his own and to make use of his own patented processes for his own profit, Mr. Ferry severed his connection with the company with which he had been so long identified, although he had but limited capital and knew that he had strong competitors. A pleasant comparison may be made between conditions when Mr. Ferry in 1907 founded the Ferry Cap and Screw Company, which at present is located at No. 2151 Scranton Road, and 1917. He started with 9,000 square feet of floor space and now his 72,000 square feet, to which the company is adding 6,600 square feet for a new heat-treating department. Seven men were employed in the works at first and in the first year between twenty and thirty tons of caps and screws were turned out. Today 550 experienced men are on the pay roll and in 1916 the output of the plant was 4,000 tons. The officers of the Ferry Cap and Screw Company are: Thomas Ferry, president and general manager; W. C. North, vice president; George M. North, treasurer; and H. D. North, secretary. The plant manufactures a general line of cap screws, set screws and sewing machine parts, and all their manufacturning is done under the Ferry process patent, which insures reliability and durability. The trade field is the entire country. That Mr. Ferry has, in so short a time, built up such an extensive business is creditable to him in every way, a testimonial to his energy and ability. At Cleveland, Ohio, on May 29, 1893, Mr. Ferry was united in marriage to Miss Katherine Dean, and they have two children, a son and a daughter : Edward W., who is a grad- 214 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS uate of the Cleveland High School, is a very interested student in the Case School of Applied Science; and Margaret Isabel, who is a student in the Western Reserve College. Mr. Ferry has always supported the principles and policies of the republican party, but he is essentially a business man, and neither the honors nor emoluments of public office have ever claimed his interest. He is public spirited and interested in all that concerns the progress of the city and is an important factor in the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers, is a member of the Cleveland Athletic, the Rotary, the Laundryman's and the Willowick Country clubs. For many years he has been a member of the Knights of Pythias. EDWARD Y. MOORE is a veteran in the iron industry of America, and his prominence in Cleveland is due to his position as vice president of the Chisholm-Moore Manufacturing Company, which has an international reputation as manufacturers of portable hoisting machinery and malleable iron castings. The extensive plant of this company is on East Fiftieth Street and Lakeside Avenue. Mr. Moore is a true American in spirit and represents a long line of American ancestry. He is descended from John Moore, who landed at Salem, Massachusetts, in 1650. In 1670 he located on Long Island, and erected a fine old colonial dwelling which is still standing and one of the notable landmarks of the locality. For seven generations his descendants lived in that house and many of them were wealthy landowners in the district. There were Moores of this branch who served as soldiers in the Revolutionary war. The grandparents of Edward Y. Moore were John and Martha (Manwaring) Moore. The father of Edward Moore was Samuel H. Moore, who was born on Long Island, May 29, 1822. Edward Y. Moore was born on the old family homestead on Long Island, September 17, 1847. He was educated .in the public schools of New York City, in the Flushing Institute of Long Island, and his early business career was as an employee of a commission house in New York City. He was in that line of business for nine or ten years. In 1873 he removed to Chicago, and for fifteen years was in the iron business in that city. For ten years he was a factor in the manufacturing industries of Milwaukee. Mr. Moore came to Cleveland in 1897, organizing the Chisholm-Moore Manufacturing company, manufacturers of hoisting apparatus and malleable iron castings. This company has developed a large plant and a complete organization in equipment and personnel, and their output of goods has long been recognized as a standard of reliability. For years they have held a place among the first two or three organizations in the country in the manufacture of portable hoisting machinery. Much of the material manufactured is covered by patents issued directly to Mr. Moore, who has the genius of an inventor as well as the executive ability of the business administrator. Mr. Moore has been vice president of the company since it was established in Cleveland. On December 16, 1880, Mr. Moore married Miss Jane Forsyth Armistead, daughter of George and Jane (Forsyth) Armistead of Florence, Alabama. Her father was a wealthy Southern planter. Mr. and Mrs. Moore have three children: Samuel H., now general manager of the Chisholm-Moore Manufacturing Company; Janet A., wife of Howard S. Williams, president of the Mau-Sherwood Supply Company; and Margaret E., the wife of Brent A. Tozzer. The family reside at 1896 East Eighty-Fourth Street. Mr. Moore is a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, is a republican voter in national affairs, is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and belongs to the Union and Country Clubs. As a recreation from business his favorite diversions are fishing and bridge whist. FRANK W. McCORMACK began to get business experience when only a boy in years. The field of his experience throughout has been in connection with the manufacturing industries of Cleveland and particularly in the sales end of the organization. He is a highly qualified expert in sales work, and as sales manager of the Cleveland Brass Manufacturing Company has extended the business of this well known concern all over the United States. Mr. McCormack was born at Cleveland February 16, 1875. His father, John liffeCorrnack, was born at Drogheda, twenty miles north of Dublin, Ireland, in 1849. Reared in his native country, he came to the United States when a young man,workedin some of the mills around Pittsburgh for a time, married in that city and in 1867 came to Cleveland. About 1873 he gave up mill work to take a place on the CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 215 city police force, and after twenty-five years of faithful service was retired on a pension. He died at Cleveland in January, 1906. He was .a democrat and a member of the Catholic Church. John McCormack also belonged to the Knights of St. John. He married Catherine Alurray. She was born in County Roscommon, Ireland, in 1850 and died at Cleveland in June, 1905. They had a family of the following children: Mary, who died in infancy; Elizabeth, who married Edward Grady, who served his full time as an engineer with the Cleveland City Fire Department, and is now retired on a pension, he and his wife living at Cleveland; Thomas, who is a paperhanger and has a paper and paint store at Cleveland; Maria, wife of John McKean, a railroad engineer for the New York Central Lines, living at Cleveland; Frank W.; Cecelia, wife of Carl Fonts, a restaurant proprietor at Cleveland; John, in business with Carl Fouts; Joseph, a machinist living at Cleveland ; Catherine, who died in infancy. Frank W. McCormack was educated both in the public and parochial schools. After beginning work he attended a night college and took special courses in mathematics, bookkeeping and other branches. His wage earning career began at the age of thirteen. He was employed for a time in mills, and at fifteen was assistant shipping clerk with the American Stove Company. He remained with that corporation eighteen years, was promoted from time to time, and not only learned the manufacturing business thoroughly, but became highly proficient as a salesman. In 1909 Mr. McCormack transferred his services to the Cleveland Brass Manufacturing Company as salesman, and some years ago was given the responsibilities of sales manager. The plant and offices are at 46064700 Hamilton Avenue. The Cleveland Brass Manufacturing Company makes a well known standard line of plumbing supplies, and under the energetic direction of Mr. McCormack the sales of its goods have been extended over the entire Union. The other executive officers of the company are: M. F. Barrett, president ; Charles Higley, vice president ; W. H. Smith, secretary and treasurer. Mr. McCormack is a democratic voter, a member of the Catholic Church, is a life member of Cleveland Lodge No. 18, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and is a member of the Cleveland Advertising Club. October 5, 1895, at Youngstown, Ohio, he married Miss Nora Murphy, (laughter of John and Bridget (Henry) Murphy, the latter now deceased. Her father is ninety-two years old and is a retired citizen of Youngstown. Mr. and Mrs. McCormack have two daughters: Helen, at home, is a graduate of the parochial schools and of the Cleveland Business University ; Edna is a graduate of the East High School and of Lane's Business School at Cleveland. HENRY S. PICKANDS is one of the active partners in Pickands, Mather & Company, a Cleveland business of national if not international prominence in the iron and transportation industry. The founder of this business was his father, the late Col. James Pickands, whose career as a business man and citizen was well summed up in a brief paragraph by the Cleveland Leader at the time of his death on July 14, 1896. Editorially the Leader said: “It is hard for Cleveland to fill such gaps in the ranks of her public spirited citizens as that caused by the death of Col. James Pickands. Though not a native of the Forest City, Colonel Pickands had proved during his residence in Cleveland his deep devotion to the best interests of the thriving metropolis of Ohio. He was always foremost in movements designed to increase the power and influence of his city, and in every way he was a citizen of whom all might feel proud. Although few had heard it from his own lips, Colonel Pickands had won distinction in the Civil war as commander of the One Hundred Twenty-fourth Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry, the title he wore having been conferred upon him for his bravery and zeal in defense of the Union. Hundreds of Cleveland people who had the pleasure of the acquaintance of that genial and public spirited man, must have learned with pain and surprise of his sudden taking off in the prime of life and without any warning in the form of serious or apparently dangerous illness." Colonel James Pickands was horn at Akron, Ohio. in 1839, and came from there to Cleveland before attaining manhood. At Cleveland he went to work as clerk in a mercantile house and had already made a commendable showing in the development of his business capabilities when the war broke out. During the early months of that struggle he was active in organizing regiments of volunteers, and in 1862 he was prevailed upon to accept a commission in the One Hundred Twenty-fourth Regiment, organized at Cleveland. Subsequent promo- 216 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS tions led him to the rank of colonel. When the war was over Colonel Pickands became a pioneer in the newly opened mining regions of Lake Superior. At Marquette, Michigan, he established a hardware, coal, and general merchandise business under the name James Pickands & Company. This was developed into a very profitable business. He also was an active factor in developing the iron ore resources of that region, and much of the prominence of Marquette as a center of the iron producing region has been credited to the 'activities and influence of Colonel Pickands. After about fifteen years at Marquette. Colonel Pickands returned to Cleveland where, in 1881 he organized Pickands, Mather & Company, with Samuel Mather and J. C. Morse as partners. Colonel Pickands remained one of the active and responsible executives of this business to the close of his life and was in his office in the Western Reserve Building only the day before his death. His prominence in business affairs had an interesting testimony in the fact that after his death nearly every vessel on the Great Lakes carried colors at half mast in respect for him. From every point of view he was a strong man, and an interesting testimony to his character is found in what was said of him some years ago that he never sought by precept to make the world better, though his life was a living example of the power of honorable and forceful manhood. He had many varied and extensive business connections. He was the head of the firm of Pickands, Mather & Company, president of the Western Reserve National Bank, member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, was on the Soldiers and Sailors Monument Commission of Cleveland, belonged to the Army and Navy Post of the Grand Army of the Republic, and the Loyal Legion, and was a member of the Union Club of Cleveland. Colonel Pickands married for his first wife Miss Caroline Outhwaite. Her father, John Outhwaite, was one of the pioneer ironmasters of Cleveland. Mrs. Caroline Pickands died in 1882, leaving three sons: Joseph O., Henry S. and Jay M. For his second wife Colonel Pickands married Seville Hanna. a sister of the late Senator Marcus A. Hanna. Henry S. Pickands was born at Marquette, Michigan, October 4, 1875, and was six years of age when his parents moved to Cleveland. In this city he attended the public schools, also the University School. from which he graduated in 1894, and in 1897 completed his course in the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University. With both a technical and liberal education he returned to Cleveland to make himself useful in his father's firm, Pickands, Mather & Company. He learned the business in the same way that any other employe would have learned it, and his place in that firm is due to his value and wide experience as a business man. He has been a partner in the company since 1900, and now has charge of operation and the purchasing department. He is also a director of the First National Bank and of the First Trust & Savings Bank. Many civic movements have also enlisted his active co-operation and assistance. He is treasurer of the Cleveland Finance Committee of the Dry Campaign and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the University School. His home is in the Village of Euclid, and he served as its mayor four and a half years from 1903 to 1908. He is a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, the Union Club, Cleveland Athletic Club, University Club, Country Club, Willowick Country Club. December 27, 1899, he married Miss Jeanne K. Call, daughter of C. H. Call of Marquette, Michigan. They are the parents of five children : Elizabeth C. and Caroline O., both now attending Miss Porter's School for Girls at Farmington, Connecticut; James and Henry S., Jr., who are students in the University School of Cleveland; and Seville J. JAY M. PICKANDS. Few names are more deservedly prominent in the history of Cleveland's industrial and commercial life than that of Pickands. One of the family of that name, and a member of the firm of Pickands, Mather & Company, was the late Jay M. Pickands, who died November 18, 1913. He was born at Marquette, Michigan, February 21, 1880, son of the late Col. James Pick-ands, a founder of the business of Pickands, Mather & Company and a prominent man of affairs mentioned more at length on other pages. Jay M. Pickands in his comparatively short life achieved well deserved business and social prominence. He graduated in 1898 from the University School of Cleveland, and entered Yale College, taking the academic course and graduating in 1902. He returned to Cleveland and was salesman for the pig iron department of Pickands, Mather & Company until 1911, when he was made a partner in the firm. His death a little more than two years later deprived that organization of one of its most valuable and efficient executives. CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 217 Mr. Pickands was a member of the Union, Country, Athletic, Mayfield and Tavern Clubs. At Yale he was affiliated with the Alpha Delta Phi, and the Scroll and Key fraternities. He was prominently connected with charitable organizations and for several years was secretary of .the Cleveland Branch of the Red Cross Society. Politically he was a stanch republican. January 7, 1903, at Marquette, Michigan, Mr. Pickands married Miss Alice M. Reynolds of that city. They became the parents of two children. The Pickands home is at Brathenahl. LEONHARDT E. WEITZ is a young Cleveland business man with a splendid record of service and achievement, and in the few years since he left college has attained an enviable position in the city. Mr. Weitz gives most of his time to his duties as secretary of the Superior Building and Loan Company at 517 Euclid Avenue. IIe is also secretary and treasurer of the Parshall Battery Service Company. Mr. Weitz represents one of the oldest families of Cleveland, one going back in the history of this community fully a century. He bears his grandfather's name. This grandfather was born at Danheim, Germany, in about 1791. He came to America about the time of the War of 1812 and soon numbered himself among the pioneers of what was then the little Village of Cleveland. He was a trader and merchant, and spent his life in those occupations. During the Civil war he did an extensive business in supplying the Union army with teams and various food supplies. He died at Cleveland May 26, 1884. The maiden name of his wife was Elizabeth Traukert, who was born in 1801 in Wattenheim, Germany, and died in Cleveland in 1890. The father of Leonhardt Weitz, Sr., was Joseph Weitz, who followed his son from Germany after a few years and also was identified with Cleveland. thus making four consecutive generations of the Weitz family in this city. Joseph Weitz established a store at the corner of Huron and Ontario streets, a location which was then outside the city limits. Both he and his wife are buried in the Erie cemetery. Leonhardt E. Weitz, Jr., was born at Cleveland, May 6, 1893. and is a son of the late Joseph Arthur Weitz. His father was born in Cleveland in 1860 and spent his life here in active business affairs. He was in the oil industry, but was chiefly engaged in the manu facture of glycerine. He was also a director of the Broadway Savings & Trust Company. His death occurred at Cleveland in 1910. He was a republican and a member of the Knights of Pythias. Joseph A. Weitz married Louise M. Lahl, who was born in Cleveland in 1867, and is now living at Jacksonville, Florida. They had only two children, Leonhardt E. and Mary, the latter a senior in the Lakewood High School. Mr. L. E. Weitz graduated from the Lakewood High School in 1.910, and then pursued a technical course in the Case School of Applied Science, from which he graduated Bachelor of Science in 1914. While there he became a member of the Kappa Sigma college fraternity. Soon after leaving college, Mr. Weitz connected himself with the Superior Building and Loan Company as assistant secretary, and in 1915 was promoted to his present office as secretary. According to a recent statement this company has total assets of over $800,000, and shows the condition of healthy prosperity, reflecting upon the ability and business integrity of its officers and directors. The president of the company is Augustus M. Weber, the vice presidents are H. D. Lingenfelter and C. Halle, and the treasurer, S. Bernstein. A number of prominent business and professional men are on its hoard of directors. The Parshall Battery Service Company, of which Mr. Weitz is secretary and treasurer, have an extensive business as Cleveland distributors for the National Carbon Company, handling their Columbia batteries. Mr. Weitz is a member of the Hermit Club, City Club and Cleveland Yacht Club, and is a republican in politics. He married at Cleveland in 1915 Miss Marie .B. Kurz, daughter of Jacob and Louisa A. (Buttner) Kurz. Her father was a contractor and is now deceased, while her mother lives in Cleveland. Mr. and Mrs. Weitz have two children. John H., born September 20. 1916. and Anne L., born January 3, 1918. WILLIAM L. NUTT. now living retired at Cleveland, though he is still vice president of the Lorain Street Savings Bank, has other interests that furnish occupation and a useful field for his energy. is a veteran in railroad service. He began railroading when such methods of transportation were in their infancy in Ohio. He was in railroad work for many years and attained large responsibilities in the operating branch. He has also been a 218 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS farmer and is still a farm owner as well as possessor of much valuable property in Cleveland. Mr. Nutt was born in Oneida County, New York, February 28, 1835. He is of old American family, his great-grandfather having come from England and become a pioneer settler in Oneida County. The wife of this ancestor was a Scotch woman. David Nutt, father of Willard L., was born in Oneida County in 1800, and was reared and married there, his wife being also a native of Oneida County. David Nutt spent his life as a farmer. In 1837 he brought his family to Russell, Ohio, and continued farming there until his death in 1888. He was a republican voter and a member of the Wesleyan Methodist Church. His wife also died at Russell. Of their large family of fourteen children, two are now living, Willard and his brother, Albert, next younger, whose home is in California. The names of the children in order of birth include: William, Benjamin, Mary, Roxie, Daniel, Charles, Freeman, John, Avis, Helen, Susan, Willard L., Albert and George. William and Benjamin were both farmers, the former dying in Illinois and the latter in Wisconsin. Mary became the wife of John hart, a railroad man who died in Chicago. Roxie, who died at Cleveland, was the wife of H. B. Smith, a hotel proprietor, who also died at Cleveland. Daniel, Charles, Freeman and John were all farmers, and all died at the old home in Russell, Ohio, except Charles. who passed away in Wisconsin. Avis and Helen both died unmarried at Russell. Susan married George Meyers, a railroad man, and both died at Cleveland. The youngest of the family, George, died at the age of eight years. Williard L. Nutt was two years old when the family came to Ohio and he grew up on the farm at Russell. His opportunity to obtain an education by attendance at school was limited. Altogether he attended public school at Russell about two years, but by study at night and diligence and application acquired a substantial education. He was eighteen years old when in 1853 he went to work for the Lake Shore Railroad Company, coming to Cleveland in the same year. For twenty-eight years he was in the railroad service and was promoted from time to time until he filled the office of train master. On leaving railroad work Mr. Nutt engaged in farming at Russell for a number of years, and he still owns a farm of a hundred forty-three and a half acres in that vicinity. For the past sixteen years Mr. Nutt has been vice president of the Lorain Street Savings Bank and has been an official in that institution almost since it was organized. He is the owner of much local real estate, including a dwelling house at the corner of Wilson and Curtis avenues, other real estate on the West Side along Fulton Road, and has a fine modern residence at 11433 Mayfield Road. Mr. Nutt is a republican, a member of the Second Presbyterian Church, and is affiliated with Iris Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and Webb Chapter, Royal Arch Masons. Mr. Nutt married Miss Adelaide Electa Curtiss, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Curtiss, both now deceased. Her father was a horseman. Mr. Nutt has no living children. FRED C. KOCH has been a resident of Cleveland since 1890, and as a result of long and varied experience has come to be regarded as one of the most expert all around machinists, and as such has had many important responsibilities. He is now superintendent and assistant general manager of the Columbia Metal Stamping Company at 1538 East Forty-ninth Street. This is a line of business with which he has been connected for over ten years. In 1906 he founded the Koch & Baerwalde Manufacturing Company, of which he was president. The plant was at West Third Street, and the products manufactured were water fans, water motors, armature winders, and special machinery. At the end of three years Mr. Koch bought Mr. Baerwalde's interests and with Mr. Lewin engaged in metal stamping. In'order to secure a larger plant they moved to East Third Street. For several years the business was conducted as a partnership, with Mr. Koch as manager. In 1912 they incorporated as the Columbia Metal Stamping Company, the officers of the corporation being: Mr. Koch, president and general manager; Frances Koch, his wife, vice president; Charles Ertel, secretary and treasurer. In 1915 the business was sold to Mr. H. B. Hawgood, and at that time Mr. Koch signed a contract with Mr. Hawgood as superintendent and assistant general manager for a term of five years. Since then the plant has been moved to East Forty-Ninth Street, where a large industry has grown up, the market for their metal stamping work being co-extensive with the entire area of this country. Mr. Koch was born at Erie, Pennsylvania, CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 219 March 26, 1869. His father, Marcus Koch, was born in Alsace-Lorraine in 1838, and was. reared and educated there. He served six years in the German army, having an official commission. In 1866, on coming to the United States, he located at Erie, Pennsylvania, where for many years he was a foreman in a foundry. He died at Erie in 1892. He was a very ardent republican in politics, and a member of the Catholic Church. At Erie he married Elizabeth Carle, who was born in that city in 1847 and is still living there. Her father George Carle, was born in Baden, Germany, in 1816 and died at Erie in 1900. He was a shoemaker by trade and served his regular time in the German army. Iu his native country he married Miss Seifert, also a native of Baden, who died at Erie. Their children still living are: Regina, of Cleveland, widow of Andrew Stadmiller, formerly a blacksmith at Erie; Mrs. Elizabeth Koch: Mrs. Sue Williams, of Erie, whose husband was connected with the United States Navy ; and Lou, living at Erie, widow of Frederick Elber, a former business man of that city. Marcus Koch and wife had the following children: Fred C.; Emma, who died in 1905 at Erie, wife of J. B. Haas, a cigar and liquor salesman at Erie; Susie, wife of George Keyser, a salesman living at Cleveland; George, who died in the summer of 1917, having followed the business of printer at Erie; William, a printer at Erie ; Rose, twin sister of William, who is unmarried and is a bookkeeper at Erie; and Bertha, a stenographer in her native city. Fred C. Koch was educated in St. Mary's parochial school at Erie, but attended school only to the age of twelve years, since which time practically all his experience has been in machine shops and other large industries. He learned every branch of his trade, tool making, die making, roll turning and general all around machine shop practice. In 1890, on coming to Cleveland, Mr. Koch spent one year with the old Walker Machine Works, one year with the Hill Clutch Works, a year and a half with the Cleveland Automatic Machine Company, one year was general foreman in the Central Furnaces of the American Steel & Wire Company. put in another year as general foreman with the Hoffman Automobile Works, and served with other firms until he entered business for himself in 1906. as already noted. Mr. Koch during his long residence at Cleveland has visibly prospered in material circumstances. He owns considerable local real estate, including four dwelling houses, and is a stockholder in the Ackerman Wheel Company of Cleveland. His property also includes his residence at 4268 West Thirtieth Street, which was built in 1906. He is a republican voter, a member of the Catholic Church, and is affiliated with Forest City Council Knights of Columbus and the Catholic Mutual Benefit Association. Mr. Koch married at Cleveland in 1896 Miss Frances Ertel, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Ertel, both of whom died iu Cleveland. Her father for many years was a millwright with the American Steel & Wire Company. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Koch has been blessed with the birth of ten children, constituting a fine family, all of whom are living but one. Their names and dates of birth are: Lenore, born June 12, 1897; Ambrose, 1900; Arthur, 1902; Colette, 1903 ;. Robert, 1907; Frederick, May 14, 1909; Laverne, 1911; Ruth, 1913; Beatrice who died when one year old; and Rita, born in 1917. With the exception of the oldest and the two youngest children, all were educated in the parochial schools. BENJAMIN DELANO FULLER is superintendent of foundries at Cleveland for the great Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company. Mr. Fuller entered the service of the Westinghouse people as an apprentice many years ago and has mastered opportunities as they have come, until he has become one of the chief executives in the managing of industry and labor in Cleveland. His birth occurred on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, February 10, 1864. He is of old New England ancestry and a son of Rev. William A. and Emma (Wood) Fuller. His father was a minister of the Protestant Episcopal Church. In 1868 the family moved to Pittsburgh, where Benjamin D. Fuller attended grammar and high schools until he was seventeen. He then entered the service of the Pittsburgh Locomotive Works as an apprentice molder, and for seven years followed the trade of molder. In that capacity he went with the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company, and his promotion has been steady. After four years he was assistant foreman, was then promoted to foreman, then general foreman, assistant superintendent and finally superintendent of foundries. At that time the Westinghouse people had foundries both at Cleveland and Pittsburgh, and Mr. Fuller was 220 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS superintendent of both plants. In 1916 these foundries were combined into one, located at Cleveland. Mr. Fuller's present business title is superintendent of foundries. The Cleveland foundry was first established in 1883 by the Walker Manufacturing Company. It was acquired in 1898 by the Westinghouse firm. It is now one of the largest and best equipped foundries in the Middle West. Its output is a complete line of gray iron castings, ranging fropa an ounce to fifty tons. The output is now 2,500 tons a month. All the products are sent from the Cleveland plant to the East Pittsburgh plant of the Westinghouse Company, where the castings are assembled into finished machinery. The Cleveland plant employs 1,250 people and the buildings and grounds cover nine acres. There is also a pattern shop, employing 100 men, Over this industrial army Mr. Fuller has active supervision. The system of management is such as to conserve the industrial efficiency and welfare of all the employes. One feature is the medical supervision, requiring the services of two physicians and one nurse, who not only attend to the employes of the plant, but also their families. There is also a relief society and a shop saving fund, now aggregating $15,000, and so handled as to pay depositors 41/2 per cent interest. Mr. Fuller is president of the American Foundrymen's Association, and has been a leader in every movement looking to the enlightenment and general welfare of industrial employes in Cleveland. He is a member of the advisory board in connection with the East and West Side Technical schools and is a member of the sub-committee on iron and steel scrap of the American Iron and Steel Institute and chairman of the sub-committee on east scrap of the American Society of Testing Material, also a member of the foundry committee of the Mechanical Engineers' Society, a world-wide organization. On October 1, 1918, he was appointed vice president and manager of The Defiance Paper Company, The Niagara Wall Paper Company, and The Niagara Electric Furnace Company, all of Niagara Falls, New York. His own home is in Lakewood and he has served as a member of the Lakewood board of education and was recently elected president of the board. Mr. Fuller is a Scottish Rite Mason, is a charter member of Lakewood Lodge, No. 601. Free and Accepted Masons; Cunningham Chapter. Royal Arch Masons, of Lakewood, and Pennsylvania Consistory, thirty-second degree, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce of Cleveland and Lakewood, belongs to the Westwood Country Club, the New England Society of Ohio, and in politics is a republican. June 12, 1890, he married at Pittsburgh, Mary Davitt, daughter of James Davitt, a well-known citizen of Pittsburgh, and descended from Michael Davitt, Irish patriot. Mr. and Mrs. Fuller have two children. Alice is now a senior in the Western Reserve University, while her sister Eleanor is a sophomore in the same institution. FREDERICK H. McISAAC. Many important manufacturing firms in modern days have found themselves called upon to satisfactorily meet amazing demands, and. in no branch of their work do they find room for inefficient men. The urgent need of trained, competent, experienced helpers, both in office and shop, in many cases has brought to the front comparatively young men who have proved their ability, even to the assuming of very heavy responsibilities. For such a man the Kirk-Latty Manufacturing Company of Cleveland had to look no further than under their own roof, finding in Frederick H. MeIsaac, who has been identified with the business since boyhood, a thoroughly experienced, trustworthy young man, who is now treasurer of the company, one'of the large concerns of its kind in this city. Frederick H. McIsaac was born May 13, 1884, at Detroit, Michigan. His father, who is an esteemed retired citizen of Cleveland, harry A. McIsaac, was born at Birkenhead, England, in 1858. When fifteen years of age be came to Canada and located in the city of Toronto, and there learned his trade, which he continued to follow after coming to Detroit, Michigan, in 1880, and to Cleveland, in 1887, until he retired and took up his residence with his son Frederick H. He was married in Canada to Miss Lillian Downie, who was born at Montreal in 1866, and died at Cleveland in 1904. Frederick H. McIsaac attended the public schools in Cleveland until he was sixteen years old and then went to work with the Kirk-Latty Manufacturing Company, entering as office boy and through merit securing promotion, and now is treasurer of the company with which his entire business career has been connected in one department or another, for his training has been thorough and practical. As a business man he commands CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 221 the confidence and respect of the commercial world. Mr. McIsaac was married in 1909, at Cleveland, to Miss Gertrude Jackman. They have one son, William Frederick, who was born January 29, 1913. The family residence is on Alameda Avenue. Mr. Mclsaac has never been especially active in political life, although he is a thoughtful and public-spirited citizen and is ever mindful of his responsibilities as such. He is an independent voter. He is a useful member of the Cleveland Chamber of Industry and belongs to the Cleveland Athletic Club and the Westwood Golf Club, having the genial personality that carries its welcome with it wherever he may go, that wholesome, companionable spirit that is at the base of universal brotherhood. ALBERT H. KAUFMAN. To the (lull witted, the ready intellect of the keen business man is a mystery. His vision, his capacity to grasp favorable opportunity, his orderly assembling of forces, his untiring zeal in working for the speedy success of his ventures and his ability to confidently look forward to other equally promising business fields, arouses admiration even if emulation is not possible. An example of business enterprise and ability is found in Albert H. Kaufman, who belongs to Cleveland by birth, education, social tics and business interests. Albert H. Kaufman was born at Cleveland, Ohio, August 4, 1869. His parents were Ferdinand H. and Elizabeth (Naegle) Kaufman, and his paternal grandfather was Adam Kaufman, who was born in Germany in 1814. He came to the United States in early manhood and located at Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, where he worked at his trade of tailor. He was married there and in the '60s moved with his family to Cleveland, Ohio, becoming an early business man here in the merchant tailoring line. Ferdinand H. Kaufman was born in Pennsylvania in 1836 and died at Cleveland in 1912. He first embarked in business at Pittsburgh as a shoe merchant, but after coming to Cleveland, went into the hat and cap business, and probably was the pioneer here in the hat line. His original store was on Lorain, opposite Twenty-ninth Street. Later he removed to the corner of Twenty-fifth and Loraine, in the Young American Block, the site on which the -United Banking Company has erected its fine building. It was long one of the old city landmarks. He was a man of fine character and no personal or civic duty found him unprepared to accept responsibility. Near the close of the Civil war he entered the service, but before his organization reached the front the war was over. He was intelligently interested in politics and stanchly supported the principles of the republican party, but neither he nor his son, Albert H., ever sought political office. He was one of the founders of Stemple's Church, the old German Evangelical edifice standing on the corner of Bridge and Kentucky Streets, and was a member and liberal supporter of this congregation. Ferdinand H. Kaufman married Elizabeth Naegle. who was horn at Cleveland in 1848 and died in this city in April, 1917. They had the following children : Albert H. Ida, who is the widow of Mr. Stoney, resides in the old homestead at Cleveland, Mr. Stoney dying at Pittsburgh, where he was in the insurance business; Alice, who resides also in the old homestead; Edwin F., who is a resident of Cleveland, for many years has been with the Adams Installment House as a collector; Arthur. who resides with his sisters in the old homestead, is connected with the Zimmerman Picture Frame Company ; Cora, who is the wife of Hugh Russell, who is connected with the Star Piano Company at Canton, Ohio; Charles W., who is secretary of the Flesheim-Kaufman Company, lives at Manor Park, Cleveland; Robert, who died at the age of thirteen years; Viola, who is the wife of Warren Light, an interior decorator, lives at Cleveland; and Lester. who lives in the old homestead. He was engaged in the real estate business, but entered Company M, Three Hundred and Fifty-ninth Infantry, and is now in France. The father of the above family was identified with the Knights of Pythias and the Foresters. Albert H. Kaufman attended the public schools of Cleveland until he was sixteen years of age and then entered his father's store, where he learned the business and remained for about nine years. Mr. Kaufman then accepted the offer of D. Thehold & Company of Youngstown, Ohio, and took charge of their hat department, leaving that place six months later to accept one with better prospects as traveling salesman with a steel tempering concern, but six months later, when he married. gave up this position, going then with the Flesheim-Smith Company, household outfitters, for whom he was manager for two years. Mr. Kaufman then entered into business on his own account, starting Kaufman, Mayer & Company. They remodeled the building on the corner of East Fourth and Prospect 222 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS streets to suit their convenience and this has been developed into one of the city's large enterprises. It was founded by Mr. Kaufman and he engineered its progress for some time and then sold out to advantage to the present company, the Mayer-Marks Company. Mr. Kaufman then accepted the offer of the Bing Company'and remained with that concern for ten months as sales manager, going from there to Walter Nathan, who made him manager of the Coyne Company until the Bradley Company got under way, after which Mr. Kaufman had charge of that well-known furniture company for one year, as usual with him, putting energy 'aud what is known in business parlance as "pep" into its activities. When the Kobacker Company established a new branch at Flint, Michigan, Mr. Kaufman was called to their assistance, and later managed their furniture store at Toledo, Ohio, for one year, and it was during that year that he became one of the organizers of the Crucible Steel Castings Company of Cleveland. Six months after its founding it became advisable for Mr. Kaufman to return to Cleveland to look after its further development, and he came back in May, 1909. This steel casting company was the pioneer in its line here and it was uphill work to bring it to the attention of the public in such a way as to make it profitable. For this strenuous job no one was better fitted than Mr. Kaufman. At that time machinists were backward about trying out new inventions and it took three years of steady pressure to convince them of the superiority of the new company's steel. Finally the United States steel trust began using their piercing points for making seamless tubes, and other customers began to come and gradually various industries became interested, with the result that today this is one of the representative steel plants of the United States. Mr. Kaufman sold his interest in June, 1913. After disposing of his steel interests, Mr. Kaufman permitted himself a year of rest from active business, keeping alert, however, for a business opportunity that would justify the engagement of his talents, and this resulted in the formation of the Flesheim-Kaufman Company. one of the largest house fitting establishments in the country. The new firm bought the entire interests of the Flesiheim-Smith Company, with which Mr. Kaufman had formerly been identified. This company has a lease to run twenty years on the spacious building Nos. 834-8:36 Huron Road. They are large retailers of furniture. Mr. Kaufman is vice president and manager of this company and his commercial rating is high. Mr. Kaufman was married in 1895, at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to Miss Rose M. Bichlmyer. Her parents were Albert and Katherine (Jordan) Bichlmyer, the former of whom died in 1913, being a retired resident of Lakewood. The mother of Mrs. Kaufman resides with her. Mr. and Mrs. Kaufman have one daughter, Mary Jane, who was born June 5, 1912. Mr. Kaufman owns property. at Cleveland which includes the beautiful family home at No. 13915 Clifton Boulevard. He has never been an active factor in political life, having no personal ambition in the way of public office, but he is a sound, practical and wide-awake citizen and when be casts his vote for a candidate in the republican party he first assures himself that he is supporting a trustworthy man. In former years he was a member of the Cleveland Yacht Club. He attends the Congregational Church and through this medium and in other ways gives to charity and does his part in relieving the world's miseries in times of peace as well as war. ALOIS L. EHRBAR. Among the large financial institutions that serve to emphasize the wealth, the resources and the prudential wisdom of the people of Cleveland, none have made more rapid progress or stand higher as to soundness and real community value than the Detroit Avenue Savings and Banking Company, of which Alois L. Ehrbar is president. Backed by practically unlimited capital, and conducted by men of character, ability and business experience, this bank occupies a foremost place in the city's financial field. Alois L. Ehrbar was born at Cleveland, March 13, 1873. He was one of a family of ten children born to his parents, Martin and Catherine Hunter (Buettner) Ehrbar. This name has been a familiar one at Cleveland for several generations. Martin Ehrbar was born in Bavaria, Germany, December 3, 1845, and was a child of three years when his parents left Germany during the revolution of 1848, came to the United States and lived afterward at Cleveland, Ohio. Martin Ehrbar attended both the public and the parochial schools here and grew to manhood through an industrious youth and developed into a dependable and successful business man and for many years was at the head of the well-known wholesale crockery firm of Ehrbar igs CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 223 Engel. He was a highly respected and valued citizen and belonged to the organization known as the Pioneer Society, which passed resolutions of regret at the time of his death, in 1907. Alois L. Ehrbar was reared at Cleveland, and was educated in the Catholic schools, in boyhood attending St. Mary's and afterward St. Ignatius College, having the honor of being one of the latter institution's first pupils and graduates, completing his course in 1892: He had decided upon a business life, and judging from the important place he now occupies in the business world, his choice was one of wisdom. He established himself in the wholesale cigar t nd tobacco business under the style of A. L. Ehrbar, and is at present the third largest jobber for the Cinco cigar in the United States, distributing the same over Northern Ohio. This cigar has been determined the largest selling cigar in the world. Mr. Ehrbar's place of business, at No. 6610 Franklin Avenue, is the distributing point of many other fine brands, the business being so extensive that Mr. Ehrbar has been designated the "Cigar King." Mr. Ehrbar was the main organizer of the Detroit Avenue Savings and Banking Company, which opened its doors on August 10, 1914, with deposits of $130,626.63, and with assets of $100,000, and one year later the assets were four times as great and the deposits on August 10, 1915, were $409,375.83; August 10, 1916, the deposits were $763,228.47; and on August.10, 1917, the deposits had expanded to $1,245,788.92. This remarkable growth has been a safe and sane business advance and many of the present customers are the same who first deposited with the institution. The location of the Detroit Avenue Savings and Banking Company is admirable, at the junction point of three city and two interurban lines with heavy traffic, in easy reach of both business and residential sections. The bank is owned by the company. Mr. Ehrbar has many additional interests. He is a director of the Public Mortgage and Investment Company, a director in the West Park Banking Company and a director of the Superior Brick Company. Associated with him in the bank he has men of financial importance and business experience who, like himself, command respect and confidence. The board at present stands as follows: A. L. Ehrbar, president; F. E. Prasse, vice president; Charles Haas, vice president; Charles Vol III— 16 U. Davis, vice president; F. W. Staffeld, secretary and treasurer. Mr. Ehrbar was married June 15, 1896, at Denver, Colorado, to Miss Elesha Maher. They are members of the Catholic Church. In politics Mr. Ehrbar is a democrat and loyally supports the candidates and upholds the principles of his party, but has never consented to accept any political perferment for himself. He is greatly interested in all that concerns the West Side of the city and is ever ready to co-operate with others in forwarding movements beneficial to this neighborhood. he is a member of the Cleveland Commercial Travelers, the United Commercial Travelers and the Kiwanis clubs, and for many years has been a valued member of the order of Maccabees and of the Elks. Personally, Mr. Ehrbar impresses as a man of business capacity and inspires confidence in a stranger, while to his friends he is genial and companionable. SAMUEL H. HALLE. The vocabulary of Cleveland business men contains no such word as luck, for long years of experience have convinced them that prosperity and position come only through the medium of persistent application of intelligent methods that require time for their full development and consummation. It is certain that no one will intimate that Samuel H. Halle, vice president of the Halle Brothers Company of Cleveland, owes his success to any lucky chance or circumstance. His career has been one of slow and steady advancement from the time when, as an inexperienced youth, he opened his first small venture in the Forest City. For a number of years now he has occupied a recognized place in business and financial circles, but the upward climb was a matter of hard work and tireless vigilance. Mr. Halle was born at Cleveland, July 8, 1868, a son of Moses Halle. He attended the graded and high schools until he was sixteen years of age, at which time, on account of his health, he went to Southern California, and he subsequently spent some time on the western plains. Upon his return to Cleveland he recognized an opportunity, and with his brother, Salmon P. Halle, purchased from the estate of Capt. T. S. Paddock the hat and fur shop located at 226 Superior Street. The firm of Halle Brothers continued at that location for a mat- 224 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS ter of three years, but at the end of that time found that under their aggressive management the business bad outgrown the store, and when they moved to larger quarters at 89 Euclid Avenue they added a line of women's wearing apparel to their stock. In 1910 the Halle Brothers Company influenced greatly the development of a new retail district when they took possession of a beautiful ten-story building at Euclid Avenue and East Twelfth Street. Three years later further expansion became imperative and an addition larger than the original building was constructed, which was opened in November, 1914. Here they have developed one of the leading department stores of the city, employing from 1,500 to 2,000 people and serving at once those whose taste demands the highest class of merchandise and those who, while of more modest purse, have desires equally discriminating. In 1914 the business was re-incorporated as the Halle Brothers Company, with Salmon P. Halle as president and Samuel H. IIalle as vice president and general manager. The history of the growth and development of this business from small beginnings into large proportions is well known to most Clevelanders and is a true example of American enterprise, grit and determination. Its founders and developers have contributed a splendid institution to the many which combine to form Cleveland's prestige as a commercial center. Samuel H. Halle is known as a business man of fine abilities, of unswerving integrity and of a high standard of ethics. Possessed of a broad mind, a keen business sense, and a thorough realization of the possibilities of his business and his city, he has developed into one of the leading commercial factors of the community. Mr. Halle married, at Cleveland, July 12, 1901, Blanche Margaret Murphy, and they have five children: Katherine, who is attending Laurel School; Walter, a student at University School; Margaret and Jane, pupils of Laurel School; and Ann. MONTE C. HAMMEL has been a resident of Cleveland since 1890 and has proceeded along a very matter-of-fact and determined course toward business success, and is now one of the active heads of a large lumber and building material concern of the city. Mr. Hammel was born at Howland, Ohio, November 24, 1864. His grandfather, Israel Hammel, was a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and an early settler at Howland, where he engaged in business as a builder and carpenter. Samuel F. IIammel, father of Monte C., was born in Howland in 1839, was educated there and also followed the building trade. In 1874 he removed to Portage County and was engaged in farming until his death in May, 1904. At Howland he married Elizabeth L. Collins. Monte C. Hammel had a public school education, leaving high school at the age of nineteen to take up work on a farm in Portage County. From that farm he came to Cleveland, and since then has been actively connected with the lumber business. At first he was superintendent with the Woods-Jenks Lumber Company. Three years later, when that business was sold to the Banner-Mead Company, he continued in the same capacity with the new firm for six years. Then for the Goff-Kirby Coal Company he established and took the management of two lumber yards for two years, following which he joined the Euclid Avenue Lumber Company, at first as manager and now as vice president and director. This company, whose headquarters are at 11710 Euclid Avenue, handle a large general line of lumber and building materials and have a complete organization in every detail, employing twenty-five people in the business. Mr. Hammel is affiliated with Woodward Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; Webb Chapter, Royal Arch .Masons; Oriental Commandery, Knights Templar; Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine; and in politics votes as a republican. At Garrettsville, Ohio, November 5, 1883, he married Miss Jennie L. Reynolds. They have two children, Clair L. and Mrs. Belle C. Stewart of Cleveland. Clair is a graduate of the Cleveland public schools and attended Case School of Applied Science, and is now chief clerk of the department of buildings of the Cleveland Board of Education. GEORGE J. ARNOLD. Business development and sales promotion has been the field in which the abilities of George J. Arnold have shown most conspicuously. Mr. Arnold possesses the detailed knowledge, the comprehensiveness of view, the psychology of business which have made him a peculiarly valuable man to several large corporations. He was formerly head of the development department of the American Surety Company CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 225 in New York, but in 1917 came to Cleveland to assume a place in the partnership of Green-Cadwallader-Long, taking the vacancy created by the death of F. C. Green. The business of Green-Cadwallader-Long is described at length on other pages, and in many respects it is one of the ablest and most important organizations of its kind in Cleveland. Primarily this partnership was sales agents for the Van Sweringen Company in the development of the Shaker Heights suburban properties of Cleveland. Mr. Arnold also organized the Cour-Lee Construction Company, of which he is treasurer, general manager and director. This is a two hundred thousand dollar company, with Mr. T. T. Long, president ; George H. Miller, vice president; and G. W. Lippincott, secretary. This company have in course of operation nearly one million dollars in developing and landscaping property at Shaker Heights. Mr. Arnold is a man of thoroughly cosmopolitan experience. He was born at Bluffton, Indiana, January 9, 1884, son of A. A. and Frances Catherine (Dalton) Arnold. The Arnold family came originally from Luzerne, Switzerland, and some of the family were pioneers in the vicinity of Canal Dover, Ohio. A. A. Arnold was born at Canal Dover and in former years was a cigar manufacturer. He is now living retired. He married at Wooster. Ohio, Miss Dalton, a native of Shelby, Ohio. For the past two years the parents have had their home at Corregidor in the Philippine Islands, where the son, William R., was stationed as a first lieutenant of the Coast Artillery. When this son was order to France the parents returned to Cleveland. There are three children in the family : Lieut. William R.; George J.; and Mary Catherine. William was born in Wooster, Ohio, and Mary Catherine in Muncie, Indiana. Mr. Arnold completed his literary education in St. Joseph College of Rensselaer, Indiana, an institution he attended from 1899 to 1904. He was graduated A. B. in 1903, and is now, 1917, vice president of the Alumni Association of the college. From college days he has maintained an ardent interest in all kinds of outdoor sports. He plays football and baseball, and was a member of the track team in college, and his hobby is athletics. After leaving college he went on the road as traveling representative for the Osborn Manufacturing Company of Cleveland, and for about two and a half years traveled South and West as salesman. Then for two years he represented the Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis as manager of its Cleveland business conducted under the title the Regal Flour Company. He then formed connections with the American Surety Company, beginning as salesman in the branch office at Cleveland on December 1, 1910. The following July he was called to the home office in New York City and the following January was appointed sales manager and had charge of the business development department, and a year later was made assistant secretary of the company. After that he had general oversight of the upbuilding of the business throughout the United States and Canada and Mexico. On November 1, 1917, Mr. Arnold returned to Cleveland to accept his present duties and responsibilities. While living in New York Mr. Arnold was a member of the Forty-Seventh New York National Guard. He is a republican, a member of the Cleveland Athletic Club, City Club, and Cleveland Real Estate Board. At Youngstown, Ohio, November 22, 1910, he married Miss Mildred M. Murray. Mrs. Arnold was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, is a graduate of Mount St. Joseph Academy at Buffalo, New York, and is highly accomplished both in her relations to society and home. Her parents were D. T. and Udora (Roberts) Murray, the latter now deceased. Her father is assistant general superintendent of the New York Central Lines and is located at Youngstown. Mr. and Mrs. Arnold have three children : Mildred Catherine, born in Brooklyn, New York ; William Richard II, also born at Brooklyn, and named in honor of his uncle William in the army; and Mary Elizabeth, born at Cleveland. GEORGE FAULHABER was sixty-six years of age when death laid its restraining finger upon him on May 20, 1918. He did not live all the years of the allotted span, but in the aggregate of his achievements and the usefulness and dignity of his life few men can leave a better and more complete record. Mr. Faulhaber was counted one of the veteran business men of Cleveland. He was long a figure in this city's manufacturing industry and was a manufacturer of church furniture, and was also well known as a banker. He was born at Dover, Ohio, March 5, 1852, and his active business career covered more than a quarter of a century. Ill health prevented his taking an active part in affairs for nearly ten years before his death. His parents were William and Regina (Faulhaber) Faulhaber. His parents, though of the same family name, 226 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS were not related. They came from Germany, crossed the ocean in a sailing vessel, and were early residents of Dover, Ohio, where they had a farm. Three brothers of the late George Faulhaber are living in Cleveland—Charles, Frank and Lawrence—and he also left a sister, Mrs. Engert of Brooklyn Village. At the age of fifteen George Faulhaber left the home farm and came to Cleveland, where he learned the trade of carpenter. It was his vocation for a number of years. In the meantime he became interested in the manufacture of church furniture. He finally went on the road as traveling salesman, and sold and installed the seating equipment for churches and other auditoriums all over the United States. Mr. Faulhaber founded and for over a quarter of a century was president of the Faulhaber Church Furniture Company. He finally sold that business to the American School Furniture Company. Later he built another plant for the manufacture of chdreh furniture, but on account of failing health sold it to Theodore Kundtz. This plant was located on Hird Street in Lakewood. For fifteen years Mr. Faulhaber was president of the Detroit Street Savings and Loan Company, now the Forest City Savings and Trust Company, was also its vice president, and when he retired from the executive management on account of ill health he retained his place as a director until his death. He was one of the men responsible for building up this great financial organization of Cleveland, one of the most prosperous institutions of its kind in the city. He also was one of the founders of the Detroit Street Investment Company. Mr. Faulhaber was one of the founders of the St. Rose Catholic Church and held his membership in that organization until about ten years before his death, after which he affiliated with St. James Church in Lakewood. He was a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. In politics he was a ropublican, but was not active as a party man. Mr. Faulhaber had an ideal family life. The family first resided on Lake Avenue, but in 1908 moved to 1434 Robinwood Avenue, in Lakewood. he married at Cleveland, June 15, 1874, Miss Dorinda C. Bourgeois of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. They were married in the Church of the Annunciation at Cleveland. This church was then a French congregation. Mrs. Faulhaber for many years has been active in the social and charitable life of her community, and was one of the charter members of the Circle of Mercy when it was established twenty-six years ago, and for two years was its president and is still a member of the board. To their marriage were born six children, two sons and four daughters, two of the daughters dying in infancy. The son Bert G. was in the real estate business in New York City for a number of years and died there October 17, 1917, at the age of forty-two; Claude E. is in the automobile business at Little Rock, Arkansas. he married Annie Neely, and their two children are Margery C. and George B. Alma Louise is the wife of H. W. Landreth, of West Park, and the mother of two children, Henry W. and Theodore T. Gertrude Irene married W. T. Elliott, of Cleveland. Mr. Elliott is a second lieutenant in the motor transport section, United States army, and they have one daughter, Mary D. The children were all born and educated in Cleveland. There are five grandchildren. HERBERT C. WOOD, a New England man by birth and training, came to Cleveland as an educator, read law in this city, and for the past five years has been successfully engaged in law practice. Since entering the profession he has known scarcely any other enthusiasm, though he is very fond of politics and has indulged this fondness to a considerable extent. He is one of Cleveland's leading republicans. Mr. Wood is a native of Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts, a son of William D. and Elizabeth Dutton (Pearson) Wood. The ancestors of this branch of the Wood family came from England and were colonial settlers at Middleboro, Massachusetts. Some of the family were soldiers in the Revolutionary war. Mr. Wood's mother was also of Revolutionary ancestry. Her maternal ancestors were the Duttons, who came from England to the United States between 1620 and 1660. The Revolutionary annals give conspicuous mention to the Duttons. Mr. Wood's parents were both natives of Maine, where they married. William D. Wood enlisted and served two years in the First Maine Battery of Light Artillery in the Civil war. He was a quartermaster sergeant and while engaged in the discharge of his duties at camp he was wounded and granted an honorable discharge. Subsequently he was detailed in the United States recruiting office at Auburn, Maine. After leaving his native state he became a shoe manufacturer at Haverhill, Massachusetts, and followed that business for CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 227 many years under the name William D. Wood & Company. He died at Haverhill January 13, 1903, and his wife on November 19, 1915. Both now rest in the cemetery at Haverhill. Herbert C. Wood has a younger brother, Frank Eugene Wood, whose home is at Pacific Grove, California. He is an accountant by profession and is secretary of the Chamber of Commerce of Monterey, California. Herbert C. Wood was liberally educated, at first in the public schools of Haverhill, where he was graduated in 1889. In 1893 he graduated A. B. from Amherst College. After some graduate work at Harvard University he came to Cleveland and for a number of years was connected with the public schools of this city. He was teacher in the Science Department of the Central and East High schools, and principal of the Collinwood High School. While teaching he took up the study of law, entering the Cleveland Law School in 1909. He was graduated LL. B. with the class of 1912 and admitted to the Ohio bar the same year. Mr. Wood then took up private practice and now commands a large clientage, with offices in the Society for Savings Building. He was nominated on the republican ticket for state senator in 1914 and again in 1916, and led the ticket for the nomination both times. He was elected first deputy city clerk January 1, 1918. He is on the Executive Committee of the Lawyers Republican Club. is vice president of the John Hay Club, member of the Cleveland Bar Association, is affiliated with the Pythian Star Lodge No. 526. Knights of Pythias, at Cleveland, and the Phi Delta Theta college fraternity. He is a member of Trinity Cathedral Episcopal Church. Mr. Wood married August 22, 1901, Miss Bertha A. Lynch, of Cleveland, where she was born and educated. She is a daughter of the late John S. Lynch, concerning whom and family a brief sketch appears on other pages. Mrs. Wood is a graduate of the Central High School with the class of 1887 and in 1891 graduated A. B. from Adelbert College. Prior to her marriage she was a teacher in the Central and East High schools. She is a very Active member and a director of the College Club. R. D. STEVENSON is president and general manager of the Permanent Products Company. a corporation recently organized and established at Cleveland for the purpose of manufacturing the "Permanent Nut and Bolt" of which Mr. Stevenson is the inventor. Mr. Stevenson is a graduate of Western Reserve University and for a number of years was engaged in the mining business of the Northwest. His experience, like that of many other engineers, led him to a realization that the weakest part of heavy machinery consists in the nuts and bolts due to the impossibility of any then known method of locking the nut fast to the bolt. For several years he devoted practically all his time and energy to solving the problem and out of this study and experimentation he evolved the "permanent" feature of the nut and bolt, which it is the object of the Permanent Products Company, to manufacture. Some four or five years ago the first Stevenson Permanent Nuts and Bolts were manufactured, and have since been tested by such corporations as the New York Central Railroad Company. Then in 1917 the organization was perfected as the Permanent Products Company, with a capital stock authorized of $1,000,000. A large tract of industrial land was secured near Cleveland, and at this writing the first unit of the factory buildings is in process of construction. Associated with Mr. Stevenson as other officers and directors of the company are A. J. Hudson, vice president, chairman of the board of directors and superintendent of patents, a graduate of the Case School of Applied Science and a well known patent lawyer of Cleveland; L. B. Foote, treasurer. who is also assistant treasurer of the Guardians Savings & Tru.st Company of Cleveland; F. P. Olosh, chief engineer and general superintendent, who is an expert in building and designing machines for the production of nuts and bolts and was for eight years chief designing engineer for the National Acme Manufacturing Company; G. A. Edam, superintendent, who likewise has a large experience in designing of patterns for the construction of not and bolt machinery, and is proprietor and general manager of the G. A. Edam Pattern Works of Cleveland ; W. A. Thompson, secretary and supervisor of purchasing and sales, who has had many years of experience as a salesman and business promoter; and Dr. G. R. Stevenson, of Hubbard, Ohio, and Mr. V. M. Moore, of Cleveland, directors. ERNEST HUGHES is president of the Hughes Provision Company, which. excepting the large packing houses. probably does the largest business in Northern Ohio RR an individual firm for the slaughter and distribution of meat products. It is a business representing CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 228 long and steady growth and the experience of various members of the Hughes family, several of whom have been trained from early youth in the meat industry. Before the family came to America they lived in Cambridgeshire, England, where Ernest Hughes was born March 17, 1874. His father, Samuel Whittome Hughes, was a native of the same place, born in 1846, and was identified with the livestock and slaughtering business until he came to Cleveland in 1880. He had lost his fortune in England and on coming to Cleveland was so reduced in circumstances that he had to take any employment that offered. For a time he made cane-seated chairs, and as a result of his labor finally saved enough to buy a horse and wagon and with that equipment began peddling vegetables and meats throughout the country districts. In 1884 he was able to resume his old business, and saw his sons successfully established in the same line. He finally practically retired, but in 1909 resumed his connection with his four sons under the name Hughes Provision Company. He then took a renewed interest in life and affairs, but died in 1910. In his native town in England he married Mary Smith. They had ten children, all living: Mrs. Edward Castle, Mrs. Frank Judson, Mrs. Harry Bates, Mrs. John Gibbs, Ernest, William, Mrs. Maude Day, John, Oliver and Mrs. Ruby Cole. All are living in Cleveland except Mrs. Day of Colorado Springs, Colorado, and Mrs. Cole of Akron, Ohio. Ernest Hughes was six years of age when the family came to Cleveland, and was educated in the public schools until he was seventeen. He gained experience in his father's meat business, and at the age of twenty began working for his brother-in-law, John Gibbs. and after six months entered a partnership with his father. A year later he became associated with his brother William for a year, and following that came a part. nership for two and a half years with his brother-in-law Castle. Then again for a time he was in business for himself, and his three brothers were also conducting separately wholesale businesses of their own in meats. In 1909 they decided to combine and consolidate, and thus they originated the Hughes Provision Company. This business was in. corporated September 1, 1909, with Ernest Hughes as president. John Hughes secretary and treasurer, and William Hughes vice president. At the beginning the firm employed only five men, and today there are between seventy and eighty on the pay roll and they have a large capital invested and a complete organization and facilities for every branch of the business. . At the present time the slaughtering capacity of the company is 550 cattle a week, 1,000 sheep, that being the largest amount killed by any one company in Cleveland, 200 hogs and 500 calves. Besides the slaughtering and wholesale features of the business, they conduct two high-class retail stores, the one in Youngstown being considered the largest meat market in Ohio. One other is at Akron. In Cleveland all the East Side business is conducted from the wholesale department, corner East Fourth and Bolliver Road, while the West Side business is conducted from the packing house, 3199 West Sixty-fifth Street, opposite the stock yards. The plant is one of the most sanitary in point of equipment in the United States, and the storage of all meats is one of the strong features made by the Hughes brothers, who personally superintend all branches. This guarantees to the customers the highest standard of meats. Besides the packing house, two stock farms are carried on in connection with the business, where young stock is shipped from western fields and fattened, thus also assuring the highest efficiency in the products served. Mr. Ernest Hughes is a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Industry, is a republican and belongs to the Disciples Church. In September, 1896, he married Miss Lillian Ainsley Craine, at Warrensville, Ohio. They have three children: Sheldon, now a salesman for the Hughes Provision Company; Harold, a student in Lakewood High School; and Ruby, a student in the Lakewood public schools. JAMES FREDERICK JACKSON is not a banker, has no part in the executive management of great industrial institutions, probably owns no stock in the great railroads or the many ships that carry the commerce of Cleveland, and yet his work and service demands consideration among the men of affairs of this community. Those not familiar with his name need only be reminded that Mr. Jackson is general secretary of the Associated Charities and to charitable work in general he has given the best years of his life. Mr. Jackson is a product of the northwestern prairies. He was born at Wabasha, Min- CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 229 nesota, August 16, 1861, son of William Sharples and Mary A. (Pendleton) Jackson. His parents went out to Minnesota when it was a territory and bore their full share in the pioneer activities of the frontier. The Jackson family is of Quaker stock. William Sharpies Jackson had as his maternal ancestors John and Jane Sharpies, who settled near Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1682. The Jackson family settled at about the same time in Eastern Pennsylvania, and both came from England to join the Quaker colonies of Pennsylvania. Mary Augusta Pendleton, mother of James F. Jackson, is descended from Bryan Pendleton of Puritan stock, who settled at Watertown, Massachusetts, prior to 1634. Her mother was of the Southworth Pilgrim stock, that line being identified with Plymouth, Massachusetts, as early as 1621. Both the South-worths and Pendletons were of English origin. The father of James F. Jackson was proprietor of a general store at Wabasha, Minnesota, and there the boy grew up and received his early experiences and impressions. He graduated in 1883 with the degree Bachelor of Science from Carleton College at Northfield, Minnesota, and the first three years following his college career he ran a farm in McLeod County. From 1886 to 1892 Mr. Jackson was in the hardwood lumber business, with headquarters at St. Paul, and it was while in business there that he became keenly interested in practical charity and finally resolved to give all his time to that work. From October 1, 1892, to March 1, 1898, he served as general secretary of the Associated Charities of St. Paul. He was the first secretary of the organization and to him is credited in large degree the success of the organization. From March 1, 1898, to June 20, 1901, he was secretary of the Minnesota State Board of Correction and Charities, and from 1899 to 1901 also served as president of the St. Paul Associated Charities. Other interests that belong to his career at Minnesota were a service during 1885-86 as chairman of the Round Grove town board of supervisors in McLeod County, Minnesota, and from 1892 to 1898 as official visitor of the Board of Control for St. Paul and Ramsey County. From 1886 to 1902 he was also a director of the First National Bank of Wabasha. The character of his work in the Northwest gained him more than local prominence. He was called from Minnesota to New York City and from June 20, 1901, to September 30, 1902, was assistant general secretary of the Charity Organization Society of that city. He then returned to Minnesota and from October 1, 1902, to May 1, 1904, was executive officer of the Minneapolis Associated Charities. Mr. Jackson came to Cleveland on May 1, 1904, and since that date has been executive officer of the Cleveland Associated Charities except during 1910-11, when he was general superintendent of the Department of Charities and Correction for the City of Cleveland. In 1913 he served as president of the Ohio State Conference of Charities and Corrections, and for twenty years has held important offices and committee positions in National Conference of Social Work, formerly the National Conference of Charities and Correction. It will serve to indicate some of the energies and influences that have proceeded from Mr. Jackson to review briefly the increasing scope of the Associated Charities of Cleveland during the last fifteen years. In that time the Associated Charities have grown from an organization operating from a central office with two field workers to one operating from eight district offices, each in charge of a thoroughly trained and sympathetic district secretary. The aggregate staff of visitors now number thirty-one. In 1904, the year he came to Cleveland, the budget for the entire organization was $7,500, and in response to the community's needs it was increased to $195,000 in 1918. At the same time there has been an important shift of emphasis. In other words, the working outfit has grown from the temporary meeting of the emergent physical need to that of the promotion of normal family life, represented by the ideals of normal living, sturdy childhood, sound health and morals. Mr. Jackson was active in the formation of the Society for Improving the Condition of the Blind, the Anti-Tuberculosis League. the Working Man's Collateral Loan Company, and at the request of the founders of the last named organization, in order to represent the distinctly humanitarian attitude, he served as director of this company. For years prior to its establishment he was one of the most active in the promotion of the Federation for Charity and Philanthropy. now known as the Welfare Federation. He has served as a member of the board of all these organizations. From its founding Mr. Jackson has been a member of the executive committee of the Cleveland Chapter of the American Red Cross. and represented Cleveland in disaster relief in the floods of West Virginia in 1912, the flood in 230 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS the Miami Valley in 1913, and at still more recent disasters. Naturally some of his service has been influenced by the world war. He was held responsible for organizing the Home Service work for families of soldiers who were at the Mexican border, and also largely for the present home service work. He has been active in the development of the plan of that work locally, a plan which has served as a model for other sections of the United States. Mr. Jackson's work and influence in a great and important social field are not destined to end with himself. For years he has been teaching the methods and ideals of social work to promising young men and women who are now leaders in various divisions of social activity. The classes he thus established were the direct forerunners of the Family Welfare and Social Service Division, of which he is director, in the School of Applied Social Sciences of Western Reserve University. While affiliated as a republican, Mr. Jackson has been concerned with polities largely for the purpose of promoting humane legislation. He served in the summer of 1917 as chairman of the Selective Service Board No. 5 for Cuyahoga County. Since 1891 he has been a member of the Board of Trustees of his alma mater, Carleton College of Northfield, Minnesota. He is a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, the Cleveland Chamber of Industry, Philosophical Club, Council of Sociology, of the City Club, and Saturday Evening Club, and is a member and officer of the Pilgrim Congregational Church. June 5, 1885, at St. Paul, Minnesota, he married Linda C. Pomroy, daughter of Jesse H. and Lucretia Brush Pomroy. Her father was an interesting character of the Northwest. Born in St. Lawrence County, New York, in 1844, he built a saw mill at the place where the Lorain Road crosses Rocky River in Cuyahoga County, and later had a leading part in the construction of Fort Ridgely on the Upper Mississippi River, and Fort Ripley on the Upper Minnesota River. After that he became a merchant at St. Paul. HENRY W. STOER. A busy world has devised many routes and methods for achieving success, but none of them so far have served to seriously discredit the old and reliable one, of making a definite choice and putting in years of concentrated labor along one particular line. It is the old and reliable method that is illus trated by the career of Mr. Henry W. Stoer of Cleveland. Since 1877 he has been in the laundry business. The year 1877 marked his fourteenth birthday. A willingness to assume more than an ordinary share of work and responsibility made him a partner in his firm when he was only nineteen. At that time he acquired a one-third interest, and since then his business interests in his special line and in other affairs have been steadily growing and expanding. Mr. Stoer is now president and treasurer of the Troy Laundry Company, one of the largest establishments of its kind in Cleveland, the main plant being at 2581 East Fiftieth Street. He is also president and a director of the Cleveland Laundry Company, is a director of the Cleveland Toilet Supply Company, served as president in 1917 of the National Laundry Owners Association, and is president and has filled that office for a number of years in the Cleveland Laundry Owners Exchange. He is also a member of the Ohio State Laundry Association. Mr. Stoer is a native of Cleveland, born in this city April 1, 1863, son of Paul and Louise Gertrude (Kopf) Stoer. His parents were early settlers in Cleveland, and his mother died here about 1892 and his father in 1901. Henry W. Stoer was reared and educated in Cleveland, attending the public schools until he was about fourteen or fifteen years old, after which he took up what was destined to become his life work in the field of his successful career. Mr. Stoer was formerly active in local military affairs and at one time served as a captain of the Cleveland Grays. He is president (in 1918) of the Cleveland Athletic Club and is a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, the Shaker Heights Country Club, Willowick Country Club and the Cleveland Automobile Club. He is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, and in the York Rite has affiliations with Halcyon Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Webb Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, Holyrood Commandery, Knights Templar, and is a member of Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine. August 21, 1884, Mr. Stoer married Miss Barbara Frances Turba of Cleveland. Mrs. Stoer died September 15, 1911, the mother of three children. The oldest is now deceased and the two living are Harry W. and Hattie Clara, the latter the wife of John M. Truby of Cleveland. On January 7, 1915, Mr. Stoer married Julia E. Conklin, of Canton, Ohio. CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 231 HOWARD A. STAHL is head of the H. A. Stahl Company, real estate, with offices in the Cuyahoga Building, and is officially identified with half a dozen other important real estate and business organizations in this city. Most of his business record has been made in Cleveland, where for a number of years he was connected with banking and building and loan associations, and has a thoroughly wide and diversified experience to account for his present position and success. Mr. Stahl was born at Tallmadge, Summit County, Ohio, May 23, 1875, a son of Henry H. and Laura (Hale) Stahl. He represents some of the fine old pioneer stock of this state. In one line of the family his great-grandfather Moore came to Ohio and settled in Springfield Township of Summit County as early as 1807. He was a Connecticut man and had traversed the entire distance from the East to Northern Ohio on foot in eleven days. He carried his surveyor's tools and instruments with him. In Ohio he followed surveying and farming, and spent the rest of his life in Summit County. Ile was a commanding figure of a man, and measured up to the title of a giant by his physical height of 6 feet 8 inches. Mr. Stahl's maternal grandfather, Austin M. Hale, was a native of Portage County and spent his life there as a farmer and nurseryman. Henry H. Stahl, father of the Cleveland business man, was born near Jefferson, Ohio, and his wife at Mogadore, in this state. Henry H. Stahl was for many years a merchant in Cleveland but afterwards followed farming until three years ago, and has since lived with his wife retired at Hudson, Ohio. Ile has served as a member of the town council of Hudson. During the Civil war he was a member of the Second Ohio Heavy Artillery, and was all through that struggle as a private. Howard A. Stahl, only child of his parents, received his early education in the public schools of Cleveland and in the Spencerian Business College. For about five years he was a bookkeeper with the East End Savings Bank Company, then located at Fifty-fifth and Euclid Avenue, and now a part of the Cleveland Trust Company. Following that he had considerable experience as an associate of his father in the mercantile business, and then became auditor of the Savings Building and Loan Company. In 1909 Mr. Stahl engaged in the real estate business and six years ago organized the H. A. Stahl Company, of which he is president. He has done a general business in real estate, as a broker, in developing and putting on the market some allotments, has also built and improved sites and homes, and his transactions include all the operations of a general real estate dealer. His company is sales agent and manager of the Cedar Coventry Land Company, in which company Mr. Stahl is treasurer. He is also president of the Coventry Park Land Company, secretary and treasurer of the Wooster Park Land Company, secretary and treasurer of the Penobscot Realty Company, president of the Morington Realty Company, is one of the interested principals in the Kensington Subdivision, is vice president of the Windermere Savings & Loan Company, treasurer of the Woodland Fifty-Fifty Company, and treasurer of the East Sixth-Saint Clair Company. Mr. Stahl is a member of the Cleveland Real Estate Board, the National Association of Real Estate Boards and the Ohio Real Estate Board. He is well known in Cleveland social life, a member of the Shaker Heights Country Club, the Cleveland Athletic Club, the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, the Portage Country Club of Akron, and in Masonry is affiliated with Woodward Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and McKinley Chapter, Royal Arch Masons. For a number of years he was a member of The Cleveland Grays, military organization. Outside of home and business he gets his best recreation in golf and motoring. Mr. Stahl and family reside at 2228 Chatfield Drive, I)emington, in Cleveland Heights. September 10, 1907, he married Miss Agnes Emma Whitmore, of Akron, daughter of George T. and May (Peckham) Whitmore. Her parents are now living at Mogadore, Ohio. Her father is treasurer of the Granite Clay Company. The Whitmores are a family who for three successive generations have been in the clay industries of Ohio. Mrs. Stahl's grandfather was a member of the old Whitmore-Robinson Company of Akron, now the Robinson Clay Products Company. Mrs. Stahl was born in Akron, was educated there, and is a graduate of Dana Hall in Massachusetts. She is active socially and is a member of one of the hospital boards of Cleveland. JOHN E. MURRAY. The business of writing life insurance is one which demands of its followers peculiar and particular talents, a thorough, careful and specialized training, and hard, persistent, energetic work. It is therefore a difficult field for the tyro to enter, but 232 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS it is also one which offers commensurate rewards to the persistent and capable, and many of the leading business men of Cleveland have made it their chief. interest. Among those whose abilities have found a successful outlet in the writing of insurance, one who is widely known is John E. Murray, of Murray & Walker, general agents of the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company. Mr. Murray entered the insurance business when he was still a youth, and while he now has additional interests, practically his entire career has been devoted to the sale of policies and the handling of premiums. John F. Murray was born near the town of Seville, Medina County, Ohio, December 3, 1876, and is a son of John and Nancy A. (Chambers) Murray, natives of Ohio and both of Revolutionary stock, the former of Scotch and the latter of English descent. John Murray, who was engaged in agricultural pursuits all his life and never left his native state, died in 1906, while Mrs. Murray survived him for six years. The father was a prominent man in his home community and both he and Mrs. Murray were held in the highest esteem by their neighbors and acquaintances. The education of John E. Murray was secured in the public schools of Seville, Ohio, and after his graduation he left the home farm and secured a position in the employ of the Ohio Farmers Fire Insurance Company, with which company he was identified for three and one-half years, at the end of that time turning his attention to the life insurance business, because of its larger. opportunities and connected himself with the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He remained with that concern from 1903 to 1911, leaving to accept his present position as general agent of the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company of Philadelphia at Cleveland, with which institution he has remained to the present time. Ile maintains offices at No. 910 Leader-News Building. He is a democrat, but not active in politics, but is a public-spirited citizen who has always been ready to discharge his responsibilities, and at present is a member of the Selective Service Draft Board, District 15, for Cuyahoga County. Fraternally he is affiliated with Iris Lodge No. 229, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; Webb Chapter No. 14, Royal Arch Masons; Oriental Commandery No. 12, Knights Templar and Lake Erie Consistory, and with Al Koran Shrine, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and is also a member of the Cleveland Athletic Club, the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, the City Club and the Cleveland Automobile Club. Mr. Murray was married September 3, 1902, to Miss Stella M. Harrold, a daughter of Rev. Thomas H. D. Harrold, of Northern Ohio, a Methodist minister. To this union there have been born three children: John H., Mary Louise and Robert S. Mr. and Mrs. Murray and their children belong to Epworth Memorial Methodist Church. GUSTAVE W. LUETKEMEYER. One Of the oldest and most honored names in Cleveland commercial circles is that of Luetkemeyer, known here and over half a dozen states through the Luetkemeyer Company, wholesale hardware. This is a great concern with a record of sure and steady growth, expanding trade and influence, and has a consecutive history of practically seventy years. It was founded by the late Henry William Luetkemeyer, who came to Cleveland in 1847. He was an old time merchant, noted for his integrity, his fine knowledge of detail, and a capacity that grew with increasing responsibilities. In a small way he established the hardware trade which is today conducted by his sons Gustave W. and the latter's brothers. Henry W. Luetkemeyer also took a commendable part in local affairs and at one time represented the old Fourth Ward in the City Council. His wife's maiden name was Helen Henninger. She was the youngest in a family of eight children and was brought to America by her parents at the age of two years. The Henningers located at what was then known as Parma, Ohio. Gustave W. Luetkemeyer was horn at Cleveland March 11, 1865, was educated in the grammar and high schools, and when only sixteen years of age went to work in his father's store. He has thus been a factor in the growing business for over thirty-five years. Eventually the firm became known as Luetkemeyer & Sons, and a number of years ago it was incorporated as the Luetkemeyer Company. of which Gustave W. Luetketneyer is president and his brother Edmund H. is vice president. This business institution, developing from the nucleus of the store established by the father and also by consolidation and purchase of other business houses. is now one of the largest of its kind in the Middle West and has established trade connections over the states of CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 233 Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, Virginia, Pennsylvania and New York. Gustave W. Luetkemeyer is a member of the Union Club, the Yacht Club, the Cleveland Athletic Club, Shaker Lakes Golf Club, the Kewanis Club, City Club and Chamber of Commerce. He has sedulously kept away from practical politics and yet at the same time is recognized as one of Cleveland's most influential civic leaders. He has worked largely through such organizations as the Chamber of Commerce, and unknown to the general public has supplied the plans and much of the creative energy that has gone into movements affecting the vital general welfare. Among other things he was a member of the committee of fifteen to perfect a satisfactory plan of municipal government. Mr. Luetkemeyer has many business connections. and among others is a director of the National City Bank. At Cleveland in 1899 he married Miss Julia Lueke, a native of this city and daughter of the late Dr. John II. Lueke. They have four children, Elizabeth, Doris, Henry and John. The family attend the Unitarian Church. ISIDOR C. NUNN, While this family name has numerous distinctions and associations in the City of Cleveland, more than anything else it represents the best qualities and efficiency in the undertaking and embalming profession, and the remarkable fact is that Cleveland has been served by three successive generations of the family and the representatives of those three generations are all still living. A patriarch in years, at the age of eighty-four, Isidor C. Nunn, who came to Cleveland from Germany in October, 1852, did his last work as an undertaker anti retired from the business twenty-five years ago in 1893. However, he is still alive and well and celebrated his eighty-fourth birthday on September 10, 1917. He is one of the honored veterans of the Civil war still living in Cleveland. He enlisted in 1853 as an engineer with the Union army and was in service until the war closed and he was given an honorable discharge. In the summer of 1859 Isidor Nunn and Caroline Miller were married. She also came to Cleveland in 1852, and died here March 4, 1875. They were the parents of nine children. It was in 1866 that the venerable Isidor Nunn opened up an undertaking establishment on Lorain Avenue in this city. From that year to this, more than half a century, some member of the family has always been in the business, and most of the time two generations have been represented in it. The second generation is headed by John Isidor Nunn, who was born at Cleveland August 23, 1860, the oldest child of his parents. Up to the age of thirteen he attended the local parochial schools and at seventeen graduated from the Forest City Business College. He went directly into his father's undertaking business and remained there, learning all the details, until he was twenty-one. He then opened an establishment of his own at Woodland and Sterling avenues, but some year's ago moved the business to 2041 East Eighty-ninth Street, where can now he found one of the finest and best equipped undertaking parlors in the entire State of Ohio. J. I. Nunn, successful in business himself, has given much of his time and interest to promoting the advancement and welfare of his profession. He early became a member of the State Undertakers' Association, served as its secretary three terms, as president one term, and was one of the first professional embalmers in Cleveland. The name of John I. Nunn is also associated with public affairs. He was elected a member of the Cleveland City Council in 1889, re-elected in 1890, and altogether served three years. In 1901 he was elected county treasurer of Cuyahoga County, and filled that important office two years. He is a director and a member of the Finance Committee of the American Savings Bank Company and was a Grand Knight of Gilmore Council No. 310 Knights of Columbus, 1904-05. June 2. 1885, John I. Nunn married Mary Frances Lenze, daughter of Casper and Theresa Lenze. They have four children Isidor Charles; Alardus John, who married Marie Weber, of Cleveland; Olga Josephine. wife of Peter A. Murphy, of Cleveland ; and Wanda Marie, unmarried. Isidor Charles Nunn, who is now the executive head of the John I. Nunn Company, was born at Cleveland April 8, 1886. He attended the public schools, graduating from Central High School in 1904, spent two years in Notre Dame University at Notre Dame, Indiana, and for one year was a student of law in the Cleveland Law School. However, he soon turned from the law as a profession to become associated with his father in the undertaking business as an embalmer. He has learned the profession and business through every grade and service and in every 234 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS detail, and has done much to build up the prestige of the family name in this line. In 1909 the business was incorporated as the John I. Nunn Company, with Isidor C. Nunn as president. His father, John I. Nunn, is treasurer of the company ; A. J. Nunn is secretary, and Christ Wilhelm, vice president. Thirty-five years ago when John I. Nunn started in business for himself he had only a single room, 10x20 feet. Today the company conducts two magnificent establishments, one at 2041 East Eighty-ninth Street and the other at 11605 Detroit Avenue. The value of the equipment alone represents an investment of $65,000. The Nunns were the first Cleveland undertakers to introduce the automobile into funeral service, using the first motor vehicle in 1906. Mr. I. C. Nunn is a life member of the Loyal Order of Moose, a life member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, and is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, is a member of the Young Men's Business Club, is a Catholic and in politics votes independently. March 31, 1910, he married Anna L. Richards, of Ripley, Ohio. They have two children, John Richard and Robert Charles. WILLIAM GEORGE DIETZ has been one of the useful citizens of Cleveland almost continuously for thirty-six years. Most of his work has been done in the field of investment banking, in which he has been engaged for upwards of thirty-two years. His offices are in the Citizens Building. His early life was spent chiefly in Trumbull County, at Warren, where he was born April 7, 1857, son of August N. and Katherine (Baehr) Dietz. During his boyhood there in addition to the advantages of the public schools he attended a high class private school of that day conducted by Miss Sackett in Warren. During part of his early youth he filled the office of deputy auditor of Trumbull County. IIis higher education was obtained in Hiram College, from which he graduated in 1881, with the degree Ph. B. From Hiram College Mr. Dietz came to Cleveland, and from September. 1882, to February, 1886. was secretary to Dr. B. A. Hinsdale superintendent of Cleveland schools. During that time Mr. Dietz was one of the first two teachers in the night schools of Cleveland. From educational work he became connected with the firm Lamprecht Brothers & Company, bankers, and was with them from 1886 to 1893. In 1890 he organized the Warren Savings Bank Company of Warren. In January of 1893 the firm of Dietz, Denison & Prior was organized, but from this he retired in 1898 to become secretary of the Guardian Savings & Trust Company, an office he filled until 1900. In 1899 Mr. Dietz was secretary of the Cleveland Bankers Association. From 1900 to 1904 his home was in New York City, where his time and abilities were occupied with banking and the investment business. Since 1904 he has again been a resident of Cleveland and an investment banker. Mr. Dietz is president of the Eastern Heights Land Company of Elyria, is a director of the Cleveland Stone Company, a trustee of Hiram College, a trustee of Western Reserve Historical Society, a member of the Investment Bankers Association of America, the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, Union Club, University Club, Country Club and Ohio Society of New York. November 18, 1885, he married Miss Jessie B. Pettibone, of Solon, Ohio. They have one daughter, Marian. PAUL CRAWFORD ROOT. When Paul Crawford Root, assistant superintendent of the Cleveland-Akron Bag Company of Cleveland, Ohio, entered the above institution in August, 1914, he was made manager of the main plant at Fortieth Street and Perkins Avenue, known as the J. II. McBride plant. Since then he has been promoted and is now assistant general superintendent of the company, which is one of the largest organizations of its kind in America, for the manufacture of all classes and kinds of bags, with plants at Cleveland and in a number of other cities. Mr. Root was born at Cleveland November 7, 1891, son of Frederick Payn and Mary Randall (Crawford) Root. His father, as is noted elsewhere, is vice president of the Root & McBride Company, one of the old established dry goods houses of Cleveland. The mother died at Boston, Massachusetts, March 27, 1905, and was laid to rest in the Lakeside Cemetery at Cleveland. Her children were Paul Crawford and Ralph Randall Root, the latter now representing the family in France as a first lieutenant of the aviation corps of the United States Army. Paul Crawford Root was educated in the University School of Cleveland and at Hill School at Pottstown, Pennsylvania. After two and a half years of preparation he entered Yale University. where he remained four years and graduated B. A. He is a member of the CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 235 Alpha Delta Phi of Yale University and is a member of the University Club, Country Club, Civic League and Second Presbyterian Church of Cleveland. He is a young man of many interests and finds recreation in golf and motoring. Both Mr. and Mrs. Root are prominent among the younger society circles of Cleveland. February 2, 1915, at Montclair, New Jersey, Mr. Root married Miss Eleanor Jessup Kingsbury, daughter of Frederick H. and Eliza (Beardsley) Kingsbury. Her mother is now deceased. Her father is connected with the Globe Indemnity Company of New York City. Mrs. Root was born at Scranton, Pennsylvania, and was educated in Montclair Academy, the Kimberly School of Montclair, and at Sweetbrier College. She is a member of the Woman's City Club of Cleveland. They have one son, Paul, Jr., born here March 16, 1916. FRANCIS A. BRADY, who died at his home in Cleveland August 30, 1907, was known to a host of Cleveland and Ohio citizens and especially in railroad circles, where for years he was a dominant personality both as a business man and as one to whom the welfare of his fellow workers and associates was always a matter of the deepest and most vital concern. He was born at Carbondale, Pennsylvania, December 8, 1842. At the time of his birth there were only a few miles of railway track west of the Allegheny Mountains. His own life spanned most of the great development in the transportation system of the West. When he was nine years of age his parents moved to Cleveland, and he gained only the minimum of education. At the age of twelve years he found employment as a newsboy selling papers and other commodities on trains running out of Chicago. An experience which with most boys would have been only an opportunity to earn a temporary livelihood until something better presented Francis A. Brady converted into a real opening of a broad life work. At the age of sixteen he had charge of all the newsboys operating on the trains out of Chicago. In 1860, at the age of eighteen, having returned to Cleveland, he engaged in business with the Olmstead Brothers, who controlled the news business on the Lake Shore & Michigan Sonthern Railway. Some years later he engaged with the Cleveland Omnibus & Carriage Company, now the Cleveland Transfer Company, as solicitor, and shortly afterwards was promoted to general manager. He was with that concern for sixteen years, and did much to build it up and make its business profitable. He resigned to become general yardmaster and agent of the old Atlantic & Great Western, now the Erie, at Leavittsburg, Ohio. To these duties and responsibilities he gave fifteen years and then was appointed general manager of the coal and ore traffic department of the Erie Railroad, with headquarters in Cleveland. Altogether he was with the Erie Railway Company for twenty-seven years. His last position was with the Pittsburgh Steamship Company, and he attended to the business nearly every day until the spring of 1907, only a few months before his death. While he was identified with railroading and transportation at a period when the majority of his associates and subordinates were much given to intemperance, he was himself a stalwart advocate of prohibition and a prominent figure in church matters. In the years while he was located at Leavittsburg he and Francis Murphy started a temperance move• ment among railroad men. Mr. Brady arranged for the financial end of the movement, and he and Mr. Murphy fitted up a railway coach, which stood on a sidetrack at Leavittsburg and in which temperance meetings were held, largely attended by railway men. That was one of the important initial steps in a movement which even during Mr. Brady's lifetime had gone so far as to make railway men as a class one of the most temperate and moral among the various groups of industrial workers in the country. He was also an active churchman, and for many years had membership in the Franklin Methodist Episcopal Church. While living in Trumbull County he was president of the Trumbull County Sunday School Association. He was a Knight of Pythias, and while in Cleveland exercised much power in the republican party. At one time he was chairman of the Republican County Central Committee. From every point of view he was a clear-cut, honest and splendid citizen, and is well remembered for these qualities and also for his exceptional physical manhood. He was unusually strong physically, and in his younger days very athletic. Mr. Brady married for his first wife Miss Frances Ada Rickard, who died in 1897. In 1902 he married Adatoel Hedges, who survives him. All his children were by his first marriage. Three of the daughters who survived him have since passed away, Mrs. Frederick 236 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS A. Tilton, of Detroit, who died there in November, 1917; Mrs. Cara G. Klinite, who died in Cleveland in 1909; and Ida, who died at Cleveland in 1908. The children still living are: Harry S.; Francis A., who is connected with the Mason Tire & Rubber Company of Cleveland; Mrs. George W. Taylor, of Leavittaburg, Ohio ; Mrs. Arthur J. Neubauer, of Detroit, and Mrs. W. J. Mooney, of Lakewood. HARRY S. BRADY, operator and sales agent for coal and coal mines, is one of the leading figures in the coal trade of Cleveland, and has been identified with some phase of the industry throughout his adult career. Mr. Brady is a native of Cleveland, a son of the late Francis A. Brady, one of the leading railway men of his time, referred to on other pages. Born in Cleveland March 31, 1880, Harry S. Brady grew up in this city and in Trumbull County, graduated from the Warren High School and also attended for a time Mount Union College. He finished his preparation for a business career in the Spencerian Business College at Cleveland. That school, under the direction of President E. R. Felton, has furnished instruction to three generations of the Brady family. At the age of nineteen Mr. Brady went to work as superintendent of docks for the Erie Coal and Transfer Company. The president of that company was the late Frank M. Osborn. Here he gained an introduction to the coal trade, but his present position is due to the fact that, though a young man, he has spent nearly twenty years in the different branches of the coal business. For about three years he continued as superintendent of docks for the Erie Transfer Company, and was then superintendent of docks and later city salesman for the Youghiogheny Coal Company at Cleveland. In 1910 he engaged in business for himself, with offices in the Rockefeller Building. For several years he was local representative and agent for The Pittsburg-Westmoreland Coal Company, but lately has become a general sales agent for high grade coal, and his services have been in demand by various companies and corporations in the buying of coal and coal mines. One of his recent transactions, indicating the important character of his business, was in closing a deal for the sale of a large Kentucky coal mining concern to Cleveland interests, a transaction involving about half a million dollars. After business Mr. Brady has just two major interests, his home and family and music, which has been a source of lifelong recreation and pleasure. Mr. Brady has played with some of the best orchestral organizations in the country. He is now a member of the Masonic Orchestra of Cleveland and for the past twelve years has played with the orchestra of the Lakewood Methodist Episcopal Church. His devotion to home has not allowed him to become an active member of any clubs. However, he is affiliated with Lakewood Lodge No. 601, Free and Accepted Masons, with Cunningham Chapter No. 187, Royal Arch Masons, of which he is scribe; Lake Erie Consistory, Thirty-second Degree, and Holyrood Coramandery, No. 32, Knights Templar ; with Lake Shore Lodge, No. 6, Knights of Pythias; belongs to the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, the Cleveland Athletic Club and the Cleveland Automobile Club. July 19, 1899, Mr. Brady married Miss Jennie June Campbell, of Lakewood. She was born and educated in Cleveland, and is a daughter of Charles C. and Sarah (Duncan) Campbell, residents of the West Side. Mr. and Mrs. Brady, who reside at 1546 Arthur Avenue in Lakewood, have two children, Winifred A. and Harriet E., both born at Lakewood. FRANK T. ANDREWS is a member of the firm Andrews Brothers, general contractors, with offices at 328 in the Engineers Building at Cleveland. Mr. Andrews individually and through his firm has the distinction of having constructed more church buildings than any other individual or firm in this section of Ohio. He has long made a specialty of church and school and other public buildings. The work of a building contractor stands out in full view, and is susceptible of being tested by the most exacting rule, durability, permanence and essential honesty of workmanship and material. The Andrews Brothers could be well pardoned for a feeling of pride as well as satisfaction when they point to the long list of buildings erected by them in recent years. A partial list of these buildings would include the following churches: St. Coleman's, St. Thomas Aquinas, Holy Rosary, St. Philomena's, St. Anthony 's, St. Patrick's Addition, East Cleveland Baptist, all at Cleveland, St. Adelbert's at Grand Rapids, Michigan, Sacred Heart, St. Patrick's at Youngstown, Good Shepherd at Toledo, .St. Joseph's at Ashtabula, St. Joseph's at Randolph, and St. Peter's at Steubenville, Ohio. Among schools are the St. Michael's at Cleveland, the Wood Street at Youngstown, and CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 237 the Fremont High School at Fremont. They have also erected fifteen railway buildings, the courthouse at Ironton, Ohio, the county jail at Bowling Green, and the Carnegie Library on Clark Avenue in Cleveland. Frank T. Andrews was born at Fremont, Ohio, June 12, 1872, and was educated in the public schools of his native town and at Otterbein University, where he completed the classical course and also a business course of two years. With this substantial education he turned to a practical trade and for about six years worked as a stone cutter. He then entered the general contracting business at Toledo, but three years later came to Cleveland. He was elected to the office of county commissioner three successive terms, first in 1913, second in 1915 and the third time in 1917. H. F. REDICK. A name that stands for something in business affairs in such a large city as Cleveland is no small achievement for any ambitious man. A few years ago H. F. Redick came to Cleveland, a stranger in the city and without financial backing. He sold real estate for others and then went into business for himself, and now has a big clientele to avail his services in the field of real estate, loans, investments and insurance. Mr. Redick was born at Wooster, Ohio, son of Mr. and Mrs. John I. Redick. His parents live near Wooster, Ohio, and arc members of an old family of that locality. His father is owner of a large stock and grain farm. H. F. Redick was educated in the public schools of Wooster, and came to Cleveland in 1909. For about five years he sold allotments on the Heights, making a very successful record, and then for two years was in the brokerage real estate business. In 1916 he opened an office in the Williamson Building under his individual name. He has interests in some Cleveland allotments and suburban acreage and is a member of several companies and business organizations. He is the personification of energy and forcefulness, and along with his business ability has a most pleasing personality. Mr. Redick is a republican voter, is affiliated with Woodward Lodge No. 508, Free and Accepted Masons, and is a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce and Civic League. JOHN KELLMAN. The largest contracting plastering firm in the United States, McNulty Brothers, founded its branch at Cleveland in 1902, and since that time has been engaged in some of the largest contracts in the city in its line. In its own particular field this company is practically in a class by itself and the personnel of its staff is such that it is ready at a moment's notice to take care of the most intricate and delicate work, as well as the largest contracts. The firm of McNulty Brothers has headquarters at Chicago. The president of the corporation is Thomas J. McNulty, well known to Clevelanders, and who has been for many years a very frequent visitor to Cleveland, in the growth and advancement of which city he is deeply interested. An integral part of the working force and an important factor in the success of the company's business at Cleveland is John Kellman, who has been manager of the branch at the Forest City since 1910. Mr. Kellman has spent his entire business career in the employ of this firm and has worked his way up from a humble poOtion to the one of importance which he now holds. Mr. Kellman was born December 25, 1880, at Springfield, Massachusetts, and the graded and high schools of that city furnished his educational training. He learned the plasterer's trade in his native place, and later secured employment with the firm of McNulty Brothers, a growing concern of plasterer contractors, although not at that time as important as now. Mr. Kellman in 1910 was sent to Cleveland to take charge of the branch here, and has since remained in this capacity. The work of this firm in Cleveland has become more and more extensive and important with the passing of the years, and among the larger contracts may be mentioned: The Cleveland Trust Building, the First National Bank Building, New Guardian Building, Wade Park Building, Rockefeller Building, May Department Store, the original Statler Hotel, and the Hotel Winton. At present the company is engaged in work upon the Hotel Cleveland, in addition to a number of other contracts. Mr. Kellman is thoroughly familiar with the trade and with every detail of the business, is a man of progressive energy and executive force, and one who holds the confidence of his associates and fellow-workers. He was married December 19, 1902, at Chicago, to Miss Marguerite Wallace, who was born in Ireland, a daughter of Richard Wallace, who is still living in that country. CHARLES W. KINGSLEY. During a residence in Cleveland of more than half a century's duration Charles W. Kingsley has made that 238 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS kind of record which it is most satisfactory to contemplate from a personal standpoint and also from the standpoint of practical utility to a city that is growing to a rank among the largest centers of population and business in the western hemisphere. Mr. Kingsley has not only been active but has been successful in business affairs and his success and position are due to a constant application practically uninterrupted save as he has exerted himself to the success of numberless movements for the broader and better welfare of his community. Mr. Kingsley was born at Fort Ann, Washington County, New York, October 23, 1848, and is one of a trio of Kingsley brothers who have all made notable records in Cleveland business affairs. He is a son of Warren and Marietta Cook (Everest) Kingsley. Through his father he is of English and French descent and through his mother, English.. His father was born in Connecticut and his mother in Vermont, and for many years his father was a merchant and manufacturer in New York State. Charles W. Kingsley after an education in the public schools and at the Fort Edward Institute in New York came to Cleveland in 1865, at the age of seventeen. His first employment was as bookkeeper with the Forest City Varnish Company. He remained there several years and then transferred to the wholesale drug house of Benton, Myers & Company, with whom he was first employed as bookkeeper. Mr. Kingsley has been best known in Cleveland business affairs as an accountant. He early became connected with the Cleveland Paper Company and rose to the position of treasurer, an office he held for several years. Then he capitalized his experience and joined with his brothers Hiram F. and H. B. Kingsley as an officer of the Kingsley Paper Company. This is one of the largest businesses of its kind in the Cleveland district, and throughout all the years since the organization of this successful company Mr. Kingsley has filled the position of treasurer. In matters of politics Mr. Kinglsey is independent, and has sought none of the honors that go with politics and has divided his time pretty well between home and business even to the exclusion of social activities. In 1881 Mr. Kingsley married Julia K. Barney, a native of Cleveland. BLOOMFIELD H. DAYTON was the first city treasurer of Cleveland to qualify under Civil Service rules and for over two years has been the responsible head of the Department of Finance, Division of Treasury, in the municipal government. Mr. Dayton has had a long and active experience in financial affairs generally and has been a resident of Cleveland since .1908. He was born in Humboldt, Kansas, March 2, 1876, a son of Bloomfield H. and Mary J. (Van Horn) Dayton. His father was for a number of years an active banker at Humboldt, Kansas, and a member and one of the founders of the private banking house of Dayton & Barber. He died at Humboldt at the age of forty-four, when his son Bloomfield was nine years of age. After his death the widowed mother took her two sons, Chester J. and Bloomfield H., back to Springfield, Massachusetts, where she spent her last years and where she died at the age of fifty-seven. The older son, Chester J., is now connected with the wholesale house of C. C. Lewis Company in Springfield, Massachusetts. Bloomfield H. Dayton acquired most of his education at Springfield, Massachusetts, graduating from high school with the class of 1895. He began his business career as a bookkeeper and for twelve years was a resident of Springfield, and finally became connected with the Travelers Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut, as a traveling auditor. For a time his headquarters were in New York and in 1908 he was transferred to Cleveland as auditor of this district of the insurance company. In 1911 Mr. Dayton became identified with the Thomas Coughlin Company of Cleveland, dealers in insurance and surety bonds. In 1911, when Thomas Coughlin was elected city auditor of Cleveland, he appointed Mr. Dayton chief clerk in the tax department and that brought him his first position in the city government, which he retained until 1915. Then on June 1, 1915, he was appointed city treasurer, his present office. Mr. Dayton is affiliated with Springfield Lodge of Masons at Springfield, Massachusetts. being a past master, and is also affiliated with Springfield Knights Templar Commandery and the Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Cleveland. He is a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. His home is in the Six Hundred Apartments on Prospect Avenue. ANDREW E. NELSON is one of those keen and resourceful business men who have made capable records in business as salesmen and execu- CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 239 tive officials of the great packing company. Mr. Nelson has been with Morris & Company for many years, has been shifted around from one post to another in some of the largest cities of the country and is now manager of the Cleveland branch at 2342 Ontario Street. He was born in Allegany County, Maryland, December 25, 1878. His father, Andrew Nelson, Sr., was born in Glasgow Scotland, in 1848, was reared and married in that city, was a baker by trade and about 1868 came to the United States and settled in Allegany County, Maryland, at Lonaconing. He followed his trade there and afterward was a merchant. He died at Oakland, Maryland, in 1900. He was always a sturdy member of the Scotch Presbyterian Church. After getting American citizenship he voted as a republican: and was affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Andrew E. Nelson, Sr., married Annie D. Thompson, who was born at Glasgow in 1851 and now makes her home with her children. These children are: Thomas, living in Chicago and salesman for the Cudahy Packing Company; Elizabeth, wife of Charles Lofthouse, a broker, living at Nassau, Bahama Islands; Andrew E.; Louise, wife of Charles Stewart, an undertaker at Hammond, Indiana; Mary Ellen, wife of Ralph Robbins, a machinist at Hammond, Indiana; Robert, manager for Armour & Company at Philadelphia; Jeannette, wife of IIotner Branch, purchasing agent for the Standard Steel Car Company and living at Hammond, Indiana; and Marguerite, wife of B. King, who is associated with his father in the tug business and they live in New York City. Andrew E. Nelson, Jr.. was educated in the public schools of Maryland. his boyhood and youth being spent at Oakland in that state. He also attended a private academy there, and at the age of twenty started work as a wage earner with Morris & Company at Allegheny, Pennsylvania. He was their salesman at that point two years, was then promoted and transferred to Washington, D. C.. as local manager, and remained in the national capital nine years. His next position was as manager at Boston, Massachusetts, for a year, and in similar capacity he was stationed at Portland, Maine, one year, New York City one year, Braddock. Pennsylvania three years, and was then transferred to the headquarters at Chicago and for a year and a half was district manager, working out of Chicago over the territory between Minneapolis and Cleve- Vol. III-18 land. In November, 1915, Mr. Nelson came to Cleveland as manager of the Cleveland branch. Politically Mr. Nelson is an independent voter. He has his Masonic affiliations at Washington, D. C., being a member of New Jerusalem Lodge No. 9, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and Columbia Chapter No. 9, Royal Arch Masons. Mr. Nelson resides at 1461 Crawford Road. He married at Pittsburg in 1913 Miss Catherine Browne, who was born in that city in 1892. They have three children : Donald Edwin, born January 19, 1914; Richard Andrew, born May 5, 1915; and Homer Branch, born January 11, 1918. BONNIE L. MALLORY has been a resident of Cleveland about ten years. and is well known in the manufacturing district both as an inventor and as a practical machinist. he is now one of the executive members of the Geometric Stamping Company. Mr. Mallory was born in Michigan October 28, 1884. His father, George W. Mallory, a native of the same state, has spent his active life as a farmer. He was also a member of the police force in Pompeii. Michigan. and took active part in local politics. He is the youngest of a family of twelve brothers and several of them were soldiers of the Union army during the Civil war. George W. Mallory married Laura L. Stout, a native of Pennsylvania. Her father Horace L. Stout served with a Pennsylvania regiment in the Civil war, and was captured and confined in Libby Prison for several weeks, until he made his escape from that famous tobacco warehouse. Bonnie L. Mallory had a public school education and at an early age began learning a trade in machine shops at Lansing, Michigan. He remained there several years, and then followed the custom of the journeyman and also his inclinations for wandering and adventure and worked in nearly every part of the country, including Canada. He did general mechanical engineering, overhauling traction engines, harvest outfits, and practically every job that was in his line. By 1908 he had pretty well satisfied his disposition for roving and in that year came to Cleveland. Six months were spent with the DeBolt-Peters Machine Company, and he put in another six months at the Long Arm System. While thus employed he gave considerable time to inventions and has sold several of his patents. From the proceeds of this 240 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS original work he established a machine shop, later known as the Triple Die &. Tool Company. He was actively connected with that a year, when he sold out and established the B. L. Mallory Machine Company. The headquarters of this company were in the Whitney Power Block, where he had worked as an employe ten years before. With this company Mr. Mallory handled many of the contracts of the Geometric Stamping Company, and the interests of the business were such that the two plants were consolidated under the latter name in January, 1917. This company does a general metal stamping business, and such improvements have been made now that the die work cannot be surpassed anywhere in the country. One of Mr. Mallory's most important inventions is a drill grinding machine for pointing twist drills, taps and reamers. It is an automatic device and Mr. Mallory has three distinct patents for the machine and its parts. This device is manufactured by the Cleveland Grinder Company, organized in 1918 and of which Mr. Mallory is president. Another patent worthy of special mention is for a rail joint, interlocking and supporting rail ends and preventing not only the wear and noise of rail joints but also eliminating the possibilities of serious danger that frequently occur from insecure joints. Mr. Mallory had some military experience and for two years was a member of Company A of a Michigan National Guard Regiment at Lansing. He is a republican voter and is affiliated with Euclid Lodge No. 599, Free and Accepted Masons, Mount Olive Chapter No. 189, Royal Arch Masons, Couer de Lion Commandery No. 64, Knights Templar, and with Al Sirat Grotto No. 17. At Cleveland June 30, 1908, he married Miss Louise R. Beoff, a native of this city. Her father, John Beoff, is engaged in the moving and express business here. They have two children : Mabelle Laverne, born May 1, 1910, and James Edward, born January 4, 1917. ALLEN S. WALTZ. In the district around Sixty-fifth Street and Clark Avenue, known as "the yards," there have been few more familiar and influential figures during the last twenty years than Allen S. Waltz, who comes of a family of livestock men and who fits worthily into his duties and honors as secretary and treasurer of the Cleveland Union Stockyards Company. Three generations of his family have acknowledged Bluffton, Ohio, as their home during some portion of their lives. Grandfather Waltz was one of the early settlers of that Ohio village, lived out his life there, and followed as a source of gain and livelihood the shoemaker's trade. Allen S. Waltz was born in Bluffton July 28, 1875, and his father, Hiram Waltz, was born there in 1850. Hiram Waltz made his first transactions as a livestock dealer in and around Bluffton, and as a young man cast his first vote for the democratic candidates. In 1884, having gained some local reputation for ability in his particular line of business, he sought a larger and more important field in the livestock market at Buffalo, New York, going to Buffalo about the same time that city's most distinguished citizen was placed in the White House at Washington, and with no one•more enthusiastic in his support than Hiram Waltz, who was always prominent and active in his party, but without aspirations for office, and once some years later refused the signal honor of a nomination for mayor of Buffalo. In that city he had gained membership in one of the leading livestock commission firms, Swope, Hughes & Waltz, which later was Swope, Hughes, Waltz & Benstead. He continued active in business affairs at Buffalo more than twenty years, and died there in 1908. He was a member and active supporter of the Disciples Church. Before leaving Bluffton he married Mary Ann Tipton, who was born there in 1850, and died at Cleveland February 28, 1914, aged sixty-three. She was the mother of four children : Horace L., in the livestock business at Chicago; Allen S.; Fairy B., wife of Frank L. Prucka, who is connected with Swift & Company at Omaha; and Edgar, in the livestock commission business at Cleveland. The family removed to Buffalo when Allen S. Waltz was nine years old, and his education, begun in the public schools of Bluffton, was continued six years in a military school known as Deveaux College, at Niagara Falls, and in the Buffalo High School, from which he graduated in 1894. After two years as a traveling salesman, handling a line of cigars for Brown Brothers of Detroit, Mr. Waltz took a step which decided his future career, by going to work for his father's firm, Swope, Hughes, Waltz & Benstead. Having profited much by his experience with them for two years, he came to Cleveland in 1898, and representing some important financial interests, became ,secretary and treasurer of the Farm- CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 241 ers & Drovers Stockyards Company. In 1903 the yards and business of this company were consolidated with the Cleveland Union Stockyards Company, and in this larger concern Mr. Waltz retained the responsibilities of the same offices he had held with the other company, including those of director. Mr. Waltz has kept himself in touch with the life and affairs of the city. He is a member of the Cleveland Athletic Club, the Chamber of Industry, and is a director of the National Garage Company. His vote is exercised independently. His home is at 1232 West Boulevard Avenue. Mr. Waltz married in 1899, at Cleveland, Miss Lillian H. Propst, daughter of the late Joseph E. and Caroline Propst. Her father was a harness-maker, but lived retired several years before his death. GEORGE A. RUTHERFORD. One of the leading contractors of Cleveland, George A. Rutherford, president of the George A. Rutherford Company, has been engaged in his present line of business since 1896 and has built it up to large proportions. Practically his entire career has been passed in connection with contracting, and few men of the Forest City have a wider acquaintance or a better record for business integrity. Mr. Rutherford was born at Cleveland, September 18, 1871, and has passed his entire life within its borders. His father, Mark Rutherford, was horn in Scotland and came to the United States as a youth of twenty years, settling at Cleveland and eventually establishing himself in business as a contractor after a number of years of sturdy endeavor to gain a foothold. His place of business was one of the well-known stands of the city in the early days, and was located on the Public Square, where the Society for Savings Building now stands. Mr. Rutherford rounded out a long and honorable career as business man and citizen and went to his final rest in 1911. He married Miss Isabella Cossar, who was also a native of Scotland, and whose death occurred at Cleveland in 1907. George A. Rutherford was educated in the public and high schools of Cleveland. The work of the George A. Rutherford Company is principally in factories, and alterations in stores and mercantile establishments at Cleveland, although some large out-of-town contracts have also been successfully handled. Mr. Rutherford has various other business in- terests, being president of the Lincoln Fireproof Storage Company, a director of the Fowler, Worman, Kelley Company; and has holdings in other institutions and enterprises. His standing in his calling may be seen from noting the fact that he is president of the Mason Contractors' Association, in addition to which he is a former president of the Builders' Exchange. Fraternally Mr. Rutherford belongs to Iris Lodge, No. 229, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and also belongs to the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, to the Real Estate Board, the Cleveland Automobile Club, the Cleveland Advertising Club, the Cleveland Athletic Club, the Cleveland Engineers' Society and the Willowick Club. In 1894 Mr. Rutherford was married to Elizabeth Day, also a native of Cleveland, and a daughter of William Day, and to this union there have been born two children : Mildred and George. Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Rutherford and their children attend the Windemere Presbyterian Church. FRANK RAY WALKER. Appreciation of the work and ideas of Frank Ray Walker is by no means confined to the friends and advovates of the Group Plan of architecture in the City of Cleveland, where his services have been especially noteworthy. Mr. Walker is undoubtedly one of the eminent men in his profession today, and the name of his firm, Walker & Weeks, is identified with much of the commendable work done in Cleveland building within the last ten years. Mr. Walker, who has been a resident of Cleveland since 1905, was born at Pittsfield, Massachusetts, September 29, 1877. From the public schools of his native city he entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and broadened his technical training by extended study and travel abroad at Paris and a year in Italy. For several years he did some of the practical work of his profession in Boston, New York and Pittsburg, and he came to Cleveland at the suggestion of Mr. John M. Carrerre,who was at that time Group Plan commissioner. For six years Mr. Walker remained in the office of J. Milton Dyer, and then formed his present partnership with H. E. Weeks. The plans offered by this firm won among the various competitors for the new library at Cleveland. one of the most notable among the Group Plan buildings. Mr. Walker is also consulting architect for the new auditorium on the Mall, another Group Plan building. He is professional advisor to the 242 -CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS City Planning Commission, a committee that was organized in the spring of 1918 to study traffic, widen streets, carry out the zoning plan, and pass upon all public buildings and otner important buildings. that will affect the appearance and permanent convenience of the city. Some of the older buildings for which the firm were architects include the following: Kinney & Levan Building, New Guardian Savings & Trust Company office building and bank, Union National Bank Building, Charity Hospital, and the warehouse for the W. Bingham Company, said to be the largest single unit warehouse for hardware in the world. Mr. Walker is a member of the Union Club, Hermit Club, Cleveland Athletic Club, Chagrin Valley Hunt Club, all of Cleveland. and of the Technology Club of New 'York. He is also a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, the Engineering Society of Cleveland and a charter member of the Society of American Philosophy. His summer residence is at Gates Mills, a Cleveland suburb, and he is one of the village trustees. His winter residence is at 1938 East Eighty-seventh Street. Mr. Walker is independent in politics, and still retains his membership in the South Congregational Church of Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Of this church his grandfather was one of the ten founders. October 28, 1915, at Cleveland. Mr. Walker married Miss Catherine Follett Stone, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carlos M. Stone, the former now deceased and the latter living in Euclid Heights. Carlos M. Stone was a former judge of the Court of Common Pleas at Cleveland. Mr. and Mrs. Walker have one child, Richard Stone. born December 28, 1917. Mr. Walker has an interesting family history and lineage. He is descended from Richard Walker who settled at Lynn. Massachusetts, in 1630. His grandfather. William Walker, was a native of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and was a citizen of considerable prominence in that town. He died there when about fifty-five years of age. He was a silversmith and jeweler. The building he occupied for business purposes has a special historical interest, since in the little club room above his store were frequently held abolition meetings by such characters as Wendell Phillips, William Lloyd Garrison. Marshall Crane and others. Frank Walker, father of the Cleveland architect, was born at Pittsfield in October. 1849. In a business way he has been an interior decorator and doubtless his profession had something to do with the early influences directing Frank R. Walker into architecture. Frank Walker still lives at Pittsfield. During war times, though a small boy, he assisted his father, who was at time internal revenue collector. Frank Walker is a republican and a member of the Masonic fraternity. He married Helen Theresa Ranous, who was born at Pittsfield August 9, 1852. Their only living child is Frank Ray. The Ranous family, Mr. Walker's maternal ancestry, were French Huguenots. The American founder of the family was a volunteer officer under General Rochambeau, who came with the French Expeditionary forces to assist the American colonies in the time of the Revolution. This ancestor was present at the battle of Yorktown and after the war settled in Pleasant Valley, near Poughkeepsie, New York. Alfred Ranous, maternal grandfather of Mr. Walker, was born at Poughkeepsie and died at Pittsfield, Massachusetts, at the age of seventy-eight. He was a publisher and newspaper man. For many years he was associated with Mr. Chickering in conducting the Berkshire County Eagle, and was also connected with the Berkshire County Sun, a paper which had a continuous existence for over a century. Prior to the Civil war Alfred Ranous lived for some years in the South and was auditor for the State of Alabama. Five of his brothers fought in the Northern army. Because he refused to swear allegiance to the South he was put in prison and while there contracted Bright's disease, which handicapped him more or less in all his later work. Among his other experiences he was a California forty-niner. Alfred Ranous married Maria Theresa Morehouse, who was horn at Pittsfield, Massachusetts, in 1837 and died there in 1917. JAMES C. WILMOT. In point of continuous service, one of the oldest firms doing business on the Public Square at Cleveland is the J. C. Wilmot Company, which was established more than forty-five years ago as a high-class paint and wall paper store and business, by the late J. C. Wilmot, the elder. It has been continued ever since, and both at the beginning and at present the service of the company has extended to the decoration of the best homes in Cleveland and surrounding territory. Thus it has become an institution, and has been developed into an organization of specialists in this particular line. The founder of the business, James C. Wilmot. was born at London, England, in 1831. CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 243 He was reared and educated there and by apprenticeship acquired a thorough and methodical knowledge of painting, sign and carriage painting and contracting in those lines. At the age of twenty-one he came to America and located at Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1852 was married there, and in 1872 removed to Cleveland, at which time he established his painting and wall paper business on the Public Square. James C. Wilmot, Sr., soon found his services in demand and did much of the painting, papering and decorating for some of the oldest and finest homes of Cleveland. He was active in business until his death in 1903. He was a republican and a member of the Masonic fraternity. James C. Wilmot, Sr., married Ellen Hood. She was born at London, England, in 1837, daughter of Alfred Hood, also a native of that city. Alfred Hood brought his family to the United States by sailing vessel and located at Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he owned a farm and also followed the trade of carriage builder and was a very expert workman in that line. Alfred Hood and wife both died in Fort Wayne. Ellen Hood 'Wilmot died at Cleveland in May, 1916. She was only thirteen years old when the Hood family came to America in 1850. The children of James C. Wilmot and wife were: Alfred, who died in boyhood; Charles IL. who is connected with the May Company of Cleveland; Cornelia 0., who died unmarried at Cleveland in 1914; Newton J., who was with the Standard Oil Company and died at Cleveland in 1898; and James C. James C. Wilmot, Jr., was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, February 6, 1866, and was six years old when the family came to Cleveland. He attended the public schools of this city, but left school at the age of fifteen to begin work with his father. He served an apprenticeship in all the technical branches of the business and was well qualified to succeed his father as president of the company. The officers of the J. C. Wilmot Company are: J. C. Wilmot, president and treasurer ; and C. H. Douda, vice president and secretary. The business is incorporated under the laws of Ohio and the store, a landmark in the Cleveland business district, is at 72-74 Public Square. The goods and the services of this company, largely sought on most of the high grade work, are sold all over the State of Ohio and even into other states. Mr. Wilmot is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Builders' Exchange, the Rotary Club, the Colonial Club, is a member of the Calvary Presbyterian Church, and in politics votes as a republican. In 1914 he built his home at 1499 East. Boulevard. Mr. Wilmot married in Cleveland in September, 1888, Miss Hattie May White, a native of Cleveland. JACOB HALLER. The fact that identifies Jacob IIaller most conspicuously with the business life of Cleveland is his long and competent service as secretary of the West Side Savings and Loan Association. For over twenty-five years he has been performing the duties of secretary, and as that office brings him in touch with all the hundreds of patrons of the association, the record of prosperity which the organization has enjoyed may he credited in no small degree to his very able efforts and the confidence inspired by him in the trustworthy management. The West Side Savings and Loan Association has now completed thirty-one years of history. It. was founded in December, 1886, and was first known as the West Side Bauverein, being primarily, as the name indicated, a building association. In later years the savings and loan features of the business have been emphasized. Within the last seven years the association has increased its total assets more than in all the previous quarter of a century of its existence. Fifteen years after the company was founded its assets were less than $150,000, and it was in the twenty-fifth year, about 1911, that the assets climbed to the million-dollar mark. Since then the growth has been rapid and most gratifying. In 1915 the total assets were over $2,300,000, while in 1916 they totaled $3,000,000, and by November, 1917, the total assets were over $3,500,000. Nearly all the resources of the company are represented by loans secured by first mortgages in Cuyahoga County. The home offices of the association are at 2025 West Twenty-fifth Street. The officers .are: Fred Linn, president; Joseph Sehenkelberg, vice president ; Jacob Haller, secretary; George J. Baum. assistant secretary. Mr. Jacob Haller was born in Wurttemberg, Germany, November 1, 1865, but has lived in Cleveland since he was a youth of seventeen. His father, Christian Haller, who now resides at 6514 Colgate Avenue in Cleveland, was born in Wurttemberg in 1838, was a farmer in that country, and in 1882 brought his family to the United States and after lo- eating at Cleveland was for twenty-five years 244 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS connected with the firm of Herrman & McLean Company on West Twenty-fifth Street in Cleveland. He is now living retired. He is a democrat, a member of the Evangelical Church and of the Knights of Pythias. In 1865 Christian Haller married Christina Lauffer, who was born in Wurttemberg in 1844. Their children are : Jacob; Anna, a widow living on West Ninety-fifth Street; and Christina, who lives with her parents. Jacob Haller was educated in the public schools of his native land and while there he learned the trade of tailor. After coming to Cleveland he continued to follow his trade in this city until 1893, at which time his duties as secretary of the West Side Savings and Loan Association required all his time. He had become secretary in 1891. Mr. Haller has other important business interests, being a stockholder and director and treasurer of the Excelsior Brewing Company,.is a director of the Modern Laundry Company, and owns some valuable real estate, both improved and unimproved, on Lorain Avenue and the Lake Front, and has his own modern home, which he built in 1912, at 2182 West Ninety-eigbth Street. Mr. Haller is a democrat, a member and treasurer of the Evangelical Church, and is affiliated with the Cleveland Chamber of Industry and Concordia Lodge, No. 345, Free and Accepted Masons. At Cleveland, in 1887, he married Miss Elizabeth Glunz, daughter of Frederick and Marguerite Glunz, whose home is in Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Haller have four children. Matilda, who is a graduate of the Edmiston Business College and is bookkeeper for the city government at the Market House, is the widow of William Glunz, a bookkeeper, who died at Cleveland in 1915. The daughter Elizabeth married George Baum, who is assistant secretary of the West Side Savings and Loan Association, and they reside on West Ninety-fifth Street in Cleveland. Mrs. Baum is a graduate of the Edmiston Business College. Albert, whose home is on Lorain Avenue, is a graduate of the public schools and a patternmaker by trade. Edward, who besides his public school education had a private course in bookkeeping, is cashier of the West Side Savings and Loan Association. WILLIAM A. THOMPSON, secretary of the Permanent Products Company, one of the newer industrial corporations of Cleveland, whose history is briefly told on other pages, has spent his active career as a salesman. Mr. Thompson was born in Conneaut Township of Erie County, Pennsylvania, March 6, 1868. As a boy he attended the grammar and high schools of Corry, Pennsylvania, but left school at the age of fifteen, and spent two years learning the machinist's trade at Corry. Thus he knows more about the machinery business than from the sales end. As a boy he showed an alertness to accept any opportunity that would give him a legitimate profit. One winter he hired a barn and boarded eight horses, working from 6 o'clock in the morning until midnight looking after the animals. At the end of the winter he had $40 clear. He spent at year studying law, but in 1887 moved to Conneaut, Ohio, and accepted employment in a tile factory owned by his brother, Hiram F. Thompson, who subsequently became a minister of the gospel. While lifting heavy tiles, Mr. Thompson was injured so that he had to give up all heavy work. This was really fortunate, since it started him in his career as a salesman, a work that he has made a profession. He first sold goods in the capacity of agent for carpet sweepers in Oil City, Pennsylvania. For three seasons he represented the Singer Sewing Machine Company at Conneaut, Ohio. In February, 1892, Mr. Thompson came to Cleveland and was salesman for the Globe Chemical Company until the fall of 1894. He then sold bicycles for H. A. Lozier & Company until the fall of 1897, following which for four years he represented the Black Manufacturing Company of Eric, Pennsylvania, selling the Tribune bicycles. From 1895 to November, 1917, Mr. Thompson had his home at Greenville, Pennsylvania. All these years he has been a salesman or sales manager. For a number of years he was sales manager of the Capital Gas Engine Company of Indianapolis. He was also at one time advertising manager for Western Pennsylvania for the Shedd-Brown Manufacturing Company, and district sales manager for the Shelby Electric Company at Pittsburg. Thus he has fully twenty years of experience in manufacturing, purchasing and superintending sales. Mr. Thompson returned to Cleveland as a home in the fall of 1917, and prior to that time had begun the active work of organizing the Permanent Products Company from its financial standpoint. Mr. Thompson maintains an absolutely independent attitude in politics. He is a member of CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 245 the Presbyterian Church and is affiliated with Eureka Lodge, No. 290, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, at Greenville, Pennsylvania. Mr. Thompson has a very interesting family history. His great-grandfather, William Thompson, was born in Western Scotland, and in colonial days settled in New York State, where he followed farming. He died near Albany. Hiram Thompson, grandfather of the Cleveland business man, was born near Albany, New York, in 1806, and died in Conneaut Township of Erie County, Pennsylvania, in 1878. He was one of the early settlers there, and developed a farm in that rugged district. He married Angeline Stuart, who was born at West Springfield, Pennsylvania, and died in Erie County, that state. Her father, Abiasa Stuart, was a native of Massachusetts, and died on his farm in West Springfield, Pennsylvania. The Stuart family came from Scotland to Massachusetts, and the father of Amasa served as a soldier in the Revolutionary war. Eliot Stuart Thompson, father of William A. Thompson, was born in West Springfield, Pennsylvania, in 1831, and was reared and married in that locality. He began life as a farmer, after which he entered the lumber business, and was in that industry in Canada for several years. As a lumberman he shipped most of his products to Cuba and he suffered financial ruin during one of the rebellions on that island, as a result of which a large consignment of lumber was seized or destroyed and he could never realize anything from it. From Canada he returned to Corry, Pennsylvania, where he was in the grocery business a number of years. In 1911 he retired and is now living at Oberlin, Ohio. In politics, like his son, he has refused to abide by the dictates of any party, and has been strictly independent. He is a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and affiliated with the Masonic fraternity. He is a life member and the oldest living member of Conneaut, Ohio, lodge of Masons. He also had a military record, enlisting in 1864 and serving until the close of the war. When he went away to the army he left his wife and three small children on the farm. Eliot Stuart Thompson married Antoinette Tubbs, who was born in Conneaut Township of Erie County, Pennsylvania, in 1838. and died at Corry in 1910. Her father, Frederick Tubbs, was born in 1802 on the present site of the Town of Amboy, Ohio. He was a sailor and owned and was captain of a lake schooner, the Brandywine, engaged in the grain trade between Duluth and Buffalo. He died in shipwreck off Dunkirk, New York. Frederick Tubbs married Irene Clifford, who was born at Grafton, New Hampshire, and died at Corry, Pennsylvania, though her home was at Albion in that state, at the age of seventy-two. She passed away in 1889. The Tubbs family came originally out of England and settled in colonial days at Bedford, Massachusetts. The original ancestor was a whale fisherman. The father of Irene Clifford was Patrick Clifford, who was born in New York State and died at Amboy, Ohio, where he had a farm. He married Josephine Buffum, a native of Massachusetts, who died at Grafton, New Hampshire. Her parents were Jedediah and Ruth (Joselyn) Buffum. An interesting story is told concerning the father of Jedediah Buffum, who lived in the early colonial days of Massachusetts. He on one occasion gave shelter to a persecuted woman accused of witchcraft, and the hostility of the community was directed against him. He was put to a horrible death, a door being laid over his body and weights piled upon it until life was slowly crushed out of him. Eliot Stuart Thompson and wife had five children : Charles F., a physician and surgeon, living at Sioux City, Iowa; Hiram F., a Congregational minister located at Park-man, Ohio; Bert F., a toolmaker living at 54 Beresford Road in East Cleveland; William A.; and Fannie A., wife of Raleigh A. Godfrey, a toolmaker living at Oberlin, Ohio. Mr. William A. Thompson lives at 1306 Grace Avenue in Lakewood. He married at Conneaut, Ohio, in 1889, Miss Jessie A. Brown, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Lindley Brown, both now deceased. Her father was a farmer. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson have one son, Robert S., who is a graduate of the high school at Greenville, Pennsylvania, and is a civil engineer by profession, his home still being with his father and mother. JOSEPH H. LYONS, whose name belongs in the list of Cleveland's independent business men and manufacturers, has come up from the rank and file of industry, and only fifteen years ago was a machinist apprentice and workman in one of Cleveland's factories. The Lyons Machine Company, of which he is president and active head, is a very prosperous and growing concern, located at 321 Frankfort Avenue. Mr. Lyons is a native of Ohio, born at Han- 246 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS nibal in Monroe County August 18, 1884. His paternal ancestors have been in America since colonial days. His grandfather, Robert Lyons, was born in Pennsylvania in 1807, was a farmer in the main, lived for varying lengths of time in Pennsylvania and Virginia, and in 1868 moved his family to Hannibal, Ohio, where he died in February, 1884. He married Margaret Guthrie, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1812 and died at Hannibal, Ohio in 1889. Of their children, L. B. Lyons, father of Joseph H., was born in 1863 while his parents were living in Wetzel County, West Virginia. He was five years of age when the family went to Monroe County, Ohio, and he grew up there on a farm and learned the blacksmith's trade in Hannibal. He had a shop for a long period of years, provided well for his family, and is now living in comfortable retirement at Hannibal. He is a republican and one of the leading members and supporters in his town of the United Brethren Church. He is also affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the Junior Order of United American Mechanics. L. B. Lyons married Ella l'iatt, who was born in 1861 at Woodsfield, Monroe County, Ohio. Their family consists of two sons, Joseph and Charles E. The latter is connected with the Lyons Machine Company and resides in the Monroe Hotel at Cleveland. Joseph H. Lyons associates all his boyhood memories with the little village of Hannibal, Ohio. There he attended school up to the age of sixteen and on seeking a means of being independent and self-supporting he went to Martinsville, West Virginia, and for five years was connected with the Martinsville Glass Manufacturing Company. Mr. Lyons arrived in Cleveland on July 11, 1903. The very next day he went to work for the Cleveland Twist Drill Company and was on the pay roll of that company from that date until April 14, 1909. During that time he mastered the trade of tool maker and machinist and upon that trade he has developed his independent business career. From the Twist Drill Company he went with the Ferro Machine and Foundry Company of Cleveland until 1911 and spent a few months with the Briefly Machine Company, and in 1912 established on a modest scale the Lyons Machine Company at 321 Frankfort Avenue. He has kept this up to a high standard of workmanship and has had a growing volume of trade, until his products are now shipped throughout Cleveland and Ohio and also to Michigan and Pennsylvania, and the business requires the services of thirty-five employes. The company manufactures jigs, tools and general machine fixtures. Mr. Lyons is an independent republican, a member of the First Friends Church of Cleveland, and was formerly on the financial board of the church. He is affiliated with Newburgh Lodge No. 379, Free and Accepted Masons, Robert Wallace Chapter No. 198, Royal Arch Masons, Forest City Council No. 111, Royal and Select Masters, Forest City Commandery No. 40, Knights Templar, Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine, Lake Erie Consistory of the Scottish Rite, and he and his wife are members of the Meridian Chapter of the Eastern Star. Mr. Lyons owns a comfortable hoMe at 1361 West 93rd Street. April 21, 1907, at Cleveland, he married Miss Florence Campbell, daughter of John and Florence (McColley) Campbell, the latter now deceased, and her father a retired resident of Cleveland. He was for many years a furnace man. Mr. and Mrs. Lyons have a bright and interesting family of seven children, the oldest being ten years of age. Their names and dates of birth are: John L., February 24, 1908 ; Robert W., September 17, 1909 ; George W., September 11, 1910; Florence, July 21, 1912; Charles C., January 21, 1914; Josephine H., July 21, 1916; and Richard F., November 22, 1917. PERRY D. CALDWELL, senior member of the firm Caldwell, Brunner & Van Buren, attorneys at law in the Williamson Building, entered the legal profession after some years of active service as a teacher. He was formerly connected with some of the schools in and about Cleveland. Mr. Caldwell has found a congenial field in the law and his firm is one of the strong aggregations of legal talent in the Cleveland bar. He was born March 10, 1879, on a farm near Letonia in Columbiana County, Ohio. He is a son of W. D. and Hortense L. (DeFord) Caldwell. his grandfather, William Caldwell, was an early settler in Columbiana County, going there from Baltimore, Maryland. W. D. Caldwell was a native of Columbiana County, and followed farming. He died near Lisbon in Columbiana County in August, 1914, at the age of fifty-eight. Mr. Caldwell's mother is living in Cleveland with her eon. In 1881 the family moved out to Butler County, Kansas, and bought a quarter section of land in what was then almost a frontier CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 247 community. They lived there about ten years, and went through all the hardships incident to Kansas at that time. The county where they lived has since become enormously wealthy through the development of oil wells and is now one of the prosperous sections of Kansas. But the Kansas as Perry D. Caldwell remembers it was a drought stricken and rather desolate country. Some of his earliest memories are of the prairie schooners or movers' wagons which daily passed the old homestead to the West or in some cases returning East after disastrous experiences. The memory of those days of bitter struggle with the adversities of soil and climate will never be effaced. Perry D. Caldwell is the oldest of three children. His sister, Lena Leola, is the wife of Dr. W. W. Scott, of Canton, Ohio. His younger brother, Charles F., is postmaster and proprietor of a general store at Augusta, Ohio. The two younger children were both born in Kansas. Perry D. Caldwell attended the public schools or district schools, the high school at Carrollton, Ohio, and Mount Union College at Alliance. Ile graduated in the normal course at Mount Union in 1898. In the meantime he taught country schools in Carroll and Columbiana counties. After finishing his course at Mount Union he was employed in a general store at Augusta about a year and in the fall of 1900 came to Cleveland and accepted the position of principal of the South Euclid schools. After two years he went on the road representing the firm of Adams & Ford. shoe jobbers. After six months as a traveling salesman he resumed teaching and was elected township superintendent of Mayfield Township of Cuyahoga County, an office he filled during the remainder of 1903 and all of 1904. In 1904-05 he was principal of the Garfield School on Detroit Street in Lakewood and that was his last active connection as a teacher. In the fall of 1905 Mr. Caldwell entered Adelbert College of Western Reserve University and received his bachelor of arts degree in 1909. He continued his law studies in the same institution, and received the degree bachelor of laws in 1911, being admitted to the Ohio bar in June of the same year. Since then he has been in active general practice and has been admitted to the District Court of the United States. From the fall of 1911 he practiced alone three years with offices in the Citizens Building. In September, 1914, the partnership of Caldwell, Brunner & Van Buren was formed, his associates being Ford W. Brunner and Donald C. Van Buren. They handle a large general practice as lawyers. Mr. Caldwell has also taken considerable part and interest in republican party politics. On November 6, 1917, he was elected a councilman from the nineteenth ward. In 1916 he was a delegate to the State Republican Convention at Columbus. Mr. Caldwell is a member of the Sigma Nu and Phi Alpha Delta College fraternities, the latter a legal fraternity, is a member of the Knights of Pythias, the Civic League, the City Club, the Cleveland Bar Association, and Bolton Avenue Presbyterian Church. He is unmarried and resides at 2126 East Ninety-sixth Street. JOY SETH HURD, a Cleveland lawyer with offices in the American Trust Building, entered the profession through an active experience in business in which some knowledge of the law was a rather indispensable consideration. He is now giving all his time to a large and rapidly growing general practice. Mr. Hurd was born in Cleveland June 11, 1886, a son of Charles S. and Mary Hurd. His father is an engineer, and laid out the old system of waterworks in Glenville, a Cleveland suburb which has since been annexed and incorporated with the city. Mr. J. S. Hurd has one sister, May Catherine, wife of Leo A. Krueger of Cleveland. J. S. Hurd was educated in the public schools and afterwards attended Notre Dame Academy in Cleveland and St. Ignatius College. His early business experience was as an employee of the Everett-Moore Syndicate. He was finally made contract manager for the Cuyahoga Telephone Company. After his admission to the bar he was made office attorney for this company and filled those positions from 1910 to 1915. He was with the company and looking after its business interests when it was consolidated with The Ohio State Telephone Company. Mr. Hurd studied law at night, after giving his days to business duties. He was a student in the Baldwin-Wallace University and graduated LL. B. in June, 1910, being admitted to the bar June 24th same year. Much of his earlier practice was in corporation work, but since opening a law office of his own on January 1, 1916, has been chiefly engaged in general practice. He first opened an office in the Citizens Building, where he shared offices with H. E. Elliott and C. C. Downs. In January, 1917, he removed to the American Trust 248 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS Building, where he has an office alone. He is counsel for several business firms in Cleveland and is a director and treasurer of The Electrical League of Cleveland. Mr. Hurd is a democrat, a member of the Cleveland Bar Association, is a director of the West Shore Club of Cleveland. He served as president of the Independent Telephone Employees Aid Society of which he is director, did very efficient work as a member of the Liberty Loan Committee, and did public speaking in several cities of his state and served on legal advisory board of the questionnaire board. Mr. Hurd's recreations are reading and tennis, he has followed the game of baseball for a number of years and is also a lover of flowers and of everything that goes to make up an ideal home life. Mr. Hurd was happily married June 26, 1911, when Miss Frances Elizabeth Stimmel of Cleveland became his wife. Mrs. Hurd was born and educated in Cleveland, being a graduate of the Notre Dame Academy. She is a well trained and accomplished musician, both vocal and piano, and sings in the choir of the St. James Church at Lakewood, of which both she and her husband are members. Mr. and Mrs. Hurd have their home at 1258 Ethel Avenue in Lakewood. This home and three sturdy young sons and a daughter are the big things in the life of both Mr. and Mrs. Hurd and the word home means everything to both of them. Their four children are named Joy Francis, Francis Seth, Paul Jerome, and Rita Frances, all of whom were born in Cleveland. A. A. CARTWRIGHT. A great historian is credited with the declaration that every person has two educations, one which he received from others, and one, more important, which he gives to himself. It was the hard won training which he acquired by supporting himself while in the Western Reserve University that gave Mr. Cartwright, now one of the aggressive and forceful young lawyers of Cleveland, his real start in life. Mr. Cartwright was born in East Liverpool, Ohio, April 4, 1884. He is a son of Alfred S. and Ada E. (Pearce) Cartwright He and his father were both born in the same house and in the same room in Columbiana County. This old mansion has stood there for many years and is one of the landmarks of early settlement. Grandfather Cartwright and his brother were pioneer potters at East Liverpool and founded what has since become the leading industry of that city. Alfred S. Cartwright was formerly a grocery merchant at East Liverpool, but since 1908 has lived at Canton, Ohio, and is connected with a construction company and aLso with a manufacturer of gas mantels. He and his wife were married at Smith's Ferry, Pennsylvania. Ada E. Pearce was born at Neath, Wales, and was about ten years of age when she came with her father to the United States and settled in East Liverpool. Alfred S. Cartwright is a member of the Masonic order. There were five children in the family, three sons and two daughters, all living, A. A. Cartwright being the second in age and the only member of the family in Cuyahoga County. He acquired his early education in the public schools of East Liverpool, graduating from the high school with the class of 1901.. Later, much against his father's wishes, he came to Cleveland and entered Western Reserve University. He began his university career with only twenty-five dollars in assets, and for a time it was a hard struggle to support himself and attend to his studies at the same time. He had that type of courage which is not afraid to accept any task to earn an honest dollar. Thus he stayed at the university, completed his course with high honors, and at the same time gained some valuable business experience. In 1907 he received his A. B. degree and in June, 1910, was graduated from the law department LL. B. In 1910 he was one of the twelve supervisors of the Federal census in Cleveland. Mr. Cartwright has since been admitted to practice in the federal courts. For the first three years after his admission to the bar he was in practice with T. J. Ross under the firm name of Roes & Cartwright, with offices in the Williamson Building. He was then alone in practice, and on January 1, 1916, became assistant director of law of the City of Cleveland. In April, 1918, he entered the firm of Mathews, Orgill & Maschke, whose law offices are at 510 East Ohio Gas Building. Mr. Cartwright is a member of the Cleveland Bar Association, the Delta Tau Delta fraternity of Western Reserve and the Phi Alpha Delta law fraternity. He is a republican in politics and his favorite recreation is golf. He is in every sense an active man and has a large following of loyal friends in Cleveland. June 6, 1912. at Alliance, Ohio, Mr. Cartwright married Grace A. Bullock. She was educated in Alliance, being a graduate of the high school and also took special work in Mount Union College and for a time attended a convent school in Wisconsin. Mr. and Mrs. CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 249 Cartwright have one son, Jack Cartwright, born at Cleveland March 3, 1914. A. FRANK COUNTS, who began practice as a lawyer in Cleveland in 1906, is a member of the prominent firm of Dawley, Ewing, Counts & Terrell, with offices in the American Trust Building. His legal associates are Harrison W. Ewing and Virgil J. Terrell. This firm or its individual members have appeared in many cases of general public interest during the past ten or fifteen years. Mr. Counts is a contribution to Cleveland citizenship from Shelby County, Ohio. He was born at Port Jefferson in that county, September 5, 1881. He is a son of Jachomyer Cass and Margaret Belle (Hobby) Counts. Both parents are of German-English descent, and both are natives of Ohio. The father was born in Madison County and the mother in Shelby County. The Hobbys have lived in America for many generations, and were chiefly Connecticut people. One branch of the family spelled the name Hobbie, and there was a schoolmaster of that name who had as a most distinguished pupil George Washington. The Counts family came originally from Virginia. Men of the name were soldiers in the Revolution, in the War of 1812, and being Southerners were on the Confederate aide during the Civil war. The grandfather, himself, who was born in Virginia in 1798, was a tanner by trade, and ardently espoused the cause of the South during the struggle over slavery, but was detained at Cincinnati with about a dozen other Southerners at the outbreak of the war and was not allowed to cross over to join forces with the South. Mr. J. C. Counts studied law, but has given practically his entire active life to politics. He now resides at Sidney in Shelby County. In that county he and members of his family including father, uncles and cousins have held office continuously for the past sixty-one years. Every county office has been filled by some member of the family with the exception of the offices of common pleas judge, probate judge and sheriff. The family are all democrats, and the great-grandfather, Adam Counts, was a loyal supporter of Thomas Jefferson. There were three children, two sons and a daughter. The Cleveland lawyer is the oldest. Herbert F. is a lawyer by profession, and is now deputy United States marshal, located at Cincinnati. A. Frank Counts grew up at Sidney, Ohio, was graduated from the high school, and entering Western Reserve University took the regular course and was graduated Bachelor of Philosophy in 1904. Two years later on the same day in June of 1906 his alma mater awarded him the degrees Master of Arts and Bachelor of Laws. Admitted to the Ohio bar the same month, he began practice at Cleveland in August, 1906. Mr. Counts practiced alone until August, 1909, when he became a member of the firm of Ewing, Kramer & Counts. Subsequently Samuel E. Kramer withdrew from the firm to enter upon his duties as judge of the Municipal Court of Cleveland. Since then the firm title has been Dawley, Ewing, Counts & Terrell. They handle a general practice. Mr. Counts was a member of the National Guard in 1898, and was eager to get into service in the Spanish-American war in Cuba, but he yielded to his mother's objections and did not go. He is of the democratic faith and belief in politics. When he became a lawyer he resolved mightily to abjure practical participation in politics, at least until his professional reputation and success were assured. He has held to this resolve but only by considerable effort. Like all the members of the family he is a born master of politics, and it is a constant temptation to get into the arena and do the work called for from political partisans. Occasionally he relaxes long enough to talk politics, but that is as far as he goes. Mr. Counts is a lover of both golf and angling, but rarely has time for either recreation. He is a member of the American, Ohio State and Cleveland Bar associations and of the Shaker Heights Country Club. On April 17, 1913, he married Eulalie G. Miller of Cleveland. Mrs. Counts was born at West Liberty, Iowa, daughter of Joseph W. and Lucretia (Clapsaddle) Gaskill. She was educated in Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware. Her parents came originally from Stark County, Ohio, and are now living retired at Alliance. Her father was a grain buyer until 1903, when he removed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, and became manager of the stock farm of the late M. W. Savage, president of the International Stock Food Company. He continued with Mr. Savage for five years, and then retired and removed to Cleveland, and later to Alliance. The late M. W. Savage's mother was Mr. Gaskill's sister, so that Mrs. Counts is a first cousin of