350 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS assistant police prosecutor of Cleveland, and during Governor lierrick's administration was chief assistant fire marshal of Ohio. In 1896 Mr. Manak organized the Vcela Building and Loan Association, a mutual company, and for twenty years was its attorney. During that time the company paid in dividends to its stockholders and patrons about $3,000,000. In 1916 Mr. Manak resigned from this company to actively promote the organization of the Oul Building and Loan Association, of which he has since been president. The headquarters of the company are at 5638 Broadway. It is one of the praiseworthy Cleveland institutions primarily organized and devoted to the promotion of thrift among working people, and it has already. played a splendid role in that field. When the business opened its doors in July, 1916, it had only $1,000 in the treasury, and in less than two years its assets have climbed to $400,000. The responsibilities of the executive management are shared by Mr. Manak with Joseph W. Bartunek, vice president, and Dr. J. B. Pieta, secretary and treasurer. Mr. Manak is also a director of the Cleveland Home Investment Company. He is a republican, and is affiliated with the hide-pendent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. His home is at Brecksville, Ohio. In September, 1903, he married Miss Bertha R. Pay, daughter of Anton and Frances Pav, both now deceased. Her father came to Cleveland in 1876 and was a carriage manufacturer. Mrs. Manak before her marriage was a successful teacher in the Cleveland public schools. She is a graduate of the Cleveland High School and Normal School. Mr. and Mrs. Manak have one son, Frank C., Jr., born February 6, 1908. GEORGE P. HART is manager and treasurer of the Lake Shore Elevator Company and has been a prominent factor in the grain and elevator business at Cleveland for a number of years. He was born and reared a farmer and his early associations were with the agricultural classes of Ohio, an experience that has meant much to him in his present work. Mr. Hart was born at Sandusky, Ohio, May 30, 1858. His father, William Mart, was born in 1820 at Coblenz, Germany, and was seventeen years of age when he and three brothers came to the United States in 1837. He was in Sandusky through the cholera epidemic of 1848 and was a farmer in Erie County, having a place of 400 acres which he cultivated with a maximum of efficiency and productiveness until he retired in 1882. After that he lived in Sandusky City and died there in 1908. He was a republican voter and a member of the Lutheran Church. William Hart married at Sandusky Miss Louise Hess. She was born in Germany in 1833 and died at Sandusky in 1877. They had a very large family of children, the individual record being briefly as follows: William, a contractor and builder who died at Sandusky at the age of fifty-four ; Charles, a ship carpenter who died at Huron, Ohio, aged fifty-two; Mary, wife of John Stark, a farmer living at Huron, Ohio; George P.; Louise, who died at Sandusky, aged twenty-five, wife of August Hopf, a cigar manufacturer now living at Cleveland; Lizzie, wife of Adam Kurtz, a butcher, their home being at Adrian, Michigan; Louis, a butcher living at Toledo, Ohio; Henry, an attorney at law and member of the Sandusky bar; Lena, who married Jacob Gunsenhauser, a butcher, and both died at Huron, Ohio; Rose married Robert Wilcox, a farmer and oil operator, and they died at Bowling Green, Ohio; Helen, wife of L. M. Faber, owner of a grain elevator at Cleveland ; Minnie, wife of William McCormack. a celery grower at Huron, Ohio; Frank, who lives on the old homestead farm at Sandusky ; and Edward. the fourteenth and youngest of the family, is professor of the agricultural department of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Wisconsin. George P. Hart was educated in the public schools of Sandusky, and graduated from the Milan High School in the same county in 1877. Outside of school his experiences were as worker on his father's farm until he was twenty-four, and he then bought a farm of his own at Avery, and was a practical grain grower, stock raiser and general agriculturist for twenty years. After selling his farm Mr. Hart came to Cleveland in 1902, and buying property at 550 East Ninety-ninth Street constructed a grain elevator and in 1913 built what is regarded the finest equipped and most modern elevator at Cleveland on Carr Avenue and East Ninety-fourth Street. Both elevators are doing business, the new one being operated on the wholesale plan, while the older is a retail business. The Lake Shore Elevator Company was incorporated under the laws of Ohio in 1902 and its officers are: L. M. Faber, president ; George P. Hart, treasurer and manager; Ernest G. Hart, a son of George, vice president and secretary. This company ranks among the largest in Ohio in the volume of business transacted. CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 351 Mr. Hart is prominent in the various organizations of grain dealers all over the country. He is a member of the American Feed Manufacturers Association, the National Grain Dealers Association, and the Hay and Grain Exchange of Cleveland. He is a director in the Faber Elevator Company and in the Fidelity Mortgage and Loan Company. Mr. Hart is a republican and a member of the Presbyterian Church. He is affiliated with Glenville Lodge Free and Accepted Masons, Glenville Chapter Royal Arch Masons, Coeur de Lion Commandery Knights Templars, and is treasurer of his lodge and chapter. He is also a member of Lake Erie Consistory of the Scottish Rite and Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, Cleveland Building Trades Association, and these various concerns bring him into active connection with the leading business men of Cleveland. Mr. Hart and family reside at 595 East One Hundred and Fifth Street. He married at Milan, Ohio, in 1882, Miss Deborah M. Wilcox, daughter of Benjamin and Jane (Spears) Wilcox, both now deceased. Her father was a farmer. Mr. and Mrs. Hart have three children. Bertha is a talented musician. a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, after which she enjoyed instruction and inspiration from the best masters of pipe organ and piano for two years in Germany and one year in Paris; she is now a member of the faculty of the musical department at Cornell College at Mount Vernon, Iowa. The son Ernest has already been mentioned as vice president and secretary of the Lake Shore Elevator Company; he is a graduate of the Sandusky High School, is unmarried and lives with his father. The youngest of the family, Belle, has frequently been referred to in the press among the women engaged in war activities abroad. She is a graduate of Columbia University of New York and for three years was connected with that institution as instructor in the physical department. She is one of the two women chosen by, the university to go to France in charge of the entertainment and recreation work for the soldiers in the field. JOSEPH LARONGE. To say that Joseph Laronge is a leading Cleveland real estate man would not be doing justice to his unusual prominence and the many activities and achievements centering around his name and Vol. III-23 the product of his organizing and administrative genius. The majority of men work a lifetime and have less noteworthy things to their credit than Joseph Laronge has acquired in less than seventeen years. He was born at Cleveland December 9, 1881, was educated in the grammar and the Central High schools, took a law course under Judge Joseph C. Block, but his knowledge of the law has served merely to help him in his real estate work. In 1901 he went into the real estate business as an employe of the old Frisbie Company. He was with that firm a year and a half and was office superintendent when he left. He and Fred B. Hall then organized the Bingham Jackson Company, and he was with that firm a year. After this experience for others, Mr. Laronge established his own business, now known as the Joseph Laronge Company, Incorporated. He is president and treasurer of the company, Herman Laronge is vice president, F. J. Nixon is secretary, and Charles T. Prestien is assistant treasurer. The firm has its offices in the Williamson Building, and Mr. Laronge has been doing business continuously in that well known office structure for seventeen years. His father had an office in the same building and also in the old Williamson Building for eighteen years, so that taking the father and son, the family name has had its family associations in this one spot for thirty-five years. The Joseph Laronge Real Estate firm has become one of the largest and most extensive in Cleveland. The company occupies half of the second floor of the Williamson Building, fronting the Square, and has about fifty employes. For the better and more efficient handling of all work, the company maintains half a dozen or more departments, including an allotment department. Mr. Laronge has specialized in allotment development, and has sold enough lots in that way so that if ooncentrated in one place they would make a city of 10,000 people. The company is now working. on its twentieth subdivision. Mr. Laronge has also built a large number of houses and specializes only in fully improved allotments. The company also maintains a rental department for downtown property, a department for factory sites and acreage, an investment department, a leasehold department, through which a large share of the total volume of the company's business is 352 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS transacted, a general brokerage department, which handles residences, apartments, store buildings, a syndicating department, and also has a separate and individual advertising department. Mr. Laronge is treasurer of fifteen different companies which have been organized by him. His business covers all of Cuyahoga County, and is also of national extent. His firm has made property exchanges in communities as distant as Kansas, Illinois, Texas and Washington State, and also on the Island of Cuba. Mr. Laronge is director in twenty companies whose headquarters and field of operations are in Cleveland. Mr. Laronge's father was the late Louis L. Laronge, who was born in Alsace-Lorraine in April, 1841, son of Herman Laronge, who spent all his life in Germany. Louis L. Laronge grew up in his native province, and was liberally educated at Berlin, where he studied medicine and where he was given his degree Doctor of Medicine. After a few years of practice in that city he came to the United States in 1873. After a brief time spent in New York he went to Chicago and there found work as a reporter and editor on German newspapers. He also married while living in Chicago. In 1876 he came to Cleveland and was reporter for the Waechter am Erie. While doing that work he was also a student of the Cleveland School of Homeopathy, from which he graduated and received the degree Doctor of Medicine. For a number of years he was an instructor in this school of medicine and then took up active practice, which he continued in Cleveland until his death in February, 1908. Soon after he came to Cleveland he made the acquaintance of John D. Rockefeller, who was then a man of only local fame, and various associations and interests brought the oil man and the physician rather intimately together for a number of years. Doctor Laronge was independent in politics, and was an active member of the Jewish Temple at Scovill and Thirty-third streets. He was affiliated with the Sons of Joseph, the Gesangverein, and with the Masonic Order, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Knights of Pythias. He married in Chicago Bertha Lieblich, who was born in Germany in 1851, and is still living in Cleveland. Her children are: Arthur L., in the real estate business in Cleveland ; Joseph; Max, an oil salesman at Cleveland; Herman, associated in business with his brother Joseph; and Julia, wife of A. F. Pick, secretary of the manufacturing firm of L. N. Grose Company. Mr. Joseph Laronge is a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, Chamber of Industry, Real Estate Board, Oakwood Club, Auto Club, and has been an influential factor in the Builders' Managers Association of America. He also belongs to the Mortgage Credit Association. He is independent in politics, is affiliated with Cleveland Lodge, No. 18, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and the Knights of Pythias. He is a member of the Temple at Euclid Avenue and Eighty-seventh Street. Mr. Laronge has contributed to Cleveland some of its most conspicuous temples of entertainment. He built the Mall Theater on Euclid Avenue, the only theater building of the kind in the world. It is what is known as the duplex theater, one theater on top of the other, owing to two street levels. Mr. Laronge is treasurer and vice president of the Mall Theater Company. He also built the Southern Theater, the finest on the West Side, and is treasurer and president of the Prame Realty Company, which built this. This company also built the Black and White Taxicab Building, one of the best constructed garages in the City of Cleveland. Mr. Laronge was also responsible for the construction of the Packard plant, which, containing 150,000 square feet of floor space, is pronounced by experts to be the finest constructed automobile factory in the world. Mr. Laronge in 1910 built a modern home for himself and family at 10714 Drexel Avenue. In June, 1903, at Cleveland, he married Miss Retta Rosenthal, daughter of Jacob and Mary (Steiner) Rosenthal, the latter now deceased. Her father is a retired resident of Cleveland. Mr. and Mrs. Laronge have three children: Marvin J., born March 20, 1905; Louis L., born April 19, 1908; and Herbert A., born May 16, 1913. WILLIAM T. TENGLER. The Metal Shop Manufacturing Company, of which William T. Tengler is treasurer and superintendent, is largely the product of his creative energy and enterprise. It is one of the flourishing industries of Cleveland and is contributing its share to the enviable position of this city among the industrial cities of America. Mr. Tengler is proud to call Cleveland his native city. He was born here July 23, 1885. His father, William F. Tengler, was born in Mechlenburg-Strelich, Germany, in October, CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 353 1854. He grew up in his native land and learned the trade of weaver. Coming to the United States in 1884, he located at Cleveland, where first he worked as a mason and then took up carpet weaving. He now has one of the two industries of that kind in the entire City of Cleveland. His shop at 3136 West Fifty-fourth Street is largely patronized and is doing a flourishing business. William F. Tengler resides on West Fifty-fourth Street. He is a republican voter and a member of the Independent Protestant Church on West Fifty-fourth Street. He married, at Cleveland, Frederika Schroeder, who was born in Germany in 1862 and died at Cleveland in 1895. Their children were: William T.; Minnie, wife of Carl Sarter, connected with the Laub Baking Company of Cleveland; and Sophia, wife of William Eble, who is a steamfitter living on West Forty-ninth Street. William F. Tengler married for his second wife Mary Neuman, a native of Germany. They have one son, Edward. William T. Tengler began his education in the Cleveland public schools. When he was twelve years old, in 1897, his father returned to Germany, remaining in the old country until 1900. During those three years William T. Tengler continued his education in the German schools. In 1900, at the age of fifteen, having returned to Cleveland, he found employment with the Upston Nut and Bolt Company and ran a bolt machine a few months. Then for a time he was with the Mennen & Esterley Company, where he began as an apprentice, learning the sheet metal business. He was gradually promoted to greater responsibilities and duties and was finally made superintendent of the plant. He left that firm in 1910 to engage in business for himself. At that date he established the Metal Shop, a partnership consisting of himself and Mr. Criswell. J. C. Sparrow later entered the firm, and in 1912 they incorporated as the Metal Shop Manufacturing Company. E. G. Criswell is president; J. C. Sparrow is vice president, and Mr. Tengler is treasurer and superintendent. The present plant is at 1258 West Fourth Street. The business has grown enormously the last few years and the company now have plans complete for the construction of entirely new quarters. This company manufactures an extensive line of cans, safety deposit boxes and general sheet metal work, and also do electric welding and painting. Mr. Tengler is an independent voter. He is a member 'of the Independent Protestant Church on West Forty-fourth Street. Though a young man, he has already acquired considerable property in the city, owning his residence at 3136 West Fifty-eighth Street and also a dwelling at 5913 Frontier Avenue. He married, in Cleveland, in 1911, Miss Freda Oestreich, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Oestreich, who are living on West Sixty-first Street. Her father is connected with the Cleveland Metal Products Company. Mr. and Mrs. Tengler have one son, Alvin, born July 2, 1912. ARCHIBALD M. WILLARD. Of the hosts of men who have had their mortal presence on this earth, history has accorded immortality to the names of but few. "The memorial more enduring than brass or bronze" is more frequently the deed than the name. Thus there are hundreds of people even in Cleveland who attach no special significance to the name Archibald M. Willard, but there are few Americans young or old who during the last forty years have not seen and appreciated and caught some inspiration from the painting "The Spirit of '76," which in innumerable copies from the original painted by Mr. Willard forty years ago has found its way to the walls of homes, libraries and pages of school hooks and other literature, and everywhere has aroused a surge of that patriotic sentiment such as no other artistic creation, whether in words or in colors, has produced. Cleveland is proud of the fact that Mr. Willard has had his home in this city so many years, and all his life has been lived in Northern Ohio. He did some sketching of camp and battle fields during the Civil war while he was a Union soldier, and destiny has allotted him the privilege of living into the period of the present World war and seeing his great picture count as one of the influences for a remolding of American patriotism adequate to meet the exigencies of the present national crisis. Archibald M. Willard was born at Bedford, Ohio, August 26, 1836, and is of American revolutionary stock. His father, Rev. Samuel R. Willard, was born in 1801, and in early manhood settled in Ohio. The first nineteen years of his life Mr. A. M. Willard lived in various towns near Cleveland. He early showed a taste for drawing, but there were no facilities for developing his talents, and he had to make his own way in the world from an early age. As a boy in the district school 354 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS his comic drawings and cartoons afforded much entertainment for his fellow students and were frequently confiscated by the teachers. As noted above, some of his first sketches were made while he was a Union soldier in the Civil war. They were pictures of camp life and some were made of the Morgan raid through Ohio and later published in Harper's magazine. These pictures served as Mr. Willard has said, to help "the folks at home to understand the conditions of our camp." After the Civil war, as people of that time can remember, the battlefield panorama was a popular institution, and Mr. Willard conceived the idea of telling the story of the war in pictures painted on canvas and rolled along as it was explained in a lecture. That was long before the stereopticon and cinematograph. However, his panorama was not a financial success. At the close of the war Mr. Willard entered the service of a carriage and wagon maker, E. S. Tripp, at Wellington, Ohio. The wagon makers of that day, in their competitive struggle, not only adorned their wagons with conventional colors and stripes, but frequently with still life pictures that would appeal to the popular fancy and other things being equal would count in favor of a sale. Mr. Willard ornamented many of the Tripp wagons with such drawings and paintings, and occasionally found opportunities to express his artistic tendencies in more creative work. One of the pictures he painted while in the Wellington wagon shop attracted the attenp tion of Mr. J. F. Ryder, a well known photographer and publisher of Cleveland. It was displayed at the Ryder art store and attracted so much attention that many copies were made from it and sold. This was the beginning of a long business and personal association between Mr. Ryder and Mr. Willard, and the royalties from the pictures sold by Ryder enabled Mr. Willard to take his first formal course in art. And in this way, too, he became a resident of Cleveland. It was while in the midst of his work producing serio-comic paintings which were marketed by Mr. Ryder, that he conceived the preliminary plan for the great painting which is his masterpiece. The Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia was just on the eve of opening and Mr. Ryder was seeking some special pictures that would appeal to the public and would be specially suitable for sale on the Exposition grounds. Mr. Ryder and Mr. Willard after counselling together de termined to produce a humorous sketch under the title "Yankee Doodle," and the artist started his work having in mind the portrayal of a group of small town musicians on a patriotic holiday, emphasizing the grotesque and humorous rather than the deeply spiritual elements of the situation. Mr. Willard made a number of sketches of his models of a fifer and two drummers, but was unable to produce one to his satisfaction. About that time his father became very ill and it was known that he could not live. He had been posing as the drummer. His illness swept away from the son's mind all ideas and suggestions of a grotesque nature, and instead he accepted the inspiration to paint a noble, realistic picture in its place. The young drummer in the picture was posed by Harry Devereux, a son of General Devereux. The fifer in the scene was posed by Hugh Mosier, a veteran of the Civil war, and a perfect type in appearance and build of the old frontiersman. Thus after many trials was completed the original "Yankee Doodle." Photographs were made of it and thousands of them sold at the Centennial, and one day a letter came requesting that the original be sent to the Exposition, where it was exhibited, and where fame came to it and to its painter almost over night. From Philadelphia the painting was sent to Boston for exhibition. While there the request was made that a secondary title should be added as "The Spirit of '76," and it is by that title that the picture has since been known. The original was finally purchased by General Devereux, who presented it to the Town of Marblehead, Massachusetts, where it remains today. Besides the numberless copies that have been made of this famous painting by all the arts of the engraver and the printing press, it is especially appropriate that Cleveland should be able to own and appreciate a special reproduction made by the master hand of the artist himself. In 1912, when in his seventy-sixth year, Mr. Willard was commissioned by the city administration of which Newton D. Baker, now Secretary of War was then mayor, to paint a reproduction of "The Spirit of '76," and which is today given a prominent place in the City Hall. Mr. Willard has painted several other spirited canvasses, many of them of patriotic significance. One is "The Minute Men," another is called "The Charge at San Juan" which in its figures links the veterans of the Civil war with the time of the Spanish-Ameri- CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 355 can war. He also painted "The Drummer's Latest Yarn," "Pitching the Tune," "Deacon Jones' Experience." The last has had a great deal of fame owing to the fact that the famous American author Bret Harte wrote a poem that served as an inspiration and description of the painting, and the picture and the verses were both published by the enterprising Cleveland man, J. F. Ryder. That was in 1874, before Mr. Willard had come into fame by his greatest work. One of his best paintings is entitled "Jim Bludso," which was inspired by the poem of the late John Hay, former secretary of state. The original poem represented a Mississippi River engineer who lost his life saving his passengers, but Mr. Willard in his picture portrayed a pilot whose boat was on fire, and after seeing the picture Colonel Hay changed the poem to fit the picture. In the great revival of American patriotism which has marked the progress of the present war, "The Spirit of '76" has again and again been used, and naturally much publicity has been attracted to Mr. Willard. He and his daughter, Mrs. Maude W. Connolly, visited Chicago in the summer of 1916, when that city was the scene of a great preparedness parade. and at which time Mr. Willard was one of the guests of honor of the city, and on the reviewing stand. He is now eighty-two years of age, but it has been his practice to spend considerable time in his studio. His home and studio are on Holyoke Avenue, a house that was built by him forty years ago in what was then a choice residential suburb. March 31, 1864, Mr. Willard married Miss Nellie S. Challacombe. at Wellington, Ohio. Mrs. Willard died in Cleveland April 6, 1913. They became the parents of five children, four sons and one daughter. Charles E., who died in June, 1900, was a civil engineer and for several years was employed in that capacity by the City of Cleveland. Maude W., who now lives at home with her father, is the widow of Joseph D. Connolly, who died at Cleveland in 1912. Mrs. Connolly has one son, Willard R., the only grandchild of the family. This grandson is now at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station, having enlisted June 1, 1918, in the Radio Corps of the Navy. It was this grandson who posed as the drummer boy in the special painting of the "Spirit of '76" which Mr. Willard made for the City of Cleveland and which now hangs conspicuously in the City IIall. Harry A., the third child, died at Cleveland in June, 1917. Albert, the fourth child died in infancy. Byron W. Willard, mentioned elsewhere, is engineer of Shaker Heights Village. BYRON W. WILLARD, the only living son of Cleveland's famous artist, Archibald M. Willard, has achieved a most creditable position of his own in the field of civil engineering and is now engineer of the Village of Shaker Heights. Mr. Willard was born May 29, 1879, on Brookfield, now East Eighty-sixth Street, in Cleveland. He was educated in the grammar and high schools, being a graduate of the old Central High and then took up civil engineering. Mr. Willard has handled many of the problems involved in the improvement of Shaker Heights, and when that village was incorporated in 1912 Mr. Willard was appointed engineer and superintendent of improvements. In 1908, on Thanksgiving Day, he married Miss Verna Malone of Cleveland. He and family reside at 10511 Greenlawn Avenue. Mrs. Willard was born in Akron, but was reared and educated in Cleveland. FRANK J. HEMLER has been an active figure in Cleveland 's transportation interests for upwards of thirty years. When he was fifteen years old he left the public schools to take employment as an office boy with the Bessemer Steamship Company. He was soon assigned to more important responsibilities in the purchasing agent's department, where he remained three years. When the Bessemer Company was absorbed by the Pittsburgh Steamship Company he continued with the new organization in the same capacity until October. 1900. At that date Mr. Hemler joined the Upson-Walton Company, ship chandlers. lie was shipping clerk five months, city salesman five months, worked in the store in other capacities, and in 1901 entered the general offices. In 1911, in connection with his office work, he was appointed customs attorney for the company. In 1916 he was elected assistant secretary and director. and those are the executive responsibilities he enjoys today. He is also secretary and director of the Upson-Walton Company of Newark, New Jersey, wire rope manufacturers. Mr. Hemler was born at. Cleveland, August 17, 1882, a son of Joseph H. and Alice K. Hemler, who was married at Sharon, Pennsylvania. His father was born in Tyrone, Pennsylvania, in 1843, was educated there, 356 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS served through the war as a Union soldier and in 1865 came to Cleveland, where for many years he was an express messenger with Wells Fargo & Company and the United States Express Company. In 1905 he left Cleveland to look after some mining interests at Ouray, Colorado, but after a few years returned to this city, and died in 1911. Frank J. Hemler has always considered Cleveland his home and for his early education is indebted to the grammar schools and the Central High School, though be did not finish the course in the latter, taking up an active business career at the age above mentioned. Mr. Header is affiliated with Woodward Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; Cleveland Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Oriental Commandery, Knights Templar; Lake Erie Consistory, Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine and Al Sirat Grotto of Master Masons. He also belongs to the Chamber of Commerce, the Rotary Club, the Young Men's Christian Association, is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and in politics casts his vote according to the dictates of his independent judgment. On October 23, 1916, at Cleveland, he married Miss Opal Tafe. JOHN EDWARD TAYLOR. One of the most familiar articles in business offices and elsewhere is the "rubber stamp." It is regarded as an indispensable part of business equipment. There was a time not so many years ago when rubber stamps were a novelty. Nearly fifty years ago John Edward Taylor, now president and treasurer of the Taylor Brothers Company, manufacturing an extensive line of rubber stamps and kindred products, undertook in a small way the manufacture of these stamps and has been steadily engaged in that one line of business for over forty years at Cleveland. Mr. Taylor, who has now attained the dignity of three score and ten years, was a very youthful soldier during the American Civil war. He was born in Stark County, Ohio, July 5. 1848. Several generations of the Taylors have lived in that part of the state. His grandfather, John Taylor, a native of Ohio, was descended from a family that came from England to this country in early pioneer times. Grandfather John Taylor was a farmer and local preacher of the Methodist Church, and died in Indiana when past ninety years of age. William Taylor, father of John E., was born in Stark County, Ohio, in 1826, and grew up and married there. By trade he was a carpenter, but during the Civil war conducted a flour mill at Massillon, Ohio. After the war he sold his business interests and removed to a farm in Iowa, but after several years returned to Stark County. He was also engaged in a line of business that had more than ordinary interest. In the early days he became a weaver of wire screens, doing that work by band looms. He came to Cleveland in 1878 and conducted a wire weaving industry, and was in faot one of the pioneers in that business in the United States. Wire screens when produced by hand looms sold at a price of about ten cents a foot wholesale. A number of years later machinery was invented for the weaving of such screens, and after that the hand loom became antiquated and could not be operated at a profit. About that time William Taylor retired from business and in 1901 removed to California, where he died in 1903. He was a republican and a member' of the Methodist Episcopal Church. William Taylor married Elizabeth Alexander, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1828 and died in California in 1902. A brief record of their children is as follows: Philip N., who was associated with his brother, and died at Cleveland in January, 1916; John E.; Catherine Jane, who married Abram Mort, a miller in Ohio, and afterwards removed to California, where both died; Sarah Amanda lives in California, widow of John Mitten, a carpenter by trade; W. N. Taylor, in the bicycle business on Prospect Avenue in Cleveland; Charles W., a salesman living at Los Angeles, California; Laura, a resident of Cleveland, widow of Sydney Hollowell, who was an electrician. John Edward Taylor spent a considerable part of his boyhood and youth at Massillon, Ohio. He attended public schools there, including high school. When seventeen years old, in the spring of 1865, he joined Company 13 of the One Hundred Ninety-first Ohio Infantry. With that regiment he went into service before the war ended and was out six months, being then honorably discharged and mustered out. On his return from the army he finished his schooling, and then went to work with his father in the wire weaving business. It was in 1871 that Mr. Taylor first began the manufacture of rubber stamps, utilizing a very meager equipment and a small shop at Wooster, Ohio. For a brief time he was also located at Zanesville, and in 1873 came to Cleveland and established the rubber stamp CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 357 business which has been growing and prospering ever since. He ranks among the pioneer rubber stamp manufacturers of the United States. In consequence of the continued growth and enlargement and expansion of the industry it was incorporated in 1915 under the laws of Ohio as the Taylor Brothers Company. The present officers are: John E. Taylor, president and treasurer; W. J. Taylor, vice president; and Warren N. Taylor, secretary. The company has an extensive plant at 706-710 Superior Avenue Northwest, and twelve persons are employed in the manufacture of rubber stamps, steel stamps, brass stencils and seals, and of a line of seals, checks and other commodities suited to the general demands of business houses. The firm does a large business in Cleveland and throughout the trade territory surrounding the city. Mr. Taylor is an honored member of the Army and Navy Post No. 187 of the Grand Army of the Republic. He is a republican voter. His home is on East Ninety-third Street at Cleveland. In 1870, in Wayne County, Ohio, he married Miss Anna Bailey, who died at Cleveland in 1882. She was the mother of two sons, Ralph, who died at the age of nineteen; and Benjamin, who died when two years old. In 1884, in Cleveland, Mr. Taylor married Miss Helen C. Oviatt, a native of this city. They are the parents of five children: Harry E., a graduate of high school in Cleveland and now in the stationery business here; W. J., who is also a high school graduate and vice president of the Taylor Brothers Company; Mary E., living at home. a graduate of high school ; Helen L., who has also completed the high school course and is at home; and Mildred N., a student in Fairmount School at Cleveland. JOHN G. TOMSON is commissioner of streets of Cleveland. His appointment was one of the many creditable selections which have made Mayor Davis' term as head of the city administration notable in municipal history. Mr. Tomson and several of his brothers have made names for themselves in the mechanical trades and industries of Cleveland, and aside from his official service he has been identified with the men of industry here most of his life. Mr. Tomson was born in Cleveland March 17, 1879. His grandfather, Martin Tomson, was born in France, came to America in early days, was a farmer by occupation and died in Iowa in 1860. Barney Tomson, father of the street commissioner of Cleveland, was born at Ebenezer, New York, in 1845. He grew up in his home locality and as a boy of sixteen, in 1861, enlisted in the Union army in the One Hundred Eleventh New York Cavalry. At the beginning of his service he was one of General Scott's bodyguard, and afterwards saw active service with his regiment through the Peninsular campaign, at Gettysburg and in many other battles and scouting service until the close of the war. For several years he conducted a carriage factory at Warsaw, New York, and in 1870 removed to Cleveland, where he was proprietor of a blacksmith and carriage shop on Pearl Road for many years. He died in this city in 1910. He was an active republican. The maiden name of his wife was Pauline Schneckenberger, who was born in Switzerland at Zurich in 1845, and is still living at Cleveland. She became the mother of six children : Edward, engineer and superintendent of a power house plant at Chardon, Ohio; Albert, a blacksmith at Cleveland; Barney, a stationary engineer in Cleveland ; Lydia, wife of John Healy, a draftsman for the White Motor Company at Cleveland; John G.; and Otto, who is connected with the Tomson Motor Company of Cleveland. John G. Tomson was educated in the Cleveland public schools, but left at the early age of thirteen to take up the serious affairs of life. For three years he drove a team and then learned the trade of blacksmith and followed it actively until 1910, for several years conducting a shop on Carnegie Avenue. Mr. Tomson's induction into the public service of Cleveland came in 1910 with his appointment as assistant superintendent of street repairs under Mayor Herman Baehr's administration. A year later, under the same mayor, he was made superintendent of sidewalks. On leaving this office he resumed his trade on East Seventy-first Street for four years, until January 1, 1916. when he was made a member of Mayor Davis' administration as commissioner of streets, with offices in the city hall. In 1911 he represented the Twenty-first Ward in the city council. Mr. Tomson is president of the Western Reserve Club, a republican organization, and has been one of the leaders in his party in the city. He is vice dictator of the Loyal Order of Moose, is past chancellor of Forest City Lodge, Knights of Pythias, and in Masonry is affiliated with Elbrook Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, John K. Corwin Chap- 358 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS ter, Royal Arch Masons, Forest City Commandery, Knights Templar, Cleveland Council, Royal and Select Masons, Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine, and Al Sirat Grotto. Mr. Tomson is a member of the Christian Science Church. His home is at 2106 Broadview Road. In 1902, at Cleveland, he married Miss Louise Westfall, who was born in Switzerland. She died at Cleveland November 3, 1916, leaving one daughter, Adah, born September 26, 1903. On November 8, 1917, at Cleveland, Mr. Tom-son married Miss Carrie MacTavish, daughter of Alexander and Ella (Corson) MacTavish, the former now deceased. Her father was a captain on lake steamers. SAM T. HUGHES has been a factor in Cleveland's newspaper work for over thirty years. He is now editor in chief of the Newspaper Enterprise Association. Mr. Hughes was born at. Newburgh, now a part of the city of Cleveland, April 14, 1866, a son of David E. and Dora Sarah (Kelly) Hughes. His father was born at Dowlais, Wales, in November, 1836, was educated there and learned the ironworker's trade. In 1862 he came to Cleveland, and was an ironworker with the old Stone, Chisholm and Jones Company, which later became the Cleveland Rolling Mills. He was one of the men on that payroll until his death in 1888. At Canton, Ohio, in 1864, David E. Hughes married Dora Sarah Kelly. They had two children, Albert D. of Spokane and Sam T. Sam T. Hughes attended the grammar and the Central High schools of Cleveland until the age of seventeen. He then went to work as a cub reporter with the Cleveland Press. With that paper he served his arduous apprenticeship in the journalistic field, and was with it six years. From that he joined the Cleveland World as a member of its reportorial staff, was advanced to city editor, then managing editor, and finally associate editor. In the summer of 1903 Mr. Hughes became managing editor of The Newspaner Enterprise Association. He took the position of editor in the spring of 1910 and has been editor in chief since the spring of 1916. Mr. Hughes is a member of the Chamber of Commerce of East Cleveland, in politics is a democrat. At Cleveland July 14, 1904, he married Berths M. Powell, who was formerly a teacher in the public schools of this city. Their two children, Dora and Marjorie, are both attending public school in East Cleveland. H. ELLSWORTH GILBERT is one of the younger business men of Cleveland, has the capacity and enterprise which count for big results in a big way, and on the basis of what he has accomplished has a splendid future. He was born in Columbus, Ohio, September 23, 1892, a son of Homer Lawrence and Iva Gertrude (Cooper) Gilbert. Most of his early education was acquired in Delaware, Ohio, where he graduated from the high school in 1910. He had considerable banking experience as an employe of the Delaware National Bank of Delaware, in the service of which institution he remained until 1912. Mr. Gilbert then spent a year in the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware and in 1913 removed to Cleveland and became identified, with the Ohio Buick Company. He is treasurer of that corporation and has been responsible for not a little of the company's growth and substantial success. He is well known among Cleveland business men, is a member of Hiram Lodge No. 18, Free and Accepted Masons, Mount Olive Chapter No. 189, Royal Arch Masons, Windemere Council, Royal and Select Masons, Coeur De Lion Commandery, No. 64, Knights Templar, Al Koran Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles Mystic Shrine, and Al Sirat Grotto, Cleveland. EDWARD B. GREENE began life with a liberal education, and has relied upon his own energy to take him successfully through the various grades of service in one of Cleveland's large financial institutions until he is now vice president of the Cleveland Trust Company and an 'official member of several other important business organizations. Mr. Greene was born in Cleveland July 26, 1878, son of John E. and Mary S. Greene. His father wag one of the notable self-made men of Cleveland. Born in Vergennes, Vermont, June 23, 1837, reared and educated there, he came to Cleveland at nineteen in 1856 and for some time worked as a clerk in the firm of William Bingham & Company, wholesale hardware merchants. His industry and ability in the course of time won him a partnership in this firm, and when the business was incorporated he was elected its vice-president. Upon the death of the founder, William Bingham, he succeeded as president, CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 859 and capably administered the affairs of that well known Cleveland wholesale house until his death on July 10, 1916. He was also prominent as vestryman and senior warden in St. John's Episcopal Church. Some years after coming to Cleveland, on December 20, 1864, he married Mary Seymour. Their five children are: Mary, Mrs. C. O. Patch of Detroit; Miss Lucy, of Cleveland; William E., of New York City ; Edward B.; and Helen M., Mrs. Charles P. Hine of Cleveland. Edward B. Greene graduated from the Cleveland High School in 1896, and finished his higher education in Yale University, of which he is a graduate with the class of 1900. When he returned to Cleveland he was twenty-two years of age and soon thereafter he was made a messenger with the Cleveland Trust Company. The record of his service in that company includes the following successive positions: Clerk, teller, loan clerk, assistant treasurer, secretary, secretary and treasurer, and his present office, second vice president. Mr. Greene is also vice president of the Ohio Chemical and Manufacturing company, vice president of the Wade Realty Company, director of the National Discount Company, director in the Guarantee Title & Trust Company, and director of the Williamson Building Company. Public and philanthropic interests also claim a considerable share of his attention. He is a trustee and treasurer of the Baby Dispensary and Hospital, is a trustee of the Cleveland Humane Society and trustee of St. John's Orphanage. Mr. Greene is a member of the Yale University Advisory Board and he served as second lieutenant of the Ohio National Guard from 1900 to 1912. At the outbreak of the war, being incapacitated on account of a typhoid fever, he obtained a two years' leave of absence from the bank to enter upon the duties (1918) of director of military relief of the Lake Division of the American Red Cross, comprising Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky. He is a member of the Union Club, University Club, Tavern Club, the Country Club, Cleveland Athletic Club, Chagrin Valley Hunt Club, Bankers Club of New York City, Yale Club of New York City. In politics he votes as a republican and is a member of the Episcopal Church. At Cleveland November 18, 1909, he married Miss Helen Wade. Their only daughter, now five years of age, is named Helen Wade Greene. HARRY BALDWIN PERKINS is secretary and treasurer of The Packard-Cleveland Motor Company, the splendid sales and service organization representing the Packard motor car interests at Cleveland. Some of the special features of this Cleveland organization are described in more detail on other pages under the name C. A. Forster, president of the local company. Mr. Perkins has had an active business career of thirty years, and is recognized as one of the forceful men in the automobile industry today. He was born at Burlington, Iowa, September 25, 1866. He is of old American stock, his ancestors having come from England to New England upwards of two centuries ago. His grandfather, Moses Perkins, was born in New Hampshire, was a pioneer in Illinois and also at Burlington, Iowa, where he died. He was a carpenter by trade. John L. Perkins, father of Harry B., was born at Beardstown, Illinois, in 1837, and when a boy was taken to Burlington, Iowa, where he grew up and married. For many years he was in the china and queensware business at Burlington. He made a splendid record as a soldier of the Union during the Civil war, enlisting in 1861 in the Twenty-Fifth Iowa Infantry and serving throughout that long and terrible struggle. When he was mustered out he held the rank of major. He was on General Sherman 's staff and participated in the great Atlanta campaign and also the march to the sea. He died at Burlington in 1871, only five years after the war. He was a republican and was affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Major Perkins married Laura J. Renshaw, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1840 and is still living at Burlington. Their first child. a son, died at the age of two years. The second in order of birth was Harry B., and the youngest of the family is Ralph, a magazine agent living at Burlington. Harry B. Perkins was educated in the grammar and high school, and at Elliott's Business College. At the age of sixteen he went to work as bookkeeper and remained in Burlington for about sixteen years. For two years he was a private secretary. Coming to Cleveland in the fall of 1894 Mr. Perkins organized the Buckeye Gas Lamp Company, of which he was secretary and treasurer. He conducted this business for a number of years And on selling out his interest organized the National Light Supply Company of New Jersey and was with it two years as secretary and 360 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS treasurer. For four years he was sales representative of the Burroughs Adding Machine Company, and then for five years was assistant to the president of the Royal Tourist Car Company. Mr. Perkins joined The Packard-Cleveland Motor Company in May, 1913, and has done much to increase the effectiveness and power of that organization. Mr. Perkins has always been interested in military affairs. While living at Burlington he served five years as sergeant major of the Second Regiment of Iowa National Guards and after coming to Cleveland was for two years a member of Company B, Fifth Regiment, Ohio National Guards. Mr. Perkins is unmarried. He is affiliated with Windemere Lodge Free and Accepted Masons, Windemere Chapter Royal Arch Masons. The Cleveland Athletic Club, and is a republican in politics. EELLS. Among the Ohio families which can clearly trace their ancestry to Puritan stock is that of Dan Parmelee EelIs, for fifty-four years a resident of Cleveland. The family record shows that his ancestor, Maj. Samuel Eells, emigrated from Barnstable, England. in 1628-30, and settled in Connecticut. The family remained in New England until 1804, when the progenitor of the present family, Rev. James Eells, removed to Oneida County, New York. He resided there with his family until 1832, when he settled in Amherst, Lorain County, Ohio. Dan Parmelee Eells, youngest son of Rev. James Eells, was born at Westmoreland, Oneida County, New York, April 16, 1825. His maternal ancestry, the Parmelees, were also colonial settlers of Connecticut. Dan Parmelee Eells entered the famous school at Oberlin, now Oberlin College, and worked in one of the village stores to pay his tuition fees. Later he returned to New York and entered Hamilton College as a member of the class of 1848. College expenses were larger than his slender purse could maintain, and at the end of his sophomore year he withdrew. Later, however, Hamilton College conferred upon him the degree of Bachelor of Arts. On leaving college he went to work in Cleveland and in the winter of 1846-47 taught in the Amherst schools. In 1847 he became bookkeeper in the commission and forwarding house of Barney, Waring & Company, of Cleveland. March 1, 1849, he commenced his long association with the Commercial Branch of the State Bank of Ohio, now the National Commercial Bank of Cleveland. There was a temporary break in this connection in 1857, when he became a partner in the private banking firm of Hall, Eells & Company, but in 1858 he returned to the Commercial Branch Bank as cashier. When the charter of this institution expired in 1865 the Commercial National Bank of Cleveland was organized, with Mr. Eells as vice president and three years later he was elected its president, which office he held until, on account of failing health, he retired in 1897. At the time he had been the longest in service of any bank officer in Ohio. The most important activities of Dan Parmelee Eells were incident to the development of the following great railways: Lake Erie & Western; Ohio Central; St. Louis, Keokuk & Northwestern ; Detroit, Mackinac & Marquette; East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia; Munising; Mahoning Coal; and the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railway. He was also identified with many other industries and enterprises of local and national importance. He was one of the founders of the Otis Iron and Steel Company, which during his association with it was the most successful steel mill in Cleveland. For three decades and until his death he was a director and secretary of the United States Express Company. He was also a director of the King Bridge Company, the Republic Iron Company, the Cleveland City Railway Company, the Cleveland Gas Light and Coke Company, the Bucyrus Company, the Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling Company, the Brown-Bonnell Company, the Union Iron & Steel Company, which was consolidated with other companies to form the Illinois Steel Company, the Calumet Iron & Steel Company of Chicago, the Cincinnati, Newport & Covington Railway, the Central Railway & Bridge Company, the Chicago & Atchison Bridge Company, and many less important concerns. In addition to these interests there were few departments of the community's life which his activities did not touch. He was associated with many religious and beneficent enterprises and gave liberally to their development. For a number of terms he was president of the Young Men's Christian Association of Cleveland, and a trustee of the Young Women's Christian Association, of which his wife was the leading spirit for many years. He was a director of the Cleveland Bethel Union, Cleveland Protestant Orphan Asylum, CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 361 the Children's Society, and the Cleveland Bible Society. Mr. &HS was a trustee of Lane Theological Seminary of Cincinnati, of Lake Erie Seminary of Painesville, and of Hamilton and Oberlin colleges. For more than half a century he was successively deacon and elder of the Second Presbyterian Church of Cleveland, and for many years superintendent of its Sunday School. He bought a valuable property on the corner of 'Willson Avenue (now East Fifty-fifth Street) and Lexington Avenue, Cleveland, upon which he erected a fully equipped church edifice which he presented to the Willson Avenue Presbyterian Church. After Mr. Eells' death the church society changed its name to the Eells Memorial Church. In 1881 Mr. and Mrs. Eells erected for the First Baptist Church of Cleveland the Idaka Chapel as a memorial to their daughter. This chapel is still a part of the church edifice at the corner of Prospect Avenue and East Forty-sixth Street. Mr. Eells' first wife was Mary M. Howard, daughter of George A. Howard, or Orwell, Ashtabula County, Ohio. She was the mother of two children: Howard Parmelee Eells and Emma Paige Eells, wife of Arthur St. John Newberry. Mr. Eells' second wife was Mary Witt, daughter of Stillman Witt, of Cleveland. Of the five children of this union Stillman Witt Eells survives. Mr. Eells' character and life are best revealed in this simple account of his interests and activities. His death at Cleveland on August 23, 1903, deprived that city of one of its most honored citizens. HOWARD PARMELEE EELLS was born in Cleveland June 16, 1855, and represents the eighth generation in direct line from Maj. Samuel Eells. He was afforded superior educational advantages. Prepared for college at Greylock Institute at South Williamstown, Massachusetts. in 1876, was graduated from Hamilton College, and in 1877 received an A. B. degree from Harvard College. Returning to Cleveland in the fall of 1878 after fifteen months of foreign travel. he was first employed as a clerk in the Republic Iron Company and later became his father's secretary and assistant. In 1896 Mr. Eells organized the Bucyrus Steam Shovel and Dredge Company of Wisconsin, which in 1911 became the Bucyrus Company. This company manufactures steam shovels. dredges and excavating and conveying machinery. It built most of the dredges and steam shovels for the Panama Canal. Its products are in service in many foreign countries and it has today a world-wide reputation. He is president of the Atchison and Eastern Bridge Company, of the Dolomite Products Company, and of the Howard Realty Company ; a director in the Sandusky Cement Company and the Superior Savings & Trust Company of Cleveland; a trustee of Western Reserve University, East End School Association, Cleveland School of Art, Lakeview Cemetery Association, Second Presbyterian Church, Cleveland Humane Society and Cleveland Protestant Orphan Asylum. Of the two last named institutions he has been for many years treasurer. He was for a number of years president of the Cleveland Branch of the Archaeological Institute of America, and is a member of the Accessions Committee and of the Advisory Council of the Cleveland Museum of Art. He served as president of the National Metal Trades Association in 1909-10, and of the Twentieth Century Club of Cleveland, 1914-17. Mr. Eells is a member of the University Club and of the Alpha Delta Phi Club of New York ; the University, Union Tavern, Country, Mayfield Country, Chagrin Valley Hunt and Rowfant clubs of Cleveland. April 20, 1881, at Cleveland, he married Miss Alice Maude Overton, who died May 26, 1885, leaving two children: Mrs. Robert H. Crowell and Dan P. Eells II. September 9, 1889, Mr. Eells married Miss Maud Stager of Cleveland. They have five children : Frances, wife of Allan C. House, of Cleveland; Howard P., Jr., a graduate of Williams College, now an officer in the National Army; Harriet ; Samuel, also a graduate of Williams College and a lieutenant in the army ; and Maud. JOSEPH W. MORAN thirty-six years ago began as an office boy with what is now the Bourne-Fuller Company of Cleveland, and that wellknown house has received the best of his fidelity, work and service through all these years. He has contributed to the success of the business, and the business has made him one of the successful men of Cleveland. Mr. Moran was born in Cleveland September 2. 1865. His father, John Moran, born at Dublin, Ireland, in 1827, was twenty-two years of age when in 1849 he left his native country and came to Cleveland. He became connected with transportation affairs in this city, and for many years was in the shipping department of the Crawford Coal Company. He died at Cleveland in 1908. He was a 362 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS Catholic and reared his family in the same faith. He married Johanna Murphy, who was born in County Wexford, Ireland, in 1827, and died in Cleveland, aged eighty, March 10, 1917. Their first three children, including Thomas, the oldest, a daughter and another son, died in infancy. John, who died at Cleveland, aged fifty-one, was owner of the Buckeye Basket Company. The two youngest children of the family were Joseph W. and Nellie, twins, the latter a resident on West Forty-fifth Street in Cleveland. Joseph W. Moran was educated in the private school of Mrs. Lewis at Cleveland and in public and parochial schools. His school days were ended at the age of sixteen, and he forthwith began earning his living and getting business experience. He spent two years as office boy and collector in the coal office of J. H. Bradner. Following that for eight months be was with the publishing house of the Ohio Farmer Company. On April 30, 1883. Mr. Moran was put on the pay roll as office boy of what was then known as the Condit & Fuller Company, now the Bourne-Fuller Company. He accepted every opportunity to learn the business as well as perform all the routine details of duty with punctuality and diligence, and has been promoted through various grades as collector, bill clerk, shipping clerk, bookkeeper, credit man to the position he now fills with that firm as cashier. The offices of the company are in the Hickox Building. Mr. Moran is a republican in politics, and is active in the Catholic Church and a member of Cleveland Council No. 733, Knights of Columbus, and the Catholic Mutual Benefit Association. His home is at 2349 Coventry Road, Cleveland Heights. In 1895, in St. John's Cathedral at Cleveland, he married Miss Ettie Clary. daughter of James D. and Julia (Norton) Clary. both residents of Cleveland. Her father for a number of years was treasurer of the Bourne-Fuller Company, but has lived retired since 1900. Mr. and Mrs. Moran have four children: Juliette C., who is a graduate of the Ursuline Convent and is now pursuing her higher education in the Woman's College of Western Reserve University : Joseph Harold, a graduate of East High School and of the parochial schools, and a graduate of Western Reserve University ; Josephine, a graduate of Notre Dame University of Cleve land ; and James, a student in St. Coluinbkil's School. FRANCIS HENRY HASEROT. From the initiative and ability of Francis Henry Haserot have developed and flourished a number of business organizations that are reckoned among Cleveland's larger business assets. Mr. Haserot has been a factor in Cleveland's financial and mercantile affairs for over thirty years. He was born at Cleveland, December 19, 1860, a son of Johann Gottlieb and Christina (Klooz) Haserot. His father was born in Heroldishausen, Saxony, Germany, in October, 1832, and came with his parents the next year to Liverpool, Ohio, where he grew up, working on a farm until the age of thirteen and attending school. Johann G. Haserot was an early settler in Cleveland, where after an apprenticeship at the harness making trade he established in 1853 a harness business on the West Side of Cleveland, then known as Ohio City. He continued a manufacturer for many years, and finally retired. His death occurred in October, 1914, at the age of eighty-two. He married at Cleveland in 1853 and he and his wife had nine children of which five survived him: Samuel F., of Cleveland ; Mrs. Henry F. Beute, of St. Louis; Mrs. Frederick Beute, of St. Louis; Mrs. Doctor Walz, of Cleveland; and Francis Henry. Francis Henry Haserot was educated in the parochial schools and in public schools at Cleveland. While at school he did newspaper work on the Herald, and at the time he laid aside his text books he entered the employ as a clerk of the firm of Morgan, Root & Company, later the Root & McBride Company. The four years spent with that firm had much to do with laying the foundation of his later efforts. He was clerk, traveling salesman and department buyer. He took what capital he was able to acquire and his experience into a merchandise brokerage business organized by his brother Samuel F. and himself under the name Haserot & Company. Mr. Haserot's main field in Cleveland commercial affairs has been as a wholesale grocer. In 1885 he became junior partner in the firm W. J. Hayes & Company, wholesale grocers, and in 1889 he and his brother succeeded to this business, organizing the firm of S. F. and F. H. Haserot & Company. In 1895 the corporation of Haserot Company, wholesale grocers, coffee roasters, and canned food CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 363 packers was organized with F. H. Haserot as vice president. In 1903, upon the retirement of his brother, he became president and treasurer of the company. He is a director in the First Trust & Savings Bank, and was identified with the organization of the Coal and Iron National Bank, which afterward merged into the First National Bank, of which he is also a director. He was one of the organizers and is president of the Hough Bank & Trust Company, is president of the Mercantile Warehouse Company, director of the Gypsum Canning Company, treasurer of the Highland Cherry Farm Company, of the Francis H. Haserot Company and of the Cherry Home Company. With all these various institutions he had a part in their founding and has never been connected with any business enterprise in which he has not made his connection a factor in its growth and welfare. Mr. Haserot was president of the Cleveland Board of Education from the year 1906 to 1909 and again in 1911, and has served as a director of the Chamber of Commerce. He was at one time a member of the State Central Committee of the republican party, is a member of the Union Club, the Country Club and the Unitarian Church, January 16, 1889, he married Miss Sarah Henrietta McKinney. Their four children, Henry McKinney, Margaret, Francis Samuel and John Hawley, were all born at Cleveland. Henry, born in November, 1889, attended University school, graduated from Dartmouth College in 1909, and has since then been associated with his father and is now a director and an executive officer of the Haserot Company. The daughter Margaret attended the Froebel School, East High School, Hathaway-Brown School and graduated in 1914 from Lake Erie College. She is now conducting a summer camp for girls at Grand Traverse Bay in Michigan. The son Francis S., born in January, 1895, attended the local public schools, the Technical High School, and the University of Pennsylvania, and started upon his senior college year at Columbia. In the middle of the year he enlisted and took a course at the Government training school at Boston School of Technology. Upon completion of his course he was commissioned lieutenant and assigned to active duty. John H., born in October, 1896, attended public school, Culver Military Academy, the Interlachen School for Boys and the Boys' Industrial School. He took a course in horticulture at Michigan Agricultural College and engaged with the Cherry Home Company in the practical culture of its orchard of 13,000 cherry trees on Grand Traverse Bay, Michigan. Arriving at the age of twenty-one he enlisted in the aviation branch of the army and took the course in flying at Cornell College. After graduation he was assigned to Selfridge field as fighting observer. He finished his training there and in July, 1918, started overseas. CHARLES MITCHEM, LEMPERLY. A striking combination of literary and business talents has brought Mr. Lemperly many interesting connections and interests in his native City of Cleveland. His chief work and the responsibilities that make him most widely known are as advertising manager for the Sherwin-Williams Company. He has been an advertising, general publicity and literary and newspaper worker from the time he was a schoolboy. Mr. Lemperly was born at Cleveland September 19, 1888, a son of Paul and Emma (Warner) Lemperly. His father is secretary of the Hall & Van Gorder Company, wholesale druggists on West Ninth Street. Paul Lemperly is said to have one of the finest private libraries in the United States. He was a close friend and admirer of Charles Andrews Mitchell, and it was for that former prominent educator of Cleveland that his son Charles Mitchell was named. Charles A. Mitchell was born at Norwalk, Ohio, was a teacher of classics in the old Cleveland High School, and from 1890 to 1900 was assistant principal of the University School of Cleveland, but for over fifteen years has been principal and associate owner of the Asheville School for Boys at Asheville, North Carolina. Charles M. Lemperly is the youngest of three children, boring W., Lucia L. and Charles M. His brother Loring died May 24, 1898, at the age of fifteen, and his sister Lucia died May 19, 1916, at the age of twenty-nine. Mr. Lemperly was educated in the Kentucky School on the West Side and the West high School, from which he graduated in 1906. For one year he was a student in Williams College in Massachusetts. In 1907 he entered the advertising department of the Sherwin-Williams Company as a clerk. his progressive abilities were utilized by that firm in various capacities until January 1, 1911, when he became assistant advertising man for 364 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS the American Multigraph Company. On January 1, 1914, he left that corporation to return to the Sherwin-Williams Company as head of its advertising department. As is well known the Sherwin-Williams Company is one of the largest commercial advertisers, and some of its most effective publicity campaigns have been carried out by Mr. Lemperly. It is customary for Mr. W. H. Cottingham, president of the company, to award a thousand dollar prize every year for the best suggestions for sales and publicity plans for the coming year. That prize of a thousand dollars in 1917 was awarded to Mr. Lemperly and his assistant, being divided equally between them. Mr. Lemperly is a member of the Cleveland Advertising Club, and for years has contributed regularly to various commercial and trade publications. He has been a real newspaper man, and was editor and part owner at one time of the Lakewood News and the Lakewood Herald at Lakewood, and has edited many trade publications and house organs, including the Chameleon, the S. W. P., the Colorist, the Spectrum, and the Home Decorator, all of which he still continues with as supervising editor, and was also editor at one time of the Layman Printer and the Ginger Jar. He is the author of "The National Advertiser's Dealer Helps and Relations," published as a text book by the Federal Schools of Minneapolis. His talents have also been employed in promoting a number of charitable and civic campaigns in Cleveland. Mr. Lemperly is a member of the Zeta Psi fraternity, is a trustee of the West High Alumni Association, and a member of the Dorian Literary Society of the West High School. In school and college days he was prominent in athletics and played baseball, tennis and basketball. He is a member of the First Congregational Church and for five years was president of its Christian Endeavor Society. Mr. Lemperly and family reside at 1280 Manor Park in Lakewood. At Cleveland, September 20, 1913, he married Miss Eva M. Brainerd, who was born in Cleveland, was educated in the Kentucky School, and in 1904 graduated from the West High School. Most of her college work was done in the College for Women of Western Reserve University, but she spent her junior year in Oberlin College. In 1908 she received the degree A. B. from the College for Women. She is a mem ber of the Gamma Delta Tau sorority, and of the History Club, composed of alumnae of the College for Women. Mrs. Lemperly is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brainerd, and a granddaughter of that noble Cleveland woman Jane Elliott Snow, referred to on other pages of this publication. Mr. and Mrs. Lemperly have one son, Charles Loring, born September 2, 1914. F. J. WAGNER has kept pretty close to one line of work ever since he left public school when a boy, and doubtless his success and prosperity are due to a complete concentration along one line of endeavor. He has been instrumental in building up and developing one of Cleveland's chief industries in the manufacture of everything that is made from canvas, including tents and awnings, and is superintendent of manufacture with the Cleveland-Akron Bag Company. Mr. Wagner was born at Oil City, Pennsylvania, August 11, 1877. His father, George Wagner, a native of Germany, grew up to the miller's trade in the old country, and on coming to America located at Cleveland, where he was a carpenter. He finally removed to Oil City, Pennsylvania, and was employed by the Standard Oil Company until he retired in 1891. He married in Cleveland Magdalena Path. F. J. Wagner acquired his early education in the public and parochial schools. At the age of thirteen he found employment at such simple tasks as were fitted to his age and ability in the plant of the Wagner Manufacturing Company, makers of awnings and tents. He proved an industrious workman and rapidly acquired a more than superficial knowledge of everything connected with the business. He rose to the responsibilities of foreman of the awning finishing department, and from 1901 to 1903 sold awnings for the company. He and R. H. Ewing then established the Buckeye Awning & Tent Company, but in 1907 Mr. Wagner sold his interests and returned to the Wagner Manufacturing Company as foreman of the sewing department. On January 1, 1914, he resigned and with Henry A. Haeflinger, a former employe of Mr. Wagner, organized the Wagner-Haeflinger Awning Company, continuing until 1918, when they sold the business to the Cleveland-Akron Bag Company. Mr. Wagner is an expert in every branch of the manufacture of canvas goods. CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 365 Mr. Wagner is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, votes independently and is a member of the Catholic Church. At Sandusky, Ohio, September 20, 1898, he married Miss Adeline Schmidt. They have five children, Coletta Marie, Frank Vernon, Richard J., Adeline and Marcella. The oldest daughter is now assistant bookkeeper with a large company in Cleveland. Frank, Richard and Adeline are students in the Blessed Sacrament Parochial School. MRS. ANNA WRIGHT KIMBALL is owner and superintendent of Wright's Hospital at 18920 Nottingham Road. Mrs. Kimball is a graduate nurse, and has made a splendid success of her profession and of the institution over which she presides. Mrs. Kimball was born at Ravenna, Ohio. She is a daughter of Daniel J. Devine, who was born in Ireland in 1848 and died at Ravenna, Ohio, in 1883. He came to this country as a young man in 1866, locating in Ravenna, where for many years he was employed by the Pennsylvania Railway in the baggage department. His death was the result of an accident on the railroad. He was a democrat, a member of the Catholic Church and the Ancient Order of Hibernians. Daniel J. Devine married Jane Howe, who was born at Painesville, Ohio, in 1850 and died at Cleveland in 1915. Their children were: Daniel, who died young; Mary, who died in childhood.; Anna L., and Jean, a trained nurse and graduate of the Cleveland City Hospital and now assisting her sister, Mrs. Kimball, in the management of Wright's Hospital. Mrs. Kimball was educated in the public schools of Ravenna, graduated from high school, and completed her work as a graduate nurse in the Cleveland City Hospital in 1903. In 1904 she married Dr. George A. Wright. Dr. Wright was born at Columbus, Ohio, and was related to the families of President Benjamin A. Harrison and Colonel Daniel Boone, the noted frontiersman. He received the degrees Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts from the Ohio State University and also the degree Doctor of Medicine from the Ohio Medical University. He began practice at Brice, a suburb of Columbus, but in 1903 removed to Cleveland, where he soon had a large clientele. In 1910 he and his wife, established Wright's Hospital, the first location of which was at 1197 East One Hundred and Fifth Street. In 1916 the hospital was removed to 18920 Nottingham Road. The hoe- pital accommodates twenty-three patients and while most of them come from Cleveland, others seek its advantages from different parts of Ohio and other states. The hospital has a location which makes it especially available for emergency cases. It is near a number of large factories, and many industrial injury cases are treated. Mrs. Kimball owns the building and is active manager and superintendent of the hospital. The hospital has a thoroughly systematized organization and all the modern appliances. Mrs. Kimball by her first husband had one child, Oliver, born April 2, 1904, and attending St. Mary's College at Dayton, Ohio, preparing for Culver University. Mrs. Wright married in September, 1916, Mr. Harry C. Kimball, who was born at Etna, Maine, in 1883. He was educated at the well-known Good Will School at Hinckley, Maine, and completed his education at Dartmouth College. He is in charge of the X-Ray and laboratory work at Wright's Hospital. Mr. Kimball by his first wife, Annie Sawyer, now deceased, has two children, Clifton Newell, born February 5, 1910, and Helen, born April 30. 1913. THE HOTEL STATLER OF CLEVELAND is one of the institutions through which the life and resources of the city are enriched and made accessible to the world at large. It is not an institution altogether peculiar and unique in itself, since it is only one of a chain of hotels comprising a system and service which are in fact unique and superlative and have given the name Statler a prominence not exceeded by any other hotel system in the world. The Cleveland Hotel of this system was opened October 19, 1912. As a matter of history some of the facts regarding that opening might well he set down. More than twenty-five hundred Clevelanders dined in state at the formal opening and five times that number of people came within the brilliantly lighted interior and appreciated and admired the many features that gave this hotel fame. There was not a place at any of the numerous tables in the four first floor dining rooms that was not filled, and many others stood and waited for tables to be vacated. There were two great banquets on the mezzanine floor, one given by the Eastern hotel men in honor of Mr. E. M. Statler, proprietor of the hotel, and the other in the adjoining lattice room, where Charles L. Pack, the eminent Cleveland lumberman and 366 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS capitalist, entertained a hundred of his fellow business men. Great floral displays presented by the leading Cleveland hotels, friends and customers of E. M. Statler, formed a literal hedge running down the center of the lobby dividing the foyer from the office. There had never been anything just like. the formal opening of the Hotel Statler in Cleveland. The only entertainment offered was dinner, which was served from six until midnight to the accompaniment of five orchestras. It required all the efforts of two hundred fifty waiters to serve the dinner, preparation for which had been in progress a week. The other four hundred servants required in the many departments of hotel operation were all in their place and then and there exemplified the intrinsic meaning and significance of the famous Statler service. At the banquet table in the ballroom more than a hundred Eastern hotel men dined in honor of Mr. Statler. The toastmaster was H. M. Garrans, manager and proprietor of the Iroquois Hotel of Buffalo. E. M. Tierney of New York, former president of the New York State hotel Men's Association, was the first speaker, and toasted Mr. Statler as the "king of all hotel men." The last speaker was George W. Sweeney, proprietor of a chain of hotels throughout the East. As James P. A. O'Connor, the manager of the Cleveland Hotel, attested, the opening was planned merely and solely "to show Cleveland they had a real hotel in the Staler." The Cleveland Statler stands at the corner of Twelfth Street and Euclid Avenue, is fourteen stories high, and originally contained seven hundred rooms and seven hundred bathrooms. In 1916 it was enlarged to the capacity of a thousand rooms with baths. It is built of steel, concrete and hollow fireproof tile, the exterior being of granite, Indiana limestone, dark red brick and white terra cotta. James P. A. O'Connor was manager of the Cleveland Statler from the time of its opening until April 1, 1918, when he went East to assume the management of the great Hotel Pennsylvania in New York City, said to be the largest hotel in the world. lie was succeeded by a capable man who had already been in training for the office, Thomas P. Cagwin, who is now the Statler manager in Cleveland. THOMAS PARKE CAGWIN was born in Joliet, Illinois, in 1877. The Cagwin family settled in Chicago and Joliet in 1832, and Mr. Cagwin's father was one of the charter members of the Chicago Board of Trade. In 1900, after graduation from a military academy and Milwaukee College, Mr. Cagwin entered the employ of the Wisconsin Telephone Company in Milwaukee. Shortly after he married Lillian Ferguson, daughter of Capt. and Mrs. Edward Ferguson of Milwaukee, and two years later was transferred by the Bell Telephone organization to Cleveland. He remained with that organization until July in 1915, resigning as manager to take the managership of the Convention and Publicity Department of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. While still with the Chamber of Commerce, in the fall of 1917, Mr. E. M. Statler suggested to Mr. Cagwin that he enter the Statler organization as manager of the Cleveland Hotel, this position being vacated by the promotion of Mr. James P. A. O'Connor to the managership of the new Statler, Hotel Pennsylvania, in New York City. Mr. Cagwin has one son, Edward Ferguson Cagwin, seventeen years of age, who will shortly graduate from Shaw High School, East Cleveland. The Cagwin family, of English and Irish abstraction, originally settled with the early Plymouth settlers in Connecticut. They fought through the Revolutionary war and have been represented in every war of the United States since its inception. Mr. Cagwin is a member of several of the leading clubs of the city, and is also identified in an advisory sort of way with several of Cleveland's industrial and banking institutions. JOSEPH MENNING has long been prominent in Cleveland labor circles, politics and public affairs, and is now serving his third consecutive term as county commissioner of Cuyahoga County. Mr. Meaning was born in Cleveland November 15, 1873. His father, Jacob Meaning, who was born at Mannheim, Germany, in 1819, was in early life a sailor and also served as a gendarme. He was one of the vigorous young spirits who participated with the revolutionists during the uprising of 1848, and when that rebellion was put down he had to leave the country along with many thousands of other liberty-loving sons of the Fatherland. He made his escape from Germany and first set foot on American soil at New Orleans. He CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 367 soon found employment as a sailor, at first in river traffic and afterwards on the Great Lakes. He located permanently at Cleveland in 1851, took up the trade of cooper, and followed that actively until his death. He passed away in 1899 at the age of eighty years. He was a democrat in politics. Jacob Menning is remembered as one of the founders of St. Joseph's Catholic Church at the corner of Woodland Avenue and Chapel Street. Jacob Menning married Lena Schmieder, who was born near Mannheim, Germany, in 1833 and died at Cleveland in 1902. They had a. very large family of children, a brief record of whom is as follows: George, who was connected with the White Sewing Machine Company and died at Cleveland; Henry, who lives at Cleveland and for the past forty years has suffered the infirmity of blindness; Mary, who married Adam Lucas, both deceased, Mr. Lucas having been an employe of the White Sewing Machine Company and also a musician ; Richard, a retired patrolman of the Cleveland police department; Katherine, who died at Cleveland unmarried in April, 1917; John, who has never been content to settle down in one locality and has given his life to roving; Elizabeth, who lives at Cleveland, widow of William Croix, who was a miner in West Virginia, where he died ; Joseph ; Frank and Jacob, both machinists living at Cleveland ; Martin, Michael and Matthew, all of whom died young. The career of Joseph Menning has in it much of inspiration :or a youth who had to struggle for everything good that comes to him in life. He is practically self-educated. He was only six years old when he began to do something in the way of self-support, and for several years peddled with his blind brother. At the age of twelve he began learning the barber's trade, and he followed that occupation continuously for twenty-six years in Cleveland until 1913. In 1909 Mr. Menning was elected a member of the City Council, representing the fifth ward, and was re-elected in 1911. He made his influence count in the City Council and to an even greater degree since he became a member of the County Board of Commissioners. He was first elected a county commissioner in 1912 and re-elected in 1914 and 1916, and renominated at the primaries in August, 1918, for a fourth term, receiving the largest vote on the entire ticket. Politically he is a democrat and most of his official distinctions have come through that Vol. III-24 party. As a member of the Board of County Commissioners he assisted materially in planning and constructing the Detroit-Superior Bridge and the first subway in Cleveland. Mr. Menning probably has the distinction of being the youngest man ever sent as a delegate to a national political convention. In 1892, before he was twenty-one, he was accorded the position of representing the Twenty-First Ohio Congressional District in the convention of the people's party at Omaha, Nebraska. He was an active populist during the life of that party. In 1896 the same Ohio district sent him as a delegate to the people's convention at St. Louis, and there he lent his influence toward winning the support of the convention for the candidacy of William J. Bryan as fusion candidate. Mr. Menning was district master workman of the Knights of Labor during 1893-94-95-96 of the District Assembly No. 47. During the time he held that responsible office, which was a time of general labor unrest throughout the country, the first Federal injunction in a labor dispute was issued in 1896 by Judge Ricks of Toledo in the matter of the Berea Stone Quarry strike. Mr. Menning is affiliated with Hesperian Lodge of Knights of Pythias, is a member of the German Club and the Chamber of Commerce. lie owns his home at 4201 Trowbridge Avenue. December 17, 1896, at Cleveland, Mr. Menning married Miss Barbara Vondrak, daughter of Frank and Anna (Mastny) Vondrak, both now deceased. Her father was a stone cutter and also a musician. Mr. and Mrs. Menning have three children : Elmer, born September 12, 1897, a junior in Western Reserve University ; Alice, born September 8, 1902. a student in the Lincoln High School ; and Raymond, born January 29, 1903, also a Lincoln High School student. ALVIN S. GATES. Cleveland esteems as one of its most valued and efficient public servants Mr. Alvin S. Gates, who for nearly thirty years was connected with the Metropolitan police force, serving in practically every capacity except that of chief. Mr. Gates, though well deserving of the honorable retirement he has from public duty, has considered it an obligation of patriotism to do what he could to help America win the present war, and is now serving as chief clerk for the local draft board in District No. 5 with offices on the fourth floor of the old courthouse building. 368 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS While his own career has counted for so much and made his name familiar to a large proportion of Cleveland citizens, Mr. Gates is also member of a family that has been identified with Cuyahoga County since earliest pioneer times. Their home has been in the vicinity of Cleveland lacking only six years of a century. Some generations back his ancestors came out of England and were colonists in New York. There were three brothers of the name who came to Northern Ohio early in the last century, about the year 1824. These three brothers were Jeremiah, Halsey and Nathaniel, Nathaniel being the grandfather of Alvin S. Gates. They all became pioneers in Northern Ohio, Halsey locating on Chagrin River at what is now called Gates Mills.. This village name is due to the fact that as a pioneer he erected a sawmill, grist mill and rake factory, which were the chief industries of that locality and were important business institutions at a time when Cleveland contained a very sparse population. Nathaniel Gates was married in the East and came to Cuyahoga County in 1824. He erected a sawmill in Brooklyn Township in what is now the City of Cleveland, and used this mill to convert into lumber the timber from his own land, and it also performed a similar service for his neighbors. Thus he was an effective instrument in clearing up a considerable part of the original wilderness of this part of Ohio. He spent a useful life and died in Brooklyn Township. The maiden name of his wife was Nancy Smith, a native of New York State, who also died at Cleveland. The father of Alvin S. Gates was Maj. Clark S. Gates, who was born at Delhi, Delaware County, New York, in 1812, and was twelve years old when the family came to Cuyahoga County. Here he grew to manhood and was associated with his father in the operation of a sawmill on Big Creek. He bought land there himself and while farming he operated a sawmill as a custom institution for the benefit of his neighbors. He finally retired and died at Cleveland in 1885. He was an active republican and for several terms filled the office of assessor. He was a member of the Congregational Church and one of the earliest members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Cleveland. Though nearly fifty years old at the time, he responded to the call for volunteers at the beginning of the Civil war in 1861, enlisting in a three months' regiment which went into the West Virginia campaign. He was in some of the early skirmishes of the war in that vicinity and helped to capture the cannon which are now planted around the Public Square of Cleveland. After his three months of enlistment expired he continued to assist the administration in the prosecution of the war by recruiting service, and escorted many squads of fresh men to the front from Cleveland and vicinity. Maj. Clark S. Gates married, at Cleveland, Sarah Ann Hinckley, who was born at Middle Haddam, Connecticut, in 1810, and died at Cleveland in 1873. Their family consisted of six children: George H., the oldest, born June 14, 1837, was a farmer by occupation, though he lived retired for a number of years before his death, which occurred in July, 1917. He was also a soldier of the Union, going out as wagoner with Company A of the One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Ohio Infantry. Early in the service he was thrown from a mule, badly crippled and discharged for disability. The injury remained a permanent handicap to him throughout his subsequent career. Walter H., the second son, is a farmer now living at Brooklyn Heights. Edwin N., who was a soldier and a private in the One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Ohio Infantry in the Civil war, afterwards followed farming and dairying at Cleveland, and died in this city in 1909. Three younger children of the family were Charles S., who died in childhood; Cynthia Ann, who died at the age of ten years; and Alvin S. Alvin S. Gates was born in Brooklyn Township, in what is now the City of Cleveland, March 1, 1849. The public schools of that vicinity furnished him his early book knowledge, but he did not long remain in school, preferring the active work and experiences of his father's farm. He remained at home until he was about twenty-one years of age. From the farm he went directly into the service of the municipal government of Cleveland as a member of the police force. His first work in that capacity was due to an appointment on the fire police. He was called into this service about the time of the Chicago fire in 1871 and did duty in Cleveland patrolling the oil works. From fire police he was transferred to the regular force of patrolmen, and remained active in the department for twenty-nine years, accepting every hazard and responsibility of service and enjoying every promotion and honor due to efficiency. He climbed to the office of inspector, which CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 369 is next in importance to that of chief. Mr. Gates finally retired on a pension in 1900. He is a republican in politics, a member of the Congregational Church, is affiliated with Newburg Lodge, No. 379, Free and Accepted Masons; Al Sirat Grotto, No. 17, Mystic Order of Veiled Prophets; Cuyahoga Lodge, No. 460, Knights of Pythias; Cleveland Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; the Knights of the Maccabees and the Knights of Honor. Mr. Gates also belongs to the Cleveland Automobile Club and is a director of the Riverside Cemetery Association. His home is at 3912 West Eighteenth Street. On January 25, 1871, only a few months before his appointment to the police force, he married, at Cleveland, Miss Ada M. Jewett, daughter of Alva A. and Cynthia (Rhoades) Jewett, both now deceased. Her father was a farmer. Mr. and Mrs. Gates had only one child of their own, Cora Elsie, who died when six years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Gates have not endeavored to perform a broad line of usefulness in public charity, but in their special field none would deny that their services have exemplified the finest quality of love and service. This special charity, which has brought, as all charity does, comfort to themselves as well as to others, has been the rearing and caring for a number of children in their home for different lengths of time. Two foster daughters practically grew up with them and went frorn their home to homes of their own. One lof these was Laura A. Hutchinson, who is now the wife of Dr. E. P. Hawley, a retired physician at Claremont, California. The second is Agnes Strachen, now the wife of Burt Butera, living at Newburg in Cleveland. Mr. Butera was formerly a gardener but is now with the Hydraulic Pressed Steel Company. JACOB LAUB. Less than thirty years ago Jacob Laub was struggling against the difficulties of meager capital and lack of business acquaintance and recognition of his wares to keep a small bake shop moving. The pioneer work has almost been forgotten, and today Mr. Laub is president of the Jacob Laub Baking Company, one of the largest wholesale bakeries in Cleveland, and has a position of easy assurance among the business men of the city. Mr. Laub came to Cleveland when about sixteen years old. He was born May 16, 1861, in the Rhinepfalz of Germany, where his parents and all his ancestors as far back as he has record lived out their quiet and honored lives. His father, Henry Laub, was born in 1820 and died in 1878, having occupied himself with farming his native acres, an occupation from which he was never absent save the few years he spent with the regular army. He married Margaret Ecke, who was born in 1820 and died in 1888. Their children were: Carolina, deceased wife of John Bohley, a farmer at Alsenz, Germany; Philipina, wife of Philip May, a farmer at Alsenz; George, who was employed by his brother Jacob and died at Cleveland in 1917; Philip, a professional man living in Baden-Baden, Germany ; Jacob; Margaret, wife of Fred Kaschewsky, a truckman living on Bading Avenue in Cleveland ; and Fredericka, wife of Arthur Weible, inspector for the street railway company and residing on One Hundred and Sixth Street. Mr. Jacob Laub, after getting the usual equipment and training supplied by the thorough German common schools, worked two years in the postoffice and in a telegraph office. In 1878, coming to the United States, he found his first employment on a farm near Cleveland fora month, and then began an apprenticeship at the baker's trade. He laid the foundation most substantially, and it was not until twelve years later that he essayed to start a modest business of his own. That shop was on Lorain Avenue. and after the usual share of discouragements his trade began to grow until he had to seek larger quarters. The capacity of his first shop was 300 loaves daily. and the output is now 60,000 daily. In 1903 the business was incorporated as the Jacob Laub Baking Company, of which Mr. Laub has been president since organization. He finally constructed a completely new and specially equipped building at Lorain Avenue and Fiftieth Street, containing bakery, store and office. It is a brick and concrete building, fireproof, sanitary, and with equipment for manufacture of high-grade bakery products not excelled in the city. Mr. Laub has 160 persons on his pay roll and employed in the various departments of his business, and he now supplies the wholesale trade only. He is a member of the National Master Bakers, of the Chamber of Industry, the Commercial Travelers' Association, the Evangelical Church, and votes his sentiments independent of party. He owns a good home at 4414 Franklin Avenue. In 1888, in this city, he married Miss Katharine Schuster, daughter of Edward and Sophia (Schreiber) Schuster, 370 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS retired residents of Cleveland. Mr. and Mrs. Laub have three children: Emily, wife of Carl Mueller, a Cleveland lawyer ; Herbert J., who is secretary of the Jacob Laub Baking Company; and Elsie, who is finishing her education in the College for Women of Western Reserve University. FRED J. LYKE, general superintendent of the great local industry of the American Multigraph Company, is an expert and all around machinist and tool maker, and has had perhaps as varied and extensive experience in his line as any other man in Cleveland industrial circles. Mr. Lyke was born at Oswego, New York, October 5, 1872, a son of John and Catherine (Youkel) Lyke. At the age of seventeen he left public school to begin an apprenticeship as a tool maker and machinist with the Ames Iron Works. He spent four years there and then came to Cleveland. His successive experiences may be briefly told as follows: One year as tool maker and machinist with the Standard Tool Company ; nine months as tool maker and assistant foreman with the Johnson Steel Motor Company, one year as tool maker with the National Screw and Tack Company; two and a half years as tool maker with the Cleveland Automatic Machine Company; one year with the National Screw and Tack Company; three years with the National Adding Machine Company; a year and a half as foreman of the tool making department for Warner-Swasey Company : again as tool maker for a month with the National Adding Machine Company: two weeks as tool maker with the Cleveland Twist Drill Company, and from that formed his first connection with the American Multi-graph Company, with whom he worked six months as tool maker. He then went to Elyria. Ohio. and for three months was tool maker for the Dean Electric Company. On returning to Cleveland he again entered the shops of the American Multigranh Company as tool maker, and at the end of two months was made foreman of the tool making department. nine months later was promoted to general foreman. after a year to assistant superintendent of the entire plant, and three years later became general superintendent of this one of Cleveland's greatest industries. Mr. Lyke is affiliated with Forest City Lodpe Free and Accented Masons and Al Sirat Grotto. and is a member of the Cleveland Athletic Club. Cleveland Automobile Club and in politics is a republican. He married at Cleveland July 3, 1895, Ella May Coombs. They have two children, Ruth Frances and Harold F. ALFRED E. TOMLINSON, a resident of Cleveland thirty-five years, is an expert stationary, engineer, and his wide knowledge of mechanics arid of the general scope of hardware business he has applied to the successful building up of an establishment of his own known as the Tomlinson Steam Specialty Company, through which the output of several leading manufacturing concerns is distributed throughout Cleveland and surrounding territory. Mr. Tomlinson was born at Trenton, New Jersey, July 15, 1876, and was about seven years old when his parents came to Cleveland. He is of English ancestry. His grandfather was born in England and in 1865, at the close of the Civil war, came to America and located at Trenton, New Jersey, where he was in the hotel business for a number of years. He died at Trenton in 1881. The father of Alfred E. Tomlinson is Officer Tomlinson, who was born in England in 1853 and was twelve years old when his parents came to the United States. He finished his education at Trenton, was married there, and then for a number of years was a roller in the iron mills. He removed to Cleveland in 1883 to take work with the Britton Rolling Mills, but left that occupation to become an oil salesman. For thirty years he was in the oil business, and his contemporaries regarded him as one of the most successful salesmen in that line. He is now practically retired at 10429 Lake Avenue, in Cleveland. He is independent in politics and has long been active in the Masonic Order, being affiliated with Bigelow Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons: Thatcher Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Forest City, Commandery, Knights Templar ; and Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine. Officer Tomlinson married Georgianna Blake, who was born at Roselle, New Jersey, in 1855. They had only two children, Flora A. and Alfred E. Flora, whose home is on East Eighty-ninth Street, is the wife of Samuel Burrows, a veterinary surgeon. Alfred E. Tomlinson left his school work in Cleveland at the age of fifteen and then served an apprenticeship at the stationary engineer's trade. He worked at that consecutively until 1898. He still holds membership in the Brotherhood of Licensed Engi- CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 371 neers and in the National Association of Steam Engineers. From 1898 for a period of thirteen years Mr. Tomlinson was a salesman with the well known Cleveland hardware house of W. Bingham Company. With this varied experience he embarked in business for himself in 1911 by establishing the Tomlinson Steam Specialty Company, of which he is sole proprietor. His offices are in the Wade Building. He markets steam specialties throughout Cleveland and the State of Ohio, and among other lines, he represents the output of the Pratt & Cady Company of Hartford, Connecticut; the Fisher Governor Company of Marshalltown, Iowa; the Bashlin Company of Warren, Pennsylvania; and the Ashton Valve Company of Boston. Mr. Tomlinson is a member of the Universal Craftsmen's Council of Engineers, qualification for membership in which is membership in the Masonic fraternity. His Masonic affiliations are with Bigelow Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; Thatcher Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Forest City Commandery, Knights Templar; and Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine. In politics he votes independently. In October, 1917, Mr. Tomlinson completed a handsome home at 1666 Hill Crest Road, in Cleveland Heights. He and Miss Emma C. Miller were married at Cleveland in 1900. Mrs. Tomlinson is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Miller, the latter now deceased and her father living with Mrs. Tomlinson. Mr. Miller is a retired mechanic. The only child of their marriage is Ralph Edward born January 15, 1903, and a student in the Technical High School. . JAMES H. FOSTER is president of the Hydraulic Pressed Steel Company of Cleveland, an industry with a history of more than ten years of prosperous growth and now without question one of the leading concerns in contributing to Cleveland's greatness as a center of the iron and steel industry. Mr. Foster learned the steel business through a rigorous apprenticeship. His first experience was in the Pittsburgh district, where he worked for the steel mills at any post of service which his superiors saw fit to assign him. He began there in 1900, fresh from a college career. He had been previously nurtured in the scholastic atmosphere of old New England. His birth occurred in Meriden, Connecticut, April 10, 1879, a son of Samuel H. and Mary (Stanley) Foster. In 1885 the family moved to New Britain, Connecticut, where James H. Foster attended the public schools. He afterwards completed a preparatory course in St. Paul School at Concord, New Hampshire, and in 1896 attended Yale University, but a year later transferred to Williams College, from which he graduated in 1900. After his three years of apprenticeship in the iron and steel district around Pittsburgh, Mr. Foster came to Cleveland and found a position with the Parish & Bingham Company in their sheet metal stamping works. In a short time he was manager of this plant and filled that position until 1906. In that year he was instrumental in organizing and incorporating the Hydraulic Pressed Steel Company. The first officers of this organization were: A. W. Ellenberger, president; Mr. Foster vice president and general manager; and H. F. Pattee, secretary and treasurer. The plant was ready for operation in 1907. It then contained 20,000 square feet of floor space. The plants now include a steel plant of four open-hearth furnaces, rolling mills, sheet mills, etc., located at Canton. Ohio, and two fabricating plants in Cleveland. These plants occupy 133 acres of land, have an aggregate capital of over $12,000,000 and employ about 5.000 men. The present officers are: A. W. Ellenberger, chairman of the hoard ; J. H. Foster, president; Ernest E. Bell, vice president and director of sales; R. R. Freer, vice president and comptroller ; R.. D. Mock, treasurer; H. F. Pattee, secretary. Mr. Foster is a member of the Union Club, Country Club, Mayfield Club, Roadside Country Club and Hermit Club. Politically he does his voting according to the dictates of an independent judgment. In Cleveland, September 28, 1907, he married Miss. Edith McIntosh. They have four children: George, aged nine; Mary Stanley, aged seven ; James H., Jr., aged five; and Elizabeth McIntosh, aged three. George is a pupil in the Hawkins School for Boys, while Mary Stanley attends the Laurel School for Girls. KERMODE F. GILL, president and general manager of John Gill & Sons, building contractors, practically grew up in the industry which has been his chief occupation through his active years, and is widely known in both the business and technical sides of the building trades industries throughout several states. Mr. Gill was born at Cleveland April 12, 372 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS 1866, a son of John Gill, who was a prominent building contractor of Cleveland. for over half a century. His father's career is told on other pages. Kermode F. Gill attended the grammar and high schools of Cleveland until he was seventeen years of age, and then served an apprenticeship at the mason trade under his father. He worked with his father and at the age of twenty-three went into business for himself a year. He then joined the family partnership under the name John Gill & Sons, and when, a year after his father's death in 1913, the busness was incorporated, Kermode F. Gill becathe president and general manager. This firm has handled some of the largest building contracts in Northern Ohio, in Maryland, New York and various cities and states. Mr. Gill is also a director of the National Commercial Bank of Cleveland, of the Cleveland Street Railway Company, the Damascus. Brake Beam Company, and the Properties Company. He is a member of the Union Club of Cleveland, the Country Club, the Mayfield Country Club, the Tavern Club, the Roadside Country Club, and of the Buffalo Club of Buffalo, the Raquet Club of Philadelphia and the New York Club of New York City. He is also a member of the Cleveland Engineers' Society, the Chamber of Commerce, the Automobile Club, and in Masonry is affiliated with Forest City 'lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; Cleveland Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Oriental Commandery, Knights Templar; Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine, and Lake Erie Consistory. Politically he is a republican and his church is the Episcopal. Mr. Gill is a member of the Western Reserve Historical Society and the Cleveland Museum of Art. At Columbus, Ohio, August 17, 1894, he married Miss Dorothea Ambos, daughter of H. P. Ambos. Three children have been born to their marriage, Amelia Louise, a graduate of the Ogontz School for Girls at Philadelphia ; John K., a student in the well known and exclusive Tome School for Boys at Fort Deposit, Maryland; and William A., a student in the Asheville School, Asheville, North Carolina. RALPH D. MOCK. Prominent among the younger business men of Cleveland is Ralph D. Mock, who is treasurer and assistant secretary of the Hydraulic Pressed Steel Company of this city, and additionally identified, officially or otherwise, with a number of other enterprises. Mr. Mock is a native of Ohio, born at West Salem in Wayne County February 29, 1888. His parents were Daniel F. and Anna (Daler) Mock. Daniel F. Mock was born in Ohio in 1856, and died at Cleveland in 1903. He was reared in Wayne County and was educated there and subsequently became principal of the West Salem High School, and after leaving that city went to Lawrence, Ohio, and went into a hardware, lumber and building business as a partner. In 1901 he came to Cleveland and accepted a position as cashier with the Williamson Building Company. He was a man of mental strength and business capacity, a democrat in politics and a member and liberal supporter of the United Brethren Church. In Stark County, Ohio, he was married to Anna Daler, who was born there in 1863 and now resides in Cleveland, The following children were born to them: Frank C., who is engineer for the Stromberg Motor Devices Company of Chicago, Illinois; Ralph D.; Russell, who is now a lieutenant in the Tank Service, was a resident of Cleveland; Clark L., who resided with his mother at No. 2100 East One Hundred and Seventh Street, Cleveland, was a student in the Western Reserve University and is now a lieutenant in Aeroplane Service: and Elizabeth, who resides at home. Ralph D. Mock was educated in the public schools of Cleveland from the eighth grade until his graduation in 1906 from the Central High School. So general and commendable with public school taught American youths is the idea of financial independence and a useful career that little time elapses before some business connection is made, and Mr. Mock soon found his first opportunity with the Cleveland Trust Company, which he entered as office boy and within three years had become a teller. Business changes came about and in 1909 Mr. Mock turned his attention to the insurance business and for the next three years was connected with the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company, one of the old line companies. severing this relationship in 1912 in order to become accountant for the Hydraulic Pressed Steel Company. 'Promotion here quickly followed. In 1913 he became assistant treasurer and assistant secretary of the company and in 1916 its treasurer and assistant secretary. The offices are in the Illuminating Building. The company owns CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 373 three plants, the Hydraulic Pressed Steel Company and the Cleveland Welding and Manufacturing Company, both in Cleveland, and the Canton Sheet Steel Company, located at Canton, Ohio. Additionally Mr. Mock is president of the Cleveland Finance Company, is a director of the American Motors Corporation, and has acted as chairman of the Credit Committee of the Motor & Accessory Manufacturers' Association. Mr. Mock was married in May, 1911, at Cleveland, to Miss Margaret S. Ashworth. She is a daughter of Samuel T. and Hattie B. (Gordon) Ashworth, residents of Cleveland, where Mr. Ashworth is connected with the Mechanical Rubber Company. Mr. and Mrs. Mock have two little daughters : Martha, who was born in 1914 ; and Margaret, who was born in 1916. Although never very active in the political field and an independent voter, Mr. Mock entertains very sound ideas in regard to citizenship responsibility and has shown a willingness to co-operate with his fellow citizens in the support of worthy enterprises and benevolent and patriotic movements. He is a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce and belongs to the City Club. He is a member of the Euclid Avenue Congregational Church. FRANCIS WIDLAR. The old axiom, "knowledge is power," seldom had a better illustration than in the career of the late Francis Widlar. It was knowledge, in the widest sense of the term, including not only experience and understanding of numberless technical details, but also a sure and unerring judgment, that enabled Francis Widlar to build up the great institution known as the Widlar Company and acquire a well deserved reputation throughout, America as perhaps the most authoritative figure in the tea and coffee industry. It was a knowledge of qualities and of values, as well as a complete commercial equipment and experience, that alone could account for his success. Francis Widlar was born in 1849 on Hamilton Avenue, Northeast, just east of East Ninth Street, in Cleveland. At that time his birthplace was in the best residence section of the City. In June, 1862, when he was only thirteen years of age, prompted by an ambition to do something for himself, he applied one day at the office of Smith & Curtis, a local coffee and spice house. On their advice he applied to the rival house of A. Stephans & Son. With the latter firm he was put to work at wages of $2 a week. He might have done very little and in a very routine manner and still have earned his wages. But the salary was not important, the opportunity to learn the business was. He put himself in the way of every experience and every day added something to his store of knowledge and judgment of spices, and his inquiring mind kept on until it contained an. encyclopedic range . of information on this subject not exceeded by any other individual in the United States. In 1881 the elder Stephans died, and Mr. Widlar was given a partnership under the title of Stephans & Widlar. In 1897 H. A. Stephans died, and at that time Mr. Widlar became head of the company and so continued until his death. After an illness of about a year, Mr. Widlar died at his home at 2166 East Fortieth Street, June 3, 1907. The funeral was conducted at his residence by Rev. W. R. Breed of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, assisted by Rev. J. D. Jones, pastor of the Floating Bethel and a lifelong friend and boyhood chum of the deceased. He was laid to rest in Lake View Cemetery. Mr. Widlar left no family. His wife had died in 1905, and their only child, Pauline, was drowned in 1898, at their summer home near Frizells-in-the-Lake. Though he was known from coast to coast, Francis Widlar spent most of his life in Cleveland. By constant attention to his trade and his unusual business ability he made his house one of the largest wholesale tea, coffee and spice concerns in the United States. He was identified with one firm for forty-six years, and it was by undeviating attention to one line of commerce that he acquired a fortune. He was also a vessel owner and had numerous other interests. He was a director of the National Tea Association, the Columbia Steamship Company, the American Range and Foundry Company. He was also a director of the Floating Bethel, was a trustee of the Dorcas Invalids' Home and the Cleveland United Commercial Travelers' Association. In Masonry he attained the thirty-second degree of Scottish Rite, and was a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, Union Club, Roadside Club. Colonial Club, Castalia Trout Club and Tippecanoe Club. His benefactions to charity and other worthy causes took a large part of the handsome for- 374 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS tune which he had accumulated, and Cleveland has today many monuments to his beneficence besides the Widlar Company. CARL W. BRAND. One of the most vital factors in business, as well as military strategy, is to know how and when and have the courage to withdraw as well as to advance. Sometimes the longer way is the better way. Not many years ago Carl W. Brand was doing very well for a man of his youth, commanding a wage of $25 a week with a prosperous Cleveland concern. One day his uncle, the late Francis Widlar, invited him to come into his business as a coffee and spice merchant, and while the invitation was not accompanied by a very attractive salary offer, young Brand had the wisdom to see in it a good opportunity, and soon afterward he was working as billing clerk for $12 a week, just half what he had been getting before. That was in 1898. During the next two or three years Mr. Brand worked in and qualified for every responsibility in the establishment and later was made manager. After the death of his uncle the business was incorporated as the Widlar Company in 1910, and since that date Mr. Brand has been president. The Widlar Company are spice importers and packers, handling a, number of staple brands of teas, coffees, spices and mustard, and have business connections practically around the world. The company are members of the American Spice Trade Association, the Flavoring Extract Manufacturers' Association, and the Canning Machinery and Supplies Association. The headquarters of the business are at 722-740 Bolivar Road, Southeast, in Cleveland. They have an immense plant, consisting of a group of buildings, the most recent addition having been made. in the summer of 1917, when 40,000 additional square feet of floor space was constructed. Carl W. Brand was born in Cleveland July 26, 1880, a son of Frederick W. and Caroline C. (Widlar) Brand. His father was born in one of the eastern states and his mother in Cleveland, and both are still living in this city, retired. After the Brand family moved to Cleveland they lived on Huntington Street, and the hack yard adjoined that of the Rockefeller home. Frederick Brand and the late Frank Rockefeller naturally became boyhood acquaintances and playmates, and later when they put on the mantle of manhood they went away to the Civil war together, both serving as privates in the Seventh Ohio Infantry, and were tentmates during the war. This boyhood and military association was continued even after the war, when Frederick Brand represented Frank Rockefeller in business. Carl W. Brand is one of two sons, his older brother, Frederick A., being manager of an export house with headquarters at Kobe, Japan. Carl W. Brand was educated in the Cleveland public schools, including the Central High School, and at Spencerian Business College. But his business career and experience began long before his school days were ended, and in fact part of his education was the result of his earnings as a worker. In order to get money to pay his expenses at the Spencerian Business College, he worked as a doorboy at the Roadside Club. He also organized a retail coffee route, and took his orders and made deliveries on a bicycle. He was a soda water clerk, collected bills for a plumber, sold score cards at the baseball games and otherwise made himself useful while in high school. After his business college course he went to work for the Lorain and Cleveland Electric Railway as a clerk. While at that he studied law at Western Reserve Law Night School for two years. He had no intention of becoming a lawyer, but realized the benefits derived from a well rounded legal education. The next stage in his experience was as bookkeeper for the Jacob Hoffman Wagon Company. Besides the routine duties of keeping accounts for this company, his keen mind recognized a piece of crooked work on the part of one of the men connected with the company, and this vigilance was rewarded by his superiors by promotion to manager of another branch known as the Hoffman Hinge Company, where he had sixty men working under him. It was from the responsibilities of that office that Mr. Brand retired and made the strategic retreat that was in fact the beginning of his real progress to business success and independence with the Widlar Company. Mr. Brand is also a director of the Garfield Savings Bank and president of several real estate companies in Cleveland, and many local citizens know him best through his activities and interests in general welfare work. He is vice president of the Children's Fresh Air Camp, and has been identified with that institution for two years. In politics he is affected by no partisan consideration, but aim- CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 375 ply by the qualifications of the man for the office. He is a member and was one of the incorporators of the Willowick Country Club and the old Colony Club, and is a member of the Union Club, Cleveland Athletic Club, City Club and Mayfield Country Club, and Cleveland Automobile Club. He is now serving as a member of the city finance committee of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce under its president, Myron T. Herrick. lie is also on the board of finance of the Civic League. Aside from business and civic activities, his chief recreation is golf. Mr. Brand resides at 2251 Coventry Road, in Cleveland Heights. April 26, 1905, at Chicago, Illinois, he married Miss Edith Ewing, daughter of James and Elizabeth Ewing. She was born in Scotland, but was educated in the public schools of Cleveland and afterwards went with her parents to Chicago, where her father died and where her mother is still living. Mr. and Mrs. Brand have three children, all born at Cleveland, named Ewing Widlar, Betty and Pauline. CHARLES F. LANG, president and executive head of the Lakewood Engineering Company,. was formerly a Cleveland lawyer and did not take an executive position in the Engineering Company until 1910. Since then his business and industrial interests have increased rapidly, and he is at the head of one of the largest and most important organizations in the country supplying machinery and other equipment for the allied governments. The Lakewood Engineering Company was established in 1896. The plant and offices are on the Berea Road, and the plant covers nine acres of ground, with extensive brick, concrete and steel structures. As high as a thousand men are employed in the different departments of the service. The Lakewood Engineering Company has for many years been leading manufacturers of contractors' equipment, storage battery metal and industrial locomotives and factory cars and trucks, and both hand and electrical driven. The company began with a capital of $16,000, and at the present time it is doing a business valued at $10,000,000 a year. The line of contractors' equipment sent out by the Lakewood Company was largely used in the construction of the high-level bridge at Cleveland, the Clark Avenue Bridge, the City Hall, Federal Building, the County Court House, and practically nothing but Lakewood equipment was used in constructing the connecting railway over Hell Gate in New York, this being the largest cement job in the world outside of the Panama Canal. The company now does business all over the world and its services for a number of months have been concentrated upon the supplying of transportation equipment for the use of the allied governments in France. The Lakewood organization and shops have again and again met the test of capacity for large output and prompt delivery. This company has furnished the French and American governments between 1,800 and 2,000 miles of narrow gauge railway tracks, and this portable track was shipped to France at a rate of over six miles per day, and with all the concentration that this employed there was no abnormal interference with the output for the use of American trade. In 1914 a record shipment of eight carloads of Lakewood cars and tracks was made to the Venezuelan interior. The order was received April 21st, the Orst shipment was made May 8th and delivery completed May 16th. This haste was necessary in order to get the material to New York to catch certain steamers for Venezuelan ports which would reach these ports in time to transfer to the last boats for the season up some of the interior rivers which during the dry season are closed to navigation. The company has also sent many shipments in "knocked down packages," each package not over a thousand pounds in weight, to be hauled by dog sledge to mines in the interior of Alaska and also by pack mules over the Andes Mountains of South America. More than 100,000 Lakewood cars have been sold for use in various industries in the United States and all over the world. Absolutely the first concrete plant for distribution of concrete by gravity tower and chuting system ever used in England or in fact in Europe, was a Lakewood installation shipped to Hull, England. Mr. Charles F. Lang, directing head of this important industrial organization of Cleveland, was born in this city March 27, 1871. His father, Eugene Lang, was born in Southern Ohio in 1847. His grandparents were Frederick and Elizabeth Lang, both natives of Switzerland. They came to the United States in 1845, and settled on a farm in Southern Ohio. Eugene Lang moved to Cleveland in 1866, was married in that city, and for a few years engaged in the grocery business. He died in 1874, when only twenty-seven years old. He married Catherine Wehr, who was born at Cleveland in 1850, and is still liv- 376 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS ing in this city. Her parents, Charles and Mary Wehr, came to Cleveland in 1846. Charles Wehr was for many years a successful merchant in Cleveland and died in this city in 1870. Eugene Lang had two children: Charles F. and Bertha, the latter the wife of Dr. C. A. Frain, a dentist living in Cleveland. Charles F. Lang had to leave public school and begin work as cash boy in a dry goods store, and from that time forward until he was twenty-six he was working as a clerk and in other occupations to pay his way while studying law. He studied law with the well-known firm of Sherman, Hoyt & Dustin, and after his admission to the bar conducted a successful practice for twelve years. He had assisted in forming the Lakewood Engineeringt Company in 1896, but took no active position in the company until 1910, when he! gave up his law practice and has since devoted his best energies to the growth and extension of an industry that in many ways ranks first of its kind in this country. He is president and treasurer of the company, Ernest S. Hough is vice president, and Alfred W. Stone is secretary. Mr. Lang is also a director in the Allied Construction Machinery Corporation of New York, a subsidiary of the American International Corporation, director and vice president of the American Safety Device Company of New York ; president of the Cameron Clay Products Company of Emporium, Pennsylvania ; vice president of the Duplex Foundry and Manufacturing Company at Elyria, Ohio; director of the Lakewood Galion Company of Galion, Ohio ; director of the Milwaukee Concrete Mixer Company of Milwaukee; vice president of the Western Patent Scaffolding Company of Chicago, director of the Equipment Corporation of America of Chicago, and vice president of the Cleveland Railway Supply Company of Cleveland. Mr. Lang is a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, the Athletic Club and the Clifton Club of Cleveland, and the Machinery Club of New York, of the Euclid Avenue Baptist Church and in politics is independent. In 1917 he built a modern home on the Lake Front at the foot of Homewood Drive. Mr. Lang married at Cleveland in 1900 Miss Minnie Grayell, daughter of J. G. and Jennie Grayell, both now deceased. Her father was a contractor. WILLIAM EDWARD GEISELMAN, a businessman of varied experience, is especially well we known in coal circles, and is vice president and general manager of the Payne Avenue Coal Company. Mr. Geiselman came to Cleveland in 1902 after completing his education at Wooster, Ohio, where he was born October 20, 1882. He represents one of the old families of Wayne County, Ohio. His great-grandfather, John Geiselman, bouFfht land there in the early days. Mr. Geiselman's grandfather, Edward Geiselman, was also one of the early farmers near Wooster, and died there in 1897, when past seventy years of age. Harvey Geiselman, father of William E., was born in Wooster in 1861 and spent most of his active career in that locality. He was a hardware merchant and about 1906 moved to Cleveland, where for several years he had his headquarters while traveling on the road as a salesman. In 1914 he established the Lakewood Hardware Company in Lakewood, on Detroit Avenue, and is proprietor of that establishment. His home is also in Lakewood, at 1451 Winchester Avenue. Harvey Geiselman is a democrat and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He married, at Wooster, Ellenetta Culbertson. She was born in that town in 1861 and died there in 1890. She was the mother of three children : William E.; Jennie, wife of Charles McQuirey, an operator with the Western Union Telegraph Company and a resident of Wooster; and John, who owns a machine shop and lives at Collinwood, Cleveland. Mr. Geiselman married for his second wife Anna S. Cutten, a native of Canada. William E. Geiselman graduated from the Wooster High School in 1902 and in the same year came to Cleveland and went to work for the W. Bingham Company, wholesale hardware merchants. He gained a very thorough knowledge of the business during his three years spent there and had several promotions in responsibility as well as income. He left the Bingham Company to enter the offices of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Cleveland, and here again he worked up from an anomalous position until at the end of three years he was assistant cashier of the offices. Leaving Cleveland then, Mr. Geiselman went to Elyria, Ohio, and was with the Hygienic Ice Company, learned that business, and was promoted to manager of the plant. On his return to Cleveland in 1912 Mr. Geisel- CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 377 man became a salesman for the E. D. Thomas Coal Company, and with this concern he has remained until he is now vice president and general manager. The plant and offices are at 3936 Payne Avenue, and in April, 1917, the business was incorporated under the name Payne Avenue Coal Company. The officers of the company are: E. D. Thomas, president; W. E. Geiselman, vice president and general manager; and J. P. Roberts, secretary and treasurer. • Mr. Geiselman exercises his franchise according to his independent judgment. He is a member of Lakewood Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and of the First Methodist Episcopal Church on Thirtieth Street and Euclid Avenue, in Cleveland. His home is at 4106 Perkins Avenue. Mr. Geiselman married, in Cleveland, Miss Anna Lewis, daughter of Richard and Margaret (Evans) Lewis, residents of Cleveland. Her father is a teaming contractor. One child has been born to their marriage, William E., Jr., born June 20, 1917. NORTON T. JONES. Among the prominent men of Cleveland, using the term in its broadest and fullest sense to indicate business acumen, sterling character, public beneficence and upright citizenship, is Norton T. Jones. Still a young man, he has already achieved prominence, and has for some time been connected as an officer with a number of leading Cleveland concerns, being at this time a director of the Fulton Kenova Mine Car Company and secretary, sales manager and a director of the Foster Bolt and Nut Company. Mr. Jones was born at Cleveland February 1, 1880, and is a son of George Watson and Ida Estelle (Munger) Jones. George Jones was born at Westbrook, Connecticut, December 19, 1853, and was educated in his native locality, where he grew to manhood. In 1878 he came to Cleveland, where he was employed as a molder by the Van Dorn Iron Works and later by the National Malleable Castings Company, and continued so engaged until his retirement in 1915, when he moved to his present place of residence at Albion, Michigan. The public schools of Cleveland furnished Norton T. Jones with his education up to the time he was fifteen years of age, and he then went to Clinton, Connecticut, where he attended school for three years. Returning to Cleveland, he secured a position as office boy in the general offices of the National Screw and Tack Company. He was faithful, attentive, energetic and industrious, discharged his duties faithfully, and thereby gained during the period of 2 1/2 years steady and continued promotion until he had reached the post of assistant to the manager of the bolt department. Mr. Jones then transferred his services to the Kirk-Latty Manufacturing Company, with which concern he was connected for ten years in the capacity of traveling salesman, and during this time gained sufficient experience to encourage him to enter business on his own account, as one of the organizers of the Foster Bolt and Nut Company, of which he has since been secretary, director and sales manager. He has numerous other business connections, and is accounted as one of the men who are rapidly coming to the forefront in their special fields of endeavor. Fraternally Mr. Jones is affiliated with Halcyon Lodge of Masons, Webb Chapter, Forest City Commandery and Lake Erie Consistory, and is also a member of Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He holds membership in the Cleveland Athletic Club, Shaker Heights Country Club and the Ohio Society of New York. In political allegiance he is a republican. Mr. Jones was married at Cleveland, April 9, 1906, to Miss Anna M. Campbell, and they have three children : Norton Malcolm, who is ten years of age and attending the graded schools; Jimmie E., six years old, who is also a grammar school pupil; and Lawrence, aged four. D. V. EXLINE is president of the Exline Company, printers and binders, one of the leading firms in the country and specializes in bank passbooks and supplies. It is a business with which Mr. Exline has been identified for twenty years, and nearly all his business experience and energy and thought have gone into this line of work. Mr. Exline was born in Van Wert County, Ohio, October 5, 1868. He comes of old Pennsylvania Swiss German ancestry. Christopher Exline came to America from Switzerland in colonial days and settled in Virginia on the Potomac, from which colony his son Adam moved to Bedford County, Pennsylvania. Mr. Exline's great-grandfather, Bernard, the son of Adam Exline, was born near Bedford, Pennsylvania, was a farmer and with his family moved to Muskingum County, Ohio, where he died. The grandfather, Valentine Exline, was born in Bedford County, Penn- 378 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS sylvania, in 1809, grew up in Ohio and was an early settler in Van Wert County, where he acquired land from the Government and was an industrious farmer and upright citizen of that community for many years. He died in Van Wert County in 1887. Besides farming he was an ordained minister of the Lutheran Church. Valentine Exline married Evelyn Thompson, who was a relative of President Zachary Taylor. George W. Exline, father of the Cleveland business man, was born in Sandyville, Ohio, in 1842, and was a small boy when his parents moved to Van Wert County, where he grew up and married and where with the exception of six years spent in the West he followed farming until he retired. He is now living at Celina, Ohio. Politically he is a republican and is a member of the English Lutheran Church. For three years he was a soldier in the Civil war, enlisting in Company A of the Ninety-Ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was in much of the hard fighting of the Middle West and among other battles participated at Stone River and Lookout Mountain. He married Rebecca A., daughter of Rachel and Robert Wolfe, and who was born in Richland County, Ohio, in 1847, and died at Ohio City, Van Wert County, in 1904. D. V. Exline is the oldest of their children: May married W. T. Palmer, a grain merchant at Celina, Ohio; Bertha is the wife of Chauncey De Bolt, a railroad agent at Wilshire, Ohio; Myrtle, who died at Ohio City, Ohio, in 1906, was a twin sister of Berthwand married Mr. Reed; Jennie died unmarried at the age of twenty; Olive died at Cleveland in 1917, wife of Walter Palmer, a grocery merchant in this city; and George H. lives at Cleveland and is a clerk. Mr. D. V. Exline was reared on his father's farm in Van Wert County, and had a rural and normal school education. At the age of twenty he was teaching school, a vocation he followed three years. On coming to Cleveland in 1891 he took a course in the Spencerian Commercial School and in the same year was employed a brief time by F. A. Brassington, a Woodland Avenue carriage hardware merchant. For a while he was also reporter and collector with the Merchants and Manufacturers Exchange Company. Life's real opportunity came when he secured a position with the Enterprise Printing Company in December, 1891. He served this company in various capacities for nine years. In 1900 he acquired the interest of Mr. H. F. Henry (of Hi Henry minstrel fame), who was the principal stockholder in the Enterprise Company. In the summer of this year he reorganized the business, became its general manager, serving four years, and in 1904 organized the Exline Company, of which he has since been president. The plant and offices of this concern are now at 113 St. Clair Avenue. In addition to the execution of high grade commercial printing and advertising literature, they have developed their facilities and service to the special end of serving banking institutions. As already noted, this is one of the leading concerns in the United States manufacturing high grade passbooks and other bank supplies. They have traveling representatives covering twenty-three states, and are well and favorably known throughout this territory. The business was incorporated in 1904 under the laws of Ohio, with the following officers: D. V. Exline, president; J. C. Lincoln, vice president, and W. G. Exline, cousin of D. V. Exline, secretary and treasurer. W. T. Palmer and George W. Exline are directors. Mr. Exline is well known among business men and leading organizations of Cleveland. He is a member of the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Graphic Arts Club, the Cleveland Advertising Club, the Cleveland Automobile Club, the East Shore and Colonial Club, and is affiliated with Woodward Lodge No. 508, Free and Accepted Masons, and the Hough Avenue Congregational Church. Politically he is a republican. He married at Cleveland Miss Alice Nothnagel in September, 1897. Her parents are Charles A. and Anna Nothnagel, and both are advanced in years and living in Cleveland. Her father was born in Ruhla, Saxe Coburg, Gotha, Central Germany, and came to America with his parents and sister and located in Cleveland in 1852. Mr. and Mrs. Exline have four children living: George A., born July 4, 1898, is a graduate of East Technical High School and recently enlisted in the United States Navy. Ralph V., born October 12, 1900, is a student at East High School, and Myron D., born August 19, 1902, is also a student in East High. Edward E., born July 14, 1909, is in the Doan Grammar School. Marion Alice, a twin sister of Myron, died of scarlet fever in May, 1909. CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 379 CHARLES MILTON DILWORTH, who is grand registrar of the Ohio State Good Government Club, with headquarters in the Society for Savings Building at Cleveland, has lived in this city a number of years, and formerly filled some responsible positions with some large mercantile houses. Mr. Dilworth was born and reared in a country village of Ohio, and his initiative and ambition have been the propelling forces that have brought him more than average success. From the time he was eight years of age he bought his own school books and clothes. The first money he ever earned was as a barefoot boy at Mount Pleasant, Ohio, doing service in driving cows to pasture. He was born at Mount Pleasant, in Jefferson County, June 27, 1876. His parents were William Rankin and Elizabeth H. (Murdock) Dilworth, Both the Nfurdocks and the Dilworths were pioneer residents of Eastern Ohio. His grandfather, George Washington Dilworth, was a native American and settled in Mount Pleasant during the early '30s. lie died at Martin's Ferry, Ohio, at the age of seventy-three. The maternal grandfather, Thomas Murdock, was a native of Ireland, first lived in New York State and about 1836 located in Jefferson County, Ohio. He was born in 1808, and died at Mount Pleasant at the age of eighty-three. His occupation was that of farming. George W. Dilworth was a merchant tailor by occupation. William R. Dilworth and wife were both natives of Mount Pleasant and were married there. The father was a man of more than ordinary local prominence. He kept a general store at Mount Pleasant for about thirty-five years, and was also treasurer of the village for twenty-five years. He died June 22, 1912. His widow is now living at Canton, Ohio, with her daughter, Mrs. E. L. Pasco. The family consisted of two sons and two daughters, all living: Mrs. C. B. Talbott, of Cleveland; George Thomas, named for both his grandfathers, and a resident of Canton; Mrs. E. L. Pasco; and Charles M., the youngest. Charles M. Dilworth received his education in the grammar and high schools of Mount Pleasant. His first business experience was several years spent with the Mount Pleasant hardware firm of the Lupton Company. For about three years he traveled all over Ohio as a singing evangelist with the Friends Church. He has been engaged in church singing since he was four years old. At one time he was director of the choir of the Grace Methodist Episcopal Church of Cleveland, and also director of the Boulevard Presbyterian Church, where he and his wife now attend worship. After giving up his evangelical work, Mr. Dilworth was at Norwalk, Ohio, in charge of the clothing department of the C. F. Jackson Company five years. His arrival at Cleveland was on St. Patrick's day, March 17, 1905. For about a year he was city salesman for Browning, King & Company, and was then put in the position of manager of the uniform department of that well known clothing house at Cleveland. He was with the firm more than ten years altogether. For two years he was in the clothing department of the May Company of Cleveland, and for one year was Toledo manager of the National Tailors. From Toledo he returned to Cleveland, and on January 18, 1918, was elected to his present position as grand registrar of the Ohio State Good Government Club. Mr. Dilworth is a Master Mason, being affiliated with Forest City Lodge, No. 388, Free and Accepted Masons. His Masonic connections are to a considerable degree a matter of inheritance. He is of the fifth generation of the family to hold membership in this ancient order. He owns a Masonic apron which has been handed down in the family from father to oldest son through 175 years. The apron was presented to his father's great-grandfather in England. Mr. Dilworth is also a past grand regent of Ohio of the Royal Arcanum, and was the youngest official of that degree ever elected in the state. He is also a member of Louis E. Stilts Commandery, Knights of Malta. In politics he is nonpartisan. At Mount Pleasant, Ohio, December 25, 1898, Mr. Dilworth married Miss Edna Garnett Brown. She was born at Mount Pleasant, and is a graduate of the high school there. She grew up in the home of her grandfather, Noble C. Brown, who is still living at Mount Pleasant at the venerable age of ninety-one. He has the distinction of being the oldest living Odd Fellow in Ohio, having joined that order when he was twenty-one, seventy years ago. Mr. and Mrs. Dilworth both attend the Boulevard Presbyterian Church. where Mr. Dilworth teaches the men's Bible class. The Dilworths, as a family, are of the Presbyterian stock, while Mrs. Dilworth's ancestors were Quakers. Mr. and Mrs. Dilworth have one daughter, Dorothy Margaret, born at Mount Pleasant. They 380 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS reside at 10129 Hampden Avenue. Realizing the great need in the present service, Mr. Dilworth offered his services and enlisted in the Y. M. C. A. ERNEST C. BUCKLEY, manager at Cleveland for the Clawson & Wilson Company, wholesale dry goods, has been a figure in the wholesale district of Cleveland for thirty-three years, and has devoted all his energies and time to this one line. It is through such quiet and efficient men that the business of the world is handled smoothly and expeditiously, and there is a growing appreciation of men who can fit successfully into such an important niche of usefulness. Mr. Buckley was born at Cleveland October 10, 1867, a son of Hugh and Amelia M. (Cope) Buckley. His father, the late Hugh Buckley, Jr., who died December 30, 1915, was at one time sheriff of Cuyahoga County and was the last but one of the surviving charter members of Woodward Lodge, No. 508, Free and Accepted Masons, the only surviving member being Dr. Elroy M. Avery, editor of this publication. On account of his prominence in city and county affairs, a separate article concerning Hugh Buckley, Jr., appears on other pages. His widow is still living in Cleveland. There were two sons in the family, Ernest C. and Everton E. The latter is with the Western Reserve Woolen Company of Cleveland. Ernest C. Buckley was educated in the public schools of Cleveland and the Spencerian Business College. his career in the wholesale district began in 1885, when he went to work as stockboy with the firm of Root & McBride Brothers, now the Root & McBride Company. With that well known wholesale dry goods house he was identified in positions of increasing responsibility for twenty-six years. Part of the time he traveled on the road in Indiana. In 1912 he resigned his position as department manager to become manager of Clawson & Wilson Company, and has held that position since January of that year. The Clawson & Wilson Company is one of the large organizations in the wholesale trade in dry goods and furs, and its main headquarters are at. Buffalo, New York, where the active partners reside. The Cleveland branch of the house was established in 1908, and there is also a branch in New York City. In dry goods the Cleveland house confines its trade largely to Ohio and a small part of Indiana, but they handle a large volume of the trade in furs over the states of Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa. Mr. Buckley is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, Cleveland Chamber of Industry, is a republican nationally, and is independent in local politics. October 2, 1896, he married Miss Annie M. Tuttle, of Cleveland. Mrs. Buckley is a native of Ohio and was educated in the'publie schools of Cleveland. For some years the family residence had been at the corner of Wood and Summit streets, and Mr. Buckley's father was the last to sell and move from that location when the county bought the property for the site of the present Cuyahoga County courthouse. His only daughter, Audrey I., was born on that site and was the last child to have that distinction. She is now in the second year of the West High School. Mr. and Mrs. Buckley reside at 10214 Clifton Boulevard. CLIFFORD J. MORGAN. Of the incorporated industries of Cleveland, none enjoys higher rating in point of length of establishment, integrity of management snd high class products and business relations than the Taylor & Boggis Foundry Company. It is one of the comparatively few industries of Cleveland with a continuous history of over half a century. It was established in 1865 by Harvey Taylor and Joseph Walton. A partnership firm conducted the foundry for many years, and in 1883 the Taylor & Boggis Foundry Company was incorporated. It has two Cleveland plants. The general offices and foundry No. 1 are at 1913 West Third Street, while foundry No. 2 and the builders' hardware manufacturing plant are at 3027 to 3077 East Fifty-fifth Street. The company specializes in the manufacture of light gray iron castings, and also a large line of builders' hardware, oil and gas stoves, hardware specialties, and has departments for japanning and eleetro plating. The market for its output is an unrestricted one in territory. The industry employs 500 men and is thus one of the important centers in productive labor in this city. The present offices of the company are: C. J. Morgan, president; H. J. Boggis, vice president; A. B. Emery, second vice president; F. Blundell, secretary. Clifford J. Morgan is himself an old resident of Cleveland and represents one of the CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 381 very oldest families in this vicinity. Some generations back in colonial days the Morgans emigrated from Wales to Connecticut. Mr. Morgan's grandfather, Youngs Ledyard Morgan, was a native of Ledyard, Connecticut, and brought his family west to the Western Reserve of Ohio in 1811, establishing a home on what was then an uncultivated tract of land in Newburgh Township of Cuyahoga County. He died at Newburgh in 1843, and his life was that of an .industrious farmer. His first wife was Betsy Jones, a native of Connecticut, who died at Newburgh in 1826. For his second wife he married Mrs. Drake, and both died in Newburgh. Ashbel Walworth Morgan, father of Clifford J., was born at Newburgh, Ohio, in 1816. In that suburban district of Cleveland he spent practically all the years of his life, and his chief occupation was farming. He died in Cleveland in 1904. He was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. His wife was Zerviah Davenport Burke, who was born at Newburgh in 1821 and died at Cleveland in 1890. They had three children, Clifford J. being the oldest. Mary F., who resides on East One Hundred and Sixth Street, in Cleveland, is the widow of Anson A. Jackson, who was in the real estate and insurance business. Carrie M., whose home is on Winton Road in Mayfield Heights, is the widow of William Baxter, who was prominent in Cuyahoga County as police clerk and deputy sheriff. Clifford J. Morgan was born at Newburgh, March 22, 1849. His early life was spent on his father's farm and in an environment that was still distinctly rural, though since then the great City of Cleveland has largely encroached upon that farming area. He was educated in country schools and also attended R. F. Humiston's Cleveland Institute on University Heights, a district now known merely as the South Side. Leaving school at the age of sixteen, he engaged in the line of work that he has followed practically ever since, working in factories and rolling mills. In 1875 Mr. Morgan entered the service of what is now the Taylor & Boggis Foundry Company as a bookkeeper and timekeeper. His present office therefore represents a long and steady climb to position and always on merit and basis of accomplishment. He was promoted from time to time, becoming secretary, and has served as president since 1910. Mr. Morgan is also vice president of the Buckeye Oil and Paint Company. He is a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, is a deacon in the East End Baptist Church, and a republican voter. His home is at the New Amsterdam Hotel. Mr. Morgan married, at Newburgh, in 1872, Miss Arvilla Osborn, daughter of Chauncey and Mary (Atwood) Osborn, both now deceased. Her father was an early day farmer of Bedford and afterwards a merchant. Mrs. Morgan, who died in 1904, left one child, George Clifford, born in 1873. He died in 1905. In 1906, at Cleveland, Mr. Morgan married Miss Pearl Black, daughter of Charles and Martha (Goodman) Black, both now deceased. Her father was a harness maker by trade. EDMUND A. MURPHY, president of the Cleveland Union Stock Yards Company, was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, March 4, 1861. Christopher Murphy and family arrived from Ireland at Oswego, New York, in the year 1837 and came to Cleveland in 1848. Thomas F. Murphy was his oldest living son at the time. Edmund A. Nolan and family arrived from Ireland and settled at Cincinnati in 1842. His second daughter was Catherine Nolan. Thomas F. Murphy and Catherine Nolan were married at Cincinnati in 1859 and their oldest son is Edmund A. Murphy. During the Civil war Thomas F. Murphy was timber and ship expert for the Union Government most of the time, being foreman of the Government shipyards at Chattanooga. He was a ship carpenter, draftsman, planker and ship builder. He formed the firm of Quayle & Murphy, and at the death of Mr. Quayle formed a partnership with William A. Miller under the firm name of Murphy & Miller. Both firms built many wooden ships, and the last one, the Persian, was the largest ever built on the lakes, shortly before the advent of steel ships. In 1887 Edmund A. Murphy married Anna B. L'Estrange, whose ancestors were also early pioneers from Ireland. Twelve children were born of this union: Marie, Paul, Edmund, Jr., Maurice, Gerald, Leonard, Alice, Catherine, Margaret, Eugene, Eleanor and Anna. At this writing three of the sons are in the army—Paul, Maurice and Gerald. Edmund A. Murphy is a graduate of public grammar and parochial schools, and with attendance at special schools has an education equal to that afforded by a college. For many 382 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS years he has been in the employ of the Cleveland Union Stocks Yards Company, rising to the position of president and general manager in 1911. He has been president of the Catholic Club, president of the Chamber of Industry, president of its two exposition companies, is chairman of a local war board, is treasurer of the National Garage Company, a director in the stockyards, the Garage Company and the National City Bank, and a member of the Chamber of Commerce, Chamber of Industry and the Cleveland Automobile Club. For all these interests he is distinctively a family man. GEORGE WORTHINGTON, JR., is one of the younger business men of Cleveland, and after leaving college a few years ago entered the service of the George Worthington Company, one of the greatest wholesale hardware houses in America and one of Cleveland's oldest commercial institutions. The founder of this business was George Worthington, grandfather of the above. The story of the George Worthington Company has a fitting place in any publication devoted to the larger interests of Cleveland. George Worthington, founder of the business, was a native of Cooperstown, New York, and the son of a skillful hat maker. His father had a small shop, manufactured and sold hats at retail, and his was one of the industries which contributed to the spreading fame of Cooperstown for the production of "beaver hats." George Worthington grew up in the atmosphere of the shop, and for some years endeavored to satisfy his father as an apprentice at the hat making trade. But he was satisfied neither with the trade nor with the business outlook and finally secured his father's consent to leave home and seek opportunity elsewhere. It was a fortunate chance which brought him in touch with an opening 8...4 a clerk in a hardware store at Utica, New York. During the four years he was in that hardware store he became thoroughly familiar with the business and gained the training and experience which he subsequently utilized at Cleveland. Nearly all young men of those days looked to the West for opportunities, and when it came time for George Worthington to leave Utica it was only natural that he turned the head of his horse to the country around the shores of the Great Lakes. Thus in 1829 the horseback rider arrived in the Village of Cleveland, then possessing a population of 1,100, and at the opening of a new stage in its growth and prosperity, because of the construction of the Ohio and Erie Canal, then in process. George Worthington, in search of opportunities, was not long in discovering that the canal workers were inadequately supplied with proper tools, and after analyzing the situation thoroughly, he started back East, at Cooperstown borrowed $500 from his brother, went on to New York City, and invested every cent of his capital in as large a stock of shovels, spades and pickaxes and other implements approved by his judgment as his resources would command. The stock was shipped by way of the Erie Canal to Buffalo and by schooner to Cleveland. When the implements arrived Mr. Worthington sold them with surprising ease and doubled his cash outlay. That was followed by another trip back to New York, and this time he selected as general a stock of hardware as his money would buy. On his return to Cleveland, George Worthington opened his first store at the corner of what is now Superior and West Tenth Street. The date of that opening, which is an important one in Cleveland's commercial annals, was the year 1829. Thus at the present time the George Worthington Company is in the shadow of its ninetieth birthday. When the store was founded, John Quincy Adams was President of the United States, and in that year the first real American railroad, the Baltimore & Ohio, began construction on the eastern side of the Alleghany Mountains. It is said that the little store of George Worthington on Superior Street was a success from the start. This was partly due to the wisdom of Mr. Worthington's purchases and the judicious selection which enabled him to anticipate the needs. It was this superior judgment which remained the chief factor in the success of the business then and for many years afterwards. With success came a broadening out process and in 1835 George Worthington bought the firm of competitors, McCurdy & Conklin. and moved his store to the new store at what is now the corner of West Ninth Street and Superior Avenue. While this consolidation gave him a very satisfactory- position as a merchant at Cleveland, his business was still small and restricted as measured by all modern standards. Cleveland still had no railroads. and any mercantile establishment at Cleveland had its outlook and future cir- CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 383 cumscribed by the possibilities of transportation over the country naturally tributary to the city. In spite of these limitations and obstacles, George Worthington traveled over all the counties of Northern Ohio, booking orders, collecting accounts, and covering the territory so minutely that his store soon towered head and shoulders above all others. in 1849, the year the first railroad came into Cleveland, he made the first move to build up a manufacturing as well as a selling department of his business. With other men as associates, he formed the Cleveland Iron Company, with a mill on the site now occupied by the plant of the Upson Nut Company. The bulk of the output of the new company, bar iron, was sold through the Worthington store. Probably none of Cleveland's early day merchants realized the significance of the advent of railway transportation more completely than George Worthington. This insight enabled him to keep his business growing in proportion to every opportunity and not only apace with Cleveland's development, but as one of the institutions that were actually measuring the advance of progress of the entire community. Thus his business went on growing from year to year, and it was already an institution that commanded respect over all the trade territory around Cleveland when George Worthington answered the summons of death and laid down the responsibilities he had so long and faithfully carried, in 1871. Besides building up the hardware business he had also been the man who secured the first charter for a Cleveland national bank, organized as the First National Bank of Cleveland, and was its president when he died. George Worthington had directed the business successfully for a period of over forty years, and its growth in the last forty-seven years has largely been dominated by the spirit and idealism of the founder. Probably the most serious misfortune the business ever suffered was a disastrous fire in 1874, but reconstruction was begun at once and a plant even larger than the preceding one was soon sheltering the business. Since then the progress of the business can largely be measured by the erection of new buildings or the increase of old ones. In 1884 was erected one new building, followed two years later by a second, and in 1896 by a third, which was the first of reinforced concrete construction. A fourth warehouse was built about. 1896, and in 1907, a year of hard times, Vol. III - 25  a fifth building was added, followed by the sixth in 1912, the seventh in 1914 and the eighth in 1915. The entire plant of the George Worthington Company at Cleveland today utilizes about twenty acres of floor space. Only three or four men assisted George Worthington the first year or so after he established his little store in 1829, but today the George Worthington Company comprises a small army of men, and its traveling salesmen cover practically all the country east of the Mississippi River and north of the Gulf States. Among other characteristics that made George Worthington so honorably successful in a business way was his ability to select and keep associated with him thoroughly competent men. His successor as president was Gen. James Barnett, who was associated with the senior Worthington in a business way almost from the beginning of the Worthington store in Cleveland and continued as president and active head of the business from the time of the death of George Worthington until his own death in 1911, at the age of ninety. Thus throughout its history the Worthington Company has had only three presidents, George Worthington, General Barnett and the present president, W. D. Taylor. Another long service was that of George Deming, who was connected with the business for fifty years and was vice president of the company from its incorporation in 1887 until his death in 1909. The first secretary and treasurer after incorporation was James Storer, who held that office until his death in 1914, and he had at the time been with the business nearly fifty years. George Worthington, a son of the pioneer business man George Worthington, is still living, a resident of Old Bennington, Vermont. He was born at Cleveland in 1854, and for about six years was an active factor in the George Worthington Company, and still retains financial intere.sts with the corporation, though he left Cleveland and removed to Bennington in 1896. He is a republican, and is a graduate of the class of 1877 of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. At one time he also served with Cleveland Troop A of the Ohio National Guard. George Worthington married at Albany, New York, Miss Lily Smith, who was born in that city. George Worthington, Jr., above referred to, the only child of his parents, was born in Cleveland July 10, 1890, attended the Hill School of Pottstown, Pennsylvania, and in 384 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS 1913 received his A. B. degree from Yale University. He is a member of the Zeta Psi fraternity. On leaving college in 1913, Mr. Worthington came to Cleveland and has since been actively associated with the George Worthington Company. June 14, 1917, in New York City, he married Miss Madeline Fiske, daughter of 'Warren Herbert and Mabel (Daniels) Fiske. Her parents reside at New York City and her father is an electrical engineer. ROBERT L. IRELAND, a resident of Cleveland about twenty-five years, was until recently a partner of M. A. Hanna & Company. Of an old American family, some of his ancestors on both sides having served in the Revolutionary war, Robert L. Ireland was born at the summer home of his parents, John B. and Adelia (Duane) Ireland, at Stratford, Connecticut, August 20, 1867. His father practiced law many years in New York City. The son was educated at Stamford, Connecticut; Newburgh, New York, and in 1890 graduated from Yale College. On coming to Cleveland Mr. Ireland was an employe of the Cleveland Hardware Company, but in 1892 organized the Hackney Bicycle Company becoming its secretary and treasurer. In 1894 he entered the Globe Iron Works Company as assistant secretary and treasurer, and in 1898 became vice president. He was instrumental in combining the. Cleveland Dry Dock Company and the Ship Owners Dry Dock Company in a large corporation known as the Ship Owners Dry Dock Company, of which he became vice president and general manager. In 1899 he assisted in effecting a still larger consolidation of the shipbuilding interests of the Great Lakes in the company known as the American Shipbuilding Company. He was vice president of this until he resigned in October, 1903. A partner in the M. A. Hannah & Company from January 1, 1904, Mr. Ireland's business connections became rapidly extended. The more prominent of them may be mentioned as follows: Vice president and director American-Boston Mining Company, Bates Iron Company, Hollister Mining Company, Pittsburgh Iron Ore Company, United Iron and Steel Company, Wakefield Iron Company, Nokay Iron Company, Nassau Ore Company, La Rue Mining Company, Detroit Iron and Steel Company, Pittsburgh and Eastern Coal Company, Massillon Coal Mining Company, Wheeling and Lake Erie Coal Mining Company, Ohio and Western Pennsylvania Dock Company, Newfield Coke Company, Virginia Ore Mining Company, Philadelphia Dock Company, M. A. Hanna Coal Company, M. A. Hanna Dock Company, Calumet Transit Company, Eastern Steamship Company, Franklin Transportation Company, Labelle Steamship Company, Virginia. Steamship Company, Scott Steamship Company, and filled other offices with the Pennsylvania Iron and Coal Company, United Iron and Steel Company, National City Bank of Cleveland, American Ship Building Company, West Superior Ship Building Company, Chicago Ship Building Company, Detroit Shipbuilding Company, Buffalo Dry Dock. Company, and Milwaukee Dry Dock Company. Mr. Ireland sold his interests in the above companies and in the firm of M. A. Hanna & Co., and retired from active business August 20, 1917. Mr. Ireland is a member of the Union, Country, Tavern, Cleveland Athletic, Mayfield Hunt, Roadside, Gentleman's Driving clubs of Cleveland; University and Yale clubs of New York, and the Graduate Club of New Haven. For five years from 1893 he was a member of Troop A, a local Cleveland military organization. His home is on Lake Shore Boulevard in Bratenahl. For a number of years he has been mayor of that Cleve. land suburb. May 2, 1894, he married Miss Kate Hanna, daughter of M. II. Hanna of Cleveland. They have two children, Robert Livingston Ireland, Jr., and Elizabeth Ireland. The son is a member of the class of 1918 in Yale University but left the university to enlist in the aerial coast patrol, in which branch of the service he has been made a lieutenant. The daughter graduated from the Dobbs Ferry School with the class of 1917. JOHN L. FLEHARTY is a lawyer by profession, but has done his chief work and is best known in Cleveland as a banker, especially as secretary and treasurer of the Clark Avenue Savings Bank Company. 'This is one of the largest and strongest essentially savings banks in the Cleveland district. Its total resources at the beginning of 1918 were well upwards of $2,000,000. The bank has deposits of over $1,500,000 and its paid-in capital stock is $200,000. Mr. Fleharty is a native of Cleveland, born August 17, 1876, son of George A. and Jane (Lone) Fleharty. He is of old pioneer stock in Cuyahoga County on both sides. His. CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 385 grandfather and grandmother Fleharty came to Ohio from Bridgeport, Connecticut, traveling in a prairie schooner. They had married in Bridgeport and as bride and groom traveled over the country before the days of railway to the Western Reserve of Ohio. Mr. Fleharty's maternal grandparents were also early settlers of Cleveland, coming from England. His mother was born in Cleveland and died in this city June 2, 1911. George A. Fleharty, now a retired resident of Cleveland, was a mechanical engineer for many years. He was a native of Norwalk, Ohio, and during the Civil war served as a private with an Ohio regiment from 1862 until the close of hostilities. He is one of the oldest members of the Knights of Pythias order in Cleveland. George A. and Jane Fleharty had two children, John L. and May D., and the father and daughter and son all make one happy household, the family home being in Bay Village. John L. Fleharty was educated in the public schools of Cleveland, graduated from the Central High School in 1895, and then took up the study of law in the Cleveland Law School of Baldwin-Wallace University. He graduated in 1901, with the degree LL. B., and in the same year was admitted to the Ohio bar. He has handled a considerable law practice in Cleveland ever since. He was an associate of Judge Willis Vickery before the latter went on the bench, and in 1908 established the law partnership of Fleharty, Corlett & Landfear, of which he is still senior member. This firm has its offices on the twelfth floor of the Rockefeller Building. Mr. Fleharty now spends only a short time each day in his law offices, most of his time and abilities being required by his duties as active officer of the Clark Avenue Savings Bank Company. Mr. Fleharty's banking experience dates back to 1898. He was at first with the old Commercial National Bank, and since 1906 has been secretary and treasurer of the Clark Avenue Savings Bank Company. He has various other business interests in Cleveland and is well known in professional and civic circles. He is a member of the Cleveland Real Estate Board, the Cleveland Credit Men's Association, the Cleveland and American Bar Association, the Bankers' Club, the West Side Chamber of Industry and the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, the Westwood Country Club, the Clifton Club, and the Cleveland Automobile Club. He is a member of the Delta Phi Delta legal fraternity. his hobby is all kinds of outdoor sports. WILMOT H. KISSAM, electrical engineer, a man of wide experience in industrial affairs, for several years has been looking after important interests from Cleveland as headquarters. He was born in New York City July. 27, 1875. On both sides he represents old American families of Revolutionary stock. His English ancestors in the paternal line arrived in the country early in the sixteenth century. At one time the Kissam family owned the noted Creccimore rifle range just outside the limits of New York City. Mr. Kissam's father, Edgerton,. was also born in New York City, died in 1908, and was chiefly engaged during his active career in managing his large property interests. Mr. Kissam's mother, Emma (Price) Kissam, is a native of Long Island and is now living at Smithtown, New York. Through her father she is a descendant of the noted New England divine and pioneer character, Elder Brewster. Wilmot H. Kissam grew up in a home of comfort and luxury and was given every advantage in school and in the proper equipment. for his professional career. He attended the public schools at Huntington, Long Island, and graduated in the electrical engineering courses from the Pratt Institute of Brooklyn. Later he was a student in Lehigh University. His first employment was with the Simplex Electric Company of Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he remained three years. After that for a couple of years he did electrical construction work on his own account in Eastern Massachusetts. and then joined the American Electrical Works at Phillipsdale, Rhode Island, where. for two years he was employed as electrical engineer. After that for three years he was electrical engineer with the Driver-Harris Wire Company at Harrison, New Jersey, and then with the Herman Boker Company, New York City, for six or seven years as manager of their wire and nickel department. For this firm he came to Cleveland as manager of the Ohio territory, but for the past. several years has been middle western manager for the Cyclone Steel Company of New York, with mills at Titusville, Pennsylvania. He has other business interests both in Cleveland and elsewhere. Mr. Kissam is a member of the Cleveland Athletic Club, the Cleveland Yacht Club, the 386 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS West Shore Club, the Cleveland Automobile Club, the Electrical League, the Toledo Club and is an independent republican. He and his family are members of the Episcopal Church. On September 16, 1899, he married Miss May L. Geissinger, a native of Philadelphia and daughter of George Geissinger. They have two children, Sarah and Wilfred. WILFRED S. POLLOCK learned the wholesale grocery business in New York City, where he was born September 3, 1864, and where he had his home until he came to Cleveland in 1897 to accept the position of department manager in the wholesale grocery and importing firm of the Weideman Company. For twenty years Mr. Pollock has been one of the active men in this well known house, and a number of social and civic organizations also have his co-operation and membership. Mr. Pollock represents one of the older American families and through his ancestry is identified with Western Reserve Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution. His parents were Joseph and Sarah (Beardsley) Pollock. His father, who was born at Yonkers, New York, was a master printer. In the Civil war he enlisted in the Union army and soon after his return died in 1865 in New York City from wounds received in the service. He was only twenty-seven at the time of his death. His widow, who was born in Brooklyn, New York, is still living, a resident of Atlantic City. Wilfred S. Pollock, the only child of his parents, was educated in the public schools of New York City, and as a boy went to work in the shipping department of the wholesale grocery house of E. C. Hazard & Company, with whom he spent about four years. Then successively he was employed in a similar capacity by such well known houses as Carpenter. Cornell & Company, Austin, Nicholas & Company, and Francis Leggett & Company. His varied experiences in the headquarters of these firms was supplemented by ten years of travel all over the United States as a representative of the well known New York importing house of Purdy & Nicholas. Then in 1897 he gave up road work to locate at Cleveland as department manager of the Weideman Company, and has filled that office continuously to the present time. Mr. Pollock is a member of the Hermit Club, Cleveland Athletic Club, Rotary Club, and Chamber of Commerce, and the Ashtabula Automobile Club, of Ashtabula. lie and his family reside in Cleveland in the winter, but during the summer spend most of their time at Unionville, Ohio, where Mr. Pollock has acquired and developed a fruit farm of fifty acres. This farm furnishes constant occupation during the summer months and also has all the facilities and conveniences of wholesome outdoor life. April 15, 1886, in New York City, Mr. Pollock married Miss Hattie A. Hotchkiss, who was born at Stockport, New York, and was educated there and at Dobbs Ferry. She is a daughter of Lemuel E. and Frances (Longley) Hotchkiss, who were farming people at Stockport and both are now deceased. Her father was a descendant of the Salisbury family of Salisbury Manor of Durham, New York. Mrs. Pollock is also of Revolutionary ancestry and a member of Western Reserve Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. They have one son, Preston Gan-son, who is receiving his education at Culver Military Academy at Culver, Indiana. EDGAR EUGENE STRONG; is president of the Strong, Carlisle & Hammond Company, one of the largest mill machinery and tool supply houses in the country. The business was founded over thirty years ago and has been incorporated for over a quarter of a century. For a number of years it has enjoyed a high rank among those American institutions distinctive because of their resources and effective organization of business energies. The Strong, Carlisle & Hammond Company was one of the comparatively few concerns of the United States which in 1914 were handling a volume of business valued at four millions a year. The executive officers of this old and well known Cleveland house are Mr. Strong, president; R. H. Carlisle, vice president ; L. J. Hammond, treasurer; and H. W. Strong, secretary. The business seems to reflect the vigor and wonderful vitality of its president. Mr. Strong is undoubtedly one of the most vigorous men of his age in Cleveland. He celebrated his seventy-fourth birthday three years ago and is still found at his desk every day and can do work requiring physical endurance that would put many younger men to severe test. He in fact a picture of right living, and has marvelously conserved and directed the powers and capabilities granted him by a long line of patriotic and sturdy American ancestors. The detailed story of the Strong ancestry is found in a work published in 1913 under the ti- CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 387 tle of "Genealogy of New England Families." From this account it is learned that the immigrant ancestor was John Strong, son of John Strong, and was born in England in 1626 and died at Windsor, Connecticut, February 20, 1697-98. He was a tinner by trade and an important citizen of Windsor. The lineage is carried down through his son John, who was born at Windsor, Connecticut, December 25, 1665, and died there May 29, 1749. November 26, 1686 he married Hannah, daughter of Deacon John Trumbull, of Sheffield, Connecticut. The third generation is represented by Deacon David Strong, who was born at Windsor, December 15, 1704, and died January 25, 1801. In 1730 he moved to Bolton, Connecticut, and was a farmer. For sixty-five years he was a deacon of the Congregational Church. Ebenezer Strong a son of Deacon David, was born in 1754 and died in 1824. He was the Revolutionary ancestor. He served as a private in the company of Capt. Thomas Pitkin from Bolton, on the Lexington Alarm, April 19, 1775, and also in 1776 under Capt. J. Wells. Eli Strong, of the fifth generation, was born at Bolton October 8, 1789, and died there September 19, 1867. He was likewise a farmer. He was twice married, his wives being sisters, Betsy and Sybil Cowles. The Cowles family is not less ancient in Connecticut annals than the Strongs. The first of the family was John Cowles, who was born in England about 1598 and was one of the early settlers of Hartford, Connecticut, and about 1640 he located at Farmington and was a farmer, a deputy to the General Assembly, and subsequently one of the founders of the settlement at Hadley, Massachusetts. He spelled his name Cowles in order to distinguish himself from a man named Coles, though originally Cole and Cowles were of the same English family. The subsequent generations of the Cowles lineage were represented by: John Cowles II, who was born in 1641; Jonathan, born in 1671; John, born in 1700; Captain John, born in 1731, who participated in the Lexington Alarm in the Revolution, and his son John, who was born about 1758 and was also a soldier of the Revolution, a private in Capt. Elijah Dwight's Company, Col. Elijah Porter's regiment at Bennington in 1777, and in 1782 was a sergeant in a company of the Fourth Hampshire County Regiment. It was the daughter of this Revolutionary soldier who married Eli Strong. William Coles (as he preferred the spelling) Strong, son of Eli Strong and his first wife, Betsey, was'born at Bolton, Connecticut, July 27, 1818. He was a paper maker at Talcottvine Vernon, Connecticut. In 1839 he married Lucy Maria Nichols, born December 9, 1820, daughter of John and Harriet (Moulton) Nichols. Her father was of Manchester, Connecticut. Of their nine children Edgar Eugene was the oldest, and his brothers and sisters were: Jane Maria, born January 2, 1843, died September 13, 1845 ; Charles Wesley, born October 25, 1844 ; Ella Semantha, born March 23, 1847, died February 11, 1848 ; Jennie Maria, born October 4, 1849, died February 20, 1859; Eva Cecil, born June 9, 1853 ; Will Nichols born August 1, 1856; Clinton Frederic, born June 5, 1859, died June 21, 1862 and Minnie Alice, born September 11, 1864. Edgar Eugene Strong was born at Manchester Connecticut, April 14, 1841. He attended the public schools of his native town and also the academy there, and completed his preparation for college at a boarding school at East Greenwich, Rhode Island, known as the Providence Conference Seminary. His early intention and ambition was to study medicine and surgery, but he was diverted from a professional life when he left school to enlist in the Union Army. He enlisted in August, 1862, as a private in Company H of Manchester, Sixteenth Regiment, Connecticut Volunteer Infantry. Subsequently he was transferred to Company F of the same regiment. He saw active service for more than two and a half years. He was slightly wounded at the battle of Antietam, September 17, 1862, and twice afterward during skirmishes. For faithful and efficient service he was promoted from the ranks and commissioned second lieutenant December 25, 1862, of Company H, and was commissioned first lieutenant of Company F May 2, 1863. He was in command of the company during most of the time after he received his commission. He would doubtless have received further promotions had there been any commissions to fill in his regiment. His regiment was in the Army of the Potomac under McClellan, Burnside and Hooker. He was honorably discharged in 1865. After the war Mr. Strong came to Cleveland and his first work here was as clerk in a hardware store. He was identified with the same firm for a period of twenty years. For a time he was a partner in the firm of Brown, 388 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS Strong & Company, lumber merchants, but withdrew when their yard was partially destroyed by fire. It was in 1887 that he engaged in the mill supply business in the co-partnership of Strong, Carlisle & Turney. They did both a wholesale and retail business in mill supplies and machinery, with Mr. Strong a senior partner. In 1893 the business was incorporated as the Strong, Carlisle & Turney Company, and in 1898 the corporate name was changed to the Strong, Carlisle & Hammond Company. Mr. Strong has been president of the corporation since its orgtinization. In 1908 he also organized and incorporated the Clarke Manufacturing Company of Cleveland, and is also president of that. Mr. Strong is a veteran member of Tyrian Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and Cleveland Chapter, Royal Arch Masons. He is a member of Memorial Post, Grand Army of the Republic, the Ohio Commandery Military Order of the Loyal Legion, belongs to the Union Club of Cleveland and the Old Colony Club, Cleveland Yacht Club, New England Society of Cleveland, and in religion is a Presbyterian and in politics a republican. He has always been intensely fond of outdoor life, and his favorite recreations are fishing and motor boating. On January 19, 1869, Mr. Strong married Mary Ella Clarke. She was born at Cleveland September 1, 1846, and died September 27, 1914. Her parents were Aaron and Caroline (Bingham) Clarke. They had four children: Clinton Eugene, born December 14, 1869. drowned while a student at Cornell University ; Herbert William, born June 24, 1871 : Edith, born July 27. 1876, deceased; and Elizabeth, born June 20, 1880. Herbert W. Strong is secretary of the Strong, Carlisle & Hammond Company. He married Gladys Mosher, daughter of George C. Mosher, of Kansas City, and has two children: Ruth, born July 3, 1910, and Elizabeth, born February 4, 1912. Elizabeth Strong is a graduate of Smith College. Northampton, Massachusetts, and is the wife of Warren S. Hayden, member of the firm Hayden, Miller & Company, bankers and investment securities at Cleveland. Mr. Strong has four grandchildren. JOHN H. FRANCIS, general manager of the Kilby Manufacturing Company, is a Machinist of long and expert experience. and has been identified with his present company since it was established nearly thirty years ago. Mr. Francis is a native of Wales, born at Merthyr Tydvil, November 11, 1862. His father, Evan Francis, a native of the same place, brought his family to Cleveland in 1872. For one year he was employed as a heater with the Cleveland Rolling Mills Company, but in 1873 went to Alliance, Ohio, and worked in a similar capacity with the Alliance Rolling Mills Company. In 1879 he returned to Cleveland, was again with the Cleveland Rolling Mills Company, but in 1883 retired and went back to spend his last days in his old home community of Wales, where he died in 1884. In the meantime John H. Francis had come to manhood in Ohio, and had finished his education in the public schools of Alliance. At the age of fourteen he left school and began work as an apprentice molder with the Morgan Engine Company. Nine months later he determined to learn the machinist's trade and was employed in the machine shops of that company for two years. Returning to Cleveland, he worked as a machinist with the H-P Nail Company for a year, and for four years was a machinist in the Cleveland Rolling Mills Company. At the end of that time he entered the service of the Prospect Machine and Engine Company as a machinist. The firm manufactured stationary engines, flour mills and ice machinery. In 1888 the newly organized Kilby Manufacturing Company acquired the plant of the old Prospect concern and Mr. Francis remained as a foreman in the machine department. With the growth of the business he was given increased responsibilities, became superintendent in 1903, and has filled the office of general manager since 1909. The Kilby Manufacturing Company is one of the big enterprises of Cleveland, and is considered the largest plant in the country for the manufacture of sugar refinery machinery. Mr. Francis was connected with the business when it employed only 150 men and is now active head of a force of 400 workmen. Mr. Francis is a member of the Cleveland Athletic Club and is a republican in politics. At Cleveland in October. 1891, he married Miss Rosa Phillips. Their two children are Mrs. Charles Hoskins of Cleveland and Edgar Francis, now a member of the Ohio Engineer Corps. JOSEPH F. KILBY, whose death occurred July 12, 1914, was a notable figure in Cleveland's industrial circles, and was one of the CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 389 founders of the great Kilby Manufacturing Company. This is perhaps the largest industry in the world manufacturing cane and beet sugar machinery. It manufactures in addition all classes of heavy machinery and foundry work, including rolling mill, wire and nail machinery. The company was organized in 1888. The first officers were Joseph W. Lee, president; J. F. Kilby, vice president; W. S. Dodge, secretary and treasurer. In 1908 E. D. Childs succeeded Mr. Dodge as secretary and treasurer. Mr. Lee died January 22, 1909, being succeeded as head of the company by W. S. Dodge. On the death of Mr. Dodge May 27, 1911, J. F. Whitelaw became president and his death occurred in September, 1912, his term being finished by W. H. Sterns. Since January. 1913, the president of the company has been T. W. Burnham. Through all these years Mr. Kilby served as vice president until his death. Mr. Childs was secretary and treasurer until January, 1914, when he was succeeded by J. E. Nierath, the present incumbent of those offices. Upon the death of Mr. J. F. Kilby the prominent Cleveland hanker, Mr. C. A. Paine, became vice president. The general manager of the company at the present time is John H. Francis. Joseph F. Kilby came to the United States more than a half century ago as a poor mechanic, and by hard work through a period of years raised himself to a position of prominence among Cleveland's business men. He was born in Karlsruhe Baden. Germany, in 1847. He was reared and educated there, but Was only seventeen years of age when he came to the United States in 1864. At Sandusky, Ohio, he worked as a bookkeeper with Kolty & Krommer, machinists, and rapidly adapted himself to the business of that firm and learned it in all its details. In 1873 he resigned to form a partnership with George Barney under the firm name of Barney & Kilby, machinists. Mr. Kilby left Sandusky in 1888 and removing to Cleveland organized the Kilby Manufacturing Company. This company bought out the plant of the Prospect Machine and Engine Company. Beginning as general machinists, they gradually concentrated their attention on beet sugar machinery until the company now stands in the front rank of manufacturers in that line. At the beginning the firm had 150 men and today the pay roll numbers 400. Mr. Kilby's interests are still represented in the company by his son D. J. Kilby, one of the directors. Mr. Kilby's business interests were not confined to Cleveland. He was one of the organizers and president of the Pacific Portland Cement Company of Suisun, California, and was also president of the Western Sugar Refining Company at Marine City, Michigan. He was a Knight Templar Mason, a member of the Union Club, the Shaker Heights Golf Club, the Engineers Club of New York City, the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce and the Pacific Union Club of San Francisco. At Sandusky, Ohio, in 1869, he married Miss Lucinda Reed. The two sons of their marriage are Herbert N., now manager of the J. F. Kilby Estate, and Daniel J., who is a director and sales manager of the Kilby Manufacturing Company. SAMUEL WALTER KELLEY American physicians and surgeons generally hardly need to be informed about the attainments and the work of Doctor Kelley of Cleveland, and a very great number of people even outside the profession know something of what he has done and the influence he has exerted as an eminent surgeon and pediatrist. Doctor Kelley was born at Adamsville in Muskingum County, Ohio, September 15, 1855, a son of Walter and Selina Catherine (Kammerer) Kelley. His schoolboy life was spent at Zanesville, Ohio, and St. Joseph, Michigan. In 1874, when only nineteen, he made definite choice of the medical profession, but after two years of study failing health compelled an outdoor life and the following five years were spent as a sailor at sea and on the southwestern frontier in the cattle and Indian country. Returning then to Ohio, he resumed his studies in the medical department of Western Reserve University, and graduated M. D. in 1884. He soon became attracted to the teaching force of the college, working first in the surgical and gynecological clinics and afterwards for seven years, from 1886 to 1893, was chief of the Department of Diseases of Children of the Polyclinic of Western Reserve. During that time he conducted a clinic that came to be recognized as the largest of any in the city. In 1893 he was made Professor of Diseases of Children in the Cleveland College of Phy- 390 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS sicians and Surgeons, then the Medical Department of Wooster University. That position he held until 1910. In addition to active practice Dr. Kelley was for sixteen years editor of the Cleveland Medical Gazette, 1885 to 1901. Doctor Kelley pursued post-graduate work in his specialty in New York and London and found time for much general study and travel in the West Indies, Europe, Mexico and the Orient. During the Spanish-American war he entered the army as a civilian surgeon and was recommended to Washington "for efficiency in the field under the most trying circumstances." He was commissioned brigade surgeon, with the rank of major, August 17, 1898. In the twenty years since that brief war Doctor Kelley has specialized his practice at Cleveland in orthopedics and surgical diseases of children, and it is through his work in that field that his name is most widely known both at home and abroad. He has served as pediatrist and orthopedist of St. Luke's Hospital, and chief of staff of that hospital, was secretary of the medical staff of the Cleveland City Hospital from 1891 to 1899, and its president from 1899 to 1902, and was pediatrist for the City Hospital from 1893 to 1910. He also served as pediatrist and orthopedist at St. Clair Hospital and surgeon in chief to Holy Cross Home for Crippled and Invalid Children. He served as chairman of the section on Diseases of Children in the American Medical Association in 1900-01, was twice president of the Ohio State Pediatric Society, in 1896 and 1897, and when at Atlantic City a new medical organization was perfected known as the A880- ciation of American Teachers of Diseases of Children, Doctor Kelley was the first to be honored with the office of president, which he held during 1907-08. He is also a member of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, the Ohio State Medical Association and Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, is a republican and belongs to the Cleveland Athletic Club. When the United States entered the world war against Germany, Doctor Kelley, though his age was a bar to entering the Medical Reserve Corps of the United States Army, went to France early in May, 1917, and volunteered in the American Field Service as surgeon. With that organization he did duty with the French army in the Zone Avancee, until after the arrival of the American Expeditionary forces. He then donated his abilities to the American Red Cross in hospital work and other activities until late in December, 1917, when he returned home to Cleveland. During 1918, in the interests of the war program, he delivered numerous lectures based on his observations and experiences. July 2, 1884, Doctor Kelley married Amelia Kemmerlein, of Wooster, Ohio. They had two children, Walter Paul deceased; and Catherine Mildred wife of Mr. William Reed Taylor of Cleveland. For all the immense value of his personal services it is fortunate that the scope of his influence has been greatly broadened through his work as a teacher and also as an author. Dr. Kelley's first book was "About Children," published in 1897, and consisting of six lectures delivered to nurses in training. Of this book the Medical Standard said: "It furnishes a vast amount of practical information in small compass and will be invaluable to intelligent parents, nurses, students and practitioners. The author's style is clear, strong, and condensed. He has a very happy way of impressing important facts indelibly upon his readers. He is always entertaining, often epigrammatic and never prolix or wearisome." It was rather a surprise when Doctor Kelley's next book appeared, since it had the facinating form of a conventional novel, and was published in the Doctor's Recreation Series under the title "In the Year 1800." Its subtitle was "The Relation of Sundry Events Occurring in the Life of Dr. Jonathan Brush During that Year," and while there were various threads of romance woven into the story, the book fundamentally was an exposition of medical science and method at the beginning of the nineteenth century described in such a way as to show most effectively the wonderful advance in medical and surgical knowledge and skill during the past century. While less well known to the general public the Magnum Opus of Doctor Kelley is "Surgical Diseases of Children," first published in 1909, with a second edition in 1914. The work, as one of the medical journals stated, "marks an important epoch in pediatrics in this country, for it is the first of its kind by an American author." It became the subject of reviews, editorials and other discussions in all the leading medical journals. The American Journal of Clinical Medicine speaking of the second edition said : "Dr. Kelley stands almost alone so far as the literature of this country is concerned in his demonstration of the deep lying difference which distinguish and separate the surgical diseases of children from those of adults, and in his clinical appli- CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 391 cation of these differences. We have no hesitation in declaring that Doctor Kelley's book is a great work, not alone in its actual contents, but in the broad viewpoint in which it puts the whole subject of which it treats. Clinically it is as complete as care and judgment could make it. Scientifically it is almost epochal." Up to the time of the appearance of the first edition there was no compact and readily accessible work in the English language on surgical diseases of children. Many such complications appeared after Doctor Kelley 's pioneer undertaking, but as a writer in the Post Graduate of New York indicated, there was not one "whose author has covered the ground so thoroughly or with the same unerring instinct, one might say, as to the choice of material and manner of presentation, as the pia neer writer in this field." The same reviewer, referring to the revised edition, states that it has resulted in "firmly establishing the book as the most authoritative as well as the most popular work on the surgical diseases of infants and children in this country, if not throughout the English speaking world." FRANK K. SNOW is superintendent of the C. 0. Bartlett & Snow Company of Cleveland. This is a leading firm of building and construction engineers and manufacturers of elevating and conveying machinery and other supplies. They have a large and important industrial output, including such commodities as screens, crushers, used largely in the coal industry, chain belting, paint machinery, gypsum machinery, plaster mixing plants, garbage disposing plants, coal and ash handling machinery, etc. The executive officers of the company are: C. O. Bartlett, president and treasurer; E. J. Neville, first vice president and general manager; H. H. Bighouse, second vice president and chief engineer; H. L. McKinnon, third vice president; W. S. Lister, secretary ; Frank K. Snow, superintendent; and K. F. Snow, a director. The Snow family have lived for several generations at Brecksville in Cuyahoga County. When that district was only accessible by Indian trail Russ Snow came out of the State of Maine and laid the foundation of a home in that vicinity. This is only one branch of the numerous and prominent Snow family, a complete genealogy of which has been published. Frank K. Snow was born at Brecksville June 24, 1880, a son of Owen P. and Frances (Fay) Snow, both now deceased. His father was a farmer at Brecksville, and he and his wife spent all their lives in that community. Of their eight children two died when young. The six still living are: Mrs. C. 0. Bartlett, wife of the president of the C. 0. Bartlett & Snow Company; K. F. Snow, of Cleveland ; Mrs. W. A. Knowlton, wife of a retired physician on the West Side of Cleveland ; Dr. Minnabel Snow, a prominent woman physician of Cleveland, with offices in the Rose Building; Ned Snow, of Brecksville; and Frank K. Frank K. Snow was educated in the public schools of his native village and afterwards attended school in Cleveland. On March 1, 1904, he entered the service of the C. O. Bartlett & Snow Company and has made his work and abilities count until he is now superintendent of the plant. lie is member of the Foremen and Superintendents Body of the Industrial Association of Cleveland. At Brecksville April 6, 1904, Mr. Snow married Miss Laura E. Bell, who was born and reared at Brecksville, being a graduate of the high school of that village. Her parents were Beecher and Nellie (Underhill) Bell. Her father was born at Hinkley, Ohio, and died at Brecksville, where he was a farmer and for a number of years also carried the mail from the Baltimore & Ohio station to Brecksville two miles away. Mrs. Snow's mother now lives with her children and spends part of her time at Glendale, California. Mr. and Mrs. Snow have two children living, and lost a daughter, Orpha, at the age of three years. The living children are Lucile Jeannette and Douglas Franklin. The family reside at 3316 Mapleville Avenue, S. W. CHARLES R. ELLIOTT, a native of Cleveland and a son of Dallas Elliott, has largely created his own opportunities in Cleveland's business life and has acquired some important responsibilities therein. He was born in Cleveland November 26, 1875, and was educated in the grammar and high schools of the city until the age of nineteen. After a six months' course in the Spencerian Business College he went to work for the National Screw and Tack Company. On the detailed business side of this industry it is doubtful if Mr. Elliott has missed any position in the service from the humblest to one of the most important. He worked all through the branches of production, also as bookkeeper and in the general sales department, and since 1907 has been in charge of the special sales department of the company. 392 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS Since 1904 Mr. Elliott has also been secretary of the Cleveland Bolt and Manufacturing Company. He is a republican in politics and a member of the Methodist Church. September 19, 1899, he married at Cleveland Cora Lee. They have two children : Lee Dallas, now attending the public schools; and Laura Anna, a student in the Laurel School. E. E. ADMIRE. It is seldom that the death of an individual citizen in a great city like Cleveland calls forth a response of regret and tribute from more people and more classes of citizens than did that of E. E. Admire, who died when practically in the prime of his usefulness and activities in 1918. Mr. Admire was essentially a great educator, especially in commercial lines. He was also a virile factor, brimming over with energy and enthusiasm in many of the movements and organizations which are vitally associated with Cleveland's existence. He was born at Trafalgar, Indiana, December 7, 1861, and was only fifty-six when he died. His parents were James and Elizabeth (Dean) Admire, who moved to Indiana from Kentucky. His father is still living at Georgetown in Brown County, Indiana, and was eighty-six years of age February 11, 1918. He still retains good health, though for the past four years he has been totally blind. He lost the sight of one eye while a soldier in the Civil war. His active career was spent as a farmer. His wife died in 1907, at the age of seventy-three. James Admire served as a member of Company D of the Thirty-First Indiana Infantry during the Civil war. His children numbered four sons and four daughters, and the death of E. E. Admire was the first to break the family circle. Mr. E. E. Admire graduated from the Normal and Commercial Departments of Valparaiso University, and for many years was an expert penman, though he was also a specialist in all the branches of commercial education. He was connected with business schools in Chicago and Detroit, Michigan, until a nervous breakdown compelled him to retire. In 1904 he came to Cleveland and on the West Side opened the Metropolitan Business College in the United Bank Building, where it still has its home. He was the first tenant there and in fact the building had not been completed when his school opened. In 1906 he bought the old "Modern School," which he renamed the Ohio Business College, and of which he was sole owner until his death. This college has since been incorporated, and his brother James Admire is president. In his school work for many years Mr. Admire had the invaluable assistance and co-operation of Mrs. Admire, who has been unusually successful as a teacher of shorthand from the time she was sixteen years of age, and has had practically all the details of managing the two schools for the past ten years. The late Mr. Admire was a man of many interests, and it was these that brought him such a large personal following in the City of Cleveland. He was especially popular on the West and South sides of the city. He was a charter member and for two years was vice president of the West Side Chamber of Industry. His name is the first on the roster of the membership of that Chamber, and it is also attached to the Articles of Incorporation filed in the office of the Secretary of State in 1906, when Carmi A. Thompson was secretary of state. The business and professional men who became charter members of the Chamber met in the Metropolitan school rooms, while the work of organization was in progress. After it was completed Mr. Admire served as second vice president for the first year and the second year was first vice president. Upon his death a committee of the Chamber drew up resolutions referring to his services as a former member of the Board of Directors and vice president, and his great usefulness to the organization and community, and referred to him as "the whole-hearted and generous friend that he was and of his tender sympathy with all worthy effort of those less fortunate in life. His good deeds will shine like beacon lights to inspire all of us to the better things of this world." Outside of his schools Mr. Admire's hobby was bowling, billiards, fishing, athletics and farming. He was one of Cleveland's crack bowlers, and was also a member of the bowling team of the West Side Chamber of Industry and helped it to many trophies. He was also a splendid billiardist. Some of the means which his success brought him he used. to provide a fine farm on which to exercise his genius and enthusiasm as an agriculturist. This farm consisted of 169 acres located near Aurora, and is said to be one of the model country places of Portage County. The secret of Mr. Admire's success in the business world was honorable treatment, fair dealing and promises fulfilled. He was twice a candidate for member of the Cleveland Board of Edu- CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 393 cation. In both campaigns the city west of the river testified to its confidence in his ability and gave him a big majority, and in the second campaign he had so many votes that they nearly offset the majorities given his opponents on the east side of the city. Mr. Admire has been called by his former friends and associates a game 8ghter both in business and in friendship, ready to take his own or his friend's part, and always fair-minded and generous and helpful. Mr. Admire organized and established a prosperous weekly newspaper on the West Side. He was one of the directors of the Majestic Theater. He had begun teaching school at the age of eighteen but for the past ten years of his life his interests as an executive and manager absorbed all his time, and the practical details of school work were left to his capable wife. Mr. Admire was a prominent member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, and did much in philanthropic and charitable work. He was also a member of the City Club and was affiliated with Morgantown Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons. at Morgantown, Indiana, and with Al Sirat Grotto at Cleveland. His funeral was taken charge of by the Masons and he was laid to rest in Riverside Cemetery. In politics he was a democrat. Mr. Admire married December 23, 1900. Because of her prominence in educational work at Cleveland Mrs. Admire is made the subject of a separate sketch in this work. PHILOMENE E. ADMIRE is a great educator, one who has influenced and helped train thousands of ambitious boys and girls for careers of usefulness and service in the commercial world. Since the death of her husband, the late E. E. Admire, she has been president and treasurer of the Metropolitan Business College of Cleveland, which on many scores is the most perfectly equipped institution of its kind in the Middle West. Credit for the work of uphuilding this institution is jointly shared by Mrs. Admire with her late husband. And in the direction of school work and the discovery and improvement of the manifold talents of the boys and girls who have attended that school Mrs. Admire has been admittedly the master and guiding spirit of the institution. She has had an interesting career. Mrs. Admire was born near Paris, France, daughter of Theophile E. and Marguerite (Beaudin) Herie. When she was two years old her parents emigrated from France to Ottawa, Canada, and during her girlhood in that Canadian city she attended the Villa Maria Convent at Montreal, Canada, from which she graduated in 1885. At the age of sixteen her parents moved from Ottawa to Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Her mother died in 1899 and her father in 1913. Mrs. Admire was the seventh in a family of twelve children, nine sons and three daughters. The first eight children were born in France and the other four in Canada. As a young woman Mrs. Admire for two years had charge of the French department of the school conducted by St. Bernard Church at Rockville, Connecticut. She taught the boys and girls attending the school to read their catechism. It was while engaged in those duties that she met and married Mr. Alexander A. Appleton. Her husband was a cousin of the well-known Appleton family of New York City, publishers. Mr. and Mrs. Appleton then removed to Providence, Rhode Island, and their happy union was terminated fourteen months later by the death of Mr. Appleton. Left a widow with an infant child, Mrs. Appleton again resorted to teaching. She was a teacher at Springfield, Massachusetts, later in the Bryant & Stratton Business College in Buffalo, and from there went to Indianapolis to take a place in the Vories Business College, of which H. D. Vories was proprietor. It was while in Indianapolis that she became acquainted with Mr. E. E. Admire and on December 23, 1900, at Ottawa, Canada, they were married. From the first Mrs. Admire has taken her place in the program and routine of the schools conducted by her husband and was a teacher in Detroit in the Detroit School of Business, of which Mr. E. E. Admire was president until he sold his interests to other parties in 1902. For the past fourteen years Mrs. Admire has had an active part in the administrative work of the Metropolitan Business College and the Ohio Business College of Cleveland. Since her husband's death she has concentrated all her time upon the Metropolitan School. This school runs day and night throughout the entire year, and every year there are about 400 scholars enrolled. Mrs. Admire since early womanhood has been an expert shorthand writer, but has primarily excelled in the ability to teach and instruct. She is author of a very perfect system of touch typewriting, and many have re- 394 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS garded her as one of the most expert court reporters in the country. Teaching comes to her as a gift of nature. Her influence with young men and women is remarkable. She readily discovers the natural aptitudes of young people, and it seems that it requires only a hint from her to call forth the best efforts of her pupils. By her former marriage, Mrs. Admire has a son, Alexander A. Appleton, who is now at Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, Ohio, in the One Hundred and Fifty-Eighth Depot Brigade Headquarters. He had been in the camp only two weeks when he was made a corporal and in the early summer of 1918 he was promoted over two grades to sergeant-major. He is a splendid type of young American citizen, and is of course proud of his French ancestry. JAMES K. ADMIRE is president of the Ohio Business College, one of the highest class institutions of its kind in Ohio. It was established in 1896, and for a number of years was conducted under the name of the Modern School. In 1905 it was purchased by the late E. E. Admire, brother of the present president, and the name changed to the Ohio Business College. After the death of E. E. Admire the college was incorporated June 1, 1918, with James K. Admire as president. But more important than its history is the service the school renders. That service is based on long experience, and an assembling of thoroughly adequate facilities for all the work in hand. It is conducted as both a day and night school, and about two hundred and fifty day students are enrolled, with an average of seventy-five night students. The night classes in all branches of commercial practice are conducted three evenings in the week. Mr. James K. Admire has been a teacher of commercial subjects for many years, and brings not only experience but all the abilities of the well rounded educator to his present work. He was born in Johnson County, Indiana, January 11, 1874, a son of James and Elizabeth (Dean) Admire. His mother, who was born on October 1, 1836, died in Brown County, Indiana, April 23, 1907. His father is a splendid specimen of physical vitality and on February 11, 1918, celebrated his eighty-sixth birthday. He served as a Union soldier, lost one eye in that conflict, and about four years ago became totally blind. His active life was spent as a farmer. He and his wife had a family of four sons and four daughters, and all are still living except the late E. E. Admire. The only members of the family in Ohio are James K. and a brother who lives at Aurora, Ohio. James K. Admire lived at home with his parents until he was about thirty years of age. In the meantime he had attended the public schools of Brown County, and is a graduate of the Central Normal College at Danville, Indiana. For eleven years he was a teacher in Brown County and spent his summer vacations as a farmer. He is a man of rugged mold and has large capacity and energy for all the tasks of his busy career. Mr. Admire came to Cleveland in February, 1908, and became a teacher of commercial branches in the Metropolitan Business College on the West Side, which had been founded by his brother. He taught there seven years, and for four years was teacher and manager of the Ohio Business College prior to becoming president of the corporation. Mr. Admire was an active member for some years of the Cleveland Chamber of Industry. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias Lodge of Trafalgar, Indiana. May 25, 1898, in Brown County, Indiana, he married Anna L. Hurdle, who was born and educated there, daughter of James and Mrs. (Flint) Hurdle, a family of farmers. Mrs. Admire has been strictly a home woman and has given all her time to her family and the rearing of her children. Their children are four in number, all of whom were born in Brown County, Indiana. • Their names are William Thel, Verda Belle, Ephraim Earl, who was named for his uncle, the late E. E. Admire, and .Arvin Ward. William T., the oldest, graduated from the Ohio Business College with the class of 1916. Mr. Admire and family reside on the West Side at 6400 Ellen Avenue. EDWIN CHARLES HENN. In manufacturing and business organization Edwin Charles Henn has the ability that is akin to genius and has been largely responsible for one of the great industrial organizations included in Cleveland's business district. Mr. Henn was born in New Britain, Connecticut, June 5, 1863. He had a grammar school education and from that entered upon the work in humble capacity which by toilsome processes has brought him to the top. His first position was with the manufacturing firm known as Landers, Frary & Clark. At the age of eighteen he worked for a short CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 395 time with the firm Joel Hayden Company, manufacturers of plumbers' supplies, in Lorain, Ohio. He was then with the William Powell & Houston Company at Cincinnati, and for eighteen years with the Pratt & Cady Company at Hartford. Then followed a brief connection with Pratt & Whitney, after which he bought a half interest and formed a partnership known as the Standard Manufacturing Company of Hartford. With few exceptions big business claims a humble birth. At Hartford the Standard Manufacturing Company began with a plant in an attic and with limited capital and no encouragement beyond that contained in the brains and determination of the owners. Here Mr. Henn and his associates developed the first Acme Multiple Spindle Automatic, the pioneer multiple spindle screw machine. It was the nucleus around which has been developed an immense business. Subsequently it was known as the Acme Machine Screw Company, and in 1901 Mr. Henn and his brother A. W. Henn moved the plant to Cleveland, where it was joined with the National Manufacturing Company. The business is now incorporated as the National Acme Company. With the headquarters of this industry at Cleveland it maintains a New England plant at Windsor, Vermont, and a Canadian plant at Montreal. Mr. Henn is a member of the Cleveland Engineering Society, Chamber of Commerce, Union Club, Shaker Heights Country Club, and the Cleveland Athletic Club. His favorite diversion is fishing in the northern waters of Canada. He is a man of eminent public spirit and has given liberally to many worthy causes. Mr. Henn has good reason to be satisfied with his achievements, but takes perhaps an even greater pride in the family of eight children who have grown up around him. On July 1, 1885, he married at Cincinnati Dora V. Kraut. Their children are: A. E., in charge of the foreign sales for the National Acme Company, married and has three children, William, Virginia and Robert; Oliver L., in charge of the National Acme Company's plant at Windsor, Vermont; Ralph R. is a first lieutenant in the Department of War Industries and stationed at Washington, D. C., married Miss Florence Miller of Bloomfield, Connecticut, and their two children are Kenneth and Ruth; Viola V., a graduate of the Laurel School for Girls; Julia E., now attending Columbia University at New York; Redge F., in the estimating department of the National Acme Company, married Mildred Hart, of Cleveland; Carl L., in the Government drafting room of the ordnance department; and Richard C., a student in the University School of Cleveland. GUSTAVE H. HANNA, a native of Cleveland, began work as an industrial worker, was for many years actively identified with the cause of union labor as an official and organizer, and has also filled important positions in the public service. Mr. Hanna was born April 7, 1856, at the corner of Seneca and Frankfort streets in Cleveland. His father, William F. Hanna, who came to Cleveland in 1848, conducted a carriage and wagon factory on Frankfort Street until he retired from business in 1875. at then bought a twenty-five-acre farm at what is now Ninety-third and Union streets, and was profitably and most pleasantly engaged in its cultivation and management until his death on February 5, 1885. In Cleveland William F. Hanna married Betty Koehl in. March, 1852. They were the parents of nine children. Gustave H. Hanna grew up in his parents' home in this city, was educated in the public schools, and also in Buchtel College at Akron, Ohio. After leaving school he found a place on the pay roll of the Union Rolling Mills and for many years was employed in the duties technically described as "catcher and rougher." In the meantime he had become a recognized leader among local laboring men and for three years, until 1896, he was international vice president of the Bridge and Structural Iron Workers of the United States and Canada. During that time he organized and was president of the Builders Trades Council of Cleveland. Later, until 1899, Mr. Hanna was business agent for the Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, and was then appointed inspector of street cleaning. To this position in the city service he gave such efficient administration that he was assigned the responsibility of organizing the entire street cleaning department and continued as its active administrative head until 1911. Out of his experience he invented a very efficient street flushing machine, and for two years he traveled about the country exploiting its merits and placing contracts with various municipalities for its purchase and use. Mr. Hanna was then recalled to the office of superintendent of the street cleaning department 396 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS and filled that place until 1915. He then became publicity man for the Tiffin Wagon Company at Tiffin, Ohio, continuing until April 1, 1918, when he was appointed federal deputy commissioner of labor, Cleveland district, and is also first vice president of the Association of Street Cleaning and Refuse Disposing. He is a recognized authority on street cleaning and refuse disposal and has been a contributor to municipal journals on the above subjects. Mr. Hanna is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, the Dramatic Order Knights of Khorassan, the Fraternal Order of Eagles, Knights of the Maccabees, the Sycamore Club and the Cuyahoga County Democratic Club. In Cleveland January 23, 1883, he married Miss Maria De Getto. FREDERICK AUGUSTINE STERLING. Cleveland people know and appreciate the career and service of Frederick A. Sterling chiefly through the great commercial monument which stands in the heart of the retail shopping district, the Sterling & Welch Company, a business with which he has been actively identified for over half a century and through which his name has come to rank with those of the great American merchant princes. Some of the elements which have become familiar in the careers of successful Americans are absent from the story of Frederick A. Sterling. In his younger years he was satisfied to perform an obscure routine in commercial service, and achieved success rather than have it thrust upon him. But poverty was not a significant incentive to his efforts, and at the outset of his career he had those advantages associated with good family, a fair education, and at least an even start with his contemporaries. Few men mold their circumstances and contrive their destiny so skillfully and effectively as this Cleveland merchant. This branch of the Sterling family came to the American colonies from England in the seventeenth century. Their home for a number of generations was at Lyme, Connecticut. Mr. Sterling's grandfather moved to Salisbury, Connecticut, after graduating from Yale College, and attained recognition as one of the most distinguished lawyers of his day. He served with the rank of major-general in the War of 1812, and filled such offices as probate judge and as representative of his district in Congress. He married a daughter of Hon. John Canfield, who died in 1785 after having served in the Continental Congress. Frederick Augustine Sterling was born at Salisbury, Connecticut, a son of Frederick A. and Caroline M. (Dutcher) Sterling. His father at one time conducted an iron furnace at Salisbury, later moved to Geneva, New York, and from there came to Cleveland, where he built up a large business handling hardwood and furnishing ties and similar materials to the Big Four Railway Company. All his children achieved some special prominence in their respective spheres. His daughter, Caroline D., became the wife of Hon. Joseph H. Choate, the distinguished lawyer and diplomat, one of the greatest figures in American life. One son, Theodore Sterling, now deceased, was at one time president of Kenyon College in Ohio. Edward C. Sterling was for a long time president of the St. Louis Hydraulic Pressed Brick Company. Alfred E. Sterling is now a resident of Redlands, California. Frederick Augustine Sterling received his first schooling in Geneva, New York, in public and private schools. He acquired his first business experience in the same city, as clerk in a general store. He was eighteen years of age when he came to Cleveland, and here he went to work with Wick & Beckwith. Later when Mr. Wick retired the firm became T. S. Beckwith & Company and Mr. Sterling was thus promoted to a partnership at the age of twenty-one. Since 1854 he has been continuously identified with the carpet and curtain business as his staple lines, the only important interruption being a period of two years spent in the lumber industry at Oshkosh, Wisconsin. In 1864 his firm was changed to Beckwith & Sterling. In 1874 they moved from Superior Street to Euclid Avenue, and occupied a store that was a conspicuous landmark in the business district for thirty-five years. The senior member of the firm died in 1876, and the business was then conducted as Sterling & Company. About that time Mr. Welch became a partner, causing the name to be changed to Sterling, Welch & Company, and it was finally incorporated as the Sterling & Welch Company, the business title of the house today. It is hardly necessary to refer to the home of this corporation. Some years ago they erected a new building on Euclid Avenue, which in the opinion of experts it is no exaggeration to say is the finest, most commodious CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 397 and handsomest store building in the world. As a business that has been conducted largely along specialized lines of merchandise it is easily one of the greatest institutions of its kind in the world, and the building which houses it is only in harmony with the character and high standing of the business itself. It is a great wholesale and retail establishment, and its wholesale connections extend west to the Pacific Coast. While any man might well be satisfied and consider all his ambitions fulfilled in the position of president of the Sterling & Welch Company, Mr. Sterling is also identified with many other important Cleveland institutions. He is president of the Cleveland Burial Case Company, is a director of the Citizens Savings & Trust Company, the Union National Bank, the Bank of Commerce of North America, the Kelly Island Lime and Transportation Company, and the Columbia Gas and Electric Company. He is a member of the Union Club and the Country Club, is president of the Board of Trustees of the Second Presbyterian Church. Mr. Sterling married Miss Emma B. Betts, of Meadville, Pennsylvania, where she was born although most of her life was spent in Cleveland. Her father represented one of the early families in Western Pennsylvania. Mrs. Sterling took up and actively prosecuted many interests in Cleveland which served to enrich the services of its charitable institutions. She was corresponding secretary of the Cleveland Humane Society, a member of the executive committee of the Associated Charities, and one of the most enthusiastic supporters of the Infants' Rest. It was because of these connections and a large following of loyal friends that made her death so widely mourned. She died at her home, 3447 Euclid Avenue, October 13, 1914, and was laid to rest in the Lake View Cemetery. Mr. Sterling has one son, Willis Betts Sterling. He is a graduate of Yale University and the Columbia Law School and afterwards studied in the office of his uncle, Mr. Joseph H. Choate of New York. He is now connected with the H. F. Watson Company of Erie, Pennsylvania. He married Mary Ingersoll, a daughter of Clark Ingersoll, of Washington, D. C., who was a Member of Congress and a very prominent man. He was a brother of Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, noted writer and statesman. Mr. and Mrs. Sterling have two children : Jeanette I., who married William R. Parmlee, now in France, and Fred Clark Sterling, a second lieutenant in the United States service and also in France. PAUL M. HASERODT. Education and financial assistance are very important factors in achieving success in the business world of today, where every faculty must be brought into play, but they are not the main elements. Persistency and determination figure much more prominently and a man possessed of these qualities is hound to win a fair amount of success. Paul M. Haserodt, whose name forms the caption of this article, earned his own education and during later years has climbed to a high place on the ladder of achievement. He is one of Cleveland's substantial citizens and at the present tune, in 1917, is vice president and director of the Widlar Company, a prominent wholesale tea and coffee concern. A native of the old Buckeye State. Paul M. Haserodt was born in the City of Elyriti, Ohio, March 26, 1878. . lie is a son of Joseph F. and Joanna (Meyers) Haserodt, the former of whom was born in Germany, in 1840, and the latter in Cleveland, Ohio. She is also deceased, dying at the age of seventy-two, in 1914. The father was educated in the land of his birth and as a young man came to Cleveland, here engaging in the harness business. Subsequently he removed to Elyria, where he established himself in the same line of work, continuing as a saddler and harness-maker until the time of his demise, in 1914, aged seventy-four years. He was a member of the city council of Elyria for several terms and was influential in forwarding all matters affecting the general welfare of his home community. He and his wife became the parents of eleven children, concerning whom the following brief data are here inserted : Lillian is deceased ; George is engaged in the hardware business in Elyria ; Henry is a Lutheran minister at Oakland, California ; Edmund B. is county clerk in Cleveland ; William is connected with the railroad postal service; Oscar is engaged in the jewelry business in Elyria: Otto was auditor of Lorain County at the time of his death in 1915: Paul M. is the subject of this review ; Violet is the wife of Wilbur Smith, of Lima, Ohio; Emanuel is in the jewelry business in Elyria ; and Elmer is a Lutheran minister at Freeport, Illinois. Paul M. Haserodt attended the German Lutheran parochial school at Elyria until his thirteenth year, when he entered the service 398 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS of A. J. Porter, retail grocer, remaining with him for four years. He then became a clerk in the grocery establishment of Boylan Brothers and three years later he engaged as a bookkeeper for the Elyria Lumber Company, working for the latter concern for one year. In 1902 he came to Cleveland and obtained a position as salesman for the Widlar Company, a large wholesale coffee and tea establishment. He continued in that capacity until 1908, when he was elected vice president and a director of the Widlar Company, filling those offices during the intervening years with the utmost efficiency. His advancement in the business world is due entirely to his own efforts. In civic matters he is loyal and public spirited and in politics maintains an independent attitude. Being popular with his fellow men, he is a member of the following organizations: The Cleveland Athletic Club, the Willowick Country Club, the Auto Club, the City Club, the Civic League, and the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. He is a Lutheran in religious faith and is unmarried. ARCHIBALD R. FRASER. Identified since the close of his school period with the banking business in some relation, Archibald R. Fraser, who is assistant secretary of the Guardian Savings and Trust Company at Cleveland, and having charge of the loan de-department, has had wide experience along this line and is credited with great ability as a business man. He has been a resident of Cleveland since 1904 only, but is so devoted to the best interests of this city and has become so valued in every circle as a citizen, that Cleveland claims him as one of her own. Archibald R. Fraser was born at Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, July 29, 1881. His parents were William and Ruth (Richmond) Fraser. His father was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, December 25, 1852, and attended excellent schools. He was twenty years old when he came to Canada and located at Hamilton, where he engaged as a clerk in the offices of the Great Western Railroad. He had certain gifts and talents that made him exceedingly valuable, and in 1880 he came to Cleveland and wrote the tariff schedule for the Nickel Plate Railroad, which was just starting operating. In 1884 he was transferred to Erie, Pennsylvania, as agent for that road, and later was transferred to Conneaut, Ohio, and ever since has been traffic inspector. Since 1910 his home has been in Cleveland. He was married in Canada to Ruth Richmond, who died July 5, 1916, leaving three children: Archibald R. ; W. R., who also is a resident of Cleveland; and Alice, who resides with her father. Archibald R. Fraser attended the public schools of Erie, Pennsylvania, while his father's duties kept the family there, and later entered the high school at Conneaut, from which he was graduated in 1899. He was employed immediately as a bookkeeper by the First National Bank of Conneaut and served as such for six months and then became assistant cashier of the Marine Bank of that city. Business reverses came to the institution and it failed in 1902, but great confidence was shown in Mr. Fraser's integrity and business acumen and he continued as liquidating trustee until affairs were adjusted. In 1904 Mr. Fraser came to Cleveland and became bookkeeper for the Guardian Savings and Trust Company, soon being made teller, and in 1909 he became loan teller. At that time he attended to the entire business of that department, but the bank has so expanded its interests that, while Mr. Fraser still has charge of the department, he requires eight assistants. In January, 1915, he was elected assistant secretary of the company and his business wisdom and good judgment are seen in many ways. He is a director of the Williams Foundry and Machine Company, Akron, Ohio, is vice president and a director of the Investment Securities Company, and treasurer and director of the Clay Engine Manufacturing Company. On February 4, 1905, in the historic Old Stone Church of Cleveland, Mr. Fraser was married to Miss Juliet Grigor, daughter of John Grigor, who belonged to an old Cleveland family of some note. Mr. and Mrs. Fraser have two children, a daughter and son, Ruth, aged eight years, and Jack, aged six, both attending public school in Cleveland Heights. Mr. Fraser is a member of the Cleveland Heights Presbyterian Church. Although he recognizes that politics have an established place in a country's affairs, Mr. Fraser has never been interested unduly in party organizations, preferring an independent attitude and depending largely upon his own judgment in the matter of voting. He resides at Cleveland Heights and is an active member of the Cleveland Heights Civic Club and belongs also to the City Club, the Bankers' Club of Cleveland, the Colonial- CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 399 East Shore Club and the Cleveland Yacht Club. For many years he has been a Mason and is a member of Woodward Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons. EDWIN H. JANFS is vice president and treasurer of the Standard Steel Castings Company, one of Cleveland's leading industries connected with the prominence of the city as an automobile center. Mr. Janes was born in Toronto, Ontario, March 7, 1875, son of H. D. and Julia L. (Williams) Janes. He was brought to Cleveland when a boy and here, while growing to manhood, he attended the . Brooks Military School at the University School, graduating from the latter in 1894. He gained his first experience in business as collector for the Mercantile National Bank one year. Following that for four years he was with the Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling Railroad, first as bill clerk in the freight department, and later as a collector. He also accumulated a year's valuable experience as teller with the Coal and Iron National Bank. following which he took his first executive position as vice president and secretary of the Talmadge Manufacturing Company, railway supplies. He left that firm in 1912, selling his interests, and with his brother, Julius F., organized the Standard Steel Castings Company, of which he has since been vice president and treasurer. This company, whose capital has recently been raised to $1,000,000, has been since its founding engaged in the manufacture of a general line of steel castings, most of which are used in the automobile industry. Recently the company put under construction a completely new plant, which will he devoted to the manufacture of cast steel automobile wheels, and will be the largest concern of its kind in the United States. Mr. Janes is a member of the Union Club, the Cleveland Athletic Club, Mayfield Country Club, the Roadside Country Club, the Loyal Legion, and is a republican voter. At Cleveland, December 14, 1898. he married Miss Lila Babcock. They have three children. Lester Babcock, aged eighteen, is a graduate of Culver Military Academy, of Indiana, and is now in Cornell University. Edwin Babcock, aged sixteen, is attending Caseadilla School, preparing for entrance to Cornell University. Virginia Katherine. the only daughter, is a student in the Shaker Vol III-26 Heights public schools, the family having their home in that beautiful Cleveland suburb. JOSEPH C. BREITENSTEIN. Americans now as never before are likely to insist upon more than one qualification in a candidate for those offices which involve the administration of the nation's affairs. Party allegiance is only one point to be considered. More important are the individual experiences and the personal efficiency of the candidate. His tendencies, his associations, his attitude toward the broader as well as the specific tasks that are identified with his office are certain to be scrutinized carefully. One of the aspirants for the honor of representing the Sixteenth Ohio District in Congress, subject to the expression of the primaries of 1918, was Joseph C. Breitenstein. Mr. Breitenstein entered upon his candidacy with an unqualified announcement of support to the present war administration of the Government. He inherits his individual patriotism from an ancestor whose name was as clearly identified with American liberty as that of any colonial American. His grandfather, Henry Breitenstein, was one of the South Germans who ineffectually tried to stem the tide of Prussian militarism in 1848, and when the revolution went against them, sought the freedom that was denied them in the old country in America. He came to America with Carl Schurz, and settled in Dover, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, in 1851. He was engaged in the shoe business and was an active citizen of that locality until his death in the spring of 1913, at the age of eighty-three. Joseph C. Breitenstein was born at Canton. Stark County, Ohio, July 30, 1884, son of Louis and Mary (Shane) Breitenstein. His father was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and his mother in Europe, being brought to this country at the age of three years. They married in Tuscarawas County, May 1, 1877. and their home has been at Canton since 1878, where they are now retired. In their family are five children : Charles S., who for the past ten years has been connected with the post-office at Dayton, Ohio ; V. F., an employe in the Internal Revenue Department at Cleveland ; Joseph C.; Leo, who is now a soldier with the rank of sergeant at Camp Gordon, Georgia ; and Anna M., at home. Joseph C. Breitenstein was reared in Canton and graduated from the Canton High School with the class of 1902. His first prac-