450 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS family came from England to New Hampshire in colonial times and the Mathers were also colonial settlers, and Mrs. White traces her ancestry directly to Cotton Mather. Mrs. White's mother is now living at Wellsville, New York, and her father, deceased, was for many years connected with the Erie Railroad. ARTHUR H. SEIBIG. Cleveland banking circles know Arthur H. Seibig as secretary and a director of the United Banking and Savings Company, and these financial circles and many other people besides have come to esteem him as one of the good business men of the city. There is a close and interesting connection between the career of Mr. Seibig and the United Banking & Savings Company. This company, which is now the largest bank on the West Side, began business in September, 1886. Just five years later, in 1891, the bank put a new name on its pay roll, that of Arthur H. Seibig, aged fourteen, and nominally a messenger boy, though as a matter of fact messenger boys in those days were subject to the beck and call of every higher employe of the bank and did a miscellaneous assortment of duties. When he began work as messenger boy, Mr. Seibig in fact began to carve out his career, and has not only earned his own way but has earned a position of prominence and influence since that time. His early circumstances forced him to rely upon himself and make the most of every opportunity. He was born in Cleveland January 29, 1877, and was only a small child when his mother, Mary (Pastner). Seibig, died. All the education he had was in the public schools of Cleveland, and he learned enough of the common branches to introduce him without special handicap to the services of the bank, where his eagerness and ambition sought out every opportunity for service to his superiors and for his continued self-improvement. After some time he was assigned to the bookkeeping force, later advanced to paying teller, and on April 9, 1908, come into his present honors and responsibilities as secretary of the United Banking and Savings Company and a member of the board of directors. The United Banking and Savings Company when he first entered its employ was across the street, where the West Side Market House now stands. The present location, as everyone in Cleveland knows, is West Twenty-fifth and Lorain Avenue. The strength and stand ing of the United Banking and Savings Company are well known, but it will not be out of place to refer to its capital and surplus of nearly $1,000,000, deposits of over $11,000,000, and total resources of over $12,000,000. The other active executives of the bank besides Mr. Seibig are Henry W. S. Wood, president; Henry Grombacher, vice president; and William H. Heil, vice president and treasurer. Mr. Seibig is also a director in a number of corporations, including the Cleveland, Alliance & Mahoning Valley Railroad Company, of which he is treasurer. He is a member and treasurer of the Bankers Club of Cleveland, is treasurer of the Cleveland Automobile Club, and member of the Cleveland Athletic Club, Cleveland Chamber of Industry, Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, Westwood Country Club and Clifton Club. He is also a Scottish Rite Mason and in politics is a republican. His favorite recreation is golf. April 15, 1902, Mr. Seibig married t s Bertha Elizabeth Beckenbach, of Cleveland, where she was born and educated. ALBERT E. R. SCHNEIDER is an interesting figure in Great Lakes transportation circles, and his life history might be briefly told as consisting of hard work and uninterrupted employment with either rail or water trans. portation in the Middle West since he was a boy of sixteen. He has been a resident of Cleveland since 1903, and it is a mere statement of fact to say that he has not had a single break in his working career since he started out as a boy of fourteen. Mr. Schneider was born at Buffalo, New York, March 27, 1874, a son of Frank J. and Barbara (Fisher) Schneider. Both parents were born in Alsace when that province was under French rule. His father came to this country alone at the age of seventeen, and his wife was brought by her parents at the age of two. He was a grandson of Benedict Schneider, who served under the great Napa leon, and a nephew of John Feyerstein, who served the longest of any major in France under Napoleon. Frank J. Schneider was a carpenter by trade and married and spent his active life at Buffalo, where he died in 1913, at the age of seventy-nine. His wife died in Buffalo in 1892, at the age of sixty-one. They had eleven children, four sons and seven daughters, eight of whom grew up, and four sons and two daughters are still living. CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 451 Albert Schneider, the youngest of the family and the only one living in Cleveland, was reared in Buffalo and attended the St. Louis parochial school there. At the age of fourteen he began earning his own living as an office boy with the Richmond Lithograph Company of Buffalo, which he later served in the shipping department. This company was owned by Henry A. Richmond, son of Dean Richmond, noted as the pioneer railroad builder of America. At the age of sixteen Mr. Schneider entered the service of the Lehigh Valley Railroad at Buffalo, and filled successively different positions with that company for a period of thirteen years, chiefly in connection with the lake and rail transportation departments. In 1903 he resigned from the Lehigh to accept a position in the transportation department of the Cleveland Cliffs Iron Company, one of the largest corporations of its kind in the country, handling iron ore and pig iron. Mr. Schneider's service has been primarily identified with the transportation interests of this corporation, and he is now lake freight agent in charge of lake transportation and vessel operation, succeeding the late Mr. J. H. Therath in this work. His varied interests are further indicated by offices he holds as director in a number of corporations, including the Morrow Steamship Company, of which he is president; the Paisley Steamship Company, of which he is vice president and secretary; the Presque Isle Transportation Company, of which he is vice president; the Cleveland Transportation Company, of which he is vice president; and the Midland Iron and Steel Company of Midland, Ontario, of which he is vice president. He is also a member of the Iron Advisory Committee of the Great Lakes Protective Association, which is the Mutual Insurance Association of the Great Lakes. Mr. Schneider has been too busy with his work and too devoted to his home to participate much in social affairs, and therefore has few or no club connections. He is a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce and the Lakewood Chamber of Commerce. June 15, 1898, at Buffalo, he married Clara B. Springman, who was born and educated in that city. They are the parents of a fine family of six children, named Ruth, Esther, Clare, Cletus, Albert, Jr., and Paul. The two oldest were born in Buffalo, the others in Cleveland. CLEVELAND C. HALE, a retired business man of Cleveland, is a son of the late Edwin Butler Hale, who attained prominence as an able banker and for many years was one of the leading bankers and financiers of Cleveland. Edwin Butler Hale was born at Brooklyn, New York, February 8, 1819. His ancestors were prominent in England and subsequently in the American colonies. The first American of the name was a son of William Hale of King Walden, England, who served as High Sheriff of Hertfordshire in 1621. In 1587 Samuel Hale married Rose Bond, whose father was Sir George Bond, at one time Lord Mayor of London. A son of these parents, Samuel Hale, settled at Hartford, Connecticut, about 1635, and some of his descendants fought as soldiers in the French and Indian war and the Revolution, and so nutherous was the family in Connecticut at that time that sixteen men by the name of Hale bore arms in the Patriot cause. Philo Hale, father of Edwin B., was a man of remarkable energy and enterprise and was the first to engage in and establish the business of ship building on the Connecticut River, but that industry was ruined by the outbreak of the war with England in 1812. He afterwards traveled abroad, and he repaired his broken fortunes by his operations as an investor and business man in Central Illinois, where he died in 1848. Soon after his birth the parents of Edwin B. Hale moved to Glastonbury, Connecticut, where he was reared and received his early education. It was intended that he should enter Yale College, but the sudden breaking up of the home as the result of the death of his mother and two brothers and a sister prevented his carrying out that plan. In 1837, having come to Ohio, he entered Kenyon College and graduated with the honors of his class in 1841. Literary tastes were pronounced in him and his early intention was to follow the life of a scholar. At the request of his father he entered the legal profession, reading law with a well known firm at Zanesville, and in 1843 was admitted to the bar. He spent several years looking after important family investments in Illinois, and always kept a large share of landed interests in that state. In 1852 he moved to Cleveland, and engaged in the private banking business under the name Sturgis & Hale. Soon afterwards he bought the interests of his partner, and eventually established the firm of E. B. Hale & Com- 452 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS pany. His active associate was Mr. W. H. Barriss, who had entered his office in 1859. In the spring of 1891 the old firm name was succeeded by the Marine Bank Company, with Mr. E. B. Hale as president, Mr. Barrier; as cashier, and W. B. Hale, oldest son of Edwin B., as assistant cashier. It is said that the old banking house of E. B. Hale & Company had the reputation of doing the largest business of any private banking house in the state. It kept its own accounts in London, Paris and Dublin, and did practically a world wide business. The institution weathered every panic and in the tightest of financial times never refused to honor certificates of deposit or demand checks. It was only a short time after the organization of the Marine Bank Company that Edwin B. Hale died suddenly at his desk July 9, 1891. In 1846 Edwin B. Hale married the daughter of S. N. Hoyt of Chardon, Ohio. They became the parents of three sons and five daughters, and the sons and four of the daughters are still living. An account of Mr. Hale written soon after his death contains the following estimate: "Mr. Hale was a man of strong character and marked ability. He was quiet and unassuming by nature, yet was firm in his convictions and of strong and decided tastes. In his business habits he was shrewd, cautious and conservative and always conscientious. He was never exacting or oppressive in his demands and never willing to take advantage or profit by the misfortunes of others. He was quick to appreciate the legitimate, financial necessities of his surroundings and prompt to act. For nearly forty years he was a leading and prominent member of Cleveland's banking fraternity and during all that time was an important factor in financial circles. The banking house of which he was for so many years the head always enjoyed the highest credit and commanded the entire confidence of every financial institution both at home and abroad. He was always ready to aid in the proper way to the extent of his ability the development of the commercial and industrial interests of Cleveland and did a great deal in his way toward making the city what she is today. As a citizen he was progressive. and broad and liberal in his views, and was to be found on the right side of all movements having for their object the building up of his adopted city and her institutions. While his charity was unostentatious it was generous, and he ever had a warm heart and helping hand for the poor and needy and an encouraging word for the despondent and unfortunate. He was a liberal contributor to the charitable and benevolent institutions and was a liberal supporter of the church, although not a member of any congregation. He had in his character many elements of strength, and one could not associate with him without recognizing the sagacious intelligence, kindly charity, and the many evidences of human sympathy which marked his life among men. His deep domestic devotion was one of his strongest characteristics. He was devotedly attached to his wife and children and it was in the home circle where he found his greatest pleasures. He delighted to be surrounded by congenial friends and derived great pleasure in dispensing hospitality and discharging the duties of host. Every banker and business man who knew Mr. Hale bear willing testimony to his sterling integrity of character, his eminent ability as a financier, and to the uniform courtesy and kindness which marked his relation to his business associates and was so conspicuous in his social and domestic life." Cleveland C. Hale was born at Cleveland March 28, 1861, was prepared for college in the Cleveland public schools and the Central High School, and then entered Union College at Schenectady, New York, where he graduated with the class of 1884. Returning to Cleveland, he became associated with his father's bank, and served as teller until the time of his father's death in 1891. Since then he has given his time to his private affairs, and has spent considerable time abroad. HUGH BUCKLEY, JR. A native of Cleveland, a boy soldier of the Union, and a business man, public official and valued citizen for fifty years afterward, the career of Hugh Buckley, Jr., deserves all the honors paid his memory and is 'well entitled to a place among these records of Cleveland men. He was born in East Cleveland April 16, 1845, son of Hugh and Winifred Buckley. His parents were natives of Ireland and came to this country about 1830. Hugh Buckley, Sr., and another son were also soldiers in the Civil war. Hugh Buckley, Sr., and wife are both buried in the East Cleveland Cemetery. As the family was not of assured financial independence during his boyhood, Hugh Buckley, Jr., acquired only a limited education in the district schools and as soon as possible enrolled as a bread winner. In fact, he was only eight years old when his father CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 453 assigned him the task of driving a "stone team." Books, schools and civilian occupation left his mind when the war broke out, and on August 29, 1862, at the age of seventeen, he succeeded in enlisting in Battery I of the First Ohio Light Artillery. He was in service from that time forward nearly three years, until mustered out June 13, 1865, after the close of the war. He was one of the gunners in his battery, at first with the Army of the Potomac, took part in the campaign to thoroughfare Gap and Centerville, stood by his gun continuously through the tremendous battle of Gettysburg, was also at Chancellors-vine, and later was with Sherman's advancing forces from Chattanooga to Atlanta. The war over, he engaged in the stone business with his father and brother John, and only left that when he was appointed to a position in the internal revenue service. He resigned in 1879, following his election as sheriff of Cuyahoga County, an office he held one term, during 1880-81. Later for a number of years he was a member of the firm Richards, McKean & Buckley. For fifteen years Mr. Buckley was republican member of the hoard of elections and for seven years, under Mayor Tom L. Johnson, was a director of public safety. Hugh Buckley, Jr., died December 30, 1915, and before he was laid to rest in Lake View Cemetery his funeral was conducted under the auspices of Woodward Lodge, of which he was a charter member, and next to the last surviving original member of that lodge. The only surviving member at present is Dr. Elroy M. Avery, editor of this history. Mr. Buckley was also a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, and was a prominent and interested companion of the old soldiers and a member of Forest City Post, Grand Army of the Republic. December 31, 1866, Mr. Buckley married Amelia M. Cope, of Adrian, Michigan. Their two sons, both residents of Cleveland, are Ernest C. and Everton E. LOUIS W. JARED has been a well known figure in Cleveland commercial circles for a number of years. He was until July 1, 1918, general sales manager of the American Multigraph Company, a position which of itself is high proof of his salesmanship qualifications and thorough business ability. Mr. Jared was born in Jasper County, Illinois, June 15, 1868, son of Thomas and Charlotte (Cheek) Jared. When he was five years of age his parents moved to Kentucky, living successively in Breckenridge and Hancock counties, where Louis attended public schools until he was fourteen. Then came another move in the family destiny, and the parents took up their home on a farm at Palestine, Illinois. Here Louis was employed in looking after the crops and doing the general work of an Illinois farm, attending public schools during the winter seasons until he was eighteen. The important part of his life came after he severed his connection with farming. At Streator, Illinois, he worked as bookkeeper for a straw paper manufacturer, S. W. Williams. After a hard day's work he put in several hours of the night studying telegraphy. At the end of three years he was appointed telegraph operator with the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, and was also employed as bill clerk at various points along the Chicago division of that road. Apparently all this work and experience was only preparatory to his real achievement. Perhaps the most important decision he ever made was in 1897, when he accepted the opportunity to become a salesman with the Smith Premier Typewriter Company at Chicago. This brought him into the selling end of commercial life, and there he made a really remarkable success. In 1902 he was sent to Cleveland as manager of the Cleveland office of the Smith Premier Company, but in 1905 returned to Chicago as special representative for the Underwood Typewriter Company. It was in the spring of 1905 that the first multi-graph machine was put on the market. On August 1, 1905, Mr. Jared, having been attracted to the possibilities of this great new invention, and his own record having been thoroughly examined by the Cleveland man at the head of the business, he was appointed division manager for the Chicago territory of the American Multigraph Company. In January, 1908, he resigned and organized the Universal Folding Machine Company, for which he was sales manager until February 5, 1909. At that date the plant of the folding machine company was acquired by the American Multigraph Company, and on March 1st Mr. Jared again returned to Cleveland, as assistant sales manager of the larger corporation. On May 20, 1910, he became general sales manager. During the next eight years he brought about the extension and establishment of many sales offices and 454 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS branches of the business, until the products of the company attained an almost world-wide distribution. Mr. Jared is affiliated with Woodward Lodge No. 508, Free and Accepted Masons; Cleveland Chapter, No. 148, Royal Arch Masons; Cceur de Leon Commandery, Knights Templar; Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine, and is a member of the Cleveland Athletic Club, Willowick Country Club and the Automobile Club. He is a republican in politics and a Presbyterian in religion. October 14, 1914, Mr. Jared married, at Cleveland, Martha May Smith. Their one child is Charles Cole. CAPT. CHARLES EDWARD BENHAM. The history of Cleveland contains the records of hundreds of men much more than ordinarily successful in business, the professions, and the affairs that are reckoned of importance in the world. Cleveland would not have become a great city without such men. Among them all perhaps none has lived longer, more act ively and with broader interests touching the life and affairs of this community than Capt. Charles Edward Benham. For over half a century he has been a figure in Great Lakes transportation. He is first of all a master of practical navigation and he has personally sailed and directed the operations of a considerable fleet going in and out of the harbor of Cleveland. He also achieved distinction in dealing with the financial problems of lake transportation. The record of his interesting life and career begins with his birth at Ashtabula, Ohio, September 29, 1847. He is a son of Samuel and Harriet N. (Williams) Benham, both of New England stock. His father was born at Middletown, Connecticut, and went to Ashtabula as a young man. He was a merchant at Ashtabula, and in 1852 removed to Cleveland and was in the ship supply business on River Street and later on Detroit Street. He died at Ridgeville in 1897, at the age of seventy-seven. During the war he was an extensive shipper of provisions for the government. His wife died in 1897 at Long Beach, California, and was buried at Los Angeles. Of their family of children the oldest daughter died in infancy ; Helen died at Ashtabula when a young woman; the third in age is Charles Edward. George died at the same time as his sister Helen, both being stricken with diphtheria. Hattie died in 1914 at Long Beach, California, and is buried be side her mother. She was the widow of Frank Coffin, a lumberman at Los Angeles and San Pedro. The children were all born at Ashtabula. Charles Edward Benham was educated at Ashtabula and later attended Bryant & Stratton's Business College at Cleveland. One of his teachers in Cleveland in bookkeeping was John M. Drake, now president of the Drake Coal Company. When Captain Benham was sixteen years of age he tried to get into the Union army. His aspirations for a military career ended with Camp Giddings at Jefferson, Ohio. His father having some shipping interests at Ashtabula, he practically grew up in the atmosphere and did his first sailing on the Great Lakes when he was only nine years old. He rapidly mastered the principles and art of navigation and on the 13th of August, 1862, at the age of sixteen, took command of his first vessel, known as the Industry, a hundred fifty ton boat. It was more than fifty-five years ago that the proud and youthful master sailed on his first voyage, and for forty-eight years Captain Benham carried a steamboat master's papers. He not only captained but had financial interests in a number of boats, and at different times owned the "Henry C. Richards," the "Queen City," "Zack Chandler," "C. H. Johnson," the "Reindeer," "George Sherman," the "Metropolis," and for eleven years owned the tug "Sampson," the most powerful tug on the lakes and was its captain five years. At one time he controlled and operated the White Stack Tug Line of seven tugs. This is only a partial list of the vessels which he sailed or in which he had a financial interest. His career as a lake captain continued for about twenty years, but he was a vessel owner much longer. He is one of the oldest members of the Chamber of Commerce of Cleveland, was for several years a member of the committee on navigation. He was chairman of the same under the Luther Allen administration. During the winter seasons Captain Benham owned and conducted a ship supply house which was operated by his father, at first at 292 Detroit Street and later a branch at the corner of Wall and Detroit streets was opened. The senior Benham managed this business until his death. During the war he bought and sold potatoes for the Government under the firm name of E. Conkling Captain Benham continued in the ship supply business from 1866, and finally turned it over to his son-in-law, J. U. Karr, who still CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 455 conducts it as a marine supply house at Superior and River streets. About 1882 Captain Benham entered the firm of Palmer & Benham, owner and agents. This firm was the first to occupy a suite in the Perry-Paine Building. Two years later Captain Benham became a partner of Captain Joe DeVille, and in 1897 he and C. P. Gilchrist became the principals in the firm of C. P. Gilchrist & Company. For many years Captain Benham has been extensively employed as an appraiser and in looking after the interests of various marine insurance companies. He has also supervised repairs on steam and sailing vessels, has entered extensively into the wrecking work, and from experience no man could speak with greater authority on all the varied points of Great Lakes transportation than Captain Benham. In 1898 he was appointed special deputy collector of customs, and for about five years was acting collector. No Cleveland citizen has come into closer touch with the various interests centering in the river and harbor than Captain Benham. He is chairman of the River and Harbor Committee of The Chamber of Industry, served as president of said Chamber for one and one half terms, being the incumbent of said office when the property now owned by the Chamber was purchased. He represented the Chamber as its delegate to the National Board of Trade at Washington, D. C. After moving his home to the West Side in 1887 he became a member of the Water Board of the West Cleveland Corporation, and was its chairman until the district was annexed to Cleveland. He was chairman of the West Cleveland Annexation Committee and chairman of the Joint Committee on Annexation of the two cities. The people of the West Side tried to get his consent to be elected mayor, but he refused that honor. He represented the Old Tenth Ward one term under the administration of Mayor McKisson, and was also a member of the Infirmary Board under the Gardner administration. While in the City Council he was chairman of the committee which investigated the books of the Consolidated Street Railway Company to ascertain the cost of carrying passengers. He was appointed to fill the unexpired term of half a year as president of the Cleveland Chamber of Industry when Herman Baehr was elected mayor, and continued in office by election for another year. He was Cleveland's delegate to the Deep Water Convention at Toronto and it would be diffi cult to summarize all the services rendered Cleveland in behalf of the development and improvement of transportation facilities. He is also a member of the Lakewood Chamber of Commerce, is vice president of the West Cleveland Banking Company and has numerous other business interests. He is a senior past grand president of the Ship Masters Association of the Northwestern Lakes. Captain Benham is a thirty-second degree Mason, being affiliated with Bigelow Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, Thatcher Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, Forest City Council, Royal and Select Masters, Forest City Commandery, Knight Templars, with the Scottish Rite bodies and Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is also a member of Erie Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and has been affiliated with Canton and Encampment branch since 1872 has filled all the chairs in local Odd Fellowship and was representative to the Grand Lodge. He is a member of the Rebekahs and is Past Grand Regent of Pearl Council of the Royal Arcanum. He is a member of the Cleveland Automobile Club, Cleveland Yacht Club, and various other social organizations. For forty years he has been a member of the Franklin Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church. In politics a republican, he was the first president of the First Ward Republican Club. Captain Benham now maintains his offices in the Commercial Bank Building. On New Year's Eve 1867 he married at Cleveland Mary J. Prescott. Her father was William Prescott of Boston, Massachusetts. Mrs. Benham died January 10, 1899, and is buried at Riverside. She was well known socially and was a prominent philanthropic worker and one of the liberal contributors to the Old Ladies Home. Captain and Mrs. Benham had seven children, five sons and two daughters : C. A., who is master of the steamer "John Stanton" and lives at Cleveland; William P., master of the steamer, "J. J. Sullivan"; George E., master of the steamer "John Owen"; Robert H., now United States Local Inspector of steam vessels at Cleveland; Harrison M., a graduate of the Electrical Engineering Department of the Case School and now connected with the New York Telephone Company at New York City, and has the distinction of having supervised the laying of the largest submarine cable in the world; Eva May, wife of J. U. Karr, and Jennie M., who graduated from the West High School in 1909 and is now a teacher in the Clifton Boulevard School. These children were born in Ashta- 456 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS bula, except Harrison and Jennie, who are natives of Cleveland. In October, 1911, Captain Benham married Miss Minnie M. Hayes. Captain Benham now resides in a beautiful home at 1262 IIird Street at the corner of Clifton Boulevard. WILLIAM JOSEPH AKERS. For all his prominence in business affairs and politics in Cleveland, the late William Joseph Akers, who died at St. Petersburg, Florida. March 23, 1917, will be longest remembered for his gallant and chivalrous citizenship and philanthropy. He was one of Cleveland's most valuable citizens and for a generation or more he testified to his public helpfulness in many capacities. It is said that few plans for municipal betterment were formed that did not enlist his name and efforts. It was not only in the ranks of public spirited organizations that he made his influence manifest. He believed in the gospel of personal helpfulness. The records of his kindness of heart can never be known. It was the record of "many unremembered acts of kindness and of love." For over thirty years he was a director of the Associated Charities of Cleveland. He served on relief committees in connection with some of the worst disasters the country has ever had, including the Chicago fire, the Johnstown flood, the Kentucky cyclone, the Michigan Woods Fire Relief Committee. the Ohio River Flood Sufferers Commission and the Titusville Fire and Flood Relief Committee. He was financial trustee of the Dorcas Invalids Home, and from 1880 to 1890 was president of the Cleveland General Hospital. He served as a trustee of the Lancaster Boys Industrial School, on the Library Board, the Workhouse Board, and on the Board of Education. He took a specially strong interest in the public schools and was the founder of the Mayflower School Association, the first organization of its kind in the city. lie was himself an alumnus of that school. In later years he found time to write a comprehensive history of the city schools, entitled "Cleveland's Schools in the Nineteenth Century," which was published in 1901 and remains the text book on the subject. William Joseph Akers was born in Manchester, England, August 2, 1845. a son of John and Catherine (O'Leary) Akers. In 1847 his parents came to America and located in Cleveland. Here they resided the rest of their days. His father died in 1858, at the early age of forty-three, and his mother in 1894. John Akers became a well known contractor in the early days of Cleveland and erected many of the large buildings of his time. But he left a very modest estate, and William J. was thirteen when his father died and had to leave school to make his own living. He worked as a blacksmith's apprentice for several years. lie also managed to supplement his early education. In those years he developed a fondness for outdoor life which remained with him to the rest of his days. He became a good wrestler, was a member of the old Union Railway baseball team, was a crack rifle shot and a pedestrian, taking long walks even in his later years. In a business way he was chiefly known as a hotel man. The management and operation of hotels and eating houses proved with him a congenial pursuit. In 1865, at the age of twenty, he was enrolled as an office boy in the old Union Depot restaurant. He was promoted to clerk, cashier, and in 1880 became sole proprietor. During his early career he was associated with John A. Wheeler and L. G. Russell, the firm of Wheeler & Russell operating the old Union Depot restaurant. With these men Mr. Akers opened the Gibson House in 1875, and the Continental Hotel in 1877, both at Crestline. He was also associated with Wheeler & Russell in the operation of two flour mills, one at Crestline and the other at Nevada on the Fort Wayne Railroad. In 1882 Mr. Akers opened the Russell House at Alliance and in 1888, in connection with S. T. Paine, bought the Forest City House, then one of Cleveland's leading hostelries. The walls of the Forest City House were recently torn down. It was for many years a favorite rendezvous for older citizens of Cleveland and of nationally known figures in politics. Mr. Akers was identified with the management of this hotel for twenty-seven years. In 1890 he became part owner of the Sagertown Inn at Sagertown, Pennsylvania. Mr. Akers had an interest in the Tarpon Inn at Tarpon Springs, Florida. He controlled many railroad eating houses. In 1884 Mr. Akers estab-, lished the first dining car service in Ohio. This dining car was operated on the old Bee Line, now the Big Four System. In association with Clifton D. Shears of the Grand Hotel of Cincinnati, Mr. Akers organized the State Hotel Men's Association. Mr. Shears was its first president and was succeeded by Mr. Akers. Mr. Akers organ- CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 457 ized the Cleveland Hotel Men's Association and was its president several years. For forty years he was an active figure in Cleveland politics. He was twice a republican candidate for mayor, and each time was defeated by a slight margin. In 1886 he was republican nominee for that office against Robert Blee, and at that time would undoubtedly have been elected had not General Myers entered the field as an independent. republican candidate. In 1892 Mr. Akers was nominated for mayor against the late Tom L. Johnson and lacked only a few votes of being elected. He realized the ambitions of his earlier years in every direction except in politics. It is said that he could not play the political game with success, due no doubt to his frank and outspoken manner and lack of political diplomacy. Another ambition was for the highest honors in Masonry, and he became an honorary Thirty-third degree Scottish Rite Mason and the youngest member of the order in the United States to enjoy that honor at the time. After his death the master of the Ohio Grand Lodge transmitted to the various lodges of the jurisdiction an "In Memoriam" record of Mr. Akers to he read and placed upon the minutes of the various lodges, and from that the following record of his Masonic activities is quoted: "He was initiated an Entered Apprentice December 23, 1868; passed to the degree of Fellow Craft January 27, 1869, and raised to the sublime degree of Master Mason February 10, 1869, all in Tyrian Lodge No. 370, of Cleveland. Was made a Mark Master July 1, 1869; a Past Master and Most Excellent Master July 15, 1869, and Royal Arch Mason August 5, 1869, all in Webb Chapter No. 14, R. A. M., of Cleveland, from which he afterwards withdrew to become a charter member of Cleveland Chapter No. 148, October 6, 1882. "Received the Order of Red Cross February 26, 1876; that of the Temple April 3, 1876; and that of Malta on April 3, 1876, all in Oriental Commandery No. 12, K. T., of Cleveland. "Received all of the degrees of the A. & A. Scottish Rite up to those of the Consistory in the Lodge, Council and Chapter of the Bodies of the Valley of Cleveland, and those of the Consistory in Ohio Consistory, from which he demitted to become a member of Lake Erie Consistory. "He filled the following positions: In the Lodge, .Junior Deacon, Steward, Junior Warden, Senior Warden and Worshipful Master between the years 1874 and 1881. In the Grand Lodge, served as Senior Grand Deacon in 1880 and 1881; Junior Grand Warden in 1882, 1883 and 1884; Senior Grand Warden in 1885; and Deputy Grand Master in 1886. In the A. & A. Scottish Rite was the first Commander-in-Chief of Lake Erie Consistory from 1890 to 1893, and was Junior Warden and Senior Warden in Ariel Chapter of Rose Croix. He was crowned an Honorary 33rd degree at Chicago, September 14, 1886. From the inception of the Ohio Masonic Home at Springfield to within a few years'ago he was a trustee of that institution, representing the A. & A. Scottish Rite." He was also an honorary member of all Masonic bodies. He was buried with full Masonic ritual celebrated in the Scottish Rite Cathedral at Cleveland by Lake Erie Consistory of the Scottish Rite and Oriental Commandery, Knights Templars. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His remains were laid to rest in the beautiful Woodland Cemetery. The late Mr. Akers had many charming and genial personal characteristics. A .correspondent of the Cleveland Plain Dealer wrote: "He was well fitted for the mimic art. He had the figure, the presence. the voice and the fire. The scattered surviving members of the Dodge Club of forty or more years ago will recall the admirable readings he gave from time to time. They will recall too the slim shy youth whom he introduced to the club one evening. This was his kinsman Joseph Haworth, who became one of the finest romantic actors on the American stage, and much of the aid and encouragement that brought his early opportunity came from Mr. Akers. Mr. Akers in his earlier days had a wide range of acquaintance with stage notabilities, and was especially fond of John McCullough." Of Mr. Akers' family the only surviving members are his widow, Mrs. Maud M. (Miller) Akers; his brother, J. M. Akers, of Cleveland ; and his sisters, Mrs. Harry Bushes and Miss Martha Akers. of Cleveland. Mr. Akers married at Cleveland Miss Maud M. Miller, of Brooklyn, New York. Mrs. Akers has long been prominent in social circles at Cleveland and for years was a leader in charitable work. The Dorcas Home has been one of the chief objects of her interest and devoted effort. She is now its first vice 458 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS president and has been recording and corresponding secretary and chairman of the Admission Committee, and was a member of the Board of Managers for twenty-seven consecutive years to June, 1918, while in June, 1917, she was re-elected for another term of three years. She is also active in the Sorosis Ladies Literary and Educational Society and the Woman's Club, and is almost a charter member of both organizations. JOHN M. AKERS during a long career spent chiefly at Cleveland, has been one of the most successful hotel men in the country, and the record of his service in that field is an exceedingly varied and interesting one. He and his brother, the late William Joseph Akers, were closely associated in the hotel business for a number of years. Mr. Akers is now giving practically all his time to the management of his private interests, consisting of large real estate holdings in Cleveland. He was born at Doylestown, Ohio, February 22, 1850, a son of John and Catherine (O'Leary) Akers. His father' was born in England and his mother in Dublin, Ireland. His maternal grandfather was an Irish rebel and had to leave that country because of participation in some of the political movements of his time. John and Catherine Akers were married in England and in 1847 immigrated to America. John Akers is remembered as one of the prominent contractors of Cleveland in his day. The old county jail which once stood on the northwest corner of the public square was built by John Akers. He also built the Big Four Railway Building on Water Street and St. Clair Avenue. His last work was Ascension Hall at Kenyon College, and be died at Gambier, about the time this piece of work was finished, in 1858, at the age of forty-three. He was laid to rest at Gambier. His widow survived him many years and died in Cleveland in 1894, and is buried in this city. She was in many ways a remarkable woman, and her children have always admired her talents and given her much credit for the influences that molded their youthful development. There was probably no better read woman in Cleveland than Mrs. John Akers, and there was hardly any subject on which she did not possess information and which did not arouse her intellectual interest. When a young woman she was a friend of John D. Rockefeller when that famous Cleveland man was a struggling youth with hardly a dollar of spare capital. Mr. John M. Akers is now the oldest surviving member of the family since the death of his brother William J. His sisters, Martha Akers and Mrs. Harry Bushes, live together on East Eighty-second Street. John M. Akers attended a German school in Cleveland for a short time and afterwards the public schools. His schools days were ended when about eleven years of age; and his education has been more the product of the school of experience than from any other source. The work which opened to him the arena where his efforts have proved most successful was three years of employment in the lunchroom of the Union Depot at Cleveland. Then intervened another experience when he became an apprentice in a machine shop and after serving his time was pronounced a first class journeyman machinist and probably as good as any of his fellow workmen in the trade, which he followed actively for about seven years. But on attaining his majority Mr. Akers took up his real vocation, when he was employed as manager of the Continental Hotel at Crestline, Ohio. Later he was connected with the dining car service of the Big Four Railway between Union City and Galion. That was a rather early time in the evolution of the modern dining car. In fact there was no special car, and arrangements had merely been made to serve meals in the regular coaches by converting a regular day coach into a diner. Subsequently Mr. Akers was manager of the Russell House at Alliance, Ohio, and upon the death of L. G. Russell he acquired his interests and became proprietor of that hotel. On selling the Russell House he returned to Cleveland and then for twenty years managed the Union Depot restaurant of this city. This business was a very successful proposition in his hands. The last large hotel enterprise with which he was identified was the Tarpon Inn at Tarpon Springs, Florida, a location unexcelled for a winter resort. Tarpon Springs is close to the Gulf of Mexico in Northwestern Florida and located on one of the main railway lines through St. Petersburg and Tampa. In 1914 Mr. Akers and his brother became the principals in forming a stock company to build the Tarpon Inn, a handsome hotel erected at a cost of $135,000. Ill health prevented William J. Akers from taking any active part in the management, which devolved entirely upon John M. Akers for the first year. During that year the house CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 459 gave a net profit of $11,400, and this fine showing was largely due to Mr. Akers' personality in the management. In fact none of the subsequent managers have been able to equal that figure since. Because of his extensive acquaintance in Cleveland Mr. Akers filled the hotel the first year almost entirely with Cleveland people. After that year he felt obliged to return to Cleveland to look after his private interests, and since then the Tarpon Inn has not made a cent for its stockholders. Mr. Akers sold his interests in the property in the spring of 1918. His investments made from time to time in Cleveland have brought him property now valued at approximately $125,000. He owns all four corners at Hough Avenue and East Eighty-first Street. On one of these corners he has a large apartment house and on another his own residence. His summer home is at Villa Beach Club, where he and his family spend the summer months. Mr. Akers is a democrat, and at different times has been a figure in local campaigns. A few years ago he was on the ticket for city treasurer, accepting that honor at the solicitation of his friends, though he had no taste for office and made no special effort to be elected. Nevertheless, his name carried so much weight that it nearly upset the entire republican ticket at the election. When he can find time from the cares of business Mr. Akers enjoys no recreation more than an occasional hunting and fishing trip in Michigan. Mrs. Akers is a member of the Christian Science Church and of the Woman's Club of Cleveland and the Sorosis. Mrs. Akers before her marriage was Miss Virginia L. Domigan, daughter of Orville Domigan. Her grandfather, William Domigan, was at one time sheriff of the county in which Columbus, Ohio, is located, and the Domigans were an old family there. Mrs. Akers was born in that city and was educated there in select schools. She spent most of her girlhood with her grandmother Domigan, who had no other children at home at the time. Mrs. Akers' mother was a member of a prominent Connecticut family which produced a number of leading characters, including Uijited States Senator Scott. Mr. and Mrs. Akers had three children. The oldest, William Joseph, named for his uncle, died at the age of eleven. The second son, Jack M., is now in the quartermaster's department of the United States Army. Frank Gardiner, the youngest, is with the Kelley Lime Company of Cleveland as a salesman. He married Miss Lucile Brookins, of Cleveland. SOLOMON KOHN. The career of Solomon Kohn, which came to a close in death August 7, 1918, was unusual not because of his long residence in Cleveland and his progressive record as a business man, but for the qualities of character and the nobility he displayed in all of life's relations. It is the memory of these sterling attributes that moved men to appreciate him while he was living and to hold his memory in deepest respect and affection now that he has gone. Those things that made his life beautiful as well as long were well characterized by a friend in the Jewish Review and Observer: "Mr. Kohn was a man of great ability and superior character, an affectionate husband and father, and a loyal friend. He was highly esteemed by all who knew him. Never did a purer soul dwell on earth, never brighter spirit soar toward heaven. Hope, faith and charity found expression in his long life, which was a rarely blessed one. He was plain, unostentatious and genial in his manner. His sterling integrity won for him the implicit confidence of his business associates, and his life is worthy of emulation by those who are left behind to mourn his loss." Solomon Kohn was born in Bohemia, April 6, 1838. He was of Jewish parentage and was one of the prominent men of his race in Cleveland. He was one of the oldest and most devout members of the Euclid Avenue Temple and attended worship there as long as health permitted. The conditions of his early life were sufficient to give him a keen appreciation of the ideals which have guided his adopted country into the present war against Germany, and he took a good deal of satisfaction and seemed to regard as significant the fact that his eightieth birthday came on the first anniversary of America's participation in the war for liberty. As a youth he learned the trade of tanner. He came to America in 1867 and in Cleveland was employed for several years in Pink's tannery. The last thirty-five years of his life he was a furniture merchant and one of the oldest in that business. In the '80s he founded a furniture store in a barn on Floyd Street, and in 1891 the success of the business enabled him to open salesrooms on Woodland Avenue under the name of Rosenwater Kohn. Later the firm was known as S. Kohn 460 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS & Sons Company. In 1907 the company opened its large show rooms on East One Hundred and Fifth Street and St. Clair Avenue, and the store on Woodland Avenue was also continued until a short time before Mr. Kohn's death. In the management of this growing and important enterprise he continued active until about a year before his death, when he was compelled to sell out on account of ill health. The late Mr. Kohn was identified with several charitable organizations, and for twelve years was treasurer of Ellsworth Lodge No. 505, Free and Accepted Masons. In 1868 he married Miss Pauline Lang. In March, 1918, this venerable couple celebrated their golden wedding anniversary, and Mrs. Kohn is still living and is the mother of five children and several grandchildren. Her children are: Mrs. B. F. Corday, David S., William S., Israel W. and Joseph Kohn. JOHN M. SUIZMANN. Many citizens can recognize existing evils, needed improvements and conditions that require reforming, but the mere recognition and criticism is an expression of futility. To get the thing done requires positive action and, more than that, requires the bearing of responsibilities and frequently the weight of disfavor that have no corresponding remuneration or rewards. There are contending and hostile forces at work in every community that must be reconciled before any change of condition is possible. The agency of this reconciliation and adjustment must always be some individual or group of individuals who are willing to sacrifice their time and energies without any expectation of reward beyond that proceeding from conscientious performance of duty. Cleveland has perhaps no better example of this class of citizen today than John M. Sulzmann, the representative of the Twenty-first Ward in the City Council. Mr. Sulzmann is now in his fourth consecutive term of service in the city government. It is only bestowing honor where honor is due to record briefly some of the outstanding facts of his public record. Six years ago, in 1912, when the country was in the grip of a hard times period, and when 35,000 men were out of work in Cleveland, Mr. Sulzmann was author of the resolution which was passed by the council distributing 5,000 blankets among the needy poor. He also introduced the resolution and secured its passage opening all school yards as playgrounds, and it is estimated that fully 90,000 children used these grounds every day. He was also the father of the resolution passed by the City Council giving the poor boy in the sixth grade a chance to earn his own tuition to college by allowing the city to furnish free seeds and implements to raise garden vegetables, the proceeds of the crop going to the boy. Cleveland has the largest Convention Hall in the United States, a building seating 15,000 people. Mr. Sulznann is credited with the influence and work which brought about this magnificent undertaking of the municipality. For his own ward, the Twenty-first, he secured the establishment of a playground for children at a cost $5,000. He is also father of the municipal coal ordinance, which allows the city at any time to purchase a.coal mine. His name is identified with a number of other acts of municipal legislation that have called the attention of the entire country to Cleveland as one of the most progressive of American cities. He was responsible for the municipal ice plant ordinance, which allows the city at any time to sell waterworks bonds without the process of an initiative or referendum election, the proceeds of which may be used by the city to engage in the ice business. Mr. Sulzmann promulgated and secured the unanimous passage of the resolution providing for old age pensions, and that piece of legislation is now pending before the State Legislature. Another ordinance on the statute books through his influence is that standardizing the loaf of bread sold in the city. According to this provision, every loaf of bread made and sold in a public bake shop is labeled with the quantity, either eight ounces or sixteen ounces. This has prevented much of the fraud formerly practiced by the dishonest bakers of the city. He also secured the passage of the ordinance establishing municipal markets, establishing a municipal dairy, this being an ordinance giving permissory powers to the city to engage in the dairy business whenever conditions. warrant; is author of the ordinance creating an anti-rent profiteering board. This legislation has been a source of untold good to Cleveland during the present era of congestion consequent upon war industries and war conditions. Under the ordinance a board has been created and through its action landlords who refuse to rent rooms or apartments to families with children have been promptly placed upon the unpatriotic list. As an auxiliary to the CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 461 board, there has been created a committee of 300 of Cleveland's best citizens, selected from the Chamber of Commerce, Chamber of Industry and other civic organizations, and through this auxiliary .committee the attention of the proper authorities has been called to many flagrant instances of rent profiteering. Another distinctive war measure credited to Mr. Sulzmann was the resolution passed by the Council providing that contracts for city improvements should be granted to American citizens only, and that ordinance has been strictly enforced. Mr. Sulzmann is a tireless champion of the people's rights and privileges. The Cleveland Telephone Company was granted, through action of the Supreme Court of Ohio, a new schedule of rates becoming effective July 1, 1918. As chairman of the Council committee on telephones, Mr. Sulzmann, in spite of the formidable prestige of the new schedule, directed the law director of Cleveland to issue an injunction preventing the company from collecting according to the new rates. At this writing this matter is still pending. Mr. Sulzmann has lived in Cleveland all his life and by his public and business activities is one of the city's best known residents. He was born December 4, 1869, forty-nine years ago. His parents were Maximilian and Christina (Ansenhofer) Sulzmann. His father was an early settler of Cleveland, a machinist by trade, and he and his wife were early members of St. Joseph Catholic Church at Woodland Avenue and Twenty-third Street. He reared a family of fourteen children, eleven of whom are still living. John M. Sulzmann was educated in St. Joseph's Franciscan College at Woodland Avenue and Twenty-third Street and his business since early youth has been that of cigarmaker. In 1893 he went into business for himself and worked on the bench along with his employes for a number of years. At present he has a large establishment as a cigar manufacturer and employs forty people. Mr. Sulzmann is a life member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, is a member of the Loyal Order of Moose, the United Commercial Travelers, the Catholic Mutual Benefit Association, Branch No. 11, which he has served as deputy for Cuyahoga County twelve years, and is a member of St. Thomas Aquinas Church at Superior and Ansel Road. In politics he is a stanch and loyal democrat. He was first a member of the City Council from 1901 to 1903, when he represented the Fifth District comprising the Thirteenth, Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth wards. -He wag elected from a republican ward which had always given a majority of 1,600 votes to republican candidates, his plurality being 781. In 1912 he was elected councilman at large, and served until 1914, when, under the new charter, the six councilmen at large were abolished and he was then re-elected from the Twenty-first Ward. He was elected for his present term in the fall of 1917. Mr. Sulzmann was a stanch ally of the late Tom L. Johnson in promoting the 3-cent street car fare for Cleveland. He was also, among other measures, active in annexing the Village of Brooklyn, which gave the city its first municipal lighting plant. As the record already given indicates, Mr. Sulzmann is a stanch believer in a program of municipal ownership of public utilities. He also assisted Mr. Cooley in all his charitable enterprises. He was one of the leaders in obtaining the Orange Avenue bathhouse, the municipal 3-cent lodging house, and his services were of great value to the city in acting as an adjustor or arbitrator in settling the tunnel workers' strike, thereby hastening the completion of the intake crib. Mr. Sulzmann is president of the Cigar Manufacturers Association of Cleveland, is a director of the Personal Liberty League, and a member of the Cleveland Bowling Club, Thistle Bowling Club and Tuxedo Club. His large factory and retail store are located at 6802 Superior Avenue. Mr. Sulzmann and family reside at 1388 East Eighty-first Street. November 25, 1891, in St. Peter's Church at Superior and East Seventeenth streets, he married Miss Emma Reiblein, daughter of Charles and Elizabeth Reiblein. Mrs. Sulzmann is the oldest of fifteen children, four of whom are still living. Her father, an artist by profession, was at one time foreman in the Lake Shore Pullman shop. Mr. and Mrs. Sulzmann have every reason to be proud of their fine family of sons and daughters, whose names in order of age are William, Arthur, Perry, Sylvester, Johnny, Ralph, Mamie, Bertha, Loretta, Christina and Eleanor. William married Catherine Lynch and has one child. Arthur's wife was Ethel Phillips and they have one child. Mamie is the wife of Martin Kinsella, deputy police clerk of the Municipal Court of Cleveland; Mr. and Mrs. Kinsella have three children, two daughters and one son. The 462 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS Sulzmann family sex-vice flag shows two stars. Perry Sulzmann enlisted with the United States Engineers April 8, 1917, and is now in the trenches in France. Johnny was only sixteen when he enlisted with the Marines at Paris Island in South Carolina. HOMER DEWITT COZAD has had the long training that served to develop his many natural qualifications for the business of banking, and has been connected with Cleveland financial institutions since he was a youth of nineteen. He is now one of the officers of the Garfield Savings Bank, being assistant secretary and manager of the Superior Branch at Superior Avenue and East One Hundred Fifth Street. He has been in the service of that branch continuously for the past fourteen years, and is one of the best known business men in that section of the city. Mr. Cozad was born in Cleveland August 31, 1880, a son of William H. and Mary A. (Barker) Cozad. The Cozad ancestry was established in America in 1662 by Jacques Cozad, who was a French Huguenot and came to this country from Leyden, Holland, where he had found a temporary refuge. The family have therefore been in America for more than two and a half centuries, and Mr. Cozad represents the seventh generation since the pioneer immigrant. His parents now reside at Geneva, Ohio, where his father is in the grocery business. The mother was a daughter of John Barker of Cleveland. In the family were three sons and a daughter; Homer DeWitt; Alice Bell, wife of L. B. Alderman, of Geneva, Ohio; William H., Jr., and H. Clarke Cozad, both of Painesville, Ohio. Besides his early education in the public schools of Madison, Ohio, Homer D. Cozad attended the old Fairmont School in Cleveland and the Spencerian Business College. He also acquired considerable business training under his father, and when about nineteen years old entered the service of the Wade Park Bank in Cleveland as clearance clerk. This bank was later absorbed by the Cleveland Trust Company. In March, 1901, he became identified with the Garfield Savings Bank Company as teller at the Lakeview branch on Euclid Avenue and the corner of East One Hundred Eighteenth Street. He was with that branch about a year and a half before being transferred to the Superior branch, where he was on duty as cashier for a time until promoted to assistant secretary of the company and manager of this branch. The Garfield Savings Bank was established in 1892 and besides its main office in the Garfield Building has five branches in different sections of the city. It is one of the splendid institutions of service in Cleveland, and in proportion to that service its prosperity has been growing consistently for a quarter of a century. At the end of the first year of operation the bank had less than $85,000 in deposits and only about 400 accounts, while at the beginning of the year 1918 its deposits aggregated nearly $9,000,000 and there were almost $50,000 in separate accounts. Mr. Cozad was one of the original members of the American Institute of Banking and has served on its committees. He is also a member of the Cleveland Bankers Association and has been quite interested in republican politics in his home locality. He is also fond of outdoor life, and in 1918 was elected president of the Snow Lake Fishing & Country Club. He is affiliated with Iris Lodge No. 229, Free and Accepted Masons, Glenville Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, and is a member of the Cleveland Automobile Club and the Park Congregational Church. Perhaps his most favorite recreations are fishing and hunting. Mr. Cozad and family reside at 3337 Euclid Heights Boulevard. On June 7, 1905, at Madison, Ohio, he married Miss Norma E. Gill, who was born and reared in that town, being a graduate of the Madison High School. She is a daughter of Henry C. and Harriet (Van Epps) Gill. Mr. and Mrs. Cozad have one son, Harris Bennett, born at Cleveland February 13, 1910. Mrs. Cozad is a member of the Eastern Star. SETH MARSHALL BOND. Like every great city Cleveland has its landmarks and enduring institutions which furnish distinction and character to its commercial life. One of these undoubtedly is the Root & McBride Company, one of the largest as well as one of the oldest wholesale dry goods houses in the Middle West and one that might justly be included in any list of a hundred great mercantile firms in the country. The president of the Root & McBride Company is Seth Marshall Bond, who has been in its service for over thirty years and made his first mark in the business world when only seventeen years old. Mr. Bond was born at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 8, 1859, a son of William J. and Lucelia (Nones) CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 463 Bond. Home life and public schools gave him the foundation of his early training. His independent entry into commercial life at the age of seventeen was through the organization of a retail dry goods store in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He sold that business to become an employe and salesman for Johnston & Erwin, an Indianapolis wholesale dry goods house, and was with them from 1880 to 1884, and in the latter year came to Cleveland as department manager for Root & McBride Brothers. In 1905 he was made secretary of the Root & McBride Company, and seven years later, upon the death of the late J. H. McBride, was selected to fill the position of president thus vacated. Mr. Bond is a director of the Guardian Savings & Trust Company and the Cleveland National Bank. He is a member of the Union Club, Mayfield Country Club, Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, president of the Cleveland Associated Charities, trustee of the Young Men's Christian Association and trustee of the Society for the Blind, and is president and trustee of Cavalry Presbyterian Church. In 1886 Mr. Bond married Gertrude Hayden, daughter of Joel T. and Caroline Hayden. On December 19, 1916, Mrs. Bond died, leaving a daughter, Doris Hayden Bond. MATTHEW F. BRAMLEY. There are Comparatively few people in Cleveland who do not know something of Mr. Bramley's personal activities in business and civic affairs, and those who do not know of him personally are familiar with the several large corporations in which he is an executive officer. Mr. Bramley is president of The Templar Motors Company, is president of The Cleveland Trinidad Painting Company, president of The Luna Park Amusement Company, is president and executive chairman of The Land Title Abstract Company, and is a director in twelve other business concerns, some of them recognized as of national prominence. Tireless energy has promoted Mr. Bramley from the circumstances of a poor boy to one of the most influential of Cleveland business men. He was born at Independence in Cnyahoga County, January 4, 1868, a son of John P. and Mary Ann (Newton) Bramley. Part of his boyhood was spent on a farm. With a fair education in the Cleveland public schools he went to work to earn his own living, and his initial successes and the business which brought him independence were gained as a paving contractor. He has been in that busi- Vol. III-30 ness for many years, and his associates say that he has never failed in any business undertaking. It is this well justified reputation for success that has proved an important factor in The Templar Motors Company, which is one of the youngest of Cleveland's automobile industries and has had remarkable growth and development. The Templar Motors Corporation was organized under the stress and in spite of the difficulties of financing incident to war necessities. It has established and built a large plant and the Templar cars have well justified the patronage and appreciative praise accorded them. Not all the facilities of the plant are devoted to the manufacture of pleasure cars, and since early in 1918 the plant has been manufacturing thousands of shells in fulfillment of a government contract. Some very able financiers and men of long experience in motordom are conneeted with The Templar Motors Corporation, but to almost a unique degree the corporation is thoroughly popular and democratic, its stock being distributed among fully 10,000 stockholders. Mr. Bramley is a republican in politics, and has been active in his party and in public affairs for a number of years. He was a member of the Ohio State Legislature from 1898 to 1903, was a member of the City Hall Commission of Cleveland from 1898 to 1908, and of the Cuyahoga County Building Commis-Rion, 1905 to 1908. Mr. Bramley is identified with the West Side Chamber of Industry, the Cleveland Automobile Club, and Cleveland Athletic Club, and is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, the National Union, with Cleveland Lodge No. 18, Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, the Fraternal Order of Eagles, the Federation of American Motorcyclists and is treasurer of the Newsboys and Bootblacks' Union. He and his family reside at 11420 Harbor View Drive. July 23, 1891, he married Miss Gertrude Siegenthaler of Cleveland. Their two cHildren, both born at Cleveland, are John Harold, a sergeant in Company F, Twenty-Third Engineers, Second Battalion, serving in France, and Margaret Elizabeth, a student at West High School, in the class of 1919. WARREN HOLMES CORNING was one of Cleveland's foremost citizens, business men and bankers, and his period of greatest activity covered the last third of the past century. Though his life was comparatively brief, terminating before he was sixty years of age, 464 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS he had made such effective use of his talents that he was a man of wealth and resources that made him known both east and west and was well able to retire before reaching middle age. He was born at Painesville in Lake County, Ohio, February 18, 1841, and died at Cleveland September 3, 1899. Some brief facts concerning his American ancestry will speak for themselves. He was directly descended from Samuel Corning, who arrived from Holland in 1627 and was admitted as a freeman in Boston June 2, 1641, and was one of the founders of the first church of Beverly, Massachusetts. Warren Corning, grandfather of Warren H., was born at Beverly, Massachusetts, November 21, 1771, and married November 12, 1795, Elizabeth Pettingill. In 1810, with his wife and at the head of a small colony, he set out from Acworth, New Hampshire, where he had lived for several years, bound for the frontier district of Ohio. He located in Mentor Township of Northern Ohio, having accomplished the long and difficult journey with a six horse team and covered wagon and was the first mayor of Mentor village. Thus were transferred under his leadership a small but influential colony of people who did much to transmit to later generations the thoughts and ideals of old New England to Northern Ohio. As commander of this colonizing expedition Warren Corning was called Colonel Corning, and by that honorary title he was always known afterward. Thus the Comings came to Northern Ohio before the second war with Great Britain and they endured many hardships and privations incident to such early settlement. Colonel Corning was greatly, prospered in his business affairs and accumulated a large estate. His daughter Harriet sold part of the old Corning farm to James A. Garfield, President of the United States. Colonel Corning had nine children. One of them was Solon Corning, who was born at Acworth, New Hampshire, February 2, 1810, and was a small infant when brought to Northern Ohio. He inherited a comfortable competence from his father, and his natural ability and industry enabled him to use this nucleus as the basis of a solid fortune. He married Elmira E. Holmes, of Willoughby, Ohio, and they had seven children, one of whom was Warren Holmes Corning. When the latter was five years of age the family moved to Cleveland and lived in this city two years. They then went to Newark, Ohio, making the journey by way of canal in the absence of any railroads. In 1853 the family returned to Cleveland, where Solon Corning went into business with A. H. and D. N. Barney under the name Barney, Corning & Company. This firm was one of the first to operate a large fleet of vessels on the Great Lakes. In Cleveland Warren H. Corning attended the public schools, graduating from high school, and even as a school boy showed many of those traits and virtues which distinguished him during his active business career. On leaving school he went to work at the age of sixteen in the firm of Gordon, McMillan & Company, wholesale grocers, a firm at that time doing a very extensive business in Northern Ohio. He was in their service three years and the service counted a great deal in giving him a thorough and methodical business training invaluable to him in after life. Then, in association with his father, he entered the manufacturing and distilling business at Cleveland. As Cleveland was remote from the great grain belt from which the distilling interests obtained its raw material, a plant was established at Peoria, Illinois, of which Mr. Corning was active manager, though he retained his home in Cleveland. About 1887 he sold the Monarch Distilling Company of Peoria to the Distilling and Cattle Feeding Company, and at that time retired from the distilling industry. After that he gave his attention to many other interests. He made large investments in the Standard Sewing Machine Company, the Wick Banking & Trust Company, the First National Bank and the Guardian Savings & Trust Company of Cleveland, in all of which he was a director and actively concerned with their management. He was also heavily interested in various other corporations. Mr. Corning was a stanch republican and was generous of his time and influence in furthering the best interests of his party in state and national campaigns. He is remembered as a man of most pleasing personality. Genial and affable among friends, he has many prominent social connections in Cleveland as well as in eastern cities. He was a member of the Metropolitan and New York clubs and the Ohio Society of New York, and at Cleveland belonged to the Union Club, Roadside Club and Country Club. December 7, 1864, he married Miss Mary Helen Wick. Her father, Henry Wick, was a prominent Cleveland banker, being founder CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 465 of the Wick Banking & Trust Company. To Mr. and Mrs. Corning were born six children, two sons and four daughters, of whom one son and three daughters are still living. The son Leslie S. died in New York at the age of twenty-three. The daughter Mary A., who died in Philadelphia in 1905 at the age of thirty-four, was the wife of Judge Audenried of Philadelphia. Henry Wick Corning, of Cleveland, is president of the Standard Sewing Machine Company, and concerning whom a brief sketch is published elsewhere. The daughters are: Mrs. A. S. Chisholm, of Cleveland; Mrs. Clarence Warden, of Philadelphia; and Olive Payne, wife of Forrest Pearson, of Philadelphia. All the children were born in Cleveland. HENRY WICK CORNING is president of the Standard Sewing Machine Company. This is one of Cleveland's large industries, with trade and distributing facilities ramifying throughout the country, and its executive responsibilities are sufficient to take a full measure of a man's best energies and talents. Mr. Corning has been a factor in this business for many years, and is also connected with several other Cleveland institutions. Mr. Corning is a son of the late Warren Holmes Corning, a Cleveland manufacturer and banker whose life is represented on other pages. Mr. Corning's mother, Mary Helen (Wick) Corning, is still living in Cleveland. Henry Wick Corning was born in this city January 13, 1869, received his primary education in the local schools, attended St. Paul's School at Concord, New Hampshire, and Harvard University, from which he graduated A. B. with the class of 1891. Since leaving university he has been completely engrossed with business interests at Cleveland, at first in association with his father. In 1895 he was made treasurer of the Standard Sewing Machine Company, later was given additional responsibilities of secretary, and in 1914 was elected president of one of the oldest and most typical industries of the city. He is also a director of the First National Bank, the Guardian Savings and Trust Company, and the Adams-Bagnall Electric Company. Mr. Corning was one of the first to respond to the call at the outbreak of the Spanish-American war. He was captain of Troop B of the First Ohio Volunteer Cavalry. Mr. Corning is a republican in politics, a man of broad and liberal views and progressive tendencies in all matters affecting his home city and state. He is a member of the Union Club, the Tavern Club and Country Club of Cleveland and of the Knickerbocker Club of New York City. His favorite recreations are tennis and golf. November 2, 1897, Mr. Corning married Miss Edith Warden, daughter of William G. and Sadie (Bushnell) Warden of Philadelphia. They have two children, Mary and Warren Holmes. The Comings have an attractive residence at Bratenahl, and also a summer home at Mentor, Ohio. WILLIAM R. MITCHELL twenty years ago began service with the National Acme Company, when that now great Cleveland industry was in its infancy, and has been with it through its growth and development and has been adapting and expanding his own abilities and capacity at the same time. He is now works manager of the Coit plant, and as such has a secure place among Cleveland's industrial leaders. Mr. Mitchell was born at Syracuse, New York, December 23, 1879. The Mitchell family is Scotch and English and was founded in Ohio by his grandfather, Dr. John Mitchell, who was a physician and surgeon and died at Tiro, Ohio, before William R. Mitchell was born. K. K. Mitchell, father of William R., was born at Tiro, Ohio, in 1858, grew up at Shelby, and for a number of years lived at Cleveland, where he was engaged in the lum-. ber business. In 1904 he removed to Detroit, where he still continues an active factor in the lumber trade. He is a republican, and a consistent member of the Episcopal Church. His fraternity is the Knights of Pythias. Mr. K. K. Mitchell married Harriet R. Bull, who was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1856. William R. Mitchell, only child of his parents, was educated in the public schools of Cleveland, but left his books and studies at the age of fourteen to go to work. For one year he was pole record clerk for the Cleveland Telephone Company, VMS clerk in the offices of the Standard Oil Company one year, and for three years was clerk and one year paymaster of the United Salt Company. In 1899 he went with what was then known as the National Manufacturing Company, now the National Acme Company. He has been through all the grades of service in this institution, and merit and ability brought him to his present office as works manager. The National Acme Company employs 2,100 hands. Its machinery plant is located at 466 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS 7500 Stanton Avenue. The new products plant and executive offiees are located at Coit Road and East One Hundred Thirty-first Street, and Mr. Mitchell's headquarters are there. He is also a director of the company, Mr. Mitchell is well known in industrial and engineering circles, is a member of the Cleveland Engineering Society and the Society of Automobile Engineers, a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, Cleveland Athletic Club, Willowick Club, Shaker Lake Country Club, and has prominent affiliations in Masonry, including Tyrian Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, McKinley Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, Coeur de Lion Commandery, Knight Templars, Lake Erie Consistory of the Scottish Rite, Woodward Council, Royal and Select Masters, and Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is a republican voter and a member of the Episcopal church. Mr. Mitchell married at Cleveland in 1902 Miss Justine Brayton, daughter of Henry G. and Alice (Clark) Brayton. The Mitchell home is also the home of Mrs. Mitchell's parents. Her father is proprietor of the Merchandise Exchange. Mr. Mitchell in 1917 built one of the attractive homes on Woodmere Drive in Cleveland Heights. To their marriage have been born two children: Alice, born May 7, 1907, and Jane, born May 24, 1917. CHARLES HENRY CHRISTIAN is a prominent civil and construction engineer, member of the well known firm the Christian, Schwarzenberg & Gaede Company, engineers, whose headquarters are in the Euclid Building. The other two members of this company are Louis H. Schwarzenberg and Oscar L. Gaede, all of whom are graduate civil engineers and men whose combined abilities have served to turn a large amount of construction work to the company. Mr. Christian has spent much of his active career in Cleveland, but was born in St. Paul. Minnesota, January 20, 1884, a son of George H. and Caroline (Mitchell) Christian. His parents have been residents of Cleveland since 1900. His father, a native of Cincinnati, is also a civil engineer and is now connected with the city engineering department of Cleveland. Charles H. Christian has a younger sister, Esther Mary, wife of Lieut.-Col. T. J. Smith, chief of personnel ordnance division at Washington, D. C. Mr. Christian was educated in the public schools of Norwalk, Ohio, to which point his parents moved from St. Paul, Minnesota, when the son was two years old. He also attended one year the Central High School of Cleveland, and graduated from the David Prouty High School at Spencer, Massachusetts, with the class of 1902. Returning to Cleveland, he entered the Case School of Applied Science, from which he graduated in 1908 with the degree Bachelor of Science of Electrical Engineering. In 1914 Case School conferred upon him the degree Civil Engineer. His professional work, began in 1908, was at first with the Cleveland Engineering Company, and for a time he was also associated with Wilbur J. Watson. In 1913 he formed his present association with Mr. Schwarzenberg and Mr. Gaede, and in February, 1918, they incorporated as the Christian, Schwarzenberg & Gaede Company. Mr. Gaede is president, Mr. Schwarzenberg, vice president and Mr. Christian, secretary and treasurer. Their work has been designing and superintending of construction, and primarily they have operated as factory architects and builders. Two hundred factories have been designed and the construction of many of them superintended by this firm since it was established in 1913. It will serve to indicate the type and class of their work to note a few of the more important examples, as follows: The Telling-Belle-Vernon plant; the Richmond Brothers plant, which was pronounced by the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce as being the finest in course of construction . in Cleveland in 1916; L. N. Gross Company plant on Lakeside Avenue; the Federal Knitting Company on West Twenty-fifth Street; several buildings for the K. & E. Company, and several for the Grabler Manufacturing Company; several buildings for the Standard Oil Company of Ohio; a building for the Standard Parts Company ; the concrete engineering for the William Bingham Company building; a warehouse for Stone Brothers; and besides this several million square feet of concrete construction in Cleveland and vicinity. Mr. Christian is a member of the Cleveland Engineering Society, and is affiliated with Heights Lodge No. 633, Free and Accepted Masons, Cleveland Athletic Club and Sigma Phi college fraternity. He and his family reside at 2981 East Overlook Road. June 29, 1912, he married Miss Lillian Paisley, of a prominent Cleveland family, daughter of J. A. and Mary (Mor- CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 467 row) Paisley. Her father is president of the Valley Camp Coal Company. Mrs. Christian was born in Newcastle, Pennsylvania, but was educated at Cleveland, being a graduate of the East High School. Both their children were born in Cleveland, named Ruth Esther and Mary Carolyn. HON. WILLIAM GORDON, now serving his third term as a congressman from Ohio, has distinguished himself both for ability in business and the law and public affairs. He is president of the Gordon Lumber Company, a big industry in Ottawa County founded and established by his father, ,the late Washington Gordon. Congressman Gordon began practice in Ottawa County and has been a resident of Cleveland since November, 1906. He was born on a farm near Oak Harbor, Ohio, December 15, 1862, a son of Washington and Margaret (Rymers) Gordon. His father in addition to building up a large industry as a lumber manufacturer was a prominent man of Ottawa County for many years. He was born on a farm near Elmore, Ohio, in 1834 and from 1868 was engaged in the lumber and saw mill business at Oak Harbor. He died there Jane 25, 1902. For four years he was county treasurer of Ottawa County, from September, 1887, to September, 1891. He was long an active democrat and a member of Oak Harbor Lodge of Masons. For over forty years he was a trustee of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Oak Harbor and his wife also took an active part in that church. She was born in Stark County, Ohio, in 1834 and when a young woman went to Ottawa County to teach school, and thus became acquainted with Washington Gordon. She died May 31, 1915, at the age of eighty-one. They had been married over half a century, their marriage having been celebrated at Port Clinton about 1858. In the family were six children, two sons dying in childhood. Hon. William Gordon is the oldest of those still living. His sisters are Mrs. Elva Bleckner of Toledo and Mrs. Nora Kilmer, wife of Henry A. Kilmer, manager of the Gordon Lumber Company of Oak Harbor. The only brother is Harry J. Gordon, in the grocery business at Bridgeport, Illinois. William Gordon was educated in the public schools of Oak Harbor and in 1880 graduated from the Toledo Business College with the degree of Master of Accounts. He attended that school two years. For three win- ters he taught a district school in Ottawa County. In 1893 he was graduated LL. B. from the University of Michigan Law School and admitted to the Ohio bar the same year. In 1894 Mr. Gordon was elected prosecuting attorney of Ottawa County and by re-election in 1897 served six years. From 1890 to 1896 he was member of the County Board of School Examiners of Ottawa County and had served under his father as deputy county treasurer from 1887 to 1891. In 1894 he was the only nominee on the democratic ticket in Ottawa County who was elected. In the spring of 1895, as prosecuting attorney, he removed to Port Clinton, and lived in that city looking after his law practice and his business affairs until 1906, when he came to Cleveland. Mr. Gordon was a delegate from the Ninth Ohio District to the Democratic National Convention of 1896, when William J. Bryan was first nominated at Chicago. During 1903 and 1904 he was a member of the Democratic State Central Committee, of the same district. He was first a candidate for Congress from the old Twentieth Ohio District in 1910. In the election he received 20,500 votes to the 20,680 votes given to Paul Howland, the republican candidate. • Two years later, in 1912, the same district elected him to the Sixty-third Congress and he was also reelected to the Sixty-fifth from the new Twentieth District, comprising the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Seventh, and Eighth Cleveland wards on the West Side and of wards No. 9, 10, 21, 23, 24 and 25 on the East Side. At the last election in November, 1916, Congressman Gordon was returned to the Sixty-fifth Congress by a vote of 29,950 to 17,235 for the republican candidate, Eugene Quigley. Mr. Gordon has unusual qualifications for his congressional duties. He has practiced law for over twenty years and has that large and broad outlook that comes to the mature man of business and public affairs. His law offices are in the Society for Savings Building at Cleveland and he is usually found in those offices except when on duty at Washington attending Congress, duties that have been unusually imperative during a large part of his career as a congressman. Mr. Gordon is a member of Bigelow Lodge of Masons at Cleveland, of Thatcher Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, Forest City Commandery, Knight Tempters, and Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He served as master of O. H. Perry Lodge, the oldest Masonic Lodge in Ottawa County, having been elected to that 468 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS post in 1905. He also belongs to the Loyal Order of Moose at Cleveland, the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, Cleveland Chamber of Industry and Cleveland and Ohio State Bar associations. He was trustee of Andrews Institute for Girls at Willoughby, Ohio, ex officio, while a member of Congress from the old Twentieth District. Congressman Gordon was married at Port Clinton, Ohio, September 12, 1893, to Miss Elizabeth M. Gernhard. Mrs. Gordon was born in the west end of Ottawa County and was educated in the public schools of Port Clinton, where she lived from early girlhood. Her father was a well known Ottawa County citizen and at one time served as sheriff of the county. After leaving that office he built and became proprietor of the old Island House in Port Clinton. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon have one son, Walter Scott Gordon, who attended the high school in Cleveland two years and then entered St. John's Military Academy at Delafield, Wisconsin, where he was graduated in the spring of 1915. He is now in his second year in Kenyon College at Gambier. Their only daughter, Dorothy A., is a student at the National Cathedral School for Girls at Washington, D. C. JAMBS GOLDSWORD. There are several facts in the career of James Goldsword of Cleveland which speak for themselves. He was born in this city fifty-four years ago. Forty-two years of this lifetime has been spent in the bag-making industry. One of a large family of children and his people being in moderate circumstances, he was in the month before he reached his twelfth birthday given an opportunity to work in a bag factory. His duties then were proportionate to his inexperience and age, but since then not a single item of the entire industry has escaped his study and practice. His first employers were the old Adams, Jewett & Company. This old industry is now one of the constituent parts of the great The Cleveland-Akron Bag Company, of which Mr. Goldsword is a vice president. He began working in the factory, later was transferred to the business offices, was made plant superintendent, and for a number of years past has been general superintendent of all the plants operated under the general corporate title of The Cleveland-Akron Bag Company. In 1915 he was also elected vice president of the corporation. The main plant and business office of this company are at Cleveland at Fortieth Street and Perkins Avenue. This plant is also known as the J. H. McBride Plant. Other plants are on Broadway, The Standard Plant on East Forty-seventh Street, another at Scranton Road and Auburn Avenue, known as the Scranton Road Plant, while in other cities the industry is represented by the Buffalo Bag Company of Buffalo, New York, the Chicago & Detroit Bag Company has its plant at Goshen, Indiana, while there is a plant at Boston, Ohio, known as the Boston Mill This company makes every variety and type of bags and of all materials. Mr. Goldsword is also a director of the Globe Paper Company of Cleveland. He was born at Cleveland, April 9, 1864, a son of Cornelius and Jennie (Dole) Golds-word. His parents were both born in the district of Zeeland in Holland. Cornelius Golds-word lost his mother in the old country and at the age of seventeen he and his father started across the ocean to America. His father died at sea, and the boy on landing in this country was unable to speak a word of English. Later his sister also came to America. In 1858, sixty years ago, Cornelius Goldsword arrived in Cleveland, where he married. He was an iron molder, and died here November 24, 1904. His widow is still living. They had a family of five sons and three daughters, all of whom lived to grow up, and those surviving are four boys and two girls, all residents of Cleveland. Mr. James Goldsword was the oldest of the family. While so much of his life has been concentrated upon the bag-making industry he has also formed social and other connections that make him well known in the city. He is a member of the Cleveland Athletic Club and of the Second Christian Reformed Church of Cleveland. September 6, 1894, he married Miss Marina Meermans of Cleveland, where she was born and educated. They reside at 1358 East Eighty-fifth Street. GEORGE MOUNTAIN EDMONDSON. Since the year 1814, when the first permanent pictures by the action of light on chemicals were produced at Chalais-Sur-Fier, the art of photography has made rapid strides among the world's vocations, and today the photographer occupies an established position in art, commercial and industrial life. In the person of George Mountain Edmondson Cleveland has one of the eminent portrait photographers of the present generation. CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 469 He comes of a family of artists and scholars. His grandfather, George Edmondson, was proprietor and president of Queenwood College, a Quaker school for boys in England. His father, George W. Edmondson, was born in England and educated in his father's school, but in 1865 came to America, settling at Norwalk, Ohio, and entering the profession of photography. George W. Edmondson was a photographer when the only commercial processes of the art were confined to the old daguerreotype and the ambrotype. He adapted himself to the enlarging field of the art, and did some excellent work in unexplored branches of the photographic profession. In 1889 he removed to Cleveland, and continued his work as a photographer until advanced years. George Mountain Edmondson was born at his father's home in Norwalk, Ohio, August 23, 1866, was educated in the public schools there, and from the age of fourteen during vacations applied himself to the study of photography in his father's studio. He then worked for his father a short time, but in 1887 came to Cleveland at the request of James F. Ryder to become assistant operator in the Superior Street studio of that veteran of the profession. It was here that his knowledge of enlarging on the then new bromide paper won for Mr. Ryder several prizes in friendly rivalry with other brothers of the class. After a year and a half Mr. Edmondson joined the forces at the old Decker and Wilbur studio in the Gaylord residence on Euclid Avenue. Mr. Wilbur retired from this partnership and Mr. Edmondson remained with Mr. Decker and after six years was taken into partnership. The business was conducted as the Decker Studio. Six years later Mr. Edmondson succeeded to the business and soon afterward moved to ]822 Euclid Avenue and a few years ago established his headquarters at 2362 Euclid Avenue. Mr. Edmondson has concentrated his attention chiefly to portrait photography, for which he has received numerous medals and awards, and it is hardly necessary to dwell on the excellence of the product of his studio, so well known are they everywhere in Cleveland and throughout this section of Ohio. Mr. Edmondson has scored some notable triumphs in color photography and in home portraiture he is without a peer in this section of the country. Mr. Edmondson has held the office of president of the Photographers' Association of Ohio and in 1902 was elected president of the Photographers' Association of America. He is a member of the Professional Photographers' Association of New York. He is one of Cleveland's progressive business men, and a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Cleveland Athletic Club and of the Unitarian Church. HARRY HORTON HAMPTON, until September 15, 1918, secretary-treasurer of the Hampton-Ambler Realty Company of Cleveland, is now captain in the artillery section of the National Army. Mr. Hampton's successful work in real estate affairs brought him further prominence as president of the Cleveland Real Estate Board for the year 1917. The only son of Howard and Helen (Kelley) Hampton, he was born at Columbus, Ohio, February 18, 1887. His father was a native of Pomeroy, Ohio, and his mother of Columbus, in which city they were married. For over forty years his grandfather, J. B. Hampton, carried on a large leather manufacturing business at Columbus, and the firm title during a part of that period was J. B. Hampton & Son. Howard Hampton's very promising business career was cut short by his death in 1893, when only twenty-eight years of age. His widow still lives in Columbus. Howard Hampton was married on his twenty-first birthday. Harry Horton Hampton grew up at Columbus, attended the public schools there and the Ohio State University, specializing in mining engineering. For two years he worked for a coal company at Nelsonville in Southern Ohio. Then, in 1908, coming to Cleveland, he entered the real estate business with the old reliable real estate firm of V. C. Taylor & Son. For two years after leaving the Taylor organization he was in business under his own name with offices in the Williams Building, handling general city property. In March, 1913, the Hampton-Ambler Realty Company was formed with Mr. Hampton as secretary-treasurer, and the other officers are W. E. Ambler, and William Ambler, vice president. This firm, with offices in the Arcade, are general brokers and handle and manage real estate of all classes both in and out of Cleveland. Mr. Hampton, together with his firm, is a member of the Cleveland Real Estate Board, the Ohio State Associations of Real Estate Boards and the National Association of Real 470 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS Estate Exchanges. Politically he is independent, and is a member of the Cleveland Athletic Club, Cleveland Automobile Club, Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, Civic League and the Phi Kappa Psi college fraternity. He belongs to the Episcopal Church. April 8, 1911, he married Miss Marguerite Faye Ambler, of Cleveland, daughter of W. E. and Flora (Lewis) Ambler. Mrs. Hampton was born in Pentwater, Michigan, but grew up and was educated in Cleveland. She is a graduate of Miss Mittelberger's School of Cleveland and the National Park Seminary of Washington, D. C. Their only child. Floranell, was born in Cleveland. F. C. CHANDLER. Cleveland justly claims pre-eminence along many lines and has proof to sustain her claim, and when attention is called to the Chandler Motor Company it is easy to believe that it would be difficult to make a finer display of motor cars or a more complete and up to date plant. One does not have to look so very far in the past to recall the advent of the "horselesa carriage," and what a marvel of perfected mechanism it then appeared to be, soon after being superceded by the larger automobiles, which, with all their drawbacks, were yet remarkable inventions and improvements. In contrast, turn to the Chandler Six motor car, one of the finest products of this wonderful industry. It has been well said of this car, the Chandler Six, that it is not simply a motor with a car built around it, for the complete harmony of every detail of construction, the perfect unity of the whole car, every detail of equipment and appointment, convinces the casual observer that the extreme of beauty, comfort, adaptability and safety have been reached. The Chandler Motor Company for the manufacture of these cars was founded by F. C. Chandler in March, 1913. The officials of the company then were and have continued in office, F. C. Chandler, president; C. A. Emise, first vice president; W. S. Mead, second vice president; and Samuel Regor, treasurer. All are men of business solidity and of great enterprise and they began business with the idea of giving to the public just such a product as they immediately put upon the market. That its quality was recognized by the whole country may be indicated by the large sale of cars, aggregating 500 between March and December, 1914. When this company started into business their plant had 40,000 square feet of floor space. Today they have, because they require 400,000 square feet. In 1914 they manufactured 2,000 cars, in 1915, 6,000 cars. in 1916 the number grew to 13,000 cars, and in the current year the company plans to manufacture over 25,000 cars. The plant is so thoroughly equipped that it is named as one of the most complete in the United States. Employment is given to 6,000 people and its pay roll amounts to stupendous figures. While the Chandler Six has proved a wonderful favorite with the discriminating public, other models are turned out equally admirable in every way, a seven passenger Chandler Touring car being one of the most admired. The building of an automobile of today is a consummation of talent, for in its construction is required not only the finest mechanical skill, but problems of engineering and mysteries of chemistry, the artist's sense of color and fabric—all these and more, without taking into account the abundant finances which rest behind such reliable concerns as the Chandler Motor Company of Cleveland. JOHN A. FOERSTNER at the age of sixteen became clerk in a local coal office in Cleveland and his career from that time to the present may be summed up in the one word, coal. He is now one of the prominent men in various coal companies at Cleveland. Mr. Foerstner was born at Cleveland September 20, 1869, son of Christian C. Foerstner. His father was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, September 11, 1843, was reared and educated there, and in 1868 came to Cleveland, where he soon found employment with Lindsley & Company, coal dealers. For twelve years he had charge of one of their retail yards. He then retired from business and died February 5, 1895. In 1868, soon after he came to Cleveland, he married Antoinette Diesen. They became the parents of four children : John A.; Christian C., manager of The National Lead Company of Cleveland ; Mrs. Anna Benninger of Cleve-. land, and Antoinette, who lives with her widowed mother. John A. Foerstner received his education in the Catholic parochial schools of Cleveland. Leaving school at the age of sixteen, he took employment as a clerk in the same company that had employed his father, Lindsley & Company, and that was the opportunity which CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 471 opened for him a real career. He made himself valuable to Lindaley & Company and for ten years had charge of their books and accounts. In the meantime he was being credited as a very keen and resourceful coal man, and for three years after leaving Linda-ley was secretary and treasurer of the Monongahela & Lake Erie Coal Company. Selling his interests there, he became secretary and treasurer of The Huntington Coal Company and also filled the position of secretary and treasurer of the various corporations owned and controlled by William R. Huntington. Mr. Foerstner was with the Huntington interests three years and then became secretary and treasurer of the J. H. Somers Coal Company. On June 15, 1917, he was elected vice president and director of this company, and is also vice president and director of the Roby COal Company, the Roby-Somers Coal Company, and The Somers Company, is a director of The Belmont Coal Company, director of The Calvert Hatch Company, director in The Lorain Street Savings Bank Company, director of The Toledo Exhibition Company. He is a member of the Knights of Columbus, member of the Chamber of Industry, is a Catholic and in politics a republican. In January, 1892, at Cleveland he married Mary L. Wiemals. They have five children: John C., aged twenty-two, was in the sales department of The Grasselli Chemical Company until his enlistment in the United States Army, and is now in France; Stephen J., aged twenty, a student of medicine in the Western Reserve University; Roee, Ruth and Victoria are all students in St. Stephen's parochial school. HUBERT BRUCE FULLER has lived in Cleveland since 1903. He is a lawyer with a large clientele. He is also widely known as an author. Several works of an economic and legal nature have been published with his name on the title page. For six years Mr. Fuller served as private secretary to Senator Burton. He was born at Derby, Connecticut, June 15, 1880, a son of Robert Bruce and Harriet A. (Prentice) Fuller. His forefathers came to Massachusetts early in the seventeenth century. One of his ancestors was Elder Brewster of the Mayflower and another was a sister of Benjamin Franklin. Several of his forefathers fought in the Revolutionary and Colonial wars. His mother was a granddaughter of Gen. Amariah Kibbe. She was also a cousin of the late George D. Prentice, founder of the Louisville Journal. Robert Bruce Fuller, who died at Washington, D. C., April 5, 1900, was a prominent educator and served as superintendent of schools in various cities and towns of Connecticut. Hubert Bruce Fuller was educated primarily in Connecticut and at Washington and is a graduate of Yale University. He received the A. B. degree in 1901 and the Master of Arts degree in 1904. While at Yale he was awarded the Cobden Club medal by the Cobden Club of England, the Townsend prize in literature and the Eggleston prize in history. He studied law in the Columbian, now the George Washington, University of Washington, which awarded him the degrees LL. B. and LL. M. in 1903 and prizes in insurance and corporation law. After his admission to the bar Mr. Fuller removed to Cleveland in 1903, and began practice with W. S. Fitzgerald. From the first he has been active in republican politica and his service as private secretary to Senator Theodore Burton continued from 1909 to 1915. In his younger years Mr. Fuller found time to contribute to magazines and various publications on legal, historical and political subjects. The first volume published under his authorship was in 1906 under the title "The Purchase of Florida." He is also author of "Tax Returns in Ohio," published in 1907, "The Speakers of the House," published in 1909; "The Law of Accident and Employers' Liability Insurance," published in 1913; and "The Ad to Regulate Commerce," published in 1915. His standing as an author brought his inclusion in Who's Who in America as early. as 1906, and in that year he was the youngest man registered in that widely known work of biographical reference. Mr. Fuller has served as president of the Western Reserve Club, as an officer in the Western Reserve Historical Society and is a former secretary of the Western Reserve Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution. He also belongs to the Phi Sigma Kappa college fraternity, the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, the Cleveland Advertising Club, and the Heights Masonic Lodge. CHARLES E. DOTY is a Cleveland specialist in the management of high class office buildings, and has made that his profession and career since young manhood. He is president of the Chas. E. Doty Company and con- 472 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS nected with other local industries and local affairs. Mr. Doty was born at Cleveland November 15, 1881, a son of Ordello L. and Eliza B. (Timmins) Doty, the former a native of New York State and the latter of Ontario, Canada. The parents were married in Cleveland in 1880. He is an oil broker in the Century Building and is also president of the Manufacturers Oil and Grease Company. The mother has long been prominent in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and for eighteen years was on the Board of the Deaconess and West Side Community Home. There were two sons in the family, Charles E. and Ordello, Jr., who is now in training as a soldier in Camp Sherman. In the matter of ancestry Mr. Doty is descended in the paternal line from Mayflower pilgrims. Edward Doty is given the distinction in history of swimming ashore from the Mayflower and was the first to touch land at Plymouth Rock. Mr. Charles E. Doty was educated in the grammar schools of Cleveland, graduated from the West High School in 1900 and soon took up a business career which led him into the management of office buildings. In 1903, at the age of twenty-two, he was appointed manager of the Caxton Building, and has been continuously in charge of that well known Cleveland office building ever since. For the past four years he has also had the management of the Hippodrome Building, and his own offices as president of the Chas. E. Doty Company are in that building. At one time he was also associated in the management of the Leader-News Building. For two years, 1914-16, Mr. Doty was president of the Cleveland Association of Building Owners and Managers and in September, 1917, retired from office after two years as president of the National Association of Building Owners and Managers. He is also vice president and treasurer of the Manufacturers Oil and Grease Company. Mr. Doty is a republican in politics, a member of the Cleveland Athletic Club, the Cleveland Automobile Club, the City Club, Lakewood Chamber of Commerce and the Lakewood Methodist Episcopal Church. On September 5, 1907, he married Miss Naomi M. Zurfleh, of Cleveland, daughter of F. J. and Elise (Bach) Zurfleh. Mrs. Doty was born and educated in Cleveland. Their home is at 1515 Elbur Avenue in Lakewood, where both their children, Naomi E. and Charles E., Jr., were born. ALEXANDER WINTON. The automobile industry is so new, it has developed to such colossal proportions and it is measured by such a bewildering array of statistics that anything like perspective has been impossible. There have been a great number of men crowned kings in the industry, who have lost their scepters and passed into oblivion. Revolutionary inventions have been heralded, have had their brief reign, and in the next season have been forgotten before something still greater and more wonderful. While there have been so many contenders over the course, and the honors and triumphs have shifted so remarkably from one position in the field to another, the close of the twentieth year of the industry in America finds just one man in the vanguard of the present field who was in the race at the start and who in addition to that premier honor undoubtedly has more claims to real kingship in the automobile world than any other American builder —Alexander Winton. It is a unique distinction for Mr. Winton that today he could be spoken of with no diminution of respect and honor from what was written of him by the New York Sun in April, 1907, more than ten years ago, a quotation which has a special interest from the point of automobile history and from its individual reference to Mr. Winton: "The first automobile show in America was held in September, 1900, at the Washington Park Track in Chicago under the auspices of the 'Inter Ocean.' Practically all the makers then doing business exhibited their machines, and it is a curious fact that of all the exhibitors, the Winton Company is the only one now doing business in the same product, in the same name, in the same city and under the same owners as then. Some of the exhibitors have fallen by the wayside. Some changed from steam and electric power to the gasoline. Some of them changed their names and their owners, or moved from one city to another. Another interesting fact is that Winton cars won every race in which they started at the show, and established a long string of records that stood for several years. This is a record of pioneership without parallel." It was an unnoted but deeply significant event in Cleveland's industrial history when thirty-four years ago a young marine engineer named Alexander Winton arrived in Cleveland. That he is a Scotchman by birth and ancestry is a fact which will explain to many at least one important reason why Alexander CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 473 Winton has achieved such a high place in an industry with unrivaled competition. He was born at Grangemouth, Scotland, June 20, 1860, son of Alexander and Ellen (Fea) Winton. His father was born in 1825 at St Ninian near the famous battlefield of Bannockburn, but from early childhood until his death in 1872 lived at Grangemouth. He was a marine engineer by profession. Outside of business and family perhaps the strongest interest of his life was the Presbyterian church. His wife was born at Falkirk, Scotland, in 1829 and died at Cleveland in 1915. She had been left a widow when her son Alexander was twelve years of age, and it was doubtless one of the greatest satisfactions of her life to see this son achieve a position second to none among America's automobile manufacturers. Alexander Winton attended public schools at Grangemouth during his boyhood, took up the trade of marine engineer, and with considerable acquired skill in that line came to the United States in 1879 at the age of nineteen. At New York City he spent three years with the Delamater Iron Works and for two years was a marine engineer on ocean vessels. Coming to Cleveland in 1884 Mr. Winton went to work in several shops, and there was nothing to distinguish his career and work from that of many other competent men of that time. In 1890 he organized The Winton Bicycle Company, and became superintendent of the plant, which was located on the old viaduct. To that generation of Americans who were touched by the enthusiasm of the "bicycle craze" twenty-five or thirty years ago the name Winton means something, though of course by no means as much as in connection with the automobile business. In 1897 Mr. Winton organized the Winton Company, and established the plant in the old works of the Brush Electric Company on the east side. The Winton Company has carefully preserved photographs of its successive seasonal makes of ears and types, so that there is photographic testimony to the history of the Winton cars going back more than twenty years. At the head of the list stands the Winton car of 1896, and a slightly different one for 1897. Neither of these were commercial cars, representing rather the experimental side of the industry at the Winton shops, the first commercial cars coming in 1898. The admirers of Mr. Winton have never claimed that he was the first builder of a practicable American automobile. A more distinctive claim made for him and one which could not be seriously disputed is that he was the first man to place an American motor car on the market, thus making it available to the public. While in the bicycle industry, associated with George H. Brown and Thomas Henderson, he conceived the plan and idea of the automobile and his partners had faith in him and staked their all to see that faith justified. It was probably the Winton car of 1896 which first demonstrated what could be done and brought triumph to the inventor and his co-workers. Then followed a season of experimentation and improvement until the second vehicle was brought out, infinitely superior to the first. Then, as already noted, the •Winton Company was incorporated for the purpose of manufacturing and selling horseless carriages. Up to that time no such carriage had ever been built for sale to the general public propelled by a gasoline motor. During the winter of 1897-98 The Winton Company undertook the building of four machines. They were built without prospective buyers in sight. The story is told how in March, 1898, Robert Allison, a mechanical engineer from Pennsylvania, came to Cleveland and inquired 'his way to the Winton Motor Carriage Company, which was found with some difficulty. On reaching the shops he declared his purpose as a prospective purchaser for a horseless carriage. He had been about the country and had interviewed a number of inventors and self-styled pioneers in the manufacture of such vehicles, but in every case had found that the inventors were still inventing and that not one would agree to deliver a machine guaranteed to run. On inspecting the Winton shop he found one automobile finished and three nearing completion, and was given the practical demonstration of a ride across the city. So pleased was he with the demonstration that he at once made a cash deposit to bind the bargain for one of the cars, and thus was negotiated the first recorded sale of an American built gasoline motor car. On the afternoon of the same day another mechanical engineer from New Jersey purchased a second car, and within ten days all the four automobiles first made were shipped. The first automobile to Mr. Allison was shipped from the Winton plant on April 1, 1898, and by the close of that year twenty-one cars had been manufactured and delivered to purchasers. These were single-cylindered phaetons, selling at a thousand dollars 474 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS each. Of these first season purchasers only one was in Ohio, and it is interesting to note that he was Mr. J. W. Packard, who later founded The Packard Automobile Company at Detroit. For two or three years the single-cylinder type had undisputed leadership in the automobile field, and the Winton machine was not only sold out beyond the capacity of the plant to produce it but was furthermore highly complimented by competitive manufacturers patterning their own cars largely after the Winton make. The single-cylinder car continued to be manufactured through 1901. In the latter year was introduced the double-cylinder Winton, which was famous for power and endurance and which dominated the market in 1902-03. Up to that time steam and electric power had been close competitors of gasoline in motor vehicles, and it was due to the phenomenal success of the Winton double-cylinder which gave the gasoline power its now universally admitted predominance. In 1904 Mr. Winton produced four-cylinder cars, these being the horizontal cylinder type, whereas in 1902 the first vertical four-cylinder type had been produced. In 1902-03 the world's first eight-cylinder car was brought out, and this car established some records on track that long remained unchallenged. Mr. Winton refused to remain satisfied with the splendid performances of even his four-cylinder cars. He realized that the four was not an ultimate type of efficient motor, and that the ideal motor would be one producing continuous power. This ideal was realized when in the summer of 1907 he brought out the first of the Winton Sixes. Almost immediately he announced that the Winton Company would thereafter make Sixes exclusively. It was an announcement requiring great courage on his part and breaking all precedents in the automobile industry, since all competing manufacturers were making fours and appraising them as the most perfect and efficient motor. But his pioneering in this direction was again justified and all competitors had to follow him. Without reviewing in further detail Mr. Winton's creative work in the automobile industry a summary of that work and of his position is contained in the following well phrased paragraph : "The automobile industry found Alexander Winton to be a safe leader. He creates no false alarms and manufactures no crudities. What he produces is safeguarded against defects by an exhaustive first-hand experience. There is no known type of car, or motor, or part that he has not put through the acid test. Constantly searching for new excellence he has built rotaries and compounds, horizontals and verticals, two-cycles and four-cycles, one, two, three, four, aix, eight and twelve-cylinder motors; carburetors and ignition devices; clutches, transmissions and axles of every variety. "The first selfstarter was his invention; today every car worthy of mention has a self-starter. Indeed, in every car on the market will be found some element, if not many elements, which first came to public attention on cars of his manufacture." From the old Brush Electric Works the Vinton Company moved to a new factory on Berea Road in 1902, and the Winton Works are today one of the most conspicuous features of Cleveland's industrial life and affairs. Twelve hundred men are employed in the Cleveland plant, and there are branch houses in practically every large city of the country. The executive officers of the company are: Alexander Winton, president; Thomas Henderson, vice president; George H. Brown, secretary and treasurer. The Winton staff comprises the following: Charles W. Churchill, general manager; Charles W. Mears, advertising manager; W. H. Doddridge, service manager; O. F. Baughman. sales manager ; E. C. Ranney, purchasing agent ; W. E. Miner, fiscal department; Mr. Bill, shop manager. In 1912 Mr. Winton also established The Winton Engine Works to manufacture gas and oil engines for large merchant ships. This industry, considered an auxiliary or subsidiary of The Winton Company, is located on West One Hundred and Sixth Street and employs two hundred men. The first.building of the plant was erected in 1912 and in 1917 the business spread out to occupy a new fourth building. Mr. Winton is also director of the Lindsay Wire Weaving Company and former president of the .Electric Welding Product Company. He is independent republican in his political actions, is a member of the Presbyterian Church, is affiliated with Lakewood Lodge Free and Accepted Masons, belongs to the Royal Arch Chapter of Masonry, Forest City Commandery, Knights Templar, and is a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, West Side Chamber of Industry. Lakewood Chamber of Industry, Cleveland Athletic Club, Westwood Country Club, Clifton CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 475 Club, and has served as commodore of the Inter-Lake Yachting Association. He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The Winton home and its surroundings constitute one of the most beautiful residences in Cleveland, located at 12906 Lake Avenue. The home was built in 1902. In 1883 at New York City Mr. Winton married Miss Jeanie Muir MacGlashan of Scotland. She died in Cleveland in 1903. She was the mother of six children : Helen, a graduate of the New York School for Young Women, is the wife of Scott McKinstry, a manager for Winton Engine Co. and a resident of Cleveland; James, who finished his education in the Case School of Applied Science at Cleveland and is now superintendent of Winton Engine Works; Agnes, a graduate of the New York School for Young Women, is the wife of Clarence Greise, president of the Euclid Builders Supply Company of Cleveland; Jeanie, a graduate of the New York School for Young Women; Catherine. a student in the Ogontz College at Philadelphia, and Alexander, a student in the Culver Military Academy at Culver. Indiana:. In 1905 at Glasgow, Scotland, Mr. Winton married for his present wife Miss LaBelle MaeGlashan, a cousin of his first wife. They have one child, Clarice. HOWARD LATIMER is president and general manager of the Lincoln Fireproof Storage Company of Cleveland. This is the largest storage organization in the country outside of New York City. It is a business largely developed by Mr. Latimer through many years' of his work as a Cleveland business man. Mr. Latimer was born in Cleveland February 28, 1875. His father, James Latimer, was born in the north of Ireland and came to Cleveland in 1844. At that time he was offered an opportunity to buy a fifty-acre farm adjoining a portion of what is now Euclid Avenue. The price for that land then offered him was $40 an acre. Instead, he exercised another choice and at Parma bought land for $70 an acre. In business lines he was a contractor for many years and died in 1898. His wife, also deceased, was Mary Ann Johnston, who was also born in the north of Ireland. Howard Latimer acquired a public school education and also attended Caton's Business College at Cleveland. For several years he was in the real estate business on his own account. For about five years he was asso ciated with the Everett & Moore Syndicate in the buying of rights of way. In 1905 Mr. Latimer became associated with Mr. J. P. Gager in the storage business. These two men organized a fire-proof storage company. In 1914 Mr. Latimer organized the Lincoln Moving Company, and became its president. About that time he bought the interests of his partner, Mr. Gager, in the storage company and thus merged the two businesses under the corporate name of the Lincoln Fire Proof Storage Company. This is a business that represents an enormous amount of capital and maintains fireproofed warehouses in several convenient parts of the city. The main office and wareroom, a six story 60 by 120 foot building, is at 5700 Euclid Avenue. The East End branch is at 11607 Euclid Avenue and the West Side branch at 2744 Detroit Avenue. The warehouse at 5700 Euclid Avenue, constructed in 1905, was the first important and successful type of reinforced concrete building in Cleveland. Besides Mr. Latimer, the executive officers of the company are: George A. Rutherford, first vice president; W. R. Thomas, second vice president; F. E. Wendling, secretary ; and N. E. Bliss, treasurer. Mr. Latimer has a military record. He was for thirteen years conneoted with Company C of the Fifth Infantry, Ohio National Guard,, and held the successive ranks of corporal, first sergeant, first lieutenant and captain, being captain when he retired in 1904. He went with his company to Florida at the time of the Spanish-American war, but did not get into active service. He is a member of the Spanish-American War Veterans, is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, his local affiliations being with Thatcher Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, Holyrood Commandery and the Consistory bodies. He is also a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, the Traffic Club of Chicago, and in politics is an independent and has never sought public office at any time. Mr. Latimer married Miss Minnie L. Bernhard, a native of Cleveland. Her father, Paul Bernhard, deceased, came to Cleveland from Rome, New York, and was a resident of the city thirty-eight years. Mr. and Mrs. Latimer have one child, Carol, whose name has a special significance, since she was born on Christmas morning. The Latimer family live in a beautiful home in the model suburb of Shaker Heights at 2866 Sedgwick Road. 476 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS BYRON H. EVANS. As secretary and treasurer of the Glenville Coal Company, Byron H. Evans holds prestige as one of the substantial business men of Cleveland. He was born at Youngstown, Ohio, April 20, 1878, and is a son of Evan J. and Mary J. (Howells) Evans. The father was a native of Wales, where his birth occurred October 25, 1839, and whence he immigrated to the United States in 1861. On his arrival in this country the senior Mr. Evans located in Youngstown, where he found work as an engineer with the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company. Subsequently he became interested in the oil business in Oil City, Pennsylvania, and soon after that acquired a grocery store in Youngstown. He then became interested in coal mining properties at Massillon, Ohio, and in 1900, having acquired a competence, he retired from active participation in business matters. He was a man of keen foresight and quick decision in all projects relating to business, and now that he is retired he is enjoying to the full the fruits of his earlier endeavors. Although seventy-seven years of age, he is hale and hearty and his mental faculties are as keen as in his prime. He is a fine old man and to him may be attributed much in connection with the industrial development of the state. One of a family of three children, Byron H. Evans received his preliminary educational training in the public schools at Justus, Ohio. He attended the high school at LaBarr, Ohio, until his sixteenth year, when he became a pupil in the Ohio Normal School at Ada, remaining there for one year. He then returned to Youngstown and became secretary and treasurer of the Youngstown Telephone Company, which concern was owned by his family. In 1899 he went to Sherman, Texas, and there became manager for the Southwestern Trading and Construction Company, which organization was concerned mainly in the erection of independent telephone plants. In 1903 he resigned from the latter position and located in Lockton, Alabama, where he accepted the position of secretary and treasurer of the Howells Mining Company. In 1904 he came to Cleveland, and here he has since maintained his home and business headquarters. During the intervening years to the present time he has served with the utmost efficiency as secretary and treasurer of the Glenville Coal Company, which concern is increasing the scope of its operations year by year, being now one of the important industrial enterprises of suburban Cleveland. May 10, 1909, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Evans to Miss Catherine Corley, a woman of most gracious personality. Mr. Evans is a member of the time-honored Masonic fraternity and he is also affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is a man of wide experience in various business ventures and in all his dealings has proved trustworthy and sincere. He is popular with his fellow men, who honor him for his upright character a,nd high ideals. WILLIAM ROCKEFELLER, like his brother John, gained his business training in Cleveland and laid the foundation for his eminent career as a financier in this city. For many years his home has been in New York, though many ties still bind him to Cleveland. He was born at Richford, Tioga County, New York, May 31, 1841, second Son of William Avery and Eliza (Davidson) Rockefeller. His grandparents were Godfrey and Lucy (Avery) Rockefeller. His grandmother was a descendant of Capt. James Avery of New London, Connecticut. Captain Avery settled at New London in 1656. There were many ancestors on both sides identified with Colonial and Revolutionary history. Mr. Rockefeller's father, William A. Rockefeller, was a farmer and business man. He lived in Tioga County, New York, when that was a sparsely settled region, and his son William acquired his early education in that community. He attended Owego Academy in New York, and was twelve years of age when in 1853 the family came to Cleveland. Here he attended the public schools, and his first practical business experience was as bookkeeper for a local miller named A. Quinn. He was in Mr. Quinn's employ for two years and was also bookkeeper for the firm of Hughes & Lester. This was a produce commission house and he was finally advanced to a partnership in 1862, about the time he reached his majority. The name became Hughes & Rockefeller. In 1865 he withdrew from this business to become associated with his brother John D. in the oil business, as senior member of the firm William Rockefeller & Company. In 1866 a branch house was established in New York City under the name Rockefeller & Company, and at that time Mr. William Rockefeller removed to New York to take charge. He was CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 477 at the head of the business of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey in New York from 1865 until 1911. He was a member of the various firms and corporations which have been familiarly grouped under the name of the Standard Oil Company. He was a member of the old partnership of Rockefeller, Andrews & Flagler, and was vice president of the original Standard Oil Company of Ohio, being identified with that and the many subsidiary organizations and corporations. Mr. William Rockefeller served as president of the Standard Oil Company of New York from its organization until 1911. At a recent date Mr. Rockefeller was connected as a director or in other official capacities with the following railway and other business corporations: Anaconda Copper Mining Company, Consolidated Gas Company, United States Trust Company, Union Pacific, Lackawanna, Michigan Central, Big Four, Oregon Short Line, Pittsburg and Lake Erie, Lake Erie and Western, Nickel Plate, Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, New Jersey Junction, New York and Harlem, Walkill Valley, West Shore, Rutland, St. Lawrence and Adirondack, and New York Central Railroads; Amalgamated Copper Company, National City Bank, Hanover National Bank, United Metals Selling Company, New York Mutual Gas Light Company, Brooklyn Union Gas Company, New York Edison Company, United Electric Light and Power Company, Westchester Lighting Company, Peekskill Lighting & Railroad Company, Northern Westchester Lighting Company, New York State Realty and Terminal Company, Astoria Light, Heat and Power Company, Central Union Gas Company, Northern Union Gas Company, etc. Mr. William Rockefeller's offices are at 26 Broadway, and his home at 689 Fifth Avenue, New York City, where he has resided for forty-three years. He is a member of the Metropolitan, New York Yacht, Union League and Sleepy Hollow Country clubs. On May 25, 1864, he married Miss Almira Geraldine Goodsell, daughter of David Judson and Ellen Goodsell of Fairfield, Connecticut. To their marriage were born six children, four sons and two daughters: There are still living William Godsell Rockefeller, who for many years was treasurer of the Standard Oil Company of New York and still retains numerous banking and transportation interests; Perca A., identified with many railroads, banks and other corporations; Geraldine R., wife of Marcellus Hartley Dodge, and Emma, wife of Dr. David H. McAlpine, Jr. LEONARD CASE, JR. It is the name of Leonard Case, Jr., that is borne by the Case School of Applied Science at Cleveland, and it is to give the important facts of his life and something of his personal relations with the school that the following paragraphs are written : He was born at Cleveland June 27, 1820, a son of Leonard and Elizabeth (Gaylord) Case. Leonard Case, Sr., was born in Pennsylvania July 29, 1786, the son of a Revolutionary soldier, and became identified with Cleveland as cashier of its first bank in 1816. He died in 1864. Leonard Case, Sr., had only two sons, William Case, who was born in 1818 and died in 1862 ; and Leonard, Jr. Leonard Case, Jr., was reared and educated at Cleveland and in 1838 entered Yale College, from which he graduated in 1842. From 1842 to 1844 he studied law in Cincinnati, and was admitted to the bar. Though he opened a law office, he used most of his abilities in assisting his father in the handling of the estate rather than in promoting a general practice. He also used his generous means for extensive travel, and from early manhood was devoted to literary pursuits, and has left poems and other writings which justify his being ranked among the leading men of literature of his generation. Upon the death of his father in 1864 he freed himself as far as possible from the cares of business by turning over his affairs chiefly to Henry G. Abbey as his general business manager and confidential agent. From that time until his death in 1880 Leonard Case, Jr., was able to devote himself to study, literary and mathematical, to the care of his precarious health and to the chosen friends whose society he enjoyed with keenest relish. Of his literary work his biographer has said : "We must not suppose Leonard Case could be for a moment idle. From his earliest boyhood he was noted for his industry. He never went from home without making most elaborate histories of the incidents and accidents of his journey ; and to these are added full statistics and descriptions of all the places and persons he became acquainted with. Many volumes of hundreds of pages each were filled with these writings, and other volumes with solutions of complicated and difficult problems which had been given out in astronomical and other journals for solu- 478 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS tion by anyone who could cope with the subject. "Besides were the poetic works; among them that most admirable and witty poem `Treasure Trove,' the racy and charming mixture of comedy, tragedy and satire, written about 1860 and published in the Atlantic Monthly; also a great many other shorter poems, including a translation from the Italian of 'The Swallow' which seems to show the highest poetic merit and by many thought to be a more successful rendering of the exquisite sentiments of the original than any of the translations made by William Cullen Bryant and other poets." Leonard Case, Jr., was one of the most unselfish of men. In our modern generation he would have been called "a true sportsman," and in everything he did he exemplified the best qualities and ideals of sportsmanship. He had no envy, was generous of his means but wise in their use, and there are many occasions on which he expended his assistance liberally to people and communities in distress. The two distinguishing acts of his life, the endowing of the Case Library Association and the founding of the Case School of Applied Science, were, as his biographer shows, carried out with the utmost freedom from ostentation ar personal pride. As to the founding of the Case School of Applied Science Judge James D. Cleveland, its president, wrote as part of the general biography the following statement: "In 1876 the project of devoting a share of his estate to the founding of a scientific school seems to have been fully perfected. It is not necessary to enquire whether the idea was entirely original with him. It was foreshadowed by his father's expressions of a desire to do something for the education of indigent youth, having been taught by the struggles of his early life how bitter is the lot of men who, born with a divine thirst for knowledge, are unable to attain it; and it was foreshadowed by the half formed projects of William Case, who lived, moved and had his highest enjoyment in anticipations of libraries, galleries and museums of art and natural history; projects unrealized but never forgotten by the surviving brother. It remained for Leonard, the last one of his family, to fully and carefully devise a plan by which he would benefit the youth of his native city. "It was a work to which he brought the most generous spirit, a long foresight of the future wants of a country expanding and developing untold resources of mines and man. ufactures, and a religious regard for the honor and wishes of his father and the enthusiastic projects of his brother. He sought every aid for the development of his thought by consulting others who had wisdom, experience, and love of learning. "He believed that he could do most to express the debt of gratitude which his father always acknowledged to be owing to the city in which he had prospered, by extending a helping hand to those who were making a start in life. He had begun to do this in occasional instances; now he would put the business upon a broad and well founded basis, equipped and fortified for all future time. He believed that he could devise nothing better for the youth of Cleveland and his state than to provide them with the means of obtaining at their very doors, a sound, ex- tensive and practical scientific knowledge. "He thought that colleges which only aimed at the culture of men by long years of devotion to the ancient Greek and Latin literature and mathematics ought to be supplemented by schools where the application of pure science to particular classes of problems would meet the demand of an age of progress in manufactures, arts, mining, railroads, and electrical engineering, and enable men to unlock the secrets of nature and our country's hidden resources. "He hoped to enable every lad whose capacity, ambition and strength of fibre were sufficient to pull him through the grammar and high schools of the city, and to profit by the opportunities offered him by a scientific school, to step at once into the practical application of all his knowledge and culture to the problems with which a daring, aggressive, energetic people were already wrestling. “The country was full of minerals and coals, and the incidents of transportation and manufacture required engineering, chemistry, science, to give perfection and success to the forces and processes to be used. Men must be thoroughly trained to do good work, and good work is alone of any value. Others must be trained for original investigation; to carry the light into the darkest and remotest secret of the natural world, which gives up its best and most valuable CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 479 things only to the hardest fighters, the most persistent brain, the most untiring searcher after truth. “To the foundation of a school of applied science then, Leonard Case resolved to devote a handsome share of his fortune, leaving another large share for the law to distribute among his father's kinsmen. He availed himself of the counsel of the Honorable Judge Rufus P. Ranney and his careful drafting of the legal papers to ensure the proper limitations of the trust and perpetuity of the benefaction. "On February 24, 1877, he delivered the trust deed to Mr. Henry G. Abbey which invested him with the title of lands to endow `The Case School of Applied Science,' in the city of Cleveland, in which should be taught by competent teachers, mathematics, physics, engineering, mechanical and civil chemistry, economic geology, mining and metallurgy, natural history, drawing and modern languages. and such other kindred branches of learning EiS the trustees of said institution might deem advisable. "As there was nothing he disliked more than notoriety, and especially such notoriety as is won by apparent ostentatious deeds of benevolence, the course he took in this matter effectually prevented any public knowledge of his purpose until he was beyond the reach of any public or individual gratitude. " His death occurred January 6, 1880. By an unremitting battle with disease he succeeded in reaching nearly his sixtieth year. For the last six or eight years, however, it had been a struggle for mere existence, his broken health gradually but surely declining sinsi.p spite of the best care and highest medical skill. "That day one of his oldest friends paid this tribute to his character: 'Those who knew him well must say that no kinder-hearted, no truer friend had lived than Leonard Case: and nowhere could he found a man more worthy of the name of gentleman in its highest sense.' " JOAN F. WAHL, vice president and general manager of the Pennsylvania-Ontario Transportation Company, with offices in the Rockefeller Building, resides at 1465 East One Hundred and Fifteenth Street. He is thirty-nine years of age and a native of Cleveland. He is the youngest son of John II. and Wilhelmina Wahl, and has three Vol. III-31 brothers, Albert H., Frank C. and Herman C. Wahl, all residing in the City of Cleveland; Mr. Wahl received a public school and college education. He married Mary Grace Hoskin, daughter of Eugene and Ann (Spray) Hoskin, of Mantua, Ohio, November 25, 1908. He is a Mason and a member of the Cleveland Athletic Club. FRANK JAMES VENNING has been a working factor in Cleveland's business life since he left high school at the age of eighteen. His associates have good reason to respect his efficiency as a salesman and general all around ability as a business administrator since he has made good in every position he has held. Mr. Venning is secretary, treasurer and general manager of the Union Salt Company, and is a director in several other business corporations. He was born at Cleveland September 6, 1877. The Vennings are a family of English descent. His grandfather, Richard Venning, was an early day farmer in Strongsville Township of Cuyahoga County, but finally left this locality and moved to a farm near Eldorado, Kansas, where he died. James W. Venning, father of Frank J., was born in Cleveland, and has spent practically all his life in the city. He is now cashier of the American Agricultural Chemical Company. In politics he votes as a republican, is a member of the Episcopal Church, and is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and member of the Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine. James W. Venning married Annie M. Davis, of Akron, Ohio. Their children were: Flora A., wife of John Toon, department manager for the Van Dorn Iron Works Company of Cleveland ; Frank J. Mattie 13., wife of Ralph S. Richards, purchasing agent for the Atlas Car & Manufacturing Company of Cleveland ; George, who died in Cleveland at the age of twenty-five; and two other sons who died in infancy. Frank James Venning was reared and educated in Cleveland, attending the grammar and high schools. At eighteen, on leaving school, he went to work as cashier in the Cleveland office of the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company. He was there two years and then for five years was purchasing agent with the Cleveland Faucet Company, the next shift of business experience bringing him to the Union Salt Company, where for two years he was assistant to the general manager. Mr. Venning then left the Union Salt 480 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS Company to becomes sales and advertising manager of the Standard Sewing Machine Company. After five years he returned to the Union Salt Company in August, 1911, as secretary, treasurer and general manager and has given a very forceful direction to the affairs and responsibilities of this prominent corporation. The Union Salt Company's plant and offices are located at East Sixty-fifth Street and the New York Central Railroad. Mr. Venning is also a director in the Jackson Mills Emery Company and in the 0. C. Barber Allied Industries Company. He is a republican and a member of the Episcopal Church. In 1917 he built a modern home in Cleveland Heights. Mr. Venning married in 1905 Miss Effie M. Stevens, a native of this city. They have two children, John R., born March 1, 1910; and Virginia M., born June 27, 1915. FRANCIS B. KAVANAGH, first assistant United States attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and also member of the law firm of Gentsch, Rawson, Smith, Kavanagh & Carpenter, has been a resident of this city since 1902, was for some years interested in journalism and in sociological work, but has given his undivided time to his profession since 1909. Mr. Kavanagh was born August 14, 1879, at Union City, Pennsylvania. His parents, John F. and Mary (Kilroy) Kavanagh, are still living at Union City. John F. Kavanagh is a merchant tailor, and continued in business until 1916. He was very successful in early life, and it was as a result of the unfortunate combination of circumstances due to the hard times of the '90s that he lost his fortune, when his children were still young, and this event, apparently a calamity, was subsequently converted into a real opportunity by Francis B. Kavanagh. John F. Kavanagh was a native of Utica, New York, son of James Kavanagh. The latter was one of the Irish patriots of 1848 who had to leave Ireland and seek refuge in the United States. James Kavanagh owned and opened the first of the celebrated stone quarries at Utica, New York, and while there became a personal friend of the Sherman family, one of whom was the late vice president, James S. Sherman. From New York James Kavanagh moved to Erie County, Pennsylvania, where he spent his last years. He was a prominent man in his day, and constructed one of the early branches of the Pennsylvania Railway System, running from Union City to Kane, Pennsylvania. He was also superintendent of construction for the Pennsylvania Railroad and had previously been a railroad foreman. His death was due to an accident incurred while he was supervising the unloading of some iron girders for railroad purposes. These were one of the first shipments of iron girders for that purpose, and the unfamiliarity of the workmen in handling them caused the accident. Francis B. Kavanagh's mother was born at Union City, Pennsylvania, and is of Irish descent. Her father was a carpenter contractor, and his work was especially notable in the building of churches in Pennsylvania. He built a large number of such edifices in Union City, Titusville, Meadville, Erie, Kane and other localities. Francis B. Kavanagh was the oldest of seven children. He was about fifteen years old when his father lost his fortune. He graduated from the high school of Union City with the class of 1896, and economic necessity then forced him to earn his own living. He learned the trade of chair maker at Union City and worked in a chair factory for some time. But he never lost sight of his ambition to become a lawyer and studied law at every opportunity. For a time his studies were directed at Union City by Hon. Milton Shreve, a very successful lawyer and member of Congress. He also received some further academic training at the Vincentian Academy at Germantown, Pennsylvania. After leaving school Mr. Kavanagh worked several years as a newspaper man, principally on the Cleveland Leader and as general manager of the Universe Publishing Company of Cleveland. He also did editorial and reportorial work on several country papers, including the Warren Daily News and the Harrison County Herald at Clarksburg, West Virginia. His newspaper experience opened to him a broad view of life in its various conditions, and he became increasingly interested in sociological conditions and finally gave up his newspaper work to assist in establishing the Cleveland City Farm School for Dependent and Delinquent Boys at Hudson. Later he was assistant general agent of the Cleveland Humane Society, and undertook and accomplished the reorganization of that society. In the meantime he was carrying on his law studies in the Cleveland Law School of Baldwin-Wallace University, and graduated CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 481 Bachelor of Laws with the class of 1909. Immediately after his admission to the bar he took up general practice with offices in the Society for Savings Building, but the offices of the wellknown firm of which he is now a member are in the Illuminating Building. From the first Mr. Kavanagh attracted the attention of his professional associates in Cleveland by his ability and conscientious work, and while building up a private practice he was gaining a firm hold on the confidence of the profession in general. A significant testimonial of this came in 1915 when 400 members of the Cleveland Bar Association gave him their personal endorsement for appointment as first assistant United States district attorney. These letters he naturally prizes highly, and has had them bound in appropriate covers. The endorsements came voluntarily and many of them from the foremost members of the Cleveland bar. Mr. Kavanagh was appointed to his present office July 15, 1915, and assumed his duties on the following day. He has been very active in democratic politics in Cleveland and vicinity for a number of years. He managed the congressional campaigns of 1910 and 1912 for the Twentieth Congressional District, and was chairman of the Lawyers Committee in the fall of 1914, when the late Hon. A. G. Carpenter was elected as judge of the Court of Appeals of Cuyahoga County over Louis Winch, the sitting judge of the court. Mr. Kavanagh is a member of the Cleveland Athletic Club, Colonial Club, the East Shore Country Club, Civic Club, Cleveland Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Delta Theta Phi legal fraternity and is a Mason. His hobby is books. He has a splendid collection both of standard literature as well as a good private law library, and in the former has some very precious volumes. He is a lover of Shakespeare and he is always ready to declare that Shakespeare's works are one of the best and most fundamental text books for any lawyer to study. May 30, 1916, Mr. Kavanagh married Miss Mildred Sigler, daughter of C. C. Sigler of the Sigler Brothers, wholesale and retail jewelers of Cleveland. Mrs. Kavanaugh was born in Cleveland, was educated in Miss Mittleberger's School and finished her education in a private school at Boston. She is a member of the Cleveland Automobile Club and the Colonial Club. They have one son, Maurice S. Mr. Kavanagh's ability was recognized because of his successful prosecutions in cases arising out of the war against the Imperial German Government, by his appointment as a special assistant to the United States attorney for the Northern District of Ohio on September 1, 1918. Prominent among the cases tried by him and in which he participated as counsel for the Government was the celebrated case of the United States vs. Eugene V. Debs, several times socialistic candidate for president, for violation of the espionage act. HAMILTON L. LINDSAY who came to Cleveland about thirty years ago, has the genius of the typical Scotch mechanic and machinist. Out of his experience he finally evolved and invented a machine for the weaving of wire used in paper mill equipment. All this wire weaving had formerly been done by hand. It was one of those improvements which has served to lighten the burden of industry and marked a big advance in the perfection of paper mill machinery. Mr. Lindsay, who possesses good executive ability as well as inventive powers, organized a company for the manufacture of his product, and is president of the Lindsay Wire Weaving Company, one of the important corporations of Cleveland. The plant is located at 14025 Aspinwall Avenue. Mr. Lindsay was born at Glasgow, Scotland, October 14, 1867. His ancestors were Scotch as far back as the record goes. His grandfather, Hamilton Lindsay, was born at Langside, Scotland, and spent all his life near Glasgow, where he had a country blacksmith shop. He also served four years in the Scotch Militia. He married Jane Lang, who also spent her life near Glasgow. Two of her brothers came to the United States. One was Captain Lang who was killed in one of the battles of the Civil war, while the other brother was also a Union soldier and died from wounds received during the war. William Lindsay, father of Hamilton L., was born in Glasgow in 1841. He grew up and married there and was employed as a chemist in steel works. He came to the United States in 1893, and after that was actively connected with woolen mills, at first at Providence, Rhode Island, and afterwards at Clinton, Massachusetts. He retired from business in 1903 and after that lived in Cleveland until his death in 1914. As an American citizen he voted the republican ticket, was a member of the Presbyterian Church and af- 482 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS filiated with the Masonic fraternity. William Lindsay served four years with a military organization of Scottish volunteers. He married Margaret Lang Lawson, who was born in Stirlingshire, Scotland, in 1846, and died at Cleveland in 1913. Their children were: Hamilton L.; Margaret, living at Cleveland, widow, of John Gibson, who was a foreman machinist at Clinton, Massachusetts; Robert, who has charge of the mechanical department of the Lindsay Wire Weaving Company ; Jane, who lives at Cleveland, widow of John Stobel, who was an office holder at Clinton, Massachusetts, where he died; David, a plumber at Cleveland; Agnes, who died at the age of seven years; and Janet, who died in infancy. Hamilton L. Lindsay was educated in the public schools of Glasgow, attending high school there one year. Between the ages of fifteen and twenty he served an apprenticeship in mechanical trades and also studied mechanical engineering in night school. Coming to the United States in 1887, Mr. Lindsay spent six months at Philadelphia in the mechanical department of the Thompson Brothers Company. In 1888 he first arrived at Cleveland and spent two years as machinist foreman with the Walker Manufacturing Company. Then followed a tour of the West, largely as a matter of pleasure, during which time he visited Chicago and Denver and other points. Returning to Cleveland he worked two years as a mechanic with the Brown Hoisting Machinery Company, and then returned to his native land for a visit of four months. Back in Cleveland, he worked with the John Walker Manufacturing Company as foreman two years, for two years was superintendent of the Columbia Elevator Company, and during a year of the panic of the '90s again worked as a mechanic for the Kill)), Manufacturing Company. About that time he was offered and accepted the position of superintendent for the Paige Manufacturing Company's shops at Painesville. He remained there two years, until the failure of the Paige Bank shut down the shops. In 1899 Mr. Lindsay became a mechanic with W. S. Tyler Company. and was promoted to charge of the mechanical department, where he remained until 1904. In the meantime he had been working on his ideas of a machine which would weave paper machine wires and finally perfected the device and secured his patent. As an expert he organized the stock company and established the Lindsay Wire Weaving Company. The factory is located at Collinwood station in Cleveland. The market for the output of this company extends all over the United States and in fact to all parts of the world where paper manufacturing is carried on. The business began very modestly with only six men on the payroll, while now the employes number 150. The officers of the company are: H. L. Lindsay, president and general manager; H. H. Field, secretary ; and George H. Brown, treasurer. Mr. Lindsay is also vice president of the John Christian Contracting Company and is a director of the Central Savings and Loan Company. He is a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, Colonial Club, East Shore Country Club, is on the official board of the Parkwood Methodist Episcopal Church and in politics is an independent republican. Fraternally he is very active in Masonry, having affiliations with Forest City Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; Cleveland Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; IIolyrood Commandery, Knights Templar ; Lake Erie Consistory of the Scottish Rite, and Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He also belongs to the Independent Order of Foresters. Mr. Lindsay and his family formerly resided on Drexel Avenue, but in 1914 he built his modern home at Willoughby-on-the-Lake. In August, 1891, at Cleveland, he married Lillie Buell, daughter of Edward and Mary (Lewis) Buell. Her mother died in 1915. Her father, a retired resident of Cleveland, was formerly a flour miller at Somerfield, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Lindsay have one child, Mary Evelyn, born in September, 1894. She lives at home and is a graduate of Lake Erie College at Painesville. HARRY H. FIELD during his active career at Cleveland has been identified with several business organizations, including a commercial printing concern for a number of years, but is now giving his chief time and attention to his duties as secretary of the Lindsay Wire Weaving Company at 14025 Aspinwall Avenue. Mr. Field has spent practically all his life at Cleveland. He was born at Kirtland, Ohio, April 28, 1875. His father, William C. Field, was born at London, England, in 1836. The paternal grandfather died in England, and his widow then married Henry Hadlow. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hadlow and her son, William C. Field, came to the United States and set- CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 483 tled on the south side of Cleveland, where Henry Hadlow was one of the pioneer market gardeners. William C. Field grew up there, was well educated, and became a pharmacist and druggist. He died at Cleveland March 13, 1892. He was a republican and an active supporter of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The maiden name of his wife was Sarah J. Walters. She was born near Doans Corners, then in East Cleveland, a historic section of the city, and is still living. She was born in 1841. Her children are William B., who is connected with the Cleveland Leader and also owns a fruit and chicken farm at Willoughby, Ohio; Florence, who died at the age of six years; Harry H.; and Frank S., who lives at Wickliffe, Ohio, and is a rural mail carrier. Harry H. Field was educated in the public schools of Cleveland, spending two years in high school. He left his studies at the age of seventeen to go to work for the Ohio Check Register Company. A year later he joined the Cleveland Dryer Company as clerk in the office. He was with that firm from 1893 until 1901 and during that time he assumed the responsibilities of looking after the company's printing office and learned the printing trade. In 1901 he engaged in the printing business for himself with Harry Skinner. They did a general jobbing and commercial printing and organized a corporation with Mr. G. W. Bruner, known as the Bruner Printing Company. Mr. Field was secretary and treasurer of this company until he sold out to Mr. Bruner on June 12, 1905. He then became bookkeeper with the Lindsay Wire Weaving Company. This company had been organized several years before and was just getting fairly started in manufacturing under patents held by Mr. Hamilton Lindsay, for wire weaving machines. Mr. Field was later promoted to cashier and is now secretary of the company. He also has other business interests, being a stockholder in the Central Savings & Loan Company, in the Templars Motor Company, and is the Duro Graphite Company, whose headquarters are in New York City. Mr. Field is independent in politics. For several years he served as a member of the official hoard of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He belongs to the Cleveland Automobile Club and is affiliated with Forest City Lodge No. 388, Free and Accepted Masons; Cleveland Chapter No. 148, Royal Arch Masons; and Holyrood Cominandery No. 32. His home is at 10305 Olivet Avenue. June 15, 1902, at Cleveland, Mr. Field married Sadie J. Buell, daughter of Edward and Mary (Lewis) Buell, the latter now deceased. Her father lives with Mr. and Mrs. Field. The latter have two children, Albert Earl, born December 14, 1903, and Laurence Buell, born January 25, 1909. JUSTIN GRIESS is a highly trained expert in mechanical engineering, and is an executive officer in some of Cleveland's foremost manufacturing concerns. Mr. Griess has a high standing among the mechanical engineers of the country and has influential connections both in Cleveland and in the East. He was born at Cincinnati August 6, 1874, a son of Justin and Wilhelmine Griess. As a boy he attended the Cincinnati public schools, and in 1892 graduated from the Cincinnati Technical Institute. As a matter of technical experience he went to work with the Cincinnati Milling Machine Company, at first in the shops and later in the drafting room. Having thus been brought into close touch with the realities of his work, he entered the University of Cincinnati and spent a year in special courses and from there became a student during the junior year at Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana. Mr. Griess graduated from that well known educational institution of the West in 1896, with the degree Bachelor of Science in the school of Mechanical Engineering. During the last half of the same year he was employed as an expert machinist at Cincinnati, but in December, 1896, came to Cleveland and formed the partnership of Kaltenbach & Griess, manufacturers' agents, and engineers. Subsequently they developed a considerable business as consulting engineers. The firm was dissolved in 1904. In the meantime in 1902 Mr. Griess was one of the incorporators of the Interstate Engineering Company, with himself as treasurer. Later this company and the McMyler Manufacturing Company consolidated under the name the McMyler Interstate Company. Mr. Griess has since occupied the office of second vice president of this important industrial corporation. He is also vice president and director of the subsidiary company, known as the Inland Ordnance Company, which is now manufacturing for the United States Government. He is vice president of the Bedford Land and Improvement Company. Mr. Griess is a member of the American 484 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS Society of Mechanical Engineers, belongs to the Union and Hermit clubs of Cleveland, the Bankers Club of America at New York City, and the Machinery Club of New York City. He is affiliated with Bedford Lodge No. 375 Free and Accepted Masons, Bedford Chapter Royal Arch Masons, with the Sigma Chi college fraternity, is a republican voter and a trustee of the Bedford Methodist Episcopal Church. His home is at Bedford. April 25, 1900, at Cleveland Mr. Griess married Miss Lillie Klump, daughter of C. A. Klump, of Cleveland. They have two children: Justin Albert, aged sixteen, now a student in the Navy and Military Academy at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin; and Lille Adeline, a graduate of the Bedford High School and now a student at Women's College. ANDREW F. WORBS, whose career of forty years covers an extended experience in railroading, manufacturing and other lines, has been one of Cleveland's real estate risen for a number of years and has done much important allotment work and has built up a large clientage in general real estate. His offices are at 8207 Madison Avenue. Mr. Worbs was born at Newport in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, February 21, 1858. His father, Charles Worbs, was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1813, and during his early years there was educated in the common schools and served as clerk in a dry goods store. In 1841, immigrating to the United States, he settled near Stillwater in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and had a general store at Newport Village and later followed farming near Stillwater until his death in 1886. For fifteen years he served as township treasurer, and was a man of prominence in his community in many ways. He was a republican and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Charles Worbs married Lucinda Houk, who was born in Stillwater, Ohio, in 1835 and died at the home of her son, Andrew, in Cleveland February 21, 1912. She was the mother of five children, Andrew being the oldest. Ella married Mr. Billingsley, formerly a grain merchant at Wichita, Kansas, and both are now deceased. Josephine, deceased, married Charles Clendenning, who is in the United States Engineer's office at Wheeling, West Virginia. Della is the deceased wife of J. A. Barkley, a wholesale grocery merchant at Stillwater. J. H. Worbs is a broker with the Wagner Brokerage Company of Cleveland. Andrew F. Worbs as a boy attended the rural schools of Tuscarawas County and his environment up to the age of seventeen was his father's farm. He then went to work in the telegraph Office of the C. L. & W. Railway, now part of the Baltimore & Ohio Sys-tern. He was with that road at Uhrichsville, Ohio, for thirteen years. In 1889 Mr. Worbs came to Cleveland and entered the service of the Brush Electric Company, and for seven years was clerk to the superintendent. From there he went with the Walker Manufacturing Company, and had charge of its transportation department for seven years. After another year in charge of transportation for the Gary Iron and Steel Company, he engaged in the real estate business under his own name and with offices at 8207 Madison Avenue. Mr. Worbs was responsible for developing the Taylor Park allotment, comprising 183 lots, having laid it out and having sold the entire subdivision. Since then he has been a general real estate broker and has a large and satisfying business. Mr. Worbs is a republican, a member of the Congregational Church, and was formerly affiliated with the Independent Order Of Odd Fellows. His home is at 2013 West Eighty-third Street. On December 30, 1886, at Newport, Washington County, Ohio, he married Miss Dora A. Bosworth. She was born at Newport, Washington County, Ohio, and was educated in the schools there. Her parents, J. C. and Lucy (Ferguson) Bosworth, were farmers and both are now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Worbs have two sons: Frank C. is a graduate of the Cleveland High School and the Case School of Applied Science and is now civil engineer for the Austen Company at Cleveland. C. Earl is a graduate of the West High School of Cleveland, spent the year 1917 as a surveyor for the British Government in Western Canada, and is now connected with a lumber corporation at Edmonton, Alberta. CHARLES H. TUCKER may be said to have begun his active career in Cleveland more than sixty years ago by carrying a newspaper route before and after school hours. Life has brought him a great variety of interesting experiences and achievements. For a time he served in the Civil war. He is especially widely known in transportation circles. and for many years was general agent of some of the leading steamship companies on the Great Lakes. He has also 'represented other interests, and is now practically retired, CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 485 though he still retains an office in the Rockefeller Building. Mr. Tucker is of old Quaker stock. The Tuckers came from England to New York State in the person of his great-grandfather. His grandfather was born in Washington County, New York, and in 1810 removed to North Collins, locating on what was then a part of the Iroquois Indian Reserve, and for a time he and his wife lived there practically surrounded by the Indians. Both were devout Quakers. The grandfather died at North Collins, where for many years he had been a farmer. It was at North Collins that Charles Herbert Tucker was born December 11, 1839. His father, George W. Tucker, was the first white child born on the Iroquois Indian Reservation in Erie County. His birth occurred there in 1810, the same year that his parents arrived. He was reared and married in his native community, was a merchant and postmaster there, and in 1843 removed to Buffalo, where he was a salesman for a wholesale grocery establishment. In 1852 he brought his family to Cleveland and was bookkeeper for the Child & Bishop Organ Company in that city. He died here May 6, 1859. In politics he was affiliated with the old whig party, until it ceased to exist. He was a member of the Quaker Church. George W. Tucker married Susan Bartow, who was born in Westchester County, New York, in 1812. Her ancestors were French Huguenots and were pioneers in Westchester County, New York. She died at Cleveland in 1884, having survived her husband twenty-five years. There were three children in the family. Seth followed farming and died at Fonda in Pocahontas County, Iowa, at the age of seventy-eight. The second child, Hepsiba, died at Cleveland at the age of forty-one. Her husband, Stanley A. Jewett, also deceased, was a native of Connecticut, and for many years was chief tuner in the Childs & Bishop Organ Company at Cleveland. He was a splendid musician and was organist in St. Paul's Church and in the Second Presbyterian Church. The youngest of his parent's children, Charles Herbert Tucker acquired his education in the public schools of Buffalo and Cleveland. As a schoolboy he carried the old Cleveland Herald and also had a route for the Cleveland Plain Dealer. On leaving school in 1854, at the age of fifteen, he took a course in Folsom's Business College, and in 1855 became a clerk with the banking house of Pierce & Nelson. He was with them one year, then for a year acted as teller for A. M. Perry & Company. He went with Mr. Perry when the latter engaged in the wholesale flour business under the name A. M. Perry & Company, and was bookkeeper for the firm until Mr. Perry's death in 1863. Mr. Tucker was then called upon to settle up the business of the firm, which he did satisfactorily. In 1864 he enlisted in the One Hundred and Fiftieth Ohio Infantry, and was in the 100 day service, his chief duty being as a guard at Washington. On returning to Cleveland he became bookkeeper with the firm of Robert Hanna & Company until that company went out of business two years later. After that he was secretary of Hanna, Baslington & Company, whose business was conducted under the name Globe Oil Refining Company. After two years the business was incorporated in the growing Standard Oil Company, and Mr. Tucker then became general manager for the Cleveland Boiler Plate Manufacturing Company. He was there four years, until 1876. At the latter date he entered upon what has been his chief work, as a general representative of transportation companies. He became general agent of the Union Steamboat Company, and filled that office until 1900. He also acted as general agent for the Northern Steamship Company, the Lake Superior Transit Company, the Lackawanna line of steamers, the Western Transportation Company, the Commercial Line and the Ogdensburg Transit Company. In 1900 Mr. Tucker became president and manager of King's Engineering Company and the American Wire Spring Company and continued actively in business with those concerns until 1913. Since that date he has been general agent for the Merchants Mutual Line and the Canada Steamship Line, but in 1918 practically retired, closing a career of fifty years of business activity. Mr. Tucker is an old line republican. He is one of the best known Masons of Ohio, being an honorary member of the Supreme Council of the thirty-third degree. His local affiliations are with Tyrian Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; Cleveland Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Oriental Commandery, Knights Templar; Lake Erie Consistory and Al Koran Temple of the Shrine. He and his family reside at Gates Mill, 486 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS Ohio. In 1868, fifty years ago, he and Lucy A. Wightman were united in marriage. Her father, David L. Wightman, was a prominent citizen of Cuyahoga County, served as sheriff, and al the time of his death was agent for the Cleveland Humane Society, of which he was the chief organizer. Mr. and Mrs. Tucker had a family of six children : Stanley, the oldest, a resident of Willoughby, Ohio, finished his education in the Case School of Applied Science and is now secretary of the Cleveland Flush Meter Company. Salome is unmarried and lives with her parents, her education having been completed in the Hathaway-Brown School. Bartow C., a graduate of high school, is still at home, and is president of the Lake City Coal Company. Lucia, who graduated from the Fort Edward Collegiate Institute of Fort Edward, New York, lives in Cleveland. Douglas is a high school graduate and is now sales agent at Cleveland, representing Northern Ohio territory for the Liberty Manufacturing Company of Pittsburgh. Ralph, youngest of the family, was a student in Western Reserve University and is now manager of the Owners Garage Company at Cleveland. HENRY T. PLEINES. Twenty odd years ago Henry T. Pleines was working as a machine operator in the extensive works of the Lakewood Engineering Company. Something in his manner of work and his general attitude undoubtedly distinguished him and brought him in line for promotion, and from one responsibility to another he has been advanced until he is now general production manager for the company in all the half dozen or more plants under their general control and ownership. Henry T. Pleines has been a resident of Cleveland since boyhood. He was born in the Essen-Rhine Province of Germany December 8, 1875. His father, Henry T. Pleines, Sr., was born in 1850. He was a coal miner in the District of Essen, Germany, and he died there in 1879. One of his experiences was three months of service in the regular German army. He was a member of the Protestant Lutheran Church. Henry T. Pleines, Sr., married Regina Schuhmacher. She was born in Hesse, Germany, in 1851. After the death of her first husband she married Ernst Eisenhut. In 1892 they came to America, first locating at Corning, Ohio, and in 1894 moving to Cleveland. Mrs. Regina Eisenhut died at Cleve land in 1915 and Mr. Eisenhut is living here retired. He was a coal miner in Germany but his work after coming to the United States was an employe of the American Ship Building Company. Mr. and Mrs. Eisenhut had two children: Ernst Eisenhut, Jr., who is superintendent of the Lakewood-Galion plant of the Lakewood Engineering Company and lives at Galion, Ohio; and Christina Eisenhut, who married Harry Upson, foreman for the Hydraulic Pressed Steel Company and living on West Sixty-eighth Street in Cleveland. Mr. Henry T. Pleines was seventeen years old when he came to Ohio with his mother and stepfather. He had pursued the regular course of the public schools at Essen, Germany, until fourteen, and he also took night courses on mining engineering for about two years. When the family located in Corning, Ohio, he worked in the coal mines a couple of years, and on moving to Cleveland in 1894 spent a year in the machine shops of the American Ship Building Company. The next two years he was with the Forest City Bedstead Works and then formed his first connection with the Lakewood Engineering Company as punch press hand. Six months later he was promoted from the punch press to foreman of that department, from that was advanced to general foreman, then to superintendent, and finally to his present responsibilities as general production manager, in which capacity he has charge of all the Lakewood Company's plants, making the round of those at Galion, Milwaukee, Chicago, including a brick plant at Cameron, Pennsylvania. Mr. Pleines is independent in politics, is affiliated with Red Cross Lodge of Knights of Pythias, and is well known in Cleveland business and civic circles. He resides at 2148 West One Hundred and First Street, having built a modern residence there in 1910. He married at Cleveland in 1900 Miss Anna Artier, daughter of Carl and Minnie Artier, still living in Cleveland, her father being chief watchman at the Lakewood plant of the Lakewood Engineering Company. Mr. and Mrs. Pleines have two children: Theodore R., born February 24, 1907; and Edna, born June 19, 1909. LYMAN O. NEWELL. Among the advantages conferred by the municipality of Cleveland upon its citizens none are appreciated and more highly valued than the parks and CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 487 boulevards. Thus as commissioner of parks Lyman O. Newell has a position both of honor and of great responsibility, and has done much to validate the confidence in his judgment displayed when he was appointed to this office. Mr. Newell is an old time Cleveland man and practically all his career has been identified with some work which is in an important sense public service. He was born on what is now West Fifty-fourth Street in Cleveland April 13, 1860. The Newell family were colonial settlers of Connecticut from England. His father, Charles Newell, was born at Richfield, Ohio, in 1818. The founding of the Newell family in Northern Ohio was, as this date indicates, an event connected with the earliest pioneer history. The grandparents of Lyman O. Newell traveled up the Cuyahoga River in a house boat to the place of their settlement at Richfield. Charles Newell grew up and married at Richfield and after his marriage moved to Cleveland. During the period of the Civil war he operated a canal boat between Cleveland and Cincinnati. After the war he was in the flour and feed business on West Twenty-fifth Street. He also had a financial interest in the Erie Elevator, and while in that plant was injured and died soon afterward, in June, 1868. He was a republican in politics. Charles Newell married Mary Stever, who was born near Richfield, Ohio, in 1838, and died at Cleveland in 1908. Their oldest child, Celora, now deceased, married James Flower, who is also deceased and who was a traveling man and was interested in a drug business at Dubuque, Iowa. The second of the family, Henry, for many years was identified with the lumber and logging industry in Michigan, in the State of Washington and now in Oregon, and his home is at the the mouth of Columbia River in Oregon, where he gives part of his time to the fishing industry. Emma A., who lives on West Fifty-fourth Street in Cleveland, is the widow of Clark White, who was a conductor on the Chicago and Alton Railway and died in 1893. William P. Newell, the fourth of the family, was born in 1857, lives on West Fifty-fourth Street, in the same locality where he was born, and is a partner of his brother Lyman in the boat livery business. Lyman O. Newell is the fifth and youngest of the family. He was educated here in the public schools, his schooling being ended in 1877. He was a boy of only eight years when his father died, and that tragedy brought him quite early face to face with the serious responsibilities of life. On leaving school Mr. Newell employed his summers in the boat livery business, and during the winters for thirty-four years he served as weighmaster at the Cleveland Union Stockyards. That was a service that meant much not only as a mere technical and routine performance but to all the thousands of shippers and other business men who came into touch with him at the stock yards. In appreciation of this service, of his good companionship and fellowship, and his faithfulness to duty, the members of the Stock Yards Company presented him with a handsome gold watch and chain and charm when he finally resigned his office. Mr. Newell is still in partnership with his brother, William P., in the boat livery business. They handle both pleasure boats and fishing boats and have their headquarters at West Fifty-elghth Street and Lake Front. The ground they occupy here they bought from the Stone estate in 1901. Mr. Newell was appointed commissioner of parks of the City of Cleveland in January, 1916. His offices are in the City Hall Building. Ile also served as a member of the council during Mayor Baehr's administration and during the first term of Mayor Baker's administration. He is active as a republican, is a member of the executive committee of the party, but has seldom been an aspirant for any political honors. In younger days he was a member of the Baptist Church but is now affiliated wlth the Christian Science Church. He is a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Industry and of Cleveland Lodge No. 18, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Mr. Newell married at Detroit, Michigan, in 1900, Miss Lula Douglas, daughter of George and Eliza Douglas, the former a stone mason, and both now deceased. Mrs. Newell passed away on July 21, 1918. Mr. and Mrs. Newell had three children, Lyman D., born December 19, 1901; Harold. born January 7, 1904, and Louise, born in May, 1914. ALBERT E. KROEHLE is vice president and treasurer of the Conrad, Baisch, Kroehle Company, one of the very largest retail furniture organizations in the country, operating half a dozen stores in Cleveland and in New York City. Mr. Kroehle is a native of Cleveland, has been a figure in business affairs here for a 488 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS number of years, but laid the foundation of his business success during the several years spent as an Alaska miner and prospector. Mr. Kroehle was born at 129 Newbury Street, now Dennison Street, in Cleveland, July 7, 1876. His father, Charles Kroehle, was born in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, in 1826, and as a youth served his time in the German armies. He participated in some of the wars of the '40s and was one of the thousands of Germans who sought homes in America toward the end of that decade. In 1852 he went west to California. A baker by trade, he found opportunity to use that trade and establish himself in favorable position among the pioneers of the Golden State. At one time he conducted a hotel at Sacramento and was very fortunate in that business, and later at Carson City, Nevada, he conducted a baking shop and was equally successful in that venture. About 1867 he returned east and cated at Cleveland and for a number of years owned a suburban farm and home on Dennison Avenue. He died at Cleveland in 1897. He was a democrat. Charles Kroehle married Mary A. Schneider, who was born near Berlin, Germany, in 1840 and is still living at Cleveland. Her oldest son, Oscar, is now in the real estate business with home on Clifton Boulevard at the corner of Ramona Avenue in Lakewood. Wendell, the second son, is a contract painter living in Chicago. Ida, who lives with her mother, is the widow of Harvey D. Guiley, who was connected with the W. Bingham Company until his death in 1907. Otto is in Alaska and is a mining prospector. The fifth of the family is Mr. Albert E. Kroehle. Paul, whose home is on Lake Shore Boulevard, is a merchandise broker with offices in the Swetland Albert E. Kroehle gave up his schooling at Cleveland at the age of fifteen to go to work in some local shops. At the end of two years he was taken ill with typhoid fever, and on recovering his health and strength went to work for his brother Oscar who had established the Star Baking Company, now the largest concern of its kind in Cleveland. He was in the baking business with his brother for three years. About twenty years ago, when the news Caine from Alaska of the marvelous discoveries of gold in that territory, Mr. Kroehle was one of those who ventured into that far northern country and in the course of his prospecting and mining experience he traveled over Alaska from the mouth to the head of the Yukon River and visited practically every mining camp and city of that district at the time. He owned some claims at Fairbanks, Alaska, and finally sold them out at a very satisfactory figure. After being in Alaska for five years Mr. Kroehle returned to Cleveland in October, 1905, and soon found opportunity to use his means in business affairs. He became a partner in the Conrad, Baisch, Kroehle Company, of which he is now vice president and treasurer. Besides his general part in the management of the company he is manager of its store at 5715 Euclid Avenue. Mr. Kroehle is a republican voter. In 1917 he bought a modern residence at 2841 Scarborough Road. He married in Cleveland June 14, 1906, Miss Mae E. Birrer, daughter of Charles and Elizabeth (Perram) Birrer. Her mother is living with Mr. and Mrs. Kroehle. Her father, deceased, served in the Union army during the Civil war as a sergeant, had a splendid record as a fighting soldier, and after the war for many years was employed by the Lake Shore Railway Company. Mr. and Mrs. Kroehle have one child, Bernice, born September 12, 1907. GEORGE J. TRUMAN, assistant superintendent of the Guarantee Title & Trust Company, has been with that organization in different capacities for the past twenty years. Mr. Truman is a man of considerable legal experience and was for a number of years examiner of titles, and his ability has promoted him to one of the responsible offices of this well known business. A native of Monroeville, Ohio, Mr. Truman was born May 23, 1879. He is of English parentage. his father, Joseph Truman, born in England August 11, 1837, vas reared and married in the old country and in 1866 brought his family to the United States. His first location was on a farm in Michigan, from where he moved to Iowa, continuing as a farmer, and in 1873 settled at Monroeville, Ohio, on a farm. In 1890 he came to Cleveland and was engaged in the teaming business in this city until his death June 10. 1910. As a citizen he voted the democratic ticket and was a member of the Congregational Church. He married in England Ellen Catherine Merrett, who was born in England in 1835 and died at Cleveland on March 4, 1908. They were the parents of five children, George J. being the youngest. The oldest, Mary, is the wife of A. E. Monteith, a machinist living CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 489 at Barberton, Ohio. Hattie A., who died in Cleveland in 1909, was the wife of John Kelly, a Cleveland plumber. Alice S. is the wife of Charles Galloway, engineer for the city waterworks of Cleveland. Robert T. is title examiner for the Guarantee Title and Trust Company of Cleveland. George J. Truman left school at the early age of fifteen, having acquired his education in the schools of Monroeville and Cleveland. For a year he was employed by his brother-in-law, John Kelly, in plumbing business and in 1894 found work as assistant librarian in the Cleveland Law Library. In that position, which he held until August, 1898, he acquired much knowledge that has been valuable to him in his present work. In 1898 Mr. Truman joined the Ohio Abstract Company, which is now the Guarantee Title and Trust Company. He began as a stenographer and has been successively promoted to different positions, including that of title examiner, until he took his present work as assistant superintendent. His offices are in the Chamber of Commerce Building. Mr. Truman is a republican, and is affiliated with Brenton D. Babcock Lodge No. 600, Free and Accepted Masons. In 1915 he built his modern home at 669 East One Hundred and Twentieth Street. Mr. Truman married in Cleveland April 25, 1906, Miss Mabel A. Palmer, daughter of John and Adaline (Head) Palmer, both now deceased. Her father was a Cleveland carpenter. WILLIAM R. JEAVONS has had an interesting business career. He is an inventor and manufacturer and several well-known industries of this district have been made more prosperous as a result of his original ideas and his business acumen and judgment. His home has been at Cleveland the greater part of his life, but he was born at Bilston, England, February 28, 1861. His father, William A. Jeavons was born at Wolverhampton, England, in 1830, was educated there, and was a pioneer in the business of ornamental japanning. In 1867 he brought his family to Cleveland, and was the first to establish a japanning industry in this city. He conducted the business along judicious and prosperous lines until his death in 1890. At Weyman, England, he married Sarah Newman, and they were the parents of six children. William R. Jeavons was six years of age when his parents came to Cleveland, and here he received a public school education. At the age of thirteen he went to work in his father's shop, and thoroughly learned the business of japanning and was associated with his father until the latter's death. About that time Mr. Jeavons put his inventive genius to good use by devising a new method of burning kerosene oil in oil stoves for domestic purposes. He secured a patent, and soon afterward affiliated himself with the Central Oil and Gas Stove Company of Florence, Massachusetts, where he supervised the construction of his new type of stoves. In 1895, upon the dissolution of the company, he returned to Cleveland and contracted with the Cleveland Foundry Company to manufacture his kerosene burning apparatus. He had active supervision of this branch of the manufacturing and also established an experimental department in the company, with himself in active charge. He also was one of the directors of the company, which in January, 1917, was consolidated with the Cleveland Metal Products Company, and in this new concern Mr. Jeavons has a place as a director. For the past six years he has been practically retired from active service, but his name still appears as an executive officer in several well-known Cleveland concerns. He is vice president and director of the Dodd-Rogers Company. vice president and director of the Pennsylvania Rubber & Supply Company, and director of the J. H. R. Products Company. He is also well known socially, a member of Forest City Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, Webb Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; Oriental Commandery, Knight Templars ; Cleveland Council Royal and Select Masons; Lake Erie Consistory of the Scottish Rite and Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is a member of the Cleveland Athletic Club, Colonial Club and Shaker Heights Country Club. In religion and politics he has always maintained an open and liberal mind, responsive to the current issues rather than restricted by partisan ties or creeds. On February 20, 1890, at Cleveland, he married Miss Grace Goetz. They have two children, W. Norman and Mrs. Fletcher Reed Andrews. The son, now twenty-two years of age, is a graduate of the Cleveland High School, spent two years at Dartmouth College, and left college to become aide de camp with the rank of lieutenant to Brigadier-General Zimmerman. The daughter's husband is 490 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS a second lieutenant, serving with the Thirty-Seventh Division of the United States Army. HARRY L. HAMILTON. The progressive faculty possessed by some men stands as one of their dominating characteristics and gives to them a marked advantage in attaining prestige in any line to which they may confine their efforts. Harry L. Hamilton, an expert machinist and mechanical engineer, is a substantial citizen of Cleveland, here being sole owner of the Hamilton Motor Car Company, at 2336 Euclid Avenue. Mr. Hamilton was born in the state of New York, April 26, 1875, and he is a son of George H. Hamilton. He was young when his parents located in the Buckeye State and he attended the public and high school of Alliance, Ohio, until his seventeenth year; when he entered into an apprenticeship to learn the trade of machinist. A year and a half later he came to Cleveland and entered the employ of the Cleveland Ship Building Company as machinist, remaining with that concern for the ensuing three years. He then became tool maker with the Warner & Swasey Company and one year later engaged as tool designer with the Standard Tool Company of this city. During his spare time he studied mechanical engineering with tutors and so rapid was his progress in this connection that he soon was a full-fledged mechanical engineer. He then traveled in that capacity for the Arctic Ice Machine Company and in January, 1906, located in Detroit, Michigan, there accepting the. position of master mechanic with the People's Ice Company, with which work he was identified until 1912. The latter year marks his advent in Cleveland and here he opened up the fine establishment known as the Hamilton Motor Car Company, which has its headquarters at 2336 Euclid Avenue. In addition to handling various makes of automobiles, Mr. Hamilton makes a specialty of boosting the Monroe auto, for which he has the agency throughout two-thirds of Ohio. His business has grown to one of splendid proportions during the last few years and its thriving condition is due entirely to the diligence and good judgment of Mr. Hamilton. December 3, 1902, at Coldwater, Michigan, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Hamilton to Miss Louise Hoyt, a daughter of Dr. James I. Hoyt, a prominent physician and surgeon at Coldwater. Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton have no children. Mr. Hamilton is a member of the Association Rifle Company, in which he was formerly very active, and in Masonic circles he affiliates with Lakewood Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and with Cunningham Chapter. He is a charter member of the Lakewood Yacht Club, now the Cleveland Yacht Club, and he is likewise a member of the Lakewood Chamber of Commerce, the City Club and the la wanis Club. Politically he is a republican and in religious faith is a devout communicant of the Protestant Episcopal Church. EDWIN I. HEINSOHN spent four years in the mechanical engineering department of the Case School of Applied Science at Cleveland, and from that went directly into the technical phases of industry and his ability has carried him far and given him an enviable place among the industrial leaders of the city. He was born at Cleveland April 22, 1876, a son of William A. and Amelia (Imburg) Heinsohn. Until he was eighteen he was a student in the grammar and high schools, then entering Case School and from that was first employed as a draftsman with the Standard Tool Company. A year later he was made assistant superintendent of the newly organized Standard Welding Company, and was promoted to superintendent. In January, 1912, he resigned to organize the Cleveland Welding Company, of which he has since been president and general manager. He is also a director in the Hydraulic Pressed Steel Company and a director in the Canton Sheet Steel Company and the United Banking & Savings Company. The Cleveland Welding Company began operations five or six years ago with only 12,000 square feet of floor space, while today the plant has 150,000 square feet, and its pay roll has increased from forty men to 600. The company manufactures a large and important line of steel equipment for solid and pneumatic tires, and nearly all the prpduct is sold directly to automobile and tire companies. Mr. Heinsohn is a member of the Athletic Club, Chamber of Commerce and Chamber of Industry, the Rotary Club, Automobile Club, Westwood Country Club, and in politics is a republican. On July 15, 1905, he married Margaret Smith, who died in March, 1913, the mother of three children, Edwin, Marie and Helen, all attending the public schools of Cleveland. ALLEN M. FOSTER is responsible for having given Cleveland one of its prosperous and thriving metal industries in the Foster Bolt CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 491 and Nut Company, of which he is active head. Mr. Foster was for many years a traveling salesman, but in the meantime acquired an interest in and was director from 1907 to 1909 of the Capital Lock, Nut and Washer Company of Columbus, Ohio. It was in 1910 that Mr. Foster acquired the business for himself and moved the plant to Cleveland. Here he reorganized under close incorporation known as the Foster Bolt and Nut Company. Mr. Foster has the active management under the title of vice president and general manager, while 0. E. Foster of Buffalo, New York, is president, and M. T. Jones, secretary and sales manager, and C. W. Rampe, treasurer. This company manufactures a general line of bolts, nuts and rivets and it is now one of the largest industries of the kind in Ohio. At the start of the plant in Cleveland only fifty men were employed. Today the pay roll carries 350 men. The plant, chiefly two story buildings, covers ground space of 385x260 feet. Mr. Foster is a Canadian by birth, born at New Castle, Ontario, March 20, 1849, while his father, Horace Foster, was born on Prince Edward Island, Canada, was educated there, and on removing to Ontario founded the town of New Castle. He was a lumberman for some years, afterwards a merchant, and was a well known citizen, influential in political reform in the province. His death occurred in 1886. Allen M. Foster attended public schools and "Upper Canada College at Toronto until twenty-one, following which he served as an apprenticed clerk in the dry goods store of Robinson & Henry at Belleville, Ontario, three years. From that he went into business for himself, in the firm of Foster and Barber, dry goods, and in 1880 sold his interests there and started a new firm as Foster and Reed, selling the same commodities. In 1883 he sold out to Mr. Reed and spent the following year speculating in real estate in Winnipeg, Canada. In 1884 Mr. Foster located at Rochester, New York, and became traveling salesman for the wholesale dry goods house of Sibley, Lindsey & Kerr Company. He was with that firm continuously on the road for a quarter of a century and built up a large clientele and acquired a host of business connections and friends all over the Middle West. It was several years before he resigned from the company that he became interested in the manufacturing plant at Columbus from which has grown the present industry of the Foster Nut and Bolt Company. Mr. Foster is a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, the Cleveland Athletic Club, the Shaker Heights Country Club and is vice president of the Lac Roquette Fish & Game Club of Montreal, Canada. In politics he is a republican and is a member of the Episcopal Church. At Belleville, Ontario, in May, 1887, he married Mary E. Lazier. They have one child, Ethel E., at home. MARK J. GILLEN. It is interesting and encouraging to trace a successful man's business career when it has been built from the bottom entirely through his own efforts. One of the solid business men and a great employer of labor in the United States, himself a self-made man, has declared that lack of opportunity has never been the bar that has kept others from reaching his position of affluence and responsibility, but that indolence, conceit, love of ease and a willingness to receive the gift of help, have led thousands of young men to waste the vital days of youth and at middle age fill no better positions than they might have done at the end of their school days. It certainly is true that self help, from youth onward, is a sure way of reaching a desired goal in the possession of that spirit of independence that is so satisfying to American manhood. Cleveland has examples among her prominent and dependable business men of those who have, in large measure, hewn out their own path in life and who by steadily following it have achieved much, and such a man is Mark J. Gillen, who is president and manager of the Standard Tire and Rubber Company, of which he was the organizer. Mark J. Gillen belongs to the younger generation of business men and was born at Akron, Ohio, February 3, 1881. His parents were James C. and Mary C. Gillen. He was educated in the public schools and at the age of seventeen completed the high school course, afterward attending the Hammel Business College for eighteen months and was then ready to become one of the world's workers. He secured a position in the accounting department of the Warner Printing & Lithographing Company, where he remained one year and then became identified with the great. industry with which he has ever since been connected. He went into the Goodrich Rubber Company factory and began at the bottom of the ladder with the determination to perfect his knowledge to the smallest detail. 492 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS Mr. Gillen remained nine years with the Goodrich people, in that time advancing step by step until he was made manager of the mechanical rubber goods department, and to accept a similar position with the Pennsylvania Rubber Company he went to Jeannette, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, where he installed a department of mechanical rubber goods. In 1913 Mr. Gillen came to Cleveland, for many reasons making choice of this city as a permanent investment field, and organized what is now the Standard Tire and Rubber Company, of which he has been president and manager ever since, and associated with him are these capitalists: D. 0. Sommers, vice president; Charles B. Shaw, secretary ; and Henry F. Norton, treasurer. This is an enterprise of stupendous promise. The immense plant is located at Willoughby in Lake County, Ohio, where manufacturing began in September, 1915, and from the beginning it has been found necessary to run three shifts both day and night. The prosperity which attends the business may, in large part, be attributed to Mr. Gillen's thorough knowledge and his gift of business foresight. In comparing conditions since January, 1917, for the first six months, the astounding fact was proved that in comparison with the same interval in the preceding year, when the output was considered far above normal, a gain of 1,200 per cent had been made. The present outlook promises still greater advance is the future, the company at the time of writing (June, 1917) having already $3,000,000 worth of business on their books. The output of this plant includes mechanical rubber goods, tires and tubes and the trade distribution is all over the United States and in many foreign countries. While the development of this business has been phenomenal, it is under wise control, Mr. Gillen being level-headed, conservative and resourceful, qualities he has found useful all through life. Mr. Gillen was married at Cleveland, Ohio, in April, 1915, to Miss Rose Schindler, a lady of many social accomplishments and activities. Mr. Gillen is one of the leading members of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce and belongs also to the National Chamber of Commerce at Washington, District of Columbia. He is identified with the Rubber Club of America, and finds pleasant recreation as a member of the East Shore Country Club and the Quinnebaug Fishing Club. His name is a familiar one in the rubber industry all over the country. FRANK J. FAULHABER, a successful real estate and insurance man and member of the City Council, has been a Cleveland man since birth and has justified and earned his success by hard work and by honorable performance of all those duties which come to a conscientious and upright individual. Mr. Faulhaber was born in Cleveland November 23, 1877, son of John and Mary Faulhaber. His father came to Cleveland in 1865. For many years he was in the railroad service, beginning as night watchman with the Big Four Railroad, and subsequently serving as night engineer. He retired in 1907. Frank J. Faulhaber attended private schools up to the age of thirteen, and subsequently entered the Ohio Business College, where he was graduated in 1897. He followed the example of his father and his first experiences were as a railroad man. He became clerk in the Cleveland offices of the Big Four Railroad and by close attention to his duties was promoted to chief clerk. In 1903 he transferred from the Big Four to the Lake Shore Railroad, with which he served as chief clerk until 1908. Mr. Faulhaber then invested his capital and business experience in the cigar manufacturing business in West Cleveland. He has built up a factory that supplies some of the best known brands of cigars and now has seven expert employes. Mr. Faulhaber was elected a member of the City Council from the Fourth Ward in 1915 and is still representing that ward. He is affiliated with the Fraternal Order of Eagles and the Knights of St. John, is a democrat in politics and a member of the Catholic Church. He was married October 25, 1899, in Cleveland, to Adelia Reinhart. They have two children, Marguerite, aged fifteen, is now in high school. Rose Marie, aged seven, is a student in St. Stephen's parochial school. GUSTAVUS A. WIELAND. Forty years ago, when Cleveland was not so large a city as now but still was a very thriving and bustling center of commerce, one of the chief points where men of prominence locally and elsewhere were wont to gather was the old Weddell House, part of which is still standing, but which then in its glory and prime occupied a portion of the space now covered by the Rockefeller Building. Guests of the hotel and CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 493 others whom business brought there frequently bought papers from a small boy who was insistent on presenting his wares and demanding a chance to be of service. The newsboy was eager to accommodate by running errands and carrying messages, and altogether the experience was one calculated to develop initiative, self reliance, and resourcefulness in meeting the varied emergencies and exigencies of business life. That newsboy was Gustavus A. Wieland, who for over thirty years has been a prominent Cleveland merchant and is one of the directors of the Weideman Company, one of the largest and best known wholesale grocery houses in the Middle West. While there have doubtless been other elements and contributing factors to his success career, Mr. Wieland has always felt that many of the best lessons he learned in youth were acquired as a news and messenger boy in the familiar haunts of the old Weddell House, a famous hostelry that entertained many of the most distinguished men who ever came to Cleveland, including even the great Lincoln. Mr. Wieland was born in Cleveland August 3, 1865, soon after the close of our Civil war. His parents were Louis and Rosina (Bill) Wieland, both of whom are now deceased. His father was a native of Germany, and one of the young German patriots who were aflame with liberty and participated in the revolution which well nigh overwhelmed the autocracy of Prussia in 1848. After the failure of that revolutionary movement he sought refuge in the New World, and came to this country at the same time with Carl Schurz. He settled in Cleveland in 1850 and lived here until his death fifty years later in 1900. He was born in 1815. He was a blacksmith by trade and had the thorough knowledge and skill that was once demanded of men who followed the trade, being able to shoe a horse or build a wagon complete. His widow survived him and died in Cleveland in 1908, at the age of sixty-seven. Louis Wieland was a well known citizen of Cleveland and a very stalwart republican. At one time he was caretaker of the old republican Wigwam on Lorain Avenue near Fulton Road. In the family were one daughter and four sons, two sons surviving, Louis, a resident of Detroit; Elizabeth, who was a teacher in the public schools of Cleveland about twenty years and died in October, 1917, at the age of forty-five; Fred W., who was a stockholder and salesman with the Weideman Company and died May 30, 1911, four days before his forty-third birthday ; Albert A., who was with the Isaac Leisy Brewing Company of Cleveland, and died in 1912. Gustavus A. Wieland, who was second in age, was educated in the public schools of Cleveland and in the Spencerian Business College. He attended school in the intervals of his work as a newsboy, and he was almost daily on duty at the old Weddell House with his newspapers between the ages of eight and fifteen. After leaving school he clerked in the retail grocery store of Charles Schmoldt for a short time, and later was in the wholesale grocery house of John D. Briggs. On August 1, 1884, thirty-four years ago, Mr. Wieland entered the service of the Weideman Company in the capacity of bill clerk and at wages of seven dollars a week. Three years later he was made a salesman of the company and for many years represented the firm as city salesman in Cleveland, with occasional duties on the road. He joined the United Commercial Travelers when be was twenty-one years of age. In 1901 he was elected a director of the company. Mr. Wieland is an honorary member of the Ohio National Guard, is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, Cleveland Lodge No. 18, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Fraternal Order of Eagles, Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, Cleveland Chamber of Industry, Tuxedo Club and Cleveland Automobile Club. He is a republican and while never a seeker for official honors was very active in party affairs for about twelve years. February 15, 1887, he married Miss Amelia Ruppender. Mrs. Wieland died in Cleveland in October, 1915, the mother of two daughters, Mrs. E. J. Siller, Jr., of Cleveland ; and Mrs. Allen C. Lucas of Cleveland. In February, 1917, Mr. Wieland married Amelia Lowrie. She has by a former marriage one son, Ervian Lowrie, who is now in the employ of the Weideman Company. Mr. Wieland and family reside at 3063 West Fourteenth Street. WILLIAM JAMES RATTLE, mining engineer, began the practice of his profession at Cleveland in 1874, immediately after graduating from the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University. Probably no man in Cleveland is better able as a result of experience to give first-hand information on the industrial resources of the world. He has been employed to investigate 494 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS and report upon the iron mines of practically every district in the civilized world except China. His personal examinations have been made in Russia, Alaska, South America, Cuba, New Foundland, the Provinces of Canada, and every mining district in the United States. He is particularly an authority on the mines of the Lake Superior District, where for many years his services as a mining engineer were employed. He pioneered in the Menominee, Gogebic, Vermillion and Mesaba ranges. He knew those districts when comparatively little productive work was being done. He has lived long enough to see them grow from the small production of 3,000,000 tons per year to over 50,000,000 tons. In 1896 Mr. Rattle was called upon to report on the iron and coal mines of Russia for the Russian Government. His investigations there required almost a year. For several years past his work has been largely in the copper fields, and he has visited all the important copper mines of the United States, including the Alaska fields and also those of Russia. Mr. Rattle was born at Stowe Corners, in Summit County, Ohio, September 6, 1852. He is a son of William and Elizabeth Goodwin (Gaylord) Rattle. His paternal grandparents were natives of Bath, England, were Quakers in religion, and were early settlers in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, where they died. William Rattle was born at Bath, England, in 1809 and was brought to America by his parents in 1816. The family first located at Skaneateles, New York, and in 1832 removed to Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. William Rattle was a man of much enterprise, was a California '49er, and in 1856 located in Cleveland, where he lived until his death in 1894. In 1851 he married Elizabeth Goodwin Gaylord. She was born at Stowe Corners in Summit County in 1824 and died at Cleveland in 1905. Her parents, Thomas Gaylord and wife, came from Middletown, Connecticut, in 1809, in an ox cart to Ohio. They built a log cabin near a spring in Summit County, and it was in that log home that Elizabeth Goodwin Gaylord was born. This log house with its rude comforts became historic through sheltering over night the illustrious General Lafayette during his tour of the United States in the '20s. Thomas Gaylord's grandparents were born in France and were Colonial settlers at Middletown, Connecticut. William James Rattle was the only son of his parents. He grew up in the rural community of Summit County and at Cleveland, and finished his liberal education in the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University. In 1874 he received a certificate from C. J. Brush, president of the Sheffield School, giving him the title of Analytical Chemist and Mining Engineer. On returning from college he formed a partnership at Cleveland with W. E. Judson, and established a commercial laboratory under the name of Judson & Rattle. This partnership was continued until 1879. Later he was senior member of the firm of Rattle & Nye. In the fall of 1874 Mr. Rattle became chemist for the Cleveland Rolling Mill Company and filed that position until 1882. In that year he entered the field as a mining engineer and has continued active in that profession to the present time. He is now head of the firm W. J. Rattle & Son, assayers, chemists and mining engineers. His son performs the analytical work of the laboratory, while Mr. Rattle devotes himself to practical and technical phases of engineering. He is a member of the Institute of Mining Engineers of New York and Chemist Club of New York, and member of the Union Club of Cleveland. He was a charter member of the famous Troop A, organized by Col. William Harris in 1877. Mr. Rattle is a republican, a thirty-second degree Mason, and is a member of St. John's Episcopal Church at Cuyahoga Falls. He and his family reside at 862 Euclid Avenue. August 9, 1877, at Cleveland, he married Julia Cary, daughter of John E. and Mary (Stockly) Cary. Her grandfather, John Stockly, built the first coal dock on the lake front in Cleveland and made the first lake shipment of coal. Mary Stockly Cary took a prominent part in the organization of the Cleveland Art School. Mr. and Mrs. Rattle had four children, two of whom are hiving. The son William Rattle married in 1907 Susie DeWitt. Mary Ruth, who died in 1911, was married in 1905 to Harvey Mansfield. John Cary Rattle died in 1887. Elizabeth Goodwin Rattle is the wife of E. Breathed Berkeley. FRANCIS M. BRADY has been connected with Cleveland business affairs for over twenty years, was formerly a brick manufacturer, but is now secretary and treasurer and one of the organizers of the Ri-Chard Auto Manufacturing Company, and is giving all his time and energies to building up this deservedly prominent Cleveland industry. A more complete account of the Ri-Chard car will be found on CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 495 other pages under the name of its designer, Francois Richard. Mr. Brady is a member of a notable old family of. Cleveland, and was born here in March, 1875. His father, John J. Brady, was born in New York State, and came to Cleveland when a young man in 1861. He enlisted in 1862 in the One Hundred and Nineteenth Ohio Infantry, and beginning as a private served all through the war and was brevetted a major. After the war he took up the business of merchant tailor, and was one of the early men in that business on the east side of Cleveland. He died here in 1875. He was a member of the Catholic Church. The mother of Francis M. Brady was Mary McGrath. She was born in Cleveland in 1852 end died in this city in October, 1917. Her father, Patrick McGrath, was born in County Dublin, Ireland, in 1819, and was a very small boy when his parents came to America and settled in Rochester, New York, and soon afterwards came to Cleveland as a pioneer family. Patrick McGrath became a merchant tailor and was an active business man of this city until his death in 1894. He married Margaret McKenna, who was born in County Monaghan, Ireland, in 1820 and died at Cleveland in 1893. They were all members of the Catholic Church. The children of Patrick McGrath and wife were: Mary ; Annie, who died unmarried ; and Jennie, who lives at 7816 Finney Avenue, unmarried. Mr. Brady's father and grandfather, McGrath, were highly educated men and the family saw to it that Francis M. Brady was given the best of instruction by private tutors. Mr. Brady after his father's death lived with his mother in the home of Patrick McGrath. That home he still owns, located at 7816 Finney Avenue. The residence was built by his grandfather, McGrath, many years ago. Mr. Brady was the only child of his parents. He has never married. After completing his education he began work in 1894, and was in the hardware business until 1903. After that he was a brick manufacturer until 1915, in which year he took an active part associated with Francois Richard in the Ri-Chard Auto Manufacturing Company, of which he is secretary and treasurer. The plant of this company is at 7800 Finney Avenue, adjoining the grounds occupied by the old McGrath home. Mr. Brady is an independent democrat, a member of the Catholic Church, and is a former member of the Cleveland Chamber of Vol. III-32 Commerce. He is one of the well known members of the Gentlemen's Driving Club. He inherits from his grandfather a love for fine horses and has usually owned some blooded stock. He is just as skilled in driving automobiles as in driving horses, and it was a combination of these interests that doubtless influenced him to engage in the manufacture of one of the highest grade and most powerful automobiles on the market. GUSTAVE GETZIEN has made himself one of the factors in the industrial life of Cleveland, beginning his career in a humble capacity and advancing himself on merit and demonstrated skill until he is now superintendent of construction in the Cleveland district for the Ohio State Telephone Company. He was born at Cleveland February 13, 1880, a son of Charles and Augusta Getzien. The father was born in Germany but came to Cleveland when quite young and in 1874 became a motorman with the Cleveland Electric Railway Company. lie continued that service until his death in 1902. Gustave Getzien after attending the grammar and high schools of Cleveland until seventeen found employment with the Telephone Company, spent two years learning the business as "ground man," was subsequently advanced to line man, and after proving his ability was made superintendent of construction in 1907, a post he has now held for ten years. Mr. Getzien is a popular member of the Elks Order and the Masonic Order, is a republican in politics and in religion a Protestant. At Cleveland November 3, 1904, he married Minnie Waechter. Their one child, Lucile, is now attending Ursuline Academy in Cleveland. LAWRENCE H. FORSCH. Cleveland's prosperity as a center of clothing manufacture owes not a little to the initiative and enterprise and ability of Lawrence H. Forsch, president of the Schram-Forsch Company, one of the leading firms of the city manufacturing women's suits and coats. Mr. Forsch is a native of Cleveland, born here May 14, 1883, a son of the late A. Forsch. His father was born in the Rheinpfalz, Germany, in 1839. He grew up there, served an apprenticeship as a merchant, and on coming to Cleveland in 1858 took up the business to which he was trained. The last twenty years of his life, however, he was associated directly 496 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS with Mr. Harris Cooley, director of charities, as relief investigator. He died at Cleveland in 1915. Mr. A. Forsch was a democrat who espoused and supported the cause of the late Tom Johnson, and was glad to go to any possible length to promote Mr. Johnson's candidacy and insure the careful working out and performance of his policies and promises. He was quite active in civic affairs and always a man who represented the better element in Cleveland's citizenship. A. Forsch was affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He married Dinah Schwab, who was born in Cleveland in 1854 and died in this city in 1906. Their family consisted of the following children : Myer, who is road sales manager for Richmond Brothers and resides at 11350 Hessler Road in Cleveland; Albert, a resident of Cleveland and an insurance adjuster; Minnie, who is unmarried and occupies the old homestead in Cleveland; Barbara, wife of Louis Straus, living on Crawford Road in Cleveland, Mr. Straus being vice president of the ForschStraus-Englander Company ; J. A. Forsch, a resident of 11350 Hessler Road, president of the Forsch-Straus-Englander Company ; and Lawrence H. Lawrence H. Forsch was educated in the Cleveland public schools, but was only fifteen when he left school to go to work. The next four years he spent as stockkeeper for the noted pioneer firm of cloak and suit makers, H. Black & Company. The firm of S. Korach Company then sent him on the road as a salesman and he was soon so close to the management of that concern that his services were regarded as indispensable and he was one of the larger stockholders and vice presidents of the company. In 1915 he sold out his interests there and established the Schram-Forsch Company. In 1916 he bought out the interests of this concern and is now president of the company and the chief stockholder. This company manufactures the better grade of ladies' suits and coats, and the firm stands the recognized leader in high grade suits and coats among the clothing manufacturers of Cleveland. The plant and offices are situated at $09 Lakeside Avenue. Mr. Forsch is a prosperous Cleveland merchant and business man and has acquired considerable local real estate, and with many years of work and usefulness before him he already has a secure prestige as one of the men who has gained definite success. He is in dependent in politics and is affiliated with Forest City Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and with Cleveland Lodge No. 18, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. CHARLES P. LYNCH. To be able to look back over a half century of compensating effort in any vocation is something of a privilege. When this retrospect covers a period of constant activity in the educational field it would seem as if a particular sense of accomplishment must be felt, for heart and spirit must have been engaged as well as brain in order to persevere so long on a path that has never been noted for rewarding its followers in any adequate degree in the way of emoluments. Attention may thus be respectfully called to Charles P. Lynch, one of Cleveland's best known educators, now superintendent of the Lakewood schools: Mr. Lynch was born at Meadville in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, July 28, 1858. His parents were John and Sarah K. (Kline) Lynch. John Lynch was born in Pennsylvania in 1823, and died at Meadville in 1868. His father was a native of Ireland but married and reared his family in Pennsylvania. John Lynch devoted his entire life to educational work, for which he was well qualified through natural talent and educational acquirements. He was graduated from the Washington Jefferson University and for many years afterward was principal of the Meadville Academy. He was a man of literary tastes and quiet life and was an earnest member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was married to Sarah Kline, who was born in 1823, at Youngstown, Ohio, and died in 1892, at Cleveland, Ohio. She was a daughter of Peter Kline, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1802, and died at Girard, Ohio, in 1890. His grandfather, George Kline, was the owner of the "Barley Sheaf," a well known inn and road house on a main highway in Lehigh County at the time the Revolutionary war became a fact, and he displayed marked patriotism by calling his neighbors together and organizing a company, in which he served as an officer. His grandson, Peter Kline, the maternal grandfather of Mr. Lynch, removed from Lehigh County to a farm near Youngstown, Ohio, and for many years was engaged in the livestock business, making many trips over the mountains to eastern markets driving his own stock, long before railroads had been built in that section. CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 497 To John and Sarah K. Lynch the following children were born: Lucy, who is the wife of G. Lease, of Girard, Ohio; Lois, who died at Meadville, Pennsylvania, when aged forty-five years, was the wife of John McMullen, also deceased ; John, who died at Meadville at the age of twelve years; Sarah J., who lived but 31/2 years; and Charles P. Mr. Lynch attended the public schools at Meadville until his father died, when his mother removed to Girard, Ohio, with her children, and there he completed the high school course and in preparation for college took a course in the preparatory school of Allegheny College, in which latter institution he spent four years and was graduated in 1886, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He was a member of the Phi Delta Theta and the Phi Beta Kappa fraternities. Subsequently Mr. Lynch completed a post graduate course in Latin and Roman History, and received the Ph. D. degree. Mr. Lynch first entered the educational field in 1876 as teacher in a country school of Trumbull County, Ohio, where he taught two years, after which he taught three years in the Youngstown schools. He then took up his college course and after graduation became principal of the high school at 'Warren, Ohio, where he continued until 1891, at which time he became teacher of Latin in the Central High School at Cleveland. In 1902 he became assistant superintendent of the Cleveland public schools and continued as such until 1906, when he became principal of the West High School. He remained there until 1911, when he became superintendent of the Lakewood schools. At present he has under his direct supervision nine schools. The teachers attached to the same number 250 and there are 5,000 pupils enrolled. Mr. Lynch was married in 1886, in the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Miss Mary Virginia Miller, a graduate of Allegheny College, class of '86. She is a daughter of Rev. Dr. R. T. Miller, formerly a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, now deceased, and his wife, Virginia (Ritchie) Miller, also deceased. They have one daughter, Laura Virginia. She was graduated from Lake Erie College with the degree of A. B. and subsequently secured the M. A. degree through a post graduate course at Columbia University. She married Rev. Itoger Albright and they reside at Salisbury, Massachusetts. He is a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Fraternally Mr. Lynch is a thirty-second degree Mason and is a Shriner, belonging to Al Koran Temple, his other Masonic connections being with Gaston Allen Lodge, Webb Chapter, Forest City Commandery and Lake Erie Consistory. Along professional lines he belongs to the Northeastern Ohio, the Ohio State and the National Teachers' associations. He is a member of the official board of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Lakewood and is superintendent of the Sunday school. GIDEON W. LIPPINCOTT. Business in the strict sense of the term enlisted the services of Gideon W. Lippincott only recently. But practically all his life he has been an exceedingly busy man and identified with lines of usefulness of not less relative importance than his present connections. At the annual celebration of the Cleveland Real Estate Board in February, 1918, Mr. Lippincott was presented the Merit cup donated by the Van de Boe-Hager Company on the basis of having turned in the largest amount of productive work among the real estate lot salesmen for the preceding year. That was Mr. Lippincott's first year as a real estate salesman, and he made a striking success in promoting the properties handled by the Green-Cadwallader-Long Company. Mr. Lippincott's work for a number of years in Cleveland and elsewhere was as an executive official of the Young Men's Christian Association. He is still one of the leading volunteer workers of the Cleveland Young Men's Christian Association, and his hobby is doing something for and with boys. Mr. Lippincott was born at Newark, Ohio, August 21, 1884, a son of Thomas and Louisa (Stone) Lippincott. His mother was born in the country just outside Newark and still lives in that city. His father was for many years in the carriage business at Newark and also bought and sold horses on a large scale. During the Civil war he was horse buyer in the service of the Government and bought many thousands of horses. He died in Newark December 24, 1913, at the age of seventy-two. At the time of his death he was one of the oldest Odd Fellows in Ohio. Of the five sons in the family all are still living and Gideon W. is the only resident of Cleveland. For a short time Mr. Lippincott did newspaper cartoon work, having graduated from the Zarnerian Art College in 1905. He is a man of universality of interests and athletically inclined. These interests helped him to keep in touch 498 - CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS with boys and with boys' activities, and were a factor in introducing him to Young Men's Christian Association work. In the fall of 1908 he became connected with the local Young Men's Christian Association at Newark. Two years later he went to the Akron Young Men's Christian Association, where he remained three years, then for about three years was executive secretary of the Broadway branch of the Cleveland Young Men's Christian Association. While at Akron he founded the Akron Boys Camp on the Portage Lakes. The establishment of boys' camps was then a comparatively new thing and Mr. Lippincott spent a great deal of time in interesting the proper parties, securing financial aid and other support for the institution, which is still conducted and is maintained by the Akron citizens as a trust. While at Newark Mr. Lippincott had the distinction of doing some pioneer work in using the moving picture machines at boys' meetings and the Young Men's Christian Association. That feature has now become practically universal. While at Newark also he founded the Heise Boys' Club of the Heise Glass Company. Much of his work in all cities, including Cleveland, has been done in the industrial districts. At Cleveland he was responsible for promoting the Open Air Chautauqua for foreign speaking people, and these meetings brought out from 3,000 to 11,000 people at night to enjoy the attractions of moving picture And other educational features. In November, 1916, Mr. Lippincott resigned as an official of the Young Men's Christian Association and entered the service of Green-Cadwallader-Long, and in a short time had demonstrated his ability to rank among the best of the staff of salesmen of that well known house. While at Newark he joined the Knights of Pythias and is a member of Roland Lodge No. 305, Knights of Pythias. Mr. Lippincott is a member of the Cleveland Real Estate Board, Miles Park Presbyterian Church and the Young Men's Christian Association. September 4, 1905, at Newark, Ohio, he married Miss Minnie B. Hughes. Mrs. Lippincott died at Cleveland July 28, 1914, leaving one son, Jerome Bennett, who was born at Newark July 24, 1910. On August 16, 1915, at Cleveland, Mr. Lippincott married Elizabeth R. Davies. They reside at 10709 Elmarge Road. GEORGE F. MARTIN, superintendent of the Cleveland office of Sergeant & Company, a financial organization covering through its various offices the entire United States, is a lawyer by profession and training, and has practiced law and has been engaged in business in various large cities and states from the Atlantic to the Pacific Coast. Mr. Martin was born at Byron, Illinois, June 20, 1872, a son of James F. and Rose A. (Miller) Martin. His father, now deceased, was a native of Antioch, Ontario, Canada, of French-Scotch ancestry, and for a number of years was engaged in the real estate business in Chicago. He was a soldier in the Union army during the Civil war. The mother was a native of Antioch, Ohio, and descended in a direct line from Robert Morris, the banker of the American Revolution. She died in Chicago in 1916. George F. Martin was educated in the grammar and high schools of Iowa and South Dakota, and took his higher education in the University at Pierre, South Dakota. He left his studies a short time before completing his course in 1890 to take an active part in the work of the Capital Committee in the exciting contest between Huron' and Pierre for the honor of the capital of the new State of South Dakota. He also had some experience as secretary of the Security Mortgage and Investment Company. Following the state capital contest he entered the law department of Northwestern University at Chicago, and was admitted to practice in 1894. For several years Mr. Martin was established in a growing professional business at Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, but in 1899 returned to Chicago and in 1903 went west to Portland, Oregon, where he resumed the practice of law. While there he wrote the first brief in the case involving the constitutionality of the initiative and referendum and later was one of the attorneys retained in the first case involving the "recall" in Oregon. Mr. Martin left Portland in June, 1915, to become actively associated with Sergeant & Company. This institution has had a remarkable record of achievement and in three years has built up a clientele of many thousands of investors. The company maintains offices in fifty different cities, besides the main headquarters in New York City. The offices are located in the following cities: Akron, Baltimore, Birmingham, Boston, Bridgeport, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Colum- CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS - 499 bus, Davenport, Dayton, Denver, Des Moines, Duluth, Hartford, Indianapolis, Jersey City, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Louisville, Memphis, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Newark, New Haven, New Orleans, New York, Oakland, Omaha, Peoria, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Portland, Providence, Reading, Rochester, Rockford, San Francisco, Seattle, Spokane, St. Louis, St. Paul, Syracuse, Toledo, Trenton, Wilkes-Barre, Wilmington and Youngstown. Mr. Martin's first service with the company was as field worker at Detroit. In the latter part of August, 1915, he was appointed sales manager of the Detroit office and in October of the same year went to New York City to open an office there. In April; 1916, he came to Cleveland to establish the Cleveland office, and on October 1, 1916, was promoted to superintendent of the Central District. His territory extends from a line just east of Chicago to a line extending through and including Syracuse, New York, and from the International boundary to the Gulf of Mexico. Fifteen offices are under his control at the present time. Mr. Martin is a republican and formerly was prominent in the party while practicing law in the West. At one time he served as city attorney of Rainier, Oregon. He is affiliated with Dodge County Lodge No. 96, Free and Accepted Masons, at Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, and is a member of the Sons of Veterans. On August 9, 1904, at Portland, he married Elizabeth A. Battin, a native of Westchester, Pennsylvania. They have one child, Dorothy Rose, who is attending the Hough School in Cleveland. GEORGE E. FISHER. One of the representative business men of Cleveland is George E. Fisher, second vice-president of the Grasselli Chemical Company, with which he has been continuously identified in one capacity or another since manhood. George E. Fisher was born at Garland in Warren County, Pennsylvania, February 1, 1864. His parents, E. D. and Mary (Tread-well) Fisher, moved to Titusville, Pennsylvania, during his early childhood, and there he was reared and educated. From the school room Mr. Fisher went into a mercantile house at Titusville and there learned the primary business principles of a business career. In his twenty-first year he became identified with the corporation of which he is now one of the officials, starting with the Grasselli Chemical Company at Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, and was afterward' in charge of the company's plant at East Chicago, Indiana. He came to the main office in Cleveland in 1900, since which time he has resided in this city. In April, 1889, at Titusville, Pennsylvania, Mr. Fisher was united in marriage with Miss Celia Mackey. They are the parents of three children, Mrs. Ruth (Fisher) Eldredge, living in Cleveland; Celia Mackey Fisher, now attending Laurel School; and one son, B. Mackey Fisher, now attending public schools. Mr. Fisher and his family are attendants of Calvary Presbyterian Church. He is a thirty-second degree Mason and a member of Al Koran Shrine. In political affiliations Mr. Fisher has always been a stanch republican. He believes in a reasonable amount of recreation and relaxation and is a member of the Cleveland Athletic, Union, Mayfield and Shaker Heights Country clubs. HON. ROBERT JOHNS BULKLEY. At a time when our nation needs every bit of its available fighting force to meet the most serious situation that it has ever faced, it is extremely gratifying to find a man who is not only willing, but eager, to set aside all matters that might make for personal advancement in order that he can give the full measure of his abilities and energies in the cause of his country. It is not to be thought that the big men of our country are lacking in patriotism, but it can be said without fear of contradiction that some have subjugated their patriotic services in some extent to their personal desires and ambitions. So it is an indication of his splendid Americanism that Hon. Robert Johns Bulkley has announced his intention to withdraw from the mayoralty race in Cleveland, a contest in which he would, without doubt, have been returned the winner, and from all other activities which might keep him from giving his best services to the work of organizing the law department for the general munitions board, which body will act in an advisory capacity for the Council for National Defense. The commission which he has received comes as a recognition of sterling ability and integrity shown in several fields of endeavor. Still a young man, Mr. Bulkley has brought himself to the forefront in law, in finance and in citizenship. His two terms in Congress, as representative of the Twenty-first Ohio District, were characterized by labors of a nature which gave him at once a name and standing as a public servant who desired, above all, to aid in the making of