This Cleveland of Ours BIOGRAPHICAL Volume III Illustrated Chicago—Cleveland—Indianapolis THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY 1933 BIOGRAPHICAL ANDREW SQUIRE In the field of corporation law Andrew Squire has achieved distinction and in years of continuous activity he is one of Cleveland's oldest attorneys, for he has practiced here for more than a half century. In business circles of the city he is also an outstanding figure, controlling important interests. A native of Ohio, he was born in Mantua, Portage county, October 21, 1850, of the marriage of Dr. Andrew Jackson Squire and Martha Wilmot, both of New England ancestry. The father was born in Ohio in 1815 and successfully engaged in the practice of medicine for many years. The Squire family settled in Ohio in 1810. Andrew Squire obtained his early education at Mantua and in 1863 removed with his parents to Hiram, Ohio, where he attended the Western Reserve Eclectic Institution until the winter of 1866-7, when he entered upon a course of medical lectures in Cleveland. Soon afterward he altered his plans and in preparation for a legal career devoted his leisure hours to the mastery of Blackstone's Commentaries and Bouvier's Institutes. In June, 1872, he received the Bachelor of Arts degree from Hiram College and in October of that year returned to Cleveland. Here he entered regularly upon the study of law in the office of Cadwell & Marvin and on the 3d of December, 1873, was admitted to the Ohio bar after passing the required examination before the supreme court at Columbus. Immediately thereafter Mr. Squire began the active work - 5 - 6 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS of his profession in Cleveland and upon the election of his former preceptor, Mr. Cadwell, to the common pleas bench he joined Mr. Marvin in a partnership relation that existed until January 1, 1878. Meanwhile Lieutenant Governor Alphonso Hart located in Cleveland and in 1875 was admitted to the firm, which then became known as Marvin, Hart & Squire. Under that style the business was conducted for three years; at the end of which time Mr. Squire withdrew from the organization to form a partnership with Mr. Estep. In the spring of 1882 the firm was further strengthened by the addition of Judge M. R. Dickey and the name was changed to Estep, Dickey & Squire. Severing that connection on the 1st of January, 1890, Mr. Squire became associated with Judge William B. Sanders and James H. Dempsey and for forty-two years has been senior member of the firm of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, one of the oldest and strongest legal combinations in this part of the country. Mr. Squire has ever borne in mind the adage : "The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph," which has served to steel his courage, enabling him to overcome all difficulties and obstacles in his path. He has a detailed knowledge of those branches of jurisprudence to which he has given special attention and has the rare faculty of seizing upon the strong points of a case and presenting them with such force as to rivet the attention of the jury and carry conviction to their minds. In recent years he has specialized in corporation law, successfully aiding in handling the legal interests of some of the city's most prominent business concerns. A business executive of marked ability, he is on the executive committee of the Union Carbide & Carbon Corporation and is serving on the directorates of the Union Trust Company, the Cleveland Quarries Company and the Cleveland & Pittsburgh Railroad Company of which he is president. On the 24th of June, 1896, Mr. Squire was married to Mrs. Eleanor (Seymour) Sea, a daughter of Belden Seymour, of Cleveland, and they reside at 3443 Euclid avenue. Mr. THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 7 Squire's office is in the Union Trust building. In politics he is a stalwart republican and in 1896 was a delegate to the St. Louis convention which nominated William McKinley for the presidency. Formerly he was a trustee of the Garfield Memorial Association and is now a director of Case Library and also a member of the boards of Hiram College and Western Reserve University. An exemplary representative of Masonry, he was honored with the thirty-third degree in recognition of his services in behalf of the order. He has social relations with the University, Century and New York Clubs of New York city, the Cleveland Country Club, of which he was elected president in 1909, and the Union and University Clubs of this city. He is widely recognized as a lawyer of high professional attainments and has member-ship in the American Bar Association and the International Bar Association. The exercise of effort has kept him alert and although nearly eighty-two years of age, Mr. Squire is able to perform tasks which would tax the powers of a much younger man. His has been an upright, useful life of untiring industry and in his career there is much of inspirational value to those who strive toward a high level of service. GEORGE WASHINGTON CRILE, M. D., Ph. D., M. Ch., LL. D. At the head of the Cleveland Clinic is Dr. George W. Crile, "the master surgeon," who is internationally known by reason of his achievements in the field of medicine and surgery, and through his educational work, his researches and discoveries has disseminated knowledge of vital worth to the profession. He was born in Chili, Coshocton County, Ohio, November 11, 1864, a son of Michael and Margaret (Deeds) Crile, and pursued his education in his native town until he reached the age of seventeen, when he became a member of the sophomore class of Ohio Northern University at Ada, where he received the A. B. degree in 1884. Four years later that institution awarded him the degree of A. M., and in 1894 he won the same degree from the College of Wooster for post-graduate work in biological research. Meanwhile he attended the Wooster Medical School (now the School of Medicine of Western Reserve University) in Cleveland and here secured his medical degree in 1887. In order to further his scientific knowledge he went abroad, studying at Vienna in 1893, at London in 1895 and at Paris in 1897. His scholarly attainments have won for him the following honorary degrees: Ph. D., bestowed by Hiram College in 1901 ; LL. D., conferred by the College of Wooster in 1916 and the University of Glasgow in 1928; and M. Ch., awarded by the University of Dublin in 1925. Dr. Crile was lecturer on and demonstrator of histology during 1889 and 1890, professor of physiology from 1890 to 1893, and professor of the principles and practice of surgery at the College of Wooster from 1893 to 1900; professor of - 9 - 10 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS clinical surgery from 1900 until 1911, professor of surgery from 1911 to 1924, since which time he has been professor emeritus of surgery in the School of Medicine of Western Reserve University; and from 1911 to 1924 was visiting surgeon to Lakeside Hospital in Cleveland.  In 1921, Drs. George W. Crile, F. E. Bunts, William E. Lower and John Phillips established the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. This corporation was not formed for profit but for the purpose of owning and conducting hospitals for sick and disabled persons, and in connection therewith owning, maintaining, developing and conducting institutions, dispensaries, laboratories, buildings and equipment for medical, surgical and hygienic care and treatment of sick and disabled persons; engaging in making scientific research in and conducting public lectures on the sciences, medicine, surgery, hygiene, anatomy and kindred sciences and subjects. Doctor Crile was also one of the founders of the Cleveland Clinic in 1921, the Cleveland Clinic Hospital in 1924 and the Cleveland Clinic Foundation Research building in 1928. He became director of the research laboratories of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in 1921 and a member of the surgical staff of the Cleveland Clinic Hospital in 1924.  Dr. Crile's military record is a notable one and constitutes an important chapter in the history of his life. Entering the army, he was a surgeon of the United States Volunteers from January 18 to October 20, 1898, and held the rank of major. During the Spanish-American war he served as brigade surgeon, Second Brigade of the First Division, Second Army Corps, and in the Porto Rican campaign was division surgeon of the First Provisional Division.  Dr. Crile was appointed first lieutenant on the distinguished list of the Medical Reserve Corps, July 5, 1908, accepting October 20, 1908. A curious coincidence in connection with this appointment is that it was accepted on the same day of the same month ten years after his last day of service as a major of volunteers. He was one of the first group of  THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 11 physicians appointed in the Medical Reserve Corps, which was established by the act of congress approved April 23, 1908. The grade of first lieutenant was the only grade authorized by the act. Under this appointment Lieutenant Crile served as special professor at the Army Medical School in Washington, D. C., during the session of 1913-1914. In the latter year, with the cooperation of Doctor Du Bouchet, of Paris, Doctor Crile organized a three months' rotating service of medical units from several universities of the United States, to serve at the American Ambulance Hospital in Neuilly, France, and in December, 1914, sailed for France as director of the Lakeside Unit from the Western Reserve University. As surgical director he was on duty at the American Ambulance Hospital in Neuilly during January, February and March of 1915. The act of June 3, 1916, known as "the national defense act," created the Officers Reserve Corps, with sections corresponding to the various branches of military service, and provided that the Medical Reserve Corps as then organized should cease to exist one year from the date of the passage of the act of June 3, 1916. The grades authorized for the Medical Officers Reserve Corps by that act were from first lieutenant to major, inclusive, and Lieutenant Crile accepted a commission as major April 24, 1917. On May 5, 1917, Major Crile was summoned for active duty under his commission and directed to report to the commanding officer of Base Hospital No. 4, Lakeside Hospital, at Cleveland. He reported for duty on the same date and was made director in chief of the professional staff. The unit left Cleveland May 6 and arrived at Liverpool, England, May 18. It was the first unit of the United States Army to reach Europe and was one of the original six base hospitals sent abroad for duty with the British. The unit remained with the British Expeditionary Force in France during its entire overseas existence, operating as General Hospital No. 9. Major Crile left Liverpool, May 18, and took station with the unit at Rouen, May 25, 1917. 12 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS His detached service was as follows: June 6 to 20, with the Second Army, British Expeditionary Force; July 22 to August 5; from August 15 to 20; and from August 25 to September 6, 1917, with No. 17 Casualty and Clearing Station, British Expeditionary Force; September 16 to 20, at Paris, France. Relieved from duty with Base Hospital No. 4 on September 27, 1917, and directed to proceed to the United States and report to the surgeon general. The date of Major Crile's reporting is not of record, but he was relieved from duty in the surgeon general's office and directed to proceed to Cleveland for duty in connection with the business of Base Hospital No. 4, October 15, 1917. On December 1, 1917, Major Crile was en route overseas to rejoin the American Expeditionary Forces, and reported for duty with Base Hospital No. 4 on December 20, 1917. On January 19, 1918, Major Crile was relieved from duty with Base Hospital No. 4, and assigned to experimental research work with the station at Rouen, France. Base Hospital No. 4 ceased to function about March 1, 1919. The members of this unit sailed from Europe on the Agememnon, March 31, 1919, arrived in the United States on the 7th of April, and were demobilized shortly thereafter. On May 30, 1918, Major Crile was assigned to detached service as senior consultant in surgical research and clinical director. He was appointed a lieutenant colonel of the Medical Corps of the National Army, June 1, 1918, accepting on the 19th of that month. November 1, 1918, Lieutenant Colonel Crile was assigned as senior consultant, headquarters, medical and surgical consultants. He was appointed a colonel in the Medical Corps of the United States Army, October 23, 1918, accepting November 11, 1918. December 22, 1918, Colonel Crile was directed to proceed to Angers, for return to the United States, and was listed to sail on the Rochambeau via Bordeaux, He was discharged at Washington, D. C., January 28, 1919. The Distinguished Service medal was awarded Colonel THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 13 Crile by the commanding general of the American Expeditionary Forces, for exceptionally meritorious and distinguished service. In making this award the commanding general said of Colonel Crile that "by his skill, researches and discoveries he saved the lives of many of our wounded soldiers. His tireless efforts to devise new methods of treatment to prevent infection and surgical shock revolutionized army surgery and met with the greatest success." He was cited by the British government for mention in a dispatch from Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, and was made a companion of the Order of the Bath. The French government made him a chevalier of the Legion d'Honneur in 1922. Tendered the appointment of colonel in the Medical Reserve Corps March 19, 1919, he accepted July 26, 1919. He was appointed a brigadier general of the Medical Reserve Corps, November 4, 1921, and accepted December 13, 1921. As brigadier general he was transferred to the Auxiliary Reserve Corps on the 16th of January, 1929. Steadily progressing in the field of professional service, Doctor Crile has been accorded well merited honors. He was the winner of the Senn prize of the American Medical Asso-ciation in 1898; the Cartwright prize from Columbia University in 1897 and 1903; the Alvarenga prize from the Philadelphia College of Physicians in 1901; the American medicine medal for "Service to Humanity" in 1914; the National Institute of Social Sciences medal in 1917; the Trimble Lecture medal in 1921; the Lannelongue International medal of surgery, presented by La Societe Internationale de Chirurgie de Paris in 1925, at which time he became the third laureate of the Lannelongue Foundation; and the Cleveland medal for public service, conferred by the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce in 1931. Dr. Crile has been honored with a fellowship in the American Association of Anatomists; the American Association for the Advancement of Science; the American Surgical Association, which he represented as president in 1923; the 14 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS American College of Surgeons, of which he was president in 1916, and has since served on its board of regents; the American Medical Association; the American Physiological Society; the American Association of Obstetricians, Gynecologists and Abdominal Surgeons; the Southern Surgical Association; the Southern Medical Association; and the American Philo-sophical Society. He is an honorary member of the Philadelphia Academy of Surgery; the Royal Society of Medicine of Ireland; the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland; the Royal Society of Medicine of London; the Royal College of Surgeons in England; the Associations Surgical of Great Britain and Ireland; the Royal Academy of Medicine in Rome; Societas Medica Chirurgica Bonaniensis of Bologna; the Academie Royale de Medicine de Belgique; Societe Internationale de Chirurgie de Bruxelles; Association de la Societe de Chirurgie de Paris; Czech Medical Society of Prague; and Sociedad Peruano de Chirujia of Peru. His name is on the membership rolls of the National Academy of Sciences; the Association of American Pathologists and Bacteriologists; the American Society of Clinical Surgery; the American Association for Cancer Research; the American Association for the Control of Cancer; the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics; the Society of Experimental Biology and Medicine; the National Institute of Social Sciences; the National Research Council; the Association for the Study of Internal Secretions; the American Heart Association; the American Association for the Advancement of Science; the Ohio State Medical Association; the Cleveland Medical Library Association, and the Cleveland Academy of Medicine. He is a corresponding member of the Societas Medico-Chirurgica Edinburgena; corresponding &ranger of the Academie Royale de Medicine de Belgique; corresponding extranjero of the Sociedad Nacional de Cirugia of Habana; and corresponding doctor of the College of Doctors of Madrid, Spain. He likewise belongs to the Interstate Post Graduate Medical Association of North America and is a member of the International Physiological Congress. THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 15 Devoting much time to research and study, Dr. Crile has made important contributions to the literature of his profession, as indicated by the titles of his published works: "Surgical Shock," 1897; "Surgery of the Respiratory System," 1899; "Problems Relating to Surgical Operations," 1901 ; "Blood Pressure in Surgery," 1903; "Hemorrhage and Transfusion," 1909; "Anaemia and Resuscitation," 1914; "Anoci-Association," 1915; "Origin and Nature of the Emotions," 1915; "A Mechanistic View of War and Peace," 1915; "The Kinetic Drive," 1916; "Man, an Adaptive Mechanism," 1916; "Fallacy of the German State Philosophy," 1918; "Surgical Shock and the Shockless Operation Through Anoci-Association" (second edition of Anoci-Association), 1920; "Physical Interpretation of Shock, Exhaustion and Restoration," 1921 ; "The Thyroid Gland," 1922; "The Thyroid Gland" (second edition), 1922; "Notes on Military Surgery," 1924; "A Bipolar Theory of Living Processes," 1925; "Problems in Surgery," 1928; "Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases of the Thyroid Gland," 1932. On the 7th of February, 1900, Dr. Crile was married in Cleveland to Miss Grace McBride, a daughter of the late J. H. McBride, and they have four children: Margaret, now Mrs. Hiram Garretson of Cleveland ; Elisabeth, the wife of J. A. Crisler, Jr., of Memphis, Tennessee; George, Jr., and Robert. Dr. Crile resides at 2620 Derbyshire road, Cleveland Heights, and his office is in the Cleveland Clinic building on Euclid avenue at East Ninety-third street. ATLEE POMERENE A native son of whom Ohio is justly proud, Atlee Pomerene has rendered distinguished service to his state and country and is now chairman of the board of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. The recipient of many important trusts, he has figured in the councils of war and in the embassies of peace, in every instance acquitting himself with dignity, fidelity and honor. He laid aside the duties of lieutenant governor of Ohio to assume those of United States senator in 1911. He brought to this office ripe experience, legal ability of a high order and a keen 'desire to fulfill his obligations and discharge his duties with credit to himself and for the highest welfare of the state and nation. He at once won recognition as one of the foremost men in that great legislative body and throughout his tenure of office he was conspicuous as a statesman of the first rank. Mr. Pomerene was born in Berlin, Ohio, December 6, 1863, a son of Dr. Peter P. and Elizabeth (Wise) Pomerene, and when his high school education was completed entered Princeton University, which awarded him the A. B. degree in 1884 and that of A. M. in 1887. Meanwhile he had enrolled as a student at the Cincinnati Law School and was graduated with the class of 1886. In 1913 Mount Union College conferred upon him the honorary degree of LL. D., which he also received from the College of Wooster, Miami University and Kenyon College. Admitted to the bar in 1886, Mr. Pomerene located for practice at Canton, Ohio, where he was city solicitor from 1887 until 1891, and in 1897 was elected prosecuting attorney for Stark county, acting in that capacity until 1900. Through - 17 - 18 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS appointment he became a member of the state board of tax commissioners in 1906. An influential factor in Ohio politics, he was chairman of the democratic state convention in 1910, and on November 8 of that year became lieutenant governor of Ohio. Steadily advancing in the field of public service, he was elected United States senator January 10, 1911, by the legislature of the state and his enviable record in that connection won him reelection in 1917 for another term of six years, his opponent at that time being the late Myron T. Herrick, the distinguished diplomat, who served as ambassador to France. Exerting a potent force in the deliberations of the highest law-making body of the nation, Mr. Pomerene showed a broad grasp of the country's needs and the integrity, single-mindedness of purpose and executive ability of the true statesman. His name appeared on many important committees, including those on foreign relations, interstate commerce, banking and currency, privileges and elections, manufacturers and District of Columbia. As a member of the committee on foreign relations he was active in bringing about the ratification of our peace treaties; in the matter of passing the resolution declaring a state of war with Germany and Austria, and the ratification of the Colombian treaty, settling that country's claims growing out of the revolution on the Isthmus of Panama. As a member of the interstate commerce committee he took an active part in the legislation establishing the federal trade commission and in the framing of the Esch-Summings bill, known as the transportation act, which was passed after the World war. He was also a member of the sub-committee of five that drafted the transportation bill as it passed the senate; a member of the conference committee, which adjusted the differences between the senate and the house; a member of the conference committee between the two houses on the federal reserve legislation; and a member of the banking and currency committee of the senate which framed the federal reserve act as it passed the senate. He was the father of the bill-of-ladings law, and he and Judge Webb were the authors THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 19 of the bill known as the Webb-Pomerene act, relating to export sales. At the expiration of his twelve years of notable service as United States senator, Mr. Pomerene was named by the late President Harding as one of the delegates representing the United States at the fifth Pan-American Congress, which met at Santiago, Chile, in March, 1923. In February, 1924, he and Owen J. Roberts, of Philadelphia, were named as special counsel by President Coolidge under joint resolution of congress and were given charge of the litigation growing out of the naval petroleum reserve frauds. As a result of this litigation they have recovered to date over thirty millions of dollars in cash which has been paid into the United States treasury; also thirty-two thousand acres in Reserve No. 1 from the Pan-American Petroleum Company, estimated to contain more than six hundred million barrels of recoverable oil, and nine thousand, three hundred and twenty-one acres in Wyoming, known as the Teapot Dome, estimated to contain thirty-five million barrels or more; also, as a further result of this litigation the federal government recovered tankage erected at Pearl Harbor with a capacity of four million, two hundred thousand barrels, together with the improvements thereon, and one million, five hundred thousand barrels of fuel oil which cost the defendants more than ten million, seven hundred thousand dollars; likewise tankage and other improvements at Portsmouth valued at one million, one hundred thousand dollars, and further improvements made by the Mammoth Oil Company of the value of about five million dollars. All of said tanks and improvements were decreed forfeited to the United States government without being required to reimburse the defendant therefor. Mr. Pomerene is successfully engaged in the practice of law in Cleveland as a member of the firm of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, with offices on the eighteenth floor of the Union Trust building. In addition to his legal work he is efficiently performing the duties of chairman of 20 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS the board of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, a post of great responsibility and one for which he is exceptionally well qualified, due to his intimate knowledge of financial affairs. On the 29th of June, 1892, Mr. Pomerene was married to Miss Mary H. Bockius, of Canton, Ohio, and they reside in Wade Park Manor. Mr. Pomerene belongs to the Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks, the Canton Club and the Union Club of Cleveland. ROBERT ERNEST VINSON, D. D., LL. D., L. H. D. For nine years the Western Reserve University has had as its president Robert E. Vinson, an educator of note. He was born in the town of White Oak, Fairfield county, South Carolina, November 4, 1876, and is a son of John and Mary Elizabeth (Brice) Vinson. When his high school course was completed he matriculated in Austin College at Sherman, Texas, where he received the A. B. degree in 1896, and three years later the Union Theological Seminary of Virginia awarded him the degree of B. D. Ordained to the ministry in 1899, he was made associate pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Charleston, West Virginia, where he remained until 1902, and then enrolled as a student in the University of Chicago. In 1902 he entered the educational field as a professor in the Austin (Texas) Theological Seminary, a Presbyterian institution, and became its president in 1908, thus serving for eight years. From 1916 until 1923 he occupied the presidency of the University of Texas and then came to Cleveland to take charge of the Western Reserve University, which has prospered from both a financial and educational standpoint during his progressive administration of its affairs. His scholarly attainments won for him the D. D. degree from Austin College in 1905; the LL. D. degree, which was conferred upon him by the Southwestern Presbyterian University in 1910, Baylor University in 1918, Austin College in 1921, Oberlin College in 1923, the University of Texas in 1923; Washington University in 1925, Trinity College in 1926; and the L. H. D. degree from Denison University in 1927. On the 3rd of January, 1901, Dr. Vinson was married to - 21 - 22 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS Katherine Elizabeth Kerr, of Sherman, Texas, and three daughters were born to them: Mary Elizabeth, now the wife of Alfred K. Kelley; Helen Rutherford, now the wife of Dr. Hiram Studley, and Katherine Kerr, who is at home. In politics Dr. Vinson is a democrat. His college fraternities are Alpha Tau Omega and Phi Beta Kappa. He is a trustee of the Carnegie Corporation and a member of the Cosmos Club of Washington. RANDOLPH EIDE In the steps of an orderly progression Randolph Eide has reached the presidency of The Ohio Bell Telephone Company, bringing to his important duties the knowledge and wisdom resulting from the concentration of his efforts upon the mas-tery of the one line of work. Born in Lee, Illinois, May 25, 1888, he is a son of Tollef F. and Christine H. Eide. His high school education was obtained in his native town and his advanced studies were pursued at the University of Illinois, which awarded him the Bachelor of Arts degree. After his graduation he was em-ployed in the traffic department of the New York Telephone Company from 1911 to 1913. He then went to St. Louis, Missouri, as supervisor of traffic of the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, spending three years in that city, and in 1916 entered the Detroit office of the Michigan Bell Telephone Company in the same capacity. In 1917 he became superin-tendent of traffic of the Central Union Telephone Company at Columbus, Ohio, holding that position until 1921, when he became general superintendent of traffic for The Ohio Bell Telephone Company. His next step upward brought him to the post of general manager in 1923 and in 1924 he was elected vice president and a director of the company. In 1930 he became its president and thus his steadily developing powers have placed him among the ablest telephone executives in the country. He is also identified with financial interests of Cleveland as a director and member of the executive committee of the Guardian Trust Company, having served on the board of that - 23 - 24 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS corporation since January, 1930. He is also a director of the Monarch Fire Insurance Company. Mr. Eide married Miss Ruth Phillips in St. Louis on January 17, 1917. They have three sons and a daughter: Catherine Christine, Randolph, Jr., John Henry, and Richard Phillips. The family residence is at 2102 Lamberton road and Mr. Eide's office is in the Ohio Bell building at 750 Huron road. He is a member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the Mayfield, Union, Mid-Day, and University Clubs. Aside from his business activities, he has been closely associated with those interests which make for civic advancement and with movements for the general welfare of the community. In 1929 and 1930 he was campaign chairman for the Cleveland Community Fund. He served as president of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce from April, 1931, to April, 1932, and is now chairman of the Chamber's industrial development committee. At present he is also chairman of the Fourth Federal Reserve District Committee on Industrial Rehabilitation. HOWARD PARMELEE EELLS Howard Parmelee Eells, son of Dan Parmelee and Mary Maria (Howard) Eells, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, June 16, 1855. Few families are there in this country who can trace their genealogy through so many links of the ascending chain and find cause to congratulate themselves on being the descendants of a nobler or better ancestry than that of this true gentleman. John Eells emigrated from Barnstaple, England, between the years 1628 and 1630. Little is actually known of this progenitor of the family in America. From what facts we have it may be fairly deduced that John Eells was one of that class of stalwart Puritans to whom such men as the Rev. John White were appealing "to raise a bulwark against the kingdom of anti-Christ" by establishing a strong retreat in the new world in case of disaster in the old. In any event, his arrival in America and consequent settlement in the youthful hamlet of Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, was coincident with the height of the despotism of Charles I, and his return to England in 1641 to become an officer in the Cromwellian army agrees in point of time with the commencement of the active revolt of the liberal forces which had suffered so long the unwillingness of their popular leaders to resort to violence. On his return to the mother country, John Eells took with him his wife and infant son, Samuel, who at the age of twenty-one returned to the land of his birth to plant permanently in new soil the seeds of the family. Howard Parmelee Eells was removed from this ancestor, a major in the Colonial Army, by five generations through the youngest son of Samuel, the Rev. Nathaniel Eells, a graduate of Harvard - 25 - 26 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS College in 1699. There followed him three generations of Congregational ministers, all university graduates, and all prominent in the religious and educational life of their respective communities. The Rev. James EelIs, the grandfather of Howard Parmelee, moved with his family from New England to Westmoreland, New York, where his influence as a Presbyterian missionary and educator was felt in the central and eastern portions of that state, then the fringe of civilization, and in the development of Hamilton College at Clinton, fifteen miles from Westmoreland. It was here that each of his five sons received their education, though the youngest, Dan Parmelee, had his preliminary schooling at Oberlin College, Ohio, after his father, conscious of the wider fields for Christian endeavor offered by the march of immigration westward, had removed to Ohio with the intention of building up another community from which would radiate the teachings of Christ and the influence of educational advantages. These designs, however, failed to mature completely. Rev. James Eells settled in Amherst, Lorain county, Ohio, from which place he pursued his missionary work and supported his family on the salary of one hundred dollars a year. From this fact it is clear that Dan Parmelee Eells gained his education by dint of his own hard work, which commenced when he was fourteen years of age, in 1839, and which enabled him to receive his degree from Hamilton College in 1848, although the latter two years of his course were completed only by maintaining his standing in college while employed as abookkeeper in Cleveland, Ohio. Within a period of twenty years he rose to a position of great prominence in a community which he found a town of sixteen thousand inhabitants and left in 1903 a mighty city of three hundred and fifty thousand. His name will ever be associated with the development of Cleveland in all its phases. On his mother's side Howard Parmelee Ells was scarcely less fortunate in his heritage. The original ancestor of the Howard family in America was one Thomas of Aylesford, THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 27 County Kent, England, who settled in Ipswich of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634. Another Thomas, fifth in the line from the first settler, moved from Ipswich to Pomfret, Connecticut, and thence to the not far distant township of Tolland. It was his grandson, Colonel George Austin Howard, who in the spring of 1833 moved to Bristol, Ohio, and subsequently to Windsor in Ashtabula, to settle finally in Orwell in 1837 as a merchant and financier. In all these places he was successful in his business. By enterprise, prudence and the judicious use of capital, he accumulated a goodly estate, which was rapidly increasing at the time of his death. In his nature he was social, genial and popular. He was sympathetic and generous to the needy, warm and true in his friendships and singularly happy in his conjugal relationships. The eldest of his five children was Mary Maria, who in 1850 became the wife of Dan Parmelee Eells. The first of their two children was Howard Parmelee Eells. From this summary, all too short to do justice to the lives of worthy forbears, we see that this boy came of stock rich in those qualities which constitute the true nobility—virtue, in-telligence and education. His life, the realization of all that is purest, noblest and best, bore upward the standards handed down to him from Major Samuel Eells through six genera-tions of splendid Americans. When four years old the boy was attacked by a sickness which left him crippled by depriving him of the use of his right leg. Thereafter he never walked without the aid of crutches. Easy as it is to realize what a factor this was with which he had to contend, no one could have known him as a boy or as a man and thought of his handicap as an infirmity, since ever it was dwarfed by the supreme, indomitable cour-age which, springing up with the realization of what lay be-fore him developed to that degree where in strength it brooked no obstacles. It was in October of the same year, 1859, that his mother died and Howard with his sister, Emma Paige, two years younger, was cared for by their aunt, Lucy 28 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS Howard. At the age of six he attended a private school kept by Mrs. Day on Erie street, now East Ninth street, between Euclid and Prospect avenues in Cleveland. A little later he was sent to another private school, taught by Miss Sarah Andrews, where most of the youths who afterward became Cleveland's leading citizens received their first schooling. From his contemporaries we learn that even as early as this a marked tendency toward the cultivation of attainments in oratory and music was exhibited. In 1866, as a frail lad of eleven, he was sent away to the Greylock School of South Williamstown to receive the education which prepared him to enter Hamilton College in the fall of 1872. Massachusetts was in those days a long journey from Ohio, and the fortitude with which he faced the separation from his family, the discomforts of seven Berkshire winters in unheated dormitories, limited as he was in joining in the pursuits of the boys around him, was a marvel and example to the many school day friends whom by his charm and sincerity of manner he easily won. In 1876 he graduated from Hamilton, where he had found studies easy for his quick mind and where he excelled in English and oratory, having been awarded the senior prize in the latter course. Already his pen had developed a facility it ever retained. These four years of college ripened those tastes for literature, music and art which he cultivated throughout his life and which made him the cultivated gentleman that he was. To the A. B. degree received by Mr. Eells from Hamilton was added a second similar degree the following year at Harvard. On June 30, 1877, he started for Europe, where a year was spent in travel and in the pursuit of favorite studies. In 1878, a young man of twenty-three, Mr. Eells returned to Cleveland to commence business life as his father's secretary. Dan Parmelee Eells had already attained prominence in the banking and industrial circles of Cleveland and his interests were many and far-reaching. It was not long before his son, with keen intellect and sound judgment, became an active factor in many of his father's enterprises and an organizer THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 29 upon his own initiative. He became treasurer of the Cincinnati, Newport & Covington Railroad, the American Smelting Company, the Rocky Mountain Oil Company and held official positions in numerous other corporations. But soon his faculties were centered upon a concern which was to become the most important connection of Mr. Eells' career. The Bucyrus Foundry and Manufacturing Company was organized by his father and himself in 1880, at Bucyrus, Ohio, Howard Eells acting as treasurer. By means of his great foresight, an outstanding quality of his character, he became convinced of the great future of the company and permitted it to claim an increasing share of his attention to such an extent that from an early period he played a large part in the management. In 1892 this concern, then the Bucyrus Steam Shovel & Dredge Company, later the Bucyrus Company and at the present time the Bucyrus-Erie Company, was transferred to South Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In 1895 he became its president and continued as its active head until late in 1911, when he became chairman of the board of directors of the enlarged corporation. During his presidency the company enjoyed an era of great prosperity and growth and under his wise direction successfully carried out important projects such as the building of the machinery used in the excavation of the Panama Canal. There has been erected in the offices of this company at South Milwaukee a bronze tablet which testifies to the part which Mr. Eells played in the creation of this great corporation. The inscription thereon reads as follows: ERECTED IN MEMORY OF HOWARD PARMELEE EELLS Born June 16, 1855 - Died February 11, 1919 Associated with his father DAN PARMELEE EELLS in the organization in 1880 and in the management of the Bucyrus Foundry and Manufacturing Company, builders of the first successful steam shovel. Vice President and Treasurer of that company. Vice President and Treasurer of the Bucyrus Steam Shovel and Dredge Company. 30 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS President of the Bucyrus Company from its organization in 1896 to 1911. Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bucyrus Company from its organization in 1911 until his death. ERECTED IN MEM-ORY OF THE MAN WHOSE SELF-SACRIFICE, UNDAUNTED COURAGE AND WISE FORESIGHT LED TO THE PRESENT SUCCESS AND PROSPERITY OF THIS COMPANY; WHOSE STEAD-FAST FAITH IN ITS FUTURE, SAFELY GUIDED IT THROUGH THE BITTER STRUGGLE FOLLOWING THE PANIC OF 1893 ; WHOSE PROPHETIC JUDGMENT AND INTEGRITY OF CHAR-ACTER CREATED THE POLICY WHICH ULTIMATELY GAINED FOR IT THE INTERNATIONAL REPUTATION IT NOW ENJOYS ; AND WHOSE BROAD SYMPATHY AND UNFAILING KINDNESS OF HEART WON THE RESPECT, ADMIRATION AND LOVE OF HIS ASSOCIATES AND EMPLOYEES. THE HONORED NAME WHICH THIS COMPANY BEARS WILL SERVE AS A MONUMENT TO THIS THE CROWNING ACHIEVE-MENT OF HIS LIFE. IN RECOGNITION OF HIS LIFE'S LABOR AND TO PERPETUATE THE ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF THE DEBT WHICH THE BUCYRUS COMPANY OWES TO HIM AS ITS FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR, THIS TABLET HAS BEEN ERECTED, THIS SECOND DAY OF MARCH, 1920. The success which crowned this achievement, fraught as it was with many difficulties, was the most important of his business career. From the prominence which it gave him in the industrial life of the nation Mr. Eells became affiliated with the National Metal Trades Association, for many years served on its Council, and became its president in 1915, acting in that capacity until 1917. His unsurpassed sense of justice and fairness lent much to the formulation and culmination of the policies of the Association, the 'purpose of which was to promote cooperation between employer and employee, the freedom of an honest worker from the oppression of trade union methods. These purposes achieved much during a pe-riod of growing industrial unrest. Of the many enterprises with which the name of Howard Parmelee Eells will always be linked there is need to mention only those in which he was actively interested at the time of his death. From its reorganization, for which he was responsible, to 1898, Mr. Eells was president and treasurer of the THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 31 Atchison and Eastern Bridge Company, which owns and operates a railroad and highway bridge across the Missouri river at Atchison, Kansas. This bridge, built in the early '70s by Dan P. Eells, J. H. Wade and other Clevelanders, has played an important part in the development of the Missouri River region. He was president and treasurer of the Dolomite Products Company, which controls large stone quarries in Seneca county, Ohio. He was a director of the Sandusky Cement Company of Cleveland and as such was largely responsible for its financial reorganization in 1916. He was a director and member of the executive committee of the Superior Savings & Trust Company from its organization in 1905, and he was President of the Howard Realty Company. Success of undertakings in this great industrial country is measured by constructive contribution to the progress of our civilization. The business career of Howard Parmelee Eells was eminently successful. But whereas time at some distant day will partially obliterate industrial achievement, hiding it in the detail of the development of science, the part which a man plays in the progress of a great city will ever be felt and remembered. The influence of Mr. Eells was potent in allwhich concerned the social and civic life of Cleveland. He gave with a great generosity to countless .public philanthropies. The span of the latter half of his life is in fact the history of the progress of the Cleveland Humane Society, which he served so faithfully since 1882. Taught in the ways of sympathetic affection for man and beast from boyhood, and carrying out through life the precepts so thoroughly grounded, the full strength of his strong personality was brought to bear upon the urgent need of protection for the weak. He became treasurer of this society in 1900, in which position he also served the Cleveland Protestant Orphan Asylum from the year 1903. Another charitable institution aided by liberal contributions of his time and money was the Home for Aged Women, of which he was secretary and a member of the Board of Trustees. Few persons know of the extent and breadth of the lib- 32 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS erality of Mr. Eells. His public acts were only an indication of his far-reaching private generosity. With his whole heart Mr. Eells was actively interested in the development of art in Cleveland. He was a member of the accessions committee and the advisory committee of the Cleveland Museum of Art, where his presence at the meetings, his unselfish devotion to all its interests, his exquisite, richly cultivated tastes and practical judgment were ever an inspiration to his associates. The educational life of the community he entered through his trusteeships in Western Reserve University, the Cleveland School of Art and the East End School Association. From 1914 to 1918 he was president of the Cleveland branch of the Archaeological Institute of America. No man could have been found more eminently fitted to counsel and advise in undertakings of this nature. His was an educated, cultivated mind with keen appreciation of the beautiful in nature, in literature and in art. And dominating all these attributes there stood out that without which no life is fully rounded—faith in the teachings of Christ and adherence to the principles of Christianity. He was for years a trustee of the Second Presbyterian Church and he supported its work no less assiduously than his fathers before him. The long list of social organizations of which he was a member only partially testifies to the qualities which made Mr. Eells a delightful, charming companion and an ideal host. He was a member of the Union, Tavern, Country, Mayfield, Chagrin Valley Hunt, Harvard, University, Rowfant, City, Tippecanoe and Shaker Heights clubs of Cleveland, the New England Society of Cleveland, the Western Reserve Historical Society, the University and Alpha Delta Phi clubs and the Ohio Society of New York, the American Academy of Political Science, the National Geographic Society, the Hamilton Chapter and Williams Chapter of Alpha Delta Phi, Shore Owners Association and Lake Placid Yacht Club, and many other similar institutions. THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 38 Howard Parmelee Eells was married in Cleveland on April 20, 1881, to Alice Maude Overton, who died May 26, 1885, leaving two children, Emma Witt Harris and Dan Parmelee Eells (II). The daughter is the wife of Robert Henry Crowell, of Cleveland, and the mother of two children, Robert Henry and Emma Paige Crowell. Dan Parmelee Eells (II) is vice president of the Bucyrus-Erie Company of South Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He married Miss Anna Van Dyke and has five children, namely: Anna Camp, Maud, Elinor, and Anita Van Dyke and Alice Overton, twins. On November 11th, 1889, Howard Parmelee Eells married Maud Stager, a native of Cleveland, who survives him. Howard P. and Maud (Stager) Eells became the parents of five children. (1) Frances Homans, who is the wife of Allan C. House, of Cleveland, and the mother of two children, Allan C., Jr., and Harriet Eells House. (2) Howard Parmelee Eells, Jr., who is the president of Basic Dolomite, Inc., and of the Atchison and Eastern Bridge Co., of which corporation his brother Samuel is vice president and treasurer, respectively. He married Adele Corning Chisholm and has three daughters: Adele C., Frances H. and Jean Chisholm Eells. (3) Harriet Stager Eells, who was born in Cleveland and is now a resident of New York city. (4) Samuel Eells, who married Alice Rickey and has one child, Virginia Eells. (5) Maud Stager Eells, who is the wife of Warren H. Corning and has two children, Edith Warden and Nathan Eells Corning. Of the above named, Lieut. Howard P. Eells, Jr., and Lieut. Samuel Eells served in the United States Army in France from September, 1917, to the spring of 1919. To the love which Mr. Eells bore and dispensed with such liberality to mankind was added a devotion to his family that by its depth and power transfused his home with an atmosphere of refinement, virtue and devotion. Mr. Eells' death occurred suddenly at Pasadena, California, on February 11, 1919. The funeral services were conducted at his residence in Cleveland by the Rev. Paul F. 34 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS Sutphen, D. D., pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church, who spoke the following memorial which may fittingly serve as a conclusion to this narration of the life of Howard Parmelee Eells: "In glancing back over my long and intimate acquaintance with Mr. Eells, I think his one characteristic which most impressed me was his strong personality, his spirit of confidence and victory. He thought and spoke in terms of strength. He recognized no obstacles or limitations in his forward march to lofty character and great success, and in this he set an example to all around him. This strength he displayed not only in his business achievement, but in everything that demanded his interest—everything that tended toward the welfare of his home city. A city is indeed bereaved when a great citizen, with a great vision and an open heart, passes away. Such a man was Howard P. Eells." CHARLES CHESTER BOLTON In business circles of Cleveland, his native city, Charles Chester Bolton long occupied an enviable place by reason of his enterprise and sagacity. He was esteemed and admired for his generosity and public spirit as well as for his business ability and took a leading part in civic, philanthropic and church work. He was born March 23, 1855, in the old family home on East Seventy-first street and Euclid (then called Giddings) avenue, and was the only son of Judge Thomas Bol-ton, whose sketch appears elsewhere in this work, and Emeline (Russell) Bolton. The house wherein he was born was built by Judge Bolton in 1848 and was a rambling farm home located on a farm bounded by Eighty-ninth street on the east, Wade Park on the north, the C. & P. Railway tracks on the west and Scoville on the south. At the time of the death of the mother, in 1911, this acreage had been gradually sold from year to year until there was just the home plot left. In 1914 Charles Chester Bolton had the old house taken down piece by piece, even to interiors and furnishings, and had it recon-structed for his country home in Mentor, Lake county, Ohio. This is now the property of his youngest son, Julian C. Bolton. After attending the public schools and Miss Guilford's Academy in Cleveland, Charles C. Bolton prepared for college by taking a course in the Phillips Exeter Academy at Exeter, New Hampshire. In 1873 he entered Harvard University, from which he received the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1877. Among his classmates there were William E. Russell, after-ward governor of Massachusetts, and President Lowell of - 35 - 36 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS Harvard. After his graduation Mr. Bolton broadened his education by two years of travel in foreign lands and with his return home became identified with Rhodes & Company, continuing with them until the business was sold to M. A. Hanna & Company. The new owners were so well satisfied with his services that he was made a partner in the company of four members, an association that was maintained until 1904, when he retired to look after his private affairs. He later became identified with the Bourne-Fuller Company as a director and also was a director of the National Refining Company and the Guardian Trust Company, as well as a trustee of the Society for Savings. His insight was keen and his business and financial associates relied upon his judgment and probity. On November 24, 1880, Mr. Bolton was married to Miss Julia A. Castle, a daughter of William and Mary (Newell) Castle and also a member of an old and honored family of Cleveland. Mr. Castle removed here from Vermont about the year 1810 and was the first mayor of the combined Cleveland and Ohio City. Mr. Bolton took his bride to the old home where he was born, but four years later erected a modern dwelling at 7016 Euclid avenue adjoining the old homestead. This he occupied with his family until 1915, when he built a beautiful home at 10701 East boulevard, northeast, and resided therein during the remainder of his life. To Mr. and Mrs. Bolton were born five sons : Chester Castle, whose sketch is given on another page of this work, Kenyon C., Irving C., Newell C., and Julian C. Mr. Bolton was one of the organizers and became a charter member of the famous Troop A, composed chiefly of representatives of Cleveland's old and aristocratic families, and all of his sons were members of this military organization, in which the father served in every capacity, from private to captain. He was made a trustee of Central Armory, continuing in that position until it was sold to the state. His interests were extended to the fields of philanthropy, education, religion and civics. He was a vestryman and treasurer of St. THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 37 Paul's Episcopal Church for twenty-one years, although at the time of his death he had membership in Trinity Cathedral, and was also a trustee of the Episcopal Diocese of Ohio. He likewise served on the board of trustees of Kenyon College and contributed liberally to the support of many institutions and organizations of worth. Prominently identified with philanthropic and welfare work for a half century, Mr. Bolton was particularly active in behalf of the Cleveland Associated Charities, of which he became president, succeeding General Barnett in that office, and was also president of the Protestant Orphan Asylum. During 1917 and 1918 he was a member of the mayor's war board. He cast his ballot for the candidates of the republican party but never sought political office, preferring to discharge the duties of citizenship in a private capacity. A life member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, he served on its directorate for a number of years and was made chairman of its military committee. He enjoyed motoring and his favorite sports were hunting and fishing. He occupied the presidency of both the Winous Point Shooting Club and the Cleveland Country Club and was a member of the Castalia Sporting Club, the Mayfield Country Club, the Kirtland Country Club, the Union Club and the University Club, all of Cleveland, and the Duquesne Club of Pittsburgh. In Masonry he attained the thirty-second degree and was inducted into Tyrian Lodge, No. 370, F. & A. M., in 1877, continuing his membership therein throughout the remainder of his life. He also belonged to the Society of Colonial Wars and the Sons of the American Revolution. His interests and activities were far-reaching and most beneficial in their effects. He was called from this life July 31, 1930, at the age of seventy-five years, and his passing brought deep sorrow to all who were privileged to know him. The following tribute to his worth appeared in the editorial columns of the Cleveland Plain Dealer under date of August 2, 1930 : "Another Cleveland pioneer passes in the death of Charles C. Bolton. For more than half a century he had been promi- 38 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS nent in the industry, philanthropy and public affairs of this city. Unhappily the younger generation learns of most of his many contributions to the community only after his death. Cleveland has been extremely fortunate over the years in having a considerable group of men of the Bolton type; men who have grown up with the city, accumulated fortunes here, and employed them purely for the upbuilding of the community. "The obligations which they carried so long and effectively are passing now to younger men. If they carry on in the next quarter or half century as their forbears have in the years behind, continued progress in all constructive endeavors is assured." FREDERICK HARRIS GOFF On the stage of activity in Cleveland, Frederick Harris Goff was long a central figure, doing notable work as a lawyer, financier, philanthropist and civic leader. He was a banker of national repute and in that connection rendered service of great value to his country at the time of the World war. "Fred" Goff, as he was known to his friends and associates, was born in Blackbury, Kane county, Illinois, December 15, 1858, a son of Frederick C. and Catherine J. (Brown) Goff, and a representative in the 'paternal line of a colonial family that was established on American soil in the year 1670. There was another son, Isaac Channing Goff, who became president of the Goff-Kirby Coal Company, of Cleveland, and who died about 1924. Ile had two children: Dorothy, who married Irving MacDuffle and resides in Hudson, Ohio; and Harold Lufkin Goff, of Cleveland, Ohio. In looking back over the influences which shaped the character of Frederick H. Goff in later years, one cannot fail to recognize his heritage from his New England parents, whose rugged honesty and sterling attributes left a lasting impression upon him. Perhaps to his mother more than anyone else did he owe his keen sense of right and wrong, of contempt and intolerance of deceit and sham, and a determination always to see things as they were, rather than as he would wish them to be. His early life was not one of ease or affluence. Circumstances required his migration with his parents from his na-tive town to Evanston, Illinois, and finally his coming to - 41 - 42 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS Cleveland, where the family moved in 1864. Even as young as he then was, the duty devolved upon him to assume with his brother the care of the horse which constituted part of the effects brought to their new home, and so he made the journey in a box car with the horse to the city that was to learn to love and respect him, and to look up to him for wise counsel in times of trouble. While in Cleveland, though but ten or twelve years old, Mr. Goff joined the crew of a sailing vessel and made one cruise on the lakes under a captain by the name of Rummage. Later he joined a surveying party and was transit man on a survey of part of the Wheeling, Lake Erie & Western Railroad, then known as the Connauton Valley Road. Some time later, owing to the ill health of his father, the family moved to a ranch in western Kansas, to a place called Wilson Creek, and here Frederick H. Goff entered vigorously into the life of a cowboy. He returned to Cleveland, and attended the public schools until 1874. Then spent a year in the University of Lawrence, Kansas, when he went to Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he made his first venture into business and finance, delivering daily newspapers. There was little, however, in these early days that marked the future characteristics that dominated his life, save the earnestness and zeal with which he entered into whatever fell to him to do, whether work or play. In 1875 he entered the high school at Ann Arbor, preparatory to enrolling in the University of Michigan, from which institution he was graduated in the class of 1881, with the degree of Ph. B., and an indebtedness of eight hundred dollars, which he set to work to pay off while studying for admission to the bar of Cuyahoga county. This he accomplished by the strictest economy during his two years of service as law librarian. Freed from debt, and admitted to the practice of law in 1884, Mr. Goff began in a modest but determined way to build up a practice and a reputation in the legal profession that ranked him among its most gifted leaders. He early became THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 43 associated with William Carr, first as an assistant, and later as a partner, and in 1890 he became a member of the firm of Estep, Dickey, Carr & Goff—a relationship that existed until 1896, when he was made the junior partner in the firm of Kline, Tolles & Goff. From this time on his rise in his profession was rapid and secure, built upon a reputation for keen insight into the principles of law, and an even keener sense of the inviolability of the high moral obligations of that profession. Never in his career did he allow the pride of success or the gaining of riches to have any weight against the principles of right and justice as he saw them, and with these ends in view he followed the course mapped out for himself with a devotion and unyielding determination that made him an admired and dreaded antagonist and a successful lawyer. To say that Mr. Goff was always right would be to say more than can truthfully be said of anyone, but that he believed he was right and gave the best that was in him in his struggle to maintain it, none can deny. Success brought him growing responsibilities as well as bountiful increase in pecuniary returns. He became recognized as one peculiarly qualified to handle with unremitting faithfulness and intelligence the care of large estates, and he was invited by Mr. Rockefeller who had, with his characteristic insight into men's character and ability, recognized these qualities in Mr. Goff, to become associated with his legal affairs. For various reasons this flattering offer was declined, and he remained in Cleveland. This decision could scarcely have been based upon a foresight of the high position which he was destined to fill in that fast-growing community, but it is no exaggeration to say that this decision was of the utmost importance to the city which he was to serve in the largest possible way, and which was to come to recognize him as one of its first citizens, and to love him almost unconsciously as one to whom it could go in time of stress and trouble with a 44 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS supreme faith that its confidence would not be betrayed or ignored. In spite of his personal protests, in 1903 Mr. Goff became mayor of Glenville, which had not yet been annexed to the city of Cleveland. Acting as mayor, he vigorously, and in opposition to the wishes of influential friends, attacked and succeeded in abolishing gambling at the race track located in that suburb. This was practically his first advent into the public affairs of a community that soon came to know and appreciate his inflexible adherence to law, order and duty. One of the first of Mr. Goff's great contributions to Cleveland was made when he acted with no pecuniary compensation as one of the arbiters in the long struggle between the city and the street railway company. It had seemed like an almost hopeless struggle, and he only accepted the appointment from the railway company with the distinct understanding that he should not be interfered with, and that if a decision were reached by Tom L. Johnson, then mayor of Cleveland, and himself, it should be accepted by the company which he represented. He entered upon this duty with a distinct and freely expressed dislike of the mayor, and distrust of his sincerity, but during the controversy he became so convinced of the error of his early estimate of Mr. Johnson that his sensitive conscience made him give public utterance to this change in opinion and led to an undying friendship between the two men, so different and yet so alike in their adherence to the principles for which they fought. It was in large measure due to the recognition of his honest, clear-sighted ability to meet big things unafraid, so emphasized and so publicly recognized during the settlement of the street railway controversy, that he was urged to assume the office of president of the Cleveland Trust Company in 1908. The acceptance of this post entailed a great personal sacrifice, both monetary and in the giving up of a profession which for twenty-five years he had loved and honored. It was the vision of the opportunities opened up to him for ser- THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 45 vice to the public that determined him to enter the field of banking, and to give up forever the practice of law. It is not unusual for a lawyer of distinguished ability to be called to high positions in the financial or industrial world, but it is unusual for him when so called to keep always in the forefront of his vision the obligations which such a position should entail upon him in his relation to the public, and in his heart that love of service to the people which was such an outstanding feature in the life of Fred Goff. He brought with him into this new field of work the same vigor, the able and decisive judgment, the unceasing exertion, and vision of the future that had characterized him hitherto. Constructive reorganization and promulgation of practices and principles destined to make this bank one of the largest and safest in the country were soon put into effect. Among the innovations which he introduced into banking were the joint control and continuous audit of asserts, and the prohibition of loans to officers and directors. The latter he recognized as trustees of the funds deposited in the bank, and therefore, legally and morally disqualified from using them for their own purposes. His development as a banker was rapid, even brilliant. Recognition came to him from all directions; his judgment and counsel were sought and appreciated by banking institutions throughout the United States. But, always, he had at heart the interest of the community in which he lived. The Cleveland Foundation was a creation of his fertile brain and his love for Cleveland. Conceived by him as a means by which those who had provided for their dependents and families could place the balance of their estate into a general fund which would in time reach large proportions, and would be managed continuously for the good of the public, it has proved of great value in helping to solve intricate problems of civic importance. As formulated by Mr. Goff early in 1914, its purposes were to provide a means of distributing funds for assisting charitable and educational in- 46 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS stitutions, in promoting education and scientific research, for the care of the sick, aged or helpless, to improve living conditions, or to provide recreation for all classes, or any other charitable purposes. These funds are administered by a board of trustees. Mr. Goff was an originator of new and useful ideas, and in the putting of these into successful operation might almost be classed as an inventor. The Cleveland Foundation marked out a new road for private philanthropy in America and has been heartily commended by many public men ; furthermore this pioneer program has been adopted by nearly seventy-five large cities of the United States. In Mr. Goff's office at the Cleveland Trust Company hung a large engraving of Abraham Lincoln whose life and simple, honest but forceful character had always been an inspiration to him, not alone in his whole-hearted service to the public and to those friends of Lincoln, the common people, but also in his patriotic devotion to his country in its time of trouble. The World war found Mr. Goff too old for active military service but altogether too patriotic and public-spirited not to offer the best he had to his country, and he willingly added to his many burdensome activities the chairmanship of the war board appointed by Mayor Davis to provide for the relief of mobilized men and their dependents, and to curb financial activities held to be nonessential. This task, as might be expected, he fulfilled with exceptional wisdom and untiring energy. In 1918, in the midst of the vast projects of our government for the successful prosecution of the war, and the tension that existed throughout our country in industrial, financial and commercial enterprises, Mr. Goff was called by President Wilson to serve as vice chairman of the capital issues committee, with headquarters at Washington. He rendered invaluable service in helping to conserve the money resources of the country and making them subservient to the war-making power. At the conclusion of his service in this capacity President Wilson wrote Mr. Goff : "You have served your country loyally and efficiently at a THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 47 time when she had great need of fine and patriotic service." Afterward Mr. Goff served on many important commissions and committees, both for the federal government and for the community in which he lived. He came to have an unrivaled reputation as an arbiter, as one whose judgment could not be swayed by prejudice or passion, by flattery or influence. Inflexibly he sought for the truth, and having found it, no power however great could swerve him from the path to which it led. Due to these sterling qualities he was eagerly sought as a director or officer in large railroad and industrial corporations, to which his name added confidence, and to which his active service brought strength and safety. He was vice president of both the Cleveland Terminal & Valley Railroad Company and the Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling Railroad Company. His interest in education was recognized by his election to the board of trustees of Western Reserve. University. His charitable activities were unceasing. Whether in helping to raise funds for needy hospitals, for social settlement houses, or actively working for the Cleveland Community Fund, he never flinched from the added cares and responsibilities which these duties forced upon him, and in the silent, unheralded charities of his private life his heart softened to the appeal of the afflicted and his purse opened to the wants of the needy. It was astonishing that one whose every minute seemed so filled with pressing work could always find time to listen to the sorrows and cares of others, and to aid them in their weakness. It was surprising, too, that in the midst of it all he could still retain the joyful enthusiasm of youth, and in those brief periods which he devoted to recreation and recuperation, could throw down his heavy burdens and enjoy himself among the birds and flowers and trees, and all the glorious offerings that nature prepared for his pleasure in his much loved summer home in the Adirondacks. There, those favored with his intimate acquaintance, saw him in a 48 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS new mood, unceasing as ever in his activities, but brimming over with happiness and contentment that shed its joyous influence over all with whom he came in contact. His last great constructive piece of work was the bringing together of the Cleveland Trust Company, the Lake Shore Banking & Trust Company and the Garfield Bank, adding thus not only to the size and strength of his own bank, but enlarging what he considered one of the great community services which that bank was doing by thus adding a large number of branch banks, bringing, as he said, the small banks to the people with the added security of the large and powerful parent institution. His last public service was his acceptance of the office of treasurer of the Lincoln Memorial Commission of Cleveland, and had he lived, we may well believe that his love and admiration for the great president, who had inspired him throughout life, would have called forth his best efforts toward the successful completion of the work of this commission. Domestic by nature, Mr. Goff's home life was largely ideal. On the 16th of October, 1894, he married Miss Frances Southworth, who was born in Cleveland in January, 1864, and in both the paternal and maternal lines is descended from English ancestors who came to America in colonial days as passengers on the first ship that followed the Mayflower to this country. Mrs. Goff's parents were William P. and Louisa (Stark) Southworth, the former a native of East Haddam, Connecticut, while the latter was born in the state of New York. The mother came to Cleveland about the year 1830. William P. Southworth was a pupil in the public schools of Twinsburg, Ohio, and in early manhood entered the field of contracting, prospering in the venture. He built the first sewer in Cleveland and laid the first pavement on Euclid avenue. In payment of a debt, he took over a grocery business, first known as the People's Store, and in 1858 the name was changed to the W. P. Southworth Company. To the conduct of that business on Ontario street, Mr. Southworth de- THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 49 voted the remainder of his life. He was called to his final rest in 1891 and his widow passed away in 1905. Their family numbered four children : William J., who died in 1907; Mary S., who became the wife of Henry S. Upson ; Mrs. Frederick H. Goff and Otis S. Southworth. Mr. and Mrs. Goff were the parents of a son and two daughters: Fredericka S., who attended the public schools of Cleveland, the Hathaway-Brown School for Girls, also in Cleveland, and Vassar College at Poughkeepsie, New York, and is now Mrs. Joshua B. Waterworth; William Southworth Goff, who was a student at the Hackley School of Tarrytown, New York, and as a young man married Caroline Brewer, by whom he has two children, Caroline Brewer and Frederick Harris Goff (II) ; and Frances Mary, who is the wife of Theodore Thoburn and the mother of a son and a daughter, David Mills and Frances Southworth Thoburn. Mr. Goff was a member of the Union, Rowfant and Country Clubs of Cleveland. He was an adherent of the republican party, and worshipped in the Unitarian Church. Death ended his brilliant and useful career, March 14, 1923. While public recognition comes most often to men in public office, it came to him as a private citizen who had loved and labored for the community in which he lived, and as one whom that community had learned to trust beyond all others. On the afternoon of March 22, 1923, the board of directors of the Cleveland Trust Company devoted their regular meeting of that date to the adoption of the following memorial to their late president: "Resolved that by the death of Frederick Harris Goff this bank has lost a great executive, the stockholders and depositors a tireless guardian of their interests, the directors, officers and employes a loyal and beloved friend. "Mr. Goff attained national distinction as a lawyer, as a banker, and as a philanthropist. In the fields of his chosen professions of law and banking his achievements were of the first order. As a philanthropist his wide reputation was