MAJOR CHARLES RUSSELL MILLER Major Charles Russell Miller was a gallant officer in the Spanish-American war and one of Ohio's most prominent military men. A lawyer of high standing, he was honored with the presidency of both the Cleveland Bar Association and the Ohio State Bar Association, and although his life was terminated at the age of fifty-eight years, he attained many of the distinctions and dignities of the world. Born in Canton, Ohio, October 1, 1858, Major Miller was a son of William K. Miller, who was a native of Tuscarawas county, this state, and made his work as an inventor and manufacturer of particular value to agriculturists. The father was a manufacturer of reapers, mowers and threshing machines for many years. He was long connected with Russell & Company of Massillon, Ohio, and later with the Peerless Company of Canton. Many useful inventions applied to reaping and mowing. machinery were the product of his fertile mind. Active in politics, he managed all of the congressional campaigns of William McKinley and for a number of years his son, Major Miller, was secretary of the campaign committee. William K. Miller married Sarah Burwell, a native of Niles, Trumbull county, Ohio, and a first cousin of the late President McKinley. At one time the Burwells and the McKinleys occupied a double house at Niles. Reared in his native city, Major Miller attended its grammar and high schools and Canton Academy. In preparation for the career of his choice he devoted two years to study in the law office of William and Abner McKinley and was admitted to the Ohio bar December 3, 1879, at the age of - 151 - 152 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS twenty-one. As a young attorney he came to Cleveland and was connected with the law firm of Estep, Dickey & Squire for a year and then returned to Canton, where he maintained an office of his own until 1901. In the latter year he again came to the Forest city and here followed his profession successfully as a member of the law firm of Weed, Miller & Rothenberg. Major Miller not only established an enviable reputation as an attorney and counselor but also won prestige as the author of "Law of Conditional Sales." From 1913 to 1916 he served as president of the Cleveland Bar Association and during 1915-16 was president of the Ohio State Bar Association. He also occupied the presidency of the Cuyahoga County Bar Association and the Commercial Law League. As a young man he became interested in military affairs and joined the Eighth Regiment of Ohio Infantry, advancing to the rank of captain. In the Spanish-American war he was captain and assistant adjutant general on staff duty with the First Brigade, First Division, Second Army Corps, and later was promoted to the rank of major. He received his discharge January 1, 1899, after the war was ended. He served as a judge advocate general of the Spanish War Veterans in 1900-01 and in 1906-07 was commander-in-chief of the United Spanish War Veterans. At Cleveland, May 9, 1883, Major Miller married Miss Alice Evelyn Rose, a daughter of the late William G. Rose, a former mayor of this city, and four children were born to them : William Rose, who followed in the professional footsteps of his father, practicing law until his death in 1921 and leaving a daughter, Barbara Miller, of Canton, Ohio; Charles Russell, Jr., who died in 1918; Rose E., who married Harry C. Hyatt and became the mother of two children, Hudson and David McK. ; and Sarah Grey, who died aged twelve years. Major Miller was a trustee and active member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Cleveland. Although THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 153 he rendered important service to the republican party, he was not a seeker of its honors in the form of office. He was a presidential elector in 1896, when William McKinley was first nominated for the presidency. Major Miller was a prominent member of the Commercial Law League of America and became its president in 1899. He was identified with the Masonic fraternity, the Loyal Legion, the Military Order of Foreign Wars, the Sons of Veterans and the Spanish-American War Veterans. He was one of the founders and the first president of the Cleveland Rotary Club and likewise belonged to the Army and Navy Club of Washington, D. C., the Cleveland Athletic Club, the Union Club, the Colonial Club and the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. He had a broad outlook upon life, a strong sense of duty and honor, and exemplified a high type of American manhood and citizenship. He died on December 18, 1916. FRANK BOWEN MANY Frank Bowen Many, noted inventor, retired business man and prominent capitalist of Cleveland, is an honored native son of this city, born March 15, 1860. His father, John Jay Many, who was of French descent, was born in New York city and died in 1876. He came to Cleveland about 1846 to represent the stockholders and build the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis Railroad, now part of the Big Four system. This company made him auditor, a position which he occupied throughout the remainder of his life. The mother of Frank B. Many, who bore the maiden name of Jane Little, was a native of Ballagarive, County Longford, Ireland, and died in 1893. Frank B. Many pursued his education in Cleveland's grammar and high schools and gained his initial experience in the business world during five years' service as purchasing agent of the Valley Railroad Company. Next he was identified with the oil business in Cleveland and has so continued for fifty-five years. An earlier biographer wrote : "His first big independent venture was in taking a large contract for the lighting of the streets of Cleveland. He also for twelve years had the lighting contract of the suburbs and furnished illumination to a number of outlying towns by a gasoline lamp system. One of his largest business achievements was organizing the Canton-Cleveland Brick Company, which originated the use of shale brick for street paving purposes. The company had one plant in Cleveland and another at Canton, and it was a business running on a capital of two hundred thousand dollars. Mr. Many was president of the company until both plants were sold to the Metropolitan Brick Company of - 155 - 156 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS Canton." In 1904 Mr. Many became one of the organizers of the Energine Refining & Manufacturing Company, the only company in the world manufacturing a pure hydro-carbon, and he contributed materially to the growth and success of the corporation in the dual official capacity of secretary and treasurer. These were the larger concerns with which Mr. Many was identified in former years, though he had numerous other business interests in the city. Both he and his son, Frank D. Many, disposed of their holdings in 1929 and have since been retired. A man of marked inventive ability, Mr. Many has taken out many patents, including one on the helicopter which permits the flying-machine to ascend or descend vertically or to remain stationary in mid-air. He also invented a method for raising and lowering a dirigible and indeed has made valuable contribution to aviation in the way of safety and comfort. Numerous improvements of modern times are attributable to his mechanical ingenuity and skill. His name is on the membership roll of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is also a member of the Cleveland Engineering Society. In 1886 Mr. Many was united in marriage to Miss Ilda May Dresden, a native of Cleveland and a daughter of Henry and Frances Dresden, representing a French family who were pioneers in Cleveland. Mr. and Mrs. Many are the parents of a son, Frank Dresden, who on the 10th of September, 1917, married Rosemary O'Connor, a native of Columbus, Ohio. Mr. Many is a republican but has taken no active part in politics for a number of years. "Under the old rules that governed the political game," said a contemporary writer, "he was repeatedly a delegate of his party to county conventions." His military record covers three or four years' service with Brooks Corps, a social and military organization, of which he was second lieutenant and quartermaster. He is a member of the Masons, and a thirty-second degree Scottish Riter and a Shriner; of the National Union, a fraternal and beneficial THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 157 organization incorporated in 1881 under the laws of Ohio. He is a director and on the finance committee of the Liberty Savings and Loan Co. ; a director of the Midwest Savings & Loan Co. ; president of the Federal Oil & Gas Co., of Akron, Ohio, and treasurer of Acacia Park Cemetery Company. Now past the Psalmist's allotted span of three score years and ten, he is constantly giving out of the rich stores of his wisdom and experience for the benefit of others. CHARLES HENRY REED Charles Henry Reed is well known in industrial circles of Cleveland as vice president and manager of the Forbes Varnish Company, manufacturers of paints, lacquers, varnishes and enamels. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, October 14, 1898, his parents being Edwin Stanley and Harriet Lois (Charter) Reed, both of whom were natives of Ohio, the former born in Vernon and the latter in Hiram, this state. Edwin S. Reed attended Hiram College and soon thereafter came to Cleveland, in 1881, here entering the employ of the Murphy Varnish Company, with which he received thorough training in the manufacture of paints and varnishes. In 1895 he became identified with the Standard Varnish Company of Chicago, being in charge of manufacturing at this plant until 1903, when he crossed the border into Toronto, Canada. There he erected the factory of the International Varnish Company, a subsidiary of the Standard Company, and served as its general manager from 1903 until his resignation in 1907. In the latter year he returned to Cleveland to found the Forbes Varnish Company, all the original incorporators of which were men who had been connected with the Standard Company for many years. Edwin S. Reed was active in control of the business of the Forbes Varnish Company from the time of its inception and in 1913 was made president and general manager, thus continuing at the head of the enterprise until his death, which occurred August 12, 1931. To him and his wife, who is still living, were born two children : Charles Henry, of this review; and Mrs. Edna McFarland, a resident of Cleveland. Charles H. Reed acquired his early education in the gram- - 159 - 160 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS mar and high schools of Cleveland and also pursued a course at the Case School of Applied Science in this city. He was a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology when as a youth of seventeen years, before this country became involved in the World war, he enlisted in the United States Navy. After the signing of the armistice he received an honorable discharge from the navy and resumed his studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, being graduated therefrom with the Bachelor of Science degree in 1920. He then served as an instructor in its department of engineering administration until 1921, when he resigned the position and returned to Cleveland to take up his duties as assistant to the sales manager of the Forbes Varnish Company. Subsequently he was made sales manager and technical director and later was promoted to the position of treasurer of the company, while since the death of his father in August, 1931, he has filled the offices of vice president and general manager. His efforts have constituted an important factor in the continued expansion and success of the business of the company, a history of which may be found in another part of this work. On the 17th of November, 1922, Mr. Reed was united in marriage to Miss use Marie Gehring, a native of Cleveland and a graduate of Wellesley College. They are the parents of two sons : Edwin Albert, born in 1924 ; and David Allen, born in 1931. Mr. Reed is a member of the Clifton Club and the Westwood Country Club and finds pleasurable recreation in golf. COLONEL DANIEL H. POND A veteran of the Spanish-American war and an officer in the United States Army Quartermaster's Reserve Corps, Colonel Daniel H. Pond has long figured prominently in military affairs and is equally well known in the field of business as president of the Economy Savings & Loan Company, a Cleveland corporation, with which he has had official connection for nearly forty years. Born in Petroleum Center, Pennsylvania, March 11, 1870, he is a son of Henry H. and Maria M. (Gates) Pond and comes of sturdy New England stock. The first official record of the Pond family is found in the archives of Windsor, Connecticut, in which state Samuel Pond was married November 14, 1642. His son, Samuel Pond (II), born March 4, 1648, took the freeman's oath at Hartford, Connecticut, in 1672. He had a son, Samuel Pond (III), born at Branford, Connecticut, July 1, 1679. His son, Philip Pond, was known as "the Patriarch," and was born at Branford on June 15, 1706. Dan Pond, next in line of descent, was born March 4, 1726, at Branford and as a young man removed to Poultney, Rutland County, Vermont, and at his home on Pond's Hill his family of fifteen children were born and reared. Of these Abel Pond, born October 27, 1753, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. He settled in Lenox, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, but he died at Poultney Flats, Vermont. His son, Joel Anders Pond, grandfather of Colonel Pond, was born at Poultney, May 9, 1807, and became a resident of Randolph, Crawford county, Pennsylvania, later taking up his abode in Townville, that state, where he - 163 - 164 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS died. Henry H. Pond was born in Steuben, Crawford county, Pennsylvania, June 6, 1844, and after completing a medical course opened an office in Meadville, where he practiced successfully until shortly before his death on February 24, 1877. He was married on September 9, 1867, to Maria M. Gates, a daughter of Daniel Gates and a cousin of General Adna R. Chaffee, who became chief of staff of the United States Army. About 1886 the widow of Doctor Pond re-moved to Cleveland, joining her son Daniel, who had come to this city a few years before to live with an uncle, Rev. J. B. Cory, a Methodist minister. Daniel H. Pond acquired his elementary education in the public schools of Bristolville and Cleveland, Ohio, and at the age of fifteen he enrolled in the preparatory school of Alle-gheny College at Meadville, where he spent two years. This school was conducted on the military plan and it was there that he received his first military training. Upon leaving school he secured employment in a factory at Painesville, Ohio, but in a year returned to Cleveland and became a driver for the Cleveland Baking Company, soon afterwards becoming a salesman, and later purchasing agent. At the time of his enlistment in the regular army he resigned his position and for a year was a private of Troop G of the Seventh United States Cavalry. Upon leaving the army Colonel Pond became a clerk for the Adams Express Company and later had a run as mes-senger between Cleveland and Pittsburgh for two years. In 1891, as a member of the firm of Ferguson and Pond, he embarked in the real estate business in Cleveland and was thus' engaged until 1893, when he became general manager of the Economy Savings & Loan Company, of which O. J. Hodge was then president. Colonel Pond's brother, H. W. Pond, entered the company at the same time as secretary and treasurer, and in 1929 was elected vice president. H. C. Wick became treasurer in 1902, and in 1907 Colonel Pond became vice president, and in 1911 he succeeded Mr. Hodge as president. THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 165 Organized in December, 1892, by prominent business men of Cleveland, the Economy Savings & Loan Company began operations in the Blackstone building with a capital of $200,000, which has since been increased to $1,000,000. In 1927 the company removed to its present location at 1028 Huron road and 1027 Prospect avenue, where they have ample facilities for the conduct of their ever expanding business. They still retain offices in the Blackstone building, at 1426 West Third street, and a branch office at 4211 Pearl road. At this writing, 1932, the corporation has resources of more than $1,800,000. Its officers are : Colonel Daniel H. Pond, president; Paul Howland, vice president and attorney; Harry W. Pond, vice president; Ralph H. Pond, secretary; Bert A. Clark, Earl E. Brogan and Roy O. Sakemiller, assistant secretaries; Frank Combe, office attorney; Louis J. Jira, branch manager. The board of directors are Daniel H. Pond, Bert A. Clark, S. C. Dalbey, Paul Howland, Otto T. Loehr, Harry W. Pond, Ralph H. Pond and Henry C. Wick. With a background of forty years of service and usefulness, this is one of the old, substantial and reliable financial institutions of Cleveland and its steady growth is proof of the high standard maintained in its conduct. The Economy Savings & Loan Company has pioneered in its special field, for it was the first to make a legal small loan, and the company's president was instrumental in placing on the legislative books of Ohio the laws that make possible the lending of money in small amounts. This corporation has cooperated with the Russell Sage Foundation in bettering the work of savings and small loan companies and ranks with the foremost organizations of the kind in this part of the country. The following article, which appeared in the Cleveland News a number of years ago, best describes the functions and aims of this corporation : "Before Ohio laws took such a drastic control of the loan situation, Colonel D. H. Pond and his associates in the Economy Savings & Loan Company had started a movement 166 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS which resulted in the National Association of Remedial Loan Companies. This association had for its object the ending of ruinous loan terms and the lending of money to those who needed it without the necessity of surrendering self respect and soul. This remedial association has been instrumental in placing on the Ohio statute books laws which have controlled the loan sharks who had remained in business, and laws which have forced many out of business. "From its inception the Economy Savings & Loan Company has been of that class of loan associations which aimed to make a fair profit and charge a just rate consistent with risk involved. Colonel Pond points with pride to a long list of firm friends made through the fair methods of this concern. There are many men and women in Cleveland who have been pulled out of despondency and discouragement and started with new encouragement through the assistance rendered them by the Economy. This company is chartered to make loans on chattels and is one of the few in the state which is also authorized to make loans on real estate and to receive deposits. In fact its building and loan deposits have been increasing for a number of years and have been another means by which the door of independence has been opened to many men and women through the use of the key of thrift. Colonel Pond and his associates have also constituted themselves friendly advisers to many individuals who have been the victims of their own carelessness and loose methods in handling their incomes. In these and many other ways Colonel Pond and his associates have been able to make the Economy an institution of real merit in Cleveland life." Ed. Since the above was written all of the loan sharks in Cleveland have been forced out of business. Colonel Pond's military activities constitute one of the most important chapters in the history of his life. Starting as a private of Troop G, Seventh United States Cavalry, he became a private of Company I, Fifth Infantry, Ohio National Guard, in September, 1890 ; sergeant, November 20, THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 167 1890; sergeant major, October 20, 1891; first lieutenant of Company K, Fifth Infantry, August 3, 1892; captain, December 10, 1894; lieutenant, senior grade, Ohio Naval Brigade, February 2, 1897; captain of Company C, Fifth Infantry, 0. N. G., April 23, 1898; lieutenant colonel of Fifth Infantry, 0. N. G., August 15, 1899. He was placed on the retired list May 19, 1902, but was returned to the active list January 20, 1917, to visit the Federalized National Guard doing Mexican border duty. On March 17, 1925, Colonel Pond was commissioned lieutenant colonel, U. S. A. (Reserve), and on March 17, 1930, was recommissioned for an additional five years with the same rank and grade. When Samuel Mather was president of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce he asked Colonel Pond to assist in drafting a law creating the Naval Reserve, and making it a part of the National Guard. The Colonel complied with the request and the law was passed. He became a lieutenant of the Cleveland unit of the Ohio Naval Reserve, so continuing until this nation declared war against Spain. At one time he was commander of the revenue cutter Andrew Johnson, operating on the Great Lakes as a training ship for the Naval Reserve. As captain of Company C, Fifth Infantry, O. N. G., he saw service in the Spanish-American war. Of his military duty within the state some of the chief incidents were in connection with disturbances in the Massillon coal district, the Brown hoist, the Berea quarries and the street railway riots in Cleveland. On May 17, 1891, Colonel Pond was united in marriage in Cleveland with Miss Ola Clark, daughter of Silas Clark, of Holmes county, Ohio, and a descendant of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Two children were born of this union : Ralph Herbert Pond, who graduated from the Case School of Applied Science, then was a chemist in the employ of the Ohio Forge Company and he is now secretary of the Economy Savings & Loan Company. He 168 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS married Charlotte A. Waters and they have two daughters, Elizabeth Patricia and Helen Barbara. A daughter, Irene Pond, born in 1894, died in early childhood. Colonel Pond is a Methodist in religious belief and in politics is a republican. He is a Mason, holding membership in both the York and Scottish Rite bodies of that organization, and is a Shriner and a member of the Al Sirat Grotto. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Automobile Club, the City Club, Kiwanis Club, the Army and Navy Union, the Military Order of Foreign Wars, and the Military and Naval Order of the Spanish-American War. At the time of the World war he was active in all the drives for loans and savings stamps, working untiringly to aid the government in his district. He takes a deep and helpful interest in philanthropic and welfare work and is a life member of the Associ-ated Charities, and was connected with the Legal Aid Society, being the only layman to hold membership. Since 1920 he has served as vice president of the Cleveland Chapter of the American Red Cross, and at the time of the Lorain disaster handled all of the Red Cross work for the seven days. He has been chairman of the Wayfarers Lodge since 1924. That Colonel Pond is a broad-gaged man is indicated in the nature and scope of his activities and interests. He has steadily widened his field of usefulness and his has been a successful career in the fullest and best sense of the term. ALFRED A. BENESCH Since 1903 the name of Alfred A. Benesch has been one of prominence in legal circles of Cleveland, his native city, where he also has executive connections with large business and financial corporations, meanwhile becoming a leader in civic and welfare work. He was born March 7, 1879, the son of Isadore J. and Bertha Benesch, and when he had mastered the branches of learning taught in the grammar and high schools of Cleveland matriculated in Harvard University, which awarded him the A. B. degree in 1900, that of A. M. in 1901, and that of LL. B. in 1903. Admitted to the bar in the latter year, he at once began the practice of law with Benjamin C. Starr but two years later terminated that relationship to form a partnership with Samuel J. Kornhauser, with whom he was associated from 1905 until 1911. Afterward Mr. Benesch practiced alone for about five years and since January, 1916, has been a member of the firm of Herrick, Hopkins, Stockwell & Benesch, enjoying a large and desirable clientele. In addition to the able conduct of his important legal interests he is successfully administering the affairs of the Conrad, Baisch and Kroehle Furniture Company, of which he is the president, and his executive force is also exercised as vice president of the Mutual Building & Investment Company. His name likewise appears on the directorates of the Altman Furniture Company, the Clifton Furniture Company, the Phoenix Realization Company and the Central United National Bank. On November 29, 1906, was solemnized the marriage of Alfred A. Benesch and Helen Newman and they reside at 1333 East boulevard. Keenly interested in municipal affairs, - 169 - 170 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS Mr. Benesch was made acting police judge in 1908, so continuing until 1911, and in 1912 was councilman at large. He next gained public prominence as director of public safety during 1914 and 1915. In 1926 he became a member of the Cleveland board of education and upon the resignation of Mr. Williams on the 1st of April, 1932, succeeded him as president, discharging the duties of the office with the thoroughness and fidelity which have at all times characterized his work. He belongs to the City and Oakwood Clubs and his professional affiliations are with the Cleveland Bar Association, and the Ohio State Bar Association. A man of kindly nature and generous impulses, Mr. Benesch has labored untiringly to aid the needy and the unfortunate and has been particularly active in behalf of the Semitic race. He is an honorary life member of the Jewish Social Service Bureau; president of The Educational League for the higher education of talented Jewish children ; treasurer of the Jewish Orphan Home ; and a trustee of the Jewish Welfare Federation, the Hebrew Loan Association of Cleveland and the National Jewish Hospital for consumptives at Denver, Colorado. He is likewise a trustee of the Negro Welfare Association and the National Probation Council. Actuated by high ideals, he has used practical methods in their attainment and, judged from the standpoint of service, his career has been notably successful. HARRY C. WALKER In Cleveland, his native city, Charles Harrison Walker, better known by his friends and associates as Harry C. Walker, has established an enviable reputation as a dairyman, a line of business which has claimed his attention since he was twenty-five years of age. He is sole proprietor of the Sunlight Dairy and has conducted business on the west side in Cleveland for a quarter of a century. He was born in the family home on old Scott street on November 3, 1877, a son of Charles A. and Emma (Jordan) Walker, the former born at Rouses Point, New York, and the latter in Rockport township, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. The Jordans were among the first settlers of what was then called Rockport township and developed a farm there in the early days. Coming into Cleveland in the year 1873, Charles A. Walker worked in a lumber yard for the Sturtevant Lumber Company until 1882, when he removed to Rockport township and opened a general store, which he conducted for many years and enjoyed a large patronage. He died in 1912 at the age of sixty-five years, but his widow is still living in her old home and at the age of seventy-four is enjoying life among her friends. Three children also are living : Harry C. ; Fred E., who is also engaged in the dairy business in Cleveland ; Etta J., who is the wife of Irvin MacDowell and resides in Fairview. Harry C. Walker obtained his grammar school education in Rockport, and at the age of about fifteen began as a clerk in his father's store, although much of his spare time as a lad was spent in the store, and it was there he earned his first - 171 - 172 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS money. He assisted his father in the store until 1901, when he was united in marriage with Miss Bertha Barthelman, a schoolmate, who was born November 15, 1878, and was reared and educated at Rockport. Her father, Fred Barthelman, was a farmer for years in that locality and died on July 6, 1932, at the age of eighty years. Her mother, Katherine Barthelman, now seventy-nine years of age, is still living in her old home place. After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Walker decided they would go into the dairy business and began in 1902, on her father's farm. Mrs. Walker did her full share of the work and was an inspiration to her husband at all times. He did the delivering with a horse and wagon to their customers. At the start their output was about twenty gallons of milk. As their trade gradually increased, in 1907, they secured a more suitable location on West Ninety-fifth street, Cleveland, where they erected a small building for dairy purposes. As the community became more populated his patronage increased and they found this building inadequate for their needs and in 1915 they bought a tract of land and at 9310 Lorain avenue erected the first unit of their present plant. Equipment was installed of the most modern type and they were the first independent dairymen to install machines for pasteurizing milk in Cleveland. In 1920 more space was needed and two stories were added to their building-, which is of brick construction, and equipped throughout with the most modern machinery for the handling of milk, including bottling, washing and sterilizing machines. The entire plant is a model of neatness, ef-ficiency and sanitation and reflects the high standards of the owners. They sell both wholesale and retail and operate sixteen gasoline and electric delivery trucks, thus rendering prompt and dependable service every day of the year. The milk is obtained from dairies in Wayne county, and Mr. Walker was the first dairyman to ship milk by baggage cars to Cleveland from that county. Several of the thirty employees now on their payroll have been in his employ from six- THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 173 teen to twenty years. He gives close supervision to every detail of the business and it is operated on a profitable basis. Mr. Walker is a member of the Lakewood and Cleveland Chambers of Commerce, and shows his public spirit in many ways for the benefit of his community. He possesses energy, foresight, and initiative, and is regarded as one of the foremost of Cleveland's dairymen. He and his wife have devoted years to the development of their business and are now taking life more leisurely, spending portions of each winter at their Florida home. They enjoy fishing and have taken many trips in their motor boat in the southland. JOHN SHERWIN John Sherwin, long a prominent figure in financial and industrial circles of Cleveland, his native city, retired as chairman of the board of directors of the Union Trust Company in 1929. He was born in 1868, on the south side of Euclid avenue, at the intersection of Eighty-second street, when the thoroughfare was traversed by horse-cars. His parents were Nelson B. and Elizabeth M. (Kidder) Sherwin, natives of Vermont, who came to Cleveland, Ohio, about 1860. In the paternal line he is a grandson of John Sherwin, of Vermont, and a representative of a colonial family which numbered Captain John Sherwin, a soldier of the Revolutionary war. Nelson B. Sherwin, the father of Mr. Sherwin of this review, was a graduate of Williams College and an attorney by profession. He passed away in 1918, being for a number of years survived by his wife, whose death occurred in 1927, when she had reached the advanced age of ninety-two. Henry Sherwin, cousin of our subject, was formerly president of the Sherwin-Williams Company, extensive paint and varnish manufacturers of Cleveland. John Sherwin attended the public schools of Cleveland in the acquirement of an education and after putting aside his textbooks entered the banking business as messenger boy with the old National City Bank, with which he was connected from 1888 until 1893, working his way up through various grades of promotion. In the latter year he became cashier of the First National Bank of Elwood City, Pennsylvania, remaining there for two years. On the expiration of that period, in 1895, he returned to Cleveland to organize the Park National - 175 - 176 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS Bank, of which he was made cashier and a director. The Euclid Avenue National Bank, which had been organized in 1886, was merged with the Park National in 1899, and the resulting institution was named the Euclid-Park National Bank, of which Mr. Sherwin became vice president and executive officer. Within a few months the State National Bank went into voluntary liquidation, and the Euclid-Park Bank took over its business. In like manner, the assets of the Bankers' National Bank were acquired in 1904 by the Euclid-Park Bank, which had become the largest national institution in Cleveland. On May 1, 1905, the Euclid-Park National Bank and the First National Bank merged their interests under the latter's name, with Mr. Sherwin as president. The First National Bank was one of the six Cleveland banks which consolidated in January, 1921, to form the Union Trust Company, with which Mr. Sherwin was thereafter identified as chairman of the board of directors until his retirement in 1929. At this time he is a director of the Ohio Bell Telephone Company, the Cleveland Railway Company, the Otis Steel Company, the Kelley Island Lime & Transport Company, the United States Security & Investment Company of New York, and other corporations, in the successful control of which his cooperation is a valued factor. In 1893 Mr. Sherwin was united in marriage to Miss Frances McIntosh, of Cleveland, a daughter of H. B. McIntosh. They are the parents of two sons : John Sherwin, Jr., who is vice president of the Cleveland Trust Company; and Francis M., who is connected with the same institution in a clerical capacity. Both are graduates of Yale University. Appreciative of the social amenities of life, Mr. Sherwin has membership in the Union, Tavern, Terminal, Kirtland Country, Chagrin Valley Hunt, and Pepper Pike Clubs of Cleveland and in the Links and Recess Clubs of New York. In former years he was a familiar figure at the old Glenville race-track, where he drove his own horses. He has been a THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 177 trustee of Western Reserve University for many years, and with Mrs. Sherwin he established a fund of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars known as the Fine Arts Garden Endowment Fund. His efforts have constituted an important factor in the cultural as well as material development of Cleveland, and his record is one to which the city may point with pride. WILLIAM EVANS BRUNER, A. M., M. D., Sc. D. A man of advanced scientific attainments, with a background of forty years of professional experience, Dr. William Evans Bruner has become widely known as an ophthalmologist and ably upholds the prestige of Cleveland's medical fraternity. He was born in Columbia, Pennsylvania, January 8, 1866, a son of Abraham Bruner, a lumberman, who there resided until his death in 1905, and Sarah J. (Breneman) Bruner, who is also deceased. Reared in his native town, Dr. Bruner pursued his education in its public schools and attended Dickinson College at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, for a year. This was followed by a classical course in Wesleyan University at Middletown, Connecticut, where he received the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1888 and that of Master of Arts three years later. Meanwhile he had enrolled in the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, where he received the M. D. degree in 1891, and also has the honorary degree of Doctor of Science, which was conferred upon him by Wesleyan Uni-versity in 1928—a distinction well merited. Dr. Bruner's scholarship won for him a position as interne in the Philadelphia Hospital, with which he was identified from 1891 until 1893, when he secured the post of private assistant to Dr. G. E. de Schweinitz, and in the same year became assistant in ophthalmology at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. With this practical experience he came to Cleveland in 1894 to enter upon private practice and has since given his attention to the treatment of the eye. His study, research and investigation have been most thorough, - 179 - 180 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS enabling him to master this branch of the profession, and his skill as an oculist has gained for him a large and constantly growing practice. A capable educator, he was demonstrator, instructor, lecturer and clinical professor at Western Reserve University from 1912 to 1915 and has since been professor of ophthalmology at that institution. Enlisting in the medical department of the United States Army for service in the World war, he was on duty as major in the surgeon general's office in 1918, and for many years was an oculist of the United States pension board. He is now director of ophthalmology at Lakeside Hospital and consulting ophthalmologist to the Charity, Maternity, Baby's, Rainbow and Cleveland City Hospitals. He has been a frequent contributor to medical journals and at one time was a member of the editorial staff of the Annals of Ophthalmology. Dr. Bruner was married February 18, 1897, in Columbia, Pennsylvania, to Miss Lydia S. Clark, a daughter of William Clark, and their son, William Evans, Jr., was born in 1901 and died in 1903. Clark Evans, a younger son, was born in 1910, attending Connecticut Wesleyan University. The residence of the family is at 3109 Fairfax road in the suburb of Cleveland Heights, and the Doctor's office is on the twelfth floor of the Guardian building in Cleveland. Many of his leisure hours are spent in his library, and fishing is his favorite sport. He has membership in the Church of the Covenant and in politics he is a republican but not a strong partisan. His interest in philanthropic work and all that makes for civic growth and progress has been expressed in many tangible ways, including service on the executive committee of the Society for the Adult Blind and on the advisory committee of the Ohio Commission for the Blind. The Cleveland Chamber of Commerce numbers him among its enterprising members and he is a life member of the Cleveland Museum of Art, a member of its Print Club, and an associate member of various Societies of Etchers. A life member of the Cleveland Medical Library Association, he served for two years as its president THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 181 and is now a member of the board of trustees. He belongs to the Union, Rowfant, Mayfield and Adirondack League Clubs and to the Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Delta Phi and Nu Sigma Nu fraternities. In 1916 his associates in the Cleveland Academy of Medicine chose him as their president and during 1907 and 1908 he was chairman of the eye, ear, nose and throat section of the Ohio State Medical Society. He is also a member of the American Medical Association, the American Ophthalmological Society, the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology and the American College of Surgery. With progress as his watchword, Dr. Bruner has exerted every effort to broaden his professional knowledge and enhance his skill and is generally regarded as Cleveland's foremost exponent of the science of ophthalmology. He has never sought to achieve that success which has a monetary measurement but rather has sought achievement in the field of scientific accomplishment and of service to his fellowmen and his labors therefore have been beneficially resultant. HAROLD WORTHINGTON Bending his energies to the mastery of one line of work, Harold Worthington has registered achievement in the field of public accounting and for a decade has successfully man-aged the Cleveland business of Price, Waterhouse & Company, an organization of international scope and importance. He was born in Preston, England, November 10, 1884, a son of John Henry and Mary (Morton) Worthington, the former now deceased, but the latter still lives in that country. After obtaining a public school education Harold Worthington took a course of study which qualified him for the work of a public accountant, and in 1907, when a young man of twenty-three, sailed for America, first locating in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1908 he entered the service of Price, Waterhouse & Company and in 1914 was made their assistant manager at Los Angeles, California, so continuing for eight years. On the expiration of that period he was transferred to Cleveland and since 1922 has been the local representative of this large firm, having twenty or more accountants under his direct supervision. Theirs is one of the oldest and largest organizations of public accountants in the United States. They are affiliated with the London company of the same name, as well as with the continental firm at Paris and the South American firm at Buenos Aires. From the outset Price, Waterhouse & Company have maintained a high standard of service and are unexcelled in their line of work. Ninety-eight per cent of their employes are natives of this country and have been carefully trained in public accounting. The business is conducted on a partnership basis and all of the partners are active in its management. - 183 - 184 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS In 1906 Mr. Worthington was married to Miss Mabel Miller, also of Preston, England, and a son and a daughter were born to them : Lois, who is a graduate of a Cleveland college for women ; and John Miller. The residence of the family is at 2589 Euclid boulevard, Cleveland Heights, and Mr. Worthington's office is in the Union Trust building. In business circles of the city he occupies an enviable position, and socially he is well known as a member of the Union and Mid-Day Clubs. ALBERT J. FERBERT Devoting his life to the mastery of the paint and varnish business, Albert J. Ferbert has achieved national prominence in that field of commercial activity and has created in Cleveland an extensive industry, conducted under the name of the Ferbert-Schorndorfer Company, of which he is the president. As an organizer and business getter he has long had the reputation of being one of the best in the country. Born in Cleveland in 1881, he is a son of John C. and Caroline (Striebinger) Ferbert, and in both the paternal and maternal lines is a representative of old and honored families of the city. The grandfather, Jacob Ferbert, was born at Lambsheim, in the Rheinpfalz of Germany, February 19, 1815, and was there married to Elizabeth Bender, a native of the same city, born May 18, 1818. With his wife he emigrated to America about 1840 and purchased a farm on what is now known as the Scharf road, on the outskirts of Cleveland. He secured a timber tract and after building a log house devoted his energies to the task of clearing the land and preparing it for the production of crops. Eventually he transformed the virgin tract into a productive, well improved farm, which he cultivated for many years. He passed away on the old homestead at Brooklyn, a suburb of Cleveland, June 30, 1881, and on January 13, 1883, his widow responded to the final summons. Their son, John C. Ferbert, was born on the home place April 4, 1845, and acquired his education in the public schools of Cuyahoga county. He assisted his father with the farm work until he was of age and then joined Louis Schaaf in the flour and feed business at West Twenty-eighth street and Detroit avenue, Cleveland, continuing at that location for sev- - 185 - 186 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS eral years. When he retired from business he returned to the homestead and resided thereon until his death on the 11th of October, 1885, at the age of forty years. His widow was born in Mayfield, now a part of Cleveland, January 17, 1851, and attained the age of seventy-five years, passing away April 17, 1926. The first of the Striebinger family to settle in Cleveland was Martin Striebinger, who was born at Neuhofen, in the province of Baden, Germany, January 31, 1827, and emigrated to the United States in 1851, becoming one of the early residents of the Forest city. He opened a grocery store on Michigan avenue, now a part of Prospect avenue, and was there engaged in business until 1863, when failing health compelled him to discontinue his mercantile operations. He then purchased land in the Newburg district, where he followed the occupation of farming for about one and a half years, and with his return to the city secured a desirable location at Broadway and Ontario streets. There he catered to both the grocery and hardware trade and successfully conducted the business during the remainder of his life. In 1851 he was married in Cleveland to Anna Elizabeth Rapparlie, who was born at Rheingonheim, in the province of Baden, Germany, and in 1836 was brought to the United States by her parents, John and Christina (Bauman) Rapparlie, who took up their abode in Cleveland when it was a village. A blacksmith and wagonmaker of experience, John Rapparlie established a shop at Michigan and Seneca streets, where he developed a business of large proportions, and remained at its head for many years. He excelled in his line of work and it was said that a Rapparlie wagon would last a lifetime. He made the wagon complete in his shop, doing both the wood and iron work, for he had been thoroughly trained in Germany and was considered a master craftsman. His daughter, Mrs. Martin Striebinger, passed away in 1900 and for a quarter of a century had survived her husband, who died in 1885. They were the parents of eight children : Anna Elizabeth ; Margaret, who died at THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 187 the age of four and a half years; Martin, Adam, Henry, Andrew and Nicholas, who are also deceased; and Frederick William, a well known architect of Cleveland. The daughter, Anna Elizabeth Striebinger, a native of Cleveland, was married in this city to John A. Loesch, who was likewise a member of one of its pioneer families and was here engaged in the insurance business for a number of years, devoting a portion of his time to the management of estates. Since the death of her husband Mrs. Loesch has made her home with her daughter, Eda Beryl, who was married in 1914 to Dr. Linus Leslie Chandler, a graduate of Ohio State College. He is an able exponent of the homeopathic school of medicine and has a large practice in Cleveland. Dr. and Mrs. Chandler have a son and a daughter : Ruth Elizabeth, who was graduated from high school in 1916, when in her sixteenth year; and Leslie Linus, aged fourteen years, who is a junior in high school. Philip Jacob Striebinger, a brother of Martin Striebinger and the maternal grandfather of Albert J. Ferbert, was also a native of Neuhofen, Germany, and sought the opportunities of the new world in 1853. He likewise came to Cleveland when this metropolitan area was sparsely settled and bought a farm on Euclid avenue, twelve miles southeast of the city. Later he sold the place and moved to the city, becoming the owner of a grocery store at York and Carroll streets, on the west side, where he prospered in business. The old Striebinger Hotel, which stood on the site now occupied by the Terminal Tower building, was erected in 1872 by four Striebinger brothers, Martin, Philip, Jacob and Michael. Jacob assumed the management of the new hostelry and under his capable supervision this became one of the most popular hotels in the city. The opening of the Striebinger was a notable event in the annals of Cleveland and on that auspicious occasion four hundred invited guests were seated at the banquet tables at one time. The hotel property was subsequently sold to the Van Sweringen Brothers and the Terminal group of 188 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS buildings are now situated on the ground formerly occupied by the old hostelry. John C. and Caroline (Striebinger) Ferbert were the par-ents of six children : John C. ; Gustave H., who was graduated from the law school of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where he was football coach for a time, and is now the owner of a fruit ranch in the Wenatchee valley of Washington ; Ida, who is Mrs. J. G. Hagenmeyer of Lakewood, Ohio ; Albert J. ; Adolph H., who is vice president of the Pittsburgh Steamship Company but lives in Cleveland and has a family of two sons, Edward Albert and Fred W. ; and Miss Bertha Ferbert, who resides with her brother Albert in Lakewood. Dr. John C. Ferbert, the oldest son, was born September 9, 1871, and spent much of his life in Los Angeles, California. He was a director of the California Hospital Association and also played a prominent part in the affairs of the Los Angeles Medical Society. He belonged to the Los Angeles Country Club and was a thirty-second degree Mason. He passed away in Los Angeles, December 3, 1920, at the age of forty-nine years, and the following article appeared in the Times, a local paper, at that time : "Dr. John C. Ferbert, deceased, was one of the most prominent surgeons and diagnosticians on the Pacific coast, and self-educated. He came to Los Angeles in 1892, when a boy of twenty. Having made up his mind to be a doctor, he entered the drug store of Adolph Eckstein in Los Angeles and learned pharmacy, passing the state board examination with credit. He then entered the Southern California Medical College, graduating with honors in 1898. His first practice in Los Angeles was with the old firm of Bicknell & Moore. When they dissolved partnership Dr. Ferbert continued to practice with Dr. Bicknell until the latter retired, but retained the old partnership name of Bicknell Si Ferbert until his death, having a sincere regard and warm admiration for Dr. Bicknell. Dr. Ferbert was essentially a self-made man and it was a distinct loss to the medical profession that he should be taken when in the prime of his career. He was THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 189 recognized by his colleagues as a skillful surgeon and excellent diagnostician and during the years that he practiced he often worked in collaboration with some of the most noted surgeons on the continent. The number of his charities was many, many young medical students being aided in their education through his generosity. While his clientele included many rich and prominent people, he was noted for the unstinted manner in which he served the poor. Wherever aid was needed he gave it. When the World war broke out he gave up a lucrative practice to serve with the colors and went to France in command of Base Hospital Unit No. 3, equipped in Los Angeles. At the close of the war he returned to this city and resumed his activities in the surgical world." Funeral services were held for him in the Masonic Temple of Los Angeles, with military honors, before his body was shipped back to Cleveland, the city of his birth, and thousands mourned his untimely death. Albert J. Ferbert pursued his education in Cleveland until graduated from high school, when he started out for himself, obtaining a situation with the Sherwin-Williams Paint Company of this city, and for about five years was in charge of their Kansas City branch. He resigned to accept a respons ible position with the Ohio Varnish Company of Cleveland and remained with that corporation for seventeen years, serving in various capacities. In 1921 he severed his connection with the concern to establish a business of his own and with S. C. Schorndorfer formed the Ferbert-Schorndorfer Company for the manufacture of paints and varnishes. Of this corporation Mr. Ferbert has since been the president, bending his efforts to administrative direction and executive control, and has built up one of the foremost institutions of the kind in this part of the country. Of superior quality, the products of the house are known from coast to coast and have a wide sale. The history of the business is one of rapid growth and progress and is given elsewhere in this work. Studying the industry from every angle, Mr. Ferbert has acquired a 190 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS comprehensive knowledge of matters relative to the manufacture and sale of paint and varnish and his enterprising spirit and well developed powers have placed him with the leaders in the field in which he is operating. He is a stockholder of the Central United Bank of Cleveland and one of its directors. He takes an active part in the affairs of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, the Rotary Club, the Ad Club, the Cleveland Athletic Club and the Westwood Country Club and is serving as president of the last named organization. He belongs to both the York and Scottish Rite bodies of Masons and the beneficent teachings of the fraternity are exemplified in his daily life. FRANK AUGUSTUS SCOTT Entering upon the struggle for an existence when but a child, Frank A. Scott overcame adverse circumstances, and became one of Cleveland's foremost business men. He had official connection with the Warner & Swasey Company and other large corporations and is now living retired in Mentor, Ohio, while his summer home is at Bread Loaf, Vermont. When the nation was at war with Germany he was called to Washington to assume the duties of chairman of the Munitions Standards Board, the general munitions board and finally Chairman of the War Industries Board.   Mr. Scott was born in Cleveland, March 22, 1873, a son of Robert Crozier and Sarah Ann (Warr) Scott. When he was a lad of ten, death deprived him of his father and at that tender age he was thrown upon his own resources. For two years he was a newsboy, arising before four o'clock in the morning to deliver papers and also carried the afternoon editions. Only once did illness prevent him from making his usual rounds. At the age of twelve he started to work for the Western Union Telegraph Company in the capacity of messenger boy, afterward delivering Associated Press dispatches to the newspapers, and was next chosen to carry telegrams to the general offices of a local railway system. This assignment led to his connection with the railroad business as office boy for the general freight agent and in the performance of his tasks it is said that he was still so small he had to stand on a box in order to manipulate the letter press. Steadily advancing, he was made clerk in the general freight office and in time became a specialist in freight rates—a subject which requires a mind capable of grasping complicated detail.   - 191 -   192 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS   Meanwhile Mr. Scott devoted his leisure hours to study, having as his instructor in Latin, History and English branches Dr. John H. Dynes of Western Reserve University. In 1926 Mr. Scott was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws of Western Reserve University. About the time he attained his majority he was employed as an expert on the subject of freight rates by the standing committee on transportation of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. In 1895, when a young man of twenty-two years, he was appointed assistant secretary of the Chamber of Commerce and in 1895 was elected its secretary, thus serving until 1905. With his assumption of the duties of that office the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce passed into the second stage of its existence. Heretofore it had been largely concerned with preparations for work—in building a foundation for future accomplishments. Under his progressive management the organization became the power in the community which its founders had hoped it might become. His administration of its affairs gave him high rank among the organizers of the country and placed the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce first on the list of such bodies in America.   Resigning in 1905, Mr. Scott became secretary and treasurer of the Superior Savings & Trust Company when it was organized by Colonel Jeremiah J. Sullivan, one of Cleveland's greatest bankers, and was with that corporation for three years. During. 1908 and 1909 he was receiver of the Municipal Traction Company of Cleveland. In the latter year he became associated with two other prominent business men of the city, W. R. Warner and Ambrose Swasey, as an officer in the Warner & Swasey Company, manufacturers of machine tools, astronomical instruments, range finders, gun sights, etc. Thus one of Cleveland's greatest industrial institutions came under the management of Frank A. Scott, who was only thirty-five years of age at that time. He was successively secre-tary and treasurer, vice president, president and chairman of the board of the Warner & Swasey Company until 1928, when   THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 193   he retired from active business, although he remains a director of the Cleveland Trust Company, the Ohio Bell Telephone Company, and the India Tire & Rubber Company of Akron.   Since that time Mr. Scott has been occupied with public affairs and his labors in behalf of the public welfare have been just as effective and resultant as in the conduct of his private business interests. He is a life member of the Cleveland Humane Society, a member of the Corporation of Case School of Applied Science, fiscal trustee of Lakeside Hospital, trustee and fiscal director of the Western Reserve University, and a trustee of The University Hospitals, of which he was the first president. He belongs to the Cleveland Engineering Society, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the National Republican Club of New York; the Union and Kirtland Country Clubs of Cleveland ; and the Green Mountain Club of Vermont. In religious belief Mr. Scott is an Episcopalian and his political support is given to the republican party.   In 1896 Mr. Scott was married in Cleveland to Bertha Dynes, whose death occurred in 1909. She had become the mother of three children : Katharine B., now the wife of Professor M. Roy Ridley, of Oxford, England; Chester B., who married Nancy Akins, by whom he has two children, a son and a daughter; and Eleanor L. For his second wife Mr. Scott married Faith A. Fraser of Cleveland, to whom he was married in Tarrytown, New York, in 1911, and their children are Elizabeth and Malcolm.   Mr. Scott has expressed his loyalty and patriotism in many tangible ways. A contemporary biographer wrote of him : "Mr. Scott has long been known as one of the foremost apostles of military preparedness. Around him have centered many of the movements in Cleveland and in the state to put this nation into a condition of efficiency with respect to the military and naval arms and from the outbreak of the great war in Europe he was exerting every influence he possessed to that end. Before the outbreak of the war with Germany he was a member of a naval consulting board, part of the larger   194 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS   organization of the national experts from all fields of industry who were surveying and coordinating the national resources. Then, in April, 1917, Mr. Scott was named through the Council of National Defense as head of a general munitions board, and in July, when the war industries board was created, consisting of five members, Mr. Scott was appointed chairman.   "At the time the creation of a war industries board was called the most encouraging administrative event that has happened since the war begun.' And now, more than a year later, when America's part in the war is beginning to tell from the official reports from the battle front, it is not presumptuous to give a considerable share of the credit for America's military efficiency to the work of the board, headed by Mr. Scott, of Cleveland. No one would accuse Mr. William Hard of being a tender-hearted critic of men and affairs at Washington. What he said concerning the personnel of this board and Mr. Scott in particular stands out conspicuously among the many severe denunciations which flowed from his pen during the first year of the war. In an article written for the New Republic in August, 1917, Mr. Hard had some things to say about Mr. Scott which are perhaps the most concise interpretation of his character and mental makeup and which his closest friends in Cleveland would justify in every particular. 'Mr. Scott,' to quote a portion of Mr. Hard's article, has already accomplished what was said at Washington to be impossible. He has aroused a stir of personal enthusiasm, first for the general munitions board and now for the war industries board, in the breasts of certain critical and crucial military men in the war department who, it was thought, were obdurate to the charms of any civilian intrusions into military affairs. They were not obdurate to the charms of Mr. Scott.   " 'He turned out, for one thing, to be a war fan, capable of conversing at length on the battles of the Civil war, the Mexican war, the Revolutionary war and other wars, thus demonstrating the horse sense of his mental interests. In con-   THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 195   sequence of these interests he turned out also to have a most genuine admiration and liking for military men, and for the indispensability of military technical knowledge as for the indispensability of civilian commercial technical knowledge in the purchasing of war supplies. He has been a positively providential bridge between the civilian and the military ways of thinking.   " 'Further, he is a very great diplomat. He must have been born a diplomat, but he additionally served ten years as secretary of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce before he became secretary and treasurer of the Warner & Swasey Company. That is, he learned to deal with groups of men of whom he had no power of "hire-and-fire" before he became an employer. He was, in essence, a politician before he became a business man. By temperament and by experience he walks unautocratically and surefootedly through many places in Washington where many "I say to one man go and he goeth and to another man come and he cometh" business men have stumbled and fallen.   " 'And he is a man of excellent executive ability. It has been marked not only by his colleagues but by members of foreign technical missions, several of whom picked him out a long time ago as the most probable man in sight to be selected finally to be the head of our American munitions activities. Part of his ability is related to his diplomacy. It is this remarkable unclouded temper of his mind. He has a most curious way of withdrawing his mind from one object and of then focusing it on another so definitely, so deliberately, that one can almost hear the accompanying click. It is more than a mannerism. It is a method, conscious or unconscious. The result is that his mind never gets blurred by impressions. He takes them in sequence, uses them and files or discards them. At the end of a day he is usually as receptive and forceful as he was at the beginning.'   "Mr. Scott was with the war industries board long enough to impart to it much of his personal force and spirit, and it   196 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS   was a matter of nation-wide regret when ill health compelled him to resign October 26, 1917. In his letter of resignation to Secretary of War Baker he said : 'With the deepest regret and only because I am experiencing a recurrence of physical difficulty from which I suffered in 1912, I submit my resignation from the chairmanship of the war industries board.' In reply Secretary Baker said : take leave to assure you that we deeply appreciate the self sacrifice as well as the value of the service you have rendered and count it a most fortunate thing for the government that it was able to have your knowledge, zeal and splendid spirit as a part of the organization of the war.' " Afterward Mr. Scott was commissioned a colonel and made honorary adviser of the Army Industrial College and a lecturer before the War College. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal by President Wilson, and, later, the medal awarded annually for distinguished contributions in the field of ordnance.   NATIONAL TELEPHONE SUPPLY COMPANY   The business conducted under the name of The National Telephone Supply Company was established in 1901 by Fred P. Auxer and Carl Seyler on a partnership basis. Leasing a small factory at 3922 Superior avenue, they began the manufacture of telephone supplies, parts and accessories. In 1910 the business was incorporated under the style of The National Telephone Supply Company, capitalized at twenty thousand dollars. Steadily expanding, the organization outgrew its original quarters and in 1916 the officers of the company purchased a tract of land at 5100 Superior avenue. On this property was erected the present factory, which is three stories in height and of modern mill construction. Machinery of the latest and most improved type was installed in the plant, which is operated by means of the individual unit system of electric power and equipped with a sprinkler system for fire protection. One hundred and ten persons are employed in the factory, which has sixty thousand square feet of floor space. The capitalization was increased to two hundred thousand dollars in 1920. Mr. Seyler withdrew from the corporation in 1923, selling his stock to Mr. Auxer, who is now practically the sole owner of the business. His sales force is composed of experienced, capable men and under his progressive leadership this has become an enterprise of international scope and importance.   - 197 -   CHARLES S. REED   On the list of professional men in Cleveland appears the name of Charles S. Reed, a corporation lawyer and a former judge of the common pleas court, whose success has been based upon thorough collegiate training and forty-eight years of practical experience in legal work. He was born in North Fairfield, Huron county, Ohio, September 17, 1862, a son of the late Dr. David Henry Reed, who was born in that county on the farm that his father, Shadrach Reed, settled upon coming to Ohio more than one hundred years ago and which is still owned by the Reed family. The great-grandfather of Charles S. Reed, Henry Reed, became a judge in Sullivan county, New York, in 1813. Dr. David H. Reed was numbered among the pioneer farmers of Huron county, and when he left the farm he moved into the village of Fairfield and practiced medicine, took an active part in all progressive movements; his death occurred in 1910. He married Caro-line Long, who was born near Delaware Water Gap, Monroe county, Pennsylvania, in 1834, and who came to Ohio with her parents when she was a girl of seven years. Mrs. Reed is still alert and active although ninety-eight years of age and makes her home with her son, Charles S. Reed, who are the only survivors of their family.   Charles S. Reed supplemented his high school education by study in Oberlin College, Western Reserve University and the University of Michigan. Leaving Ann Arbor in 1884, he went west to Kansas and at Fredonia, that state, was admitted to the bar in the same year. He began his career as an attorney at Fredonia and four years later was the successful candidate for prosecuting attorney of Wilson county,   - 199 -