250 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS commission. During the period of the World war he was treasurer and president of the City Club and at present is a director and the secretary of the Commercial Club. He also belongs to the Union, Mid-Day, University and Country Clubs of Cleveland. His broad outlook and keen powers of discernment have enabled Mr. Smith to visualize the possibilities of the future in service to the present and his influence upon the life of his city has been of the highest order. HENRY E. GILPIN Henry E. Gilpin is president of The Great Lakes Towing Company, with general offices in Cleveland, of which he has been the executive head since 1918. He was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, his parents being Richard A. and Mary C. Gilpin, the former a civil engineer by profession. The Gilpin family, of English descent, was established in America in colonial days—about the year 1690. Henry E. Gilpin acquired a public school education and prior to entering the towing business was engaged in railroading for forty years, advancing from the position of track-master to the general superintendency of the Erie Railroad. He began his railroad career as a rodman in the engineering department of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad and afterward had charge of surveys in the coal regions of Pennsylvania. Later he entered the engineering and operating departments of the Delaware & Hudson Railroad, becoming superintendent of the Pennsylvania division, and subsequently was made general superintendent and assistant general manager of the Erie Railroad. It was in 1918, as above stated, that he entered upon his present official duties as president of The Great Lakes Towing Company of Cleveland, of which he has remained at the head throughout the intervening period of fourteen years. He had taken up his abode in this city in 1901 and has resided here continuously for more than three decades. The Great Lakes Towing Company was organized in 1899, with business headquarters in Cleveland, taking over several other concerns. The company does harbor and lake - 251 - 252 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS towing, wrecking and salvage work, operates in all harbors from Duluth to Buffalo, and has sixty-five tugs, five lighters and one salvage steamer. Employment is furnished to more than six hundred people. Local offices are maintained at Ashtabula, Ohio ; Conneaut, Ohio; Cleveland, Ohio; Detroit, Michigan ; Fairport, Ohio; Huron, Ohio; Lorain, Ohio; Port Huron, Michigan; Sandusky, Ohio ; and Toledo, Ohio. The officers of The Great Lakes Towing Company are as follows : H. E. Gilpin, president; G. A. Tomlinson, chairman of the board; J. S. Ashley, vice president; M. H. Wardwell, secretary and treasurer; H. N. Hobart, assistant .to the president; L. F. Wood, Jr., purchasing; and J. S. Ashley, W. J. Connors, Samuel E. Bool, Alva Bradley, Fayette Brown, James E. Davidson, H. E. Gilpin, J. J. Boland, Charles L. Hutchinson, Richard Inglis, S. L. Mather, Robert C. Norton, G. A. Tomlinson, H. S. Wilkinson and J. S. Wood, directors. In 1901 Mr. Gilpin was united in marriage to Mary Helen Church, of Belvidere, New York, representative of an old colonial family. Mr. and Mrs. Gilpin are the parents of three children, namely : Brinca, who married J. Brenner Root, of Cleveland; and Henry E., Jr., and Richard Church, who are engaged in the printing business in Cleveland. Mr. Gilpin is a member of the Union Club of Cleveland and is highly esteemed in both social and business circles of his adopted city. EDWIN B. HAMLIN Starting in business life in a humble capacity, Edwin B. Hamlin has advanced far in his chosen field and is accounted one of the foremost representatives of life insurance interests in the state of Ohio. His offices are in the Keith building and he has made his home in Cleveland for a period of forty-four years. He was born in Madison county, New York, August 26, 1867, a son of George N. and Louisa (Barker) Hamlin, who are now deceased. Reared on his father's farm, Edwin B. Hamlin attended the rural schools of that locality and when he had completed a high school course started to work as a clerk in a country store. When a young man of about twenty-one he came to Cleveland, entering the employ of Babcock, Hurd & Company, and remained with them for nine years, acting in the capacities of bookkeeper and credit man. It was in August, 1897, that he became connected with the National Life Insurance Company of Montpelier, Vermont, and was made their assistant manager in 1900. Soon afterward he joined Olmsted Brothers & Company as a partner in the concern, which had the agency for the National Life Insurance Company in this district. He was appointed general agent August 1, 1925, and in the same year was elected a director of the National Life Insurance Company. After the death of George H. Olmsted, Mr. Hamlin took over the business, which he has since controlled, and has been notably successful in its conduct. His agency covers all of Ohio and a portion of Indiana, maintaining offices in every town or city of importance in the territory, and has sixty-five regular agents. The well - 253 - 254 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS trained, highly efficient organization which he heads now has more than eighty-five million dollars insurance in force in this territory and as a result of Mr. Hamlin's untiring, well directed efforts this has become one of the most valued fields in which the National Life Insurance Company is operating. In this territory the corporation is a large owner of municipal bonds and loans. The National Life, an old line legal reserve company established in 1850, has a record of eighty-two years of usefulness and service. Numbered among the oldest and strongest corporations of the kind in this country, it has six hundred and thirteen million, five hundred thousand dollars insurance in force, and assets amounting to one hundred and forty-four million, five hundred thousand dollars. At Medina, Ohio, in 1892, Mr. Hamlin was married to Miss Mary L. Griesinger and Madeleine, the only child born to them, died when a young woman of twenty-four years. Mr. Hamlin's social contacts are largely made through his membership in the Mayfield, Union and Hermit Clubs of Cleveland, and the enviable place which he occupies in business circles of the city has been attained by an earnest, purposeful life of rightly directed endeavor. WILLIAM LINTERN Among the representative men of Cleveland is numbered William Lintern, president of the Nichols-Lintern Company and internationally known as an inventor and manufacturer of new and improved devices making for greater safety in the operation of electric railways. A native of England, he was born in Plymouth, Devonshire, on January 25, 1866. His father, John Lintern, was a stone-mason and bricklayer and came to Cleveland as a pioneer of 1868. Working industriously at his trade, he saved enough money to send for his wife and three of their children the next year, but William, the youngest, was left with his grandparents in Plymouth, where he attended school, and in vacation periods aided his grandfather in cultivating the small farm which he owned in one of the most beautiful sections of England. The grandfather attained the age of sixty-eight years and the grandmother reached the sixty-ninth milestone on life's journey. Both parents died here and are buried in old Lakeview Cemetery. In 1878, when a lad of twelve years, William Lintern came alone to the United States to join his parents, whose home was at the corner of One Hundred and Fifth street and Superior avenue. He finished his education in the old Fairmont school in Cleveland and for a time was employed on near-by farms and in gardens of this locality. He was next employed in tin-shops, finally becoming identified with traction interests, and in that connection developed many inventions, which led to the founding of the present business in 1901. At the time of its incorporation he became president and manager of the Nichols-Lintern Company and has made - 255 - 256 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS its name and products known throughout the world. The history of the business is given elsewhere in this work. In 1888 Mr. Lintern married Miss Rose Roberts, who was born in Norfolk, England, and in childhood was brought to America by her parents, who settled in Cleveland. Her father was a market gardener in East Cleveland and was well known as a pioneer in the business. To Mr. and Mrs. Lintern were born four sons and two daughters : John B., who married Julia Thompson and has a family of three children, Thelma, William (II) and George; Alice, the wife of John Christman and the mother of five children, Rose Marie, John, Richard, Arthur and David; Alfred R., who married Hazel Sanford and has two children, Helen Adele and Lawrence; George D., who married Christine Thompson and became the father of three children, Dorothy, Robert and Raymond, George D. died March 19, 1932; Dorothy, whose commercial training qualified her for the responsible position she now holds with the Penton Publishing Company of Cleveland; and William A., who received the Bachelor of Science degree from Ohio State College in 1925 and is the junior member of the Nichols-Lintern Company. He married Gladys Caldwell, by whom he has four children, James, John, Barbara Anne and Virginia Alice. All of the children of William and Rose (Roberts) Lintern are natives of Cleveland and high school graduates. Alfred R., the second son, is a Mason, identified with 0. N. Steele Lodge, No. 621, F. & A. M. After an absence of forty-six years Mr. Lintern returned to England in 1924 to visit his old home in company with his wife and a portion of his family, and was somewhat amazed to find so few changes there. He was greeted by name by a number of his boyhood companions and greatly enjoyed the trip, visiting the many beautiful summer resorts and principal cities of the British Isles while abroad. They recrossed the Atlantic in 1927 and his conversation is enriched with many interesting accounts of his travels abroad. Mrs. Lin-tern also found many of her girlhood companions on her visits THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 257 to her native land and renewed friendships were made by both she and her husband that have added much to the joy of living. Mr. Lintern's has been an upright, busy and useful life, replete with achievement, and both are esteemed and respected for the qualities to which they owe their success. Mrs. Lintern is regent of the Maple Leaf Order of the British Empire, vice regent of the Ohio Daughters of the British Empire, and a life member of the British Old Peoples Home in Chicago. EDWARD BELDEN GREENE Like the majority of executives who have become influential factors in the business and financial life of Cleveland, Edward Belden Greene started at the bottom and owes his advancement to hard work and fidelity to duty, coupled with the ability to meet and master situations. His labors have contributed an integral chapter in the history of the Cleveland Trust Company, which he has served in various capacities since 1900, a period of thirty-two years, and is now chairman of the executive committee. As an officer and director he represents many large corporations and has long occupied an important place of activity in this, his native city. E. B. Greene was born July 26, 1878, a son of John Ellery and Mary Elizabeth (Seymour) Greene, of whom more extended mention is made elsewhere in this history. He pursued his studies in the public schools and completed the high school course in 1896, when he entered Yale University, which conferred upon him the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1900, and in 1925 the degree of Master of Arts. At the age of twenty-two he made his initial step in the banking business as a messenger for the Cleveland Trust Company, and from that humble position he gradually made his way through the position of clerk to the official position of chairman of the executive committee of this great corporation, which is a power in financial circles of this part of the country. Among the various organizations which have benefited by his experience are the following : the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Medusa Portland Cement Company, Cleve- - 259 - 260 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS land Cliffs Iron Company, Cliffs Corporation, Wade Realty Company, Republic Steel Corporation, Eaton Manufacturing Company, Montreal Mining Company, Addressograph-Multigraph Corporation, National Refining Company, Corrigan-McKinney Steel Company, McKinney Steel Holding Company, Fontana Steamship Company, Toledo, Angola & Western Railway, Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway Company, Guarantee Title & Trust Company, Land Title Abstract & Trust Company, Ohio Chemical & Manufacturing Company and the Osborn Manufacturing Company, all of which he represents as a director. Edward B. Greene was married November 18, 1909, to Miss Helen Wade, of Cleveland, and they have a daughter, Helen Wade Greene, who resides with her parents in the family home at 10831 Magnolia Drive. Mr. Greene's military history dates from the time he joined Troop A, Ohio National Guard, later becoming a second lieutenant. At the outbreak of the World war he was incapacitated for service by reason of illness. Obtaining a two-years' leave of absence from the Cleveland Trust Company, in 1918 he assumed the duties of director of military relief of the Lake Division of the American Red Cross, comprising the states of Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky, and also served on the executive committee of the Military Training Camps Association. Public and philanthropic interests have claimed a considerable share of his attention. He is a trustee of Yale University, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Cleveland School of Art, the Cleveland Community Fund, the Welfare Federation, St. John's Orphanage, the Babies' & Children's Hospital, the Lakeside Hospital, the University Hospitals Association and Troop A Veteran Association. He has been active in the Chamber of Commerce and served as its president in 1924. He is a member of the Episcopal Church and in politics is a republican. While in college he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity and the Wolfs THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 261 Head Society. His social relaxation is found as a member of the Union, the Mid-Day, the Tavern, the Pepper Pike Country, the Kirtland Country, the Chagrin Valley Hunt and the Winous Point Shooting Clubs of Cleveland and vicinity, and the University and the Yale Clubs of New York city. CLEVELAND CO-OPERATIVE STOVE COMPANY The Cleveland Co-Operative Stove Company had its inception in 1866 with the arrival in this city of a group of iron moulders from Buffalo, New York, who organized a co-operative foundry and hollow-ware association. Limited as to funds, they built a small wooden factory at the corner of East Sixty-seventh street and Central avenue, Cleveland. Each man was a workman and took enough money out of the business weekly for a livelihood, the balance, if there was any, remaining in the treasury for future expansion. At the end of about eighteen months W. S. Chamberlain, who owned considerable land in the vicinity, became interested and invested some money in the business, which he incorporated under the name of the Cleveland Co-Operative Holloware, Stove & Foundry Company. Several of the moulders purchased stock in the company and continued in its service throughout the remainder of their lives. In the early years the company engaged in the manufacture of coal and wood stoves and ranges and also made metal mouldings for many other industrial concerns of Cleveland. W. S. Chamberlain became the first president of the company at its incorporation in 1868. He was succeeded in the presidency by W. W. Baldwin, who was succeeded by M. B. Clark, the predecessor of N. P. McKean, who was in turn succeeded by J. H. O'Brien. The next president was John T. Gill, whose brother, K. F. Gill, is the present executive head of the company. The official personnel of the Cleveland Co-Operative Stove Company at this writing is as follows : K. F. Gill, president; James Mitchell, vice president and gen- - 263 - 264 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS eral manager; H. C. Wilson, secretary, and William E. Kaynes, treasurer. The members of the board of directors, in addition to the above named, are George W. Geuder, Harold Brown, J. K. Gill and W. A. Gill, the two last named being sons of the president. With the growth of the business additional land was purchased for buildings and the plant was enlarged until at this time the company utilizes more than four hundred thousand square feet of factory space. The plant is of modern mill construction and is equipped with the most up-to-date machinery, together with a sprinkler system for fire protection. For the past twenty years the output has consisted of gas ranges and heaters, and light grey iron castings. On the 1st of July, 1930, the Cleveland Co-Operative Stove Company purchased the interests of the Buckeye Incubator Company of Springfield, Ohio, and has since operated a large modern factory in that city, where all incubators are made, the brooders being produced at the Cleveland plant. The officers of the Buckeye Incubator Company, Inc., are as follows : James Mitchell, president; A. R. Hill, vice president and general manager; A. K. Stewart, vice president and sales manager; H. A. Bittenbender, vice president, in charge of research and laboratory work; F. A. Pierce, vice president, in charge of foreign sales; and G. J. Schad, assistant secretary and treasurer. Additional directors are K. F. Gill and H. C. Wilson. The international scope of the business of the Buckeye Incubator Company is indicated in the following list of its offices : Buckeye Incubator Company, Fergus, Ontario, Canada; The Buckeye Incubator Company, 82 Victoria street, Westminster, London, S. W. 1, England; Deutsche Buckeye Gesellschaft, M. B. H., Hedemannstrasse 13, Berlin, S. W. 48, Germany; The Buckeye Incubator Company of Australia, 164-166-168 Thomas street, Sydney, New South Wales; A. Bell, The Buckeye Incubator Company, Herblay (S. & 0.), France; K. Takaki, Maiko Kakin-jo, Maiko, near Kobe, THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 265 Japan; Compania Avicola, S. A., Avenida Hidalgo 79, Mexico, D. F.; Salvador Castello, Granja Paraiso, Arenys de Mar, Barcelona, Spain ; Union Implement Company of Durban, Durban, South Africa. Various incubator parts are manufactured in London, England. The Cleveland Co-Operative Stove Company, which is one of the oldest stove manufacturing concerns in this city, employs about fifteen hundred people on capacity production. The foundry of the Cleveland Co-Operative Stove Company and the Buckeye Incubator Company is located on Harvard avenue, Cleveland, and the main building is over one thousand feet long. This is the largest foundry in Cleveland and one of the largest in the United States. It is worthy of note that W. W. Ludlow has been identified with the Cleveland Co-Operative Stove Company for fifty-two years save for the period between 1919 and 1925, having resigned temporarily on account of the loss of his wife. It was in December, 1880, that he entered the employ of the company in the capacity of timekeeper, while subsequently he served as shop superintendent and treasurer for eleven years. He is still active in the business and has witnessed its growth from the days of early development to the present time when the company occupies a position of acknowledged leadership among Cleveland's diversified industries. ARTHUR ADELBERT STEARNS A lawyer of ripe experience and high professional attainments, Arthur A. Stearns was a member of the Cleveland bar for nearly a half century and as an educator and author disseminated knowledge of vital worth to the profession. He was born at North Olmsted, Cuyahoga county, in the same house in which his father, Edmund Stearns, was born in 1831. It was there that the grandfather, Elliott Stearns, established his home in 1815, when he journeyed from Vermont to Ohio, settling upon a tract of wild land, which he cleared and developed, eventually transforming the property into a productive farm. Like his father, Edmund Stearns was a progressive agriculturist and added a number of improvements to the home place, cultivating it for many years. He married Anna Marsh, who was born in Vermont, a daughter of Arba Marsh, who came to Cuyahoga county, Ohio, in 1850. Their son, Arthur A. Stearns, obtained his elementary training in the school near his home and in 1879 completed a classical course in Buchtel College, when he received the Bachelor of Arts degree. That institution, which is now a part of the Akron Municipal University, conferred upon him the Master of Arts degree in 1883 and the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws in 1908. He was graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1882, was admitted to the Ohio bar in the same year, and thereafter practiced in Cleveland,, which numbered him among its veteran lawyers. From 1884 to 1890 he was associated with Herman A. Kelley in the firm of Stearns & Kelley and afterward formed a partnership - 267 - 268 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS with William F. Carr, under the firm name of Carr and Stearns. Subsequently they were joined by John A. Chamberlain and Joseph C. Royon and other lawyers were also associated with the firm. Mr. Carr's connection with the organization was terminated by his death in 1909 and later Mr. Royon retired from the firm of Stearns, Chamberlain & Royon, of which C. H. Royon and Elliott E. Stearns have since become members. Until his death on the 24th of January, 1932, Arthur A. Stearns remained the senior member of the firm, which now occupies offices on the sixteenth floor of the Union Trust building and has handled much of the important litigation tried in the courts of this district. Mr. Stearns never lost the attitude of a student toward his profession and his legal learning and acumen were uniformly conceded. For a period of ten years, from 1894 to 1904, he was professor of the law of suretyship and mortgages and of bills and notes in the Western Reserve University Law School. Many of his articles appeared in the Western Reserve Law Journal and other legal publications. For the "Encyclopedia of Law and Procedure" he wrote a chapter on the "Law of Indemnity" and was the author of a treatise on the "Law of Suretyship" and of "Annotated Cases on Suretyship," both widely used in law schools. On November 21, 1888, Mr. Stearns married Lillian G. Platt of Cincinnati, Ohio, and they were the parents of a son and two daughters. Elliott E., the eldest, born in 1891, was married in Chicago to Miss Sarah Hoyt, now deceased, and has a family of four children. Helen H., born in 1892, is the wife of W. T. Smith, of Cleveland, and the mother of three children. Dorothy D., born in 1900, is now Mrs. Frank L. Hornickel, of this city, and has two children. Mrs. Lillian G. Stearns died in 1911 and on June 2, 1913 Mr. Stearns married Lillian Sterrett, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, who survives him. Mr. Stearns enjoyed travel and made twenty-six trips to Europe, the last being in 1931. His affection for his alma THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 269 mater continued throughout life and for eighteen years he was a trustee of Buchtel College, while during 1887 and 1888 he was its fiscal agent. In civic affairs he was long active and since 1914 had served on the board of the Cleveland Public Library, of which he was president up to the time of his death. During the erection of the building he was chairman of the building committee. For seven years he was chairman of the public utilities committee of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce and was instrumental in having the station located on the public square. His social contacts were largely made through his connection with the Mid-Day, Country, Union and University Clubs. He supported the candidates of the republican party but outside of his profession sought none of the political honors and emoluments open to an able lawyer. In 1907, while serving as president of the Cleveland Bar Association, Mr. Stearns started a membership drive that added many new members to the organization, and he also had membership in the Ohio State Bar Association and the American Bar Association. Throughout his long career in the law, Mr. Stearns constantly bore in mind his duties and responsibilities as an advocate and counselor and steadfastly adhered to a course which reflected credit and honor upon his profession. FREDERICK C. STERLING Although one of the younger representatives of commercial interests in Cleveland, Frederick C. Sterling has for seven years served as president of the Sterling & Welch Company, one of the city's oldest and largest mercantile houses. Born in Erie, Pennsylvania, June 16, 1895, he is a son of Willis Betts Sterling and comes of English ancestry. The American progenitor of the Sterling family emigrated to this country during the seventeenth century, settling at Lyme, Connecticut, where representatives of the name lived for many years. One of his descendants served with the rank of major general in the War of 1812. He filled the office of probate judge and represented his district in congress. He married a daughter of John Canfield, who was a member of the continental congress, and they had a son named Frederick Augustine Sterling. This son became the owner of an iron furnace at Salisbury, Connecticut, whence he later removed to Geneva, New York, and from there came to Cleveland. Here he became a dealer in hardwood and established a profitable business, furnishing ties and similar materials to the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Company. He married Caroline M. Dutcher and their daughter, Caroline D., became the wife of Hon. Joseph H. Choate, noted lawyer and diplomat. The sons of F. A. Sterling were : Theodore, who entered the educational field and at one time was president of Kenyon College in Ohio; Edward C., who served for many years as president of the St. Louis Hydraulic Pressed Brick Company; Frederick Augustine; and Alfred E., who established his home in Redlands, California. Frederick Augustine Sterling, the grandfather of Fred- - 271 - 272 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS erick C. Sterling, was born in Salisbury, Connecticut, and attended public and private schools of Geneva, New York, where he began his business career as a clerk in a general store. At the age of eighteen years he came to Cleveland, obtaining a situation in the establishment of Wick & Beckwith, and when the senior member of the firm retired three years later Mr. Sterling was admitted to a partnership in the concern, which then became known as T. S. Beckwith & Company. With the exception of two years' connection with the lumber industry at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, he was continuously identified with the sale of carpets and curtains from 1854 until he retired from mercantile pursuits and had a highly specialized knowledge of those lines. In 1864 his firm was reorganized and the name was changed to Beckwith & Sterling. In 1874 they moved from Superior street to Euclid avenue, where they occupied a store that was a conspicuous landmark in the business district for thirty-five years. Mr. Beckwith died in 1876 and the form of Sterling & Company was then adopted. About that time Mr. Welch became a partner in the enterprise and the name was changed to Sterling, Welch & Company. The concern was finally incorporated as the Sterling & Welch Company, which is the business title of the house today. As its president Frederick A. Sterling increased the prestige of the company and greatly expanded the scope of the business. In addition he served as president of the Cleveland Burial Case Company, and was a director of the Citizens Savings & Trust Company, the Union National Bank, the Bank of Commerce of North America, the Kelley Island Lime & Transportation Company and the Columbia Gas & Electric Company. Frederick A. Sterling married Miss Emma Betts, a native of Meadville, Pennsylvania, and their son, Willis Betts Sterling, was also born in that place. Graduated from Yale University in 1881, he next completed a course in the Columbia Law School and qualified for practice, receiving the highest rating of anyone who had ever taken the New York state bar examination. He spent some time in the New York office of THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 273 his uncle, Hon. Joseph H. Choate, who succeeded John Hay as ambassador to the court of Saint James, and after abandoning the practice of law returned to his native state to engage in the roofing, paper and asbestos business in Erie. He died May 24, 1932. He married Mary Ingersoll, a daughter of Eben Clark Ingersoll, who was a member of congress and a brother of Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll, the noted writer, lecturer and statesman. The mother of Mary (Ingersoll) Sterling was Mary Carter, whose father, John Carter, was the maker of Carter's Little Liver Pills, widely sold in this country. Mr. and Mrs. Willis B. Sterling have two children : Jeannette Ingersoll, the wife of R. P. Murray and Frederick Clarke Sterling. Frederick Clarke Sterling attended the Taft School at Watertown, Connecticut, and in 1917, at the age of twenty-two years, enlisted for service in the World war as a private. With a machine gun company he went to the front and was in the Toul sector, at Soissons, Chateau Thierry and Saint Mihiel. His overseas service covered two years and when mustered out he returned home with a creditable military record. In 1921 he came to Cleveland to take charge of the business founded by his grandfather and has since been president of the Sterling & Welch Company. On the 14th of January, 1923, Frederick C. Sterling was married to Mrs. Isabel Robbins, a daughter of C. G. Barkwill, and they reside at 13901 Shaker boulevard. Mr. Sterling belongs to the American Legion and to the Cleveland, Hermit, Mid-Day, Canterbury and Country Clubs. His pleasing personality, genial nature and consideration for others make for social popularity, while his associates in business bear testimony to his sagacity and integrity—qualities which have ever characterized the members of this old and honored family. ELISABETH CLARK TYLER MILLER Mrs. Elisabeth Clark Tyler Miller is well known not only in Cleveland but throughout Ohio and the country, for she has been associated with some of the most constructive work in behalf of charitable and civic organizations of this locality, as well as with the activities of women in the political life of the state. Mrs. Miller is a native of Boston, Massachusetts, and a daughter of Washington S. and Marion (Clark) Tyler. A review of the career of her honored father, who died in May, 1917, may be found elsewhere in this work. She was married in 1901 and has two sons, Otto Miller, Jr., and W. S. Tyler Miller. Mrs. Miller spent her girlhood days in Cleveland. After two years as a student at Dobbs Ferry, New York, she spent a year traveling abroad, studying and visiting the different points of interest in the various European countries. An earlier biographer wrote : "Her interest in philanthropic and charitable work began as a member of the King's Daughters Circle, which organization was devoted to the welfare of the children of the city, especially those at Lakeside Hospital. This organization later became the Sunbeam Circle, of which she was at one time treasurer, and took for its object the welfare of the crippled children of Cleveland. Subsequently its scope was broadened to include all cripples, who are taught vocational occupations, and given instruction calculated to raise their moral standards and increase their usefulness. A school was established on East Fifty-fifth street, and buses were operated in carrying the wards to and from school. Lunches were furnished the - 275 - 276 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS wards without charge. This very admirable work was later taken over by the city board of education, which erected the Sunbeam School for Crippled Children. The work of the Sunbeam Circle was eventually merged with and became a unit of the Association for the Crippled and Disabled. This association maintains the Sunbeam Shop, where are sold all of the articles made by the wards. Mrs. Miller is still a trustee of this shop. She is also a trustee of the Babies' Dispensary and Hospital, and has been since its organization, and she is a very important factor in various other benevolent enterprises. A woman of deep sympathies and broad understanding, she feels it her duty, as well as a pleasure, to use her wealth and abilities to mitigate the suffering of those less fortunate than she." Some idea of the breadth and scope of Mrs. Miller's activities may be gained from the following list of her membership connections : Cleveland Garden Club (one of the founders) ; Cleveland Chapter, National Aeronautical Association; Writers Club; Cleveland Museum of Art (Fellow in Perpetuity) ; Brilliant Star Council, No. 127, Daughters of America ; Associate Club; Francis Bacon Lodge, Thirtieth Degree Mason; League of American Pen Women; Elisabeth C. T. Miller Republican Club (organizer and president) ; Ohio branch of the Anti-Capital Punishment League (president) ; Tippecanoe Club (treasurer) ; Western Reserve Republican Club (life member) ; Service League (founder) ; Mohawk Valley Indian Restoration Association (founder and president) ; Judges' and Jurors' Association of Ohio (chaplain) ; and the Musical Arts Association. She founded in 1927 the Political Intelligence Bureau, which has been incorporated under the laws of Ohio, with branches throughout the country. Mrs. Miller is a special deputy sheriff of Cuyahoga county. She has won wide renown as a writer and lecturer and has been ordained to the ministry. She is a director of the Akron Gospel Tabernacle and a director of the Furnace Street Mission in that city. In Washington, THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 277 D. C., she belongs to the American Nature Association; the Women's National Country Club, of which she is a life member; the American Civic Association, and the American Peace Society. She founded the American Women's Chamber of Commerce, which is (1932) being incorporated in the District of Columbia. She is likewise well known in club circles of New York, being a life member of the National Audubon Society and the Women's Farm and Garden Association, and also a member of the Colony Club, the Women's City Club, the MacDowell Club of New York city, the Century Club, the Daughters of Ohio in New York, the Foreign Policy Association, the American Geographical Society, the International Garden Club, the Mohawk Valley Towns' Association, of which she is honorary director, and the New York Academy of Sciences. Her name is also on the membership rolls of the Academy of Political and Social Science in Philadelphia; the Valley Forge Association of Valley Forge; and the Bibliophile Society of Boston. In Los Angeles she is patroness of St. John's of Jerusalem and chairman of the International Council Women's Committee of St. John's. Her interests have also extended abroad, for in England she is a life Fellow of the Royal Society for the Protection of Wild Birds and a life Fellow of the Royal Economic Society. The following brief outline pertains to Mrs. Miller's activities in connection with the World war : Gave use of building for war relief work for France and her allies; chairman for Eastern Ohio American Committee for devastated France, raising about fifteen thousand dollars and five thousand dollars worth of clothes; raised money for two ice machines for France; Ohio chairman Duryea War Relief and gave use of building for this work; chairman Women's Liberty Loan Committee in Cleveland, selling over a million dollars worth of bonds at one meeting; chairman Women's Victory Loan Committee in Cleveland; spoke on Public Square every noon for a month for loan; first woman member of the Unconditional Surrender Committee; Red Cross 278 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS worker; life member Italian Red Cross; helped make Cleveland's first over-the-top loan flag; christened Cleveland's first tank on Public Square ; member Mayor's War Committee; member Mayor's War Garden Committee; Ohio chairman poppy sales for France ; speaker and writer for loans, etc. Ever since women began taking part in political affairs in Ohio, Mrs. Miller has been a leader, and her influence has long been recognized as a strong and uplifting one. The following is a concise statement of her activities in behalf of the Republican party : Member Council of One Hundred (appointed by Will Hays), 1920; founder and president, Harding for President Women's Club; member Cuyahoga County Republican Executive Committee (nine years) ; treasurer Tippecanoe Club, oldest Republican club in Ohio; member Western Reserve Republican Club (life) ; member Ohio Electoral College, taking message of election of Coolidge to the president of the senate in Washington; president of the Republican Women of Ohio (Cleveland) for two terms; organized several women's Republican clubs; president Elisabeth C. T. Miller Republican Club of Cleveland; chairman for Ohio, Coolidge for President Club (appointed from Boston) ; vice-chairman for Ohio National Republican Committee to collect funds (appointed from New York) ; treasurer Willis Campaign; member several Republican clubs; member Women's National Republican Club of New York city; campaign worker and speaker; established School of Politics in club work; forming Hoover '32 Clubs in the summer of 1932, sending in names from over the country; Advisory Committee of the Republican Central State and Executive Committee, and at this time very active in the campaign to reelect Herbert Hoover. EUGENE E. DAVIS Long identified with industrial activities in Cleveland, Eugene E. Davis has progressed with the city, which numbers him among its substantial business men, and his success as a manufacturer of paper boxes has gained for him more than local prominence. Born at Charleston, South Carolina, November 22, 1889, he was about a year old at the time the family removed to Cleveland and here he acquired a grammar school education. His initial training in commercial affairs was gained as an employe of the Cleveland News Company, with which he spent eleven years, becoming manager of his department. He next entered the service of the Peerless Paper Box Company and his keen mind and close application enabled him to readily assimilate the details of the business. Rapid promotions brought him to the reponsible position of general manager of the company, with which he remained for fourteen years. Mr. Davis resigned to establish a business of his own in Cleveland, organizing the United Paper Box Company, which was incorporated in 1924, and of this corporation he has since been the president, treasurer, general manager and principal stockholder. He had a brother, Modie Davis, who was associated with him from 1926 until his death, May 27, 1932. At 3455 Vega avenue he leased a large factory with ninety thousand square feet of floor space, installing therein the latest and most improved machinery for the manufacture of all kinds of paper box containers. Electrically equipped, the plant has individual units of motive power and furnishes employment to two hundred people. The corpora- - 279 - 280 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS tion manufactures a high class product, which is sold all over the United States. The United Paper Box Company keeps well abreast of the times and is continually devising new and improved containers for its large and growing trade. Every department of the business mirrors the progressive spirit and efficient methods of its administrative head, who has a highly specialized knowledge of the paper box industry. Mr. Davis is also president and treasurer of the Falls Paper Box Company of Cuyahoga Falls, vice president and general manager of the Peerless Paper Box Company of Cleveland, and represents a number of manufacturing companies in Cleveland as president and a director. In 1912 Mr. Davis was married to Miss Ruth Arnstein, who was born, reared and educated in Cleveland, and they have a daughter, Joan, born in 1926. Their Cleveland residence is at 17603 South Moreland avenue, and they have a winter home in Florida, where Mr. Davis enjoys deep sea fishing, swimming and golf. He belongs to the Mid-Day, Oakwood and City Clubs and to the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. Alert, energetic and determined, he has converted his opportunities into tangible assets, becoming a power in his chosen field, and his status as a business man is further indicated in the fact that he is serving as vice president and a director of the National Paper Box Manufacturers Association. JOHN ELLERY GREENE A pioneer merchant of Cleveland, John Ellery Greene left the impress of his individuality upon the business life of the city in which he made his home for sixty years. While he achieved a gratifying measure of success, he gained a possession of far greater value—the respect and esteem of his fellowmen. He was born June 23, 1837, in Vergennes, Vermont, the smallest as well as the oldest city in New England. His father, William Ellery Greene, was a member of the so-called Warwick-Greene family of Rhode Island, the original John Greene being associated with Roger Williams as one of the founders of the Providence Plantations. Prominent members of this family included General Nathanial Greene of Revolutionary war fame, General George Sears Greene, who rendered distinguished service at the battle of Gettysburg, and his son, General Francis V. Greene, the latter two devoting their time and money to publishing an extensive study of the family history. John E. Greene pursued his studies in the classic school of Benjamin B. Allen at Vergennes, until 1852, and when in his sixteenth year started to work in a general store in his native town, where he remained until April, 1856, when he came to Cleveland. Upon his arrival here he secured employment with W. Bingham & Company, wholesale and retail dealers in hardware and machinists' and mining supplies, working his way gradually through the various departments of the business until 1865, when he was admitted to the firm. In 1888 the business was incorporated as the W. Bingham Company and Mr. Greene was made vice president, serving - 281 - 282 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS in that capacity until in 1904, when he was elected president upon the death of Mr. Bingham. Under his control the house grew steadily in extent and importance until it became one of the largest wholesale concerns of its kind in the country. For more than fifty years Mr. Greene remained with this institution and in years of continuous activity he was the oldest merchant on Water street. On the 20th of December, 1864, Mr. Greene was married in Cleveland to Miss Mary Elizabeth Seymour, a daughter of Harry Belden Seymour, of Vergennes. The death of Mrs. Greene occurred in 1901 and in 1916 her husband passed away. They were the parents of six children : Mary Seymour, the wife of Charles 0. Patch, who at one time was vice president of the Cleveland Trust Company, afterward serving as vice president of the Security Savings & Trust Company of Detroit; Lucy Huntington Sherrill, at home; William Ellery, formerly a member of the W. Bingham Company; Edward Belden, whose sketch appears elsewhere in this work; Helen Maria, the wife of Charles P. Hine, a prominent member of the Cleveland bar; and Harry Belden, who died in 1886 at the age of fourteen months. The family residence at 4410 Franklin avenue was erected by Mr. Greene in 1877. A devoted husband and father, he divided his time between his home and his office and found his greatest happiness in the society of his family. By nature he was deeply religious and in 1886 was made a vestryman of St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church, occupying the office for many years and also serving as senior warden for many years. A merchant of wide outlook and shrewd judgment, he readily discriminated between the essential and the nonessential and reached his objective by methods that were direct and resultant. His standards of life were high and his passing was a distinct loss to his city. WARNER SEELY A manufacturer of machinery in Cleveland, Warner Seely has utilized his technical knowledge for the benefit of the Warner & Swasey Company and also manifests executive force as secretary of this machine tool corporation. He was born in Brockport, New York, November 25, 1893, and is a scion of one of the early families of New England. His father, Charles D. Seely, engaged in educational work and for a number of years taught in a normal school of New York. The mother, Susan L. (Warner) Seely, was a daughter of Franklin J. Warner, of Cummington, Massachusetts. His son, W. R. Warner, came to Cleveland from Hartford; Connecticut, in 1881 and was one of the founders of the Warner & Swasey Company. He was one of the leading business men of the city and here resided until his death in 1929. His nephew, Warner Seely, attended the Horace Mann school in New York city and was a student at Amherst College. In 1913 he came to Cleveland and for three years was a special apprentice in the shop of the Warner & Swasey Company, with which he has since been associated. Through close application and the capable performance of every task assigned him Mr. Seely worked his way steadily upward, becoming assistant secretary in 1919, and in 1924 was elected to the office of secretary, and later became a director. His detailed knowledge of the mechanical phases of the business is supplemented by his resourcefulness, decisiveness and mature judgment so that his labors in behalf of the company have been manifestly resultant. In 1917 he laid aside his - 283 - 284 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS business duties to enlist for service in the World war, becoming a first lieutenant in the Ordnance Department, serving in France with the Ninety-second Division, and was on active duty until the cessation of hostilities. He then returned to the United States and after his discharge resumed work with the Warner & Swasey Company. On the 30th of July, 1918, Mr. Seely was married in New York city to Miss Emma Lester, by whom he has three children : Edith Lester, Worcester Warner and Susanne Warner. The family residence is at 2171 Middlefield road, Cleveland Heights, and Mr. Seely's business address is 5701 Carnegie avenue, Cleveland. In addition to his service with the American Expeditionary Force he served with the Council of National Defense in 1917. He has membership in the Church of the Covenant and belongs to the American Legion. Along social lines he has connection with Beta Theta Pi fraternity and the Union Club. In 1930 he was called to the presidency of the Cleveland Engineering Society, serving for a year, and is likewise a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the American Engineering Council of Washington, D. C. He occupies an enviable place in his profession and stands equally high as a business man and as a citizen. WILLIAM ELLSWORTH TALCOTT Like his brothers, John Carlos and Albert Lewis, William Ellsworth Talcott contributed toward the prestige of the Cleveland bar but for about a quarter of a century his interests were centered in New York city. He was born in Jefferson, Ohio, October 25, 1862, the fourth son of Henry and Cordelia J. (Pritchard) Talcott, and is a member of one of the honored colonial families of this country. Graduated from the Eastman Business College at Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1878 and from the high school at Jefferson, Ohio, a year later, William E. Talcott next matriculated in Mount Union College at Alliance, where he received the A. B. degree in 1882 and that of A. M. in 1887. His legal studies were pursued at Yale University, which conferred upon him the LL. B. degree in 1884 and that of Master of Laws in 1885, ranking second in his class. At Akron, Ohio, he began practice in 1885 but on November 1, 1886, removed to Cleveland, where he was appointed special claim agent for the New York, Lake Erie & Western Railroad Company. In 1897 he was promoted, becoming land, tax and claim agent for the Erie Railroad west of Salamanca. His work has been chiefly in this line of activity, in which connection he has achieved widespread prominence. On October 1, 1904, he made another step upward, becoming general real estate agent for the Erie Railroad system, with headquarters in New York city, but resigned May 1, 1907, to take up the duties of assistant general land and tax agent for the New York Central Railroad and later was promoted to be general land and tax agent, continuing in that capacity, - 285 - 286 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS rendering to the corporation the services of an expert, until about January 31, 1932, when he retired. On November 30, 1882, at Canton, Ohio, Mr. Talcott married Eva May Holl, a daughter of Dan R. and Nancy (Mishler) Holl. They were of Pennsylvania Dutch stock and moved from the vicinity of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to Stark county, Ohio, settling on a farm. To Mr. and Mrs. Talcott were born four children : Homer Leroy, who was married to Bertha Ehser in 1908 and has a daughter; William Ellsworth, Jr., who died in 1909 ; Grace Helen and Maude Eleanor. The mother and two daughters are active member of the Disciples Church. Mr. Talcott casts his ballot for the national and state candidates of the Republican party but is an independent voter at local elections. While a college student he joined the Delta Tau Delta fraternity and also belongs to the Royal Arcanum, the American Insurance Union, and the New York, Pleiades, Whist and Knickerbocker Whist Clubs. JOHN LOWER CANNON Throughout the state of Ohio the late John L. Cannon was known and esteemed as a man of high legal attainments and an ornament to his profession. As attorney for the Van Sweringen interests he was closely and prominently identified with large development projects and practiced successfully in Cleveland for many years. Born in Alliance, Ohio, March 29, 1875, he was a son of James and Nancy (Lower) Cannon and a member of a family that has been represented in America for several generations. Mr. Cannon pursued his education in his native city and after the completion of his high school course enrolled in Mount Union College at Alliance, attending that institution during the scholastic year of 1894-95. In the office of D. E. Rogers, an Alliance attorney, he read law before matriculating in Western Reserve University at Cleveland and here won his LL. B. degree in 1898. Admitted to the Ohio bar in the same year, he at once engaged in the practice of law in Cleveland and in 1899 was appointed assistant solicitor for Cuyahoga county, so continuing until 1907, when he became county solicitor, which office he occupied for two years. In 1913 he formed a partnership with Clifford W. Fuller and was a member of the firm of Fuller & Cannon until the death of the senior partner in 1917. In October, 1917, Mr. Cannon became associated with William H. Boyd under the style of Boyd & Cannon and when James C. Brooks returned to Cleveland after serving in the World war the firm was enlarged to include him and Ben. B. Wickham. The form of Boyd, Cannon, Brooks & Wickham was then adopted and that - 289 - 290 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS relationship was maintained until the death of Mr. Cannon on the 10th of October, 1929. His ten years of service as assistant county solicitor and county solicitor brought him in constant contact with officers and boards of the several villages and townships throughout the county. Due to his work in that connection he became recognized as an outstanding authority on the laws governing villages, townships and counties and on the functions of the boards and officers thereof. About 1910 he became one of the attorneys for O. P. and M. J. Van Sweringen in connection with their vast real estate development. Mr. Cannon had particular charge of all legal matters connected with the laying out and improvement of streets, boulevards and public grounds incident to development and also attended to all legal matters in connection with the organization of villages which became incorporated in consequence of development. With his associates he represented the Van Sweringens in all their activities from the inception of plans for a gigantic union terminal development about the year 1918, and continued this relationship until the close of his career of achievement and usefulness. His experience as county solicitor, coupled with his comprehensive knowledge of the law pertaining to local municipal, township and county government, so preeminently fitted him for this line of work that it can be truly said that to him is due no small measure of the credit for these accomplishments. If he undertook a task he never stopped until it was completed and his death was probably hastened by his tireless activity and close application to work. In December, 1899, Mr. Cannon married Miss Nellie B. Smith, who was born in Minerva, Ohio, and as a child removed with her parents, William A. and Cora (Nelson) Smith, to Alliance, where she attended the grammar and high schools and Mount Union College. To Mr. and Mrs. Cannon were born a son and three daughters : Aileen N., who was graduated from the Hathaway-Brown School of Cleveland and Pine Manor Wellesley, Massachusetts, and is now the THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 291 wife of E. F. Cagwin and the mother of one child, Nancy Cagwin; John L. Cannon, Jr., an alumnus of the University School in Cleveland, of Wooster and Brown Academies and Babson Institute; and Virginia E. and Helen Harryette, graduates of the Hathaway-Brown School and Braircliff Manor, a select school in Westchester county, New York. Helen is the wife of Edward L. Hanna. Appreciative of the social amenities of life, Mr. Cannon belonged to the Shaker Heights Country, Congress Lake, Cleveland Yacht, Union and Hermit Clubs, in all of which except the last named his widow has membership. She is active in the work of the Epworth Euclid Church, of which her husband was long a faithful member, and his political allegiance was given to the republican party. He conscientiously fulfilled the duties and obligations of citizenship, was a model husband and father, and measured up to high standards in every relation of life. At the age of fifty-four years, when at the zenith of his powers, he passed away in his home, North Park boulevard, Shaker Heights. From a memorial which appeared in the Journal of the Cleveland Bar Association at that time we quote the following excerpt : "Mr. Cannon's acquaintance was extensive. He enjoyed the warmest and closest friendships. The legal profession loses something every time a man like John L. Cannon dies. But for the profession there is recompense in the knowledge that by rendering the same high quality of professional service rendered by such men and maintaining the same degree of integrity which they maintained, the practice of law may continue to command an exalted position among the pursuits of modern life." The following is an extract from an article in the Heights Press: "Mr. Cannon's career in Cleveland in the legal profession had been particularly brilliant and brought him such renown that for many years he had been legal adviser for the many large development projects forwarded by the Van Sweringens. All the Van Sweringen activities in Shaker 292 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS Heights were projected under his guiding hand. From the time the village of Shaker Heights came into existence he was a member of its council, serving for a period of eighteen years. He knew Shaker Heights and he knew what the Van Sweringens were trying to do there—to fashion a high-class residential section there second to none—and saw to it that the Van Sweringen development was carried out exactly as it had been planned. He was the first law director in Shaker Heights, serving the then little village in the capacity of solicitor for ten years . . . He spent most of his life in the Heights section and consequently was very familiar with all projects concerning it." The following tribute to Mr. Cannon was paid by H. G. Driskel, and appeared in Cleveland Town Topics, who said : "The sky of the legal profession is dimmed by the burning out of another star. His death removes one who honored his profession with his fitness in those particular qualities that uphold and maintain the ideals of professional counsellors. His keen judgment and ability received wide recognition and appreciation. Mr. Cannon was never far behind his visions. He went along with his dreams, and beyond those dreams he saw and experienced realities, held them and pursued others. This applied not only in his business but in his leisure and in his home life, where he generously carried his family and his friends along on his magic crystal. He is lost to an appreciative community, loved and respected by many, and mourned deeply by those who have felt the personal touch of his devotion." LOUIS W. GREVE Louis W. Greve, president of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, figures prominently in industrial circles as president of the Cleveland Pneumatic Tool Company, with which concern he has been actively identified for nearly a third of a century and which now ranks as one of the largest in the production of pneumatic tools, machinery and accessories. He is also at the head of several affiliated industrial enterprises and, moreover, is president of the National Air Races, Inc. Mr. Greve was born in Cleveland, Ohio, November 2, 1882, his parents being Claus and Clara (Zimmerman) Greve, both of German ancestry. His education was acquired in the grammar and high schools of this city. Upon his graduation in 1900 he started to work in the factory of the Cleveland Pneumatic Tool Company "with a cloth in one hand and a can of polish in the other." He has been continuously connected with the business to the present time and served as treasurer and general manager of the Cleveland Pneumatic Tool Company for a number of years prior to 1930, when he succeeded his father in the presidency. The latter was elected chairman of the board of directors. The business interests of Louis W. Greve have steadily expanded in scope and importance. He is president of the Cleveland Rock Drill Company, the Cleveland Pneumatic Tool Company of Canada, Ltd., and the Champion Machine & Forging Company and is vice president of the Carey Machine Company. He is a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers and the American Society of Mining and Metallurgi- - 293 - 294 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS cal Engineers. He holds more than fifty patents covering compressed air and mining machinery operations and forging processes. He was president of the American Drop Forging Institute in 1926 and vice president of the Compressed Air Society in the same year. During the war he served as chairman of the pneumatic tool division of the War Industries Board. The following characterization of Mr. Greve appeared in the April, 1932, issue of "The Clevelander" : "Kindly, peace-loving, with a rich sense of humor and a boyish interest and enthusiasm for life and the joy of living, L. W. Greve will try anything once except in business. In all his business practices he is cautious almost to the point of ultra-conservatism. In everything else that wins his interest he may be induced to take a chance. He is first, last and always a business man, shrewd, capable and intensely practical. He is never stampeded by flurries of the business barometer and has a disconcerting way of immediately appraising things at their real worth. Even a partial portrait of Mr. Greve uses up a large stock of adjectives—quiet, calm, keen, kindly, democratic, capable. No man in contemporary Cleveland life probably has less to do with details. Not that he doesn't regard them at their appropriate value. He knows they are an important part of every enterprise or undertaking. But quick to grasp the essentials of any subject or problem gaining his attention, he leaves the fulfillment of details to subordinates. He refuses to clutter his mind with any but the main points. He never gives a harsh command. Any orders he has are given softly and quietly, more often than not by suggestion or subtle hint, and they are obeyed with more alacrity and effectiveness than the bawlings of a top sergeant. " 'You can catch more flies with sugar than you can with vinegar.' Here is a maxim that can be correctly and successfully applied to all phases of life, for hidden beneath the words is a deep-seated principle. It is a principle that proposes a sympathetic attitude to achieve any goal, it proposes THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 295 calmness in the face of excitement and recommends the friendly instead of the harsh or hard-boiled method to attain the desired objective. It welcomes wide acquaintanceships, seals friendships and accomplishes the most with the least physical and mental effort. It epitomizes the channel of life through which L. W. Greve has pursued a successful personal and business career. "He is a devotee of nearly all kinds of out-of-doors sports and recreation. This excepts golf. He has a set of clubs, however, and plays upon certain occasions, but these are infrequent. He likes to hunt and fish and enjoys watching various kinds of athletic contests. His chief hobby for the last few years has been flying. Here again his youthful enthusiasm, despite his fifty years, led him to try it himself. His first flight in a heavier-than-air machine in 1918 developed for him a lasting and unexcelled interest in aeronautics. He was on a vacation in California and took a flight in both a seaplane and a land plane. Returning to Cleveland he decided to learn to fly himself and ordered an Avro with a Gnome motor. It was part of the government's war surplus stock and was to cost twenty-five hundred dollars. It was never delivered, however, and after months of waiting he recalled the money he had put up for it. His interest in flying did not diminish, however. Cooperating with Glenn L. Martin, who was then established in Cleveland, Mr. Greve's engineers designed in 1926 the first oleo-pneumatic shock-absorbing strut for airplanes. This type proved so popular and practical that part of the automotive division of the Cleveland Pneumatic Tool Company was given over to its production. Now called `Aerol' struts, these accessories are widely known in the aeronautical field, both in the United States and abroad. When prominent representatives of civic, financial and industrial organizations decided to sponsor the 1929 National Air Races, Mr. Greve was selected as one of the principals to assume responsibility for the success of the venture. He was named president of National Air Races, 296 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS Inc., and vice president of the Cleveland National Air Race & Show Corporation, the two non-profit organizations set up to handle the business details of the field events and exposition. "It was in connection with the 1929 Air Races that he again determined to fly himself, and began taking dual instruction at Cleveland airport. Incidentally, he made a solo glider flight at the airport, landing without difficulty, establishing himself as the first business man of his age in Cleveland to accomplish this stunt. Mr. Greve was primarily responsible for the donation of the $3,000 Aerol Trophy, which is competed for annually by women flyers in a high speed airplane race. He continues to be president of National Air Races and has added to his activities by serving two terms as president of the Cleveland Chapter of the National Aeronautic Association and as chairman of the aviation committee of the Chamber of Commerce. He had no small part in obtaining the contract with the National Aeronautic Association which provides for the National Air Races taking place on the Cleveland airport for five years with an option for an additional five years." In June, 1908, Mr. Greve was united in marriage to Miss Elsie Baldwin, of Cleveland, and they are the parents of three children : Mrs. Janice (Greve) Roberts, who is a graduate of the Hathaway-Brown School for Girls; Fred B., a graduate from East high school and now employed at the Cleveland Pneumatic Tool Company ; and Doris J., a senior at the Hathaway-Brown School for Girls. Mr. Greve is a member of the Union Club, Cleveland Athletic Club, the Shaker Heights Country Club, City Club, the Advertising Club and the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, of which he served as first vice president prior to his election to the presidency in April, 1932. We quote from the Plain Dealer of April 14, 1932: "An aviation enthusiast and leader in this city's development as a center for flyers and the industry, Mr. Greve brings to the Chamber leader- THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 297 ship qualities which typify Cleveland progress. His companies, world leaders in the production of compressed air parts, tools and equipment, include the Champion Machine & Forging Company and the Cleveland Rock Drill Company, as well as the pneumatic tool works which are pioneers in Cleveland manufacturing and important contributors to general industrial progress. Mr. Greve lives at 1846 East Ninety-third street and has a summer home at Mentor-onthe-Lake, which he served as mayor in 1925." JOHN H. MASKELL Cleveland's progress along industrial lines has received impetus from the well directed labors of John H. Maskell, the founder and head of the large manufacturing company which bears his name. He has always followed mechanical pursuits and is a master craftsman as well as a forceful and capable business executive. He was born in this city on the 4th of January, 1859, a son of David and Sarah Cornelia (Van-Purdy) Maskell, who were natives of France, the former born about 1825 and the latter in 1823. Early in the decade of the '50s the father came to Cleveland, at that time little more than a village, and squatted on a piece of land on what is now Siam avenue, in the southwestern part of the city. He cleared the timber from the tract, built a shack on the property, which was surrounded by a forest, and gradually improved the place. He served an apprenticeship in the stove factory of Wollson, Hitchcock & Ramsey, becoming proficient in the molding of plates, and followed that trade for many years. His next venture was running a woodyard, and later on he sold fruits and vegetables on the streets until he reached his seventieth year and then retired. He died in his seventy-seventh year. His wife attained the advanced age of ninety-five years, passing away in 1918. She was the mother of three sons : Abraham, now deceased; John Henry, of this review; and Jeremiah, who lives in Elyria, Ohio. The educational advantages enjoyed by John H. Maskell were limited to attendance at the Kentucky Street grammar school of Cleveland. When a young chap he started out for himself, seeking employment with the Lake Shore & Mich- - 299 -