550 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS officer, having charge of the estates and the living trusts department. In the management of this branch of the business he has proved exceptionally capable and since 1921 has been one of the vice presidents of the company, whose interests he has materially furthered. With business activities of the city he is identified as a director of the Perfection Stove Company, the Continental Lithograph Company and the J. B. Pearce Company. Mr. Young was married February 24, 1915, to Miss Gladys M. Kellum, who was born in Norwalk and there completed her high school course by graduation in 1912. Her parents, William M. and Margaret (Riedle) Kellum, are deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Young have three children : Jeanne Elizabeth, Arthur F., Jr., and Nancy Jane, all of whom are natives of Cleveland. The residence of the family is at 18138 Clifton road, in the suburb of Lakewood. Mr. Young has membership in the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Lakewood and its teachings are exemplified in his daily life. He is an influential factor in democratic politics and was active in the presidential campaign of 1916. For relaxation he turns to golf, spending many of his leisure hours on the links. He belongs to the Westwood Country, Mid-Day, Union and City Clubs and his college fraternities are Phi Gamma Delta, Phi Delta Phi, Delta Sigma Rho and Phi Beta Kappa. He has long been affiliated with the Norwalk Lodge of Masons and from the age of seventeen years has been identified with the Knights of The Maccabees. He is also a member of the Cleveland Bar Association and his public spirit has prompted his effective work in connection with the Civic League. JOSEPH R. KRAUS Joseph R. Kraus had the advantage of an early start in the banking business, which has constituted his life work, and his well developed powers have carried him from a lowly position to that of chairman of the board of The Union Trust Company. In years of continuous activity he is one of Cleveland's oldest financiers and also has business interests of importance. He was born in this city on March 28, 1870, a son of Gottlieb and Rosie (Dangler) Kraus, who were natives of Germany. Michael Dangler, the maternal grandfather, was a well known contractor, closely identified with building operations here before the Civil war. With his father, Ferdinand Kraus, Gottlieb Kraus came to Cleveland early in the decade of the '50s and, with passing years, developed a prosperous business as a manufacturer of tobacco and cigars of high grade, selling his output to wholesalers. He and his wife are both deceased. In the public schools of this city Joseph R. Kraus acquired his education, and at the age of fifteen earned his first money by working as a messenger for the firm of Crumb and Baslington, private bankers. Later he was employed in the Ohio National Bank, and next was connected with the State National Bank, thereby becoming conversant with the intricate details of finance. His promotions were earned by painstaking, efficient work, and in 1897 he was made assistant cashier of the American Exchange National Bank. In 1900 he was a leading spirit in the organization of the Bankers National Bank, acting as cashier of the new institution until 1903, when it was consolidated with the Euclid Park Na- - 553 - 554 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS tional Bank, of which he was elected vice president. He continued as such until 1921, when the bank was taken over by The Union Trust Company, and Mr. Kraus became vice president and executive manager of the larger institution. In those capacities he acted for nine years and in June, 1930, assumed the duties of vice chairman of the board. In June, 1932, Mr. Kraus was made chairman of the board. To this office he brought the knowledge and wisdom resulting from over forty-five years of practical experience in the field of banking, and in a city noted for its able financiers he is among the foremost. He is also a director of The Union Trust Company, the Fremont Foundry Company, the Valley Mould & Iron Corporation, the Union Cleveland Corporation, and the Thompson Products Co., while of the Pittsburgh & West Virginia Railroad Company he is vice president and a director. On September 7, 1894, Mr. Kraus was married in Cleveland to Mary Thresher Linnell; and seven children were born to them : Helen, who was graduated from the Laurel School of Cleveland and from Briarcliff College of New York and is now the wife of Dr. C. F. Cantor, of Erie, Pennsylvania; Richard P., a Cornell graduate, who went to France with the American Expeditionary Forces and gave his life for his country; Harry G., who is an alumnus of Gambier College and is associated with the Cleveland brokerage house of Witt, Kraus & Company; Joseph R., Jr., who was graduated from Brown University of Providence, Rhode Island, and is serving as secretary and treasurer of the Spitler-Fitzgerald Lumber Company; two children who died in infancy; and Mary Janet, who graduated this year from Briarcliff College. Mr. Kraus votes with the republican party but has never sought political office, although he has been active in behalf of civic projects and institutions of worth, and is a trustee of St. Luke's Hospital, and is serving as treasurer and director of the Children's Fresh Air Camp. An enthusiastic Rotarian, he earnestly cooperates in the work of the organi- THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 555 zation, which is a force for better living, for the true economy of human effort, and for a more humane and stable civilization. He also belongs to the Union, Mid-Day, Pepper Pike, Country and Mayfield Clubs. He is a Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, and his status in the world of finance is indicated in the fact that he is a past president of the Reserve City Bankers Association of America. VERNON CECIL ROWLAND, M. D. A physician of marked ability and enviable reputation, Dr. Vernon C. Rowland has amply justified the promise of his student days and figures prominently in professional circles of Cleveland as a specialist in internal medicine and as a diagnostician. He was born in Canton, Ohio, January 4, 1883, and is a son of Daniel C. and Mary (Zimmerman) Rowland. His great-grandparents in the paternal line long resided in Canton and were buried in a cemetery of that city. For more than a century the Rowlands have lived in Stark county, residing on land granted to them by President Madison, whose personal signature appears on the document. Daniel C. Rowland attained the age of seventy-eight years, passing away in the fall of 1929. He was the father of two children : Vernon Cecil ; and a daughter, who became the wife of E. W. Oldham and now resides in Akron, Ohio. The son graduated from the Canton high school in 1900 and next attended the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, where he received the Bachelor of Science degree in 1903 and that of Master of Arts in 1905. This was followed by a course of study: in Western Reserve University, which bestowed upon him the M. D. degree in 1909, and in the same year he became house officer of the Lakeside Hospital, thus continuing until 1911, when he began practice in Cleveland. Here he has continuously followed his profession for more than twenty years, establishing a large practice, and has been particularly successful as a specialist in internal medicine. Formerly he served on the staffs of the Lakeside and Rainbow Hospitals and is now visiting physician to St. Luke's - 557 - 558 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS Hospital. Entering the educational field, he became one of the instructors at the Western Reserve Medical College and professor of general pathology in the Dental College of that university, with which he has been identified since 1914. He is now professor of medicine in the Western Reserve Dental College. Devoting much time to research and study, he has made important contributions to medical science as the author of "General Pathology and Principles of Medicine," published in 1921, and as editor of the Official Bulletin of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine. Dr. Rowland was married June 17, 1916, in Canton to Miss Helen M. Aungst, a daughter of Judge Maurice E. and Lucy (Pontius) Aungst. Her father, who died in 1916, was probate judge of Stark county for a number of years. Her grandfather attained the ripe age of eighty-three years, passing away in 1918. Mrs. Lucy (Pontius) Aungst, who still lives in Canton, is a granddaughter of Frederick Pontius, who removed from Pennsylvania to Ohio and settled in Stark county in 1816. Mrs. Rowland is a descendant of Simon Essig, who served with the Continental troops, and through him she is eligible to membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution. In 1806 Simon Essig established his home in Spring Township, Stark county, and there resided until his death in 1848. To Dr. and Mrs. Rowland were born three children : Daniel and James, twins; and Vernon. The family reside at 2832 Scarborough road and the Doctor's office is at 7016 Euclid avenue. Unbiased in his political views, he votes as his judgment dictates and was a stanch supporter of the policies of the late President Wilson. In movements for the general good Dr. Rowland takes a deep and helpful interest, which is expressed as a member of the Civic League of Cleveland, as vice chairman of the Cleveland Health Council, a trustee of the Cleveland Welfare Federation, chairman of the public health committee of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine, and a trustee of the Ohio Public Health Association. He has been a member of the Cleveland THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 559 and University Clubs and is also a member of the Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Omega Alpha fraternities, serving as president of Cleveland Chapter of the latter organization in 1916. In 1930 he was called to the presidency of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine, of which he is now a trustee. He is a member of the Ohio State Medical Society and chairman of the Periodic Health Examination Committee of that body. He is also identified with the American Medical Association, the Cleveland Medical Library Association, the American Gastroenterological Association, and the American College of Physicians. THE NICHOLS-LINTERN COMPANY The Nichols-Lintern Company was incorporated in Cleveland in 1901, with William Lintern as president and manager and L. B. Foote as treasurer. The business was established in 1892 by William Lintern, who began to invent and manufacture new and improved appliances for greater safety in the operation of electric railways. Among the earlier products of his plant was a track-sanding device for street cars and overhead trains and this is now used throughout the United States and in foreign countries as well. As the business grew Mr. Lintern's fertile brain produced other accessories used in electric railway equipment, among the most prominent and widely used being signal lights and special entrances for street cars. When buses became a popular mode of transportation he devised a new method of ventilating and heating them, a system which is now used by the largest bus companies in the United States and Canada. A development of recent date is the company's new and improved ventilator for passenger automobiles which is now under observation by several of the largest automobile and body builders in the country and will undoubtedly be used as standard equipment on all cars before long. The Lintern overhead crane track sander is now found in all large steel mills in the country, including those owned and operated by the United States Steel Company and the Bethlehem Steel Company, and the United States government also uses this appliance. Shipments have been made to Russia and to the Tata Iron Works in India. In 1922 The Nichols-Lintern Company perfected plans - 561 - 562 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS for a new factory of modern mill construction at 7960 Lorain avenue, awarding the contract to the Austin Company of Cleveland, factory builders of international repute. The plant has been equipped with the latest and most improved machinery and is electrically operated. The present officers of the company are : William Lintern, president; John B. Lintern, eldest son of the founder, vice president; L. B. Foote, treasurer; and Alfred R. Lintern, the second son of the president, secretary. Associated with them on the board of directors are : William A. Lintern, Jr., Henry Tappe and L. G. Wright. At this writing the company's principal products are the crane sanders, special lanterns, among them the well-known Glow Light general utility lantern, railroad crossing signs, "Duplex" indicating signal, N-L "STOP" signal, the new type of ventilators for automobiles, the new heaters and ventilators for buses. Most popular of the N-L car ventilators, the type "C" lays exceedingly low on the roof, and is especially applicable to cars having a large roof radius. Its positive exhaust insures a comfortable, clean atmosphere within the car at all times, and is positively weatherproof at all times. Some of the users of type "C" ventilator are : the Cleveland Railway Company; Department of Street Railways, Detroit; Kentucky Traction and Terminal Company; Northern Ohio Power & Light Company; Georgia Railway and Power Company; Hamilton Street Railways; Southwestern Railway and Light Company; Indiana, Columbus and Eastern Traction Company; Sao Paulo Tramway, Light and Power Company; Hydro-Electric Railways, and Detroit United Lines. Lighting of cargo holds has been a special feature of their many productions. Many of the large cargo vessels of the Great Lakes being equipped with their system. The fixtures have been shipped to Hull, England, for installation on British built Canadian-owned lake vessels. THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 563 The Nichols-Lintern Company is represented from coast to coast, having agents in several of the larger cities of the United States, and its Canadian representative is the Railway & Power Engineering Corporation, Ltd., of Toronto. HENRY A. BECKERMAN When a young man of twenty-one Henry A. Beckerman began the practice of law in Cleveland and here he has con-tinuously followed his profession for nearly thirty years, proving an able advocate and a safe counselor, while he has also figured prominently in political affairs. He was born in Germany, March 3, 1881, a son of Sol and Theresa (Lent) Beckerman, the latter also a native of that country, in which she was married. The father was born in Warsaw, Poland, but pursued his education in Germany, where he made preparation for rabbinical service. Coming to America alone, he sent for his family four weeks after his arrival in this country and at Cleveland was rabbi of the Anshe Emeth congregation for ten years. Afterward he was rabbi of the Bohemian Temple on East Fortieth street and also served as superintendent of the Hebrew Relief Society. His death occurred on the 7th of April, 1905, and in 1911 his widow passed away. Two of their family of six children were natives of Germany and the others were born in Cleveland. The sons and daugh-ters of Mr. and Mrs. Beckerman were : Nathan C., who was a graduate of Western Reserve University and after his ad-mission to the bar practiced in Cleveland until his death in 1926; Henry A.; Julius J., who is engaged in the jewelry business in Cleveland; Sarah, a piano teacher; Yetta, who is Mrs. James Brockman, of New York city; and Dorothy, the wife of Maurice Klein, identified with insurance interests of Cleveland. From the age of two and a half years Henry A. Beckerman has lived in Cleveland. After the completion of his high - 565 - 566 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS school course he took lessons on the violin but abandoned a musical career for the legal profession. For a time he studied under the supervision of Clifford Neff, a Cleveland attorney, and then attended the Baldwin University Law School, which numbers him among its alumni of 1901. Below the legal age at the time of his graduation, he was not admitted to the bar until 1902 and then opened a law office in the American Trust building, where he was associated with Abraham Col-lins, who was the junior member of the firm. At the end of ten months the partnership was dissolved, at which time Mr. Collins took up special service under the late Mayor Tom Johnson. In 1906 S. J. Deutsch joined Mr. Beckerman in the firm of Beckerman & Deutsch and they were together for a year. Afterward Mr. Beckerman was alone until 1921, when H. H. Felsman became his partner. The firm of Beckerman & Felsman is intrusted with legal interests of importance and maintains offices on the fifth floor of the National City building. Well versed in legal science, Mr. Beckerman readily quotes precedents and his ability is manifest in the logic of his deductions and the clearness of his reasoning. On the 12th of September, 1904, Mr. Beckerman was mar-ried to Miss Tillie E. Kline, a native of Cleveland and a daughter of Rabbi Aaron Kline. Mrs. Beckerman was grad-uated from the Central high school and the Cleveland Nor-mal School and prior to her marriage devoted five years to teaching'. She is the mother of two sons and a daughter Stanley M., who won the Bachelor of Arts degree from Har-vard University in 1930 and is now attending the Western Reserve Law School; Robert Jason and Edith Theresa, all natives of Cleveland. The family reside at 2207 Demington drive, Cleveland Heights. In the activities of the republican party in this section of the state Mr. Beckerman has played a leading part, looking after political meetings and handling many other details of campaign management. He had charge of the presidential campaigns of Mr. Taft and Mr. Hughes and was also cam- THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 567 paign manager for Messrs. Davis, Baker and Hogan when they were candidates for the office of mayor of Cleveland. As a member of the republican executive committee and the Twenty-second Ward Republican Club he has likewise furthered the success of the party. In 1914 he was appointed a deputy state supervisor and inspector of elections, being one of the bipartisan board composed of two members from each of the major parties, to supervise and conduct all elec-tions, both general and special, in Cuyahoga county. He served for eight years, his term of office expiring in 1922. Mr. Beckerman attends services at the Euclid Avenue Temple and also retains membership in the temple of which his father was at one time rabbi. He enjoys athletic sports, particularly baseball and football, and has witnessed many notable games. His support can always be counted upon in the furtherance of movements looking toward the accomplishment of real and practical good and he has long been a factor in the plans and projects instituted by the progressive members of the Civic League and the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. He belongs to the City, Beechmount Country, Cleveland Automobile and Western Reserve Clubs, to the H. B. and S. U., the Independent Aid Society, Cleveland Lodge, No. 18, B. P. O. E., and has filled all the chairs in Deak Lodge, K. P., of which he is a past chancellor commander. While his efforts have. been of benefit to many organizations, his. best energies are reserved for his legal interests, for the practice of law has constituted his real life work, and he keeps in close touch with the latest developments in his profession through his Membership in the Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio State and American Bar Associations. WILLIAM LOUIS DAY William L. Day, a member of a family endowed with legal ability of a high order, was formerly United States district judge, also filling other important offices in the path of his profession, but is now engaged in the private practice of law in Cleveland as senior member of the firm of Day & Day. He was born in Canton, Stark county, Ohio, August 13, 1876, a son of the Hon. William R. and Mary E. (Schaefer) Day, and in his career has exemplified the fine mental and moral qualities of his forbears, who figured conspicuously in both state and national affairs. His father, an associate justice of the United States supreme court, was one of Amer-ica's most distinguished men. He passed away at Mackinac Island, Michigan, on July 9, 1923, and the mother's death occurred in Canton, Ohio, January 5, 1912. After attending the public schools of Canton, William L. Day enrolled in the Williston Seminary at Easthampton, Massachusetts, where he took his preparatory work, graduat-ing with the class of 1896, and in the following year entered the law school of the University of Michigan, which awarded him the degree of LL. B. in 1900. Admitted to the Ohio bar in the same year, he at once entered upon the active work of his profession in Canton as junior member of the prominent law firm of Lynch, Day & Day. His first public office was that of city solicitor (member of board of public safety), to which he was called in 1906, and on completing his first term was reelected but resigned in March, 1908, having received from President Roosevelt the appointment of United States district attorney for the northern district of Ohio. These - 569 - 570 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS duties he capably discharged for three years and was elevated to the United States district bench May 13, 1911, before he was thirty-five years of age, which he filled with distinction until May 1, 1914, when he resigned. While serving as a jurist he attended court largely in Cleveland and established his home here at that time. With patient care he ascertained all the facts bearing upon every case brought before him and was strictly fair and impartial in his rulings, most of which were sustained by the higher courts upon appeal. After resuming private practice Judge Day was associated with the law firm of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey for five years and on July 1, 1919, joined the firm of Day, Day & Wilkin. With that organization he continued for about six years and then became head of the firm of Day & Day, the junior partner being his brother, Luther Day. They have offices in the Standard Bank building and their clientele is large and important. On September 10, 1902, was solemnized the marriage of William L. Day and Miss Elizabeth E. McKay, a daughter of the Hon. William McKay, of Caro, Michigan, and they became the parents of two children : William R., who was born in 1904 ; and Jean Cameron, born in 1910. The son, a graduate of both the engineering and law departments of the University of Michigan, is now associated with the firm of Fay, Oberlin & Fay, patent attorneys. Prior to his appointment as United States district attorney Mr. Day was very active in behalf of the republican party, doing much to further its interests in the eighteenth congressional district of Ohio. Genial by nature, he enjoys the social side of life and belongs to the Nisi Prius, Union, Big Ten, Country and Cleveland Athletic Clubs. He is= a man of broad sympathies, strong in his convictions of right and wrong, with the courage to uphold them, and has steadfastly adhered to a course which reflects credit upon his profession and upon an honored family name. EARLE W. BRAILEY Earle W. Brailey, general agent of the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company in Cleveland, wa,s born at Lebanon, New Hampshire, June 24, 1892, a son of Edwin S. and Florence (Allen) Brailey. The father, who devoted his attention to farming and carpentering during his active life, is now retired. Earle W. Brailey was graduated from the University of Vermont in 1914 and thereafter followed the teaching profession for seven years. He entered the life insurance business with the Equitable of New York at Saint Johnsbury, Vermont, in 1921 and on the 1st of January, 1923, removed to Manchester, New Hampshire. Four years later, on the 1st of April, 1927, he joined the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company at the home office in Boston, and in January, 1929, he was advanced to the position of assistant superintendent of agencies. On the 1st of Septem-ber following he succeeded H. F. McNutt as general agent of the New Englaid Mutual Life Insurance Company in Cleveland, where he has since made his home. The company has maintained an agency here for forty years and now has a large sales organization of full time Life Underwriters, covering twenty-nine counties in northeastern Ohio. Mr. Brailey is second vice president and a member of the board of directors of the Cleveland Life Underwriters Association and has been very successful in the insurance field. On the 14th of August, 1920, Mr. Brailey married Dorothy Nash, of Webster, Massachusetts. They are the parents of three children, Constance H., Richard F. and Barbara N., aged nine, five and two years, respectively. Mr. Brailey is a member of the University Club of Cleveland, and resides at 2935 Fontenay road, Shaker Heights. - 571 - ALBERT J. WEATHERHEAD, JR. In 1919 Albert J. Weatherhead, Jr. established the Weatherhead Company of Cleveland, of which he is president. The Weatherhead Company now manufactures radio accessories, a wide variety of patented articles for automotive, and refrigeration equipment, and automobile parts. He has also produced a large line of patented products chiefly of his own invention. Albert J. Weatherhead, Jr. was born June 26th, 1892, the eldest son of Albert J. and Henrietta (Parmely) Weather-head, a well known family of this city. The paternal grandfather, Charles Weatherhead, was a native of England who emigrated to the United States, and took up his abode in Cleveland, Ohio, about 1840, becoming a successful contractor of this city. Albert J. Weatherhead, the father of Mr. Weatherhead of this review, was president of the Cleveland Faucet Company until the time of his retire-ment from active business, when he sold his interests to Bishop and Babcock Company. Mr. Weatherhead, Sr. died January 4, 1930. Mr. Weatherhead's mother still main-tains her home in Cleveland. Mr. Weatherhead was graduated from University School in which school he was interested in all forms of athletics, being chosen Captain of his football team in his senior year. At Harvard college which he subsequently attended, he also participated, with keen enthusiasm, in varsity athletics, easily distinguishing himself as an exceptional football player, and an all-around athlete. He was graduated from Harvard with the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1915. - 573 - 574 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS Two years later, at the beginning of the World war, he entered the first officers' training camp at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, going almost immediately into aviation, in which service he was commissioned a First Lieutenant. During his service at the front he was awarded a citation for distinguished service, and gallantry in action. In 1921 Mr. Weatherhead married Miss Dorothy M. Jones of Columbus, Ohio. They have two sons, Albert J. III, and David Parmely. Mr. Weatherhead is a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, the Country Club of Cleveland, and the Red Run Golf Club of Detroit. He is also a member of the American Legion, and a Director of the Bishop and Babcock Company. He is a very popular, dynamic type of man, and is indeed widely recognized as a most representative and successful business man, and a very public spirited and progressive citizen of Cleveland. BURTON EXPLOSIVES, INC. Although of comparatively recent origin, Burton Explosives, Inc., has already outdistanced many of its competitors, due to the initiative and ability of its founder and directing head, Joseph S. Burton, and the organization he has gathered around him. He started as an employe of the Arthur Kirk & Son Company, who engaged in the explosive business at Emporium, Pennsylvania. Job Burton, an uncle of Joseph S. Burton, entered the service of the Arthur Kirk & Son Company about 1885 and was with them until the du Pont Powder Company took over the concern' in 1901. At that time he entered the field independently, organizing the Burton Powder Company, which he owned and controlled, and in 1903 Joseph S. Burton became connected with the business. In 1917 it was sold to the Grasselli Chemical Company, of which Joseph S. Burton became president and general manager, and so continued until November, 1928, when the enterprise was acquired by the du Pont interests. Leaving Cleveland, Mr. Burton went abroad and devoted about a year to travel in Europe. With his return to Cleveland in January, 1930, he established business under the name of Burton Explosives, Inc., of which he has since been president and general manager. The other officers of the corporation are : L. E. Weitz, vice president and treasurer ; E. R. Ohl, secretary; and F. J. Burton, assistant secretary and assistant treasurer. They manufacture a full line of commercial explosives for use in mines, canals and tunnels and for agricultural use. Their factory at New Castle, Pennsylvania, has a capacity - 575 - 576 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS of twelve million pounds of high explosives per year and is considered the most modern, best equipped and most effi-ciently and economically operated institution of the kind in the United States. Nearly all of the chemicals required by the company are manufactured in their plant, which is situ-ated on a tract of four hundred and eighteen acres. The product is shipped by rail and by trucks. Within a hundred-mile radius of the plant covered by trucks the consumption of the territory is three times the capacity of the plant. Since the plant began production it has operated without a fatality. Great care is exercised in shipment, so that there is no loss by accident. The product is sold all over the United States but the heaviest trade comes from the region east of the Mis-sissippi river. Their export trade is considerable, large shipments being made to Panama and the Latin-American countries. At Scranton, Pennsylvania, Bluefield, West Vir-ginia, and Chicago, Illinois, the company maintains sales offices. They have about one hundred and twenty-five employes. WILLIAM G. KRANZ Concentrating his attention upon the steel industry, William G. Kranz has advanced far in that field of activity and is one of the forceful executives of the National Malleable & Steel Castings Company, which he has long represented in the capacity of vice president. A native of Canada, he was born in Berlin, now Kichener, November 25, 1872, and is a son of Hugo and Katherine (Seip) Kranz. The father was the first mayor of Berlin, and a member of parliament from 1879 until 1892. He was a leading merchant of his town and started the Economical Fire Insurance Company in which he also prospered. He has passed away and the mother is also deceased. Crossing the border, William G. Kranz pursued his advanced studies in Cornell University at Ithaca, New York, where he received the degree of mechanical engineer in 1894, and following his graduation was an instructor in that institution of learning for a year. Abandoning educational work for a business career, he became associated with the Midvale Steel Company and was superintendent of its open hearth department for about two years. He was next with the American Steel Castings Company and for a similar period served as superintendent of their Alliance works. He resigned to become manager of the Morris & Bailey Steel Company and in 1899 was made manager of the Sharon works of the National Malleable & Steel Castings Company. That position he filled for eight years and in 1909 was elected vice president, in charge of manufacturing., also becoming a director of the Sharon Steel Hoop Company while in Pennsyl- - 577 - 578 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS vania. His identification with the Cleveland office of the National Malleable & Steel Castings Company dates from 1916, when he came here as vice president, and is also a director of this large corporation, which has materially profited by his technical knowledge and his business experience and acumen. On the 16th of April, 1902, Mr. Kranz was married to Miss Alice Pierce of Sharpsville, Pennsylvania, and they have a daughter, Alice, who resides with her parents at 12608 Cedar road. The business address of Mr. Kranz is 10600 Quincy avenue. Deeply interested in everything that touches the welfare and progress of his city, he is serving on the board of directors of the Huron Road Hospital, and during the World war was a member of the munitions com-mittee. Along social lines he has connection with the Union Club, the Mayfield Club, the Tavern Club, the Chagrin Valley Hunt Club, and the University Clubs of New York and Chi-cago. His college fraternity is Delta Tau Delta and he also belongs to the American Foundrymen's Association, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Society of Electrical Engineers, the American Society of Test-ing Materials and the Royal Society of Arts, which is an organization of London, England. PHILIP T. WHITE On the list of officers of the Cleveland Trust Company appears the name of Philip T. White, who had specialized in investment banking.. He had been with the institution for many years and was one of its vice presidents. Mr. White was a native of New York and a son of Charles Nelson and Elizabeth (Crosby) White, who are now deceased. The latter was a native of Akron, Ohio, and a daughter of Doctor Crosby, who was one of the foremost men of that city, and a street, a school and a library in Akron were named in his honor. His grandson, Philip T. White, acquired a public school education and was first employed in the New York office of C. H. White & Company. There his training was most thorough and later he gained additional experience in investment banking as a representative of E. H. Hutton & Company, steadily advancing in their service. In 1907 he came to the Forest city to organize the bond department for the Cleveland Trust Company and was long a vital factor in its affairs. In 1912 he was elected vice president of the company, in charge of the bond department, and made this one of the most important and profitable features of the business. He was a director of the Gabriel Snubber Company, the Reliance Electrical Engineering Company, the Home Riverside Coal Mines Company and the Kansas City, Leavenworth & Western Railroad, which have also benefited by his sagacity and foresight. In 1915 Mr. White was married in Cleveland to Miss Helen Russell, who is prominent in the social life of the city. Mr. White belonged to the Union, Mayfield, Country - 579 - 580 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS and Pepper Pike Golf Clubs. Bending every energy toward the attainment of a definite objective, he became nationally known in his particular field, and was serving on the board of the Investment Bankers Association of America at the time of his death. JOHN ATEN ELDEN Among the talented members of the Ohio bar is numbered John A. Elden, head of the Cleveland law firm which bears his name. He has executive connection with large financial organizations and also has business interests of importance. A native of Ohio, he was born in East Liverpool, April 3, 1891, and is the elder of the two children of Enoch and Mary (Aten) Elden. In the maternal line he is the seventh successive John Aten and represents a family of Huguenots who emigrated from France to America in the year 1732. The Atens were pioneers in eastern Ohio and for four generations have owned and occupied the same home in East Liverpool. Mary (Aten) Elden was born in that dwelling and remained in East Liverpool until her death in 1898. Enoch Elden is of English ancestry and has always resided in East Liverpool. Formerly he was engaged in merchandising, in banking and in the real estate business, gaining a substantial competence which enabled him to retire in 1912. The daughter, Adeline S., was graduated from the East Liverpool high school in 1914 and continued her studies in Wooster University. John A. Elden completed his high school course in 1907 and during the following year was a cadet in the Virginia Military Institute. Coming to Cleveland in 1908, he enrolled in Adelbert College, which he attended for four years, receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1912. This was followed by two years of study in the law school of Western Reserve University, from which he received the degree of LL. B. in 1914, and in June of the same year was admitted to the Ohio bar. Subsequently he took post-graduate courses in Columbia - 581 - 582 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS University, George Washington University and the Cleveland Law School, receiving from the last institution the degree of Master of Laws in 1928. Since entering upon his professional career in Cleveland, Mr. Elden has specialized in corporation and promotion law, although he handles a general practice, and year by year his clientele has increased as he has demonstrated his ability to cope with the intricacies of the law. Equally well known as an astute financier, he is serving as chairman of the advisory board of the Lake Erie Trust Company ; a member of the advisory board of the Prudential Savings & Loan Company ; vice president of the Franklin Savings & Loan Company, the Economy Mortgage Company, and D. C. Pierce, Inc., brokers. In business circles he figures prominently as vice president of the Needham Products Company, the Taylor Amusement Company and as secretary of the Utilities Service Company and Circle Theater Company. Possessing a broad grasp of affairs and an unu-sual capacity for detail, he has been able to scatter his energies without lessening their force and to perform duties as varied in character as they are successful in result. Mr. Elden has a daughter, Betty Jane. He married Ruth Knox, daughter of John and Mary Knox of Cleveland. Enjoying travel, he has made two trips to Europe and in addition has visited Asia and the South American countries, as well as points of interest in Canada, Mexico and the United States. During the World war he enlisted, becoming a captain in the gas service branch of the United States Army, and is now a member of the Officers Reserve Corps. A gifted writer, Mr. Elden has contributed interesting articles which have appeared in leading magazines of the country and is the author of a widely read book, entitled "Here and There," published in 1928. He has membership in the Presbyterian Church and in politics is a strong republican. In 1914 he was a candidate for state representative and in 1916 was nominated for the state senate, but in both years his party was in the minority and few of its candidates THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 583 escaped defeat. In the line of his profession he has filled important offices, serving on the Ohio board of bar examiners from 1926 to 1931, and as assistant attorney general of the state in 1927 and 1928. He was called to the presidency of the Ohio Bar Association in 1928, remaining at its head for two years, and is also a member of the American Bar Association. He is a member of and was chosen state president of Delta Theta Phi law fraternity and is a member of the Alumni Association of the Pi Kappa Alpha of Western Reserve University chapter. His Masonic affiliations are with Iris Lodge, No. 229, F. & A. M.; McKinley Chapter, R. A. M.; Holyrood Commandery, K. T.; Lake Erie Consistory and Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He belongs to Forest City Lodge, No. 78, K. P., of which he is a past chancellor commander, and to Cleveland Lodge, No. 18, B. P. O. E. He was one of the organizers and is a past commander of Cleveland Post No. 2 of the American Legion; is a member of its social branch, the 40 & 8 society, the National Sojourners, the Sons of the American Revolution, and he is a past department commander of the Ohio American Legion (1930-31) ; is a member of the Lawyers Republican Club, of which he formerly was secretary, the John Hay Club, of which he is a past president, the Colonial Club, Manakiki Country Club, the Lake Shore Country Club, the Mid-Day Club, the University Club and the Cleveland and Columbus Athletic Clubs. A versatile man of wide outlook, Mr. Elden has constantly expanded the scope of his activities and interests. Those cognizant of his labors and the results accomplished realize how much he has accomplished in many fields. JOHN D. OSMOND, M. D. Dr. John D. Osmond, a well known and successful representative of the medical profession in Cleveland who makes a specialty of X-ray diagnosis and therapy, maintains offices in association with Dr. James H. West in the new Carnegie Medical building. He was born in Munson township, Geauga county, Ohio, January 28, 1882, son of Herbert David and Louisa ( Hazen) Osmond, both born in Ohio of English and New England stock who settled in Ohio early in the eighteenth century. He graduated from Chardon high school in 1901 as valedictorian of his class after having been president for four years. The following year was spent in a bank in Chardon. He graduated from Adelbert College of Western Reserve University in 1906, and from the medical department in 1909, after having taken the combined seven-year course, and was president of his class during- his sophomore year in medical school. While a student at that institution he became a member of the Phi Gamma Delta national college fraternity, and of Phi Rho Sigma national medical fraternity, and was twice president of Kappa Chapter of the latter fraternity during his junior and senior years. Dr. Osmond was a factor in building the chapter to its present strong position in the fraternity, and he bought the first share of stock issued to purchase the present chapter house. After receiving his professional degree from Western Reserve University in 1909, Dr. Osmond served as interne at St. Vincent's Charity Hospital of Cleveland for a period of twenty months. During the succeeding seven years he practiced medicine in the offices of Drs. Bunts, Crile and - 585 - 586 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS Lower. When the United States declared war against Ger-many, he became a captain in the Medical Corps, U. S. A., serving overseas in charge of the X-ray department of Evacu-ation Hospital No. 26 at Joinville, France, and Neuenahr, Germany. He had begun to specialize in Roentgenology in 1915, and in 1919 was appointed Roentgenologist at St. Vin-cent's Charity Hospital, which position he still retains. He is also a member of the staff at Womans Hospital, where he serves as Roentgenologist. As senior member of the firm of Osmond & West, he maintains well appointed offices in the new Carnegie Medical building at 10515 Carnegie avenue, Cleveland. His high professional standing is indicated in the fact that he was chosen president of the Cleveland Radio-logical Society in 1925, and he also has membership in the American Radiological Society and the American Roentgen Ray Society. He has served as secretary of the Clinical and Pathological Section of the Cleveland Academy of Medi-cine and as a director for three years of the Academy of Medicine. His professional publications consist of the following papers : "Cardiospasm," read before the Cleveland Academy of Medicine in 1913; "Foci of Upper Respiratory Infection," read before a hospital group at Ravenna, Ohio, in 1915; "Early Signs of Osteomyelitis," his thesis for admission to the American Roentgen Ray Society in 1920; "X-Ray Ther-apy of Sinusitis," read before the American Roentgen Ray Society at Los Angeles in 1922; and "Lesions of the Esopha-gus," read before the Radiological Society of North America in 1925. He read a paper on "Accessory Sinus Infection in Suspected Pulmonary Tuberculosis" before the Radiological section of the American Medical Association in Philadelphia, in June, 1931. On the 15th of June, 1912, at Chagrin Falls, Ohio, Dr. Osmond was married to Miss Nellie Adeline Pratt, of Char-don, Ohio, daughter of Horace O. and Vinnie (Geary) Pratt. THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 587 They have two children, John Dexter, Jr., and Elizabeth Osmond. Dr. Osmond figures prominently in civic as well as professional circles of his adopted city, is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and a member of Al Koran Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. He is a member of the Ohio State Medical Association and the American Medical Association. He was president of the Cleveland Lions Club in 1923 and served as a director of the Cleveland City Club from 1923 until 1926. He was commander of Charles H. Kell Post of the American Legion in 1928-29, and was chairman of the Charity Hospital Medical Society in 1929-30. His religious affiliation is with the Cleveland Heights Presbyterian Church, where he has been an elder for five years. Golf is his favorite form of recreation, and his friends frequently find him on the links of the Acacia Country Club or the Madison Golf Lakelands Country Club, of both of which he is a member. EARL T. SHANNON For thirty-two years Earl T. Shannon has been identified with banking interests of Cleveland, his native city, and has long been associated with the institution now conducted by the Guardian Trust Company, of which he is a vice president. He was born March 3, 1878, a son of James W. and Mary Louise (Bradley) Shannon. The father, who was one of the early wholesale commission merchants of Cleveland, passed away at Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1888 but the mother still makes her home in Cleveland, where the two sons, Earl T. and James L., also reside. Earl T. Shannon attended the old Kentucky Street school on the west side and when his textbooks were laid aside he obtained work in the offices of the Erie Railroad, starting as a runner or bill boy. At that time he gained the acquaintance of Thomas E. Monks, who presided at the bill desk in the Erie offices and who later became president of the Cleve-land National Bank. Mr. Shannon remained in the service of the Erie Railroad for eight years and afterward was assistant to the treasurer of the old Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling Railway. His initial step in the field of finance was made March 17, 1900, when he entered the Mercantile National Bank as a bookkeeper, and soon proved that he was worthy of responsibility and capable of doing hard and con-scientious work. His first promotion brought him to the position of teller and he next became assistant cashier, acting in that capacity for two years. On the 31st of January, 1917, he was chosen to fill the existing vacancy of cashier and thus advanced with the institution. Meanwhile it had - 589 - 590 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS undergone various changes in management and had become known as the National Commercial Bank, with resources of several million dollars. Of this bank Mr. Shannon remained an efficient representative until another change in the personnel and ownership led to the adoption of the present style of the Guardian Trust Company and on March 1, 1921, was elected a vice president of the corporation. He has a highly specialized knowledge of banking methods and his untiring labors have constituted a vital element in the upbuilding of this great financial institution. In business affairs he figures prominently as vice president, a member of the executive committee and a director of the Cleveland & Pittsburgh Railroad Company, as a director of the A. I. Root Company, the Cleveland Wire Spring Company and other large corporations. On the 27th of June, 1900, Mr. Shannon was married in Cleveland to Miss Bertha L. Coburn, a daughter of William B. and Cora Eliza ( Slentz) Coburn, and they have one child, Harlan C., who was born in this city May 31, 1905. The residence of the family is at 17456 Lake avenue, Lakewood. Mrs. Shannon died April 7, 1932. Mr. Shannon is a member of Lakewood Lodge, No. 601, F. & A. M. ; Cunningham Chapter, No. 187, R. A. M. ; and has taken the thirty-second degree in Lake Erie Consistory, A. & A. S. R., while he is also a noble of Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He enjoys the social side of life and plays golf for relaxation. He belongs to the Lakewood Country Club, the Westwood Country Club, and the Cleveland Athletic Club. His earnest desire to advance the general welfare prompts his energetic, systematic work as a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. WILLIAM C. BOYLE William C. Boyle, who has won enviable distinction in the legal profession as one of the most prominent trial lawyers in the state of Ohio, is a member of Cleveland's foremost law firm—Squire, Sanders & Dempsey. He was born in Salem, Ohio, June 13, 1855, a son of Allan and Martha Orr (Campbell) Boyle. His father was a manufacturer and became interested in many financial enterprises. In the acquirement of an education William C. Boyle attended the grammar and high schools at the place of his na-tivity and subsequently spent one year as a student at Cornell University. He was a young man of twenty-three years when in 1878 he came to Cleveland and entered upon his duties as junior member of the firm of Pomerene, Davis & Boyle, court stenographers. Mr. Boyle had mastered stenography in his spare time. In the latter part of 1879 he entered the office of J. T. Brooks, general counsel for the Pennsylvania Railroad in Pittsburgh, in whose service he continued until 1888, being employed as a stenographer and also studying law. During this nine-year period he had charge of the office records of the Pennsylvania Railroad from Pittsburgh to Chicago and worked very hard. His law reading was done at night and when riding on trains. In 1888 he returned to Salem, his native city, and was admitted to the bar. He first entered the office of J. R. Carey, one of the state's leading railroad attorneys, with whom he continued for two years, and then in 1890 became associated with F. J. Mullins, under the firm name of Carey, Boyle & Mullins, which firm was placed in charge of all court trial matters for - 593 - 594 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS the Pennsylvania Railroad in northeastern Ohio. In 1890 he was retained for a case in the United States district court ,of Cleveland in which the law firm of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey had been asked to assist as associate counsel. As Mr. Squire was then known as one of Ohio's foremost legal authorities and Mr. Boyle was but a young attorney, the latter took it for granted that Mr. Squire would conduct the case. Mr. Squire, however, merely acted as counsel and in fact was so favorably impressed with Mr. Boyle's handling of the case in question that he extended an invitation to Mr. Boyle which resulted in Mr. Boyle entering the firm in January, 1900. Until a few years ago Mr. Boyle was the trial lawyer of the firm of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey and became known not only in Ohio but throughout the entire country as one of the bar's most successful trial lawyers. His experience in that field of professional activity covered a quarter of a century. William R. Coates, in "A History of Cuya-hoga County and the City of Cleveland," published in 1924, tells the story of the firm of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, saying in part : "There are many other able lawyers connected with this great firm, the most prominent being W. C. Boyle, whose years as a trial lawyer have taken him into the court-room representing many of the largest and most powerful business firms in the city and country." Mr. Boyle has been a director of the Ontario and Pennsylvania Transportation Company and other corporations for many years. He has served for a number of years as chairman of the city plan committee, of the Chamber of Commerce, and as chairman succeeded in securing the passage of the zoning law of Cleveland, and was appointed by the city manager chairman of the Board of Appeals under the zoning ordinance, and was named a member of the port advisory board by the mayor. He was recently elected a director of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Masons, at Salem, Ohio, and along strictly professional lines he has membership in the Cleveland Bar THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 595 Association, the Ohio State Bar Association and the Ameri-can Bar Association. In 1879 Mr. Boyle was united in marriage to Miss Abbie Roselle Rukenbrod, of Salem, Ohio. Their daughter, Kneila, who was named for her great-grandfather, married J. C. Bolger, of New York, and is the mother of two children, William B. and Abigail Roselle. Mrs. Boyle died in September, 1928. The Boyle family residence is at 2256 Stillman road, Cleveland Heights. WILLIAM G. TAYLOR Closely associated with Cleveland's development and progress for an extended period, William G. Taylor is widely known as one of the city's veteran realtors and a successful business man whose integrity is above question. He was born at Chagrin Falls, Ohio, November 18, 1845. His father was Colonel Royal Taylor, who was born in Middlefield, Mass., September 1, 1800, and was a lad of seven when his parents, Samuel Taylor (II), born in Pittsfield, Mass., in 1764, and his wife and their eight children came to the Western Reserve from Middlefield, Mass., in 1807 and established their home in Portage county, Ohio, where the father met an accidental death in 1813. Of this overland journey it is related in the family records that Samuel Taylor (II) rode across the Ohio line in probably the first carriage or old-time chaise that ever entered the state, but the discovery was soon made that this vehicle had not been built to contend with the difficulties encountered in the roadless, trackless frontier country and upon reaching Youngstown it was traded for a cow. The Taylors came from Suffolk, England, and settled in Hadley, Mass., in 1666. Samuel Taylor, Sr., was born in Hadley in 1713, and four of his sons were Continental soldiers in the Revolutionary war and also participated in several of the early Indian campaigns. Samuel Taylor (II) married Sarah Jagger and upon his early death she was left with a heavy responsibility of rearing their large family. Here is where the son Royal showed his worth in helping his mother to the best of his ability. Royal Taylor worked for a year in a sugar camp to be - 597 - 598 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS paid his weight in maple sugar and when he left the camp he weighed only 70 pounds; at that time sugar was probably about two or three cents per pound. His next work was in a brick yard for fifteen dollars per month and this money ($300) he invested in sixty acres of land at Solon, but several years afterwards he sold it for two hundred dollars. In 1822 he went into Kentucky as a school teacher and there he married Rebecca Saunders in 1824. She died at Twinsburg, Ohio, in 1836 leaving five children, all of whom are now deceased. His second marriage united him with Sarah A. Richardson, a native of Connecticut, and seven children were born of this union. In 1858 Mr. Taylor acted for Yale College to care for the lands in Indiana, Illinois and Missouri left by H. L. Ellsworth, and he was also commissioned by the heirs of Gen. Henry Champion, W. W. Boardman and others of the original purchasers of the three million acres of the Connecticut Western Reserve and for many years he devoted his time to this sale of lands. He became a resident of Chagrin Falls in an early day and in 1866 came to Cleveland, continuing. in the real estate business and was one of the early operators in this field. In 1862 he was appointed mili-tary agent, with the rank of Colonel, for the state of Ohio, to investigate the claims of the disabled veterans of the Civil war who were being fleeced out of their money by dishonest self-styled claim agents from Louisville, Kentucky, who were buying the soldiers' vouchers for a mere pittance. Mr. Taylor made his headquarters for a time in Louisville, Ky., and in Nashville and Chattanooga, Tenn., to better handle his work. The latter part of his life was passed at Ravenna, Ohio, where he died November 20, 1892. Of the second marriage two children survive, William G. and Miss Ellen E., both of Cleveland. Their grandfather on the maternal side, Capt. Daniel Richardson, was a veteran of the Revolutionary war who left Barkhamsted, Conn., in 1824 and with his family came to Ohio and settled at Twinsburg, and here his daughter became the wife of Royal Taylor in 1837. His THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 599 third wife was Mrs. Annetta Hatch. Among the tributes to the worth of Royal Taylor we quote : "Royal Taylor was a vigorous man physically and mentally. With the active men of his generation he did much towards developing the Western Reserve in many ways. He took an active part in organizing. the Free Soil and republican parties, and in aiding Governors Tod and Brough in caring for veterans of the Civil war. In early days he was of great assistance to his widowed mother, in the meantime taking advantage of every opportunity, limited at the time, to obtain an education, even acquiring a more or less familiar acquaintance with Latin and other higher branches of study, including a fair knowledge of law. As a young man he passed two years as a teacher in Kentucky, where he became a friend of the Marshall and other representative families, and there married his first wife. After his return to Ohio, Royal Taylor became associated with his brother Samuel Taylor and Harvey Baldwin in opening. up the first export trade of the Western Reserve by transporting cheese to points down the Ohio river by means of flat boats and barges. After the financial depression of 1837 he was appointed assignee for several merchants who had failed in business, and because of his success in handling these affairs he continued in this line of work for several years." William G. Taylor attended an academy at Hudson, Ohio, and when twenty-one years of age came to Cleveland to close up a real estate deal and was successful in the undertaking. In 1877 he located here and in order to obtain a situation he canvassed every place of business on Bank, Water and River streets, finally securing a job with an iron and steel company on Merwin street by offering to work for nothing and board himself for a month. During that time Chapin & Barrett engaged in the same line of work and made him an offer at a nominal wage, which he accepted, and he remained with them several years. Later he went to Chicago, going from there to St. Louis and later to Springfield, Illinois, where he